MOORE

 

Part 1 of 2

 

Summary Information

 

Compiled by: Andrew L. Moore

336 Sarver Road, Sarver  PA  16055

Email: PAmoores@juno.com

Dated: 25 December 2008

 

 

MOORE

 

 

MOORE.  (1) English: topographic name for someone who lived on a moor or in a fen, both of which were denoted by Middle English more (Old English mor), or habitation name from any of the various places named with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire  (2) English: nickname for a man of swarthy complexion, from Old French more Moor, Negro (Latin Mauras, ultimately from Phoenician mauharim Eastern.  (3) English: from a personal name of the same origin as in #2 above, which was borne by several early saints.  The given name was introduced into England by the Normans, but was never popular in England as on the Continent.  (4) Irish:  Anglicized form of Gaelic.  O’Mordha ‘descendant of Mordha’, a byname meaning ‘Great’, ‘Proud’, or ‘Stately’.  (5) Scots and Welsh: nickname for a large man, from Gael. mor, Welsh mawr big great.  Numerous variations.  Excerpted from A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, Oxford University Press, Oxford NY  1988.

 

 

Research to confirm who our early Moore ancestors were has been inconclusive.  We know with a high degree of certainty that our earliest known Moore ancestor is Jesse Moore.  He was probably born in Virginia in the late 1730s or early 1740s.  In a 5 Aug 1762 Prince William Co VA Court Deposition, Jesse states that he is of “full age”.  He begins to appear in Northern Virginia records (specifically Prince William Co VA) as early as 1762.  From Prince William County he either traveled a short distance north to Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, VA or was originally in northern Prince William Co VA – which later became Fairfax Co and which was later partitioned into Loudoun Co.  After appearing a number of times in these counties, he migrated to Nelson Co KY in 1789.  Jesse first appears in Nelson Co records when he joins an Oct 1789 petition to the State government to build better roads and a tobacco warehouse. 

 

From Nelson Co KY, his son and our direct ancestor, John R., migrated across the Chaplin River to Washington Co KY.  John’s son, Milton, lived and died in that County.  From there, Milton’s son, William Berry, migrated with his sister, Sarah (Moore) Murphy, and her husband, Daniel Boone Murphy, to Reno Co Kansas sometime between 1880 (when they were listed in Washington Co KY census records) and 17 Sep 1884.  On that date Daniel Boone and Sarah (Moore) Murphy purchased 160 acres of Reno Co KS land for $1650.  Daniel Boone’s obituary states that they migrated from Kentucky to Kansas in March of 1884.

 

More about Jesse Moore and his descendants later.

 

Extensive research has been conducted to determine the parentage and ancestry of Jesse Moore.  In a 14 Oct 1782 Loudoun Co VA Deed Book entry, a potential smoking gun was located.  A Jesse Moore petitioned the Loudoun County court in regards to the last will and testament of his father William Moore of Craven County, South Carolina…..with the will bearing the date 20 Nov 1780.....telling the court that will “shall” be committed to record in Virginia or South Carolina (why it had not been up to that date is a mystery)…..and also telling the court that he (Jesse) resigns all right and title to the administration of said estate and asks that the court transfer this administrative authority to his “beloved” brother Jeremiah Moore.  An extensive search has been made to locate this will in either Virginia or South Carolina – but to no avail.  Reference: Loudoun Co VA Deed Book N, pages 377-378 (complete reference below).

 

From this Court record, we learn that: 1) Jesse and Jeremiah’s father William died in Craven County, South Carolina between 20 Nov 1780 and 14 Oct 1782; 2) the will had yet to be recorded; 3) because the reference indicates that the will “shall” be committed in either Virginia or South Carolina, Jesse was probably carrying his father’s will with him at the time (or at least had it in his possession) but for some reason did not submit it to the county for recording and probating; and 4) Jesse did not feel qualified to be one of Executors of his father’s estate.

 

I have come to the conclusion that Jeremiah Moore, the famous Baptist preacher of northern Virginia during the colonial period, is the Jeremiah Moore listed in the above court reference and was the brother of our direct ancestor Jesse Moore.  This conclusion is based on the numerous censuses, as well as court and church references, mentioning Jesse and Jeremiah.  As our Jesse did not leave any trace of his ancestry, a search for information on the parentage of Jeremiah Moore was conducted.  Several individuals have conducted character studies on Jeremiah Moore – the most notable of which is probably Dr. William Cabell Moore.

 

 

Background on Jeremiah Moore, Jesse’s presumed brother

Jeremiah Moore was born on 7 June 1746 in Dumfries, Prince William Co VA.  According to a biographical sketch in Virginia Baptist Ministers, “his parents, though not wealthy, were respectable.”  According to the History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia, Jeremiah was born “of parents in the middle rank of life and raised in the Protestant Episcopal Church.”  The pamphlet entitled Moorefield – Fairfax County Virginia by Thomas V DiBacco and published by the Fairfax County (VA) Office of Comprehensive Planning provides a wealth of information on Jeremiah, his parentage (two possibilities are outlined) and his life as a Baptist preacher and church planter.

According to "The Reno Family" by William L. Reno, Jr., Jeremiah was ordained in the Episcopal Church but left it and founded the first Baptist congregation and church in Alexandria, VA for which he was prosecuted by the Bishop of VA--Patrick Henry and George Washington aided in his defense.  A bronze plaque on the side of the city building in Alexandria indicates that it is the site of the Old City Jail in which Rev. Jeremiah Moore was incarcerated for "preaching the gospel without a license". 

According to John K. Gott, Member of the Executive Committee of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, Jeremiah “was a prominent native Virginian who was converted (from Episcopalism) to the Baptist faith at an early age and zealously led the denomination in Northern Virginia to prominence.  From his home, ‘Moorefield’, he traveled over the area, preaching, establishing churches and leading the cause of absolute religious freedom and absolute separation of church and state.” Excerpted from Moorefield – Fairfax County Virginia, page v.

 

The two schools of thought on Jeremiah’s paternal ancestry mentioned in the pamphlet are:

 

1.       Jeremiah was the son of William Moore and the grandson of a John Moore who immigrated to America from Northern Ireland in the year 1700 and spent his first years in South Carolina.  John Moore was the brother of James Moore, the first Governor of South Carolina.

2.       Jeremiah was the son of William Moore and the grandson of a John Moore who came from England and settled in Elizabeth City County, Virginia in 1620.

 

According to the pamphlet, Jeremiah Moore’s mother was Angelina French, whose family settled in the Northern Neck area of Virginia (the strip of land between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers).  In Dumfries in 1763, the practicing Episcopalian, Jeremiah, heard the preaching of pioneer Baptist preacher Elder David Thomas and his interest in the faith was piqued.  In 1765 at age 19 he married a Lydia Reno/Renno, daughter of Francis Renno, and by 1772 he had publicly professed his Baptist faith and was baptized by Elder Thomas, who at the time prophesized that “I think I have this day baptized a preacher.”  During his early years as a preacher, he and other Baptist preachers were persecuted for their preaching by the established church of the day: The Church of England.  Some sources indicate that Jeremiah’s preaching activities were once defended by Patrick Henry.  Jeremiah served for a short time in the Revolutionary War as a Corporal in the Virginia Infantry.  On 2 Oct 1789 Jeremiah and his wife sold the 264 acres of land they owned on a branch of Difficult Run.  It is assumed that he moved to Moorefield (present day location is in the Townes of Moorefield subdivision off of Nutley Street in southwest Vienna).  In 1800 he wrote to and received a reply from Thomas Jefferson on the topic of political freedom.  Jefferson ran for President that very year.

 

It was estimated that during his lifetime, Jeremiah rode over 52,000 miles, visiting and preaching in Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York.  He delivered his last sermon in the winter of 1814 to congregations in Leesburg and Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia and died at his home in Moorefield on 23 Feb 1815.  He is buried in the Moorefield Cemetery, which is approximately 1000 ft west of Nutley Road at the intersection of Moorefield Creek and Tapawingo Road, S.W. Manassas.

 

Jeremiah’s will can be found in Fairfax Co VA Will Book K, page 271.  The will was written 1 Aug 1814 and it was probated 20 Mar 1815.  The will mentions wife and Executrix Lydia, sons John (who is to get Moorefield, located south of Ellzey’s Church Road), Jesse, Francis, Ammishaddia, William F, and daughters Angelina Hunter (wife of George W Hunter), Elizabeth S, Nancy T and Margaret F. Smith.  It gives a mill in Jefferson Co to sons Jesse and Francis and it gives Condens Concordance, Robertson Ecclesiastical researches and Benedicts History of Baptists (his library books?) to son (and “preacher”) Francis “not because is my son but because he is a preacher for although preaching is not a loosing business, still he that would discharge this duty in the fear of God, will find it a heavy check on all worldly interests.”  In reference to the slaves that he owned, Jeremiah stated “The situation of the Laws at present and the State of this unhappy Country, generally leaves no opportunity to say anything about that part of my family that are slaves by law, I must leave them therefore to the mercy of my children and hope they will do to and for them what is right.”

 

Jesse Moore, son of Reverend Jeremiah Moore, was born 4 Sep 1766 and died 26 Sep 1835. Jesse married (1) Catherine Brent on 20 Apr 1788 and (2) Jane Wallace on 18 Dec 1806.  His first marriage was officiated by his father.  Catherine Brent was born 18 Feb 1772 and died 19 Nov 1804.  She was the daughter of Charles and Ann (Gunnell) Brent.  They lived in Jefferson Co VA where Jesse was an attorney.  His second wife, Jane Wallace, was born 21 Jan 1786.  She was the daughter of William and Mary Jane Wallace.

 

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) references to Jeremiah Moore include: 119059, 123013, 136088.

 

The father of Lydia Reno/Renno, Jeremiah’s wife, was Francis Reno.  According to a footnote in the Moorefield pamphlet, a Lewis Reno was naturalized on 2 Oct 1688 and “was presumably he was the first of Lydia’s ancestors to arrive in America.”  According to a now deceased Reno researcher named Sherman Reno, a Lewis Reno was born in London circa 1682, naturalized 2 Oct 1688, married a Margaret Harrison in St. Patrick’s Church in Dublin, Ireland by Anglican minister William Moore – “grandfather of Jeremiah Moore, Baptist minister”.  Unfortunately Sherman died in the late 1980s and I have been unsuccessful in learning the source of his information on William from his son, Kyle Reno, currently living (as late as 1998) in California.

 

According to "The Reno Family" by William L. Reno Jr, Lydia Reno was born in 1745 in Prince William Co., VA and also died at "Moorefield" in 1833.  She was the daughter of Francis Reno, 1719-1797 and Elizabeth Bayliss.

