1662 At the town meeting on September 18, Gershom More and Samuel More were granted land in Newtown. [1] [2]
September 18: 1662
at a towne meting …
Voated that Gershom More & Sameuell More shall have each of them a lot of 6 ackers of land next to John Reders on the south sid of the path by Smiths midoe
1666 "The towne rate mad by the cunstable & overseers 4 of December 1666" in Newtown included Fra Doughtie (£0.6.5), Gershom More (£0.5.5), John More (£0.3.4), Tho: More (£0.1.9), and Sam More (£0.1.2). [3] [4]
1667/68 "A rate made by the cunstable and overseers of newtowne this 27th of Januarie 1667" in Newtown included Fra. Doughtie (£0.3.9), Gershom More (£0.4.5), Jo: More (£0.2.7), and Sam: More (£0.1.0). [5] [6]
1667/68 "A rate mad by the cunstable & over seers of Newtowne for a session house this 26th of Febuary 1667" in Newtown included Ffra: Doughty (£0.7.6), Gershom More (£0.8.10), Jo: More (£0.5.2), and Sam More (£0.2. ...). [7] [8]
1667/68 "A towne rate for the defraying towne debts by the cunstable & overseers this 26 th of Febuary 1667/8" in Newtown included Fra: Doughty (£0.7.5), Gershom More (£0.8.9), and Jo: More (£0.5.1), but not Samuel More. [9] [10]
1673 "Laied out by us Ralph Hunt and John Burroughes for Sameuell More on the north east of a little swomp caled cornishes swomp 12 ackers of land being 48 rods long northwest or therea bout and 40 rods broad northeast or thereabouts aprill 26: 1673." [11]
1677 On 25 December, Gershom More sells to his brother Samuel More [Moore], land formerly belonging to their father John More, land bounded w. by Jacob Reder, s. by Smith's meadow. [12]
1677 In Newtown "was chosen cunstabell Jonathan Hazard and Samiuell More and Girshum More overseres." [13]
Samuel Moore married Mary Reed, daughter of Thomas Reed. [14] [15]
1681-83 Samuel Moore was appointed to choose delegates to the New York Assembly. [16]
1683 On 11 October, Samuel More [Moore] was on a rates list for Newtown for 1 heads, 30 land, 1 horse, 2 ox, 6 cows, 12 sheep, and 4 swine. [17]
1684 On 15 October, William Hallett of Newtown, sold 120 acres to Samuel Moore of Newtown, bounded by land of Harrick Sybertson and John Van Haerlem. [18]
1686 Samuel Moore was on Dongan's Charter. [19]
1690 Samuel Moore was commissioned captain of the Newton Militia. [20]
1703 May 11, "Petition of several of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Newtown, in Queens Co., on the island Nassau, setting forth the differences existing in relation to the common lands of said town and praying relief in the premises in order to determine the same" [21]
1703 On May 14, "Letter from B Cosens, clerk of the council, to Thomas Davis, requiring to repair to Newtown, to notify Samuel Moore and others, to appear before the council, on Tuesday, seaven-night, in relation to the forgoing petition." [22]
1717 On July 25, Samuel Moore dictated his will and died before signing it. "Moore, Samuel of Newtown, 25 July 1717. To wife Mary use of ten acres of woodland between Capt. Sackett, Jacob Reeder, with remainder to son Benjamin. To oldest son Samuel a coat & plush breeches; rest of clothes to sons Joseph, Benjamin, & Nathaniel. Bequest to dau. Mary Woodward, and to the following grandchildren: Samuel, son of Samuel; Joseph son of Joseph; Samuel son of Benjamin; Launcelot & Moore Woodward sons of my dau. Mary; Abigail Bretten, dau. of my dau. Margaret; Samuel, son of my dau. Elizabeth Hicks; Hannah dau. of my dau. Sarah Coe. Wife exx. This will was not signed. Nathan Fish swore that on July 25th Samuel Moore was suddenly taken sick. He gave directions and asked Fish to write his will. Fish set the items down as above, and prepared the will, but Moore died the will was read to him. Fish swears that Moore intended to leave his personal estate to his four daus: Mary Woodard, Margaret Bretten, Elizabeth Hicks, & Hannah. Will not witnessed nor probated." [23]
1717 The will of Samuel Moore of Newtown, gentleman, dated 25 July 1717, proved 13 September 1717. My wife Mary Moore, my son Benjamin Moore, my eldest son Samuel Moore, my 2 sons, viz., Joseph Moore and Nathaniel Moore, my daughter Mary wife of ____ Woodward [Nathaniel written in by hand] and her 2 sons Samuel Woodward and Moore Woodward, my daughter Hannah wife of ____ Johnson, my 3 grandchildren, viz., Samuel Moore son of my son Samuel Moore, Joseph Moore son of my son Joseph Moore, and Samuel Moore son of my son Benjamin Moore, my daughter Margaret wife of _____ Bretten [or Pretten?] and her daughter Abigail ____, my daughter Elizabeth wife of _____ Hicks and her son Samuel Hicks, my daughter Sarah wife of ______ Coe and her daughter Hannah Coe. Sole executor my wife Mary Moore, assisted by my sons Samuel Moore and Joseph Moore and Benjamin Moore. Names the land of Jacob Reeder and Josiah Reeder. No names of witnesses. The will was drawn by Jonathan Fish. [24]
1717 On 27 July, Samuel Moore Sr was buried at Newtown. [25]
1719 Widow Moore, and several of their children, were named in the will of Joseph Sackett. [26]
1738 Mary Moore, age 87, died on May 4 in Newtown. [27] [28] [29]
Research Notes:
An article about Clement Moore discusses the Moore family. [30]
1662-1717 Samuel Moore, son of Rev. John, became a grantee of land at Newtown village in 1662, and afterwards purchased an adjacent tract, previously owned by his father, and which is now [1852] included in the premises of John J. Moore. In 1684 he bought from Wm. Hallet, Sen. a farm near the Poor Brewery, (part of which is now the property of S. H. Moore) to which he removed. Capt. Moore held various public offices, and served in the magistracy for a series of years. [31]
A biosketch of James W. Moore, reported to be a six generation descendant of Samuel Moore, has been published. [32]
The Moore family is also discussed in a genealogy of early settlers of Trenton. [33]
[1] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 50, [HathiTrust].
