Moses Laird
BIRTH
Oct 19, 1735
unknown
DEATH
Monmouth County, New Jersey
FAMILY
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Lair, Moses
(1735-1798)
Moses Laird was a New Jersey Patriot associated with Monmouth County during the American Revolution. He served the American cause in a region marked by militia activity, Loyalist raids, and the major 1778 Battle of Monmouth.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Home of Moses Laird Marker | 34 Main St, Englishtown, NJ 07726 | MARKER |
DIED:
Monmouth County, New Jersey
Moses Laird was born on Oct 19, 1735 in unknown. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Moses Laird with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.