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Rh settled in New York, where he became a merchant. He was one of the aldermen of the city, served several years in the legislature, was colonel of a regiment, and at the time of his death a member of the provincial council. He was the first person that was buried in Trinity church-yard, New York city. — Another son, Tlioiuas, clergyman, b. in South Carolina in 1689 : d. in Little Britain, Lon- don, England, was graduated at Oxford university, took orders and became chaplain to Bishop Atter- bury, of Rochester, whose sermons were published under the direction of Dr. Moore. — Another son, Daniel, was also educated at Oxford, became a distinguished lawyer, acquired a large estate, and was for several years a member of parliament. His daughter, Frances, became the wife of Chan- cellor Erskine. — Another son, William, jurist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 6 May, 1699; d. in Moore Hall, Chester co.. Pa., 30 May, 1783, was sent by his father to England, where he was educated, and, after graduation at the University of Oxford in 1719, he returned to this country and settled at Moore Hall. He served in the assembly from 1733 till 1740, and in 1741 was commissioned a justice of the peace and judge of the county court. For forty years thereafter he was president judge of the court, and during the Indian troubles he commanded a militia regiment. He took an ac- tive part in the disputes between the governor and the assembly, favoring the proprietaries. In his published writings in Franklin's " Gazette " and elsewhere he attacked the assembly, and by this and other actions made himself so obnoxious to this body that they addressed the governor and asked that Moore be removed from office. He was finally arrested, imprisoned, and impeached, and in August, 1758, was tried before the governor and his council and acquitted, the governor declaring " that Mr. Moore had purged himself from every one of them [the charges], and appeared to them to be perfectly innocent." Moore was character- ized as " the most conspicuous and heroic fig- ure in the county of Chester." His residence, Moore Hall, was situated on the Schuylkill river, twenty-three miles from Philadelphia, and within three miles of Valley Forge. The old stone man- sion is still standing, and in 1787, when Washing- ton went there on a fishing excursion, was known as the " Widow Moore's." See " William Moore, of Moore Hall," in " Historical and Biographical Sketches " (Philadelphia, 1883), and " Keith's Pro- vincial Councillors" (1883). — The second John's grandson, Richard Chanuing', P. E. bishop, b. in New York city, 21 Aug., 1762; d. in Lynch- burg, Va., 11 Nov., 1841, was prepared to enter King's (now Columbia) college, but at the begin- ning of the Revolution his parents took him to West Point, N. Y., where he remained for four years. He then studied medicine, obtained his diploma, and practised for several years, but after- ward studied theology under Bishop Provoost's di- rection, and was ordained deacon in St. George's chapel. New York city, 15 July, 1787, and priest in St. Paul's chapel, 19 Sept., 1787, by that bishop. He was rector of Christ church. Rye, N. Y., for two years, when he accepted a call to St. Andrew's, "Richmond, Staten island, N. Y. This post he held for twenty-one years. He received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1805. In 1808 he was a clerical deputy to the general convention of his church in Baltimore, Md., and was chairman of the committee on additions to its hymnal. In 1809 he accepted the rectorship of St. Stephen's, New York city, where he remained for five years. He was elected bishop of Virginia in 1814, and was conse- crated in St. James's, Philadelphia, 18 May. 1814. On removing to Virginia he accepted the rectorship of the Monumental church in Richmond, where he remained during the rest of his life. In 1828 he asked for an as- sistant, owing to age and infirmity, and in 1829 Rev. William Meade was consecrated to this office. Bishop Moore was emi- nently successful in rousing the Episcopal church in Virginia from its state of leth- argy and depres- sion. His death at a good old age oc- curred suddenly while he was on a visitation of his diocese. He published various addresses, charges to his clergy, and a sermon on " The Doctrines of the Church," which he preached before the General convention in 1820. A memoir of his life was pub- lished shortly after his death by the Rev. Dr. John P. K. Henshaw (Philadelphia, 1842). — His son, David, b. in New York city, 3 June, 1787 ; d. on Staten island. 30 Sept., 1856, was graduated at Co- lumbia in 1806, ordained in May, 1808. and the next year succeeded his father in the rectorship of St. Andrew's, Staten island, where he remained for the rest of his life. He received the degree of D. D. from L^nion college in 1841.

MOORE, John, soldier. He was lieutenant- colonel of the North Carolina loyalists, having joined that corps late in 1779, and in the following summer returned to Tryon county under orders from Lord Cornwallis to excite the loyalty of the people, but not to raise a force until after harvest. He brought detailed accounts of the siege and sur- render of Charleston, with an authoritative message from Cornwallis that he would march into North Carolina after the harvests were gathered. Under Moore and Maj. Nicholas Welsh, contrary to the ordei's of Cornwallis, a force of 1,300 men was im- mediately collected, which encamped at Ramsours Mills, about forty miles beyond Catawba river. In less than five days Col. Matthew Locke and other officers, having received orders from Gen. Griffith Rutherford to oppose the march of the British, levied their several quotas, crossed the Catawba, and effected a junction within sixteen miles of the roy- alists' camp on 19 June, 1780, numbering 350 men. At sunrise the next morning, without any com- mander or military arrangement, they attacked the Tories, and after a well-sustained and bloody en- gagement compelled them to retreat. Relatives and friends fought in the opposing ranks, and after the smoke of the battle recognized each other — the Tories wearing the badge of a green pine-twig in front of the hat, and the Whigs a similar badge of white paper, which were the only means of distin- guishing the two parties in the fray. With thirty survivors Moore reached the royal army at Camden, but was treated with disrespect by the British offi- cers, and threatened with a trial by court-martial for his disobedience and the consequences of it. He was afterward attainted of treason in South Caro- lina, and his property was confiscated.

MOORE, John, surgeon, b. in Indiana, 16 Aug., 1826. He entered the U. S. army as assistant surgeon in June, 1853, and, after serving in Florida