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Inscription: "In Memory of Capt Moses Harvey, who died Jany 17th, 1795 in the 72nd. year of his age. "All these, my four sons, died in 3 months and 2 days. Not any of my family left except my wife and one daughter to lament the loss."
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Author: James Harvey Sanborn
Moses Harvey - was born in Sunderland, MA in 1723.
He served in the 1744-1755 French & Indian Wars, which included participation in the Black River Expedition. He also served on the town of Montague’s Committee of Correspondence as well as the town militia prior to the Revolution.
As a private in Montague’s militia he served in Col. Williams’ Regt. he mustered and marched on 19 April 1775 to Cambridge. He was named Captain of the Montague Company, and served in several Massachusetts regiments.
Service, according to Orderly Books, and Muster/Pay records was at Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Scarsdale.
In 1778 he was named to the Massachusetts General Court, where he was quite outspoken on behalf of the Patriots in the western part of Mass, who were losing their property. He supported Capt. Daniel Shays’s Rebellion, and was subsequently tried, dismissed from the legislature, cashiered from the militia, and ordered to stand on the gallows at Northampton’s Court, and fined 50 pounds.
He died at Montague in 1795, preceded in death by all four of his sons.
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