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19th of June, 1784, in the communion of the church. In the spring of 

 1785 his remains were removed to New York, and deposited in the 

 family vault in Trinity churchyard, by his son, Richard Channing 

 Moore, the late Bishop of Virginia, who then resided in that city. 



The mother of Bishop Moore was descended of a highly respectable 

 family. Being left an orphan at two years of age, she was brought up 

 in the family of her uncle, John Pintard, Esq., one of the aldermen of 

 New York. She was an accomplished lady, having received the best 

 education which New York afforded, and was highly esteemed in the 

 best society of her native city. She was polished in her manners, of 

 the most amiable disposition and exemplary piety, and was remarkable 

 for sound judgment and strong good sense. To the early religious in- 

 structions, the prayers, and lovely and pious example of this exemplary 

 Christian mother. Bishop Moore often delighted to revert, with tears 

 of gratitude in his eyes, and a bosom swelling with filial affection and 

 reverence. To her early nurture and admonition in the Lord, he 

 ascribed, under God, all his happiness and usefulness in this world, and 

 his hopes of a blessed immortality in the next. She entered upon her 

 eternal rest at his house, on Staten Island, on the 7th of December, 

 1805, in the 7Sth year of her age. 



Of the eleven brothers and sisters of Bishop Moore, our limits will 

 allow us only to say that they were all honorably connected in mar- 

 riage, were respectable, virtuous and useful. 



Richard Channing Moore, the late Bishop of Virginia, was born in 

 the city of New York, on the 21st of August, 1762. He received a 

 liberal education, and was bred a physician; but after practising medi- 

 cine for several years, in 17S7 he resolved to devote himself to the 

 ministry of the Gospel of Christ, and was ordained by Bishop Provoost 

 in New York. The first two years of his ministry were spent at Rye, 

 in the county of West Chester, most acceptably to the congregation 

 among whom Lc labored, and usefully for the church at whose altar he 

 ministered. Thence he was called to a wider field of labor by the con- 

 gregation of St. Andrew's Church, at Richmond, on Staten Island. 



Here Dr. Moore labored for twenty-one years with eminent success. 

 His faithfulness in all the departments of ministerial duty, his zeal in 

 the advancement of true religion, his love of his Divine Master and of 

 his work, his unaffected love of all men, his amenity of manners and 

 entire freedom from spiritual pride and all moroseness in his theological 

 views, gave him not only an unbounded popularity among his people, 

 but won for him their warm admiration and sincere attachment. 



In 1809 Dr. Moore was called by God's providence to a still more 

 important sphere of usefulness in St. Stephen's Church, in the city 



