Moved to Hopewell, NJ in 1708

Justice Nathaniel Moore, son of Captain Samuel and Mary (Reed) Moore, was born in Newton, Long Island, March 14, 1687. He removed from Long Island to New Jersey in 1708, and during that year he and Thomas Reed, John Cornwall and John Mott purchased thirteen hundred acres of land where Pennington, New Jersey, now stands. He was a trustee of the Pennington church from 1725 to 1726, trustee of parsonage and Latin school funds in 1731, a justice of the peace in 1725, and was appointed lieutenant in the New Jersey militia.