John Moody

Notes:

Emigrated in 1633; first at Roxbury, where he was a deputy to the general court in 1635. Removed to Hartford by 1639. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford.

John married Sarah Cox on 8 Sep 1617 in St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Sarah (daughter of Christopher Cox and (Unknown first wife of Christopher Cox)) was born before 17 May 1598 in St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; was christened on 17 May 1598 in St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; died on 4 Nov 1671 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Sarah Deming before 1659. Sarah (daughter of John Deming and Honor Treat) was born about 1640; died on 29 Sep 1717 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1660
• Alternate death: 10 Sep 1689, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

Sarah married John Kellogg on 23 Dec 1680. John (son of Lt. Joseph Kellogg and Joanna) was born before 29 Dec 1656 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 29 Dec 1656 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut; died between 1723 and 1728 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married James Munn on 29 Jun 1689. James (son of Benjamin Munn and Abigail Burt) was born on 10 Feb 1656; died after 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Rachel Ashley on 3 Jun 1728. Rachel (daughter of Samuel Ashley and Sarah Kellogg) was born on 14 Feb 1698 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Roger Clapp on 14 Sep 1737 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Roger (son of Capt Roger Clapp and Elizabeth Bartlett) was born on 3 Apr 1708 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 3 Jan 1773 in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Center Cemetery, Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel Terry on 21 Apr 1748 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Ephraim Terry and Ann Collins) was born on 18 Oct 1725 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 8 May 1798 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Family/Spouse: Sarah Kellogg. Sarah (daughter of Ezra Kellogg and Ruth Wells) was born in 1753; died on 20 Jul 1805; was buried in Center Cemetery, Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Solomon married Hannah Pease on 31 Aug 1788 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Hezekiah Pease and Hannah Meacham) was born on 26 Nov 1770 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 5 Mar 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Russell married Louisa Strong in Oct 1811. Louisa (daughter of Deacon Roswell Strong and Nancy Pomeroy) was born on 14 May 1788; died on 9 Apr 1855 in Liberty, Montgomery, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her husband were third cousins, both of them great-grandchildren of the Rev. Nathaniel Collins (1677-1768) and Alice Adams (1682-1735). Alice Adams was in turn a great-granddaughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford (1590-1657).

Elizabeth married Jonathan Button on 8 Apr 1823. Jonathan (son of Jonathan Button and Alice Parsons) was born on 22 Jun 1800 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1888. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Graduated from Western Reserve College in 1844; at Monroeville, Ohio 1850-55; Cheshire, Connecticut 1855-57; Rockville, Connecticut 1857-64, and from October 1864 to 1871, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

According letter from John Dyer-Bennet to his sister Miriam, 3 Dec 1975, “Grinnell” (whether this means the college’s administration or its alumni association is unclear) was able to confirm that Charles W. Clapp “was professor of rhetoric in 1870-71,” and that he was “summarily fired by the president of the college on commencement day” in 1871. “It isn’t known for certain why, but in a speech on the history of Grinnell given some years later the president said Prof. Clapp ‘hardly agreed with the college on the joint education of men and women.’”

The president of the college would have been George Frederic Magoun, who (according to Grinnell’s web site) served in that capacity from 1865 to 1884. Also according to the site, in 1865 Joanna Harris Haines was the first woman to graduate from Grinnell, so presumably what Magoun was saying was that the Rev. Charles Wells Clapp was opposed to “the joint education of men and women.”

Charles married Jane Pray Bassett on 16 Aug 1849. Jane (daughter of John Bassett and Nancy Atwater Lee) was born on 21 Nov 1822 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut; died in 1924; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1833
• Alternate birth: May 1834, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Her Find a Grave page gives her death date as 23 May 1918, but the grave itself clearly says 23 Jul 1918, which accords with other existing records.

Harriet married William Marks in Oct 1855. William (son of James Marks and Saphronia Griswold) was born about 1833; died on 28 Oct 1913 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Berkeley, Alameda, California
• Alternate birth: Abt 1857
• Alternate death: 7 Feb 1919, Alameda, Alameda, California
• Alternate death: 9 Feb 1919

Notes:

Ph.D, Yale, 1886.

"Clapp arrived at Berkeley when it was a small school of some 400 students. By his efforts the department began the first major graduate program on the West Coast, but Greek was also widely taught throughout the state high schools as well. A genial and robust figure until ill health befell him at the age of fifty, his teaching was generally at the graduate level and centered around Pindar and Plato and his, many articles covered a range of subjects. He was a founder of the Philological Association of the Pacific States and served as president for two terms. At the time of his death he was at work on an edition of Pindar that was to be the summary of his life's work on that author." [Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars]

Edward married Mary Mattoon Wolcott on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Elizur Wolcott and Martha Lyman Dwight) was born on 14 May 1863 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; died on 22 Aug 1949 in Alameda, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1910 census calls him a traveling salesman in tea and coffee.

If the records are accurate, he died one day short of his 90th birthday.

Family/Spouse: Mabel Rogers. Mabel was born on 20 Sep 1872 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 11 Aug 1931 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried on 14 Aug 1931 in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was, at least at the time of her marriage, a stenographer.

Alice married Edward H. Slocum after 12 Sep 1932 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Edward (son of William Lewis Slocum and Mabel Sophia Pearce) was born on 31 Mar 1907 in Connecticut; died on 28 Feb 1984 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Notes:

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Doherty. Thomas (son of Thomas Aquinas Doherty and Elizabeth Story) was born on 23 Apr 1935 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]