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1700 Benjamin Moore reportedly was born in Evesham Twp, Burlington County. [1]

1710 Rebecca Fenimore reportedly was born. [2]

1730 Benjamin Moore married Rebecca Fenimore. Rebecca Fenimore was the daughter of Joseph Fenimore and Sarah. Joseph was the son of Richard Fenimore. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

1730 Benjamin Moore Jr was a freeholder in Evesham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey.

1738 Joseph Moore, son of Benjamin Moore of Evesham, and Patience Woolman were married on May 17, in Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Benjamin More Junior and others. [9]

1739 Benjamin Moore Jr voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [10]

1745 Benjamin Moore Jr. was a freeholder in Evesham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [11]

1748 The will of Michael Milles was dated December 24, 1748 in Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey. Wife Sarah and brother-in-law Benjamin Moore were named executors. [12] [13] [14]

1754 Benjamin Moore Jr proposed for the second time to Mary Allen on 7th day, 10th month, 1754. [15] [16]

1793 Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Moore, of Evesham, married John Haines, son of John and Mary Haines, on 17 of month 1, at Evesham Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by John Moore, Hannah Moore, Bethuel Moore, Martha Moore, Hannah Moore, Joshua Moore, Rachel Moore, Aman Moore, Agnes Moore, Bethuel Jr Moore, Martha Jr Moore, Jane Moore, and others. [17] [18]

1758 Benjamin Moore sold 1038 acres in Evesham Twp to Richard Smith. [19]

Research Notes:

The children of John, son of Benjamin and Rebecca Moore were named. [20]

The children were named in a Fenimore genealogy (not yet seen). [21]

"Benjamin Moore, the founder of the family, came from Birmingham, Lincolnshire, England, to Burlington, New Jersey, and married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Bernard) Stokes. His son, Benjamin, married, in 1730, Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Fennimore …" [22]


Footnotes:

[1] Edmund Evans Moore, The Benjamin Moore Family of Burlington County New Jersey (1982), 16, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Edmund Evans Moore, The Benjamin Moore Family of Burlington County New Jersey (1982), 16, [GoogleBooks].

[3] George DeCou, The Historic Rancocas (1949), 232, [GoogleBooks].

[4] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 11, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[5] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 16, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[6] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 28, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[7] Edmund Evans Moore, The Benjamin Moore Family of Burlington County New Jersey (1982), 2, 6, 19, [GoogleBooks].

[8] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 81, 99, 380, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[9] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] John J. Thompson, "Poll Book of an Election in 1739, Burlington County, New Jersey," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894), 185-193, at 193, columns 1 and 4, [GoogleBooks].

[11] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 425, [InternetArchive].

[12] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 339, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[13] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryRecord].

[14] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryRecord].

[15] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 78.

[16] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 11, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[17] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1779-1794, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[18] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington and Rancocas Monthly Meetings, Births, 1749-1883, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[19] Samuel Allinson, "Fragmentary History of the New Jersey Indians," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 4 (1875), 33-50, at 39, citing Liber O-394, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[20] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 141.

[21] Jerri Freden, William Fenimore, 1834-1917: his ancestors and descendants (1978), [GoogleBooks].

[22] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 601, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].