 

 

Jeremiah Moore ancestral research

By

Dr. William Cabell Moore

 

In the early 1900’s, a Dr. William Cabell Moore began to investigate the ancestry of his earliest known ancestor Jeremiah Moore.  His extensive research was published in the William and Mary Quarterly Magazine in 1937 in an article entitled Notes on Some Moore and French Families in Virginia and Carolina in the Colonial Period.  Below, reprinted with permission, are the article’s summary paragraphs.

 

 

 

Notes on Some Moore and French Families in Virginia and Carolina in the Colonial Period

By Dr. William Cabell Moore

The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine

2^nd Series, Volume XVII (1937), pages 372-398.

Reprinted with permission (dated 4/21/2000) from Ms. Kim Wahl, Office Manager, William & Mary Quarterly, Williamsburg, VA  23187-8781.

 

 

I.

 

THE MOORES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.

 

The following notes relating to some of the Moore and French families of Tidewater and northern Virginia and of eastern Carolina in the Colonial period were made in a search for information concerning the ancestors of Jeremiah Moore, of "Moorefield," Fairfax county, Virginia, who was born in or near Dumfries, in Prince William county, Virginia in 1746.  By no means all the available records that might throw light on the early Moore and French families in Virginia and the Carolinas have been studied, but considerable time was spent in collecting these notes, and they may be of value to future investigators.

Among Jeremiah Moore's descendants are two traditions with respect to his ancestry. One story relates that he was the grandson of John Moore, who came to America from the northern part of Ireland about 1700, and located first in South Carolina; the other, that he was descended from a John Moore who in 1620 came to Virginia from England and settled in Elizabeth City county.

Mention of his parents by name has not been found in the records of his time, but it has been understood in the family that the father of Jere­miah was named William Moore, and his mother, Angelina French Moore, and it seems reasonably certain that his parents were living in Prince William county in 1746, the year of his birth, for, as stated above, Jeremiah was born there, and he himself lived there during his youth, he married a Prince William county girl and when he was first grown he was a lay-reader in the Episcopal Church on Quantico in Prince William.  Mrs. Kate D. Berryman, of Washington, a descendant of Jeremiah, has examined many of the old court records and other records in Prince William (and adjoining counties) and has found occasional mention of a William Moore, a Jesse Moore (Jeremiah named his oldest son Jesse) and of Jeremiah Moore in lists of voters, witnesses and other records in Prince William, but whether this William Moore was the father of Jeremiah is not known. The writer was told in 1932 by one of Jeremiah's great-grandsons that he had heard that Jeremiah's father was at one time a post-rider or mail-carrier, but no record has been found to verify this statement.

The name of Jeremiah's mother was not known to the writer until recently, when Mrs. Jessie Virginia Elgin Ritchey (Mrs. Charles A. Ritchey), of New York, and her sister, Mrs. Mary Elgin Mann, of Balti­more, stated in an affidavit given to the writer that they had been in­formed personally by their grandfather, George Washington Hunter Smith (1812-1896), who was a grandson of Jeremiah, that the mother of Jere­miah was named Angelina French, and that this was the reason Jere­miah's eldest daughter was named "Angelina French Moore", and the ex­planation for the name "French" occurring in the given names of two of his other daughters and one of his sons, and in the names of children of several of his children (Francis and Margaret) and for being handed down to a recent time in Mrs. Ritchey's family.  The name Angelina French is unusual, but one other person with this name having been found in a search through many articles and books in the Library of Congress relating to the French family, an Angelina French who was born in 1862 near Camden, N. J. There were several families named French living in the Northern Neck and in Northern Virginia in the time of Jeremiah, but up to the present a search for data relating to these families has not brought to light a single maiden named Angelina French.

Court records in Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford, Spotsylvania, King George, Westmoreland and Richmond Counties during the period prior to 1800 reveal no evidence of an Angelina French or of a William Moore who had a wife named Angelina French, or of any early Moore who can be definitely connected with Jeremiah, but many records in these counties were destroyed or lost during the War between the States and there is little left.

 

 

II.

 

THE MOORES OF TIDEWATER.

 

There is no known record to prove that Jeremiah Moore, of "Moore-field," in Fairfax county, was descended from John Moore, who came to Elizabeth City county, Virginia, in 1620, but this tradition has been handed down in one branch of the family, and a definite statement to this effect is contained in a letter to the writer from Mrs. Charles A. Ritchey, of New York, a great, great granddaughter of Jeremiah.  Mrs. Ritchey states that her grandfather, George Washington Hunter Smith (1812-1896), who spent the last years of his life in her father's house, frequently spoke of his family and his Moore ancestry, and that she made notes at the time of what he said. He told her that his grandfather, Jeremiah Moore, was the son of William Moore and Angelina French Moore and that William Moore had a brother Daniel and a sister Martha, who married a Dixon, and that he thought that they were the children of Augustine Moore and his wife Mary Woolley Moore, of Elizabeth City county.  Mrs. Ritchey's mother also told her that she remembered relatives named Dixon and some named Goodwin.  It is known that the above mentioned Au­gustine Moore had a sister named Elizabeth who married John Goodwin.

Mrs. Ritchey having heard these things from her grandfather, and seeing in the "Baltimore Sun," of May 27, 1906, an article by Jane Griffith Keys, on "The Moore Family in Virginia," in which the names William Moore, Daniel Moore and Martha Dixon, children of Augustine Moore and Mary Woolley Moore, of Elizabeth City county, occur with others among the descendants of a John Moore who came to Virginia in 1620, naturally concluded that Jeremiah was descended from this John Moore.

But it is certain that William Moore, the brother of Daniel Moore and Martha Dixon, and the son of Augustine Moore and Mary Woolley Moore, of Elizabeth City county, and a descendant of John Moore who set­tled in Elizabeth City county in 1620, was not the father of Jeremiah Moore, who was born in 1746, for this William Moore had another brother named Au­gustine, who died in 1737, who in his will written in 1736, proved in 1737, left property to a nephew and niece, children of "my brother William now deceased."

There are several mis-statements in the article by Mrs. Keys.  She calls John Moore, who settled in Elizabeth City county in 1620, "Captain," and states that he was Burgess for Isle of Wight in 1652-54, but John Moore, of Elizabeth City county is not known to have had a title and was an entirely different person from "Captain" John Moore, of Isle of Wight, who served in the House of Burgesses in 1652-54.

Mrs. Keys states also that Augustine More, who built the "Chelsea" house in King William county, was the son of Daniel Moore, son of Au­gustine Moore and Mary Woolley Moore, and a descendant of John Moore, of Elizabeth City county, and assumes that this John Moore was descended from Sir Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of England, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, but there is no proof that John Moore, of Elizabeth City county was descended from Sir Thomas More, the Lord High Chan­cellor, and it is questionable whether Augustine More, who built "Chel­sea," was a descendant of John Moore, of Elizabeth City county, and it is certain that Augustine More, who built "Chelsea" was not the son of Daniel Moore, son of Augustine Moore and Mary Woolley Moore.

This Daniel Moore had a son named Augustine but this Augustine, the son of Daniel, was born in 1731, bought "Temple Farm" near York­town in 1769 from his brother-in-law, Robert Smith, and lived there until his death in 1788, while on reliable authority the Augustine More, who built "Chelsea," was born in England about 1685, came to Virginia about 1705, built "Chelsea" thereafter, living there to his death in 1743, and is buried there,

Dr. Lyon G. Tyler states that the Moore families of Elizabeth City, York and King William, in whom the name Augustine appeared to be a family name, were probably all descended from Augustine Moore who patented land in 1652, presumably the son of John Moore who came to Virginia in 1620. But Augustine (2), the son of this John and John's only son so far as known, had only two sons, so far as the record shows, Augustine, Jr., (3) and John (3). John (3) named no children in his will, proved Jan. 19, 1715-16, so apparently was childless.  Augustine, Jr. (3), the grandson of John, the immigrant, is the Augustine Moore who married Mary Woolley and they had a number of sons and among them a son named Augustine (4), the one who died in 1737. This Augustine (4) in his will proved in Elizabeth City county in 1737, named no wife nor children of his own, and must have been childless when the will was written.  So, clearly, unless Augustine (2), the son of John Moore the immigrant, had another son of whom nothing is known at this time, Augustine More, of "Chelsea," could not have been descended from him.

The descendants of Augustine More, of "Chelsea," claim that he was born in England and that he was sixth In descent from Sir Thomas More, the Lord High Chancellor of England in the reign of Henry VIII.  Sir Thomas More's home near London was called "Chelsea."  Hence the name "Chelsea" of Augustine More's home in Virginia.  This Augustine More's tombstone at "Chelsea," in King William County is said to have the coat-of-arms of Sir Thomas More engraved upon it.   Also Au­gustine More of "Chelsea" usually spelled his name with one "o' "More," as did Sir Thomas More.  Augustine More (4), of Elizabeth City county, who is descended from John Moore, the immigrant, in signing his will also spelled his name with one "o."  John Moore, the immigrant, named his only son Augustine and there were one or more Augustines in each of the next two or three generations, so it would look as if there may have been a relationship between this family and the family of Augustine More of "Chelsea," in King William county, as Doctor Tyler inferred, but, if so, It probably goes back to England.   Possibly they were both descended from a common ancestor there.  There were other Augustine Moores in Virginia in the early days, one who patented 650 acres of land on the "Peayanke-tank" river in 1652, who may or may not have been the son of John, the 1620 immigrant, and one whose inventory was recorded in Northampton in 1655.

Mrs. Keys evidently got some of her data on the Moore Family from the note on the "Moore Family" published in an article on "Old Kecough­tan," already referred to.  This note reads as follows:

 

^"MOORE FAMILY.  The Moore family begins with John Moore, who patented 285 acres in Elizabeth City county in 1638.  He came to Virginia on the "Bona Nova" in 1620, at the age of thirty-six.  His wife, Elizabeth Moore, came in the Abigail in 1622.  They were living at Elizabeth City In 1625 (Hotten).  In 1676 Augustine Moore (2) of the Old Poquoson, Elizabeth City, patented the land formerly granted to his father, John.  He married, perhaps twice, first Annie, named in a land grant in I652 and second, Elizabeth, named in Elizabeth City county records.  Augustine Moore (2) died before 1688.  He had issue (1) John, (2) Elizabeth who married Captain John Goodwin.  (3) Capt. Augustine Moore, one of the justices of Elizabeth City county, who probably married Mary Wool­ley, since his wife, Mary, in 1677, in a deed in Lancaster county calls George Woolley "Brother."  (Edmund Sweeny, died 1698, calls Moore brother).  Issue of Captain Moore (3); John, Edward, Merritt, Daniel, Martha, married Dixon, Ann, William and Augustine.  Of these, Daniel Moore (4) lived in York county, married first, Elizabeth, daughter of James Selater, second, Mary, daughter of Anthony Watts and widow of John Lewellin, third, Mary Kerby, widow of Anthony Robinson, Jr.  Daniel Moore died in 1767, and his widow, Mary, and son, Augustine lived at the "Temple Farm" York county and were there at the time of the sur­render of Lord Cornwallis."

