Background
Benjamin Moore was a descendant of Rev. John Moore, one of the settlers of Newtown, Long Island. Benjamin was born on October 5, 1748, in Newtown. He was the son of Samuel Moore, a farmer, and his wife Sarah, daughter of John Fish.
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Benjamin Moore was a descendant of Rev. John Moore, one of the settlers of Newtown, Long Island. Benjamin was born on October 5, 1748, in Newtown. He was the son of Samuel Moore, a farmer, and his wife Sarah, daughter of John Fish.
Moore graduated at the head of his class at King's College in 1768, and after studying theology with Rev. Samuel Auchmuty, went to England, where he received deacon's and priest's orders from the Bishop of London in June 1774.
Moore became an assistant minister of Trinity Church, New York, in February 1775. After the flight of Myles Cooper, the Loyalist president of King's College, in May of that year, Moore was made president pro tempore and retained the title until 1784. When the college building was taken over by the military officials in the spring of 1776, Moore moved his family and the remaining students to 13 Wall Street, where some instruction was carried on until the British took the city. He remained loyal to the Kingthroughout the war, and acted as deputy chaplain for the hospital in the college building. In November 1783, before the British forces had evacuated New York City, the Loyalist rectorof Trinity, Rev. Charles Inglis, resigned, and Moore was elected in his place. The election was immediately challenged by the Whig members of the parish, because of Moore's "avowed sympathies with the British cause and his dislike of the new government, " and he wisely withdrew. Upon the reorganization of King's College as Columbia in 1784, he was appointed professor of rhetoric and logic, a position he held until 1786, and in December 1800, when the rectorship of Trinity was again offered him, he assumed officewithout opposition. After the resignation of Bishop Provoost in 1801, Moore was elected his successor, and was consecrated at Trenton, September 11, 1801. In the same year, Rev. Charles Henry Wharton resigned the presidency of Columbia after a few months' service, and on December 31, Moore was elected to that position. He held these three offices until February 1811, when an attack of paralysis incapacitated him for any further publicservice. An assistant bishop (John Henry Hobart) and an assistant rector (Abraham Beach) were elected to take over his church duties, and on May 6, he resigned the presidency of the college. After suffering repeated paralytic attacks, he died, early in 1816, "at his residence at Greenwich, near New York. "
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As a preacher he commanded attention and respect by his dignity and unaffected solemnity of manner and the skilful managementof a naturally feeble voice. In appearance he was slender and graceful, of medium stature, and long-faced. His only publications were sermons, of which a two-volume collection was published posthumously (1824) by his son.
On April 20, 1778, Moore married Charity, daughterof Maj. Thomas Clarke, deceased, a British officer whose large estate, "Chelsea, " in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, was ultimately inherited by the Moores. Their only child was Clement Clarke Moore, theologian and lexicographer.