Capt John Moore

  General Notes:

1800 Weare, Hillsborough county, NH
John Moore [head]
1 male 1790-1800 [Jason]
4 males 1775-1784 [ ? where are William and John?]
1 male 1755 or before [John - father]
3 females 1790-1800 [Ruth, Jane and Nancy the twins, Elizabeth]
1 female 1785-1790 [Ruth]
1 female 1755 or before [Meriam - mother]

1810 Weare, NH
Capt John Moore [head]
1 male 26-44 [John his son]- not married til 1813
1 male 1765 or earlier [Capt. John - Head]
1 female 10-15 born 1795-1800 [Ruth - dau]
1 female 1766-1784 [dau Elizabeth]
1 female 1765 or earlier [Miriam]

Probably named for Agnes' father John Colbreath.
Although his date of birth has not been authenicated, he was probably born in Pembroke. Like his brothers before him he joined the military at an early age. (Carter) tells of a John Moor (Capt Daniel Ladd's Co) scouting in the neighborhood of Pembroke in the summer of 1746, along with William Moor and William Moor Jr, James and Samuel Moor. John would have been about 10 at the time...not unusual for a lad who had been taught survival skills at an early age. By 1752 a John Moor appears in the muster-roll of the company in His Majesty's Service under the command of Moses Foster.(whose son Ephraim would marry John's sister some ten or so yrs later). Again in 1755 John served as an Ensign (April to November). He again entered in March of 1757 (uander Capt Richard Emery) in the Crown point Expedition and his departure was November 5, 1757.
There are other entries for John Moor in the years of 1775 through the years of 1777 but it is not possible to say for sure this is he..A John Moor of Deerfield, marching for Pembroke served in Capt Daniel Moor's Co (John's brother) but this may have been a nephew of Daniel and son of William or James. It is most likely John was active in the Revolutionay War as were his brothers and when he attained the rank of Captain is unknown.
John married for the first time to Martha (last name unknown). She was born
c.1740 and bore him 9 children..the last two were twin girls and Martha died shortly after their birth..probably of complications of the birth. It is not known where they resided but their fifth child was born in Pembroke so we can assume the first four were also...the twin girls' births are listed in Hopkinton so they may have moved there sometime after the birth of son Daniel. In 1782 John sold property in Pembroke and it may have been at this time that he relocated...Martha's death is listed in the Congregational Church Records of Hopkinton so she may be buried there. According to Hopkinton Town Records the Moore family lived in the "Sugar Hill area near Sam Brackenbury's...two old cellar holes nearby' and by 1800 the family had "moved over the line to Weare".
Before this move took place Capt John married again to Meriam Straw, the daughter of Samuel Straw and Ruth Flanders. She was quite a bit younger (26) than he (49). The marriage was solemnized in the Hopkinton Congregational Church on September 21, 1784 and Meriam gave birth to 4 more children.
The final resting places of Meriam and Capt John are unknown. One researcher has listed Weare as his place of death but no source to substantiate it.
In Crown point, NY where one of their sons is buried there is also a grave for a Julia Moore, daughter of John Moore who died April 13, 1790. Capt John had a son (John) born on that day who relocated to Crown point after he was married ..why is there a child buried there when Capt John's children are all listed as being born In NH? We may never know but it is of interest to me as I am descended from John who may have had a twin sister named Julia. (John named his only daughter Julia).

