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An Old Account Book
Marfy Goodspeed
July 14, 2018


The Moore Family Bible

    Mrs. Mary Durling of Stockton, a granddaughter of Acker Moore, has an old Moore Bible in which are found the following records:

Mrs. Durling was Mary Emma Moore, daughter of John Miller Moore (1835-1889) and Permelia Hoppock (1835-1877). This made her the granddaughter of Acker Moore and Phebe Miller, and of Joseph and Lareine Hoppock. Mary Emma was born about 1865 and married William F. Durling in 1889 in Lumberville, Bucks County. They lived there and had two daughters in 1891 and 1895. By 1900 they had settled in Stockton where Durling went to work as a butcher. Durling grew up in Raven Rock with his birth family. His father, Andrew Jackson Durling, was a worker on the canal in 1880. William Durling was still alive in 1935 when Mr. Bush interviewed his wife, but he died only two years later. Mrs. Durling died in 1949, age 84.

Returning to Mrs. Durling’s family, her grandparents Acker and Phebe Moore had four children. John Miller Moore, the eldest and Mrs. Durling’s father, was followed by George Moore (1837-1902), Mary Moore (c.1841 – ?) and Amos H. Moore (1845-1866). George Moore married Annie L. Sutton and together they had four children who all had children. But his older brother John only had two daughters. And yet, it appears that it was John, and then his daughter Mary, who preserved the family bible. Mr. Bush has given us a transcript:

    “Josiah Moore born April 23, 1747;
    Mary Lake, his wife, born Dec. 17, 1749.”
    Their Children:
    “Jonathan Moore born Jan. 3, 1772;
    Rhoda Moore, born Feb. 13 1774;
    Elizabeth Moore, born Dec. 15, 1775;
    Abraham Moore, born May 3, 1778;
    Sarah Moore, born July 16, 1782;
    Elizabeth Moore born June 7, 1780;
    Elnathan Moore, born Sept. 24, 1784;
    Ann Moore, born Nov. 24, 1786;
    Isaac Moore, born Apr. 1, 1789;
    Josiah Moore, born July 23, 1790;
    Rachel Moore, born May 31, 1794.”

    “Sarah Moore, wife of Jonathan Moore, born August 7, 1715,” evidently meaning 1775. Date of Jonathan’s birth given above, not here.

I have no idea what Mr. Bush meant by the date not being “here.” This list is followed by “Their Children” by which Mr. Bush means the children of Jonathan Moore and Sarah Hoppock.

    Their Children:

    “Henry Moore, born Nov. 2, 1797;
    Mary Moore,, born Feb. 24, 1800;
    Josiah Moore born Jan. 30, 1802;
    Acker Moore, born Apr. 29, 1805;
    Jerusha Moore, born Dec. 22, 1807;
    Reading Moore born June 5, 1811.”

    By these records we may trace Hart Moore back to George [his father], Acker [his grandfather] and Jonathan [his great grandfather], to Josiah Moore and Mary Lake, his wife; and may trace Mrs. Durling, by John [her father], Acker and Jonathan [Moore] back to the same great-great-grandparents.