Medad Moody Family:

Medad Moody & Sally Dickinson

   - From Weybridge Vt, friends of Silas Wright Sr.

                                                            - Came to Canton in 1804, lived on Hosley farm on Russell

                                                              Rd, owned land along Grass River, 2 acres, built Moody's

                                                              Tavern (where Harrington Hotel once was)& a house

                                                           - built residence on Main st 1819

                                                            - Medad was born in 1775 (30 DEC 1774 in Amherst,

                                                             Hampshire, Massachusetts) and died in 1827 at age 52 in

                                                             Canton NY and is  Buried at Silas Wright Cemetery

                                                           - Sally was born in 1783, (b: 23 APR 1783 in Petersham,

                                                            Worchester, Massachusetts) married  30 JUL 1801, died Nov

                                                            16, 1865 in Canton .   

                                                           - Medad served in the War of 1812 as  Lt. in Alexander

                                                            Turner's Regiment at the Battle of Ogdensburg

                                                                        children:          

Evergreen Cemetery Canton NY from Anne Cady's site:

Moody
Moody Monument, (Section F)
Capt Lucius Moody, July 24, 1806 - Jan 26, 1878 (Section F)
Julia A Moody, Wife of Capt Moody, d. Oct 31, 1869 Aged 56 yrs (Section F)
Lucius D Moody, Son of Capt L & Julia Moody, d. Aug 4, 1854 Aged 22 yrs, 4 mos (Section F)
Henry W Moody, Son of Capt L & Julia A. Moody, d. May 28, 1836 Aged 2 mos, 24 dys (Section F)
Salome Ellsworth Moody, Wife of Horace D. Moody, 1841-1911 ;Close-up (Section F)
Adelia H Moody, Wife of H. D. Moody, died at Colorado Springs, C. T., June 15, 1871 AE 34 yrs ;Close-up (Section F)
Horace D Moody, 1887-1917 (Section F)

Luman Moody Monument, (Section F)
Luman Moody, d. April 3, 1854 AE 46 yrs (Section F)
Lydia H Hopkins Moody, d. May 9, 1875 AE 66 yrs (Section F)

Note: on Canton 1810 - 1840 census I also found an Eli Moody. according to this Rootsweb entry, he was a brother of Medad.  Their father was also named Medad.

In the early 1800s there was an Eli Moody in Weybridge, Vt who was a Reverend at the Congregational Church - "History of Addison County" pg 722:

http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/lis/lib/guides_and_tutorials/subject_guides/collection_guide-vermont/internet_resources/history_addison_county/chap36_hac.htm

This Eli Moody was Ordained at Yale University Aug 12, 1818  from "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Yale College" 

http://books.google.com/books?id=yokiQK_ST0IC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=Eli+Moody+Weybridge+Vt&source=web&ots=mgNDIPYjhG&sig=Lhce79E--TKTrBd7a58waewT0Ok#PPA158,M1

1847 Canton Death:

Note: 1850 Canton Census:  George Moody age 8, Sarah Moody age 16 and Medad F Moody age 6 live with the family of Henry Sackrider. (pg 81& 82)

St. Lawrence Gazette - 1826:

St. Lawrence Gazette - May 22, 1827:

Northern Light Newspaper (Ogdensburg) 1831:

Northern Light 1833 (article from 1820):

St. Lawrence Republican 1839:

St. Lawrence Republican 1844:

St. Lawrence Republican 1863:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1924:

Oswego Times Journal May 12, 1854:

Syracuse Evening Chronicle June 5, 1854:

Canton Plaindealer 1867:

 (note: Lucius Moody was the second child born in Canton NY son of Medad & Sally Moody, brother of Clarissa Moody- Mrs. Silas Wright)

USS Quaker City - more on this ship click here:  http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-q/quakr-cy.htm   and  http://www.historycentral.com/navy/gunboat/quakercity.html

From Wikipedia - Steamship Quaker City (in the middle distance) at Naples, Italy, in 1867. She was USS Quaker City during the Civil War. After the war, Quaker City decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard 18 May 1865 and was sold at auction there 20 June 1865. Redocumented 11 August 1865, Quaker City served American commerce under United States registry until sold abroad in 1869.

