Career
Having been a tutor back in Ireland, Mooney became a teacher and schoolmaster at Dover and after 1750 in Durham. In 1757 Mooney joined the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment to fight in the French and Indian War as a captain in command of a company of soldiers. Captain Mooney was at the Siege of Fort William Henry that ended in the fall of the fort and attack by the Indians.
After the end of the war Mooney returned to Durham to teach and was elected selectman in 1765.
In 1775 he was a delegate to the provincial congress at Exeter, New Hampshire and in 1776 was appointed lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army. Lieutenant Colonel Mooney served in Colonel
Pierse Long"s regiment (Long"s Regiment) and fought at the Battle of Fort Anne during the Saratoga campaign. During 1778 and 1779 Colonel
Mooney served on New Hampshire"s Committee of Safety.
In June 1779 he was given command of a regiment of the New Hampshire Militia that was sent to Rhode Island to keep watch on the British Army at Newport. After the end of the Revolutionary War Colonel Mooney moved to Holderness, New Hampshire and served as a justice of the peace for Grafton County and in the New Hampshire General Court.
He died at his home in April 1800.