Last Will and Testament of Capt John Moore: 7 April 1809
"In the name of God Amen, I John Moore of Weare in the county of Hillsborough and state of New Hampshire gentleman being in health of body and of sound mind memory and understanding thanks be to God for the same Calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it and as concerning my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my executor hoping at the general resurrection to obtain everlasting happiness in the life to come through the merits and mediation of my beloved redeemer Jesus Christ and as touching such wordly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in manner and form following viz................................
First
I will that all my just debts be paid out of my personal estate
Item -I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Miriam Moore her heirs and assigns forever all my household furniture of every kind, name or nature - further I give and bequeath to my said wife for and during her natural life the use and improvement of the east foreroom in my dwelling house and chamber over said room in her letting my daughters Elizabeth Moore and Ruth Moore live with her so long as they shall live single women and never married also an equal privilege in the fore entry and cellar at all times
Further I order my son William Moore to find and keep for my said wife well summer and winter on my homestead two good cows and four good ewe sheep for and during her natual life she taking the profits of said cows and sheep the cows calfs she shall take when they are fit to wean and the sheeps lambs in the fall of the year and when the cows and sheep fails he shall take them and let her have others in the room of them and at her (deciding?) they shall be my said son's.
also I order my said son to carry on and cultivate my said homestead and keep the fences in good repair according to the rules of good husbandry for and during my said wife's natural life and pay or deliver to my said wife at her dwelling house in the proper seasons one third part of all the produce and profits of my said homestead exclusive of the hay and pasturing and find her a sufficient of good firewood (each?) and every day at her door cut fit for her fire and get and deliver to her at her dwelling house twelve pounds of good sugar four gallons of molasses and three gallons of good West India rum yearly and every year for and during her natural life
Item - I give and bequeath to my sons Robert Moore and Daniel Moore one dollar each to be paid by my said son William
Item - I give and bequeath to my daughters Susanna Straw, Mary Fifield, Margaret Bailey, Elizabeth Moore, Martha (Cresy?), Jane Kimball, Agnes Colby and Ruth Moore their heirs or assigns eight dollars each to be paid by my said son William
within one year after my decease.
Item - I give and bequeath to my sons John Moore and Jason Moore their heirs or assigns ten dollars each to be paid by my said son William as they severally arrives to full age
Item - I give and bequeath to my daughters Elizabeth Moore and Ruth Moore after the decease of my said wife if not married at that time nor never had been married the use and improvement of the east fore chamber in my said dwelling house with an equal privilege in the fore entry and a sufficient privilege round the house, in the cellar under the house and in the oven to bake in and egress and regress to and from the cellar and oven as is most convenient at all times so that they or either can improve said chamber without difficulty until married and when either is married she shall have no claim to any of the above described privileges but the other shall have the whole of them untill married and no longer....
Item - I give and bequeath to my son William Moore his heirs and assigns forever in his or their paying the (legacies?) and doing and performing all and every of the duties which I have ordered said William to do as aforesaid the whole of my homestead in Weare aforesaid cantaining about eighty acres of land be the same more or less bounded thus to wit southerly by the highway and Ithamar
Eaton's Inn land westerly by Ithamar Eaton's Inn land Ithamar Eaton Esq's land and Peter Eaton's land northerly by said Peter's land and Aaron Greely's land easterly by Benjamin Straw's land and Samuel Eaton's land with the buildings thereon but in said William his heirs or assigns failure of paying the legacies doing and performing all and every of the duties as above directed then it is my will and meaning that my said real estate and every part thereof shall be held to pay said legacies and to do and perform the dutys as aforesaid until the whole is completed agreeably to this my last will and testament
Item - My wearing apparel and all the rest residue and remainder of my personal estate of what kind or nature soever I give and bequeath the same and every part thereof (after the payment of debts funeral expenses charge of proving this my last will and testament and the doministration thereof ) unto my said son William Moore his heirs and assigns forever and lastly I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my said son William Moore executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills and testaments at any time heretofore set my hand and seal this seventh day of April anno domini one thousand eight hundred and nine
Signed sealed declared and published by the above named John Moore as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
Peter Eaton
David Greeley
Aaron Greeley
(And the will is signed by "John Moore')

  Events

• Alt. Birth: Alt. Birth, Abt 1736.

• Alt. Birth: Alt. Birth, Abt 1736, Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.

• Alt. Death: Alt. Death, 18 Aug 1812, Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

John married Martha, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, about 1764 in Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (Martha was born about 1740 and died on 18 Mar 1782 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.)

• Alt. Marriage: Alt. Marriage, Abt 1764, Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.

John next married Miriam Straw, daughter of Samuel Straw and Ruth Flanders, on 21 Sep 1784 in Congregational Church In Hopkinton, NH. (Miriam Straw was born on 24 Mar 1758 in South Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire and died after 1830 in probably in Crown Point, NY.)