My Moore Family in Philadelphia

Wow!  I have learned so much in the past week as I get ready for my trip to Philadelphia.  I have had a great deal of help from others on this project.  This week I am getting help from four Moore descendants who have been working as a team before I joined the group.  We are talking about the things that I might do specifically to further the group research on our mutual ancestors if I find that I have the time and if I have any luck at all.  This post is a place for me to put reminders of what I already know and what I would like to find.

The first piece of information that I know about my 9-gr-grandparents came from an article written by Joseph Moore entitled Quaker John Moore that was published in Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol 44, No 1:

James Moore was present in Philadelphia, within two years of the city’s founding by William Penn.  James’ lot at the City Center, on which he built a house in 1684, forms the southwest corner of present Dilworth Plaza. 

From reading on Wikipedia and other sources found by google searches I know that Philadelphia was founded 27 Oct 1682 by William Penn.  Penn purchased the land between the Schuykill and Delaware Rivers from the Lenape Indians of the Delaware Nation.  He founded  the town to act as the capital of the Pennsylvania Colony.  

From Wikipedia:

City Hall is built on the area designated by William Penn as Centre Square. It was a public square from the city's founding in 1682 until the construction of City Hall began upon the site in 1871. It was one of the five original squares laid out on the city grid by Penn. It lay at the geographic heart of the city from 1682 until the Act of Consolidation, 1854 (although it was never the social heart of the city during that long period).

Penn planned for Centre Square to be:

a central square or plaza of ten acres to be bordered by the principal public buildings, such as the Quaker meetinghouse, the state house, the market house, and the schoolhouse. Despite the two riverfronts [Delaware and Schuylkill, Penn's city had an inward-facing design, focusing on this central plaza.^[10]

However, the Delaware riverfront would remain the de facto economic and social heart of the city for more than a century.

[…] hardly anyone lived west of Fourth Street before 1703. Consequently Penn's design of a center square as the hub of his community had to be abandoned. The large Friends meeting house which was built in 1685 at the midpoint between the rivers was dismantled in 1702. Efforts to develop the Schuylkill waterfront likewise collapsed. Of the merchants, tradesmen, and craftsmen who can be identified as living in Philadelphia around 1690, 123 lived on the Delaware side of town and only 6 on the Schuylkill side. One of the latter, a tailor named William Boulding, complained that he had invested most of his capital in his Schuylkill lot, 'so that he cannot, as others have done, Remove from the same.' Not until the mid-nineteenth century, long after the city had spilled northward and southward in an arc along the Delaware miles beyond its original limits, was the Schuylkill waterfront fully developed. Nor was Centre Square restored as the heart of Philadelphia until the construction of City Hall began in 1871.^[10]

So James and Rose lived smack dab in the middle of "what was happening" in 1684.  But as the town grew, the social center of the town was no longer the area that James and Rose had settled on first.

Wikipedia says about the growth of Philadelphia:  "Philadelphia grew from a few hundred inhabitants in 1683 to over 2,500 in 1701. The population was mostly English, Welsh, Irish, Germans, Swedes, Finns, Dutch, and African slaves. Before William Penn left Philadelphia for the last time on October 25, 1701 he issued the Charter of 1701. The charter established Philadelphia as a city and gave the mayor, aldermen, and councilmen the authority to issue laws and ordinances and regulate markets and fairs."

From the same article written by Joseph Moore comes the following information:

James Moore was a blacksmith by trade and performed work on Penn’s Mill, for which he was partially paid by a 1692 land grant (which he shortly sold) in Merion township, Philadelphia County, and in 1690 he assembled the leaded glass windows for the Quaker’s Center Meeting House in Philadelphia.

I asked on the Quaker mail list about Penn's Mill and the consensus of opinion seems to be that this would have been Caleb Pusey's Mill.  Janet who descends from the Pusey family sent me the URL for an excellent article that gives information about this Mill:

http://uplandboro.org/background-story-of-upland-in-the-1600s/

From this site comes the following:

"....in 1681, a group of twelve men in London, England had met to form a stock company (which became known as “the Society of Free Traders”) to erect one or more water powered mills in the new colony. The cost of the venture was to be divided among the investors with the profits to be shared according to the investment each made. Caleb Pusey was selected to be the mill manager and agent for the joint venture. Richard Townsend was a builder and millwright and he directed the assembly and testing of a mill in the London area. This prefabricated mill was disassembled and loaded on the ship “Welcome” and was brought out to Upland with William Penn. Upon arrival, the mill was unloaded and barged up the Chester creek.