During a trip to Europe in 1867, she was the scene of some of the tales related by Mark Twain in his book "The Innocents Abroad". The steamer was sold and renamed Columbia in 1869, then, after joining the Haitian Navy in the same year, became Mont Organisé. Sold again in February 1871, she was renamed République, but was lost at sea off Bermuda later in that month.

 

From: http://www.twainquotes.com/18670609.html

The New York Times, June 9, 1867

The Pleasure Excursion to Europe and Palestine - Sailing of the Quaker City.

The steamer Quaker City, Capt. DUNCAN, sailed from this port yesterday, having on board the private excursion party destined for a Summer trip up the Mediterranean, touching at Gibralter, Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Smyrna, Joppa, Alexandria, Malta, Valencia, Madeira, &c., and returning the latter part of October. This excursion was set on foot some four months ago by Capt. DUNCAN, and was originally designed to embrace a select and somewhat exclusive party, but before the steamer sailed it was found necessary to lower the standard a little, and ordinary persons with $1,200 t spend were enabled to purchase tickets. Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER, who was early announced to be of the party, found it inconvenient to make the trip, and more recently Gen. SHERMAN was compelled to forego the pleasure; so that after the withdrawal of these two leading names from the bill of attractions, the passenger list gradually diminished until the steamer was obliged to sail with about half the complement of names provided for in the original programme. Nevertheless the party will doubtless be equally jolly, if not 1ite so select as it first contemplated, and the excursion cannot fail to prove a pleasant and enjoyable mode of passing the Summer. It is designed to reach the leading ports in the following order: Marseilles, about the 27th June; Naples, 27th July; Constantinople, 13th August; Alexandria, 12th September; Gibraltar, 2d October, arriving home before Nov. 1. At all of these places the steamer will stop long enough to give the excursionists an opportunity to make a trip into the interior and visit adjacent points of interest. Those who prefer to remain on board the steamer while lying in port will be allowed to do so without additional expense. The sailing of the steamer yesterday morning drew together a large throng of people upon the wharf, composed mainly of the friends and relatives of the passengers, many of whom accompanied the Quaker City down the bay in the steamboat S. O. Pierce, which was chartered for the occasion. The excursionists number about seventy-five persons.

http://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/MTDP00307.xml;style=letter

Passengers

Allen, Anthony Bezenet, New York City

Andrews, Dr. Edward, Albany, N. Y.

Barry, Major James G., St. Louis

Beach, Moses Sperry, Brooklyn

Beach, Miss Emeline B., Brooklyn

Beckwith, Thomas S., Cleveland

Bell, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. H., Portsmouth, Ohio

Birch, Dr. George Bright, Hannibal, Mo.

Bond, Mr. and Mrs. John W., St. Paul, Minn.

Bond, Miss Ada, St. Paul, Minn.

Bond, Miss Mary E., Plaquemine, La.

Brown, Dr. Marcus, Circleville, Ohio

Brown, Miss Kate L., Circleville, Ohio

Bullard, the Reverend Henry, Wayland, Mass.

Chadeyne, Miss Carrie D., Jersey City

Church, William F., Cincinnati

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, San Francisco (Mark Twain)

Crane, Dr. Albert, New Orleans

Crane, Albert, Jr., New Orleans

Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy D. (Eliza P.), Cleveland

Cutter, Bloodgood Haviland, Little Neck, Long Island

Davis, Joshua William, New York City

Denny, Colonel William Ritenour, Winchester, Va.

Dimon, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick, Norwalk, Conn.

