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Benjamin Moore

Biography 
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.
Local Note 
Benjamin Moore was a trustee of the New York Society Library from 1791 to 1792 and from 1797 to 1811.
Mentioned 

Date OutTextVolSizeDate InRepFinesPage
12/18/1789Juliet Grenville212mo.12/22/1789  171
12/22/1789"312mo.12/30/1789  171
12/30/1789Evelina112mo.01/04/1790  171
01/06/1790Polnitz Memoirs18vo.01/11/1790  171
01/11/1790Piozzis Journey 8vo.01/22/1790  171
01/22/1790Savarys Greece 8vo.01/29/1790  171
01/29/1790Life of Cicero18vo.02/12/1790  171
02/12/1790"28vo.02/19/1790  171
02/24/1790"38vo.03/01/1790  171
03/01/1790Hist five Indian Nations 8vo.03/10/1790  171
03/10/1790Williams of Wyckham 8vo.03/15/1790  171
03/15/1790Savarys Greece 8vo.03/24/1790  171
03/24/1790Dean on Brutes 12mo.03/29/1790  171
03/29/1790Marmontels Incas112mo.04/07/1790  171
04/07/1790"212mo.04/16/1790  171
05/15/1790Jennings Antiquities18vo.05/29/1790  171
12/06/1790Moores france1 12/15/1790  171
12/15/1790"2 12/29/1790  171
12/29/1790Pelew Islands  01/13/1791  171