The location of the mill was decided upon with the help of Thomas Wade, a prominent Quaker who had lived in the area for 7 years. He was well respected by William Penn and he was asked to help Caleb Pusey scout the best location. The decision was made to locate the mill at the head of tidewater on the Chester creek. This would allow the mill and other materials to be floated up the creek to this point and to enable ease of transport of the milled flour and boards down the creek to Chester and beyond."

We know where this mill would have been located because Caleb Pusey's house still survives.

http://home.comcast.net/~calebpuseyhouse/site/

As you can see from below map this location is a jaunt from James and Rose's home.  I will visit this site when I come back with a car.

OK....the leaded glass windows in the meeting house....From the Wikipedia article about Philadelphia City Hall comes the information:  "Penn's design of a center square as the hub of his community had to be abandoned.  The large Friends meeting house which was built in 1685 at the midpoint between the rivers was dismantled in 1702."   

Steve explained the following about the original Meeting house and the windows:  "And of course they built the center meeting house which was to be THE meeting house.  According to the minutes they spared no expense in so doing.  It took several years to build and our James was one of many.  But as we know, the center of Philly did not play out as Penn had hoped and the epicenter of activity remained closer to the river.  The center house was eventually abandoned, but since they had so much money tied up in it, they made plans to dismantle it and sell the building materials.  Unfortunately, with my limited time I did not notate any of this, just bookmarked in my mind so I can go back to it down the road, so I can’t point you to the pages wherein this was all written.  Though no mention was made of the windows during their discussions of dismantling, it does stand to reason that they would also be salvaged and sold, or even reused in one of the other meeting houses.  I get the feeling that James’ windows lived on."

There is some discussion about my making an effort to see the wax seal on John Moore's will.  The next information is my research on this effort:

Probate Records 

Probate matters in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy are handled by the Orphans' Court and start when the county was created. To obtain original probate records, contact the Orphan's Court in the County Courthouse. 

Philadelphia County is one of the three original counties, along with Chester and Bucks counties, created by William Penn in November 1682.

Philadelphia wills, administrations, and inventories, from the earliest times to the present. Indexes are available at Room 185, City Hall. The actual will and administration folders may be at City Hall or at 401 North Broad Street.

Philadelphia City Archives
Suite 942, 401 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA  19108
PHONE:  215-686-1581
HOURS:  8:30 AM - 5 PM  Mon. thru Fri

Joseph and Steve believe that their research has identified Roose as wife to James Moore (father to the John whose will is is talked about immediately above).  It is thought that James died in.....Roose who is widow to James died in 1720.  This 

information is found in Henshaw Vol II on pages 441.  This is found in the part of Volume II that is labelled Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.  Our research group does 

not find it a surprise that Roose is listed among non-Quakers.  We have no reason

to believe that either James nor Roose were Quaker.  Several of their children 

were, however.  Including John and Jane Cureton Moore (son of James and Roose) from whom all three of us descend.

I believe it quite likely that Roose was buried in the graveyard that adjoins the Arch Street Meeting House.  Because the land had been used for burials for several years before Penn deeded it to be used for burials in 1701, it is likely that James is buried there as well.  We may never know for sure that they are buried here.

From the Swarthmore College site (http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/philaburials3.htm)

The first burial ground for Quakers in Philadelphia was located on the east side of 4th Street, south of Arch Street. This land was deeded to Friends by William Penn in 1701 "for a burying place." However, it had already been used as a burial ground for several years prior to that date. John F. Watson reported that the first burial there was that of Thomas Lloyd's wife, Mary, in 1683.[2] Over the years there have been varying estimates of the total number of interments, some as high as 20,000. 

• 1701 William Penn issued a deed to the property in October of 1701 to trustees "for a burying place." 
• 1727-28 Ground surrounded by an almost 5 foot brick wall
•  1801-02 Construction of 9 foot walls and leveling of the ground. Before this date, interments were usually in family groups. After this time, burial was generally in rows chronologically by date of death. 
•  1803-1811 Arch Street Meeting House built on site: east wing in 1803-05, and the west in 1810-11. The meeting felt that "there is no necessity to remove the Remains of the Dead, for a foundation,"but there were some re-interments on the site when excavations were undertaken in 1803 and 1810.

