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Royal Governor James Moore

Royal Governor James Moore

Male 1650 - 1706  (56 years)

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  • Name James Moore 
    Title Royal Governor 
    Prefix Royal Governor 
    Born 1640-1650  Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
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    View Tree for Governor James MooreGovernor James Moore (b. 1640, d. 06 November 1706)
    James Moore (son of Roger Moore and Jane Barnewall) was born 1640 in Ireland, and died 06 November 1706 in Charleston, South Carolina.He married Margaret Berringer on 1675 in North Carolina or Barbados, daughter of Benjamin Berringer and Margaret Foster.
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    James Moore was Royal Governor of South Carolina 1719-1721. In 1573, Spanish Franciscans establish the Santa Maria mission on what is now Amelia Island, Florida, then named Isla de Santa Maria. The mission was abandoned in 1680 after the inhabitants refused a Spanish order to relocate. British raids force the relocation of the Santa Catalina de Guale mission on St. Catherine\'s Island, Georgia, to the abandoned Santa Maria mission on the Island in 1685. In 1702, this mission was again abandoned when South Carolina\'s colonial governor, James Moore, led a joint British-Indian invasion of Florida.
    Governor of South Carolina 1700-1702
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    MOORE, James, governor of South Carolina, born in Ireland about 1640; died in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1729. He was the descendant of Roger Moore, the leader of the Irish rebellion in 1640. He emigrated to this country in 1665, settled in Charleston, South Carolina, and in 1700 was governor of the state. He married in the year after his arrival the daughter of Sir John Yeamans. They had ten children.-Their son, James, soldier, born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1667; died near Cape Fear. N. C., 10 November, 1740, early acquired military renown in his campaigns against the Indians. In 1702 he undertook an expedition against the Spaniards in St. Augustine, Florida, that proved unsuccessful and entailed a heavy burden on the colony, to meet which the first paper money used in South Carolina was issued under the name of bills of credit. The next year he commanded an expedition against the Appalachian Indians, who had done great injury in the Cape Fear. N. C., region, completely subdued them, and in 1713 was in charge of the forces that were sent by Governor Charles Craven to the aid of the settlers, whose lands had been ravaged by the Tuscaroras. In 1719, on the deposition of Robert Johnson, he was elected governor of the state, the office the latter had occupied; Arthur Middleton succeeded him the same year, and Moore subsequently became attorney-general and judge of the admiralty court, and was speaker of the South Carolina assembly in 1721-\'5. He removed to North Carolina about 1735, and settled near Cape Fear.--Another son, Maurice, soldier, born in Charleston, South Carolina, about 1670; died in Cape Fear, North Carolina, after 1740, accompanied his brother James in his expedition against the Cape Fear Indians in 1713, commanded a troop of horse under Governor Charles Eden, and did good service against the Indians. He was one of the first settlers of the Cape Fear region.--Maurice\'s son, Maurice, jurist, born in Brunswick county, North Carolina, in 1735; died in Wilmington, North Carolina, 15 January, 1777, early won reputation at the bar, and was one of the three colonial judges of North Carolina at the beginning of the Revolution, having been appointed with Richard Henderson and Martin Howard in March, 1758. He joined the patriot cause at the beginning of the struggle, denounced the high-handed measures of Governor Tryon in a series of letters signed \"Atticus,\" and in coil-sequence was recommended by him for removal, but continued on the bench until the Revolution closed the courts. So great was his popularity that, during the Hillsborough riots in 1770, he was unmolested. He was a member of the provincial house of burgesses in 1775-\'6, one of a committee to draw up an address to the people of Great Britain on the wrongs of the North American colonies, and materially aided in forming the state constitution. His death and that of his brother James occurred at the same hour in adjoining rooms.