Person:Moses Warner (5)

BIOGRAPHY: The Descendants of Andrew Warner Compiled by Lucien C. Warner, M.D., LL.D/ Mrs. Josephine Genung Nichols The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Co. New Haven, Conn. 1919 Page 119 MOSES WARNER, son of Ebenezer and Ruth (Ely) Warner, born May 13, 1717 (Hatfield records), or June 27, 1717, probably in Hatfield, Mass.; died January 9, 1759, in Belchertown, Mass. He settled in Belchertown, then known as Cold Spring, before 1743, and perhaps immediately after his marriage in 1739. The first mention of him as a land owner in Belchertown is on a list of 1743, when owned land valued at L7, housing, L1, 10s., personal estate, L9, 8s. On December 7, 1747, he was appointed one of three who are to cut and draw firewood for the pastor. October 12, 1750, he appears as a member of the church and one of the town committee. January 22, 1753, he was appointed one of a committee of three. "to take care of disorderly persons on the Sabbath." In 1755 and later, he was officially paid from two to three shillings a night for keeping the council's horses over night, and after February 16, 1756, he was called Sergeant Moses Warner, although no special service or appointment to this office is noted. Late in the year 1756 he was on a committee to oversee the mending of the "great rode through the town from Hadley to Brookfield." There is on record in Springfield, Mass., a deed by which Eli Warner of Hatfield, laborer, Moses Warner of Hatfield, Laborer, Jonathan Warner of Belchertown, joiner, and Submit Warner of Belchertown, convey to their brother Seth Warner of Belchertown, land which they had received from their father Moses Warner of Belchertown, and which "our said Honored father deceased owned and held by virtue of deeds from his honored father Ebenezer Warner of Cold Spring formerly now Belchertown long since deceased and of his brother Ebenezer Warner and which our grandfather Ebenezer Warner held by deed from Ebenezer Marsh of Hadley." The land was located in Belchertown and the deed was signed November 24, 1780 by Jonathan, Submit (mark), and Ely Warner. In other deeds of 1747 and 1757, the father Moses is described as a husbandman of Cold Spring. James Porter of Hatfield was appointed administrator of his estate and guardian to the older children, Seth, Phinehas and Martha, April 3, 1759. His brother Ebenezer was appointed guardian, November 11, 1762, to his children, Jonathan, Sarah, Moses, Submit and Ichabod, minors under the age of 14. Eli, aged over 14, on November 3, 1767, chose Moses Hannurn as his guardian. The estate was settled April 5, 1768, when L375, 5s. were equally divided between Seth, Eli, Jonathan, Moses, Ichabod, Martha, Sarah and Submit, "saving that Seth Warner the eldest son is to have a double share." Moses Warner married in Hatfield, January 24, 1737 (or 1739), Sarah Porter, born in Hadley, November 2, 1718, died in Belchertown, October 10, 1757, daughter of Ichabod and Dorcas (Marsh) Porter.