• Born: 30 Aug 1694, Barnstable MA
• Christened: 2 Sep 1694, Barnstable MA
• Marriage (1): Dinah Sturges
• Died: 3 Jul 1761, Barnstable MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark. Struck on the beaker shown below.

• Apprenticed: Edward Winslow, about 1707, in Boston MA. ¹

• He worked circa 1715-1760 as a gold- and silversmith in Barnstable MA ³

• Example: Beaker (one of a pair), in 1719, in Metropolitan Museum of Art. H: 4 1/16"
  Engraved "The gift of Shearjashub Bourn Esq^r / to the Church att Sandwich 1719." These beakers served as the model for four other beakers made for the church in the nineteenth century by Lewis Carey.

• Master: Ephraim Cobb, about 1721, in Barnstable MA. ¹

• Example: Spout cup, circa 1730, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. H: 2 1/2"
  d: 2 1/8" (base)
  d: 2 3/4" (lip)
  wt: 3 oz, 4 dwt ¹⁰

• Example: Tankard, circa 1730-1740, in Yale University. H: 7 1/2"
  d: 4 3/4" (base)
  wt: 24 oz, 6 dwt
  Engraved on handle "G over I E" for John and Elizabeth (Allyn) Gorham ¹³

• Example: Porringer, circa 1730, in Private Collection. D: 4 3/4"
  wt: 4 oz, 8 dwt
  Engraved M O on handle for Mercy Otis.
  

• Master: Jonathan Otis, about 1745, in Barnstable MA. ¹

• Master: Abraham Higgins, about 1751, in Barnstable MA. ⁹

Moody married Dinah Sturges. (Dinah Sturges was born in 1700 in Barnstable MA and died in 1773 in Barnstable MA.)