Hosea Moffitt

Hosea Moffitt (born November 17, 1757 in Stephentown , New York Province, † August 31, 1825 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1813 and 1817 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hosea Moffitt grew up during the British colonial era. During the Revolutionary War , he served as Ensign and later as a Lieutenant in the Second Rensselaerwyck Battalion of the Albany County Militia's Fourth Regiment . He was justice of the peace in 1791 and in the years 1791 and 1797 town clerk ( town clerk ). He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1794, 1795, and 1801 . He was appointed brigadier general in the militia on March 22, 1806 . Between 1806 and 1809 he was Town Supervisor in Stephentown. He was then sheriff in Rensselaer County in 1810 and 1811 . Politically he belonged to the Federalist Party .

In the congressional elections of 1812 for the 13th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Silas Stow on March 4, 1813 . After a successful re-election in 1814 , he left the Congress on March 3, 1817 .

Moffitt was in 1815 a member of the Board of Managers of the Rensselaer County Bible Society . He died on August 31, 1825 in Stephentown and was buried there in the Old Presbyterian Cemetery on "Presbyterian Hill" near Garfield.

family

He was married to Elizabeth Hall (1759-1839), daughter of Martha Brown and Rowland Hall. The couple had seven children together:

• Erastus Moffitt (1782–1797)
• Ebenezer Moffitt (* 1783)
• Claudius Moffitt (1787-1858)
• Sally Moffitt (1791-1817)
• Guy Moffitt (1794-1859)
• George C. Moffitt (* 1798)
• Jay Moffitt (1799-1841)

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 87, 168f and 174.

Web links

• Hosea Moffitt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hosea Moffitt in the database of Find a Grave (English)