He was the twin of John. ®656 In January 1731, the Hadley inner commons was divided. Samuel Moody, Jr., living in Hadley, was listed as having real estate valued at 8 pounds, 10 shillings. ®1631 “ Samuel and John both settled in the South Precinct of Hadley, Mass. and from them arose the two Granby branches.” They stayed in South Hadley taking care of their widowed mother until after her death in 1759. ®408 Between 1731 and 1740 he and John both moved to Granby. ®1632 ®1384In 1746 he served one year as one of seven selectmen for Granby. ®1633 Amherst “received some valuable gifts, the first of which was a lot for the meeting-house, given by Samuel Moody in 1762, of which the deed was given by his sons in 1769.” ®1384. ®1634 He died in Granby in his 63rd year in 1765. ®706
“He settled about the year 1736 in the South Precinct of Hadley, Mass., on land laid out in the right of his father who was one of the original proprietors as above shown. He is a twin to John. His house stood on the west side of what was then and is still called ‘Cold-Hill’, a distant from the Meeting House in the Precinct, about one mile in a north-east direction and on the south side of the road, named ‘Cooper Lane’. His name if [sic] first mentioned in the record of the South Precinct Jan 10, 1737 at which time it was voted that he should be one of a committee of three, whose business it should be to assess town property. His name occurs frequently in the early records of the town, in those affairs, he was a prominent actor. In matters also pertaining to the Church, he took deep interest. He was one of the fifteen whose names appear, as dissenting from the vote, by which the dismission of Rev. Mr. Rowson was effected. Years after, and at the time when it was contemplated to build a Meeting House in what was then about to be the East Parish of South Hadley and which in 1768 was set off and incorporated as the town of Granby, Mass., he proposed to give land lying in that Parish as contemplated, suitable and sufficient for the purpose and the appurtenances thereto, but was prevented from this design by the event of death. The deed, however was made out in the name of his sons and bears date ‘Ninth year of his Majesties reign Anno Dom. 1769’. The first Meeting House in Granby, Mass. was accordingly, about this time on this plot. Mr. Moody was owner of considerable real estate in land, the culture of which for the most part engaged his attention. His ‘cider mill, winter apples and malt’, are referred to in an old account book now extant. His affairs seem to have been prosperously managed, while he had the honor of raising a family of seven sons, to prolong his memory. Their graves have slabs of red-sand-stone, with letters deeply engraved, and are in the burying ground at South Hadley; it being at that time, the only place of interment in that vicinity. On his grave stone is inscribed, ‘This Life-How Short-Eternity How Long!” ®408