Moses Halladay (abt. 1750 - abt. 1810)

Born about 1750 in New Jersey

Ancestors

Died about 1810 at about age 60 in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Moses was born about 1750. He was the son of Moses Holliday and Elizabeth Hall. He passed away about 1810.

^[1]Elizabeth (Hall) Halliday of New Jersey. Her first husband (whom she divorced) was Moses Halliday; one child, Moses. Another account says: "he was born in 1700; married Elizabeth Hall Halliday, a daughter of Dr. John Hall of "Northcastle, N. J. [N.Y.]" and his only child. She had married Moses Halliday who was an Episcopal Bishop, but on the evidence being established that he had left a wife and family in England, Dr. Hall never permitted his daughter to see him, but raised and educated her son (named for his father, Moses Halliday) and later when the Quinby family emigrated to western Pennsylvania, this man became the founder of Halliday's Mills.

^[2]my father, when he came to the West, had three very valuable horses. Three land jobbers (really horse thieves) came and stayed all night with my father. He gave them the best his cabin afforded, and when they went away they took all his horses! In the course of some years one of the thieves was hung in Virginia. He confessed under the gallows that the first horses he ever stole were stolen from a man named Crawford in Muddy Creek settlement. That Moses Holliday was in company with another man, ; that they were well treated, and that after the horses were caught, his conscience smote him, and he turned the horses loose, upon which Holliday called him a d___d hen-hearted coward, and ordered him to catch the horses again. He did so. All this was no proof against Holliday, but my father thought him guilty, and meeting him at Captain Fisher's camp (now Washington, Pennsylvania), in the year 1781 or 1782, attempted to inflict such punishment as was common in those days, but the public protected Holliday by locking him up in a room where my father could not get at him. At the mouth of Big Sandy, on the Ohio, in the year 1797, I met this same Moses Holliday. Two men were bringing him up the river in a canoe. He was afflicted with the palsy. I gave him twenty-five cents, telling him who I was. He afterwards subsisted by begging.

Sources

1. ↑ H. C. Quinby, "Genealogical History of the Quinby (Quimby) Family in England and America" (New York, 1915), page 123.
2. ↑ The William Crawford Memorial. United States: Eagle book printing department, 1904. pp. 50-51

• Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762–1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [Moses Holladay, Year: 1782, Town or Ward: Nottingham, County: Washington]
• Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 340 [Moses Holladay, Year: 1783, Town or Ward: Nottingham, County: Washington, 300 acres land, 5 horses, 4 cows, 3 sheep, 2 slaves, 2 distills]
• Warrant Applications, 1733-1952. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania State Archives. Land Warrants. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA. [Moses Halladay, Warrant Date: 24 May 1786, Warrant Place: Washington, Pennsylvania]