Person:Moses Moore (2)

Moses Moore was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta & Greenbrier County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 449.--18th August, 1767. William Ramsey and Jane ( ) to Moses Moore, £210, 582 acres on Little River of Calfpasture, corner Alex. Dunlop's land. Teste: John Cunningham, Joseph Walker, James Trimble.

• 1784: Moses Moore - Patented 124 acres in Augusta Co on an east branch of the Greenbrier called Douthers Ck. [Grants M, p.580; LVA - Moore, K-R - card 20]

• 1787 Aug 15: Moses Moore - Patented 55 acres in Augusta Co on a small branch of Naps Ck a branch of the Greenbrier River. [ [Grants 12, p.459; LVA - Moore, K-R - card 21]

• 1787 Aug 15: Moses Moore - Patented 300 acres on the northwest side of Naps Ck adj. the western side of Moore's home tract. [LVA - Moore, K-R - card 22]

• 1787 Aug 16: Moses Moore - Patented 90 acres in Augusta Co on the west side of the Greenbrier river below Bleaks on the Allegainia mountain. [LVA - Moore, K-R - card 23]

• 1787 Aug 16: Moses Moore - Patented 400 acres in Augusta Co between Naps Ck and Thorny Ck at a place called the Rich Lands. [LVA - Moore, K-R - card 24] --Chalkley records later disputes over this land by heirs

• 1787 Aug 16: Moses Moore - Patented 150 acres in Augusta Co on the Allegainia Mtn and some west branches of the Greenbrier river above a place called Wood's Camp. [LVA - Moore, K-R - card 25]

• 1790 Feb 26: Moses Moore - Patented 218 and 317 acres in Augusta Co on Ewings Ck waters of Greenbrier river, being part of a 100,000 acre grant to the Greenbrier Company by the Council of VA. 1st parcel corner to Thomas Meek. 2nd parcel corner to Wm. Moore's survey on the west side of the creek. [LVA - Moore, K-R - card 26, 27; Grants 22, p.53, 54, 55]

• 1810 Aug 6: Moses Moore - Patented 250 acres in Greenbrier Co adj. John Blair Neal, John Matthews & co. [LVA - Moore, K-R - card 30]

Moses Moore, Indian Prisoner

"Moses Moor" is listed in a list of those killed or captured in a list of Indian Attacks of 1755-1758 in Augusta County, VA,

• April 28th, Moses Moor, at Jackson River, prisoner.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 2 - MARRIAGES LICENSES IN AUGUSTA COUNTY. - 1761-- November 18, David Caldwell, Moses Moore. (Note: this license was for Moses' first marriage to Hannah Risk, daughter of John Risk).

• Vol. 1 - FEBRUARY 17, 1762 - (157) Ordered that Michael O'Hara, aged 12, September 1lth last, be bound to Alexander Millroy. Jane Lettimore, servant of Alexr. Stewart. John Stuart, orphan of James Stuart, aged 14, chose Henry Murray his guardian. James Stuart, aged 18, orphan of James Stuart, chose John Hamilton his guardian. Ralph Stuart, aged 15, orphan of James Stuart, chose Robt. Stuart his guardian. Ordered that the following orphans be bound: William Meek to William Warwick, Mary Meek to Andrew Settleton, Martha Meek to James Walker, James Meek to William Wilson, Jane Meek to Moses Moore.

• Page 165.--19th August, 1765. Margret ( ) Risk. Jr., relict to James Risk. deceased, to John Risk, Jr., £__, 200 acres at foot of Brown Hill in line of Wm. McCutchen's land. Teste: John Risk, John Worick, Moses Moore. Delivered: Jno. Risk, Jr., 19th November, 1770. (Note: Moses Moore's first wife was Hannah Risk, daughter of John Risk, Sr.).

• Vol. 1 - Moses More vs. Samuel Cloyd.--John Risk was father-in-law of Moses More, 5th February, 1766. Samuel Cloyd had removed, 1767.

• Vol. 1 - MARCH, 1769 (A). - Moses Moore vs. Samuel Cloyd.--Samuel Cloid be pleased for to pay unto John Risk, my father-in-law, that money that you owe me, which is five pound, nine shillings, for I have impowered him for to do for me in my absence for to recover it, or to look after it for me. Given under my hand this fifth day of February and year 1766. (Signed) Moses Moore, Samuel Cloyd. Test, Robert Risk, Martha Risk.

• Vol. 1 - MARCH, 1769 (A). - Moses Moore vs Samuel Cloyd.--Samuel Cloid be pleased for to pay unto John Risk, my father-in-law, that money you owe me, for I have empowered him to act for me in my absence, &c. Dated 5th February, 1766. (Signed) Moses Moore.

• Vol. 2 - FEE BOOKS OF AUGUSTA COURT - 1771 - page 44, Moses Moore, Borden's Land.

• Page 403.--21st May, 1771. Robert Risk's bond (with Moses Moore, Danl. Meek) as guardian to James Risk, orphan of James Risk.

