Moore, William (b. 6 MAY 1699, d. 30 MAY 1783)

Note: Shortly after his marriage, about 1722, to a relative of the Earl of Wemyss his father gave him a large tract of land in Chester County, not far from Valley Forge. He lived there for the rest of his life and the stone house he built there is still called Moore Hall.

He served in the Provincial Assembly from 1733 until 1740, as a justice of the peace from 1741 until his death, as the presiding judge of the Chester County court during most of the period 1750-1776, and as Colonel of the Chester County Militia during the French and Indian War.

When frontier settlements were under attack after Braddock's defeat, he petitioned the Assembly for security and protection for these areas. That made him "obnoxious to the Quaker majority" and they attacked his intregity as a judge. He replied, calling the conduct of the assembly "Virulent and slanderous." He was arrested Jan 6 1758 for libel and for violating the privileges of the Assembly and spent three months in the Philadelphia common jail, being released only when the Assembly (which had forbidden the issuance of a writ of habeus corpus) adjourned. The governor and council investigated the judicial charges brought against him and he was completely exonerated.

Although, like most of his family, he was a loyalist when the Revolution began, he extended his hospitality to officers of the Continental Army during the encampment at Valley Forge.

There is an article on him in the Dictionary of American Biography.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DAB
Title: Dictionary of American Biography

Given Name: William

Death: 30 MAY 1783

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Note: Frances Moore, the daughter of Daniel Moore and Agnes Withers married Thomas Erskine (1750-1823), 1st Lord Erskine, one of the greatest lawyers in the history of England and Lord Chancellor in the "Ministry of All the Talents" in 1806-07.

Given Name: Daniel

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Given Name: Richard

Death: 1738 Jamaica, British West Indies

Burial: 29 JUL 1738 St. Andrew's Parish, Jamaica, British West Indies

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Note: Jehue Burr came with Winthrop's fleet in 1630 and settled in Roxbury where he was admitted as a freeman in 1632. He was named overseer of the road between Boston and Roxbury. He joined the church in Roxbury in 1632, the year of its founding as its twelfth member.

In 1636 he and his family joined the expedition the resulted in the founding of Springfield, Massachusetts, and he was one of the seven signers of the deed (by mark, so he was apparently illiterate) by which the Indians transferred the land. He was the tax collector of Springfield and twice represented the town in Connecticut General Court. He was also the second largest contributor to the fund for building a house for the Reverend George Moxon in Springfield. he remained in Springfield for eight years.

He moved to Fairfield, Connecticut in 1644. He represented the town in the General Court in 1645 and for several years thereafter and served as a grand juror in 1660.

He was the great great great grandfather of Vice President Aaron Burr.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Burr
Title: Charles Burr Todd, A General History of the Burr Family in America (Ric
hardson Reprints, Bethany, Oklahoma, 1985. Originally published in 1878
.)
hardson Reprints, Bethany, Oklahoma, 1985. Originally published in 1878
.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Anderson
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New E
ngland 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995)
ngland 1620-1633
ngland 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Jehue

Death: 1672 Fairfield, Connecticut

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Given Name: ----------

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Anderson
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New E
ngland 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995)
ngland 1620-1633
ngland 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Jehue

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Anderson
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New E
ngland 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995)
ngland 1620-1633
ngland 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: John

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Anderson
Title: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New E
ngland 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995)
ngland 1620-1633
ngland 1620-1633. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Gen
ealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Daniel

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Note: Edmund Sherman emigrated in 1632 to Watertown, Massachusetts. He soon moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut, and then to New Haven.

Edmund Sherman and Joane Makin are the eighth great grandparents of President William Howard Taft. They were also the ancestors of General William Tecumseh Sherman and his brother, Senator John Sherman, for whom the Sherman Antitrust Act is named.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ancestors of American Presidents
Title: Compiled by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Santa C
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.)
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Boardman
Title: Boardman, W. F.J., The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman Hart
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England. (Hartford, Connecticut: privately pr
inted, 1906.)
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England.
ord Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the Em
igrant Ancestors in New England. Hartford, Connecticut: privately prin
ted, 1906.

Given Name: Edmund

Death: 1641 New Haven, Connecticut

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Boardman
Title: Boardman, W. F.J., The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman Hart
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England. (Hartford, Connecticut: privately pr
inted, 1906.)
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England.
ord Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the Em
igrant Ancestors in New England. Hartford, Connecticut: privately prin
ted, 1906.

Given Name: Joane

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Note: Edmund Sherman and Anne Pellatte were the 9th great grandparents of President William Howard Taft.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ancestors of American Presidents
Title: Compiled by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Santa C
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.)
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Edmund

Death: BEF 30 APR 1601

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Boardman
Title: Boardman, W. F.J., The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman Hart
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England. (Hartford, Connecticut: privately pr
inted, 1906.)
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England.
ord Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the Em
igrant Ancestors in New England. Hartford, Connecticut: privately prin
ted, 1906.

Given Name: Anne

Death: BEF 8 JUN 1584

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Note: Henry Sherman and Agnes [Butter] are the 11th great grandparents of President Herbert Hoover and the 12th great grandparents of President George Bush.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ancestors of American Presidents
Title: Compiled by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Santa C
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.)
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Henry

Death: BEF 25 JUL 1590

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Boardman
Title: Boardman, W. F.J., The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman Hart
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England. (Hartford, Connecticut: privately pr
inted, 1906.)
ford Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the E
migrant Ancestors in New England.
ord Connecticut: Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descentr from the Em
igrant Ancestors in New England. Hartford, Connecticut: privately prin
ted, 1906.

Given Name: Agnes

Death: BEF 4 OCT 1580

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Given Name: Sarah

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Given Name: Nathaniel

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Given Name: John

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Given Name: Daniel

Death: 1722

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Given Name: Ann

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Given Name: Mary

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