Deacon Josiah Moore

Elected Deacon to the First Church in Cambridge in 1804, Josiah Moore was a carpenter by trade and served as Deacon with fellow founder William Hilliard. Born in Sudbury on September 25, 1747, he was an assessor and overseer of the poor for many years after serving as a sergeant in Captain Thatcher’s company of Minute Men, who marched 28 miles on the alarm on April 19, 1775 when the British landed in East Cambridge. Josiah Moore died suddenly on May 1, 1814.