Ancestry of
Clement Clarke Moore

Author of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

John Moore

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Clement Clarke Moore — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1620 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Sep 1657 
  • Death Location:
  • Newtown, Queens, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Howell
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  • ABT 1641 
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  Samuel Moore (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Gershom Moore

• Sources for John Moore

  • ¹ The Family Record: Devoted for 1897 to the Sackett, the Weygant and the Mapes Families, and to Ancestors . . ., 1897, Nos. 9 and 10, p. 98.
  • ² American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1984, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 5-6.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 230.
  • ⁴ LeMaster, J. R. and James D. Wilson, ed., The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1993), 807, incorrectly gives death as 13 OCT 1657 in Massachusetts.
  • ⁵ Moore, James W., Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and Some of His Descendants, Easton, Pennsylvania: Chemical Publishing Company (1903), 25-35.
  • ⁶ Weygant, Charles H., The Sacketts of America, Their Ancestors and Descendants 1630-1907, Newburgh, New York: Journal Print (1907), 34-35.