Elizabeth (Van Cleve) Moore (abt. 1762 - abt. 1782)

Ancestors

Died about 1782 at about age 20 in Newton, Sussex, New Jersey, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth was born about 1762. She passed away about 1794. She was the first wife of Captain Moses Moore.^[1][2]

The Moore reference lists her paternal ancestors (listed latest first) as Chreinyonce, John, Benjamin, John. It gives her parents as Chreinyonce Van Cleve and Penelope Phillips (Philip) of Lawrence, New Jersey. The elder John is said to have come from Amsterdam, Holland, settled at New Utrecht, and been a patentee of that place. Moses had children Col. Van Cleve (abt. 1780-1824), Coryell (d. 1846), Hon. Ely (1798-1860), and Sarah. Elizabeth is the mother of only the first of these, as she died before the others were born.^[2]

Research Notes

Neither the Hunterdon county nor the Moore books give specific dates for Elizabeth. The birth date is from FindAGrave^[3], but without other sources. She had a son in 1780, and her husband remarried 25 Feb 1783.^[4] I have estimated her death in 1782 from those dates.

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, Old Hunterdon County, New Jersey -Trenton, N. J.: The W. S. Sharp Printing Co., Printers and Stereotypers. 1883. The Van Cleve Family, p. 292; Moses Moore p. 173, 292.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island and some of his descendants, James W. Moore, Chemical Publishing Company, 1903. Capt. Moses Moore p. 315.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #129844759
4. ↑ Reuben Pownall Ely, Warren Smedley Ely, Daniel Brittain Ely. An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families who were among the founders of Trenton and Burlington in the Province of West Jersey 1678-1683 with the genealogy of the Ely descendants in America. 1910. p. 232