 

Reference to records in the State Land Office shows that a John Moore patented, July 3, 1635 (not 1638), 200 acres (not 285 acres) in Elizabeth City county on the Little Poquoson adjoining Thomas Bouldiug and Thomas Garnett, and running south into the woods towards the head of Broad Creek, and that Augustine Moore patented June 19, 1676, 285 acres in Elizabeth City county, at the head of the Little Poquoson creek, 200 acres of which land was granted to John Moore, father of the said Augustine Moore; by patent dated July 3, 1635, and the other 85 acres found within the bounds of the aforementioned tract.  A patent for 200 acres in Elizabeth City county was granted in 1638 to a Joseph Moore (not John Moore), and evidently the author confused the two.

Another note, seemingly on this Moore family, is contained in a footnote accompanying the article on "Temple Farm", previously referred to, which note reads as follows:

 

"Augustine Moore, patent June 29, 1652, headrights, Anne his wife, Augustine (2) his son.  Capt. Augustine Moore (2) lived in the "Old Pocoson" precinct in Elizabeth City county of which he was Justice, High Sheriff, &c., in 1697, probably the son mentioned in the patent above (June 29, 1652).  Daniel (3), probably the son of Augustine (2), lived in the "New Pocoson" in York county, was Justice, Sheriff, &c, will proved 16 March, 1767, m. first Elizabeth, d. of James Selater (and Mary Selater), son of Rev. James Selater; issue:

 

1.       Mary, b. Oct 27, 1729, will proved l9 Apr.,1790,

m. Edmund Tabb (will proved 15 March 1762, who had Elizabeth, m ___ Smith (issue:

Augustine and Fanny, m. ____ Powell).

2.       Augustine, b March 6, 1731, will proved 15 Sept, 1788.

3.       Martha, b. May 1734, m. ____ Sweny.

 

Daniel Moore; married, 2nd Mary, daughter of John Lewellin, who sur­vived him."

 

Then are several apparent discrepancies in the two notes on the Moore Family quoted above, but none except one of any particular importance.  In one note Augustine Moore; son of John Moore, of Eliza­beth City county, patents land in 1676, and in the other an Augustine Moore, seemingly the same Augustine, patents land in 1652.  The patent granted Augustine Moore in 1676 was for the same land on Little Poquoson in Elizabeth City county granted his father, John Moore; in 1635, and this certainly places this Augustine.  The patent granted Augustine Moore in 1652 was for 650 acres of land on the north-east side of Peayanketank river, in what was then Lancaster county now Middlesex.   And, among the thirteen headrights, all named in the record, are the patentee's own name, Augustine, and also the name of his wife, Anne, and of his son Augustine, Junior, so that it seems likely that this is another Augustine Moore, who had just come to Virginia, though from what follows in the text of the note just quoted it would appear that Doctor Tyler, who made this note, thought that the two Augustines were one and the same person.  Also, in one note Daniel Moore is credited with three wives in the other with only two, and in one Daniel's second wife is the widow of John Lewellin, in the other she is John Lewellin's daughter.

The records in the State Land Office show a number of patents issued in the early days of the Colony to persons named Moore or More, but only three others in Elizabeth City county, in addition to those previously mentioned, two to Joseph Moore, each for 200 acres on the old Poquoson river, one in 1636, the other in 1638, and the other to William Moore, son of Joseph, in 1656, for 200 acres previously assigned to his father. Joseph may or may not have been related to John. It is immaterial. There were a number of other patents issued in the name of John Moore, or More, particularly a John More in Isle of Wight, whose first patent was granted in February, 1632. He was evidently a wealthy man, was a member of the House of Burgesses, and was undoubtedly a different in­dividual from the John Moore of Elizabeth City county.  John More in Isle of Wight, and Augustine More in King William were by all odds the wealthiest and the most prominent of the early Moores in Virginia. The latter was granted his first patent in 1723, though he must have been in Virginia prior to that. Augustine is a frequently encountered given name among the Moores or Mores of that period, and, as Doctor Tyler says, they may all have had a common ancestor, and, therefore, have been related, though possibly remotely in some instances. Certainly Augustine, of King William, was a very different type of man from the Moores of York and Elizabeth City counties.

Both the "Moore Family" notes in the William and Mary College Quarterly, October, 1900, and in Mrs. Key's article in the "Baltimore Sun," May 27, 1906, give the same names to the eight children of Augus­tine Moore (3) and Mary Woolley Moore, of Elizabeth City county.  And the will of Augustine "More" (spelled with one "o"), which will was written in 1736 and admitted to probate in 1737, mentions a number of these children, namely, a brother John, a brother Merritt, a brother Daniel, a sister Martha Dixon, and a brother William, who is said to be "de­ceased," all of whom are mentioned in the Quarterly article, and in Mrs. Keys' Article, as names of the children of Augustine (3) and Mary Wool­ley Moore, but the will does not mention Edward or Ann, names of other children of Augustine (3), and Mary Woolley Moore, mentioned both in the Quarterly article, and in Mrs. Keys' article. Mrs. Ritchey had assumed that William Moore, the father of Jeremiah, was the son of Augustine Moore (3), but naturally, this William (4), who was dead in 1736 when the will was written could not have been the father of Jeremiah who was born in 1746.

Augustine' "More" (4) in his will mentions two children of this brother William (4), an Augustine (5), and an Elizabeth (5), but he does not men­tion a William (5), or a Daniel (5), or any other child of his brother William (4), or a child of any of his other brothers or sisters, though his brother Daniel had three children living at this time, and Augustine (4) may have had other nephews and nieces also living in 1735. The will of William Moore (4) is not in the Clerk's office in Hampton.

 

III.

 

THE MOORES OF CAROLINA.

 

Whether the paternal ancestor of Jeremiah Moore originally settled in South Carolina, or in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, or came direct to Prince William or Stafford county, is not definitely known.  The writer was informed many years ago by Miss Bettie Moore, of Berry­ville, Va. (1844-1930) and also by Mr. A. Moore, Jr., of Berryville (1846-1929), descendants of Jeremiah, that they had understood that Jeremiah was the son of a William Moore who had come to Virginia from South Carolina, and that William was the son of John and that there was a connection somewhere with a Governor of South Carolina.  Mr. James M. Engle (b. 1854) also a descendant of Jeremiah and of the same branch of the family as Miss Bettie Moore and Mr. A. Moore, Jr., in "A His­tory of the Engle Family in the Shenandoah Valley and Family Con­nections," says that the father of Jeremiah was William, the son of John Moore who came to America from the northern part of Ireland, and located in South Carolina and that James Moore, a brother of John, was governor of South Carolina in the early part of the eighteenth century.

In substantiation of this tradition it is found that a James Moore, who married Margaret Berringer (daughter by a former marriage of Lady Margaret Yeamans, of Barbados) settled in South Carolina and was in 1700 a member of the State Council. Upon the death of Governor Blake, Sept. 7, 1700, he was chosen by the Council to act as Governor and filled this office until June 18, 1702.  In another sketch of this James Moore it is said that he married the widow Lady Margaret Yeamans, herself, but this appears to be a mistake. It is said that this James Moore was born in Ireland in 1640 and immigrated to South Carolina about 1685. His will was proved Nov. 6, 1706.  He had five sons, viz: James, who was Gov­ernor of South Carolina, 1719-1721, Roger, who became very wealthy, built "Orton," and was known as "King Roger," Maurice, who in 1724 founded the town of Brunswick, N. C., on the west side of Cape Fear river, Na­thaniel, and John who married Justina Smith and lived on the Cape Fear.  In the will of this Justina Moore, proved August 20, 1743, in Philadelphia, where she died while visiting her daughter who was married and lived there, she describes herself as the relict of John Moore late of Cape Fear and mentions sons James and John, arid daughter Rebecca, but no other children.

Whether the elder James had a brother John who had a son named William has not been established by documentary proof, but some of Jere­miah's descendants were evidently under this impression. Nor is it known that any of James Moore's family moved to Virginia. They were an inter­esting and prominent family, active in South Carolina and North Carolina politics, and it would seem that their descendants and relatives would have been so proud of them that the fact would surely have been handed down.

If Jeremiah had been of this family, Francis, his son, in the sketch of his father, published shortly after his death, would hardly have been content to say only that the parents of Jeremiah were "respectable though poor". He would probably at least have mentioned these South Carolina, Irish connections, but Jeremiah may have been estranged from his parents and Francis may have been resentful.

There was a William Moore, of "Moore Hall," in Chester county, Pennsylvania, whose father was named John, and who was a prominent and conspicuous figure in Chester county.  This John is said to have come from England to South Carolina about 1680 and to have been Secre­tary of the Colony of South Carolina. It has also been stated that he was a brother of the first Governor James Moore of South Carolina.  He moved to Philadelphia about 1697 and became Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, which office he held for sometime.  His son William above-mentioned was born in Philadelphia May 6, 1699, and died at "Moore Hall" May 30, 1783. William had a number of sons but no son named Jeremiah. This John Moore, father of William Moore of Chester county, was clearly from England where he was born about 1658, and was promi­nently connected, whereas James Moore, the Governor of South Carolina in 1700, was clearly from Ireland.

It is certain, therefore, that John Moore, Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, and father of William of "Moore Hall", in Chester county, was not a brother of Governor James Moore, of South Carolina, and that William Moore of "Moore Hall" was not the father of Jeremiah Moore of "Moorefield" in Fairfax county, Virginia.

There was another John Moore in South Carolina at about this time who had a son named William, but whether this John was a brother of Gov. James Moore is not known. This John Moore died in 1735.  His will, dated Jan.27, 1735, was proved March 15, 1735, and mentions his wife Rachel, and sons, William and John, and daughters, Anue Ellory, wife of Thomas Ellory, and Elizabeth. John and Elizabeth were minors.

This John Moore's son William died in l736, so he could not have been the father of Jeremiah Moore.

