THE MOSELEY (MAUDESLEY)
FAMILY HISTORY
Henry was born about 1611 in White Hill, Lancashire, England. He and his wife came to New England from London on ship Hopewell, Capt. Babb, debarking August 21, 1635. On 10 September 1637 he had a house in Dorchester, Massachusetts Colony. In 1646 he was a freeman. Henry had an older brother named John who had apparently come to New England earlier. John was declared a freeman in Dorchester on 14 March 1639.
Henry and his wife have three recorded children: Mary, Samuel and John.
John Maudesley of Windsor, son of Henry Maudesley, was born about 1638 in Windsor, Connecticut. He married Mary Newberry (b. 1648) of Windsor, daughter of Benjamin Newberry and Mary Allyn, in December 1664 in Windsor. In 1666 was made a freeman of Connecticut.
John was a lieutenant in King Phillip's War and removed from Windsor to Westfield, Massachusetts in 1677. There, he became a freeman of Massachusetts in 1678. John removed back to Windsor, Connecticut and there he died in 1690. His widow, Mary, died in 1708.
John and Mary had ten children: Benjamin (1666-1718), Margaret (1668-1673), Joseph (1670-1719), Mary (1673), Consider (1675-1735), John (1678), Comfort (1680-1712), Margaret (1683), Elizabeth (1685) and Hannah (1690-1708).
Consider Moseley, born 21 November 1675 was born in Windsor, Hartford County, Massachusetts. He married Elzabeth Bancroft (1685) of Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, daughter of Nathaniel Bancroft and Hannah Williams, on 7 July 1709. They had eight children: Rhoda (1710) who married Nathaniel Weller, Israel (1711-1754) who married Anna Moseley, Daniel(1713) who married Anna Abbott, Elizabeth (1714) who married David Bagg, Lydia (1716-1782) who married Israel Dewey, Ruth (1717) who married Thomas Root, Benjamin (1718-1753) who married Hannah Dewey and Mary (1723-1797) who married Aaron King.
Consider Moseley was a Lieutenant and a Selectman at Westfield, Massachusetts.
Consider died on 12 September 1755 in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts and is buried in the Mechanic Street Cemetery in Westfield. His wife had died in 1720 and he took for his second wife, Mrs. Rebecca Williams Dewey, wife of Jedidiah Dewey, Jr. The Dewey family was intertwined with his family as his daughter, Lydia+, had married Israel Dewey.