Philadelphia trip February 2015

In preparation for my couple of days in Downtown Philadelphia, that is coming up quickly, I asked several sources for help in getting my ideas together about what I most want to do and see while I am there.  One of the first answers that came back to me was from (a lady in New Zealand...because of the time difference she has not yet given me permission to use her name).  Her answer was:

Some years back I was tracing the BEZER family, sons of Edward BEZER, one of the earliest Quakers in Wiltshire, England.  (As it turns out, my BEZER ancestry is probably from another Edward, contemporary with this one, but not a Quaker.  I haven't been able to go further back to discover whether the two were cousins or otherwise related.)  The three sons all migrated to Pennsylvania in the early years of Penn's colony.  One of them, John BEZER, was one of Penn's land commissioners distributing rural and urban lots.

I found a reference to John's urban lot, and on a Quaker visit to Philadelphia while working in London discovered that it seems to be the very site where the Liberty Bell now stands..... but at least you might feel a Quaker connection there.

Well, her answer caused me to rethink all that I had asked about.  Rather than looking for Quaker sites, I needed to concentrate on the Quaker connections the sites of today have.  It would seem that there are very few actual Quaker sites that still exist from the 1600s, but standing by the Liberty Bell, I will think about Quaker John Bezer who had lived there and been one of  William Penn's land commissioners.

My own MOORE family lived very close to the City Center where the City Hall Building is located today.  I just received information from Joseph Moore that a recent Moore researcher has discovered that James' wife was named Rose and that the couple owned other land in the area that is now Downtown Philly.

James was present in Philadelphia, within two years of the city’s founding by William Penn.  James’s town lot at the City Center, on which he built a house in 1684, forms the southwest corner of present Dilworth Plaza.  He was a blacksmith by trade and performed work on Penn’s Mill, for which he was partially paid by a 1692 land grant (which he shortly sold) in Merion township, Philadelphia County, and in 1690 he assembled the leaded glass windows for the Quaker’s Center Meeting House in Philadelphia

On Sunday I visited the art museum and spent a few hours in the Free Central Library.  Then I walked through Logan Square to Dilworth Plaza and City Hall (City Hall did not exist in the lifetime of James and Roose Moore).  Below are photos that I took of the southwest corner of Dilworth Square.  My research has told me that it would be the corner in the above rendering that is in shadow.

Wikipedia says of the Centre City area:

City Hall is built on the area designated by William Penn as Centre Square. It was a public square from the city's founding in 1682 until the construction of City Hall began upon the site in 1871. It was one of the five original squares laid out on the city grid by Penn. It lay at the geographic heart of the city from 1682 until the Act of Consolidation, 1854 (although it was never the social heart of the city during that long period).

A bit of googling has told me that the lead glass windows that James assembled could no longer be viewed as the location of the Quaker's Center Meeting House changed many times over the years.  

More new information on our mutual Moore family from Joseph Moore this month includes the fact that Steve Moore did land research in Philly including going back through chains of titles to establish that James and Rose Moore also owned land on the Delaware River at Front Street.

Wikipedia says about Front Street:

Front Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a north-south street running parallel to and near the Delaware River. It was constructed when Philadelphia was laid out by William Penn in 1682.

Front Street is the origin street of Philadelphia's numbered street grid; there is no First Street, Front Street exists in its place, and numbered streets begin at the next major block with Second Street, approximately one-tenth of a mile to the west.

Detail from "Plan of the City of Philadelphia and its Environs (Showing the Improved Parts)," 1797, John Hill, publisher, showing the downtown area. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/gmd:@FILREQ(@OR(@field(AUTHOR+@od1(Hills,+John++Surveyor++))+@field(OTHER+@od1(Hills,+John++Surveyor++)))+@FIELD(COLLID+citymap))

Soon after I heard from the lady in New Zealand, I received a message from Mark Dixon.  Mark had read my mind, and his answer was perfect!  He sent me the following:

I live in the Philadelphia suburbs, so I know many Quaker sites.  Rather than seeking out specifically Quaker sites, though, the most important thing may be to look at already-famous sites with "Quaker eyes."

Example: Independence Hall was not -- despite its current packaging --  built as Independence Hall.  It was built as the Pennsylvania statehouse by a Quaker-dominated state assembly.  This is the assembly from which Friends resigned during the French & Indian War rather than participate in war making.

