Excerpt from Mooar (Moors) Genealogy: Abraham Mooar of Andover, a Nd His Descendants Early immigrants to Massachusetts of the name Moor, Moore, Mooers, Moors, More, were not few. Such were Thomas of Salem, 1636 Francis of Cambridge, 1638 John of Sudbury, 1640; Ed mund of Newbury, 1648. It has not been possible to find proof of any connection of Abraham of Andover with any of these. It has been thought by some that there was relationship with the Scotch Irish families that came to New Hampshire in 1718. But our an cestor arrived at least thirty years before, and appears alone, and intermarries with families of pure English descent. The spelling in names is, no doubt, a rather precarious ground on which to draw genealogical conclusions. For often among descendants known to be of the same family origin, there is much variation in writing the name. Variations occur among those families which can be traced without doubt to Abraham Mooar. As the spelling adopted in this book is found in use almost wholly within the line here traced, and is distinctive, the occurrence of the same spelling, in the stories of Mr. Caine, attached to places in the Isle of Man, at least piques curiosity. Once, so far away as San Francisco, the compiler found a native of the Testern Islands, that lie off the coast of Scotland, Who signed his name Moar. But the curiosity even of an amateur must put itself within limits, and we have left to others this line of research which stretches backward beyond the sea that brought our ancestor hither. It may be fit to say that a considerable portion of the collections that follow were made thirty years ago, and information concerning the generations that have been arriving or departing since has not been as fully recorded. One needs hardly an apology for knowing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.