resting place of the ashes of his fathers was held by Bishop Moore at the time of his decease. John Moore married Frances Lambert; they became the happy parents of eighteen children, among whom were three pairs of twins. The descendants of Mr. Moore became connected by marriage with the Bayards, Hoffmans, Livingstons, Onderdonks, Baileys, Tredwells, and Rogers's, who then, as now, were ranked among the most respectable families in New York. Stephen, the seventeenth child, was the proprietor of West Point, the site of our national Military Academy. After selling this property to the United States, he removed to North Carolina. At the time of the invasion of the Southern States by the British troops in 1779, he commanded a regiment of militia, and was, afterwards, taken prisoner at the battle of Camden. Being in due time exchanged, he returned to his beautiful residence, Mount Tirzah, in North Carolina, where he died, leaving in that state a highly respectable family.

The seventh of the thirteen sons of John Moore, and the one with whom our narrative is more directly concerned, was THOMAS MOORE, the father of the subject of the present memoir. He was born in 1722, and being sent to England for an education, received his scholastic training amidst the high advantages afforded by the discipline and instructions of Westminster School. On the completion of his course of studies, he returned to his native country, at about the age of twenty-one years, and engaged in commercial pursuits as a merchant in the city of New York. The troubles of the revolution coming on, brought with them a series of disasters and misfortunes, which led him to retreat to West Point, where he lived with his family in quiet retirement, (it being on what was called the neutral ground,) during the early part of the revolutionary war.

But at length, as we shall have occasion to state, more particularly, in the sequel, the footsteps of a plundering army invaded his peaceful habitation—he and his helpless family were driven out from their own fireside-homeless and pennyless-the world before them, and Providence their guide!' In this destitute condition he returned to the city, where, having obtained an appointment in the Custom House, he lived in comfort until the conclusion of the war.

After the restoration of peace, and the full establishment of our independence, a change of government having deprived him of the office from which his support was derived, he retired to spend the remainder of his days with his beloved daughter, the wife of General Huntington, in New London, Connecticut. There, under the influence of pulmonary consumption, his strength and health gradually wasted, till, supported by the consolations of Christian faith, and in the communion of the Church, he departed this life on the 19th June, 1784. In the spring of 1785 his remains were removed to New York, and deposited in the family vault, in Trinity Church-yard, by his son, the late Bishop of Virginia, then a resident of that city.

ELIZABETH CHANNING, the wife of Thomas Moore, and mother of the late bishop, was of highly respectable parentage. Being left an orphan at the early age of two years, she was carefully brought up in the family of her uncle, John Pintard, Esq. She was highly accomplished; having received the most finished education, and being accustomed to mingle freely in the best society to be found in her native city. In her all the polish and dignity of a lady of "the old school" appeared in combination with a most amiable disposition, remarkable soundness of judgment, firmness of purpose, and strong good sense-all adorned and sanctified by the graces of a fervent and exemplary

piety. To the religious instructions and lovely Christian example of his sainted mother, Bishop Moore often delighted to revert with tears of gratitude in his eyes and a bosom swelling with filial affection and reverence. To her early nurture and admonition of him in the ways of the Lord, he ascribed, under God, all his happiness and usefulness in this world, and his hopes of a blessed immortality in the next. He had the pleasure of ministering to her support and solace in her declining years, until she entered upon her eternal rest, at his house, on Staten Island, the 7th of December, 1805, in the 78th year of her age.

It has been truly said that so far as relates to intellectual and moral character," the boy is father of the man." We regret that but few written memorials are to be found which give any information respecting the childhood of the subject of this memoir, and there are no surviving companions of his early years whose memory of facts will enable us to supply the deficiency. The few incidents we have been able to gather from other brief sketches of his life, from the Bishop's letters, and from the statements of his only surviving sister, will, however, serve to show that in the promise of childhood there was the earnest and seed of the virtues and excellencies which were fully developed in maturer years.

While he was yet an infant in the nursery, his pious mother, who, like Hannah, had devoted her son to the Lord, faithful to the engagements entered into on bis behalf when he was received into the Church by Holy Baptism, considered him as one of the lambs of Christ's flock; and laboured by every means to impregnate his budding character with the principles of religion and lead him to an early acquaintance with Him who said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for

of such is the kingdom of heaven." The humble efforts of this Christian mother, like those of Lois and Eunice, were not in vain. The good seed sown in her instructions was matured by her prayers and tears; and of Bishop Moore, as of Timothy, it might be said that from a child he knew those Holy Scriptures which are able to make men wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Often did he, in advanced age, advert with sentiments of devout gratitude to the benefits derived from the lessons of maternal love; and in the last summer of his life he was heard to say, with deep and grateful emotion, “I was a pious child." Under the hallowed influence of his mother's teaching, example and prayers, we may believe that God was not only laying the foundation of the superstructure of personal holiness and virtue in his private character, but was also, (perhaps unconsciously to the subject of it,) training his faculties and affections for that work of the Gospel ministry to which the greater part of his future life was so successfully devoted. While he was yet an infant prattler, unable to speak intelligibly, he was in the habit of gathering his little sisters and brothers around him, and with his apron put on inversely as a substitute for a surplice, "keeping church," as he called it, and imitating, as well as he could, the different parts of the services of the sanctuary. At a very early age he evinced not only a decided taste for elocution, but also a more than ordinary talent for public speaking. This talent and taste were often exhibited for the amusement of his mother's visiters in his happy recitations of hymns and other pieces previously committed to memory for the purpose. Who can tell but that the Holy Spirit might have imparted to his infant mind early intimations of a future call to the sacred office? Who shall say that this interesting boy when "keeping

church" with his infant congregation, or delivering pious sentiments in the presence of his seniors, may not have had impressed upon his infant mind an idea of his future occupation, and possessed, in embryo, the same emotions which filled his bosom when, in after life, he led the devotions of the faithful, and listening thousands hung with rapture on his lips? The writer is inclined neither to superstition nor fanaticism, but yet speaks from experience in expressing the opinion that sometimes in the days of childhood, and that, perhaps, a giddy and thoughtless one, there are vivid anticipations of future occupation in the sacred office, and strong impressions leading to an involuntary training for it, in the absence of all encouragements to it from without, which can only be accounted for by ascribing them to a mysterious influence of the Holy Spirit upon the mind indicative of God's purposes in reference to the future life of the individual.

In the case of young Moore, there was doubtless on the part of his mother a wish to strengthen every serious impression, and encourage every holy desire that might be produced in his mind. Her Christian associations and habits were also adapted to produce the happiest influence upon the forming character of her son. She was one of a number of pious ladies who were in the practice of meeting weekly, at each other's houses in rotation, for the purposes of social worship and religious edification. Those meetings were often attended by some one of the clergy; most frequently by Rev. Dr. Ogilvie, one of the ministers of Trinity Church, who is represented to have been a man of exemplary piety and zeal, fervently devoted to the spiritual improvement of the people committed to his charge. This pious band of Christian sisters, in imitation of the example of the devout centurion whose "prayers