Samuel Moore (called Moores in Savage's Genealogical Dictionary)[2] removed from Newbury, Massachusetts to Middlesex County, New Jersey in 1665,[3] soon after the Duke of York had ceded the Province of New Jersey to John, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret in 1664.
Locating at Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, Moore filed surveys for a number of tracts of land in the Woodbridge and Piscataway townships; on the 27 December 1667, a patent was issued to him for 70 acres (280,000 m2) of land at a yearly rental of a half-penny sterling per acre.
Samuel Moore and Robert Dennis were chosen as delegates to represent the town of Woodbridge at the 2nd General Assembly of the Province of East Jersey which convened at Elizabethtown on 3 November 1668, under Philip Carteret (Governor).
Samuel Moore was appointed Treasurer of the Province of East Jersey on 4 December 1675 and reappointed in 1678, with compensation set at nine pence per pound.
In 1682, he was ordained by an act of the Legislature one of the Commissioners for laying out highways, bridges, landings and ferries in Middlesex County, New Jersey.