Duncan, Mrs. Charles C. (Hannah T.), Brooklyn

Duncan, George F., Brooklyn

Duncan, Henry E., Brooklyn

Fairbanks, Mrs. Abel W. (Mary Mason), Cleveland

Foster, Colonel James Heron, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Gibson, Dr. and Mrs. William (Susan), Jamestown, Pa.

Green, Mrs. J. O., Washington, D.C.

Greenwood, John, Jr., New York City  (PT Barnam's Assistant)

Greer, Frederick H., Boston

Griswold, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. (Louisa M.), Brooklyn

Haldeman, Honorable Jacob Samils, Harrisburg, Pa.

Heiss, Goddard, Philadelphia

Hoel, Captain William R., Waynesville, Ohio

Hutchinson, the Reverend Eleazer Carter, St. Louis

Hyde, Honorable James K., Hydeville, Vt.

Isham, John G., Cincinnati

Jackson, Dr. Abraham Reeves, Stroudsburg, Pa.

James, William E., Brooklyn

Jenkins, Frederick P., Boston

Kinney, Colonel Peter, Portsmouth, Ohio

Krauss, George W., Harrisburg, Pa.

Langdon, Charles Jervis, Elmira, N. Y.

Langdon, Miss Julia L.

Larrowe, Mrs. Nina D., San Francisco

Leary, Daniel D., New York City

Lee, Mrs. S. G., Brooklyn

Lockwood, Mr. and Mrs. E. K., Norwalk, Conn.

McDonald, Louis, Bristol, England

Moody, Captain Lucius, Canton, N.Y.

Moulton, Julius, St. Louis

Nelson, Arba, Alton, Ill.

Nesbit, Dr. Benjamin B., Louisville, Ky.

Nesbit, Thomas B., Fulton, Mo.

Newell, Miss Julia, Janesville, Wis.

Parsons, Samuel B., New York City

Payne, Dr. and Mrs. James H., Boston

Quereau, the Reverend George W., Aurora, Ill.

Sanford, Solomon N., Cleveland

Serfaty, M. A., Gibraltar

Severance, Mr. and Mrs. Solon Long (Emily A.), Cleveland

Sexton, Nicholas, New York City

Slote, Daniel, New York City

Van Nostrand, John A., Greenville, N.J., and New York City

Lucius Moody - Quaker City Expedition - Canton Plaindealer  July 25, 1867:

Malone Palladium 1872:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1877:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer - January 1878:

Info from Randy James - randy@jassoc.com :

ONLY one reference to Lucius Moody in my great grandfather's Quaker City diary:

Monday, September 16th, 1867

Started for Haifa at the foot of Mt. Carmel at 2 AM. Arrived at 10 AM. Went ashore at 11:30. It is a small town. At 12 saw and heard a man on the minaret of the mosque near by calling the faithful to prayer in the peculiar nasal twang of the natives while singing. Went into camp on the west side of town at 12:30 PM. Beach and daughter, Captain Moody and myself in one party with 3 tents and 4 other parties with their tents. The Mt on the south and the bay on the north. Had a very nice dinner at 2 of omelet, chicken and bread. For desert had watermelon, pomegranate, raisins and English walnuts meat. The cooking was first rate by the cook Usiph under the care of Abraim the dragoman. While finishing our dinner a fight took place between our muleteers and the townspeople about the barley when two were badly wounded by sticks and stones requiring surgical operation. This looks ominous for our trip as the Quaker City has gone for Joppa. Went up to the top of Mt. Carmel. Took a view of the side of the mountain, Heiffa and the Brook and the valley of the Hishon on the left. Slept in a tent for the first time. The plain of Esdrailon is the plain Megiddo, the battlefield of Palestine.

From Dewey Ganzels's "Mark Twain Abroad: The Cruise of the Quaker City" University of Chicago Press, 1968

 

Clemens' brief experience in the Confederate Army might account for the great interest he showed the Army vis-a-vis the Navy contingent on board. About the two navy Captains, Lucius Moody from Canton, New York, and W. R. Hoel, of Cincinnati, he said nothing directly (48. Although he makes fun of the multiplicity of "Captains" on board the Quaker City in the first part of Innocents Abroad ......

