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Rh books and papers of the Continental congress at Philadelphia, but failed, and narrowly escaped with his life. Of all the spies employed by the royal- ists during the Revolution, he was the most fear- less and daring, and his numerous escapes from capture and death were little short of marvellous. For several years his name was a terror in New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania. At the close of the Revolutionary war he went to England, and subsequently to Nova Scotia, where he re- ceived an estate and the half-pay of an officer of his grade. He became a colonel of militia in Nova Scotia, and wrote a narrative of his services to the crown (London, 1783). — His brother, John, b. in New Jersey in 1759 ; d. in Philadelphia in No- vember, 1781, was engaged in the attempt to break into the state-house in Philadelphia and seize the papers of the Continental congress, and was cap- tured and executed as a spy.

MOODY, Joshua, clergyman, b. in Wales in 1633; d. in Boston, 4 July, 1697. William, his father, settled in Newbury in 1634. Joshua was graduated at Harvard in 1653, was ordained a minister of the Congregational church, 11 July, 1671, and began to preach about 1658. His re- gard for the purity and reputation of his church having brought upon him the enmity of Gov. Ed- ward Cranfield, he was imprisoned, but was short- ly released upon condition that he would preach no more in New Hampshire. On 23 May, 1684, he became assistant minister of the First church, Boston, and was invited to take charge of Har- vard, but declined. During the witchcraft troubles in 1692, he opposed the unjust and violent meas- ures toward the imagined offenders, and aided Philip English and his wife to escape from prison. His zeal in this matter occasioned his dismission from his church, and he passed the rest of his life in Portsmouth. He published " Communion with God" (1685) and an "Election Sermon" (1692). His four thousand and seventeenth sermon closes a manuscript volume of his discourses that is pre- served in the Massachusetts historical society.

MOODY, Paul, mechanic, b. in Byfield,"Mass., 23 May, 1779 ; d. in Lowell, Mass., 7 July, 1831. He received a common-school education, and then worked in a woollen-factory in his native town. Subsequently he attracted the attention of the in- ventor Jacob Perkins, who placed him in charge of his machine-shop. About 1813 he was called to the management of the mechanical part of the Waltham cotton-factory, and later, when similar works were established in Lowell, he transferred his services to that city. Among his inventions are a dead spindle and a governor.

MOODY, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Newbury, Mass., 4 Jan., 1676 ; d. 13 Nov., 1747. He was the son of Caleb Moody, a representative of Newbury in the general court of Massachusetts in 1677-'8, and a grandson of Samuel Moody, who was said to have emigrated from Wales "in 1634. The grandson was graduated at Harvard in 1697, and ordained a minister of the Congregational church in York, Me., 29 Dec, 1700. He was a member of the convention of ministers that met at Boston. 7 July, 1743, to pass judgment on the remarkable religious revivals that followed George White- field's preaching in this country. In 1745, at the instance of Sir William Pepperell, he accompanied the expedition to Cape Breton. He was instru- mental in founding a Congregational church in Providence, R. I., and possessed great influence among the churches. His publications include " State of the Damned " (1710) ; " Judas Hung up in Chains" (1714); "Election Sermon" (1721); summary account of the life and death of Joseph Quasson, an Indian.

'''MOOERS. Benjamin''', soldier, b. in Haverhill, Mass.. 1 April, 1758: d. in Plattsburg, N. Y., 20 Feb., 1838. He entered the Revolutionary army as an ensign, served as a lieutenant and adjutant till the end of the war, and while acting in this capacity kept an order-book which was printed in Albany, in 1876. In 1783 he settled in the vicinity of Plattsburg, N. Y., then a wilderness, was for eight years a member of the New York legisla- ture, and held various other offices. He was a major-general of militia, and as such commanded at the battle of Plattsburg, 11 Sept., 1814. MOONEY, Edward Ludlow, artist, b. in New York city, 25 March, 1813; d. there in July, 1887. He began his art studies by attending the night-school of the Academy of design at the age of eighteen. After this he worked as a sign- painter until his twenty-third year, when he be- came a pupil of Henry Inman. While in that artist's studio he executed six admirable copies of Inman's portrait of Martin Van Buren, and also received the first gold medal that was awarded by the National academy of design. Subsequently Mr. Mooney studied with William Page, and was elected an associate of the academy in 1839 and an academician in 1840. His career was eminently successful, and marked by various admirable por- traits of eminent men. Among these were likenesses of Com. Oliver H. Perry and of Gov. William H. Seward, the latter now in the state-house at Al- bany, also that of Achmet Ben Anian, the com- mander of the Imam of Muscat's frigate "Sultan," purchased by the common council of New York. He passed several winters in the south painting the portraits of southern celebrities.

MOOR, Wyman Bradbury Sevey, senator, b. in Waterville, Me., 3 Nov., 1814 ; d. 'in Lynch- burg, Va., 16 Feb., 1869. He was educated at C;olby university, studied law in Cambridge, Mass., and in 1833 was admitted to the bar. He was in the Maine legislature in 1839, attorney-general of that state in 1844r-'8, and by appointment suc- ceeded John Fairfield in the "U. S. senate, serving from January to June, 1848. He subsequently de- voted much attention to the railroad interests of his state, and was consul-general to the British- American provinces in 1857-'61. He removed to Virginia a few months previous to his death.

MOORE, Andrew, lawyer, b. in Canniscello, Augusta co. (now Rockbridge), Va., in 1752 ; d. near Lexington, Va., 14 April, 1821. In early years he made a voyage to the West Indies, and was cast away on a desert island. On his return he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1774. In 1776 he entered the Revolutionary army as lieutenant, participated in the battle of Saratoga, attained the rank of captain, and resigned his commission after three years' service. The legislature of Virginia made him brigadier-general of militia, and major-general in 1808. From 1781 till 1789 he served in the Virginia legislature, and in 1788 was a member of the State convention that ratified the constitution of the United States. He was then elected to the first congress, serving from 4 March, 1789, till 3 March. 1797, and was again a member of the legislature from 1789 till 1800. He successfully contested the election of Thomas Lewis in the 8th congress, serving from 5 March, 1804, till 6 Nov.. 1804, when he was appointed a U. S. senator in place of Wilson Cary Nicholas. He was subsequently elected to this office, serving from 17 Dec, 1807, till 3 March, 1809. In 1810 he was appointed U. S. marshal for