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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
Author: Ivan V. Dooley, Jr.
Moses Dooley was born 1748 in that portion of Lunenburg County, Virginia that was to become Bedford County in 1754.
Moses married Mary Boyd, daughter of William Boyd in 1771 and farmed land on Elk Creek and later Hurricane Creek.
In 1776, the Revolutionary War began and on 12 March 1877 Moses Dooley received a chit for 2 Pounds 15 Shillings for 1 steer for Colonel Christian's forces at Fort Patrick Henry. Six months later, on 20 September 1877 he signed an Oath of Affirmation as directed by an Act of General Assembly.
In 1781 Moses Dooley and family moved to Kentucky County, Virginia where he farmed. By 1787, he was Justice of the Peace for Madison County. In 1792, he was appointed a Captain in the 7th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division of the "Cornstalk Militia". He resigned as Justice of the Peace in 1804 and moved to Ohio in 1805 and in 1813 he was elected Justice of the Peace in Washington Township, Preble County, Ohio. During the War of 1812 (1 May 1812), at age 66, he was elected Lieutenant of Volunteers and ordered to replace the regular Garrison at Fort Nisbet, who had been ordered to Fort Meigs. He died of pneumonia on 2 January 1822 in Wayne County, Indiana and is buried in Friendship Cemetery, Gasper Township, Eaton, Ohio.
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