Hercules Mooney (1715–1800) was an Irish veteran of the French and Indian and American Revolutionary wars.
Born to a catholic family from present day Co.Offaly, in 1733 he emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies and settled in Dover, New Hampshire.
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.
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.
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.