Son of John & Miriam PROCTOR.
Moses Proctor was one of the early settlers of Hollis, New Hampshire. He arrived from Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, abt 1736. He was also selectman in 1749. He resided on what came to be known as Proctor Hill in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA, and especially known for wishing to build the church close to his residence at the top of the Hill and at what is now known as Hollis Four Corners.
The life of Mr. Proctor was threatened by the bite of a rattlesnake and he afterwards waged so successful a war of extermination against them that no rattlesnakes have been known in Hollis since his death on 21 May, 1780 at age 73. However, the rattlesnake provision was in the charter as of 1740, each townsperson who killed a rattlesnake would be paid one shilling out of the town treasury. Every spring the farmers on the hill went to the den and bagged snakes as they hibernated. The den still remains but there are no rattlesnakes. If Moses Proctor, Senior was bit by a rattlesnake before 1740 the bite did not shorten his life by much.
He married Mary Fiske BYAM in 1738 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Together they had the following children:
Mary PROCTOR Shattuck (1741-)
Rebecca PROCTOR Crossman (1744-)
Cyrus PROCTOR (1745-1817)
Moses PROCTOR Jr. (1747-1805)
Philip PROCTOR (1749-1841)
Ruth PROCTOR (1752-)
Moses Proctor was one of the early settlers of Hollis, New Hampshire. He arrived from Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, abt 1736. He was also selectman in 1749. He resided on what came to be known as Proctor Hill in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA, and especially known for wishing to build the church close to his residence at the top of the Hill and at what is now known as Hollis Four Corners.
The life of Mr. Proctor was threatened by the bite of a rattlesnake and he afterwards waged so successful a war of extermination against them that no rattlesnakes have been known in Hollis since his death on 21 May, 1780 at age 73. However, the rattlesnake provision was in the charter as of 1740, each townsperson who killed a rattlesnake would be paid one shilling out of the town treasury. Every spring the farmers on the hill went to the den and bagged snakes as they hibernated. The den still remains but there are no rattlesnakes. If Moses Proctor, Senior was bit by a rattlesnake before 1740 the bite did not shorten his life by much.
He married Mary Fiske BYAM in 1738 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Together they had the following children:
Mary PROCTOR Shattuck (1741-)
Rebecca PROCTOR Crossman (1744-)
Cyrus PROCTOR (1745-1817)
Moses PROCTOR Jr. (1747-1805)
Philip PROCTOR (1749-1841)
Ruth PROCTOR (1752-)
Son of John & Miriam PROCTOR.
Moses Proctor was one of the early settlers of Hollis, New Hampshire. He arrived from Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, abt 1736. He was also selectman in 1749. He resided on what came to be known as Proctor Hill in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA, and especially known for wishing to build the church close to his residence at the top of the Hill and at what is now known as Hollis Four Corners.
The life of Mr. Proctor was threatened by the bite of a rattlesnake and he afterwards waged so successful a war of extermination against them that no rattlesnakes have been known in Hollis since his death on 21 May, 1780 at age 73. However, the rattlesnake provision was in the charter as of 1740, each townsperson who killed a rattlesnake would be paid one shilling out of the town treasury. Every spring the farmers on the hill went to the den and bagged snakes as they hibernated. The den still remains but there are no rattlesnakes. If Moses Proctor, Senior was bit by a rattlesnake before 1740 the bite did not shorten his life by much.
He married Mary Fiske BYAM in 1738 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Together they had the following children:
Mary PROCTOR Shattuck (1741-)
Rebecca PROCTOR Crossman (1744-)
Cyrus PROCTOR (1745-1817)
Moses PROCTOR Jr. (1747-1805)
Philip PROCTOR (1749-1841)
Ruth PROCTOR (1752-)
Moses Proctor was one of the early settlers of Hollis, New Hampshire. He arrived from Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, abt 1736. He was also selectman in 1749. He resided on what came to be known as Proctor Hill in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA, and especially known for wishing to build the church close to his residence at the top of the Hill and at what is now known as Hollis Four Corners.
The life of Mr. Proctor was threatened by the bite of a rattlesnake and he afterwards waged so successful a war of extermination against them that no rattlesnakes have been known in Hollis since his death on 21 May, 1780 at age 73. However, the rattlesnake provision was in the charter as of 1740, each townsperson who killed a rattlesnake would be paid one shilling out of the town treasury. Every spring the farmers on the hill went to the den and bagged snakes as they hibernated. The den still remains but there are no rattlesnakes. If Moses Proctor, Senior was bit by a rattlesnake before 1740 the bite did not shorten his life by much.
He married Mary Fiske BYAM in 1738 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Together they had the following children:
Mary PROCTOR Shattuck (1741-)
Rebecca PROCTOR Crossman (1744-)
Cyrus PROCTOR (1745-1817)
Moses PROCTOR Jr. (1747-1805)
Philip PROCTOR (1749-1841)
Ruth PROCTOR (1752-)
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