Freeman, 10 May 1643

Increase and wife moved to Norwich in171180, 39-40

MOSELEY, or MAUDLSEY. The earliest notice of this name is found in the baptismal record: "Increase and Sarah, children of Increase MAUDSLEY, bap. 6: 9: 1715," that is Nov. 6, 1715.

Increase MOSELEY, the father, died in 1731.

Increase, the son, born May 18, 1712, married, in 1735, Deborah TRACY, of Windham, and removed about 1740 to Woodbury, settling in that part of the town which is now Washington. He there sustained various offices of trust and honor, representing the town in the Legislature for some fifteen successive years, but removed to Clarendon, Vt., in 1781, and there died May 2, 1795.

His son, the third Increase MOSELEY in direct succession, probably born also in Norwich, settled in Southbury, and was a colonel of one of the Connecticut regiments during the Revolutionary war.

Rev. Peabody MOSELEY, son of the first Increase, was born at Norwich in 1724. He was a Baptist clergyman, but about the year 1780 joined the Shaker society of New Lebanon. 103, pgs 253-73