• Vol. 2 - FEE BOOKS OF AUGUSTA COURT - 1774 - page 21, Moses Moore, Greenbrier.

• Vol. 1 - MAY 18, 1774. - (468) Ephraim Richardson and Wm. Martin--road surveyors from Francis Wier's, on Monongahela River, to Thorny Creek, on waters of Greenbrier. John Warwick, Richard Elliott and Ralph Stewart are exempted from working on above road until it is built. William Hadden is ordered to clear from Thorny Creek to Nap's Creek, with tithables living below him on Nap's Creek, and from Alexr. Dunlap's to William Sharp's on Greenbrier. Jacob Warwick, road overseer, from William Warwick's to Back Creek, with tithables from Thomas Cartmell's up Greenbrier to the head and down Nap's Creek to Moses Moore's.

• Vol. 2 - FEE BOOKS OF AUGUSTA COURT, 1780 - page 77, Moses Moore, Greenbrier.

• Vol. 1 - OCTOBER 21, 1783. - (132) James Moore, son of Moses Moore, exempted from County levies, being unable to support himself by labor.

• Page 32.--17th May, 1785. Daniel Joseph and Eve to George Hammer (Hamor), off Rockingham, tract patented to Jacob Darin 3d May, 1780, on drafts of Moffet's Branch. Teste: Moses Moore, John Johnston.

• Vol. 1 - JUNE 21, 1785. - (132) Moses Moore allowed for one beef furnished for public use.

• Vol. 2 - Marriage Bond in Augusta County - 1786--March 22, Moses Moore and Jane Ewing, daughter of James Ewing; witnesses, Wm. Rankin, Alex. Gibson. (Note: this Marriage Bond was for Moses' second (some say third) marriage to Jane Ewing, daughter of James Ewing).

• Vol. 2 - Marriage in Augusta County - 1786; By Rev. Saml. Shannon: April 11th, Moses Moore and Jean Ewing.

• Vol. 2 - Marriage Bond in Augusta County - 1788--March 29, John Moore and James Reaugh, surety. John Moore and Margaret Moore, daughter of Moses Moore (consent). Teste: John McCutchan, John Black.

• Vol. 1 - DISTRICT COURT EXECUTIONS. SEPTEMBER, 1794 (A to J). - List of wolf scalps, beginning 1774: To James Loskey, Joseph Newton, William Porter, Levin Benson, William Rhea, Peter Hoover: 1777, December 16, to John Clemons, George Baxter; 1778, May 21, to Jacob Barrier, Thomas Cartmell, John McEwin, Thomas Mynes, Jonathan Hicklin, Anthony Huston; 1784, November, to John Snider, George Puffenberry, Isaac Mayze. Joseph Newton, Henry Every, Samuel Haws; 1785, March, to John Owfull; November, to Wm. Lansdale, Henry Casebolt, Henry Gragg, Moses Moore, Senior and Junior, and Jacob Elsworth, Wm. Bennett and John Armogast; 1787, December, to Thomas Galfour, Thomas Frennen and Michael Arbecost; 1788, December, to James Brindle and William Nottigam; 1789, December, to John Portlock; and Levin Nicholas; 1790, December, to William Portlock, William M. Jordan and Sylvanus Odle; 1791, December, to Hugh Keenon, Fred Troughbough, Jonathan Inchremiger (?); 1792, December, in all 106,900 pounds tobacco.

• Vol. 2 - George Poage vs. Dilley--O. S. 271; N. S. 95--Bill, 1812. On 19th November, 1782, orator made two entries in Augusta (now Bath) on head Brown's Creek, one for 100 acres and one for 140 acres; surveys on 15th December, 1785, and patents 25th July, 1800, for 140 acres. Martin Dilly had a conflicting claim under an older patent to Moses Moore. Answer by Martin Dilly, 9th June, 1813: On 3d April, 1809, he bought 120 acres from John Moore in Bath, part of 400 acres. Patented to Moses Moore 16th August, 1787, between Naps Creek and Thorny Creek at a place called Richlands. This patent was in right of settlement by certificate 15th June, 1782. John Moore, Sr., is father-in-law of Martin Dilly. Samuel Waugh deposes, Moses Moore claims by the eadright of Joseph Gregory. John McCutchan petitions, he purchased the land from William Moore, nephew of Moses Moore. Settlement certificate dated 15th June, 1782, for 400 acres settled by Joseph Gregory before 1st January, 1778, signed by Commissioners, viz: Wm. McKee, Robt. Davis, Thomas Adams, Saml. Vance. Levi Moore deposes, in Bath, October, 1817, has known the place called the Richlands 44 years; is said to be distantly related to Moses Moore's family, but does not know how. John Moore, Jr., deposes, in Bath, 13th October, 1817, has known Gregory's improvement 40 years. George Poage has been living there 35 years. Deponent is son of Moses Moore.

1. ↑ Kathy Vaughan Brisbin. Brisbin email. (email to Thomas F. Ewing, 10/19/1997).
2.   Price, William Thomas. Historical sketches of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. (Marlington, West Virginia: Price Bro., 1901).

