NOTES ON THOMAS MOORE AND BENJAMIN HARRISON, ASSOCIATES OF DAVID LINDSAY IN PENNSYLVANIA AND KENTUCKY:
Subject:
[MOORE-L] MOORE-HARRISON family of Harrison County, Ky
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:48:32 -0400
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Hi List,
Found an interesting article @ the Campbell County Historical Society in a
Genealogical periodical, Kentucky Ancestors-Oct,1974 (Vol10, No2). The article
was contributed by Reverend Emmett Moore Waits, St Barnabas
Rectory, 1200 N.Elm St, Dallas, Tx 76201.
I quote:
" The following notes are submitted as a
supplement to an article
contributed by Forrest P. Wood of Seattle, Wa, which
appeared in the
April 1967, issue of
Kentucky Ancestors (Vol 2, No 4). Mr
Wood's article
discussed the Lindsey-Moore Cemetery
located near Poindexter in Harrison
County. This cemetery was marked as a
state historical site on April 17,
1969.
Buried in the Lindsey- Moore Cemetery
are the Revolutionary War
officer,
Captain Thomas Moore (1745-1823), and
his wife, Mary (Harrison)
Moore (1761-1836), their eldest son,
William Moore, his wife,
Eleanor (Dawson), and other descendants.
The cemetery was included in a
tract of land originally owned by David
Lindsey, but sold to Thomas Moore
after 1800.
Thomas
Moore* was born at "Arcadia" plantation, St
Paul's Parish, Kent
County, Md., on March 7, 1745, the
youngest son of William Moore and his
wife, Rachel (Medford).
<1> He migrated to Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pa., in 1769,
<2> where he married Mary Harrison**(, born 1761 in Orange County, Va., youngest child of Lawrence Harrison and his wife, Catherine (not proved is the name Marmaduke).
<3> Mary Harrison was the sister of Colonel
Benjamin Harrison***, for whom Harrison County was
named,
first sheriff of Bourbon County, and, as senator from Bourbon, a
delagate
to the Constitutional Convention at Danville in 1792.
Thomas Moore was commissioned lieutenant in the
13th Virginia
Regiment
commanded by Colonel Benjamin Harrison, and
captain in the 9th
Virginia
Regiment.
<4> Following the Revolutionary War, he served with George
Rogers
Clark in Illinois, under the command of Colonel Uriah Springer,
who
married Sarah (Crawford), widow of Major William Harrison, another
brother of Mary (Harrison) Moore. Major William
Harrison had been
massacred at the Battle of Sanduskey. In
1802 Thomas Moore was
retired
from the Kentucky Militia with the rank of
Major.
<5> According to William Henry Perrin's "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison,
and Nicholas
Counties, Kentucky, Thomas Moore and his wife had been among the second
party of
settlers in Harrison County. He received a patent for
2000 acres
of land located on Mill Creek,
which had been surveyed for him by Colonel
Benjamin Harrison during an expedition to
Kentucky in 1776.
<6> His will,Written May 20, 1819, proved in Harrison County during January,
1824,
bequethed his entire estate to his widow.
<7> Mary (Harrison) Moore, in various deeds-of-gift, conveyed the Mill Creek land to her children.
<8> Partial Histories of both the Moore and Harrison families have been
published, but the names of the children of Captain Thomas Moore and Mary
(Harrison) have been omitted. Harrison County
records prove the
following:
1
William Moore married Eleanor Dawson; resided in Fayette County, Ohio,
died in
Harrison County, Ky.
2 Lawrence Moore, whose wife's name is unknown, migrated
to Louisiana,
where he died.
3 John Henry Moore, whose wife's name is
unknown, migrated in 1834 to
Gonzales District, Republic of Texas;
commissioned colonel during the
Texas Revolution; died in Fayette
County, Tx.
4 Benjamin Moore married Rebecca Scott;
soldier of 1812; died in Harrison
County, Ky without issue.
5 Thomas Harrison Moore married Martha
Ann Webb; migrated to Gonzales
District, Republic of Texas, in 1835;
died in Fayette County, Tx during
the yellow fever epidemic of 1839/1840.
6 Mary Moore married ? Johnson;
history unknown
7 Nancy Moore married Reverend
J.W.Ross; died in southern Indiana.
8 Catherine Moore married James
Ranjin; died in Harrison county.
9 Elizabeth Moore married John
Wesley Tilton; died in Harrison County.
10 Sallie Moore married(1) Henry
Coleman, and (2) William Thompson; died
in Harrison County.
(Of these, the descendants of William Moore and Thomas
Harrison Moore are
known. I would welcome information concerning other
descendants.-EMW)
Several of the members of this family
who migrated to Texas were killed
at the Battle of Salado, near San
Antonio, in 1842. Others were captured
and executed by the Mexican Army at the
Battle of Mier. They were
interred at Monument Hill, LaGrange, Tx,
the oldest state park of Texas.
*
Ancestry of Thomas Moore
John (1)Moore, b Belfast, Ireland; to
Maryland in 1669 aboard the "Elias"
with wife, Mary ?, and two children,
John and Mary; d 1700, Kent County,
Md.