Another Carolina possibility is found in a John Moore, of Northampton county, North Carolina, whose will, dated Sept. 1, 1753, was proved in November, 1753, and mentions sons: Mark, John, Isham, William, Na­thaniel, Richard; and daughter Sarah; and wife Tabitha. Jeremiah named one of his daughters Tabitha.

Roger Moore of "Orton," son of the first Governor James Moore, had a son named George, who lived at "Moore Fields" on the west side of the Cape Fear river.  The name of this plantation, "Moore Fields," attracts attention as being almost identical with the name of Jeremiah's home in Fairfax county, "Moorefield," but, of course, there is no connection between the two places.

A number of men named John Moore settled in South Carolina in the early days of the Colony, but nowhere has definite, documentary proof been found to show that the first Governor James Moore had a brother named John who was in South Carolina with him and whose descendants or some of them settled later in Virginia or elsewhere. The idea that Jere­miah Moore was the son of William Moore who was the son of John Moore, a brother of the first Governor James Moore of South Carolina is based purely upon a tradition handed down in the family of one of the sons of Jeremiah and Lydia Moore, and came to me from three separate and independent sources. It seems to me to be reliable.

Nowhere in the records have the names of William and Jeremiah Moore been found associated as father and son except in the tax lists of Lunenburg county, and there not until 1772, too late a day to be re­ferring to Jeremiah Moore, of "Moorefield," and his father.  Had Jere­miah's ancestors first lived in South Carolina, and migrated from there to northern Virginia, they may or may not have stopped in Lunenburg county on their way, but other members of the family may have done so. According to Torrence, no will in the name of Moore is recorded in Lunenburg prior to 1781, and wills recorded later than 1781 would contain no information bearing upon the ancestry of Jeremiah.

 

 

 

For more information on Jeremiah Moore, see:

·         Moorefield, Home of the Early Baptist Preacher Jeremiah Moore by Thomas V DiBacco, United Lithographic Services, Inc, Fairfax VA, November 1971.

·         Imprisoned Preachers and Religious Liberty in Virginia by Lewis Peyton Little, J.P. Bell Inc, Lynchburg, VA, 1938.

·         This was Vienna, Virginia – Facts and Photos by Connie Pendleton Stuntz and Mayo Sturdevant Stuntz.  Chapter 7 covers “Moorefield”.

·         Notes on Some Moore and French Families in Virginia and Carolina in the Colonial Period an article by (Dr.) William Cabell Moore in the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine’s 2^nd Series, Volume XVII (1937), pages 372-398.

·         Jeremiah Moore, 1746-1815, an article by Dr. William Cabell Moore in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2^nd Series, Volume 13 (1933), page 23.

·         Fairfax County, Virginia – A History, 1978, page 233.

·         Virginia Baptist Ministers, 1760-1790: A Biographical Survey Volume I by William S. Simpson, Jr, Richmond VA, 1990.

·         Virginia Baptist Ministers, Series I by James B. Taylor, J.B Lippincott & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1859.

·         History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia by Robert B. Semple, John O’Lynch, Printer, 1810.

 

 

 

 

William Moore

Presumed father of

Jesse Moore and the Reverend Jeremiah Moore

 

A very informed and seasoned Moore researcher by the name of Joyce Browning of Reston, Virginia spent some time researching the three William Moore’s of Northern Virginia in an attempt to identify and separate each one.  Here is her summary of this research:

 

 

 

The children of (presumably) William and ____ Moore were:

 

1.       Jesse, born circa 1740, married (probably) Mary (aka Molly) Milton and presumably died circa 1815.

2.       Jeremiah, born 7 June 1746 Dumfries, Prince William Co VA, married Lydia Reno on 01 Nov 1765 in Prince William Co VA, died in Fairfax Co VA between 1 Aug 1814 (will written) and 20 Mar 1815 (will probated), buried Moorefield, Fairfax Co VA.  Jeremiah and Lydia (Reno) Moore had the following 11 children:

1.       Jesse, born 4 Sep 1766, married Catherine Brent, died 26 Sep 1853.

2.       Francis, born 18 Sept. 1768, married Sarah Allnut 9 Nov 1792, died 5 Feb. 1831.

3.       John, born 14 Nov. 1770, married Mary Hawley, died July 1831.

4.       Angelina French, born 6 Sept. 1772, married George W. Hunter, died 23 Jan. 1856.

5.       Tabitha, born 18 Sept. 1774, died 20 Aug. 1778.

6.       Elizabeth French, born 26 May 1777, died 18 Dec. 1777.

7.       Ammishaddai, born 3 Dec. 1778, married Susan Lindsey, died Aug. 1861.

8.       William French, born 1 May 1781 Fairfax Co Va, married Mollie Reno.

9.       Margaret French, born 18 May 1783 Fairfax Co VA, married James Smith 1804 VA, died 7 Sept. 1853, Washington, DC.

10.   Betsy L, born 23 Oct. 1785, Fairfax Co VA, died 16 Dec. 1851.  Unmarried.

11.   Nancy P, born 20 Jan. 1789, Fairfax Co VA, died 22 Aug. 1852.  Unmarried.

 

 

Jesse Moore

 

Jesse was born circa 1740 (see 1762 court deposition below in which is states he is of full age), married (probably) Mary (a.k.a. Molly) Milton, and is presumably the Jesse Moore whose death and estate administration are mentioned in Washington Co KY Record Book on 8 May 1815.  Molly was the daughter of Richard Milton Jr and Margaret Ross.  See the Milton chapter for more information on this surname.

 

The following biographical sketch appears in the Kentucky, A History of the State, 4^th Edition, by Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 1887, page 951.  This paid sketch (most County and State “History” books prior to the turn of the 20 century and possibly afterwards) were not compiled by true researchers per se, but rather by travelling book editors/salesmen who would include, for a small fee, a biographical sketch of a family in a upcoming County or State “History” book.  It was in such a book that Henry B. Moore, one of the grandchildren of Jesse Moore, mentions who Jesse was for the first time (at least to my knowledge).  The following biographical sketch is not completely accurate – amplifications and/or corrections are noted in [ ].

 

Henry B. Moore was born December 11, 1826.  His paternal ancestors came from Virginia and were of English descent.  His grandfather, Jesse Moore came to Kentucky in an early day by flatboat, and landed on the present site of Louisville, when there were but few cabins in that now flourishing city.  He settled near the Chaplin River in Nelson County, was a farmer, and died a number of years before H.B. Moore’s birth.  John R. Moore [son of Jesse] was born in Virginia [Fairfax Co VA] about 1785, and was brought to Kentucky in his infancy [in 1789/1790 – John would have been five years old].  He settled in Washington County in early manhood and engaged in farming in what is now the Glenville Precinct, where he acquired a large estate.  He was a soldier in the Indian war of 1811-12, serving under Gen. Anthony Wayne [John did serve in the War of 1812, but not under Gen’l “Mad” Anthony Wayne – the General died 15 Dec 1796.  John served in Captain Caleb Hardesty’s 2^nd Regiment KY Mounted Militia] and in 1845 was elected to represent Washington County in the State Legislature [incorrect – a Dr. Robert C Palmer served in the Washington Co KY Senate from 1841-1845, a George C. Thurman served there from 1845-1849.  A “Jesse Moore” served in the Washington County House of Representatives during the 1845 term.  This Jesse is most likely John R. Moore’s son]; was magistrate for a number of years under the old [KY] Constitution [Kentucky had four constitutions: 1792, 1799, 1850 and 1891.  The term “Old Constitution” was typically referring to the 1799 Constitution], and died in Bloomfield, Nelson County, in 1858.  His wife was Martha Bayne, daughter of Walter Bayne, who came to Kentucky before the organization of the State.  He was a native of Virginia, located near the Moore settlement on Chaplin River, and there died.  Mrs. Moore was born in Virginia, was brought to Kentucky, when quite young and died in Washington County in 1854, aged sixty-five years.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. [John R.] Moore were the following: Jetson, W.H., Walter B., Jesse, Milton, James F., Henry B., Susan (Hill) and J.R. Moore.  Henry B. Moore was born and has lived all his life in Washington County.  He was reared to agricultural pursuits and received a fair English education in the country schools which he attended until twenty years of age.  At the breaking out of the Mexican war he enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Infantry with which he served from September, 1847, until July of the following year, his regiment remaining in the City of Mexico the greater part of that time.  He returned to Washington County after the close of the war, and in 1852 purchased his present farm in Glenville Precinct, nine miles north of Springfield, where he has since resided.  His 400 acres are all under cultivation.  He engaged in the distillery business about 1852, and for twenty years thereafter did a thriving business, manufacturing the Moore and Grigsby brand, which achieved a noted reputation.  Mr. Moore was married June 29, 1852, in Washington County, to Miss Jane M. Pile, daughter of Benjamin and Rhoda (Weathers) Pile, of the same county.  Benjamin Pile was born in 1801, and is one of the oldest living settlers of Washington County.  Mrs. Pile was the daughter of James and Margaret (Cutsinger) Weathers.  She was born in Washington County, and died in 1851.  Mr. And Mrs. [Henry B.] Moore have had eight children, namely: Mary E. (deceased), Lucas, Victor C. (deceased), Luther, (deceased), Lulu B. (wife of Isaac Breeding), J.R., Mary W. and an infant (deceased).  Mr. Moore is a Democrat in politics, and, with his wife, belongs to the Christian Church, with which he has been identified twenty-five years.

 

 

 

 

Chronology of Jesse Moore

 

5 Aug 1762 Prince William Co VA Deposition, Deed Book P (1761-1764), Pg. 233: “Jesse Moore of full age, deposeth that he worked at Rachel Spiller’s sometime before and after the Testator (William Spiller, deceased) made his will that this Deponent was called upon to be a witness to the same and believes the Testator signed the same (will) freely and voluntarily without being influenced by any as appeared to this Deponent and this Deponent saith that he at the request of the said Testator frequently rode by him. She (Testator’s wife) was attentive and this Deponent believes that the said Testator and his wife were well reconciled and she was very tender and kind to him and that the said Testator was sober and sensible when he signed and acknowledged his said will. at Rachael Spiller’s sometime before and after the Testator [William Spiller] made his will."  This deposition indicates that Jesse, of “full age” in 1762, was at least 18-20 at the time, hence he was born no later than 1740, possibly earlier.

                                     

1765 Prince William Co VA Tithable List.  A total of 5 tithables (individuals over 16 years of age) are mentioned in this group: “William Moore, Jesse Moore, Wm Northcutt, Negroes Judy and Leister”.  “190 acres” is listed beside this entry (the original 1740 land grant to Wm Moore).  The next entry lists Thomas Reno and William Reno.

