John Moss III born 10 Nov 1682

Happy birthday to my 7 times great grandfather. He is on my mother's family tree, which I call the Booth Family Tree.

Born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony to one of the founders of Wallingford. His father was John Moss Jr, and his grandfather was Capt. John Moss Sr, also known as John Morse. His grandfather, John Sr. was an immigrant to the colonies from England.  

Both John III and his father had been born in the colonies. His mother, Martha Lathrop Moss had also been born in the Connecticut Colony. John III had 12 siblings.

This document speaks about the husband of Mary Moss, daughter of John III and Elizabeth Hall Moss. It mentions that her mother, Elizabeth Hall Moss was a second cousin of her husband.

In the second line above we read about Martha and John Moss, our John III's parents. John Jr. was the one who lived 103 years, and I'll be featuring him on a post soon. You can see their 4th child was John Moss III, who married Elizabeth Hall. Only 9 of their children are listed there.

John III married Elizabeth Hall Moss, in either 1703 or 1708, who had also been born in Wallingford CT. They had 12 children that I've been able to list on my family tree at Ancestry. 

Above are details of some of the children of John III and Elizabeth Hall Moss.

After Elizabeth's death in Jan. 1754, John married in Dec. 1754 Martha Doolittle Moss, daughter of Daniel Doolittle (28 Dec 1675-11 May 1755) & Hannah Cornwall (5 Sep 1677-16 Jun 1736), in First Congregational Society, Meriden CT.  Born on 16 Apr 1703 in Wallingford, CT.  Martha died in 1760.

John III died 14 MARCH 1755 in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony, and is buried in the Center St. Cemetery in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. He only lived 4 months with his new wife.  All his children had grown, and only 3 had predeceased him. I have no idea how many grandchildren he had. Since his father lived to be 103 years old, dying in 1717, it's too bad that John III only lived till his 72 year.

Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, New Haven  County, CT

Here's a list of his and Elizabeth's 12 children:

Children of John and Elizabeth (Hall) Moss, born at Wallingford: 
    i. Hannah Moss, b. 11 Nov 1709, d. 20 Jan 1787 at Cheshire, m. 1st at Wallingford 6 may 1728 Benjamin Ives, m. 2nd there 15 Jun 1768 Phineas Atwater; 
    ii. Elizabeth Moss, b. 6 Dec 1711; 
    iii. Joseph Moss, b. 9 Feb 1714, d. 10 Jul 1775 at Cheshire, m. at Wallingford 4 Feb 1735 Lydia Jones (dau. of Theophilus & Hannah (Mix) Jones); 
    iv. Mary Moss, b. 22 Apr 1716, d. 9 Oct 1791 at Wallingford, m. there 5 Nov 1739 Isaac Hall; 
    v. Kezia Moss, b. ca. 1718, d. 3 Oct 1770 æ. 53 at Wallingford, m. there 18 Nov 1736 Reuben Royce; 
    vi. John Moss, b. 14 Nov 1720; 
    vii. Levi Moss, b. 31 Dec 1722; 
    viii. Eunice Moss, b. 6 Feb 1726; 
    ix. Thankful Moss, b. 26 Apr 1728; 
    x. Ann Moss, b. 18 Aug 1730, d. soon; 
    xi. Martha Moss, b. Sep 1733, d. 1804 æ. 71 at Goshen, m. 1st at Waterbury 17 Jun 1752 Ebenezer Foot of Waterbury, m. 2nd John Hart of Cornwall, m. 3rd John Thompson of Goshen; and 
    xii. Ann Moss, b. Aug 1738, d. 15 Jan 1782 at Waterbury, m. there 22 Jan 1756 Thomas Merriam.

My line was through his son John Moss IV, (1720-1790) whose daughter Elizabeth Moss married Isaac Booth (1755-1841) and their son was Isaac Booth Jr. the shoemaker (1795-1836) who I wrote about recently HERE.