The
data are taken from two foolscap sheets, in the
handwriting of Uncle William Moore, who did a lot of
research into the
genealogy. They were sent to me by my sister, Mary
Y. Moore, who helped
Uncle William in his studies and carried them
further on her own.
It
was Mary who bridged a gap in Uncle William's ancestral
data and established our eligibility for membership
in the Sons end
Daughters of the American Revolution. She made out
credentials for me
back in 1923, when, at the suggestion of my boss
(Col. Drake), I had in-
tended joining. However, after attending a luncheon
of the Pittsburgh
Chapter I gave up the idea. I decided that
preoccupation with pure
Americanism led to a distorted sense of values.
Grant Wood must have had
a similar idea in painting his well-known picture of
the Daughters I
hope Mary and Lucy found them less forbidding than
Wood makes them appear
although to judge by their attitude toward Marian
Anderson and some of
their pronouncements on national issues, I think
Wood's characterization
was inspired.
There
is a notation on the foolscap sheets in Mary's
handwriting that, of the two crests shown below, the
one on the right is
ours. I
don't understand why there should be two crests (my ignorance of
heraldry is almost complete) unless the one with a
coronet belonged to
the Head of the House, perhaps a duke, since a ducal
coronet is referred
too Our ancestor was probably a younger son and had
his own crest, without
the coronet, to which, as a younger son, he would
not be entitled.
Note:
If anyone is interested enough in family arms
crests, and mottos, he will find an extensive
article on Heraldry in the,
Encyclopedia Britannica. The Moor's head in the
Moore crest is not an
unusual use of a poor pun - other families used
similar devices of about
the same order of wit.
The
English Moores
This
family had its
headquarters from 1400 to 1554 at
Beneden, Kent County England. In 1554 John More sold
his place at
Beneden
and with his sons removed to Ireland. (That one "o" might be
an
inadvertence in copying, or perhaps our ancestor thought that when in
Ireland
he should do as the Irish Mores do.)
Riker in his annuals of
Newtown (Long Island) assigns
the arms of the
Kent County family to the Reverend John Moore.
Motto: FURTIS CADERE
CEDERE NON PROTEST
(The brave
man may fall
but cannot yield
Reverend John Moore came from
Kent County, England, He
was
of English birth and was probably born about 1620. He was In Lynn,
Massachusetts
in 1641. He married Margaret Howell,
daughter of Edward
Howell
of Boston and
Lynn who was the leader of the Colony which estab-
lished the new torn of Southampton L.I. It is conjectured that
the
marriage
took place about 1641. He died at
Newtown, Long Island,
September
17, 1657, and was buried in the ancient town burial ground.
THE AMERICAN TREE
(omitting recent foliage)
|
William,
Born 1815 Louisiana
(Ricker) Enos John Elizabeth
(Peebles) Jennie
(Green) Mary |
|
Enos,
Born 1823 Fanny
(Geiger) Mary Ralph Lucy
(Carpenter) Edith
(Love) William |
|
Samuel,
Born (?) Ralphael Arthur Beatrice
(Hale) Samuel
(Corson) Ada
(Strickland) |
|
Levi
Moore
Born, Fayette County, Pa., 1793, Died
Portsmouth, O., 1865
Married Amanda Gunn, in Portsmouth, Ohio
Born, Waterbury, Conn., 1793, Died Portsmouth, O., 1888
|
Phillip
Moore II
Born, Hunterdon County, N.J., 1761, Died
Portsmouth, O., 1823
Married Jerrimia Roby, in Washington Co.,
Maryland, Dec. 10, 1782
Born in Maryland, 1764, Died in Portsmouth, O., 1826
|
Phillip
Moore*
Born, Maidenhead, N.J., 1726, Died
Portsmouth, O., 1810
Married Eleanor Evans, in Hunterdon County,
N.J., 1749
|
Thomas
Moore
Born, Maidenhead, N.J. 1704, Died Maidenhead,
N.J., 1793
Married Esther Phillips
|
Gresham
Moore III
Born, Newtown, L.I., Died Maidenhead, N.J.
1722
Married Mercy Betts
|
Gresham
Moore II
Born, Newton, L.I., Died Maidenhead, N.J.
1722
Married Deborah Betts
|
Captain
Gresham Moore
Born, Newton, L.I., Died Newton, L.I., 1691
Married Mary, widow of Jonathan Fish
|
Reverent
John Moore**
Born in England, (circa 1620), died Newtown,
L.I., 1657
Married Margaret Howell
(*) Our ancestor in the Revolution.
(**) Head of the House.