--Another son of the first Maurice, James, soldier, born in New Hanover, North Carolina, in 1737\" died in Wilmington. N. C., 15 January, 1777, was a captain of artillery under Governor Tryon at the defeat of the regulators at Alamance in 1771, colonel of the 1st regiment of North Carolina troops that was raised for the defence of the state, and in February, 1776, was in command of the forces, a part of which. under Colonel Richard Caswell and Colonel John A. Lillington, won the first victory of the Revolution at Moore\'s creek bridge, near Wilmington, over 1,500 Scotch Tories. He was promoted brigadier-general for this exploit, made commander-in-chief of the southern department, and received the thanks of congress. He died of a fever on his way to join Washington.--The second Maurice\'s son, Alfred, jurist, born in Brunswick county, North Carolina, 21 May, 1755; died in Bladen county, North Carolina, 15 October, 1810, was educated in Boston, where he acquired a knowledge of military tactics, and declined a commission in the royal army. He was admitted to the bar when he was twenty years old, but relinquished his profession to join the army\" was made captain in the 1st North Carolina regiment in 1775, of which his uncle Jalnes was colonel, and participated in the battles of Charleston and Fort Moultrie. He subsequently raised a troop of volunteers that did good service in harassing Lord Cornwallis in his march from Guilford to Wilmington While the British occupied that town, they destroyed all his property, and at the end of the Revolution he was without means to support his family. He was elected by the North Carolina legislature state attorney-general in 1792, and he rose to high rank in the profession. He was called to the bench in 1798, and the next year was appointed by the president an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, but he resigned in 1805 on account of the failure of his health.--Alfred\'s son, Alfred, lawyer, born in Brunswick county, North Carolina, in 1783\" died there, 28 July, 1837, possessed brilliant oratorical gifts, became an eminent lawyer, and was frequently elected a member and several times speaker of the legislature.
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    James Moore came to the Carolina Province section of North Carolina in 1665. Other sources say he arrive d in SC from Barbados in 1675 as attorney to Margaret, Lady Yeamans, administrator of Sir Joh n Yeamans estate, late governor of SC., and settled in Goose Creek. Some sources claim that he married first an Elizabeth or Anne Yeamans in Barbados. Margaret Berringer seems to have not been the mother of his first two children. Governor of Province- 1700-1702. As govenor, he made an expedition against the spaniards i n St. Augustine, with the help of Gov. DAniell Member of Council 1677. Member of Assembly. Son of Irish chieftain, Roger Moore of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 who fled to Flanders. 1705 gave plantation of 500 acres to Brother in law, Tilney Coachman and wife Alice. They had two children, James and John Coachman. Will dated 1703, proved 6 nov 1706. Indian trader, died in 1706 of yellow fever. Plantation called Wassamassaw. One source says that he was not irish, but was from Devonshire. Another says he arrived in Carolina from Kendall, Westmoreland.
    Arms: sable, a swan with wings expansed argent, membered or, within a bordure engrailed of the same.
    SC Hist Mag says a map of the Tuscaroras, of which Colonel James Moore was commander-in-chief- shows arms are: sable, a swan close argent within a bordure engraved or. (These arms are listed as the arms of Moore of Devonshire, Hampshire and Surry .) The arms on the map have no crest, but a Moor\'s head is affronted. The map shows the engrave bordure painted yellow, the field black, and the swan painted whit e with red bill and feet. The seal of Gov. James Moore, with orginial signature is shown wit h a swan with raised wings within a bordure engraved, no tinctures shown. There is a crest w ith a head in armor. Charleston record book 1694-1704-shows sale of lands by James moore and Maurice Mathews, with dower by Margaret Moore.
    More About James Moore:
    Date born 2: 1640
    Died 2: 06 November 1706, Brunswick, North Carolina.
    More About James Moore and Margaret Berringer:
    Marriage: 1675, North Carolina or Barbados.
    Children of James Moore and Margaret Berringer are:
    +Roger Moore, b. 24 August 1694558, d. 20 October 1759.  [1
    History From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    James Moore
    13th Colonial Governor of South Carolina
    In office
    September 11, 1700 – March 1703
    Preceded by Joseph Blake
    Succeeded by Nathaniel Johnson
    Personal details
    Born c. 1650
    England
    Died 1706 (aged 55–56)
    Occupation colonial administrator

