Display Patriot - P-280597 - Moses ROBINSON

Moses ROBINSON

SAR Patriot #: P-280597

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State of Service: VT      Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A097664

Birth: 15 Mar 1741 Hardwick / Worcester / MA
Death: 26 May 1813 Bennington / Bennington / VT

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Colonel of the Militia
  2. 1777, Council of Safety

Additional References:
  1. Paige, History of Hardwick, Massachusetts, pg 371, 468-469, 466-467
  2. Jennings, Memorials of a Century, pg 233, 234
  3. Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1873, pg 470

Spouse: (1) Mary Fay; (2) Susanna Warner Howe;
Children: Aaron; Fay; Moses;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1965-03-19 TX Unassigned Robert Charlton Neely (92397) Fay   
1965-03-19 TX Unassigned Mark Edward Neely (92398) Fay   
1979-03-28 NE Unassigned Henry David Neely III (110348) Fay   
Burial:
Old Bennington (aka Old First Church, Old First Congregational Church) Cemetery (C-0371835)
Location:
Bennington / Bennington / VT / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
641555
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
42.883602 / -73.212550
Find A Grave Memorial #:
8218825
Marker Type:
DAR stake
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR



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Author: Henry David Neely III

Moses Robinson was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, on 15 March 1741. He moved with his father, Samuel, to Bennington, Vermont, in 1761 and also died there on 26 May 1813.

He married Mary Fay on 25 July 1762. She died on 12 February 1801, and he then married Susanna Warren Howe, widow of Artemus Howe. She died in April 1844 in Bennington, which had become the family home. His known children were:

  • Moses Jr. was born on 16 November 1763 and married Ruth Dewey.
  • Aaron was born on 4 May 1767 and married to (1) Sarah Hopkins and (2) Mary "Polly" Lyman.
  • John was born about 1768 and married Eliza Clark.
  • Samuel was born on 10 February 1769 and married Samantha Brush.
  • Nathan was born on 4 April 1772 and married Jerusha Staniford.
  • Elijah was born on 15 March 1778 and Experience Slade.
  • Fay was born in 1783 and married Seraph Howe.
  • Edmund was born in 1803 and married Harriet Hurlbert.

Moses became one of the foremost citizens of Bennington and of Vermont. He was elected Deacon of his church on 22 May 1789 and remained in office through his entire life. He was chosen town clerk at the first meeting of the town and for 19 years thereafter. He was Colonel of the Militia and at the head of his regiment at Mount Independence (near Ft. Ticonderoga) on its evacuation by General St. Clair in July 1777.  He was also a member of the famous Council of Safety at the time of the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777 and during the campaign through that year.

In 1782, he was one of the agents of Vermont in the Continental Congress.  He also served as Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court on its first organization and for ten years thereafter, until 1789, when he was elected by the Legislature to the office of Governor of Vermont, which was then functioning as an independent Republic. On the admission of Vermont into the Union in 1791, he was one of the Senators of Congress.

He was conferred with the Degree of Arts Master (now Master of Arts) by Yale College in 1789 and also by Dartmouth College in 1790.

He died on 26 May 1813, at 72 years of age, and is interred at the Old Bennington Cemetery.

Source:  

  1. Moses Robinson ID:  R000350, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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