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- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=roncox&id=I33349
says Anna Moore was dau of Joseph Moore of Amwell NOT TRUE
His was the "Moore Plantation", Amwell Twp., the place where he died of yellow fever.
Christiana: Daughter of Moses Bishop.
A. M. Shotwell's Ancestors, page 276 lists most of the children see below
Not long after marriage he settled on a farm about three miles from Flemington, and nine from Kingwood meeting
In 1787 UEL Benjamin Willson, his wife Sarah Crowell (Joseph's 1st cousin) and their family removed to the Niagara District. After he and his family had been settled there six years, they were visited by Joseph Moore of Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Joseph Moore was a Quaker and was a minister or elder of the Kingwood Friends Meeting. He had been appointed by Congress to attend a meeting with the British and indians at Sandusky Ohio. Joseph's intent was to continue SW from Fort Erie.
Entry in his journal for June 3, 1793 states that he "went to Benjamin Willson's, whose wife is a near relation of mine"
Published in Friends' Miscellany Vol. 6(1835) pp.289-343.
He died back home in NJ at the end of the trip.
His 1793 trip can be dissected in "Journals of Jacob Lindley and Joseph Moore, or, Quaker accounts of the expedition of 1793 to Detroit and vicinity"
1793, Feb. 22. Moore, Joseph, of Amwell Twsp., Hunterdon Co.;
will of. Real and personal property to be sold. Sister, Mary
DeCamp, L20. Son, Samuel L60. Sons, John and Benjamin, each
L50. Daughters, Hulda and Anna Moore, each L50 and one feather
bed and one chest. Daughter, Miranda Moore L10, one feather bed
and chest. Children - Sarah King, Huldah, Anna and Samuel
Moore, Rachel Head, John and Benjamin Moore, Hannah Cary and
Miranda Moore, the residue divided between them. Executors -
friends Henry Clifton, Samuel Kester and Robert Emley of Kingwood.
Witnesses - Isaac Hill, John Hoagland, Abraham Hogeland.
Proved Nov 8, 1793.
1793, Nov 4. Inventory L248.13.11 made by Roger Bowman and Robt Burgess.
1797, Feb 10. Account by Henry Clifton and Robert Emley
File 1644J
children of our Joseph:
1. 1752Sarah
2. Huldah, d. in Bucks Co., Pa., unm.
3. Samuel', m Praul and had: (l.)Deborah, m. , and had Henry, Jesse, John and Deborah, b. before 1811.
(2.) Jemima, m. and had Ambrose and Deborah, b. before 1811.
(3.) Mary.
4. Ann, never married.
5. John', was a miller
6. Rachel', m. Thomas Head of Bucks Co., Pa.,
and had: (1.) Miranda. (2.) Joseph. (3.) David. (4.) Lewis. (5.) Hulda.
7. Benjamin', m. and had : (1.) Nathan, m. (2.) Susan. (3.) Joseph. (4.) Ann.
8. Hannah, m. Thomas Cary
9. Miranda, m. Edward Blackfan
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- (Research):This is the Joseph Moore who wrote the journal describing the events of 1791 (1792?) in which he participated. It was a failed attempt to create a new treaty with the indigenous tribes in American mid-west. Make efforts to summarize and record here.
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1732 - 1793 (61 years)
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