Frederick W. Moores was a career U.S. Navy Sailing Master primarily attached to the Mediterranean foreign station, but who also sailed the globe many times including the Pacific and both hemispheres. On October 24, 1815, while a young man, he was dismissed from the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), for boarding a ship that was armed. He was married twice; his first wife and mother of seven children, Harriet Hathaway, died in New York City and was buried in Hudson, Columbia Co., NY where both were born. His second wife and mother of two children was Frances (Fannie) Stillman, whose younger brother, Lewis Mortimer Stillman, later married Frederick's daughter (by his first marriage), Sarah Cannon Moores.

Frederick W. Moores is remembered today primarily as a marine artist, with work in the personal collection of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, now in the FDR Presidential Library and Museum (Hyde Park) but which hung in the Treaty Room (Monroe Room then) of the White House during FDR's administration. Toward the end of his life, Frederick W. Moores was stationed in the "Boston Navy Yard" (actually in Chelsea, Suffolk Co., MA) while second wife Fannie (Stillman) Moores lived in Newark with (and was buried near) the family of her sister, Rhoda (Stillman) Badger, 1810-1883, and Charles Whiting Badger, 1814-1877, original owner of Lots 39-40, Sect. H.

17 April 1830 - 2 February 1832: F. W. Moores, his wife Harriet Hathaway and children, her brother, B. J. Hathaway, and their younger sister Margaret Hathaway (19 years old), sailed from Boston to Smyrna, Asia Minor (Izmir, Turkey today) to seek their fortune in selling ship supplies. The Smyrna expedition seems to have failed as the group returned to the US in 1832; their decision to return may have been influenced by the unexpected death of their father, Bailey Hathaway, in August of 1831.

14 September 1855: retired from the U.S. Navy, with the rank of "Master", by an Act of February 28, 1855 (10 Stat. at Large, 616.)

Recent evidence has surfaced that suggests his middle name may have been Walter or William, rather than Washington:

1) His son by his second marriage, F. W. Moores (1842-1882) is refered to as "Frederick Walter Moores, Jr." in the Table of Contents in a history of Norwich University, which he attended. However, the suffix "Jr." is not included in his actual short biography later in the book. Source: Ellis, William Arba, Norwich University 1819-1911, Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor - in Three Volumes; Vol. 2: Sketches of the Trustees, Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Professors, Alumni and Past Cadets 1820-1866; p. 716.

2) Transcriptions of family notes researched/preserved in Buenos Aires (originals lost) by the family of his eldest daughter, Harriet Hathaway (Moores) Jacobs (1821-1894) record his name as "Frederick William Moores."

3) Transcriptions of family notes researched/preserved in Buenos Aires (originals lost) by the family of his second son, William Henry Moores (1831-1891) record his name as "George Washington Moores." However, this William Henry Moores named a son "Federico Washington Moores", born abt. 1880 in Buenos Aires.

Of course, it's possible that father and son had differing middle names that began with W., but given the evidence, it is increasingly unlikely their names were anything but "Frederick Washington Moores".