Needham  MOULTON

Biography
Lived in this Town (Wales) most of his years, but his living here was not a single continuity, but was of different dates, for distinct, isolate portions of time, he living in intervening times in Monson, Southbridge, Sturbridge, and Holland.
His trade was that of a Blacksmith, though he often worked at other employments. He was never a swifter at any work, nor extremely laborious. He worked, not for the love of it, but because impelled by the good of necessity.
His character for truth and honesty was not by all esteemed immaculate. His sonted subserviency to his liquor-drinking appetite and propensity, in his later years, was cause of much uncomfortableness to himself and family, not diminishing, but augmenting his accumulations of wants and privations.
A few days before his death he told the writer his time had come, that he was dying of the old-fashioned consumption.

SOURCE: 'A Family Record' by Absalom Gardner 1860 and Compendium 1873.
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