Rev. Benjamin Moore (1748-1816) was a New York City preacher and theologian who lived at 46 Broadway. He was born in Newtown, Long Island, and graduated from King's College, now Columbia University, in 1768. In 1774, he was ordained a deacon and priest in England, and became an assistant minister of Trinity Church in New York City. He also acted as president of King's College in 1775, a position he held from 1800 to 1811, and received his D.D. in 1789. Moore served as the secretary of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America and became a bishop in 1801.