The Liberty Bell really has little to do with the Revolution.  It's purpose was to ring when the Assembly was in session.  In the 19th Century, abolitionists made it a PR symbol for their movement.  And, as we know, many Quakers were involved in that movement.  (In one of his books, historian David Hackett Fischer examines the bell as a uniquely Quaker sort of tool. Essentially, his observation was that the bell could be heard by all announcing that the assembly was in session.  Legislatures elsewhere operated more quietly, more "sub rosa," if you will.  Into that, Fischer read a more democratic attitude.)

To say that the Free Quakers were a splinter group of "fighting Quakers" is too simple.  Some of them did fight.  Others had been disowned by various meetings years before the Revolution for a variety of offenses. Betsy Ross married out of meeting.  Timothy Matlack was a slacker of a businessman, and disowned when he didn't pay his bills.  Another (whose name escapes me at the moment) was involved in a counterfeiting scheme.

When visiting the Arch Street meetinghouse (320 Arch Street), remember that it is also a cemetery.  There are no markers because Friends at the time didn't use them, and no record of who is where.  However, many famous Quaker names of the colonial period are there, including Anthony Benezet.

FYI, the Arch Street Meetinghouse dates only to 1804.  At the Hicksite/Orthodox split, Arch Street stayed with the Orthodox, while the Hicksites built a new meetinghouse at 15th & Race.  The latter is now called Friends Center and houses Philadelphia Yearly Meeting offices, as well as the American Friends Service Committee, and other organizations. For really old Quaker meetinghouses, you need to get out into the suburbs.

Perhaps ironically, Philadelphia is full of historic churches of many other denominations.  One is St. Joseph's Catholic Church (http://www.holyexperiment.org/pages/josephs.html) which dates to 1733. How is this relevant?  Again, look at it with "Quaker eyes."  This church is here because Philadelphia's non-Catholics allowed it to be here.  You won't find a Catholic church of similar age in Boston.

Finally, just enjoy the diversity of a big city -- people of all races, religious and backgrounds doing all sorts of things.  That's the world made by the Quakers' decision to allow immigrants of different religions and from countries other than England.  Yes, it is more diverse than they ever imagined and undoubtedly more than they would have desired.  But our current diversity is the result of what they did.  .....

Mark added the following in a later e-mail:

The Philadelphia History Museum is on 7th Street, just south of Market. Used to be called the Atwater Kent Museum.  I did not get around to this museum...another trip.

and

Marsha, the Pusey house is no reconstruction.  It's an original.  The mill is gone, but its weather vane -- with WP's initials -- is now at the Philadelphia History Museum: http://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-GB/asset/204610/american-school/william-penn-weathervane-iron

Mark

Suzanne Dutton added the following comments:

These places are all in what is called Old City, near the Delaware River where most people lived early on. It's the neighborhood east of Center City and City Hall and Dilworth Plaza. ....

You can visit the Arch Street Meeting House at 320 Arch Street. This building is still a worship space for Quakers with knowledgable Quaker docents.

Not far away at 500 Arch Street is the Free Quaker Meeting House, built by what we refer to as the "fighting Quakers," those who decided to fight in the Revolutionary War. It is operated by the National Park Service. ......

In Fairmount Park on the western part of the city is Cedar Grove, a lovely old Quaker farm. 

Alan Crossman added to my information:

The first place of Quaker interest is the Arch Street Friends Meeting House at 4th and Arch Streets, built in 1804.  The Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia which meets here was founded in 1683 with the founding of Philadelphia.  The building is open from 10 AM to 4 PM, Tuesday to Saturday.  There is worship on Sunday Morning and Wednesday evening.  Information about the building is at  http://www.pym.org/arch-street-meeting-house/the-building/ and the worship group is at http://www.archstreetfriends.org.  The building is a National Historic Landmark.  The original meetinghouse at Center Square was torn down after only a few years, as it was viewed as being too far west of the population center along the river to have any appeal. .....  The ground on which the Arch St MH sits was given to Friends by William Penn in 1701 and used for the first 100 years as a burial ground.  Some of the graves there pre-date the Penn deed.  Very few of the graves are marked, as was the early Quaker practice, and the building and parking lot sit on top of the graveyard.

