Generation VIII- 4 Knight - Moody
GEORGE, b. 31 Jan. 1702; d. in Falmouth, Me. date unknown; m. in Newbury
3 Feb.
1726 Judith Moody, b. in Newbury 26 Oct. 1705. They settled in
Falmouth ca 1735, having on 4 Aug. 1733 purchased of John Graves* 60 acres
of land about one mile west of the Presumpscot River. Later he bought
several large tracts of land near this river, and also land in No.Yarmouth
and Standish. Later he sold about 80 acres of this land to his brothers
Enoch and William, who moved there from Newbury. He was a Lt. in
10th Company of Capt. William Warner. In the 1745 Louisberg expedition.
See "Louisburg Soldiers" N.E. Hist. Gen. Reg. No. 24, page 369. His
family bible, printed in Oxford, Eng. in 1738, presented to him in 1740
by John Moody, contains a record of the birth of his children. The
last six children were born in Falmouth, but only the birth of Amos is
recorded in the Falmouth Town Records.
* John Graves was the father Joanna Graves who married
Joseph Storer.