Individual Details

Birth

John Moore was born about 1614 in England. He became a woodworker.
He immigrated to New England, sailing on a ship called the Mary and John in 1630 , probably alone. He settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. John and his brother Thomas appear together as witnesses to the uncupative will of John Russell on 3 Sep 1633.
John was appointed Dorchester fence-viewer on 24 May 1634 and 16 January 1636/7 : and selectman on 8 November 1637.
John married Miss Edwards first. This may be Hannah’s mother. Then John married Abigail on 16 Jun 1637.
He and his family moved to Windsor in 1639. John Moore became a successful woodworker. He was known for using the foliated vine design, which depicts vines and blossoms carved in shallow relief with flat surfaces. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, chests were important pieces of furniture that stood in the public areas of the house. Chests or coffer were general purpose storage units but they were also used for seating and even for sleeping on. All had locks to ensure privacy and security in the crowded households of the period. Some were used for the storage of household goods, but others were personal: most members of the household had their own coffers for their own belongings. Some have initials or names on them to identify their owners.
He dealt largely in real estate manufactured pike heads, farmed and built a ferry about 1671. He contributed 6s. 6d. to the Connecticut Fund for Relief of Poor in other Colonies.
John Moore lived near his brother Thomas Moore Most of the parcels of land in Windsor granted to John Moore were adjacent to parcels ranted to Thomas Moore. John had from his father the lot on Broad Street Green, Windsor, where he built the Moore house which was presented (so says tradition) to his son John as a set-out on his marriage day, A.D. 1690.
He was Deputy from Windsor to the Connecticut General Court many times . He was made deputy governor of Connecticut under John Winthrop.
On 11 Jan 1651, John Moore was ordained a deacon.
His will which mentions one son and four daughters was dated September 14, 1677. His death is given in the Windsor town records as 18 Sep 1677 and was buried 19 Sep 1677.
From Early CT Probate Records: Page 195 Moore, John, Windsor. Invt 48 9pounds -04-07. Taken 17 September, 1677 by Benjamin Newbery, Daniel Clarke, Return Strong, Josiah Elsworth. Dictated. Will dated 14 september, 1677: Deacon John Moore being at this prsent his memory & understanding sound though under present sickness, did declare with his own mouth in the prsence of his wife, Robert Hayward & John Moore, Nath. Loomys & John Loomys, that it was his will as followeth: Imprs. He did will to his deare wife the product & improvement of his whole estate, houseing, Lands & Moveables, so long as She Lives, & fifty pownds to her own dispose to her children or at her discretion at her death; & my will is that the estate that remayns after her death as aforesayd shall be disposed as followeth: to my son John a double portion, & my will is my son shall have all my Land, he paying what his double portion doe not reach to my other children, unto whom, that is, to my four daughters, I doe will the remaynder of my estate in equal proportion. Witness our hands: Robert Haywood, John Loomys
Court record, Page 165 - 6 December, 1677: Adms. to John Moore. Jacob (John? Jacob Drake seems an error of the Recorder, but was so written) Drake sen. personally appeared in Court and declared it to be his will& Desire that the above written Will should stand as the Will of his deceased Father, before Benjamin Newbery, John Moore, Nathaniel Loomis, Thomas Bissell & Nathaniel Bissell. In Court 6 December 1677, they did acknowledge that they in their own and their wives behalf did acquiesce in and approve of the Dispose of the estate of Deacon John Moore as it is a expressed by him and written as above. Attest: John Allyn, secretary