JAMES MOODY, UE
Since 1983, a replica painting of James Moody , UE has hung in St. Peter's Anglican Church in Weymouth North, Nova Scotia. Moody was an officer with the New Jersey Volunteers during the American Revolution who, after the conflict, settled near where the church stands and donated the land for the first place of worship there. The original painting done while Moody was visiting England passed down in his family before being given to the church and placed on a wall in 1979. Two years later, in June, 1981, it disappeared. James Moody replica painting A plaque on the wall beside the painting reads: James Moody 1744 - 1809 A New Jersey farmer, who, believing that the unwritten British constitution best guaranteed individual civil rights and that rebellion was constitutional anarchy, supported the British in the American Revolutionary War. His daring military exploits made him famous in his time. In England, from 1782 - 1...