Family:John Moore and Unknown (13)

Wife

The wife of John Moore is generally given as "Abigail," but in the records maintained by Matthew Grant she is always called "Deacon More's wife." In his listing of the children of Deacon John Moore, Grant at first omitted the daughter Abigail, and then placed her on a line above John Moore's name, which may have led some genealogist in the past to think that this was the name of his wife. (Great Migration Begins)

Children

John Moore's verbal will of 14 Sep 1677, identifies son John and four unnamed daughters. Manwaring identifies these four daughters as follows: Nathaniel Loomis and Elizabeth Moore were married 24 November, 1653. Thomas Bissell and Abigail Moore were married 11 October, 1655. (Recorded in Vol. of Lands, Sec. States OMce). (On W. R.) : Nathaniel Bissell and Mindwell Moore were Married 25 September, 1662. John Drake and Hannah Moore were Married 30 November, 1648.^S1 There are but five heirs of Dea. John Moore alive on the date his will was made. On 6 Dec 1677, son John Moore and the 4 above named husbands appeared before court to declare their acceptance of the verbal will.

1.   John Moore, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:220-222.

   In John Moore's verbal will, he identifies his children as "to my son John a double portion, & my will is my son shall have all my Land, he paying what his double portion doe not reach to my other children, unto whom, that is, to my four daughters, I doe will the remaynder of my estate in equal proportion.

2. ↑ John Moore, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   MARRIAGE: By about 1628 _____ _____ (assuming she was the mother of all his children)