The second place of interest to Friends in the downtown area is Friends Center at 15th and Race Streets.  This is the place of worship for Central Philadephia Friends Meeting and the business headquarters for the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Friends World Committee (American Section) and several other Quaker organizations.  There is a statue of Mary Dyer out in front, a copy of the one that sits on Boston Common where she was hung as one of the early Quaker martyrs. The meetinghouse that is attached to this modern building was built after 1827 when Philadelphia Quakers had a separation on theological disputes. (Philadelphia friends reunited in 1955)

I did visit this site and took below photos, but this was not nearly as interesting as the Arch Street Meeting House as there was no one to show you around or tell you the stories like Jim at Arch Street.

The original 12th St Meetinghouse, built in 1812 was  located between Market and Chestnut Sts, usually referred to as “Western District” in the old records, was torn down in 1975 and moved to the George School campus and reconstructed there.  The materials for this building came from tearing down the previous “Great Meetinghouse at 2nd and Market” which was built in 1755.  The location of the Great Meetinghouse is now the open grass area along Market St next the Christ Church, as the Quakers specified it should stay open space when they sold it to the Episcopalians.

I have served as one of the guides at the Arch St meetinghouse from time to time an would be happy to try and answer other questions.

Most of the early Quaker records for the Delaware Valley are stored at either Haverford College or Swathmore College.  On-line catalog is available through their shared catalog at tripod.brynmawr.edu.  Most of these files have been microfilmed and are in the process of being made available through Ancestry, but it is fun to visit the two archives to learn more about the original records and the librarians at both are helpful in pointing you towards resources.  Both colleges have easy access by SEPTA train lines from center city.  In addition, Gilbert Cope extracted many of those records in the late 1800’s.  His extractions are available at the Pennsylvania Historical Society on Locust St. Worth a visit to their library.  The other center for help with genealogy in Philadelphia is the PA Genealogical Society.  Their reading room and library is just around the corner from the Historical Society. 

.....

While doing the research above, I found the following site that is very helpful:

http://www.oldcitydistrict.org/directory?tags=historic+attraction

It is an overview of historic sites with maps to go with each site.  

Here is the information for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania:
GSP office hours: 10 AM - 4:30 PM, Tuesday - Friday
The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania is located at 2207 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

And the Historical Society hours:
Library Hours

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 12:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 12:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Thursday: 12:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

I think that I am a member of either this organization or of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.  I joined at one of the bigger .....perhaps NGS annual event?  I need to look this up and double check.

It looks as if both are easy to access from where I will be staying:

Janet Palo-Jackson sent me a reminder that I should visit the Arch Street Meeting House.  And that she believed that the Pusey mill was the mill that was referred to as Penn's Mill in my information.  She is a Pusey Descendent.  Her ancestor was brought by William Penn from England to oversee the mill.  She is also a Matlack descendent.  Janet sent a very interesting link to her Matlack ancestor:

http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7443-1

Mark Dixon agreed with Janet's suggestion that Penn's Mill might have been the Mill associated with Caleb Pusey's mill:

Thinking more about the "Penn mill" you're seeking.  Unless you have strong evidence to the contrary, I wonder if this wasn't the mill at Upland, near Chester: http://home.comcast.net/~calebpuseyhouse/site/.  I know that Penn and miller Caleb Pusey were partners in this venture.  The still-standing Caleb Pusey House there is the only extant structure visited by Penn. (Closed for the winter, unfortunately.)

I am waiting for permission from a couple of more people to add their information to my site.  I'll update as I have time and permissions.

James and Rose Moore in Philadelphia 1684-1720

I am going to try to summarize here what I know and what I do not know about my 9-gr-grandparents, Joseph and Rose/Roose Moore.  If you scroll down you will find lots more information about my research on this couple in other posts in February 2015.  I learned so much about my ancestors and about the very early days of Philadelphia this past week that I can not begin to write it all down.  However, there were a few things I wanted to note before life begins to blur my research.  The area that is pictured below is almost certainly where the couple lived from 1684 until they sell the land in 1693.  James is listed as a blacksmith in the "Philadelphia Business Directory of 1690" in the book, Colonial Philadelphians by Hannah  Benner Roach (I own this book) for this time frame.

Everything that I have read has explained that while William Penn had a very clear master plan for the city of Philadelphia, the actual development did not follow his plan.  Penn chose the site that is shown above as the center of the town.  Of course, the City Hall pictured was built MUCH later.  This  site was to be a center open space that was square in shape.  Penn pictured Philly to be a town with much green space everywhere.  Not the helter skelter town that it has become.

William Penn had chosen the land where the Delaware and the Schuykill Rivers come close making the neck of land narrow for his new city.  You can see the Center Square right in the middle of the map.


