1780 - 1837

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• Birth	28 Sep 1780	Stonington, New London County, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	30 Sep 1837	Preston, New London County, Connecticut   [2]
  Person ID	I77536	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Benjamin HILLARD, b. 29 Jan 1753, Rhode Island
  Mother	Sabra SMITH, b. 18 Mar 1762, Stonington, New London County, Connecticut
  Family ID	F33507	Group Sheet
  Married	12 Mar 1806	Preston, New London County, Connecticut   [3]
  Family ID	F33509	Group Sheet
  Married	4 Feb 1824	Griswold, New London County, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F33510	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Moses was a sea captain, an adventurous energetic man of no small fame in his day. He was master of the ship that brought to America the first news of the burning of Moscow. It is an interesting fact . . . that when Napoleon, after his overthrow at Waterloo, though of flying to this country, friends of his sought and were pledged the aid of Captain Hillard, then in France, in carrying out the design. It was fully arranged between him and them that the emperor should be concealed in a water casket on his vessel's deck and so escape through the English fleet, but for some reason he was not conveyed on board.

• Sources

  [S187] General Lucius Barnes Barbour, Barbour Collection, Connecticut Vital Records, Stonington. [3:234]. [S190] Lucius Barnes Barbour, Barbour Manuscripts - Hilliard (State Library (Hartford) of the Connecticut Genealogical Society.). [S187] General Lucius Barnes Barbour, Barbour Collection, Connecticut Vital Records, Preston. [2:301]. [S187] General Lucius Barnes Barbour, Barbour Collection, Connecticut Vital Records, Griswold, page 23.