(48) Although he seems to have known Lucius Moody well enough to confuse his name with Julius Moulton's in a letter to his family of December 10, 1867.

 

NOTE: This is the ONLY reference to Lucius Moody in Ganzel's book.

 

Sherwin's Mill - 1910 - Mill Flour, Feed & Farm Seed

According to "Images of America' book shown above this mill was built in 1860 by Captain Lucius Moody (Brother-in-law of Silas Wright) and it was also called St. Lawrence Mill.  Daniel Webster Sherwin was a Civil War Veteran.

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1921:

New York Spectator 1826/27:

New York Tribune 1844:

1921 - Canton Free Library - Clippings - Simeon (Dick) Moody:

First Band:

Note there is conflicting info below.  Moody's tavern was where the Harrington Hotel.  I do not know if they also owned the land and had another property where the American House once stood - now the site of Canton's Post office...as indicated in the article below.

Watertown Times May 1972 - about Lumbering:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1938:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1873:

Auburn NY Daily American, 1858:

Utica NY Morning Herald 1875:

Ogdensburg  The Daily Journal - Sept 6,1865:

Ogdensburg Advance 1904:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1877:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1877:

Sherwin's Mill - 1910 - Mill Flour, Feed & Farm Seed

According to "Images of America' book shown above this mill was built in 1860 by Captain Lucius Moody (Brother-in-law of Silas Wright) and it was also called St. Lawrence Mill.  Daniel Webster Sherwin was a Civil War Veteran.

St. Lawrence Mills - Horace D. Moody was the son of Capt Lucius Moody who owned the Mill. On the 1870 Census Horace D. is listed as a custom miller. His father is 64.  His uncle, Horace Moody was once Secretary to Silas Wright and his aunt was Clarissa Moody Wright.  This picture could have been taken in Canton before the 1869/1870 fires that razed Main Street.   The building looks like the N (Nathan) L Stone Photography building shown on page 38 of "Images of America - Canton" by Linda A Casserly, Julie Sherman Grayson and Judith C. Liscum.   Per Nathan's Obit, he came to Canton in 1870/72 and established NL Stone & Son Gallery.  He lived in Potsdam.   This photo is from this web site: http://ogdensburg.info/Region/Canton/canton.html

St. Lawrence Democrat Oct 18, 1917:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer  1946 article referring to 50 years ago:

Utica Weekly Herald 1878:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1936:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer April 1943:

Syracuse Gray Scale Daily Standard Aug 23, 1850  (Medad Moody was a friend of Silas Wright's Father)

St Lawrence Plaindealer April 19, 1951:

Albany Evening Journal Aug 13, 1834:

Syracuse Daily Standard April 7, 1854:

St. Lawrence Republican April 4, 1854:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer May 20, 1875:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Oct 31, 1937:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer  Jan 6, 1931:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer - Sept 4, 1893 or 1896:

Roman Citizen, Rome NY  March 2, 1888:

New York Times Dec 10, 1888:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Dec 12, 1888:

The Herald, 1897:

1850 Canton Census:

Luman Moody 42 - Farmer b NY

Lydia   35 b VT  (Lydia Ruth Hopkins)

Mary 15   (Mary Stong Moody married Oswell Amos Bogue)

Clarisa 5   (Cassie - married a Mr. Smith)

Sally Moody 67  (widow of Medad)  b Mass   (buried at Silas Wright Cemetery

Horace Moody age ? Merchant

George B age 9

Frederick M  age 7 or 1

Sally Blodget 87 b Mass     (buried at Silas Wright Cemetery)

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Sept 1928:

Canton Commercial Advertiser Oct 16, 1917:

Canton Commercial Advertiser - 1911: