Moffitt was born in Killingly in the Connecticut Colony on November 17, 1757.
[1] During the Revolutionary War he served in the Albany County Militia as an Ensign and later Lieutenant of the 4th Regiment (Van Rensselaer's Regiment), also called the 2nd Rensselaerwyck Battalion.
[3] He served on the local school board,[4][5] was named a Justice of the Peace in 1791,[6] and he was Town Clerk in 1791 and 1797.
[8] He remained in the militia after the Revolution, and attained command of a brigade and the rank of Brigadier General.
[16] He was a trustee of the Stephentown Presbyterian Church, and was appointed to the board of managers of the Rensselaer County Bible Society in 1815.