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Judges (1895); Judges: Translation and Notes (Polycrotne Bible, 1898) ; Judges : Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text, with Notes (1900).

MOORE, George Henry, author, was born in Concord, N.H., April 20, 1823; son of Jacob Bailey and Mary Adams (Hill) Moore. He at- tended Dartmouth college, 1838-39 ; removed with his parents to New York city in 1839, and was graduated from the University of the City of New York, A.B., 1842, A.M., 1845. He was as-

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sistant librarian of the New York Historical society, 1841-49, and librarian, 1849-76. He was married, Oct. 21, 1850, to Mary Howe, daughter of John Givan. He was superintendent of the Lenox library, New York city, 1872-82. He was a member of the council of the Univereity of the City of New York, 1871-83, and was appointed professor 'of law in 1860, but never served as such. He was a member of the New York and Massachusetts historical societies, the American Geographic, Ethnological and Antiquarian so- cieties, and the New England Historic Geneologi- cal society. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of the City of New York in 1868. He is the author of : The Treason of Major-Oeneral Charles Lee (1860); Employment of Negroes in the Revolution (1862); Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (1866); Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts (1866); History of the Old State House in Boston ; History of the Jurisprudence of New York (1872); Washington as an Angler (1887). He died in New York city. May 5, 1892.

MOORE, Henry Eaton, composer, was born in Andover, N.H., July 31, 1803 ; son of Dr. Jacob Bailey and Mary (Eaton) Moore. He learned the printer's trade and in 1824 established the Qrafton Journal Plymouth, N.H., and edited it until 1826. He was a teacher of music and the author of: The Musical Catechism (1829); Tlie New Hampshire Collection of Church Music (1832); The Merrimack Collection of Instrumental and Martial Music (1833); Tfie National Choir (1834); The Northern Harp (1837). In 1831 he published the Boston Eoliad, a weekly musical magazine. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 23, 1831.

MOORE, Jacob Bailey, author, was born in Andover, N.H., Oct. 31, 1797; sou of Dr. Jacob Bailey and Mary (Eaton) Moore. His ancestors came to the United States from Scotland. The son learned the printer's trade in the office of the New Hampshire Patriot at Concord, N.H., and in 182G became a bookseller and publisher. He married Mary Adams, sister of Isaac Hill, editor of the New Hampshire Patriot, and was taken into partnership. In 1826 he founded ard was editor of the Niw Hampshire Statesman^ through whose columns he advocated the claims of John Quincy Adams to the presidential nom- ination. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1828-29 ; sheriff of Merrimack county, 1829-33 ; edited the Neiv Hampshire Journal in 1839, and the same year removed to New York city, where he edited the Daily Whig, 1839-41. He was a government clerk in the post office at Washington, D.C., 1841-45 : was librarian of the New York Historical society, 1845-49 ; removed to California, and was postmaster at San Fran- cisco, 1849-53. He assisted John Farmer (q.v.) in compiling a Gazetteer of New Hampshire (3 vols., 1822-24); and is the author of : Anvals of Concord, ivith a Memoir of the Penacook Indians (1823-26); Laws of Trade in the United States (1840), and Memoirs of American Governors (in- complete, 1846), designated to embrace all the colonial and provincial governors. He died in Bellows Falls, Vt., Sept. 1, 1853.

MOORE, James, governor of South Carolina, 1719, was born in Cliarleston, S.C, in 1667 ; son of James Moore, governor of South Carolina, 1700, who emigrated from Ireland in 1665, settled in Charleston, and was married in 1666 to the daughter of Sir John Yeamans. James became well known as a soldier in his campaigns against the Indians, and in 1702 he conducted an unsuc- cessful expedition against the Spaniards at St. Augustine, resulting in a heavy debt on the colony, which was relieved by issuing the first paper money used in South Carolina. In 1703 he led an expedition against the Appalachian Indians in Cape Fear, N.C., and completely sub- dued them. In 1713 he commanded the forces sent by Gov. Charles Craven to aid the settlers of North Carolina. Upon the deposition of Gov. Johnson he was elected his successor in 1719, but was succeeded the same year by Arthur Middle- ton. He subsequently served as attorney-general and judge of the admiralty court of South Caro- lina, and was speaker of the state assembly, 1721- 25. He removed to North Carolina about 1735, and lived with his brother Maurice Moore, one of the pioneer settlers of the colony of North Caro- lina, and resided in Cape Fear district, where he was ill in a room adjoining that of his brother, and both died at about the same hour, Nov. 19, 17-iO.