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ministratrix January 30, 1679-80, makes no mention of any arms
or clothing except an old musket and sword in the " Garret."
This circumstance, with some others, and a lack of any official reference
to his death, would seem to indicate that it happened away
from home.
Ann Mosely, thrown upon her own resources for maintenance,
was granted a license by the town authorities, in 1681 and 1682,
"To sell wine and stronge liquors out of dores." That she prospered
is proved by the deed of trust to her brothers, Isaac Addington
and Penn Townsend, 1684, in favor of her daughters, "her
only living children," just before she married Nehemiah Pierce,
" set-work-cooper." He died in 1691, leaving her again a widow.
The son Samuel died young, doubtless. The daughter Rebecca
married January 22, 1694, James Townsend; and Mary married
William Webster, November 25, 1696. Rebecca married again
in 1708, Jonathan Williams, who in 1733 appears as the Narragansett
claimant in the " right of his wife's Father Capt Maudesley."
Capt. Mosely's descendants were quite numerous in the second
and third generation, through Rebecca's children by Townsend and
Williams.