Moses Estey (bef. 1712 - 1795)

Born before 6 Sep 1712 in Topsfield, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Eunice (Penguille) Estey — married 8 Sep 1736 in Suffield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1795 after age 82 in Black River, New Jersey

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Biography

Moses Estey was baptized in Topsfield, Essex, (then) Province of Massachusetts Bay on 06 September 1712, the son of Isaac and Abigail (Kimball) Estey.^[1]

Moses Eastey and Eunice Pengilley entered their intentions of marriage on 21 August 1736 in Suffield, Connecticut.^[2][3]They were married on 08 September 1736.^[4]

Eunice Esty, daughter of John Pengilly, was named in John's will dated 30 January 1750, inventory taken 29 January 1752/3 in Suffield, Connecticut. Also named were John's wife Mary, son John Jr., daughter Sarah the wife of James Poisson.^[5]

They removed to Enfield, Connecticut in 1752, then to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1756, and later to New Jersey. They had one son, Capt. Moses of Morristown, New Jersey, who was a soldier in the Revolution.^[4]

Moses and Eunice died in Black River which is now Long Valley, Morris County, New Jersey.^[6] According to his Find a Grave Memorial, Moses Sr. died in 1795. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Topsfield Historical Society, compiler, Vital Records of Topsfield, MA, to the End of the Year 1849, (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Hist. Soc., 1903), Vol. 1:42.

   "Esty, Moses, s. Isaac, bp. Sept 6, 1712 CR"

2. ↑ Suffield, Connecticut Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1662-1904, v. 1. Births, marriages, deaths, miscellaneous 1662-1795 v. 1 Births, marriages, deaths 1662-1904 v. 2 Births, marriages, deaths 1847-1877, p. 122.

   "Moses Eastey entred his purpose of marriage with Eunie Pengilley August ye 21st 1736."

3. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Suffield, p. 206 (Link by $ubscription)

   "Eunice & Moses Eastly, Int. Pub., Aug. 21, 1736"

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Gay Esty Bangs, "Isaac Esty of Topsfield and some of his Descendants," Historical Collections of the Essex Institute Vol. 36, no. 1 (Jan 1900), p. 135.
5. ↑ Helen Schatvet Ullmann, "Hartford District Probate Records from 1750." The Connecticut Nutmegger. Glastonbury, CT: Connecticut Society of Genealogists, 1970-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Vol. 35(2002):11 (Link by $ubscription)
6. ↑ MinerDescent.com, profiling Isaac Estey II
7. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial for Moses Estey Sr. "According to the typed 1951 mss by author, Edward Nicholas Clopper, Moses Este, Sr., the father of Captain Moses Este (the younger one married to wife Anna Kirkpatrick) is buried here at this cemetery, which Clopper describes in great detail [1951 mss, Cinti Mus Center His Lib]. Clopper tells us that Moses, the father died in 1795, at the advanced age of 84 yrs in the home of his daughter Eunice."