[2] Henry B. Hoff, Long Island Source Records from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987), 118, citing page 50, [AncestryImage], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 79, [HathiTrust].
[4] Patricia Law Hatcher and Edward H. L. Smith III, "Reexamining the Family of Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 137 (2006), 258-263, at 260.
[5] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 96, [HathiTrust].
[6] Patricia Law Hatcher and Edward H. L. Smith III, "Reexamining the Family of Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 137 (2006), 258-263, at 260.
[7] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 19, [HathiTrust].
[8] Patricia Law Hatcher and Edward H. L. Smith III, "Reexamining the Family of Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 137 (2006), 258-263, at 260.
[9] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 99, [HathiTrust].
[10] Patricia Law Hatcher and Edward H. L. Smith III, "Reexamining the Family of Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 137 (2006), 258-263, at 260.
[11] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 126, [HathiTrust].
[12] Henry B. Hoff, Long Island Source Records from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987), 122, citing page 139, [AncestryImage], [GoogleBooks].
[13] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 130, [HathiTrust].
[14] William S. Pelletreau, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York, Vol. 3 (New York: Lewis Publishing, 1907), 203, "Clement C. Moore and his Home", [HathiTrust].
[15] James W. Moore, Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and Some of His Descendents (Raston, Penn.: Chemical Publ. Co., 1903), 53, [HathiTrust].
[16] Lewis Publishing, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (1904), 1048, undocumented, [GoogleBooks].
[17] Christopher Morgan and Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. 2 (1850), 513, [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].
[18] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_393, QR227, Liber B1-16, [AncestryImage].
[19] Lewis Publishing, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (1904), 1048, undocumented, [GoogleBooks].
[20] Lewis Publishing, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (1904), 1048, undocumented, [GoogleBooks].
[21] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Calendar of N.Y. Colonial Manuscripts, Indorsed Land Papers; In the Office of the Secretary of State of New York 1643-1803 (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons & Co, 1864), 66, [GoogleBooks].
[22] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Calendar of N.Y. Colonial Manuscripts, Indorsed Land Papers; In the Office of the Secretary of State of New York 1643-1803 (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons & Co, 1864), 66, [GoogleBooks].
[23] Henry B. Hoff, Long Island Source Records from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987), 144, reprinted from Amos Canfield, Abstracts of Early Wills of Queens County, New York, Recorded in Libers A and C of Deeds, Now in the Register's Office at Jamaica, New York," NYGBR 65 (1934):114-120, 245-251, 319-328, [AncestryImage], [GoogleBooks].
[24] William Applebie Eardeley, Records in the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long Island, New York 1680-1781. Wills and Administrations Guardians and inventories, Volume 2 (Brooklyn, New York: 1918), 68, citing Liber C-77, [AncestryImage].
[25] Henry Onderdonk Jr., copied by Josephine C. Frost, Record Kept by Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector of Episcopal Churches at Jamaica, Newtown & Flushing Long Island (New York: 1913), 51, [InternetArchive].
[26] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 2, 1708-1728 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1894), 204, citing liber 9, page 123, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[27] James Riker, The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York (1852), 328, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[28] Lewis Publishing, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (1904), 1048, [GoogleBooks].
[29] Eli Field Cooley, William Scudder Cooley, Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing Old Hunterdon County New Jersey (Trenton, NJ: 1883), 167, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[30] William S. Pelletreau, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York, Vol. 3 (New York: Lewis Publishing, 1907), 203, "Clement C. Moore and his Home", [HathiTrust].
[31] James Riker, The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York (1852), 328, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[32] Lewis Publishing, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (1904), 1048, of 1047-1055, [GoogleBooks].
[33] Eli Field Cooley, William Scudder Cooley, Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing Old Hunterdon County New Jersey (Trenton, NJ: 1883), 167, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].