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Moore, George Henry was born on April 20, 1823 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Jacob Bailey and Mary Adams (Hill) Moore.
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1860. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... that the terms of accommodation will be as moderate as their powers will admit, but that their powers are more ample than their Successors (shoud any accident happen") wouCd be vested ivith, I think myself not only justifiable but bound in conscience to furnish all the lights, I can, to enable eem to bring matters to a conclusion in the most compendious manner and consequently the least expensive to both Parties--I do this with the more readiness as I know the most generous use will be made of it in all respects--their humanity will incline eem to have consideration for Individuals wlw have acted from Principle and their good sense will tell eem that the more moderate are the general condit ions; the more solid and permanent will be the union, for if the conditions were extremely repugnant to the general way of thinking, it woiCd be only the mere patchwork of a day which the first breath of wind will discompose and the first symptoms of a rupture betwixt the Bourbon Powers and Great Britain absolutely overturn--but I really have no apprehensions of this kind whilst Lord and-General Howe have the direction of affairs, and flatter myself that under their auspices an accommodation may be built on so solid a foundation as not to be shaken by any such incident--in this persuasion and on these principles I shall most sincerely and zealously contribute all in my power to so desirable an end, and if no untoward accidents fall out which no human foresight can guard against I will answer with my life for the success. "From my present situation and ignorance of certain facts, lam sensible that I hazard proposing things which cannot without difficulties be comply'd with-lean only act from surmise, therefore hope allowances will be mads for my circumstances. I will suppose t...
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(Mr. Moore—the accomplished Librarian of the New York Hist...)
Mr. Moore—the accomplished Librarian of the New York Historical Society, to whose zeal, energy and good judgment, the Society owes so much—has made an original contribution to our history, of extraordinary interest. It clears up the painful doubts, which rested on the honor and good faith of Washington's second in command, into the more painful but undeniable certainty of his deliberate treachery to the cause he had espoused. Mr. Moore has become possessed of several documents in relation to that remarkable man, never yet published; and among them a manuscript in Gen. Lee's own hand writing, endorsed in the hand writing of Henry Strachey, Secretary to the Royal Commissioners, Lord and Sir William Howe, in which he has drawn out for them a plan for putting an end to the Revolutionary War by the subjugation of the country to the British arms. Of this treasonable document he gives us a facsimile, accompanied by such notices of Lee previously to his entering the service of his country, and of his capture and imprisonment by the British, as serve for all needful elucidation of the subject. He reserves, however, the story of Lee's conduct at Monmouth, and his trial after that affair, for a larger work, to contain a more complete account of Lee's life. Meantime he gives us this part of the results of his investigations and discoveries, demonstrating beyond all question the fact of Lee's treason. He has most creditably accomplished the task he proposed to himself, proving—what all who knew him well were aware of—his eminent fitness for those investigations into our history to which he has devoted so much attention. —The Church Review, Volume 13
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Moore, George Henry was born on April 20, 1823 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Jacob Bailey and Mary Adams (Hill) Moore.
He moved to New York City in 1839 and in 1843 graduated at New York University.
Before leaving college, he had become connected with the New-York Historical Society, as an assistant to his father, Jacob Bailey Moore, the librarian, and in 1849 succeeded him as its librarian. In this position he remained until 1872, when, on the opening of the Lenox Library (now a part of the New York Public Library), he became its first superintendent. Here he remained until his death.
He was a frequent contributor to historical magazines and to the proceedings of historical societies.
The University of New York gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws
He was a brother of Frank Moore, a journalist.
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