John(2) Moore, b before 1669, Belfast, Ireland; married Elizabeth
(Darby);d
October 1, 1728, St Paul's Parish, Kent County, Md.
William(3)Moore,
b January 17, 1703, St Paul's Parish, Kent County, Md; married
Rachel (Medford); d 1781, Kent County, Md. They
had
i. Captain John(4)Moore d.s.p.;
ii. ii. Asenath(4) Moore, m John Caulk;
iii. iii. Martin (4) Moore,m. Rasin Gale;
iv. George(4) Moore, m Jane Tilton;
v. Augustine(4) Moore,m. Verlinda Dawson, and
vi. Captain Thomas Moore, m. Mary Harrison.
** Ancestry of Mary Harrison
Anthony Harrison, b. Over, Cambridgeshire, England; to
Virginia in 1653;
d. New Kent Coiunty, Va, after 1680.
Andrew(3)Harrison, b. Over, Cambridgeshire, England, about 1650; married Ellenor (Elliott-Ellitt); d.1718, Essex County, Va.
Andrew (4) Harrison Jr, born about 1690, New Kent County, Va; m. Elizabeth (Battaille);
d. 1750,Orange
County,
Va.
Lawrence (5) Harrison, b. about 1720, Essex County, Va; m.
Catherine(Marmaduke?); d.1769, Bedford County, Pa. They had
i.Colonel Benjamin (6) Harrison, M. Mary Newell;
ii. Lawrence (6)Harrison, m. Mary Allison;
iii. Catherine (6) Harrison, m. Colonel Isaac Meason;
iv. Major William (6)Harrison, m.Sarah Crawford;
v. Battaille(6) Harrison;
vi.Elizabeth (6)Harrison, m.John Dawson, and
vii. Mary(6)Harrison, m. Captain Thomas Moore.
*** Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison
Colonel Benjamin Harrison commanded the
13th Virginia Regiment during the
Revolutionary War. He made an expedition to Kentucky in
1776, with John
Hinkston and John Sellars, at which time
he laid out tracts of land for
himself and members of his family. He
served as first sheriff of Bourbon
County, senator from Bourbon, and
founded Harrison Academy at Cynthiana,
the first school there. He was a
delegate to the Constitutional
Convention at Danville in 1792, when
Harrison County was formed from part
of Bourbon and named for him. He died in
Washington County, Missouri, in
1808. His wife was Mary (Newell). Among
their children was Battaille
Harrison, adjutant- general of Ohio.
FOOTNOTES:
<1>Register of St Paul's Parish 1650-1818-Kent County, Md,
pg307.Kent
County Md Wills: Liber 6, folio 183.
<2>Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, Volume 55, pg 86-87.
<3>Tombstone of Mary(Harrison)Moore,
Harrison county, Ky. Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography,
Volume 55, pg 87.
<4>F.B.Heitman, Historical Register of
Officers of the Continental Army,
1775-1783 (Rare Books, Washington,D.C.,1914)
<5>G.C.Clift, The Corn Stalk Militia of
Kentucky 1792-1811, pg 111(Ky
Hist. Soc. Frankfort, Ky, 1957)
<6>"Deposition of Benjamin Harrison to
establish land title for William
Ward on the South Forkof the Licking
River", Harrison County, Ky, Court
Records, Cited in the Virginia Magazine
of History and Biography, Volume
55, pg91.
<7> Harrison County, Ky Will Book B, pg
188.
<8> Harrison County, Ky Deed Book 14,
pgs 405-409.
SOURCES FOR LINEAGES
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Moore
1 Maryland Land Office Commission, Liber
12, Folio 332: "Early Settlers
in Maryland 1633-1680", at Maryland
Historical Society, Baltimore.
2 St Paul's Parish Register 1656-1818,
Kent County, Md, at Maryland
Historical Society, Baltimore.
3 Kent County, Md Wills:
Liber 15, Folio 168; Liber 20, Folio
775; Liber 19, Folio 557; Liber
6, Folio 183
4 Robert M Torrence, "Torrence and
Allied Families" (Pennsylvania
Historical Society, Philadelphia, 1938), passim.
5 Harrison County, Ky, Wills and Deeds, passim.
Harrison
1
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 55, pp 85-94.
Ibid.,
Volume 41, p 175ff., p 275 ff., p356 ff.
Ibid., Volume 3, pp 1-2.
2 William & Mary Quarterly (2nd Series) Volume 7, pp
274-275.
3 Robert M Torrence, " Torrence and Allied Families".
4 Essex County, Va, Deed Bk 13, p 128, p
365
5 Spottsylvania County, Va, Records:
Deed Book I, pp 2-3.
Will Book A, pp 94,104.
6 Richmond County, Va, Deed Bk 4, p 11.
7 Orange County, Va, Records:
Order Book 1747-1754, p 509, pp 614-615.
Deed
Book 12 pp 50, 243
9 I.D. Rupp, "The History and Topography of Cumberland,
Dauphin, and
Bedford Counties, Pa", p 490.
10 Franklin Ellis, "History of Fayette
County, Pa, pp 60,61
11 Harrison County, Ky Records, Wills &Deeds,
passim.