Individual Details
John Moriarty
( - 22 Aug 1797)
Son of Daniel and Judith (Fitzgerald) Moriarty.
John and his wife Peggy and son Thomas emigrated from Cork, Ireland to Salem, Massachusetts in 1777. The ship in which they traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on was intercepted and detained for a while off Chaleur Bay by a British war vessel, under the command of Captain Augustus Harvey.
During the American Revolution, John's son Thomas, 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. 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.
He was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Salem.
“In this town on Monday evening, last by a very sudden and shocking misfortune, after having gone through many of the ‘sad varities of life’, Mr. John Moriarty, merchant, aged 60 years — a native of Ireland, but for many years an inhabitant of this town — a man capable, industrious and patient in business and of a benevolent disposition.”
(Source: Salem Gazette, August 25, 1797)
John and his wife Peggy and son Thomas emigrated from Cork, Ireland to Salem, Massachusetts in 1777. The ship in which they traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on was intercepted and detained for a while off Chaleur Bay by a British war vessel, under the command of Captain Augustus Harvey.
During the American Revolution, John's son Thomas, 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. 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.
He was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Salem.
“In this town on Monday evening, last by a very sudden and shocking misfortune, after having gone through many of the ‘sad varities of life’, Mr. John Moriarty, merchant, aged 60 years — a native of Ireland, but for many years an inhabitant of this town — a man capable, industrious and patient in business and of a benevolent disposition.”
(Source: Salem Gazette, August 25, 1797)
Events
| Probate | 1797 | Salem, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Death | 22 Aug 1797 | Salem, Essex, Massachusetts |  |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret Moriarty ( - ) |
| Child | Thomas Moriarty (1760 - 1790) |