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Samuel Moore (?–?)

Samuel Moore was a seaman aboard the Prince of Wales when he arrived at Sydney in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. He had a daughter with Mary Harrison, baptised as Gracy Moore on 15 March 1789 at Sydney Cove.

* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), pp 249-250

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