The posthumous child was born the 25th of May and given his father's name. He married Abigail Webster May 27, 1685 and became a primitive Colonial silversmith, his first silver shoe buckles appearing about 1690, made in his shop near Moulton Hill in Newbury, Mass. He was the first of a long line of craftsmen of the Moulton name which continued for over two hundred years. William Moulton of the eighth generation retired from the firm of Moulton & Lunt, gold and silversmiths, between 1915 and 1917.