Person:Moses Curtis (4)

Moses was a blacksmith and innkeeper. His home originally was on land given him by his father, lying just north of the President John Adams birthplace in Quincy. There he served as constable, surveyor of highways, fenceviewer, and tithingman. He sold this property in 1720, and in 1721 purchased land in Dorchester; this land was later part of Stoughton, and is now Avon, just over the Randolph line. The house stood on the highway to Taunton and was used as an inn. It was still standing in 1949.

    In 1731 he was one of the original members of the new South Parish Church of Braintree, now Randolph, and his wife joined in 1732 from the First Church.  In 1738 he and five other families were set off to a new parish in North Bridgewater, now Brockton and his family remained connected with that church though living in present Avon.  He was a Captain in the militia.
    The will of Moses Curtis of Stoughton is dated 1757.  It mentions sons Moses and Edward; grand children Phebe and Benjamin Porter children of his deceased daughter Dorothy; sons Edward, Theophilus, Ashley, William, Moses; daughters Mary Cary and Hannah Littlefield.

1. ↑ Charisse Taylor Bass & Emma Lee Walton. Descendants of Deacon Samuel and Ann Bass. (privately printed, Freeport, IL, 1940)
   pp. 9-10.