Person:Daniel Mooar (1)

Missing and questionable records make it difficult to determine the wives of Daniel Mooar with certainty. He appears to have married at least three times, maybe four, and neither scenario given by the Mooar Genealogy cited above appears possible.

Clearly Daniel had a wife, Esther (perhaps Tarbox? nothing found to support this surname), as the gravestone clearly indicates. Also a deed in 14 Nov 1805 (Hillsborough deed Vol. 72, p. 426). No marriage record has been found, so the date they were married is unknown.

Worcester's History of Hollis, p. 382, gives a family register of Daniel Mooar Jr. and "Lydia Nevins" which lists the children named in the will (except Mary), born over the years 1781-1797. No such marriage record is found. A Lydia Nevins is also listed by Worcester as the wife of Asa Lovejoy, and given that Asa and Lydia are said to have named a son William Nevins Lovejoy, this suggests the only feasible Lydia Nevins appearing in Hollis did not marry Daniel Mooar. However, this has not been confirmed by any records, since Worcester is the only source for the information on Asa Lovejoy.

The town records are found online p. 116. Unlike Worcester's History of Hollis, they only list the mother as Lydia, never giving her maiden name. "Lydia" is explicitly the mother for the first four children, and the next three say "of the above" implying the same parents. There is no mention of Esther. The last child, unlike Source:New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900, is specified as "Mary", not "Lydia".

Possibly Daniel had a first wife Lydia who died died sometime after the last child was b. 1797, with Daniel marrying Esther as his second wife, she dying 1807 without having any children.

A Daniel Mooar m. 1808 Mary Nevins. Mooar gives this marriage to Daniel Mooar Jr. but the date of 1808 occurring close to the death of Esther suggests it might be Daniel Sr. Source:Spaulding, Charles S. Account of Some of the Early Settlers of West Dunstable, Monson and Hollis, New Hampshire, p. 27, identifies her as Mary Nevins, d/o Joseph Nevins and his second wife Lucy Sawtelle, b. 4 Jul 1786, though the husband is only identified as Daniel Mooar with no distinguishing Sr. or Jr. Clearly the age matches the son Daniel Jr. better, but there is a daughter Mary born 1811 which the town clerk's copy here identifies as Daniel's 8th child and the town records tack onto the end of the family register for Daniel Sr. As has been mentioned above, it appears the name of the mother in the state record, "Lydia", is a copying error, as the town record says "Mary". The will of Daniel Sr. mentions a youngest daughter Mary, not yet of age, and interestingly names Phineas Nevins of New Groton as contingent beneficiary if she dies before reaching majority. The Mary Nevins b. 1786 had a half-brother Phineas b. 1776 who m. 1814 in Groton, NH, to a Hannah Nevins. This seems to support that Mary Nevins m. Daniel Mooar Sr., and was the mother of the youngest daughter.

In 1813, Daniel Sr. married for his last wife the twice widowed Lydia (Dale) (Lamon) Dale, while in 1814 Daniel Jr. married Mary Kimball Wheat, and things seem straightforward from there. In either case, the Mary Nevins had died, but the flow of events suggests strongly she married Daniel Sr. not Daniel Jr.

1. ↑ New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900. (New Hampshire Division of Vital Records Administration)
   [1].

   Child's Name: Daniel Mooar
   Date of Birth: July 23rd 1757
   Place of Birth: Dunstable
   Father's Name: Daniel Mooar
   Mother's Maiden Name: Annis
   Reported from: Nashua

2. ↑ Find A Grave: Pine Hill Cemetery, Hollis, NH, in Find A Grave
   Daniel Mooar, Jr.

   ERECTED
   to the Memory of
   Mr. Daniel Mooare,
   who died Jan. 5,
   1816, in the 59
   year of his age.
   Mrs. Esther Mooare,
   his wife who died Oct.
   1 1807, in the 52 year
   of her age.

3. ↑ Mooar, George. Mooar (Moors) genealogy : Abraham Mooar of Andover and his descendants. (Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope, 1901)
   p. 26, 39.

   Daniel Mooar [#18], s/o Daniel Mooar [#10] and Annis Stevens, b. 23 Jul 1757, d. bef 4 Jul 1821 when wife remarried. Cites Source:Worcester, Samuel Thomas. History of the Town of Hollis, New Hampshire to say he married Lydia Nevins and cites "correspondents" to say he married Miss Tarbox, Lydia Nevins, and Lydia Dale, the last surviving him.
   [Note: see note below about difficulty of figuring out his wives.]

4.   New Hampshire. Probate Court (Hillsborough County). Probate records, 1771-1921; indexes to probate records, 1771-1859, 1885-1961. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952, 1987)
   Vol. 25, p. 323.

   Will of "Daniel Mooar of Hollis", dated 15 Apr 1815, proved 21 Feb 1816, names wife Lydia ["all the household furniture which she brought to me at marriage, also the chaise she brought to me also two good cows & four sheep"]; youngest daughter Mary [under 21, "articles which her mother in her life time desired she should have"]; Phinehas Nevins of New Groton [relationship not mentioned, bequest only if Mary died, possibly fiance? half-brother? see discussion on wives]; daughter Patty Youngman; daughter Sarah [unmarried]; son David; sons Daniel Isaac Nathan & Ephraim. Son David to be executor.