Eli was a graduate of Middlebury College in 1820. The family first lived in Weybridge, Vermont, where Eli preached until 1823. From 1824 to 1826 he preached at South Hadley. Then they moved to Northfield, Massachusetts for 3 years [1826 to 24 December 1830]. (He married Northfield residents from 1827 to 19 April 1830). ®212 In 1830 he returned home to become the pastor of the church in Granby and was State Senator from Granby, and then settled in Erving, [Franklin County] Massachusetts. ®408 “Eli Moody, (pastor) as colleague with Mr. Gridley, 1830-34, [Granby} then as pastor of the united churches [East Granby] until 1840.” ®1384 They finally settled in Montague, [Franklin County] Massachusetts where he is buried. ®8
“Moody, Eli, b. in Granby, 1789; sett. minister over second church in 1826; dis. Dec. 24, 1830; he had formerly sett. in Weybridge, Vt., and South Hadley; afterwards he was sett. at Granby, 1830-36; East Granby, 1836-40; Montague, 1847; rep. 4 years.” ®214 He lived in Weybridge, Vermont when he married in 1818. ®2505 “Rev. Eli is reputed to have been quite humorous and his face was adorned with a very generous nose. The story is told today in Montague of a church supper where a lady, across the table, called Mr. Moody’s attention to a fly on his nose. His reply was: ‘You brush it off, its nearer to you than it is to me.’ “ ®1298
“Eli Moody was born in Granby, Mass., in 1789. His father was also a native of that place and there resided during the whole of a live of fourscore years. At the age of sixteen, he left his father’s house to learn the house carpenter’s trade. At that business he continued to labor till he was more than twenty-three years of age. He then felt it his duty to leave that business, to prepare to preach the gospel. He prosecuted his studies with that end in view, relying entirely on his own resources, (that is, what he had obtained by his labor, and by teaching), till the autumn of 1817, when he received license to preach the gospel. In August, 1818, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Weybridge, Addison County, Vermont. At this place he continued to labor till December, 1823, when he took a dismission, in consequence of the failure of his health. His health having been in measure restored, he again settled in the ministry, in November, 1826, in Northfield, Mass. At this place he continued to labor till December, 1830, when, having felt it his duty to accept a call which he had received from a church and society in Granby, his native place, he took a dismission from Northfield, and was installed at the latter place. At Granby, he continued to labor in his profession till the summer of 1838, when he had a very severe and obstinate attack of the complaint denominated “the bronchitis” made it necessary for him to take a dismission from his people, and to suspend entirely the labors of the ministry. Since then, Mr. Moody has represented his native town for four years in the Legislature of Massachusetts. He is still living, and resides in Granby. There are several families of the name of Moody living in the western part of Massachusetts, who are descended from Samuel Moody, one of the early settlers of Hadley.” ®2106

There are two Rev Eli Moody’s 1780 and 1789. Is the data getting mixed up? Montague vs. Erving