and Mary Stilwell Clarke. Thomas Clarke had acquired a large country estate along the Hudson River in Manhattan that he dubbed Chelsea, after the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement home for soldiers in London, England, and his widow and daughter continued to live there after his death in 1776. Charity Clarke wrote letters to a cousin in London in the 1760s and 1770s that are still cited as examples of early patriotic sentiment, but she and her mother stayed in British-occupied New York during the Revolutionary war. The Moores had one child together, Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863), who is credited and is most widely known as the author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas." They inherited the Chelsea estate and passed it on to their son, who developed it into the neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan. On February 27, 1816, Moore died in Greenwich Village, New York. He was buried at Trinity Church. North Moore Street, Manhattan is named in his honor. Notes References External links Documents by and about Moore Columbia University President's Report 2000 Benjamin Moore records at Trinity Wall Street Archives 1748 births 1816 deaths Episcopal bishops of New York Clergy in the American Revolution 18th-century American Episcopal priests Columbia College (New York) alumni Presidents of Columbia University People of the Province of New York 19th-century Anglican bishops in the United States American people of English descent People from Elmhurst, Queens People from Chelsea, Manhattan