 

6 Feb 1769 Prince William Co VA Deed Book R, page 62: William Tackitt, Grantor and Executor of the estate of William Spiller, deceased, deeds to his brother in law Moses Jeffres and Rachel his wife (and William’s sister), and upon their death to Elizabeth Reno/Renno (wife of Lewis Reno/Renno “Younger” and William’s daughter), and upon her death to Sarah Reno (William’s granddaughter and daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth Reno) a parcel of land called Felkins Mill Run where William Spiller Jr, deceased, lived (being a part of the land that William Spiller Sr. purchased from Henry Halley) for 50 pounds.    Jesse Moore witnessed the transaction.

 

3 Oct 1769 Prince William Co VA Will Book G: William Moore and Jesse Moore are listed as appraisers of the estate of Thomas Reno.

 

9 Nov 1771 Prince William Co VA Dettingen Parish Vestry Book, page 46: Jesse Moore & Jeremiah Moore are listed as 'Readers' at the Slaty (a.k.a. Slate) Run Church.  The church is located south of Manassas, Prince William Co VA near Brentsville/Nokesville (Broad Run).  Another name for the church was 'Church at Redmans'.

 

1773 Loudoun Co VA Tithable List: Jesse Moore.

 

01 Feb 1779 Prince William Co VA Will Book 1778-1791, pg. 32: Jesse Moore is listed as a witness to the will of Margaret Suel.

 

1775 – 1781 Loudoun Co VA Tithable List: Jesse Moore is listed in the Tithables of Loudoun County VA under Mann Page – presumably meaning that Jesse was a renter of Mann Page.

 

13 Oct 1782 Loudoun Co VA Orders Book “G”, Part II, page 455: “On the motion of Jeremiah Moore who made oath according to Law and together with William Peyton and Jonah Thompson his securities entered into and acknowledged their bond in the penalty of three hundred pounds conditioned as the law directs.  Certificate is granted them for obtaining Letters of Administration on the Estate of William Moore deceased in due form – Jesse Moore the Heir at Law having first under hand and seal relinquishes in his favor-which said relinquishment was proved by the witnesses subscribing thereto and order to be recorded.” 

                                   

14 Oct 1782 Loudoun Co VA Court Order Book N, Number II, page 377-378 (may also be known as Deed Book N, pages 377-378): Jesse Moore petitions the court in regards to the last will and testament of his father, 'To All To Whom these presents shall come Whereas by the Last Will and Testament of my Father William Moore, of the State of South Carolina and Craven County, SC, deceased he did dispose of all his real and personal estate as in the said will bearing date the twentyeth day of November One Thousand seven hundred and eighty specified, This Shall Certify that I have and do hereby acknowledge the Validity of the said Will and that the same shall be committed to record in any Court of Record in the said State of South Carolina or Commonwealth of Virginia and the same is hereby acknowledged to be binding on me and my heirs forever Notwithstanding any Law, custom or usage to the contrary and furthermore that whereas by the neglect of the Executors nominated in said Will the Estate therein devised doth still remain unsettled, I do hereby resign all right and Title to the Administration of the said Estate vested in me as heir at Law to the same into the Hands of my Trusty and well beloved brother Jeremiah Moore, he first complying with the custom and wages as in such case by Law directed.  Given under my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty two.  Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Thomas Humphrey, Jno Thompson, W. Peyton, Francis Peyton Jr. 

Jesse Moore

At a court held for Loudoun County the 14 day of October 1782.  This relinquishment of the Right of Administration of Estate of William Moore deceased by Jesse Moore the Heir at Law in favor or Jeremiah Moore was proved by the witnesses subscribing thereto and ordered to be recorded.

 

11 Nov 1782 Loudoun Co VA Orders Book “G”, page 457: Jesse Moore in a list of tithables of Ann Peyton – presumably meaning that Jesse was a renter of Ann Peyton.  “On motion of Mrs. Ann Peyton ordered that her titheables ???? William Peyton, Jesse Moore, negroes Dick, Melford, Tom, Sam, John, Frank and Pete, be added to list of Shelbourne Parish.”

 

1782  - 1787 Loudoun Co VA Census Records: Jesse Moore is listed in Loudoun County VA Census with one slave.

 

12 Jan 1785 Fairfax Co VA Deed Book Q, page 157: Robert Sanford of Fairfax Co VA (Lessor) leases some land to Peter Dow of Fairfax Co VA (Lessee).  Jesse Moore and John McIver witnessed the lease. Note: This Jesse may be Jeremiah’s son Jesse who born in 1765.

 

17 Sep 1787 Fairfax Co VA Deed Book Q, page 470: Elisha S. Dick of Fairfax Co VA (Lessor) and Jeremiah Moore “of Fairfax Co” VA (Lessee) enter into a 19yr/5mo lease for a parcel of land “bounded beginning at the Great Road leading from Alexandria to Leesburg at a red Oak corner to a Spanish Oak on Wolf Trap another corner of J. Moore…..to the beginning containing 18.75 acres” for a fee of 4 shillings per year.  Jesse Moore, Jeremiah Moore, Francis Moore, John Moore and James Hall witnessed this lease. Note: This Jesse may be Jeremiah’s son Jesse who born in 1765.

           

1787 Fairfax Co VA Tax Lists: Jesse Moore is listed in the Fairfax Co tax lists as having his tax paid by Jeremiah Moore, and with no listed holdings or other family members.  Son John R. would have been two years old then.

 

1789 Loudoun Co VA, Personal Property Tax List: Jesse Moore Sr.  This “Sr” designation may have been included on Jesse’s part to differentiate him from Jeremiah’s son Jesse, born circa 1766.  According to Robert P. Moore, a current day Moore researcher, listed next to Jesse Moore on this Tax List is Burgess Mason, who also migrated to Nelson Co KY.

           

24 Oct 1789 Nelson Co KY Citizen Petition:  "Petition of inhabitants of Nelson Co, KY that they are very inconvenient to an inspection and from the badness of the roads labor under many inconveniences in carrying the produced to market.  They ask that an Act to establish a warehouse and inspection on the Beech Fork at the mouth of Cartwright's Creek on the land of Richard Parker."  This early Nelson Co KY petition is signed by dozens of individuals including Jesse Moore, Moses Milton Jr and Moses Milton (Sr).  It is interesting to note that in the 1850 and 1960 federal census, the Post Office location of our direct ancestor John R. and Martha Moore is “Beech Fork”.

 

1790 Nelson Co KY Tax Lists: Jesse Moore.

 

1791 Nelson Co KY Tax Lists: Jesse Moore.

 

9 Feb 1791 Nelson Co KY Court Records, page 357:  “On the motion of Tardiveau Brothers by their attorney to obtain a judgement against Jesse Davis and Jesse Moore for failing to deliver property taken by the Sheriff on an execution against the said Davis, and the defendants not appearing, plaintiffs are to recover 2 pounds, 11 shillings, 3 pence and costs.”  No idea what this is all about!  Appears on page 180 of Nelson Co Kentucky Records, Vol. III.

 

17 Jan 1792 Fairfax County Will Book F, page 56: Jesse Moore and others were firmly bound to Wm. Payne and William Herbert for the sum of 1000 pounds (the British pound sterling was the accepted form of currently until approximately 1800).

 

1792 Nelson Co KY Tax Lists: Jesse Moore (and noted as in 'East Central Nelson County).

 

Dec 1797 - Nelson Co KY Will of Richard Milton (Sr), mentions wife Peggy, sons William, John, Moses, Elijah, daughter Nancy Davis, Frances Davis, son-in-law Rawleigh Chinn, son-in-law James Davis. At the end of the will is a short codicil: “For sundry reasons, testator gives to his grandson James Moore one negro girl named Lucy, and he is to let his mother Molly Moore have the use of said negro so long as she shall live, and after her death, if the said negro should have increase, to be equally divided between his brothers and sisters then living”.  Richard’s will was probated in Nelson Co KY on 11 May 1801.  It is presumed that Jesse’s wife was Molly (Mary) Milton Moore, daughter of Richard Milton.  No document has been found to date verifying this presumption.  This may imply that there were poor relations between Jesse Moore and the Miltons.

 

1800 Nelson Co KY Tax Lists: Jesse Moore.

 

1810 Nelson Co KY Federal Census: Jesse Moore.

 

13 Jun 1814 Washington Co KY Court Order Book B, page 322: “It appearing to the Court that Jesse Moore who was appointed a Commissioner of the Tax for the present year in this County within the bounds of Captain Phillips Company hath departed this life; John Simpson is appointed in his place”.

 

8 May 1815 Washington County KY Order Book B, page 384: "On the motion of Harbin Moore he having made oath and with Morgan Wright and William Wright his securities consent? and acknowledged bond in the property of $300 conditioned do the ???? administration of the estate of Jesse Moore deceased.  Ordered that William Moore, Bernard Moore, William Branham and Allen Stephens or any three of them being first sworn do appraise the slaves if any and personal estate of Jesse Moore and make report".  Note: Unfortunately no appraisal report can be found.  This is the first and only reference to the death date of Jesse – and the first of two references that seem to link Jesse to the well known Culpeper Co VA family of Harbin Moore (Jr).  See the Section below entitled “Culpeper Co VA and Harbin Moore Information” for more information on Harbin Moore.

 

19 Dec 1815 Washington Co KY Will Book B, page 45 (or 526): Will of Harbin Moore (Jr) mentions daughters Nancy Wright, Sally Clark, Franky Sims formerly Franky Moore, Patsy Springer, sons William and Bernard, brother Reuben, grandsons Harbin Spanger & Henry Spalding.  In addition Harbin also states: "I also leave unto the above mentioned grandson (Henry Spalding) my two year old colt, saddle and bridle formerly belonging to Jesse Moore deceased, also one hundred dollars in silver, one bed and furniture formerly belonging to the above Jesse Moore deceased". See the Section below entitled “Culpeper Co VA and Harbin Moore Information” for more information on Harbin Moore.

 

The book Some Virginia Families by Hugh Milton McIlhany, Jr, 1903, Stanton, VA, Stoneburner & Prufer Printers, page 214 refers to the children of Richard and Margaret (Ross) Milton, son of Richard and Eliza Milton, specifically an unnamed daughter: "_______ MILTON, married a Mr. Moore, they lived in Kentucky and had issue: Shadrack, Eben, and others."  This reference is the only source I have uncovered that mentions children other than James.  The fact that James is not mentioned leads me to believe that Mr. McIlhany did not know of Richard Milton’s 1801 Nelson Co KY will (otherwise he would have listed Molly’s first name as well as her son, and Richard’s grandson, James).  Unfortunately Mr. McIlhany did not list the source of this information – and no other researcher has uncovered any references to Shadrack and Eben.