 However, those who settled did their own thing.  You can look at Elfreth's Alley to see that there is absolutely NO green space between the row houses that were built on that site.  Jeremiah Elfreth died before 1700, so that Alley is VERY old.  What really happened is that the settlers ended up settling along the Delaware River and ignored the center of the city and the land on the side of the city nearest the Schuykill River.  So the Center square remained outside of the more heavily settled area in the early days.

Wikipedia says:

However, the Delaware riverfront would remain the de facto economic and social heart of the city for more than a century.

[…] hardly anyone lived west of Fourth Street before 1703. Consequently Penn's design of a center square as the hub of his community had to be abandoned. The large Friends meeting house which was built in 1685 at the midpoint between the rivers was dismantled in 1702. Efforts to develop the Schuylkill waterfront likewise collapsed. Of the merchants, tradesmen, and craftsmen who can be identified as living in Philadelphia around 1690, 123 lived on the Delaware side of town and only 6 on the Schuylkill side. One of the latter, a tailor named William Boulding, complained that he had invested most of his capital in his Schuylkill lot, 'so that he cannot, as others have done, Remove from the same.' Not until the mid-nineteenth century, long after the city had spilled northward and southward in an arc along the Delaware miles beyond its original limits, was the Schuylkill waterfront fully developed. Nor was Centre Square restored as the heart of Philadelphia until the construction of City Hall began in 1871.^[10]

This information gives me the idea that James and Rose may have decided to move to the Delaware River front as they found that the center of the city did not develop as they had expected.  James had spent his years while they lived at Center Square working on Penn's Mill and on the leaded glass windows at the Center Meeting house.

From  Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West Jersey and Delaware 1630-1707 Edited  by Albert Cook Myers, Charles Scribners Sons NY 1912:

A footnote by Mr. Myers on page 271 says:  "The Friends' Meeting House in the Centre Square of the city, midway between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, where the City Hall now stands, was built of brick, in 1685-1686, and was used for a time for the more important First Day (Sunday) morning and business meetings of the society.  The location being in the midst of the forest some little distance without the town, and its two or three streets along the Delaware, the meeting was not well attended;  the Friends preferred to wait for the afternoon meeting at the Bank Meeting house, near at hand, within the town proper; consequently, in a few years the Centre Square meeting was abandoned."

My best guess is that James and Rose lived these truths and when the land just to the north of Vine Street (the northern boundary of Philadelphia) opened up, decided that they would move there in order that James' business would be more accessible to the population that was more heavily settled along the Delaware River.  The area in which their land lay was in what is now the Northern Liberties:

 The historical boundaries:  Vine Street as the southern border and the Cohocksink Creek serving as the northern border. The creek now flows as a storm sewer under the following streets (starting at the Delaware River and running from southeast to northwest): Canal, Laurel, Bodine, Cambridge, and Orkney Streets.

The below is the map that Lynn sent to me that helped me locate the bank lot.  Lynn says that the maps came from:  The Philadelphia Map by Holmes was published in 1687. The northern Bank lot area came from the PA State Archive online.

James and Rose sold their Center Square lot in 
James died in 1694.

Rose sold the Delaware River bank lot in 1709.  Rose died in 1720.  It is not likely that she moved outside of the city limits as her burial is recorded in the Philadelphia Meeting records.  She is listed among the non-Quakers whose burial is recorded by.....

The one more piece of information that I want to add into this post deals with:

PHILADELPHIA EXEMPLIFICATION BOOK 7,

pp 581-582, in archives of the Historical Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

JAMES MOORE’S LOT ON THE WEST SIDE OF SECOND STREET IN PHILADELPHIA, PURCHASED 12 OCTOBER 1691 AND CONVEYED BY DEED FROM JOHN MOORE, HIS SON & HEIR, TO NICHOLAS PEARCE ON 2 JANUARY 1694, for use of the Quakers to build a meeting house (James Moore having prior to his death agreed to the sale to Pearce and Pearce having paid him the seven pounds price for it, the same being acknowledged in the following deed by John Moore, son of James, in order to convey title from Moore to Pearce and the Society of Friends.) [this information sent to me by Joseph Moore}

Moore land in Philadelphia

I am a bit confused on where the land on which James and Rose Moore lived in Philadelphia.  So I am trying to sort out what I can sort out.  The Philadelphia Business Directory of 1690 (WOW!  Could there really be such a thing?)  says that there are five smiths in Philadelphia:

