"He was born on his father's farm in PA. At about age 20 he & his parents went as pioneers to the Monongahela Valley & settled on the river above Morgantown, Monongalia, WV, a very wild & unbroken country where they lived on a farm. Moses was a short, strongly built man, possessed remarkable powers of endurance, & his superior ability was widely recognized & respected by frontiersmen who were pugnaciously disposed. Indeed it was said, "He was a game fighter in his early days." He gave little time to farming, but worked much on the river & was a great hewer of timber. He was a Captain of the Militia. In 1807 he bought a tract of 225 acres from John Dent on Booth's creek 6 miles above Morgantown & there made his families home. He suffered a rupture when shaving shingles & had to use crutches during his latter years which he spent among his children. He resided with son Thomas, 1850, at Marion County, WV, near Forksburg."
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"He was born on his father's farm in PA. At about age 20 he & his parents went as pioneers to the Monongahela Valley & settled on the river above Morgantown, Monongalia, WV, a very wild & unbroken country where they lived on a farm. Moses was a short, strongly built man, possessed remarkable powers of endurance, & his superior ability was widely recognized & respected by frontiersmen who were pugnaciously disposed. Indeed it was said, "He was a game fighter in his early days." He gave little time to farming, but worked much on the river & was a great hewer of timber. He was a Captain of the Militia. In 1807 he bought a tract of 225 acres from John Dent on Booth's creek 6 miles above Morgantown & there made his families home. He suffered a rupture when shaving shingles & had to use crutches during his latter years which he spent among his children. He resided with son Thomas, 1850, at Marion County, WV, near Forksburg."
http://doolittlesofamerica.com/Genealogy/D5.html#i14095
http://doolittlesofamerica.com/Genealogy/D5.html#i14095
Gravesite Details
Headstone either lost to time or weathered beyond reading.
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