Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
MOFFITT, JUDAH, married Nancy Hancock, niece of Governor John Hancock, and settled in a secluded nook on the mountain near Rupert.
He was from Brimfield, Mass. He was with the detachment of soldiers under Ethan Allen, who surprised Ticonderoga in 1775.
He was in the battle of Saratoga in 1777, and at the siege of Yorktown in 1781.
He was long a respected citizen in his secluded home. He died in 1852; aged 92; his wife died in 1848, aged 83.
Of his children we know only Hiram and Nancy, who have lately removed to Wells.
