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Upon his coming to Philadelphia it appears he bought a large tract 

 of land on "ye 2"^^ street," north of High or Market street, and built 

 his family residence at the corner of a small street running from Second 

 to the river, then known as Gardener's alley, now Coombe's. He was 

 a prominent member of Christ Church, being one of the vestrymen up 

 to the time of his death. I shall now give such an account of his chil- 

 dren as I have been able to obtain. His wife's name was Rebecca. 



His eldest son, John Moore, was born in Carolina, in 1686; and at 

 an early age was sent to England to receive his education, and upon 

 his return to America settled in the city of New York, and became an 

 eminent merchant of that city in colonial times. He was an alderman, 

 for many years a member of the Legislature, and at the time of his 

 death, colonel of one of the New York regiments, and a member of the 

 King's council for the province. He died in 1749, at dT^ years of age. 

 He was the first person buried in Trinity churchyard, and the title of 

 the family vault is still in the name of the family. 



Mr. John Moore married Frances Lambert, and was blest through 

 her with eighteen children, among whom were three pairs of twins. 

 The descendants of Mr. Moore married into the Bayard, Livingston, 

 Hoffman, Onderdonk, Bailey, Tredwell and Rogers families, which are 

 among the most respectable families of the North. 



Steplien, the seventeenth child, owned West Point, which he sold to 

 the United States, and removed to North Carolina. Upon the invasion 

 of the Southern States by the British, in 1779, he commanded a regi- 

 ment of North Carolina militia. He was afterwards taken prisoner at 

 the first battle of Camden. Being exchanged, he returned to his beau- 

 tiful seat. Mount Tirza, in North Carolina, where he died, leaving in 

 that State a highly respectable family. 



The seventh of the thirteen sons of John Moore was Lambert, who 

 married Elizabeth Channing. He was born in 1722 — was sent to Eng- 

 land for education, and was bred a scholar in Westminster school. At 

 twenty-one years of age he returned to his native country, and settled 

 in that part of the State of New York which was called the neutral 

 ground. Here he lost all his property amidst the devastation and plun- 

 der which desolated that part of the country. His house at West Point, 

 where he resided during the early part of the Revolutionary war, was 

 plundered by the Hessians, when the British took the posts of the 

 Highlands, and his family was turned out of doors in a destitute con- 

 dition. He removed thence to the city of New York, where he obtained 

 an appointment in the Customs, and lived in comfort until the conclu- 

 sion of the war. After this event he removed to his brother John's, in 

 Norwich, Connecticut, where he died of a pulmonary disease^ on the 



