Starr, Thomas (b. 21 APR 1753, d. 14 JUN 1797)

Given Name: Thomas

Death: 14 JUN 1797

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Given Name: Nathan

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Given Name: William

Death: 6 JUN 1823

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Dolbeare
Title: Winifred Lovering Holman, Early Dolbeares (NEHGR Vol. 112 (1958) pp. 17
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Given Name: Mary

Death: 1774

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Dolbeare
Title: Winifred Lovering Holman, Early Dolbeares (NEHGR Vol. 112 (1958) pp. 17
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Given Name: Abigail

Death: DEC 1816

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Dolbeare
Title: Winifred Lovering Holman, Early Dolbeares (NEHGR Vol. 112 (1958) pp. 17
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Given Name: John

Death: 9 APR 1806

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Dolbeare
Title: Winifred Lovering Holman, Early Dolbeares (NEHGR Vol. 112 (1958) pp. 17
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Given Name: Samuel

Death: ABT 1832

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Given Name: Andrew

Death: 7 APR 1824

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Given Name: John

Death: 1828

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Given Name: William

Death: young

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Given Name: Frances

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Given Name: Daniel

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Given Name: Thomas

Death: young

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Given Name: Thomas

Death: 1799

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Given Name: Elizabeth

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Note: Richard Moore studied at King's College (now Columbia University) until the Revolution caused his family to moved to West Point. He went to sea briefly and then studied medicine under Dr. Richard Bayley, an eminent New York physician, and practiced for a while in New York City and in Eastern Long Island.

After his marriage, he decided to enter the church and was ordained in Sep 1787. He was at Grace Church in Rye, New York, for two years, and then at St. Andrew's on Staten Island, where he remained for more than twenty years, eking out his salary by practicing medicine and running a school for ten years. In 1809 he was named rector of St. Stephen's in New York City. In all his churches he was much revered by his parishioners.

In 1814 he was named rector of Monumental Church in Richmond, Virginia, and second Bishop of Virginia. Because of the Revolution and, especially, the exodus of the Methodists from the Church of England, the Episcopal Church was in very poor institutional shape throughout the South, with bankrupt parishes and empty pulpits. Bishop Moore worked hard and successfully to reverse matters. According to the Dictionary of American Biography, "Bishop Moore was ideally adapted to the needs of the situation. He was a man of distinguished ancestry, well-bred, and possessed of social qualities which made him everywhere acceptable. he was a speaker of magnetism and persuasiveness. he could exercise discipline with tact and kindness."

Bishop Moore is, together with Bishops William Meade, John Henry Hobart, and Alexander V. Griswold, credited with "reconstructing the Episcopal Church in the United States, both in spirit and in character."

There is an article on him in the Dictionary of American Biography.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DAB
Title: Dictionary of American Biography

Given Name: Richard Channing

Death: 11 NOV 1841 Lynchburg, Virginia

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Given Name: Rebecca

Death: young

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Given Name: Mary Ann

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Given Name: Anna

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Given Name: Samuel

Death: AFT 1764

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