Excerpt from The Descendants of Ensign John Moor of Canterbury, N. H: Born 1696 Died 1786

This book records what has been collated relating to Samuel Moor, Mariner in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1696, and to all of his descendants. He had but two children of whom we have any knowledge, John and Samuel. The latter died without issue and this work has to do with the offspring of John, who in 1727, as a citizen of Durham, N. H., was a Grantee of the new town of Canterbury, N. H., and one of its first settlers.

The posterity of John have been pursued into nearly every state of the Union and even across the sea. That some have eluded discovery should not be laid to a lack of diligence on the part of the compiler. The absence of vital statistics in many towns in New Hampshire and other states, the comparatively few people of good memories now living, the indifference of many descendants of the present generation and, finally, the reaching of that unprofitable situation where a ton of straw is threshed over again for a grain of wheat, all have contributed to the final closing of the search and laying before the descendants the result.

It is probable, however, that of those descended from John Moor fully 95% who have lived and died or are still living are herein recorded.

A labor of love is careless of time. It is fifteen years since the work was actively begun. As the vizualization and reconstruction of the lives of our ancestors proceeded, a feeling of responsibility gripped me. The wealth of material should be placed, at whatever personal financial cost, in the hands of the living offspring of John and Hannah Moor. The large aggregate preparatory expense has been cheerfully borne and the price of the book has been fixed at about half the ascertained cost of printing and binding alone.

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