 

 

The probable children of the probable union of Jesse and Molly (Milton) Moore are:

 

1.       John R, born 12 Mar 1785 Fairfax Co VA, married (1) Martha (Patsey) Bayne 22 on Feb 1810 Nelson Co KY, (2) Mrs. Nancy Harrell on 8 Oct 1855 in Washington Co KY, died 13 Dec 1858 Bloomfield, Nelson Co KY, buried with his first wife in the Mt Zion Methodist Cemetery, near Mooresville, Washington Co KY.  Martha was the daughter of Walter and Meek Ann (Wade) Bayne.  Nancy was the wife of the late Moses Harrell who died in 1851 at age 71 and is buried in the Camp Ground Methodist Cemetery, Bloomfield, Nelson Co KY.

2.       James, per Richard Milton Jr’s 1801 Nelson Co KY Will codicil only.

3.       Shadrack, per Hugh Milton McIlhany Jr's 1903 book “Some Virginia Families” only.  A Shadrack Moore (the same or different we do not know) died in Jessamine Co KY circa 1812 and left a will dated 1812.  It was probated in Nov 1812 (Will Book A, page 417) and mentions wife Rebecca, “three sons” Joel, Shadrack and Jeremiah and his “other six children” Polly, Betsy, Peggy, Susannah, Jency (Connor) and Martha (Davenport), Nancy Thomas and Susanna Young and Elizabeth Young – heirs of his now deceased daughter Nancy Young.  A Shadrack Moore fought in the same 2^nd Regiment of the Mounted KY Militia as did Jesse’s other son, John R. Moore.  According to some internet sources (genforum web), the following information about a Shadrack Moore (relation unknown…listed here for informational purposes only) was located: A Shadack Moore was born about 1744 in VA, married a Rebecca about 1769 in VA.  They had the following children: Mary born 10 Apr 1770; Nancy born 8 July 1772; Thomas T. born 12 Nov 1774; Betsy born 12 Jun 1777; Peggy born 7 Oct 1780; Susanna born 27 Feb 1783; John born 17 Aug 1785 and Dianah born 6 Sept 1786.  Mary married a John Young in Fredricksburg VA - then they moved to Greenup Co KY.  Mary died in 1857, place unknown.

4.       Eben, per Hugh Milton McIlhany Jr’s 1903 book “Some Virginia Families” only.

 

 

John R. Moore

 

According to his Nelson Co KY marriage application with his second wife Mrs. Nancy Harrell, John R Moore was born 12 Mar 1785 in Fairfax Co VA.  He first married Martha (Patsey) Bayne 22 on Feb 1810 Nelson Co KY, and following her death, married 2) the widow Mrs. Nancy Harrell on 8 Oct 1855 in Washington Co KY.  John died on 13 Dec 1858 in Bloomfield, Nelson Co KY.  He is buried along side his first wife in the Mt Zion Methodist Cemetery near Mooresville, Washington Co KY.  All of John’s children were by his first wife, Martha (Patsey) Bayne.

 

Martha Bayne was the daughter of Walter and Meek Ann (Wade) Bayne.  She was born circa 1789/1791 in VA and died 17 Mar 1854.  For more information on the Bayne ancestry, please see the chapter by the same name.

 

 

The War of 1812

 

During the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, the Ohio River valley was the scene of many skirmishes between the Indian and the colonist.  As more and more colonists floated down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to claim free land in Kentucky and later Ohio, the native Indian tribes stepped up their attempts to push the colonists eastward – hopefully back to and over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. 

 

In 1812, a young Captain by the name of Zachary Taylor (who later became our 12th President in 1849) was in command of Fort Harrison – an outpost in the Indiana Territory near present day Terre Haute Indiana.  On Sept 3 a large contingent of Kickapoo and Winebagoe Indians peacefully approached the Fort asking to be admitted.  Captain Taylor refused.  The Indians loitered around for two days still claiming to be friendly.  On the evening of the 4^th, the Indians set fire to one of the block houses.  At the same time, a large party of warriors emerged from the woods where they had been hiding and commenced firing on the fort – which returned fire.  They made several attempts to gain entrance into the Fort but were thwarted each time.  After the Indians withdrew from the immediate vicinity, someone from the fort was successful in reaching Vincennes (located on the Wabash River in southern Indiana) with the news. 

 

Presumably angry at their lack of success at Ft. Harrison, the Indians subsequently attacked some settlements in extreme southern Indiana and massacred 21 inhabitants, including women and children.  When news of these two events reached Governor Harrison who at the time was commanding the army northwest of the Ohio, he petitioned Governor Isaac Shelby, the Governor of Kentucky, for help in raising a local militia to strike deep into Indian territory and push back the Indians before the coming of winter.  Governor Shelby posted the following address throughout northwestern Kentucky (amplifications in [] ):

 

 

 

Over two thousand Kentuckians voluntarily responded to this plea – so many in fact that a number were turned back.  In addition to the dozens of other company’s being formed all over the state, a company of mounted men from Nelson County, headed by Captain Caleb Hardesty, was commissioned in Louisville KY on 18 Sep 1812.  Included in the 5^th Company were privates John R. Moore, Shadrack Moore and Richard Milton.  This particular company was placed in the 2^nd Regiment, Mounted, under the command of Colonel John Thomas.

 

This corps of approximately 2500 volunteers headed north and reached Vincennes over a two-week period.  The continued their march north and relieved Fort Harrison.  Unfortunately the expected supplies the army leadership had ordered were not delivered – and as a result each man was given much less than the 10-day supply they were to receive.  With inadequate provisions, the militia moved out, crossed the Wabash River and began heading north towards the Kickapoo and Peoria Indian villages on the Illinois River some 80 to 120 miles upriver. 

 

The guides leading the party began to display their ignorance and were suspected of less than honorable intentions.  Additionally, food was becoming extremely scarce and some lurking Indians set some of the nearby prairie grass on fire.  On Oct 18^th, when the one-month term of enlistment for the men expired, the men broke into open mutiny and refused to march further.  As they were all very hungry and suspicious of the guides, the men turned and started for Vincennes…with a very dejected General Hopkins following his men.  Most of the men, including John R, Shadrack and Milton, were discharged on Oct 30, 1812 and returned to their respective homes on the frontier.

 

General Hopkins was successful in pressing his attack on the Indians before the close of winter.  He led three regiments of KY militia deep into Indian Territory in mid November and destroyed many Indian towns and villages that they had found deserted.

 

 

National Archives

John Moore Military Records

War of 1812

 

The National Archives has the following Payroll and Company Muster Roll Records for John Moore, War of 1812, 2^nd Mounted Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Col. John Thomas’:

 

Company Pay Roll Records

John Moore appears with the rank of Private on a Payroll of Capt. Caleb Hardesty’s Company, 2^nd Regiment Kentucky, M.V. Militia, War of 1812:

Discharged: Oct 30, 1812.

Distance from the place of discharge to place of residence: 178 miles.

Rate per day: 20 miles.

Number of days: 8.

Pay per month: $6.66.

Amount of pay: $1.71.

Pay for use of horse at 40 cents per day: $3.20.

 

John Moore, Private, Capt. Caleb Hardesty’s Company, 2^nd Regiment Kentucky, Mtd. Vol. Militia, War of 1812, appears on a Company Pay Roll for:

Commencement of Service: Sept 18, 1812

Expiration of Service: Oct 30, 1812.

Time paid for: 1 month, 12 days.

Pay per month: $6.66.

Amount of pay: $9.32.

Amount of allowance for use, &c, of horse, at 40 cents per day: $17.20.

Total Amount: $26.52.

 

Company Muster Roll Records

John Moore, Private, Capt. Caleb Hardesty’s Company, 2^nd Regiment Kentucky, Mtd. Vol. Militia, War of 1812, appears on Company Muster Roll:

Roll Dated:  Buseson, ______ Oct. 30, 1812.

Term of Service: 42 days.

Distance from place of discharge to place of residence:  178 miles.

Present or Absent:  Present.

 

John Moore, Private, Capt. Caleb Hardesty’s Company, 2^nd Regiment Kentucky, Mtd. Vol. Militia in Reg’t commanded by Lieut. Col. John Thomas, War of 1812, appears on Company Muster Roll:

Roll Dated:  Vincennes, ______ Sept. 28, 1812.

Commencement of Service: Sept 18, 1812.

Present or Absent:  Present.

Total am’t of valuation of private property:  $68.87.

Remarks:  On duty.

 

 

 

For those who wish to learn more about this period of early American history, I would suggest books by the author, Allan Eckert.  One book in particular is entitled “That Dark and Bloody River” and is a fascinating chronicle of the settling of the Ohio River Valley during the latter half of the 1700’s. 

 

 

 

Before John R. Moore married Nancy Harrell in 1855, they entered into the following prenuptial agreement:

 

Prenuptial Agreement between John R. Moore and Nancy Harrell

Nelson Co KY Deed Book 30, Page 324-325

October 1855

 

An article of agreement made and entered into between Nancy Harrell of the County of Nelson and State of Kentucky of the one part and John Moore of the County of Washington and State aforesaid of the other part,

Witnesseth, that whereas a marriage is contemplated and will shortly take place between the said Nancy Harrell and the said John Moore and whereas on account of their advanced ages and the other surrounding circumstances not necessary here to be mentioned are induced to enter into the following agreement as and for a marriage contract.

Wherefore in consideration of the agreement in relation to the aforesaid intended marriage it is mutually severally and jointly agreed with and between the said parties that this marriage shall not in any way whatever change the control and ownership of their respective property either real or personal or mixed, that they are owners of considerable property and mutually consisting of lands and slaves and personal property and mutually desire and agree that all this property both real and personal shall stand be claimed and owned just as if this marriage now contemplated and agreed upon had never taken place, that each party shall pay there respective debts heretofore contracted out of their own respective means and funds, that they reserve the right to control here after the profits of their respective estates in the way of paying necessary expenses of their family as may seem to them just and right under their own control and management but it is clearly and distinctly understood between these contacting parties that they reserve and shall have and at all times enjoy the right to sell and convey by last will and testament or otherwise all and singular their respective land and slaves or any other personal property whatsoever in the same way and manner and with as full as much authority as they might or could do if this contemplated marriage had never taken place.

 

In testimony whereof we hereunto set out hands and seals this ?? day of October 1855.

