Individual Details

Moses Doolittle

(1766 - 27 Oct 1850)

He was a captain of militia and followed farming. He was a hewer of timber and a river worker.
Moses was a short, strongly built man, possessed remarkable powers of endurance, and his superior ability was widely recognized and respected by frontiersmen who were pugnaciously disposed. Indeed it is said "He was a game fighter inhis early days." He gave little time to farming, but worked much on the river and was a great hewer of timber.

Events

Birth1766Brownsville, Fayette, PA
Event1786Monongalia Co., West Va.
Marriage1788West Virginia - Susanna Miller
Event1807Morgantown
Marriage1825Polly Riggs
Death27 Oct 1850Forksburg, Marion,WV

Families

SpouseSusanna Miller (1773 - 1820)
SpousePolly Riggs ( - )
FatherMoses Doolittle (1732 - 1820)
MotherMary Scott (1736 - 1820)
SiblingMary Doolittle ( - )
SiblingJohn Doolittle ( - )
SiblingLucy Elizabeth Doolittle (1761 - 1848)
SiblingThomas Doolittle (1775 - 1826)
SiblingBenjamin Doolittle (1783 - 1832)

Notes

Birth

He was born on his father's farm in PA.

Event

At the age of twenty he and his parents went as pioneers to the Monongahela valley, and settled on the river above Morgantown in Monongalia Co., West Va., a very wild unbroken country where they lived on a farm.

Event

In 1807 they bought a tract of 225 acres of John Dent on Booth's Creek six miles above Morgantown, and there made their home and reared their eleven children.

Marriage

Moses married 2nd about 1825 Polly Riggs (known in the family as Aunt Polly Riggs), who outlived him.

Death

He was ruptured by shaving shingles, and had to use crutches during the latter years of his life which he spent among his children. He united with the M.E. church a few years before his death. On Oct. 27, 1850, at the age of 84, he passed away at the home of his son Thomas near Forksburg, West Va., and was buried on a high hillside on the "old home place," on Booth's Creek, which lately was owned by a Mr Jenkins.