Author: Holmes, Moses
Biography:
HOLMES, Moses (fl 1802)
Reliable information is scarce, but the place of publication of his one book (Bennington VT) suggests that he may be the Moses Holmes (1748?-1842) who was born in Connecticut, passed through Massachusetts, and settled in Fairhaven VT about 1784. If so, his parents were Kezia (Pratt) and Moses Holmes, he married Betsy Graves, and they had eight children. He identifies himself as "Esquire" on the title-page, a claim that usually rules out working-class origins. (ancestry.com 1 Apr. 2019; H. P. Smith and W. S. Rann, eds., History of Rutland County Vermont [1886]) HJ
Books written (1):
Bennington, Vermont: [no publisher: printed by Anthony Haswell], 1802