Lyonel Brittain a blacksmith from Alney, Buckinghamshire

Thomas Peart a whitesmithwho brought a certificate of removal from Thusk Meeting in Yorkshire

Joshua Morris a tynn-plate-worker or tinsmith who arrived on the Welcome with William Penn in the fall of 1862

James Moore, blacksmith, by warrant dated 17 4m 1684, had a lot surveyed to him at Center apparently at the southeast corner of High Street and Schuylkill Eighth.  Here he built a house and presumably lived here while employed at the Proprietor's mill, and while making the windows for the Center Meeting House.  In December, 1693, he sold it to Richard Worthin, but was not taxed that year.  (the footnote says:  Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II 752, ibid, 2nd series XIX, 328, which recites Moore's said of the house and lot to Richard Worthin in  1693 , ibid, 89, 92, PGSP, II, 169, See also PGM, XX, 62 for further notes on James Moore.

Jeremiah Elfreth, blacksmith, in 1686 bought from John Wheeler the latter's lot "before Henry Flower's House."  When he came to build on this bank lot in 1690, he bought from Richard Russel the right to build into Russell's north "gavell" wall.  He was not taxed in 1693.  There was a footnote about this entry.  This is almost certainly the Jeremiah Elfreth of Elfreth's Alley fame.

All of this is taken from the book Colonial Philadelphians by Hannah Benner Roach that I bought from the Philadelphia Genealogical Society on Tuesday.  The information about the smiths was found on page 47.

OK, I just reread page 31 of the article in Ms Roach's article about the 1690 Business Directory.  It explains that John Goodson wrote a letter to friends in England in which he listed some thirty-five different grades and businesses that were flourishing in Philadelphia in 1690.  He did NOT list names.    The author has examined many sources that she names on pg 31 in identifying these individuals.  Ms. Roach has footnotes to explain her identifications of the various tradesmen.

On December 8, 1853, Councils gave them new names. Schuylkill Eighth became Fifteenth Street. Schuylkill Seventeenth Street. Schuylkill Fifth became Eighteenth Street. Schuylkill Fourth became Nineteenth Street. Schuylkill Third became Twentieth Street. Schuylkill Second, and Ashton Street to Twenty-third Street.
http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/formerstreets.htm

Market Street (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wikipedia

Market Street, originally known as High Street, is a major east–west street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

The City was laid out by William Penn, the founder of the province in 1683, and settled by a colony from England, which arrived in that and the preceding years, and was increased by a constant and regular influx of foreigners, to so great a degree, that in just less than a century, and within the lifetime of the first person born within it of European parents, it was computed to contain 6,000 houses and 40,000 inhabitants.
The ground plot of the city is an oblong square, and is intersected by a number of streets at right angles with each other, nine of which run East and West from Delaware to Schuylkill, and twenty three North and South, crossing the first at right angles, forming one hundred and eighty-four squares of lots for buildings.
The streets running East and West are named (except High Street near the middle of the City) from the trees found in the country upon arrival of the colony: Vine, Sassafras, Mulberry, High, Chestnut, Walnut, Spruce, Pine, and Cedar Streets, and those running North and South from their numeral order, Front, Second, Third, Fourth, etc. to Broad Street, which is midway between the two rivers.
http://www.fmoran.com/kuhn2.html

Thus  James Moore's land in 1690 would have been on the corner of what would now be Market and Fifteenth Street.  Literally right where Dilworth plaza is today.  I have proven for myself what my buddies told me!  So if James and Rose lived on the property from the time that he had it surveyed until the time that he sold it they were on that property for almost ten years.

So the next question is how does the land up in the Northern Liberties fit into the story of James and Rose?  Certainly this must be the bank lot?

OK...I found it.  Rose is selling this lot in 1709:

...... to wit in the first month 1689/90 surveyed & laid out to the above named James Moore The Right & property of which sd Lot as Surveyed appertaineth unto me the sd Rose Moore.....  James had sold the Center of town lot in December 1693 according to Ms. Roach.  James seemed to have died the following year.  And his widow, Rose, then sold the bank lot 3 May, 1709.  In the land transaction in which Rose is selling the land it is said that she sells the premises and appurtenances. I believe that this implies that it was not vacant land.  Perhaps she and James had moved to the bank lot on the Delaware River from the Center of the City lot for whatever reason.