Individual Details

Death-shared

Births Danon Jonas and Lucy Gleason and family
Nathaniel Gleason born July 6th 1774
Jonas Gleason born April 25, 1776
Amos Gleason Born March 3, 1778
Jessee Gleason Born May 3, 1780
Joseph Gleason Born March 31, 1782
Moses Gleason Born April 29, 1786
Lucy Gleason Born Aril 3, 1737
Death
Aaron Gleason senior died Dec 6. 1796
Eunice Gleason consort of Aaron died July 6, 1792
Jonas Gleason died April 6th 1815

Census

Moses Gleason
1 male 26 thru 44
1 male over 45
1 female 26 thru 44
no slaves

Census

Moses Gleason
male 40 thru 49 - 1
female 15 thru 19 - 1
female 40 thru 49 - 1

Note

To Miss Eunice Ann Gilbert of Pownal;, Bennington County, Vermont
From Moses William Gleason of Newberg; July 25, 1836
It has not been for want of inclination of forgetfulness that I have thus long neglected writing to you but every day has brought with it various & new occupations & through my friends have not been forgotten yet I confess, I have not been as punctual as I ought. I need not assure that a letter from you would procure many pleasing sensations & hope this letter will find you enjoying the best of health & a contented mind & then you will be happy. When I bade you a parting adieu, my mind was in a state of agitation which I can never express.
I arrived in TROY that night, saw your Father there & had a long talk with him & the next morning, he went down to the boat with me and visited until we started & he bade me farewell & wished me a pleasant voyage & I was blessed with one. I have traveled about fourteen hundred miles since I last saw you & it is with pleasure that I can assure you that I am comfortably settled here in Illinois, Winnebago Co. on the river called Kishwaukee, Eight miles east of Rock River which is navigable. I have a lot on the river for my shop, being 6 rods in the river & twenty back for a house lot. They are going to lay out a village here. I have the privilege of drawing three feet of water from their dam to cary a trip hammer, bellows or other works. I have built a small shop since I came here & burnt some coal, & I have been to Chicago which is about 100 miles east of here. I bought a new set of tools & now I have everything in ample order for business & I have more than double for work here to what I used to in Vermont. I have $2.25 for shoeing a horse & $4.50 for oxen & 25c per pound for mill irons & plows & all other heavy irons-etc. I am going to get out timber for a ship this winter & build another 60 ft. by 30 for carriage ship. I have bought me a yoke of oxen that measure 7 ft. 7 in., paid $90 for them & I calculate to keep them drawing timber.
I found my brother well & doing well & we are going to build a dwelling house this fall & together we have the house in company, one thousand & 40 acres of the best land, one mile square. It is as handsome a meadow as you ever say & as level as a house floor, not a stump or bush nor stone on the while of it but covered with green grass & flowers of the most beautiful kind. It does not take a great sum of money to buy a farm here, land can be bought for $1.25 an acre & the day you get you duplicate your land is worth from $10 to $20 an acre. We have no clearing of land to do. leaving me having nothing to do but plow so ____ & _____.
Our water is good, good springs & brooks & a healthy climate. The timber of this country consists of black-walnut, hickery, several kinds of oak, black & white ash, hackberry, elm, maple, beech, locust, buckeye, catalpha, sycamore, cottonwood, mulberry, basswood, cherry & poplars. One year ago & a little better but little did I thin that I should see Blackhawk's battle ground & his wigwams where the Indians camped. but the very ground that the wigwams stood on is not but a few rods from the house but they have sold their lands to the government & moved West of the Mississippi River. All is at peace.
The change has been great with me for two months, but I am far from being unhappy. I have found many valuable sources of enjoyment & I believe I can say not-withstanding my separation from everything which once I loved, yet, I never was happier or more contented in my life, but there shall be remembrances of scenes past in a circle of my Pounal friends to dwell within & never be forgotton.
Eunice, I shall trust to you to give my love to all. Eunice, with respect to Keziah & Thomas, give my respects to them & tell them that I have a claim of land for them & I shall write to your Father soon, for when I saw him in Troy, he requested me to look around for him & I fund a plot that I thought would do. For than to write him & he would send the money or come & fetch it & see the country himself.
With respect to the country, there is no better, it is the Glory of the United States & Garden of America. I which you to write your Father & inform him that I am well & that I shall write him soon & be more particular in describing the situation of the land which I have now for the boys. There is 160 acres of land which they can have.
Dear friend, I wish you to inform Raymond Morganson where to direct his letters & give my best respects to him & Betsey & tell them that my well wishes ever attend them & I wish they were here in Illinois with me for here is the place for young men to make money and furthermore to please inform them that I have as good a water privilege as there is in the state of Vermont-situated on the Kishwaukee River with pleasant little grove on it & that I'm going to build a dwelling house on it this fall.
N.B. Direct your letter to Chicago, Cook Co. State of Illinois.
Eunice, I have twn thousand things that I would like to write but paper will not admit & so you will have to wait for the next letter. You know, Eunice, I can say more in one minute than in 10 letters could contain.
Yours while life remains, so good night. Please write by the 1st mail & do no fail to give me a general history or a brief sketch of all that has taken place since I left.
Kishwaukee July 25, 1836
Eunice An Gilbert this is from your friend.
M W GLEASON

Death

Birth: unknown
Death: Jun. 10, 1862
Spouse:
  Prudence Merrill Gleason (1788 - 1865)
Inscription:
Dea Moses Gleason died June 10 1862 ae 78
Burial: West Cemetery, Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: p51 row 4