Richard Cureton Moore (abt. 1697 - aft. 1784)

Born about 22 Dec 1697 in Philadelphia, Colony of Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Jenkins) Moore — married 1720 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died after 1784 after about age 86 in Wrightsboro, Richmond, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Richard was born in 1697. Richard Moore ... He passed away after 1784.

The Moore family stayed in Berks Co PA at Exeter MM until 1755. The certificates from Exeter were received by Cane Creek MM in Orange Co NC on 6-4, 1757, for Richard Moore, his wife Sarah (Jenkins), their son John and their daughter Prudence. A receipt of certificate for Mordecai and Abigail Moore is not in the extant records for Cane Creek, but they had to have had one, since Cane Creek disowned both. Abigail's dis mou was recorded on 8-4, 1764 and also on 8-2, 1766. One of those is probably a transcription error, since there are several of those in the Hinshaw summaries (or a typo at the printer). Mordecai Moore was disowned on 5-6, 1758, and Prudence Moore on 7-7, 1759. On 11-7, 1767, Richard and wife (Sarah) and son James were granted a certificate to Fredericksburg MM, SC. Bush River wasn't yet an MM, and Wrightsborough GA did not yet exist as a settlement, much less an MM. The Wrightsborough plans were already in process, so the older Moores probably went straight there--they didn't stay long enough in SC to get land there (although son Mordecai did). Fredericksburg MM was the nearest one for either the Bush River or the Wrightsborough communities as of 1767. Son John Moore stayed in NC until 4-5, 1777, when he was granted a certificate to Wrightsborough MM (received there on 1-3, 1778).

Abigail Moore married Nehemiah Thomas in Orange County, NC. Abigail was a sister to Mordecai. She and Nehemiah lived in Newberry County very close to my George and Sarah Moore McKinsey. Nehemiah is buried there, but Abigail moved to Warren County, Ohio with George's family during the mass exodus of the Quaker families out of the south and into Ohio and Indiana in the first decade of the 1800's.

In a copy made from a book about Wrightsboro by Dorothy M. Jones there is an abstract of the will of Richard Moore:
s/9/20/1784--no date of pro.
Heirs,

sons James and

John,

Mordecai,

Richard,

Thomas, and

Jonas

Daus: Mary Mooney,

Prudence Ryan,

Abigail Thomas, and

Sarah Perkins^[1]

Sources

• Pennsylvania Quakers, by Marsha Moses

• Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America: A Genealogical History, List of Settlers in Early Georgia, Section K, p. 245. By Donald Neal Yates

1. ↑ Pennsylvania Quakers, entered by Michelle Brooks on 2013-12-30

• See also: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ3J-H19