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Moore Homestead Playground

Broadway., 82 St., 45 Ave.

Queens

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What was here before?

In the mid-1600s the surviving children of Reverend John Moore (1620-1657) were granted 80 acres of land in the area in recognition of his contributions to the settlement. Rev. Moore was the town’s first minister, responsible for the founding of the settlement in 1652 and arranging the peaceful purchase of Newtown from the Mespeatches tribe in 1656. Captain Samuel Moore (1645-1717) built a house here in 1661, and the property was handed down to generations of his descendants. During the Revolutionary War, the Moores were loyalists and sympathetic to the crown. British encampments lined up and down Broadway and Hoffman Boulevard, including the Moore property. British General William Howe maintained his headquarters nearby at the Samuel Renne House (located at the modern-day southwest corner of 57th Avenue and Queens Boulevard, demolished in 1937.)

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