Person:Richard Moody (1)

He acquired a considerable landed estate in Suffolk, chiefly by purchase from 1558 on. He lived in a house called Fryettes in Moulton, which he had bought from the executors of one Roger Fryette, and which was afterward called the "mansion house" of his eldest son George Moody. He left two wills, made 14 Jan 1572/3 and 2 Feb. 1572/3; after the former had been proved 30 Apr 1574, the widow presented the later will, and on 10 June 1574, the first one was annulled and the later one proved.^[3]

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
   pages 653-54.

   'Richard Moody, yeoman, born about or earlier than 1530; buried at Moulton, co. Suffolk, 28 Apr. 1574; married Anne -------, who was buried at Moulton 14 Mar. 1576/7, having married second, at Moulton, 6 Sept. 1574, Edward Coult, gentleman.'

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Bartlett, Joseph Gardner; Elizabeth French; G. Andrews Moriarty; and others. Genealogical Research in England. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907-1953)
   80:322, 1926.

   'Richard Moody, of Moulton, co. Suffolk, yeoman, ... is the earliest Moody from whom the descent of the New England settler [John Moody] has been proved. He died 28 Apr. 1574 [date given in the Inquisition Post Mortem, p. 320], and was buried at Moulton on the same day. He married Anne -----, who survived him and married secondly, at Moulton, 6 Sept. 1574, Edward Coult, Gentleman. She was buried at Moulton 14 Mar. 1576.7, ...'

3. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952).
4. ↑ Bartlett, Joseph Gardner; Elizabeth French; G. Andrews Moriarty; and others. Genealogical Research in England. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907-1953)
   80:319.

   'From the Parish Registers of Moulton, co. Suffolk ...
   Burials
   
   1574 Richard Moody 28 April.'

5. ↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated birth year of his wife.