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Moses came to the McFarland Creek area of Kentucky by 1811; as he is listed at that time in a local census. He had sold land in Chester County, South Carolina; which had been left to him by his father, Nathan Atterbury, when he died in 1789.
Moses & a wife were listed in the 1800 Chester County, South Carolina census: one male under 10 & one between 16 & 26; aslo one female under 10, two between 10 & 16; & one between 26 & 45. Moses was listed in a Jackson County company of Militia under Alexander Keith, Esquire in Captain Rodger's company; when a count was taken between 1804 & 1811. He is also listed in the census taken in 1820 1830, & 1840.
He seems to be the first to change the spelling of his last name as Arterberry. His family is the only ones who spell it this way.
Moses had married Mary Alexander in Chester County, South Carolina; & this has been substantiated by Arterberry cousins, who live in Monroe County, Kentucky. Mary was born @ 1780. Her parents are not known.
Moses, James, Elijah, & Elizabeth were the children of Nathan & Pattey Atterbury; as established by the dispersal of property papers which were executed in 1796. The children were named at this time though there had not been a will for Nathan. All of the family including Pattey settled in neighboring counties of Kentucky & Tennessee.
Patsy Arterberry married Abraham Myers in Hardin County, Kentucky in 1805. She had come to Kentucky with her daughter Elizabeth who had married Richard Lay.
Governor Thomas Metcalf granted Moses seventeen acres of land in the early 1800's, & before a boundry change it seemed to be located in Tennessee.
There were a number of other land grants secured by members of the Arterberry family on McFarland Creek. Moses' grant is mentioned as being located on Arterberry's Branch; & was included in those South of Walker's Line.
Birth records are not exact for either Moses or Mary Alexander Arterberry; but census records indicate the time between 1775 & 1780 in Chester County.
Moses & Mary were said to have had a large family; possibly ten children. Known children were James, Thompson, George Washington, Dicy, Moses, Wiley Coleman, Bennett, Nancy; & perhaps Martha.
Family legend has credited Moses with having fought in the War of 1812; & when the actual records were researched & received, he was in Captain James Bennett's Company of Infantryin Colonel Robert Steele's Regiment of the Tennessee Militia. According to the records, he collected eight dollars per month for taking part in the War. A grandson, Benjamin Franklin Arterberry, was quoted in THE BIOGRAPHICAL SOUVENIR OF TEXAS; as saying the following about his grandfather, Moses: "He was a man of somewhat aggressive, adventurous disposition, fond of the chase and keenly sensible of the pleasures of pioneer life, nor in anywise deferred from pusuing those pleasures by their accompanying perils". Partly in defense of the statement was the fact that his grandfather was not young when he was a soldier in the War of 1812.
Mary Alexander
Information about Mary Alexander has not come to us easily. Moses Alexander & Catherine Sims Arterberry, son of Thompson Arterberry, named their daughter, Mary Alexander, in May 15, 1862, for her grandmother. It is believed from the stories that are told that Moses and Mary opened their home to others in the family.
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