Laura Wolcott Moseley
(1761-1814)
BIRTH
December 15, 1761
PLACE
NAME
Laura Wolcott
DEATH
January 24, 1814
PLACE
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER
Oliver Wolcott
(1726-1797)
MOTHER
Laura Collins Wolcott
(1731-1794)
SISTER
Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich
(1765-1805)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Laura Wolcott Moseley (1761–1814) was a daughter of Oliver Wolcott and Laura Collins. She married William Moseley in 1785 and lived in Hartford, Connecticut. Ralph Earl’s large 1791 portrait shows her with her young son Charles, dressed in an elaborate hat and standing before a river landscape. The painting, now at Yale, is a surviving record of her household and social standing. Charles later attended Litchfield Law School. Laura died in Litchfield in January 1814.
EARLY LIFE
Laura Wolcott Moseley was born on Dec 15, 1761. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Laura Wolcott Moseley is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Laura Wolcott Moseley died on Jan 24, 1814. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Laura Wolcott Moseley died on Jan 24, 1814, in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. Laura Wolcott Moseley was a daughter of Oliver Wolcott and Laura Collins. She married William Moseley in 1785 and lived in Hartford, Connecticut. Ralph Earl’s large 1791 portrait shows her with her young son Charles, dressed in an elaborate hat and standing before a river landscape. The painting, now at Yale, is a surviving record of her household and social standing. Charles later attended Litchfield Law School. Laura died in Litchfield in January 1814. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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