"52. Moses5 Pardee (Benjamin,4 Eliphalet,3 George,2 George1), born at East Haven, 24 July 1744, died at New Haven before 1787; … There is no probate record of the estate of Moses, but on 10 Oct. 1801 William Pardy of New Haven was chosen guardian by Moses (aged about 15 years), son of Moses Pardy, deceased, a minor having no property. He claimed losses sustained during the British Raid (Connecticut Archives). He served in the artillery in the defense of New Haven at the time of Tryon's Invasion, 1779. A family record states that he was killed by the ramrod in the premature discharge of a cannon on New Haven Green, and that his daughter Polly became deranged on her father's death. In 1802, Thomas and Elizabeth Pardy, Curtis Lewis and Sarah his wife, William, Julia, and Polly Pardee, all of New Haven, conveyed to Nathan Andrews land in East Haven inherited from their grandmother Mary Pardy, deceased."
