Moses Ayers (1732 - 1803)

Born 1732 in Somerset County, Colony of New Jersey [uncertain]

Ancestors

Son of Nathaniel Ayers and Rhoda (Baker) Ayers

Descendants

Died 19 Oct 1803 at about age 71 in Georges Creek, Allegany, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Moses was born about 1725. He passed away 19 October 1803 at George’s Creek, Allegany County, Maryland. Moses is buried in the Ayers Cemetery, the old Detmold Cemetery, Lanaconing, Allegany County, Maryland.

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Moses' will lists the following children: Moses, Jacob, David, Samuel, deceased son Michael's children, William and Mary, and three daughters, Yanacha, Massy(Mercy), Mary.

In the receipts the daughters were signed as: Yanacha Nixon, Mercy Morgan, Mary Riddle. David Ayers signed as the guardian of grandchildren of William and Mary.

The Will was probated in Allegany County, Maryland.

Name

Name: Moses /Ayers/

Source: #S377

Note

There is a Moses Ayers listed as a settler in Deakins Survey of 1787.

Type: Web Site

Title: Lots West of Fort Cumberland, as surveyed by Francis Deakins, 1787

URL: www.whilbr.org

Burial

Burial:

Place: Ayers Cemetery, Old Detmold Cemetery, Lonaconing, Allegany County, MD

Military Service

Military Service: American Revolution - Furnished supplies to militia^[2]

ARVT

ARVT Y

Research Notes

Changed death from "about 1800" to "about 1803" to match FindAGrave memorial.^[3] Left strange URL source for this same memorial below as I don't understand one of the parameters on the URL, but the template works well, I recommend. --McClure-3513 12:57, 8 January 2018 (EST)

Discussion

I believe Moses Ayers is the son of Nathaniel Ayers of Somerset County, New Jersey. Nathaniel Ayers was a witness to the will of Phillip Cox, father of Dorcas Cox, in Somerset County, New Jersey.

"I am not sure who Moses' father and mother was but it is not the Nathaniel and Rhoda Ayers that died 12 Feb 1777 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Yes this Nathaniel had a son Moses but he went to Franklin County, Georgia, I believe there is a possibility they were related to our Moses. I found this out by working with a descendant of this other Moses. Need to do more research and see if we can find the father in western Maryland, Pennsylvania or New Jersey. So the Nixon Family Memorial book is wrong on who the father was." --unknown

I keep seeing arguments that this Moses cannot be the son of the Nathaniel Ayers, 1700-1777, who is also listed in the "Treman Family" books^[4] (public domain as it is over 75 years old) with the same information as in the Nixon books it seems, but I have never seen this claim with any source at all. I myself have not seen the Nixon book. The Treman book doesn't list it's sources, at least not well nor often. I've seen warnings that all sources written after the Treman book could have used it as a source (Treman 1901 and 1905, Nixon 1970). However, we have two published genealogies vs. nothing. Note that this Nathaniel Ayers 1700-1777 is/was connected as father for this Moses Ayer before I made this commentary. I would love to see any original sources that confirm or deny either theory. --McClure-3513 14:57, 19 July 2017 (EDT)

Moses was born in 1732. He passed away in 1803.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Doug Oltmanns, Apr 20, 2012
2. ↑ Source: DAR Ancestor # A004123
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #55396695
4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/historyoftremant02trem , The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America... Part II, Ebenezer Mack Truman and Murray E. Poole, D.C.L, 1905, page 1191 of 2129

• Source S377

Type: Letter

Title: Email from Willis Brown;

Date: 2/22/05

• 1800 Census for George's Creek, Allegany County, Maryland - which lists the head of household as Moses Ayers, Sr. The household contains: 1 male over 45, and 1 female over 45

• Ayers Cemetery, Old Detmold Cemetery, Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland.

• WeRelate profile for Moses Ayers (1732 - 1803) and Dorcas Cox [1]

• Jean W Cox, Editor: Nixon Family Memorials: Published for the Descendants of William Nixon and his wife Yanacha Ayers of Sussex County, New Jersey; compiled by, Melville Campbell Harper (Mrs. Jesse C.); Elizabeth Nixon Hegele (Mrs. A. J.); Jean White Cox (Mrs. Ralph L.); and Many other interested members of the Nixon Family. Copyright 1970 by Jean W. Cox. Pages 852-860

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 29, 2021), "Record of Moses Ayer", Ancestor # A004123.

• Source: S33 Type: Web Site Title: Family Search Author: LDS URL: http://www.familysearch.org Data Changed: Date: 20 DEC 2009
• ancestry.com

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 7.2 cM segment on chromosome 1, consisting of Sheryl (Rhamy) Smith, GEDmatch kit # A338445, and Sylvia (Landreth) Sproed, her 6th cousin 1x removed, GEDmatch kit # AT7338439, and Bobby Oliver, half her 7th cousin, GEDmatch kit # A809396. (Sylvia and Bobby are his 6th cousins 1x removed.) Their most-recent common ancestor is Nathaniel Ayers, the 6x great grandfather of Sheryl (Rhamy) Smith and 5x great grandfather of Sylvia (Landreth) Sproed and 6x great grandfather of Bobby Oliver.