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Samuel Moore (bef. 1610 - abt. 1638)

Samuel Moore
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Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
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Died about after about age 28 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Samuel Moore migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 1280)
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Biography

Samuel Moore's origin and parents are currently unknown. He was born by about 1610 based solely on freemanship, and probably died in 1638 or soon after. He was married, but his wife's name does not appear on any record found to date. "Since the Salem Church membership record is annotated 'dead' we can be sure that Samuel died in Salem, and we have no record of him later than 1638. This might mean that his widow and children remained in New England, but no evidence of this has been found."[1] [2]

Samuel has made freeman on 06 March 1631/2,[3] and so may have been the one who arrived the previous November in the Lion,[4][5] and admitted to the Salem Church before 1636 when he was noted as "dead."[6]

His name was entered as an Essex juryman on 27 June 1637.[7]

In the 1636 land grant in Salem he received 40 or 50 acres as a freemann of Salem.[8] In the 25 December 1637 land grant of meadow and marsh he received one acre. The household apparently held seven people, so as many as five children may have been alive at that date in cluding the known son Samuel, so he may have been married well before 1636, probably in England. No further evidence has been found for his widow and children in New England.[9] On 08 November 1637, the town ordered that Samuel Moore's farm be laid out.[10]

He had two known children baptized in the Salem Church:

  1. Samuel Moore, bp. 25 Dec 1636 at Salem[11]; no further record found.
  2. Remember Moore, bp. 09 Dec 1638 [12]; no further record found.

Note: The Longstreet Genealogy apparently also credits him with two other children not included in Anderson's sketch:[5]

3. Sarah Moore
4. Matthew Moore

Sources

  1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995, pages 1280-1281. AmericanAncestors (subscription).
  2. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995, pages 1280-1281. AmericanAncestors (subscription).
  3. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (Boston : W. White, 1853) Vol. 1:367.
  4. ↑ Savage, James, A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, (Boston : Little, Brown and company, 1860) Vol. 3:230
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet Completed. Edward Mayes. Circa 1935. Privately published. Clark T. Thornton, editor. Reprinted 2009. Page 69.
  6. ↑ Pierce, Richard D., The Records of the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1629-1736, (Salem : Essex Institute, 1974), page 5.
  7. ↑ Dow, George F., "Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, ( Salem, Mass. : Essex institute, 1911) Vol. 1:6.
  8. ↑ Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts, 1634-1691, 3 vols., (Salem : Essex Institute, 1868) Vol. 1:19, 26.
  9. ↑ Town Records of Salem, Vol. 1:103.
  10. ↑ Town Records of Salem, Vol. 1:60.
  11. ↑ Pierce, Salem Church Records, page 16.
  12. ↑ Pierce, Salem Church Records, page 17.




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Henderson-5558 Eric Henderson
I wonder if there is evidence to support Samuel's death in Salem about 1680. The American Ancestors record states that there is no record of him after 1638 and that died "probably in 1638 or soon after." Above it is claimed that he had four children, all of whom have profiles (even though The Great Migration records that he had 2 children; no further information is found about these children). I can't access the Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet, but another Longstreet online site (The Family of Longstreet) has no hits for Moore or alternate spellings of this name. One alleged son, "Samuel Preston Moore," has no association with Salem, so I find it puzzling that he is supposedly a son of this Samuel when a more plausible option exists.
posted by Eric Henderson
M Cole
I am inclined to side with Anderson. That version of Mayes' Longstreet research is only available for purchase or at the Allen Co, PA library. But given how little seems to be known about the family, it seems like connecting them to the Woodbridge, NJ Moore's would be a bit of a stretch.

Anderson does note that there is evidence of more heads in the household, and that his widow and children may have stayed on...but is there even enough information to be able to prove that?

It would be helpful if you could also place comments on the children's profiles: Samuel, Sarah, and Matthew?...as I suspect they should probably be disconnected.

posted by M Cole
Madison-125 Bobbie (Madison) Hall
I agree, Eric. I think that the children currently attached as his children should be re-evaluated. While his household probably contained additional children and his widow and orphans might have moved elsewhere in the colonies, I find no solid evidence currently shown on any of the profiles.

I'll see if this G2G post will come up with additional source material. I suspect that the Longstreet Genealogy is the sum total of the source of the connections between Mass. and New Jersey, and common names have been simply pasted together. I also suspect that the Newbury family is Morse not Moore, but that's difficult to prove so far.

posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall

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