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Moses (Cadwallender) Cadwallader Jr. (1763 - 1803)

Moses Cadwallader Jr. formerly Cadwallender
Born in Fairfax Parish, Fairfax, Colony of Virginiamap
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Husband of — married 16 Jun 1792 in Richmond, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Died at age 40 in Grayson County, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Biography

Moses was a Friend (Quaker)

Birth

Moses Cadwallader was born on 22 February 1763.[1][2] He was the son of Moses Cadwallender Elizabeth Malin.

Life

His family's move from Pennsylvania to the Goose Creek (now Lincoln) area of Loudoun County, northern Virginia.[3]

A member of the Fairfax Monthly Meeting as a child and youth, Moses ran into trouble at the age of 20. On September 27, 1783, he was disowned by the Fairfax MM for attempted bestiality.[3]

Four years later, when the family headed southwest to Bedford County, Moses was still "without a certificate," that is, without membership in the Monthly Meeting. In 1791 he asked the South River MM to assist him in being reconciled to Fairfax.[3]

The letter to the Friends of South River Monthly Meeting was read:

To Friends of South River Monthly Meeting

Dear Friends, We received your rec [recommendation] in favor of Moses Cadwalla-der, jun. Friends here, haveing considered, and reconsidered, his case, and the circumstances of it, by their committees, and weightily in the Monthly Meetings, after which their [sic] doth not appea[r] a freedom to accept of his offering, but have sollidly drawn this conclusion; Viz. In as much as you appear satisfied with his present conduct, we do hereby relinquish all right and claim to any further treatment with him on the present ocation, but leave the whole to your discretion, in receiving him as you may judge best — and which shall not be deemed a lessning [of] the authority of our meeting.

Signed on behalf of and by order of our Monthly Meeting held at Fairfax the 23rd of the 7th Month, 1791.

By William Stabler, Clk.[4]

After his reconciliation with the meeting and their marriage were taken place, the Goose Creek Monthly Meeting in Bedford County granted Moses, Jr., Mary, and their four small children (Amos, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Byrom) certificates to the Westfield Monthly Meeting, covering parts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee on May 4, 1799, and they were received by Westfield on July 20.

His family lived in Virginia, for when, in 1801, the Westfield MM was divided and the Mount Pleasant MM was organized in Grayson County, Virginia, Mary Cadwallader was found among the original members. Unfortunately, the men's minutes have been lost.[5]

Marriage

Finally, after being disowned for more than eight years, on February 18, 1792, he was received into the South River Monthly Meeting. His reconciliation with the meeting was just in time, for on May 23 of the same year he married Mary ("Polly") Ballard[3] at the Upper Goose Creek meeting in Virginia.[1][6]

Property

In 1789, before his marriage, Moses had bought a parcel of 120 acres on Glady Branch, on the north side of Goose Creek. Then in 1795, he bought another 146 acres on Richardsons Mill Creek, a tract bordering on property owned by his father, then sold it for a £5 profit a few months later. The next year, 1796, he sold more: in '97 both father and son were selling, and again in '99. Moses, Jr., sold the last of his Bedford County property in July 1801, and Moses, Sr., the last in April 1802. It would appear that the son and his widowed father made a joint decision to push on to the southwest.[7]

Death

By the last child, Judith's birth on 31 November 1803, Moses Cadwallader, Jr. had died. He was only 40 years old. What a tragedy for his widow, Polly, left with six children ranging from infancy to age ten! It would appear that their 73-year-old grandfather, Moses Cadwallader, Sr., was part of the family and probably was of some assistance.

It could be ascertained that Moses Cadwallader passed away sometime before September 1803 in Grayson County, Virginia.

Mary "Polly" Cadwallader lived another ten years. She died, probably in early 1813, for her inventory was filed at Grayson County in May of that year.[8] She was 48 years old and left six children, ages 9 to 20.

Probate Records

A detailed appraisement was filed in Grayson County in September 1803.[9]

1 bed furniture
1 Desk
3 Blankets
1 Bed Furniture
1 Ditto
1 Coat
1 Jacket
1 pr Buckskin breaches
1 Coat
1 Jacket
1 pr Hat Press
1 Coat 1/2 Doz. plates
5 Ditto
2 large Basons
2 Dishes
1 Tin Bucket
1 Bucket and Pail
1 Doz. Aprons
1 Pewter Quart
1 Tin Ditto
1 Pewter Chamber pott
1 Duch oven
1 Ditto
1 Skillet
1Tea kettle
1 Small pott
1 spinning wheel
1 large ditto
1 small ditto
1 cubbard
1 Bible
1 History [book]
1 stone pitcher
3 Bottles
3 Casks
7 Barrels
11 Sheep
1 Mair & Colt
4 Cows
2 year olds [heifers]
1 Bedquilt and Bolster
1 Drawing Knife
1 Handsaw
1 sow and Pigs
1 Bell & Coller
2 Calves
6 head of Hogs
1 Harrow
1 dog Chain
1 Sythe and Cradle
1 Mattocks
1 Brawd ax
1 Grind Stone
4 Bells
1 set Coopers tools
3 Augers
1 Frow [for cutting shingles]
3 leather Collers
1 Bridle
1 pr Gears
2 pr Harness
1 Whip
1 large pot
1/2 Doz. Chairs
1 large Chair
1 Checkd Red [tablecloth?]
1 foot adze [for squaring timbers]
1 pr Gears
1 pr Nippers
1 Hip strap
1 Saddle
1 pole ax
1 Hoe
1 Bridle
1 leather [horse] Coller
2 Swingletrees
1 pole ax
1 Hoe
1 pr Streachers
1 Bridle

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hinshaw, William Wade (1867-1947). Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol VI. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, Inc. 1950, p. 479.
  2. ↑ Hinshaw, 6, p. 629. Aitkens-Cadwallader Bible has Sept 22, 1763, but this is not supported elsewhere.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Koehler, George E. Our Cadwallader Ancestry from Britain and Ireland Through the Mid-Atlantic Colonies and West to Wisconsin in Nine Generations. Second Edition. 1998, p. 16 16, 25.
  4. ↑ South River Monthly Meeting Bedford and Campbell Counties, Register, 1756-1857, p. 102.
  5. ↑ Hinshaw 1, pp. 350, 961, 1001.
  6. ↑ Hinshaw, 6, p. 303.
  7. ↑ Bedford County Deeds, 8:208f, 10:3, ll:15f, 10:68f, 10:153f, 10:335f, ll:16f, ll:402f.
  8. ↑ Grayson County Wills, 1.9If.
  9. ↑ Grayson County Wills, 1:30.




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