Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Col. Hercules MOONEY | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hercules Mooney, born at Longford, Ireland, in 1715, and who is said to have been "a teacher in a nobleman's family in his native country." He came to Dover in 1733 and, as is shown by the public records, he was "engaged January 2, 1734, to teach school. In 1741, his name appears in the rate lists of the town of Somersworth and nine years later he removed to Durham, N. H., where he established a school which he conducted continuously for sixteen years, except for the term of his military service in the French-English war. In 1766 we find Hercules Mooney and his two sons teaching schools at Lee, N. H., and in December, 1775, he was elected a representative of his town to the Provincial Congress at Exeter. On March 14, 1776, he was elected Major of a militia regiment commanded by Colonel David Gilman and later was promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel of a Continental regiment under the command of Colonel Pierse Long of Portsmouth, N. H., whose father, Pierse Long, was a native of Limerick, Ireland. On June 23, 1779, Mooney was promoted to the command of the regiment and after the war he resumed teaching and continued until 1786, when old age compelled him to retire. A New Hampshire historian says: "The record of Colonel Mooney and his sons, as schoolmasters, officers in the Seven Years War and the Revolutionary War, and in civil positions was a notable one. Colonel Mooney was one of those men whom circumstances develop into leaders almost instantly when the exigencies of the case demand them. [page 109 "Irish Settlers in America" by Michael J. O'Brien] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 Apr 1739 Benjamin Evans conveyed to Hercules Mooney, schoolmaster, eleven acres in "ye place commonly called Barbadoes" on the north side of the way from Littleworth to Barrington, beginning at Robert Hanson's bound. resided near "Barbadoes" Pond for ten years, 1750 moved Durham; 1785 moved to Holderness children 1737-50: Hercules, Emery, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Solomon, Obadiah, Elizabeth married(2) widow Mary JONES; children 1752-60: Hannah, John, Susanna 1757 captain; major, then Lt. colonel at Portsmouth in the Revolution to 1777; sent to Ticonderoga; DAR buried Mooney Cemetery, Ashland(was Holderness) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Elizabeth EVANS | ||||||||||
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| Last Modified 27 Aug 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |