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VOL. XII.

No. 7.

BOSTON.

JULY, 1900.

ALFRED MOORE.1 BY JUNIUS DAVIS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAR. Д LFRED Moore was born in the county /V. of Brunswick on the 2 ist May, 1755. He was the son of Judge Maurice Moore, whose wife was Anne Grange. Me came from a line of men who had written their names upon the history of the Old World and of the New. He was a lineal descend ant of that Roger Moore who was one of the leaders of the Irish rebellion of 1641, and who, Hume says, " first formed the project of expelling the English and asserting the independence of his native country." James Moore, by some accounts the son and by others the grandson of Roger Moore, had emigrated to Barbadoes prior to the accession of Charles II. to the throne, and from there he came to South Carolina with Sir John Veamans, whose daughter he married, and settled near Charleston, in the famous Goose Creek settlement in Berkeley precinct. It was a singular destiny which brought about this alliance and mingled in its offspring the blood of the Irish rebel with that of the English Cavalier. Sir John Yeamans was the son of Robert Yeamans who was High Sheriff of Bristol in 1643, when that city was besieged by the army of the Parliament under Lord Fairfax. So devoted to the cause of Charles was Robert Yeamans, and so sturdily and bravely did he bear himself in the de fense of that city, that upon its capture Fair fax, in his wrath, hanged him off-hand in the street opposite his dwelling. The Barbadoes had been an asylum for both Cavaliers and Roundheads, who, wearied

of the strife and persecution of the civil war, sought peace and rest in a distant land, and here came John Yeamans. He was one of the thirteen gentlemen of that colony who were knighted by Charles, when he came to his own again, for their sufferings and sacri fices in the royal cause. He was also, in January, 1665, made Governor by the Lords Proprietors, of the "County of Clarendon," afterwards the Province of South Carolina, stretching west from the Atlantic to those unknown waters called the Southern Seas and south to the Spanish possessions in Flor ida; and was also a Lieutenant General. In May, 1671, he was created a landgrave and given twelve thousand acres of land; and, in the same year, for a second time was made Governor. He carried with him to the Ash ley his negro slaves, and, according to Ban croft, was the first to introduce negro slavery into the colonies. James Moore was a bold, adventurous man, of high spirit, unflinching courage and strong mind, and he soon became a leader of men. He was Governor of South Carolina, in 1700; and, when succeeded in that office by Sir Nathaniel Johnson, in 1703, he was ap pointed Attorney General of the Province. His eldest son, James Moore, was also Gov ernor of South Carolina, in 1720. He was one of the ablest soldiers of the Province, and had greatly distinguished himself in the wars with the Spanish and Indians. When the Tuscaroras, having recovered from their defeat by Barnwell, were again carry ing the torch and tomahawk through the 1 From an address delivered on presenting the portrait of Justice Moore to the Supreme Court of North Carolina. unprotected settlements of North Carolina,