                                                            John Moore

                                                            Nancy Harrell

Witness: John Moore, G C Jones

 

State of Kentucky, Nelson County

            I F. Darwin Elliott clerk of the Nelson County Court do certify that on the 21^st day of May 1857 the written agreement was proved before me by the oath of G C Jones subscribing witness thereto to be the act and deed of John Moore and Nancy Harrell who also testified that John Bayne the other subscribing witness signed his name in his presence.  Whereupon the same together with this certificate has been recorded in my office.  Given under my hand this 12 day of June 1857.

                                                            J Darwin Elliott, Clerk

                                                            T H Miles, DC (District Court?)

 

 

 

 

Will of John R. Moore

Nelson Co KY Will Book 9, pages 428-429

Written 15 Jun 1857, Probated 27 Dec 1858, Recorded 4 Jan 1859

(Spelling errors NOT corrected)

 

I sit down this day to make this my last will and testament being convinced of the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death and for advanced in life but sound in mind and will to do justice to all of my beloved children.

 

1^st after my death my desire is that sole may return to its author and my body to be interd to its mother earth according to the customs of our people and after all my just debts is paid the residue to be disposed of as this will is directed.

 

2^nd I will and bequeath to by granddaughter Susan Moore daughter of my son James F. Moore a certain negro girl Lucinda with the request the her father should have the use of her so long as he may live then to be hers.

 

3^rd I will and bequeath to my grandson Edward Moore son of James F. Moore a certain negro boy named Dade to be his with the cimalar request that his father have him and the use of him so long as he may live then to be his property.

 

4^th I consider that I no that I hold receipts from my children for the sum of twenty five hundred dollars except John Robert and my daughter Susan which I hold her receipt for one thousand and John Robert for eleven hundred wich is my desire that they shall be made up equal.  I am going to start this day to Missouri this day with means sufficient to make Susan up equal if I should succede in getting there I leave In my hands of my son Henry nine hundred which is to be brought into my estate I leave also notes with my present wife and my two sons Jetson and Milton for eight thousand dollars which is to be divided equally with all after I am gone.

 

5^th I will and bequeath to my present wife if she should be the longest liven my buggy horse to be hers as her own property.

 

6^th noing and believeing that my present and beloved wife is in possession of a suficiency I desire that she should have the use and benefit of a negro man of mine by the name of John one year then to be returned to my estate as my property signed sealed in presence of this 15 June 1857.

                                                                                    John Moore

 

NB  I further request that my youngis sone John Robert and my son James is to se this will is crried out and hope it may be done with out charge. 

Attest

T.H. Miles

N.B. McClaskey

 

February 5 1858  Having lived up to this date I ad to this as a codicil with no alternation except that my youngest son John Robert is to have four thousand dollars out of the residue of my estate to be his own property in addition to the receipt I hold against.  

                                                                                    John Moore

In presence of

C.J. Constaintine

T.H. Miles

 

At a call term of the Nelson County Court held at the courthouse in Bardstown on the 27 day of December 1858.  This paper purporting to be the last will and testament of John Moore Dec’d was produced in court and by the Oath of T.H. Miles the same was duly proved to have been signed and delivered by the said Mr. John Moore as for his last will and testament with the codicil ann???? Also that the said T.H. Miles and N.B. McClaskey the other subscribing witness signed the same in witness as the request of said John Moore dec’d and the same is ordered to record given under my hand this 4 day of January 1859.

                                                                        George W. Moore, Clerk

 

 

 

 

Analysis of John R. Moore’s Will

By William B. Moore, 12/1999

 

The Will

Nelson County, KY records, Will Book 9, Pages 428/429, grants as follows:

 

June 15, 1857

• To Susan [granddaughter], daughter of son James F.      - Negro girl named Lucia.

 

• To Edward [grandson], son of James F.             - Negro boy named Dade.

 

• To each of his children he has already given [and has receipts for] the following:

Jetson               Age      47         $2500

Wade H.                       44         $2500

Walter B.                      40         $2500

Jesse                            39         $2500

Milton                           36         $2500

James F.                       32         $2500

Henry B.                       31         $2500

Susan                           26         $1000

John Robert                   23         $1100

 

He is leaving later this day to travel to Missouri! [No person or place there named] and with 'means sufficient to make Susan up equal' [and presumably all others - see below]

 

• He left the following money and instructions if he should not return alive:

- with Henry                               $0900  *            to 'go into his estate'

- with Jetson and Milton              $8000  *            to be divided equal 'after I am gone'

 

• To his present and beloved wife [whom he said was in 'possession of a sufficiency'], his horse and buggy and the use of a male Negro slave for one year. John's first wife, Martha Bayne, died 3/17/1854. On 10/8/1855 he remarried, at age 68, to a widow, Nancy Harrell, age 57.

 

• He named 'his youngest son, John Robert and son, James, 'to se[e] that this will is carried out', and he 'hoped this could be done without charge'.

 

So, if we subtract, from $8900, the $2900 needed to make Susan and John Robert equal, there would have been about $6000 remaining to be distributed to all of the nine children, if he did not return alive from Virginia. But he did, and on:

 

February 5, 1858 he added a witnessed codicil granting:

• to 'his youngest son John Robert [now age 24] $4000 'out of the residue of my estate to be his property in addition to . . .'.

 

December 13, 1858

John R. died at age 71, at the end of the same year of returning successfully from MO.

 

December 27, 1858

The will, including the codicil, was decreed this date, and recorded January 14, 1859.

 

So, the family seemed to have a problem now. One can reasonably assume that:

·         co-executor James F., and all of the other siblings, were wondering what John Robert had done to deserve $4000 out of the remaining $6000.

·         but, between them, Henry [$900 in cash ?], Jetson, and Milton [$8000 in writing per the original will]  had the written representation or the actual money in their possession.

 

March 28, 1861  Settlement Agreement

On this date, twenty seven months after John R's death, his son James F. Moore, [named as the qualifying executor, at the request of the Judge of the Nelson County Court], filed the Settlement Agreement, consisting of the follow documents (all listed below in detail):

A.         The will of John R. Moore, deceased.

B & C.  Contract of Compromise between the Heirs [dated 1/27/1859]

D.         Voucher of Debts

E.         History of the manner in which the business was closed.

F.         An appric ? ? ?   [can't read this word . . . . .not included ? ? ?]

and noting that: “the parties have undertaken to settle up the business of the estate among themselves” [and some other statements that I can not read all of].

 

Here is the sequence as best that I can follow it.

 

January 27, 1959

The Compromise Contract was signed by all of the brothers granting the following:

            These two waive all further rights against the estate or the other heirs;

            To James F.                  $0500.00                      

            To John R.                     $1300.00           [not the $4000 granted in the codicil], and to

                                                                        paid as 'rent' on March 1, 1960

            And then payments of/to;

            Misc. debts                   $0362.97           Attested by a T. H. Miles, one of the original       

                                                                        witnesses to John R.'s will.

            A. J. Davis                     $0045.00           Burial expenses

            Go?? & Berkley             $0007.50           Dental/Doctor bills

            Philip Fitspatrick            $0003.25           Balance of a Bloomfield/Springfield Turnpike                                                                                 Subscription.

            J. F. Watson & Co.        $0010.00           Shingling the house

            Total, about                   $2229.00

 

August 4, 1859  [this maybe should be 1860, see below]

Walter B. acknowledges receipt of $994 from his brothers, Jetson, Wade, Jesse, Milton and Henry. [This is probably the $900, plus interest, that John R. gave son Henry to hold before he (John R.) left to go to Missouri.]

 

August 13, 1860            [in Jefferson County KY]

Jetson passes the above $994 to a county clerk, G. W. Hill, who confirms receipt of a note for $994 dated August 4, 1860.

 

So, of the          $8994   in the estate after John R.'s death [8000 + 900 + 94 interest], there was

$6765   to be divided between seven heirs, the five brothers who attended the

Settlement meeting, and W. B. [Walter], and sister Susan [now Hill].

[James F. and John Robert waiving this.]

i.e., about          $0966   each.

 

 

 

 

The following is a complete abstract of all the papers relating to John Moore’s estate settlement.

 

John Moore Estate Settlement

Nelson Co KY Will Book 11, page 20

Spelling errors not corrected

 

James F. Moore, Executor of John Moore being required by the Judge of the Nelson County Court to settle his accounts, none of the heirs residing in Nelson County.  On this the 28^th March 1861 presented the papers herein after referred to and claimed a discharge as Executor.

 

First a copy of John Moore's will marked A.

Secondly a contract of Compensation? Between the heirs marked B plus one marked C.  Together with accounts in B.  Also paper D with voucher for debts paid, then paper E giving a history of the measure in which the business has been closed, also F an apprasment?.  After carefully examining all three papers, the Judge is satisfied that the parties have undertaken to settle up the business of the estate among themselves and have although being impersonally (or informally?) effected the same and from all the showings in the papers that the executor should not be held longer responsible to the heirs, but only for debts if any be outstanding. 

 

And to that end this is made a settlement with the Executor to show that he has made full distribution and as such with the exhibits it is now reported for record (or accord?).

 

Given under my hand this 28^th March 1861

T[homas] P[ranther] Linthicum

 

Judges file for this suit $1.50 paid by T.H. Miles agent for the parties. 

                                                T[homas] P[ranther] Linthicum

 

 

Papers from John Moore's Estate Box #38

Nelson County Courthouse

Nelson Co KY

Amplifications or questions in ( )

Spelling errors not corrected

 

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John Moore Heirs Agreement "B"

 

We the undersigned heirs and (?, maybe legalees?) of John Moore dec'd having met for the purpose of setling up the estate of said decedant, and being of age and fully compentent to act for ourselves, have come to the following agreement;

 

Said decedant died and left a will which is recorded in the Nelson County Court clerk's office.  Said will gives to the two children of James F Moore a negro girl named Lucinda and a boy named Dade which (we) desire is to stand unattined (meaning uncontested I believe).  It (the will) specifically gives to John R Moore a certain amount of money which has been comprimised and the said John R Moore signs this as an evidence of his satisfaction.  James F Moore who qualified as Executor under said will hereby transfers to the remainder of the heirs of said decendant all the interest which he has in said estate by will or otherwise as an individual and heir, For the consideration of five hundred dollars as evidenced by note and the undersigned Jetson Moore, W H Moore, Jesse Moore, Milton Moore and H B Moore who are also heirs of said estate having bought the two above named interest hereby obligate themselves to pay off all the debts owing by said estate and release the executor from any responsbility whatever and pay to W B Moore and Susan F Hill the two remaining heirs what is due them under the will.  Upon application, having had turned over to share the effects of said decedant the receipt wherof is hereby acknowledged witness our hands this 27^th January 1959.

