. The ancestry of Moses Leavitt and Lydia Ann Joy Norris . Hon. Moses Norris 1S41, again representative in 184-2; elected to Congress in 1843, re-elected in 18^5;again member of the state legislature and speaker in 1847; re-elected to Congress in1848, and chosen Senator to serve the six years beginning March 4, I849. Butfor the opposition of Jefferson Davis, it is said, he would have represented hiscountry at the Court of St. James. He died in Washington, Jan. 11, 1855, some sayheartbroken because of his failure to receive the ministry to England. His grave inthe cemetery at Pittsfield, N
. The ancestry of Moses Leavitt and Lydia Ann Joy Norris . Hon. Moses Norris 1S41, again representative in 184-2; elected to Congress in 1843, re-elected in 18^5;again member of the state legislature and speaker in 1847; re-elected to Congress in1848, and chosen Senator to serve the six years beginning March 4, I849. Butfor the opposition of Jefferson Davis, it is said, he would have represented hiscountry at the Court of St. James. He died in Washington, Jan. 11, 1855, some sayheartbroken because of his failure to receive the ministry to England. His grave inthe cemetery at Pittsfield, is indicated only by a simple marker with thesewoids; IMcle Moses. Frederick Douglass in his reminiscences gives a very interest-ing account of his own experiences on a lecture trip to Pittsfield in the Forties,and his friendly treatment at the hands of Moses Norris, altho the latter had nosympathy with the abolitionists. BRACKET! LEAVITT^ NORRIS, son of Moses and Comfort Leavitt Norris was bom inPittsfield, Nov. 20, 1795, and died Dec. 11, 1842. He
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