Major James Moore1

M, #389, b. circa 1756, d. 20 May 1815
Last Edited: 27 May 2020

Parents:

Father: Judge James Moore1 b. 1730, d. 31 Mar 1802
Mother: Elizabeth Whitehill1 b. c 1732, d. 25 Jun 1815

Family:

Sarah Sharp Delany d. 1 Dec 1814

Notes

  • Note*: Son of Judge james Moore, probably 2nd son

    1775-1782:
    - Captain under Anthony Wayne 1776 Ticonderoga defeat
    - battle of Brandywine
    - Valley Forge
    - battle of Monmouth
    - siege of Yorktown
    - Savannah possibly

    1783-1784:
    - Wyoming Valley - Connecticut & Pennsylvania claimants

    by 1787:
    - Philadelphia
    - drug business
    - fashionable society, high living
    - business unsuccessful
    - 1798 partnership Goldthwite & Moore dissolved
    - His father assisted him on several occasions, on the last one parting with most of his land rather than permit his son's name to be dishonored.

    about 1800:
    - Removed to Jamestown, Virginia
    - son Sharpe1
  • Note: Long's book lists one son, Sharpe. An Ancestry tree listed seventeen children, many based on SAR applications. Seems unlikely.1
  • Note: Gravestone inscription:

    "In Memory of Col. James Moore
    an officer of the revolutionary army
    who departed this life
    May 20th 1815
    aged 56 Years"4

Citations

  1. [S122] Long, W. S., "Judge James Moore and Major James Moore, of Chester County, Pennsylvania", The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 12, No. 3 (Oct., 1888), pp. 304-309; viewed on url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20083270. And Vol. 12, No. 4 (Jan., 1889), pp. 465-474; https://www.jstor.org/stable/20083289..
  2. [S64] FindAGrave.com, online , 'Sarah Sharp Delany Moore, 1814'.
  3. [S64] FindAGrave.com, online FindAGrave.com, 'LTC James Moore, 1815.'
  4. [S64] FindAGrave.com, online FindAGrave.com, 'LTC James Moore, 1815', legible gravestone photo.