Individual Details

Historical Collections of the Essex Institute
p 130

The part about being a privateer in the Revolution is likely correct, but he did not die in 1787. His probate is 1790 and that seems when he died.

Register of Members and Records of Their Revolutionary Ancestors
By Sons of the American Revolution. Massachusetts Society
p 163


From findagrave
Son of John and Peggy Moriarty.
Husband of Deborah Bowditch.

Thomas, along with his parents, emigrated from Cork, Ireland to Salem, Massachusetts in 1775.
Thomas and Deborah married on October 31, 1782 at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Salem.

Thomas served as a captain during the American Revolution. He, along with thirty other men, had been captured by the British Navy and held as prisoners of war at St. Johns, Newfoundland during the summer of 1781. They were to be sent on board British ships of war if not exchanged for British prisoners of war. Thomas’s father John, signed a petition that sent the sloop “Freemason,” fitted out at his own expense, as a cartel to get back his son and all the other prisoners that were with him.

Thomas was one of the founders of the Essex Lodge of Masons on May 16, 1782.

“The brig Favorite, Capt. William Robinson, arrived at Martinico from Guinea. A letter dated 30 October from a person on the brig states that the first mate, Mr. John [sic Thomas] Moriarty, the cooper and Mr. Moses Robinson, son of Capt. Samuel Robinson of this town and brother of the Mr. of the brig died on board, while on the coast of Guinea.”
(Source: Salem Mercury, November 27, 1787)

Birth	Abt 1760	Cork, Ireland
Arrival	1775	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
Marriage	31 Oct 1782	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts - Deborah Bowditch
Death	1790	Salem
Probate	3 Aug 1790	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Spouse	Deborah Bowditch (1767 - 1823)
Child	John Moriarity (1783 - 1835)
Child	Thomas Moriarty (1787 - 1846)

Father	John Moriarty ( - 1797)
Mother	Margaret Moriarty ( - )

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