Hello Listers, Maybe I can add some clarification and/or help here. (I am leaving the whole original post attached in tact as it has bearing to my comments). Villages at the Crossroads, A History of Warren Township 1806-1976, by Barbara Tomblin, indeed provides some wonderful flavor of the early settlers. It is "organized" by the several small villages that made up the township. A Ben Moore was enumerated in the 1840 census as living in that section known as Union Village, but the information contained on pg. 5 regarding the 24 acre lot was found to be different as determined through my own deed researchings. The house of the Flinns of today was occupied by my own Stevens'family ancestors in the early 1800s. For anyone interested and inclined to learn more about, I would like to direct you to the following site link which is of the Warren Township Historical Society, and features an article I wrote pertinent to that early Union Village family. http://www.warrennj.org/wths/stevens.htm As to the Moores, I would like to cautiously point up that it was a large and well known old family in early Warren having various branches, and there is some frequency to see the same or similar given names, 'tho different generations. I hope this may somehow be useful. Jan in California ---------- >From: Abudebbie@aol.com >To: NJSOMERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Benjamin Moore >Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2000, 6:49 PM > > Hi--I have the booklet Villages at the Crossroads; A history of Warren Twp. > 1806-1976. In it, it has a lot of information about the families in this > area. It is not a very organized booklet, and I do not know if it is still > available, so here is what I located on your Benjamin Moore and family. > > pg 5 Isaac and Phebe Ruckman Coddington's daughter Hetty Jane, who died at 6 > months in 1831 is buried in Tucker cemetery. Her parents moved shortly after > her death to Terre Haute, IN and the home was later owned by Benjamin Moore > (son of Isaac B.) and his wife Susan Tucker. The house with many additions, > is now owned by the Flinns and from the stone foundation, rough timbers in > the cellar, and narrow stairway appears to be at least 150 years old. > > In 1855 Ben Moore sold his lot for $1475 to John R. Burnett who had acquired > much of the original 24 acre lot from his mother Elizabeth Perrine Torboss > (formerly Mrs. John S. Burnett). > > pg 41 Benjamin Moore: Private in militia, Married Keziah Frazee, Mary > Smalley, and Eunice Tingley. > > Pg 29 Many of the houses in Dead River are still standing. One at 5 > Mountainview Lane, now owned by G. F. Kennedy, was owned in 1850 by John > Moore who bought his 56 acres freom the estate of Ben Moore in 1843. Jacob > Giddes bought the farm in 1875 and more recently John Betzold owned it. > > East of them was John B. Moore wo bought his 59 acres from Isaac B. Moore in > 1847. Isaac was a son of Benjamin Moore, Sr. and he died in 1854 age 68. Ben > Moore was an early settler of the township and member of the Baptist church. > His 131 acre farm was sold in 1839 to William A. Coddington for $2,484, a > handsome sum in those days. To his wife he willed, "two cows of her choice, > all the furniture she brought to me when we married and the use of two east > rooms of the house." the house quite possibly the same one today owned by > the Langmacks. His farm was bouthg from Archibald Coddington 1862 by > John Zeglio, later by Zergabiels, and is today known as HIllcrest Horse Farm. > > (Note--today in this reference means 1976 when the booklet was written.) > > It would seem that your Ben may be the son of Ben Sr. and his wife Susan > Tucker. > > Debbie in CA > >