WORCESTER, Deacon Moses Sr.^[1]

1742 - 1807  (64 years)

• Name	WORCESTER, Moses
  Prefix	Deacon
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	6 Sep 1742	Berwick, ME
  Baptism	9 Sep 1744	Berwick, ME
  Gender	Male
  _COLOR	6
  Death	21 Aug 1807	Columbia, ME
  Person ID	I17230	Puffers
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	WORCESTER, Thomas,   b. 26 Jan 1716/7, Berwick, ME d. Abt 1747, Berwick, ME (Age 29 years)
  Mother	SPINNEY, Ann,   b. 12 Apr 1719, Kittery, ME d. Abt 1813 (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	20 Jan 1738	Kittery, ME
  Family ID	F9639	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	NORWOOD, Jude Judith,   b. 16 May 1738, Gloucester, MA d. 1790, Columbia, ME (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	1764	Columbia, ME
  Children	1. WORCESTER, Rev. Moses Jr.,   b. Bef 10 Feb 1765, Columbia, ME d. 13 Oct 1855, Columbia, ME (Age > 90 years)   2. WORCESTER, Mary,   b. 28 Feb 1767, Columbia, ME d. 8 Oct 1844, Columbia, ME (Age 77 years)   3. WORCESTER, John,   b. Mar 1769, Columbia, ME d. 24 Dec 1858, Columbia, ME (Age 89 years)   4. WORCESTER, Miriam,   b. 1771, Columbia, ME d. Jul 1859, Addison, ME (Age 88 years)   5. WORCESTER, Annie,   b. 1773, Columbia, ME d. 24 Jun 1812 (Age 39 years)   6. WORCESTER, Martha,   b. 1775, Columbia, ME d. 29 Jun 1808, Columbia, ME (Age 33 years)   7. WORCESTER, Eunice,   b. 1780, Columbia, ME d. CA 1828, Trescott, ME (Age 48 years)   8. WORCESTER, Joseph,   b. Abt 1782, Columbia, ME d. 1823, Columbia, ME (Age 41 years)   9. WORCESTER, Lucia,   b. 1785, Columbia, ME d. Sep 1850 (Age 65 years)   10. WORCESTER, Isaac,   b. 1785, Columbia, ME d. 1823, Springfield, ME (Age 38 years)   11. WORCESTER, Priscilla,   b. 1789, Columbia, ME d. 2 Dec 1846, Cherryfield, ME (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F19827	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	NASH, Susannah,   b. 17 Mar 1753, North Yarmouth, ME d. CA 1836, Addison, ME (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	30 Mar 1805
  Family ID	F10622	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He moved to Pleasant River, Me., some time after May 2, 1763, as on this date he witnessed a deed from Gowen Wilson to Joseph Wilson at Falmouth or vicinity. He was living in Pleasant River on May 2, 1769 when he served as one of the appraisers of personal estate of Gowen Wilson. He is credited with several periods of service during the Revolutionary War. He enlisted Sept. 9, 1775, in Capt. Francis Shaw´s Co. and served 4 mos., 1 day, Company stationed at Gouldsborough, No. 4 Narraguagus (Cherryfield, Me.) and Pleasant River for the defense of the sea coast. He also enlisted Aug. 9, 1777, in Capt. Reuben Dyer´s Comp. Raised for the expedition against St. Johns, N.S., continued in service at Machias for its defense, and dismissed on Dec. 6, 1777. He also entered into service again on Oct. 27, 1780 in Capt. Sullivan´s Company, ordered out by Col. John Allen to protect the inhabitants of Frenchmans Bay. Discharged on Nov. 14, 1780 He first married around 1764. Although the name of his first wife eludes genealogists, it could have been Judith or Jude Norard or possibly Norwood, according to family historians, because a granddaughter was named Judith Norard and the name appears again in the Davis-Grant family of Cherryfield, ME. "Moses Worcester came from Old York on or before 1775. He married Susanna Knowles of Addison, in 1802. He settled in that part of Columbia known as Saco. Children: Amos, Lenoard, Moses, Molly, Judy, Hannah and Deborah. He was a long time deacon of the Baptist church."

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] Levi Leighton, Esq., Centennial Historical Sketch of the Town of Columbia as gathered from the Town.