Person:Moses Emerson (4)
Moses Emerson
b.22 Dec 1717 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
d.14 May 1779 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 15 Jun 1699
  1. Jonathan Emerson1700 - 1700
  2. John Emerson1701 - 1782
  3. Nathaniel Emerson1703 - Bef 1741
  4. Lieutenant Timothy Emerson1705 - 1775
  5. Samuel Emerson1707/08 - 1793
  6. Richard Emerson1710 -
  7. Hannah Emerson1712 -
  8. Abigail Emerson1715 - Aft 1770
  9. Jonathan Emerson1715 - 1769
  10. Moses Emerson1717 - 1779
  11. Nehemiah Emerson1721 - 1796
  12. Mehitabel Emerson1722/23 - 1811
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m. Bef 1743
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Facts and Events
Name Moses Emerson
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 22 Dec 1717 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Degree[3] 1737 B. A. Harvard College.
Degree[3] 1740 M. A. Harvard College.
Marriage Bef 1743 to Rebecca Taylor
Death[3] 14 May 1779 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

From Jane James, p. 40: "Moses Emerson studied at Harvard College; his father, in his will in 1736, ordered that he be carried through and that (if he come out well) a hundred pounds should be given to him for a library. Whether he used his liberal education in any ministerial position is no known, but he graduated from Harvard in 1737 and was a school master in Milton, Mass. 1738-1746 except for two years. In 1751 he was residing in Haverhill. ... On the opening of the Revolution he did most excellent service as a member of Durham's Committee of Safety from 1774 onward, and as the commissary...for the entire force of New Hampshire troops; his reports and accounts are given in the New hampshire Revolutionary Rolls. Mayflower Families states he went to Albany, NY as commissary in 1755 returning to Durham in 1757 and by 1770 was in Hopkinton, NH. He was commissioner of accounts ca. 1776 at Hartford , Ct. when called by the Congress to Philadelphia, Pa."

References
  1. ↑ 5. Jonathan2 Emerson, in Pope, Charles Henry. The Haverhill Emersons. (Boston, Mass.; Cambridge, Mass.: Murray and Emery, 1913; 1916)
    1:30.

    "22. Moses, b. about 1718."

  2. ↑ Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)
    1:123.

    "Emmerson, … Moses, s. Jonathan and Hannah (Day), [born] Dec. 22, 1717."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harvard, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005)
    4364-66.
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