 

                                                                                    J F Moore

                                                                                    Jno R Moore

                                                                                    W H Moore

                                                                                    Jesse Moore

                                                                                    Henry B Moore

                                                                                    Jetson Moore

                                                                                    Milton Moore

 

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John Moore Heirs Agreement "C"

 

Whereas John Moore departed this life in December last after publishing his last will and testament leaving James F Moore and John R Moore his executors, James only qualifying - and the undersigned heirs of said John Moore being of age and fully competent to act for themselves having met for the purpose of settling up the affairs of his estate free of cost and change have agreed to pay to John R Moore in satisfaction of his devise under the will he being present and consenting thereto the sum of thirteen hundred dollars esclusive (sic) of the receipt held by the estate against them and he hereby signs this as a ???? in full of al claims or demands against the ???? or heirs of said estate.  This 27 day of Jan 1859.  It is understood that the sum for which this is a re?? Is to be paid the 1^st day of March next as evidenced by note executed to said J R Moore now delivered to him - signed by Jesse Moore, Henry B Moore, Jetson Moore, Wade H. Moore and Milton Moore it is further understoodby and between the parties that said J R Moore is to claim no further part of said estate under any circumstances whatever.

 

                                                                                    John R Moore

                                                                                    ~~~~~~~~~~~

                                                                                    Jesse Moore    ----

                                                                                    Henry B Moore      |       

                                                                                    W H Moore           |  Heirs

                                                                                    Milton Moore         |

                                                                                    Jetson Moore  ----

           

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Receipt

 

Jefferson Co KY August 13 1860

 

Rcvd of Jetson Moore, Wade H Moore, Jessie Moore, Milton Moore and Henry B Moore Nine Hundred and Ninety Four dollars in a note executed to me by Jetson Moore bearing date of August 4^th 1860 which note has interest from date, the said note embracing my portion of the estate of John Moore dec'd, as (?, maybe "approved") due me on 3 sentences of his heirs, out of the cash notes of ????????.

                                                            G.W. Hill

 

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Receipt

 

August the 4^th 1859

 

Received of Jetson Moore, Wade H Moore, Jessie Moore, Milton Moore and Henry B Moore Legalees of John Moore dec'd Nine Hundred and Ninety Four dollars it being my portion of the (?, maybe "amount") of the notes found due the dec'd at the time of his death.

                                                            Walter B Moore

 

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Doctor Bill

 

John Moore to Geo Berkley (a doctor)

 

 

 

State of Ky - County of Nelson

 

This day personally appeared before me a notary public for said county Joshua Gore and made oath that the above account is first due and unpaid. That there is no offset against the same or any usury embraced therein.  

Joshua Gore

 

Mrs. Nancy (Harrell) Moore also makes oath that the account is just and true.

Nancy Moore

 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 17 day of September 1859. 

T H Miles, NPNC (Notary Public Nelson County)

 

Received of James F Moore, Executor for John Moore dec'd seven dollars and fifty cents in full of the above account January 6^th 1860. 

Geo Berkley

 

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Funeral Bill

 

John Moore to A.J. Davis (probably a mortician/funeral director)

 

 

State of Kentucky, Nelson County

 

This day came before the undersigned Notary Public A.J. Davis and made oath that the above account is just due and unpaid that there is no just offset or discount against the same or usury embraced therein. 

                                                            A J Davis

 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19^th of February 1859.

                                                            T H Miles, NPNC (Notary Public Nelson County)

 

Mrs. Nancy (Harrell) Moore says she knows the above account to be just and true.

Nancy Moore

 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9^th day of March 1859.

                                                            T H Miles, NPNC (Notary Public Nelson County)

 

Received of James F Moore, Executor of John Moore dec'd forty five dollars in full of the above account January 6^th 1860. 

A J Davis

                                                           

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Another Funeral Bill

 

Bloomfield KY   December 7 1858

John Moore to J.H. Watson & Company (probably transported John's body)

 

 

State of Kentucky, Nelson County

 

W H Perry states an oath that the above account of ten dollars of John Moore with J F Watson also is just.

                                                            William H Perry

 

Subscribed and sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace for said county this 8^th day of December 1859.

                                                            Chas Z Duncan JPNC (Justice Peace Nelson Co)

 

N G Wootten of the firm of J F Watson also states an oath the account aforesaid is just and unpaid that there are no offsets to any part thereof and that it contains no usury.

N G Wootten

 

Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace for said county this 8^th day of December 1859.

                                                            Chas Z Duncan JPNC (Justice Peace Nelson Co)

 

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Bloomfield-Springfield Turnpike Subscription

 

John Moore to Philip Fitspatrick

 

 

State of Kentucky, Nelson County

 

This day came before the undersigned Notary Public Philip Fitspatrick and made oath that the above account is just due and unpaid that there is no just offset or discount against the same or usury embraced therein.

                                                            Philip Fitspatrick

 

Garrat Fitspatrick says he knows the above account to be just and true.

                                                            Garret Fitspatrick

 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4^th day of February 1859.

                                                            T H Miles, NPNC (Notary Public Nelson County)

 

Received of James F Moore, Executor of John Moore dec'd three dollars and twenty five cents in full of the above account January 6^th 1860. 

Philip Fitspatrick

 

 

 

 

Nelson Co KY Common Law Suits

Involving

John R Moore’s 2^nd wife Nancy (Harrell) Moore

 

March 1860: Nancy Moore vs Harrison Crume.  John R. Moore’s 2^nd wife Nancy sued a Mr. Harrison Crume for failure to pay a $94.95 promissory note dated 13 Dec 1859 “for value received”.  Crume paid the note on 31 Dec 1859.

 

March 1863:  Nancy Moore vs W.L. Willett & Joshua Gore.  John R. Moore’s 2^nd wife Nancy sued Willett and Gore for failure to pay a $152.05 promissory note one year after it was dated (which was 31 Dec 1859).  There is no record that they paid the note.

 

 

 

Nelson Co KY Deed Records

involving John R, Patsy (Bayne) or Nancy (Harrell) Moore

 

 

 

Washington Co KY Deed Records

involving John R, Patsy (Bayne) or Nancy (Harrell) Moore

 

 

 

 

 

The children of John R. Moore and Martha Bayne Moore were:

 

1.       Jetson, born 30 Nov 1810 Washington Co KY, married Margaret P. Gregory 27 Oct 1834 Washington Co KY, died 23 Jul 1861 Washington Co KY, buried in the Mt. Zion Methodist Cemetery, Washington Co KY.  According to the 28 Nov 1857 Bardstown Saturday Gazette (“A Paper for the Independent, but Not Neutral; American but Know-Nothing; Conservative but not Old Fogy”), Jetson was elected as a Magistrate for District 2 on 5 May 1855.

2.       Wade Hampton, born circa 1813 Washington Co KY, married Elizabeth Rudledge 22 Dec 1836 Shelby Co KY.  Acquired the Washington Co Walton House Farm (a.k.a. the “Pope Place”) from the estate of Dr. Jackson during a Commissioner’s Sale in 1864, paying $26.50/acre for 547 acres.  Wade sold it two years later to P.S. Barber for $27.92/acre.

3.       Walter Bayne, born circa 1817 Washington Co KY, married Marion L. Pope 4 Feb 1842 Spencer Co KY.

4.       Jesse, born circa 1817 Washington Co KY, married Sarah Margaret Weathers 1 Mar 1842 Nelson Co KY.  Jesse served in the House of Representatives of the Kentucky Legislature as a Representative from Washington County in 1845.

5.       Milton, born 6 Jan 1821 Washington Co KY, married Elizabeth L. Lewis 21 May 1854 Washington Co KY, died 2 Jan 1880 Washington Co KY, buried Mt. Zion Methodist Cemetery, Washington Co KY.

6.       James Franklin, born May 1824 Washington Co KY, married Nancy Ashley Jones 4 Nov 1849 Washington Co KY.  In the 1900 Washington Co KY census, James is living in the household of Mattie Sea Gist.

7.       Henry Bayne, born 11 Dec 1826 Washington Co KY, married (1) Jane Mariah Pile 29 Jun 1852 Washington Co KY (they lived in Mooresville, Washington Co KY), (2) Eliza B, and died 25 Apr 1896 Washington Co KY, buried Moore-Pile Cemetery, Washington Co KY.  Jane was born 29 Dec 1835 and was the daughter of Benjamin Pile Jr and Rhoda Weathers.

8.       Susannah, born circa 1831 Washington Co KY, married Mississippi Riverboat Captain Granderson Winfrey Hill 23 Nov 1853 Washington Co KY.

9.       John Robert, born 23 Nov 1833/1834 Washington Co KY, married Elizabeth Godby 6 Aug 1861 Bloomfield, Nelson Co KY, died 2 Jun 1918 Fern Creek, Jeffersontown KY, buried Jeffersontown KY.  Elizabeth was the daughter of Jacob Godby.  Her mother died when she was about 9.  John and Elizabeth had at least one child, a son, Thomas Jefferson Moore, who was born 4 Jan 1873 in Shelby Co KY and died 20 Apr 1960 in West Palm Beach FL.  The descendants of this family (Cindy Reidhead, POBox 23, Glencoe NM  88324, email as of 1/17/2006: sjreidhead@valornet.com) believes that John Robert’s father was not named John R. Moore but John Washburn Moore.  This family also has records that state that John (“R” or “Washburn”) Moore was a son of one of four brothers who came over from England.  The eldest of these four brothers was named John Barnett Moore and he managed to get all the family money that belonged to the other three – which caused a split up and they all left for different directions.  This John Barnett Moore died a wealthy bachelor in New York state – and that the state of New York received his estate.

 

Milton Moore

 

Milton was born 6 Jan 1821 in Washington Co KY.  He married Elizabeth L. Lewis on 15^th or 21^st  May 1854 Washington Co KY and died 2 Jan 1880 Washington Co KY.  Milton is buried in the Mt. Zion Methodist Cemetery, Washington Co KY.

 

Elizabeth L. Lewis was the daughter of Berry and Mary (Hays) Lewis.  She was born 26 Mar 1833 in Washington Co KY.  Reports of her death date (either 22 Sep 1864 or 22 Sep 1904) are reported by various researchers but no listing of her death is found in the Mt. Zion Methodist Cemetery records.  Note: For more information on the Lewis and Hays surnames and ancestry, please see the chapters so entitled.

 

 

 

 

Milton Moore Estate Settlement Papers

Washington County Courthouse

Washington Co, KY

 

 

Listed, in the first two columns below, is the Inventory of Milton Moore’s personal property as found in Washington County KY Will Book R/338-341.  Listed, in the final two columns, are the Buyers of his assets and the price they paid.  This Sale information was obtained from R/341-345.  James B.