Samuel Moore

Who was Samuel Moore?

The Honorable Samuel Moore, was notable as one of the civil leaders in the early years of the Province of New Jersey.

Samuel Moore removed from Newbury, Massachusetts to Middlesex County, New Jersey in 1665, soon after the Duke of York had ceded the Province of New Jersey to John, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret in 1664. Moore was one of the first in Massachusetts to convert to Quakerism, and as such was unwelcome in that Puritan colony. Locating at Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, he filed surveys for a number of tracts of land in the Woodbridge and Piscataway townships; on the 27 December 1667, a patent was issued to him for 70 acres of land at a yearly rental of a half-penny sterling per acre. This 70-acre lot is situated in the lower end of what is now called "Lower Rahway". Part of the old tract remained in the family until the latter part of the 19th century. His house lot at Woodbridge encompassed 16 acres of land.

Samuel Moore and Robert Dennis were chosen as delegates to represent the town of Woodbridge at the 2nd General Assembly of the Province of East Jersey which convened at Elizabethtown on 3 November 1668, under Philip Carteret.