   The progenitor of the largest relationship of the name in the county, came from what is now Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County,VA. At the time of the Drennan raid, when James Baker and the Bridger Boys were killed, Moses Moore was living on Swago, in sight of what is now the McClintic homestead. Pheobe, his youngest daughter remembered how the family refuged to the fort at Mill Point, and while the Drenanns and Moores and others were passing around the end of the mountain they heard the firing at the Bridger Notch, when the boys were killed. This would make it 1786 when James Baker, the first school teacher of Pocahontas, was killed. During the first years of his pioneer life in our region, he spent much time hunting and trapping along Back Alleghany, Upper Greenbrier River, and Clover Lick vicinity. He was a close observer of Indian movements, and would make a careful search for Indian movements and signs. Before resuming operations as the hunting seasons returned, the ususal place for the Indians to cross the Greenbrier, in the hunting grounds mentioned, was at a passage narrow enough from them to vault over with a long pole. Moore would take notice accordingly which side of the river the vaulting-pole would be on, and act accordingly. Finally the Indians seemed to have found out his strategy, and thereupon vaulted the narrow passageand cunningly threw the pole back on the other side. This threw the hunter off his guard. It was Saturday; he set his traps, looked after the deer signs, and arranged his camp. The venerable William Collins, yet living (as of 1901), is sure that the camping spot was on what is now the Charley Collins place, on the Greenbrier above the Cassell Fording, at a place near Tub Mill where he was captured by the wily Indians. It was the hunter's purpose to pass the Sabbath at his camp in quiet repose and devotional reading of the Bible he carried about with him for company. He had put a fat turkey to roast about daylight, and was reclining on a bear skin reading a lesson from the word, preparatory to a season of meditation and prayer before breakfast, a habit so charactersitic of the Scotch-Irish at that period. He was interrupted by the breaking of a stick, and upon looking intently and steadily in the direction whence the sound seemed to have come he saw five or six warriors aiming their guns and moving cautiously upon him. Seeing there was no chance of escape, hemmed in as he was, he threw up his hands and made signs for them to come to him. He put the turkey before them and made signs for them to eat. By gestures and gutteral gruntings they gave him to understand that they would not touch it unless he would eat some first. He did so, and thereupon they devoured it ravenously, and it was no time that scarcely a fragement remained, even of the bones. Soon as breakfast was over, they started for their home in Ohio. Having passed but a few miles, they halted at what the pioneers afterwards called the Mossey Spring. The spring - one of the most copious and beautiful of its kind - is near the residence of the late DavidMcLaughlin, four or five miles up the Back Alleghany road from Driftwood. The prisoner was securely bound with buffalo thongs and pinioned to the ground. A detachment went off in the direction of driftwood, and were absent two or three hours. When the party returned they were loaded with ore. This was carried to a place, where another halt was made and the ore was smelted and reduced in weight, so that one could carry what had required two to bring in as raw materials. The prisoner was taken as far as Chilacothe and the Indians seemed to have been greatly elated over thier capture. So much so that as a special compliment to their lady friends it was decided in solemn council of inquiry what to do with the prisoner, that the captive should run the gauntlet. The Indians seem to have known of nothing so intensely amusing than running the gauntlet, and of no compliment more flattering to their favorite lady friends than have them to form the gauntlet lines, and leave it to them to torment the captive. Accordingly two lines of squaws were drawn up about six or eight feet apart. One captive had preceded Moore, who was stabbed, bruised and hacked to pieces. This made him think it was only death any way. He entered the line and passed some distance, finally a squaw with a long handled frying pan struck him. He wrenched the pan from her and knocked her down with his fist and then striking left and right with the handle of the frying pan, he proceeded along the lines, and many of the other squaws ran away. When Moore had scattered them, the warriors crowded around him, patted and praised him, "good soldier," "good soldier," and decided that he should be allowed to live. By degrees he secured the confidence of his captors. In hunting he was very successful and the Indian who was his keeper would give him ammunition, a part of which he would secret. The supply of ammunition was gradually increased, and the time given him to be absent was extended two or three days. With this increase of rations o powder and bullets and extension of time, he ventured to make escape, and got a start so far ahead that the Indians could see no hopeful chance of recapturing him. It is nothing but just to remark Moses Moore is one of the pioneers of this county who will be among those longest remembered in the future by those interested in our pioneer literature. Moses Moore's descendants have proably cleared more land than any one family connection; some of them have been and are prominent in public affairs. The following particulars were mainly furnished by the venerableAndrew Washington Moore, one of his grandsons, now in the 83rd year of his age, residing on Knapps Creek and occupying a part of the old ancestral homestead. About 1770 Moses Moore settled on Knapps Creek, known about that period as Ewing's Creek, and so named in some of the land papers. Traces of the orginal cabin remained for years in the meadow near the old orchard contiguous to Washington Moore's present residence. The tract of land extended from Andrew Herold's to Dennis Dever's gate by the roadside below the Francis Dever homestead. Besides other improvements, Mr. Moore built a mill on Mill Run.

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