Individual Details

Census

Moses W Gleason age 36 blacksmith, $2400 born Masahusetts
Eunice N age 32 born New York
Mary age 6 born Illinois
Harriet E age 4 born Illinois
Eunice A age 2 months born Illinois
Abel C Gleason age 38 farmer $2400 born Massahusetts

Census

Abel C Gleason age 48, farmer born Massachusetts
Moses W Gleason age 46 farmer, born Massachusetts. $16,100 real estate, $1500 personal
Mary C Gleason age 17 born Illinois
Harriett E Gleason age 15, born Illinois
Eunice A Gleason age 10, born Illinois
Mary Gleason age 73, born Massachusetts
Juliett Gleason age 34, born Massachusetts
Caroline Gleason age 32, born Massachusetts
John Robbins age 15, born Illinois

Census

Wm Gleason age 55, blacksmith $9000 real estate, $1000 personal born Massachusetts
C Gleason age 57 farmer, born Massachusetts

Census

Chase Gleason age 67 single farmer born Massachusetts parents born Massachusetts
William age 65 brother widower farmer born Massachusetts
Juliaett sister age 51 born Massachusetts
Eliza age 61 sister single born Massachusetts

Death

Birth: Sep. 15, 1813, Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont, USA
Death: Apr. 22, 1883, Illinois, USA
He married Eunice A Gilbert, he was a blacksmith and moved to Winnebago County, Illinois in 1836. They had the following children: Mary Celestia, Harriet E. & Eunice Anna. 
Parents:
  Jesse Gleason (1780 - 1844)
  Mary "Polly" Chase Gleason (1788 - 1868)
Spouse:
  Eunice Ann Gilbert Gleason (1818 - 1852)*
Children:
  Anna Eunice Gleason Alexander (1850 - 1936)*
Siblings:
  Abel Chase Gleason (1812 - 1894)*
  Moses William Gleason (1813 - 1883)
  Mary Amelia Gleason Teeple (1816 - 1901)*
  Jessie Addison Gleason (1818 - 1884)*
  Eliza Gleason (1820 - 1885)*
  Walter Gleason (1823 - 1890)*
  Caroline Gleason (1827 - 1871)*
Inscription:
69 Yrs. 7 Ms. 7 Ds.
Burial: Cherry Valley Cemetery, Cherry Valley, Winnebago County, Illinois

Miscellaneous

To Miss Eunice Ann Gilbert of Pownal, Bennington Co. VT
From Moses William Gleason of Newburg - - July 25, 1836
It has not been for want of inclination or forgetfulness that I have
thus long neglected writing to you but every day has brought with it
various & new occupations & though my friends have not been forgotton
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 c:an 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 & 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 an 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. Ihey are going to lay Ciut a village here. I have
the priviledge of drawing three feet of water from their dam to carry a
trip hammer,bellows or other works. I have built a small shop since I
came here & have 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 & 25¢ per pound for mill irons & plows & all other heavy irons-etc.
I am going to get out timber for a shop this winter & build another 60 ft. by 30 for a carriage ship. I have bought me a yoke of oxen that measure 7 ft. 7 in., paid $90. for them & I caculate 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 saw & as level as a house floor, not a stump nor bush nor
stone on the whole 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 your duplicate
your land is worth from $10 to $20 an acre. We have no clearing of land to do, leaving 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 think 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 memberances 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 found 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 .
±o do.leaving me having nothing to do but plow so
With respect to the country, there. is no better., t is the Glory of the
United States & the Garden of America. I wish 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 & furthermore to please inform them that I have as good a.water priviledge as there is in the state
of Vermont-situated on the Kishwaukee River with a 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 ten thousand things that I would like to write but paper
will not admit & so yotl 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 lst mail &
do not fail to give me a general history or a brief sketch of all that
fags taken place since I left. Kishwaukee July 25,1836
Eunice Ann Gilbert this is from your friend
M W GLEASON