In January 2014, Amy Johnson
Crow of the Ancestry blog No Story Too Small issued the 52
Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge.
The premise: write once a week about a
specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, a research
problem — any that focuses on that one ancestor. The next week, write about a
different ancestor. In 52 weeks, you’ll have taken a closer look at 52 people
in your family tree… and maybe learned a little bit more about them in the
process
WILLIAM MOOR/MOORE was my 5th Great
Grandfather. He was the first of the
Moor/Moore family to arrive from Ireland
This Will is the only Will I have found of all my ancestors. The Will was in the Records of Rockingham
County, New Hampshire and I am taking it from the book “A Memorial of Loyalist
Families of William Moore, Josiah Hitchings and Robert Livingstone” by John
Elliott Moore, published in 1898.
William Moore was born in Ireland
in the valley of the river Bann, the dividing line between the counties of Derry and Antrim in 1680.
In the name of God Amen the sixth day of November in the
year of our Lord God 1739, I William Moor of Londonderry in the Province of New
Hampshire, being very sick and weak in body, but in perfect mind and memory,
thanks be given unto God therefore, calling unto mind the mortality of my body
and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain
this my last Will and Testament, That is to say principally and first of
all. I give and recommend my Soul unto
the hands of God that gave it, and for my body I recommend it to the Earth to
be burried in a Christian Like and decent Manner, at the discrition of My
Executors Nothing Doubting but at the General Reserection I shall Recive the
same again by the mighty Power of God and as touching Such Worldly Estate
wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in the life I Give Bequath and
dispose of the same in the following Manner and form Imprimis I Give and Bequath
to Martha my dear Beloved wife my Lands Goods and Chattles by her to be
Possessed and Kept Together for the use Benefit and Maintainance of her and my
Beloved Children, which Lands they are to Labor and be obedient to her and She
as in Duty bound to Learn and Instruct them as God Shall Enable her Enduring
her life but and if it Should please God to Call her hence then the boys that
are under age to be bound out to Trade.
Item the Lands goods and Chattles which shall or may be at her Decease
to be sold and made into money I do Leave and Bequeath unto by beloved Sons
George Moor, Thomas Moore, Allen Moor and William Moor, in Equal parts and
Portions one hundred and Twenty Pound being Exampted and Given to my well
Beloved Daughters. Item to my Beloved
Daughter Jane Christy, I Leave and Bequeath Twenty Pounds and to my Beloved
Daughter Betty Moor I Leave and Bequeath fifty Pounds and to my Beloved Daughter Mary Moor I Leave and
Bequeath Fifty Pounds and if Either Betty or Mary Should die Without Issue her
part to be Given to the other and Likewise my Beloved sons if any of them
Should die without Issue their part to come to their Brethren, I likewise
Constitute make and ordain Allen Anderson and Samuel Anderson my only and sole
Executors of this my Last will and Testament, and do Ratify and Confirm this
and no other to be my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have
hereunto Set my hand Seal the Day and year above Written
Signed Sealed Published Signed
William Moor
Pronounced & Declared by
the said William Moor
as his Last Will & Testament
In Presence
of us the Subscribers Viz
Archibald
Miller, Thomas
Dunshe,
Thomas Bacon,
Proved
Augst 26, 1741
The date on his tombstone is 15 January 1739. The author John Elliot Moore indicates that
the year probably was 1740 because he is writing his Will in November of 1739. The Inventory of lands, goods and chattels, totaled
£652.0.6. This amount would be about
$130,000 in today’s dollars.
This gravestone is found in the Forest Hill
Cemetery
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