Moses Meader, son of Moses Meader (c.1752-a.1840) [0040] and Jane Otis (b.1759), was born at Alton on October 18, 1796. [Volume I gives the date “about 1810.”] He was a farmer and tin peddler. He married Ruth B. Sawyer of Westbrook, Maine, in Westbrook on January 22, 1832. They settled in Conway, NH and later returned to Westbrook.