[1] Moor was involved, under the supervision of his cousin, Christopher Middleton, with voyages to the bay from about 1730 to 1741 and carried out increasingly important duties during that period.
Moor and Middleton and the 1741–1742 expedition were under the scrutiny of Arthur Dobbs, an opponent of the HBC monopoly of the bay area.
[1] In 1746, Moor was in command of a private discovery expedition to Hudson Bay funded by Dobbs and others.
After a short and unsuccessful period of exploration by the two ships, they decided to overwinter at the HBC post at York Factory.
[1] There is little doubt that his weakness and uncertainty affected the expedition but the unhappiness of the investors was also because he refused to engage in illegal trade on their behalf.