Moses Westover Jr.

Brief Life History of Moses

When Moses Westover Jr. was born on 3 December 1768, in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Westover, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Holmes, was 17. He had at least 8 sons and 4 daughters with Hannah Hopkins. He lived in Stanbridge Station, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada in 1825 and Sutton, Brome, Canada East, British North America in 1831. He died before 1851, in Lower Canada, British North America.

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Family Time Line

Moses Westover Jr.
1768–1851
Hannah Hopkins
1778–
Erastus Westover
1799–1878
Nancy Westover
1810–1885
Stephen Westover
1812–1884
Asa Westover
1800–1882
Horace Wesley Westover
1800–1851
Amasa Westover
1807–1889
Eliza E. Westover
1809–1903
Hannah Westover
1815–1885
John Lester Westover
1817–1887
Theresa Westover
1818–1888
Theadore Westover
1821–1897
Moses Westover
1825–1897

Sources (16)

  • 1842 Canadian Census of Moses Westover (Jr) family
  • Moses Westover, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Moses Westover in entry for Hannah Westover Harris, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"

Name Meaning

English (Kent): habitational name from Westover in Somerset and the Isle of Wight, or Westovers in Sussex. The former two are both named with Old English west + ofer ‘ridge’ or ōfer ‘bank’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Moses Westover Jr.

1790, Field Book Noyan: 4x28=112 arpents in Lot 9, 7th Concession. "The easterly part of this lot is swampy poor land. The westerly part is good on which there is a small improvement made by Moses Wes …

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