    Col. Moore leads his raiding party past the Ocmulgee trading-post, in this museum display at Ocmulgee National Monument
    James Moore (c. 1650 – 1706) was the English governor of colonial Carolina between 1700 and 1703. He is best known for leading several invasions of Spanish Florida during Queen Anne\'s War, including attacks in 1704 and 1706 which wiped out most of the Spanish missions in Florida.[1]

    Contents [hide]
    1 Early life
    2 Political career
    3 Family
    3.1 Family tree
    4 References
    5 Further reading
    Early life[edit]
    Little is known of James Moore\'s origins. During his life he was said to be a son of Roger Moore (also known as Rory O\'Moore or Ruairí Óg Ó Mórdha), leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and that he had supposedly inherited his father\'s rebellious nature.[2] He first appears in the records of the Province of Carolina in 1675 representing Margaret Berringer Yeamans, widow of Sir John Yeamans, before the colonial council. At about the same time he married her daughter by her first husband, also named Margaret.

    Political career[edit]
    In 1677, 1682, and 1683, he served on the colonial council. He played a leading role in a 1690 expedition into the Carolina back country, crossing the Appalachian Mountains to investigate possibilities of trade with the local Indian population. In 1698 he was elected to the colonial assembly, and was described as the right-hand-man of proprietor Sir John Colleton. The next year he was named chief justice of the colony, a post he held until he was named governor in 1700, replacing the deceased Joseph Blake.

    James Moore was a leader of one of colonial South Carolina\'s political factions, called the \"Goose Creek Men\", after Goose Creek, an outlying area of Charleston.[2]

    In 1683 Moore was granted 2,400 acres (970 ha) by the Lords Proprietors. He called his estate \"Boochowee\". Part of this land is known today as Liberty Hall Plantation.[2]

    From 1691 Moore was the acknowledged leader of the Goose Creek Men, the main political opposition to the ruling \"Dissenter\" faction. Moore\'s rise to governorship in 1700 signalled a major shift in the politics of the colony. The Dissenters contested Moore\'s \"unjust election\". But the Lords Proprietors saw to it that Moore remained governor, and they made it clear that the Dissenters were no longer in favor.[3]

    Between 1700 and 1703 Moore was the British governor of Carolina, which was then in the process of dividing into the provinces of North and South Carolina. During this period, he led a number of attacks from the Carolinas into Spanish Florida. He relied on allied Indian tribes, especially the Yamasee for most of his military force. On news of the outbreak of Queen Anne\'s War in 1702, he led 500 colonists, 300 native allies, and 14 small ships on an invasion of Spanish Florida along the coast, destroying the remaining Spanish missionary Indians of Guale and Mocama, and devastating the lands around St. Augustine. While the town of St. Augustine was razed, its central fortress, Castillo de San Marcos, where the Spanish and numerous allied Indians had taken refuge, resisted Moore\'s siege.[1][4] The 1702 campaign was viewed as a disaster due to the failure to take the fortress and the expenses incurred, and Moore resigned his post.

    In 1704, Moore led an expedition of 50 Englishmen and 1,000 Creek, Yamasee, and other allied Indians, into western Florida, leading to the Apalachee Massacre. The Apalachee were the last powerful Spanish-allied Indian nation in the region. Their defeat in 1704 resulted in many Apalachee being enslaved and taken from Charleston to the West Indies. Other Apalachee were relocated (some voluntarily, others not) to the Savannah River to live in semi-serfdom. Another result of the defeat of the Apalachee was the collapse of the final defence of the Indians of Florida. In the following years, Carolinian and Indian slave raiders virtually wiped out the Indian population of Florida all the way to the Florida Keys.

    Moore\'s defeat of the Apalachee in Spanish Florida was hailed as a major victory for Carolina, which had been fighting with the Spanish for control of the region for decades. It also served to strengthen ties between various southeastern Indians and Carolina. The Creek people and the Cherokees became much more closely allied with Carolina. With these two Indian nations as strong allies, the English rose to a position of dominance over the French and Spanish in the American southeast.

    Governor Moore died in 1706 of a tropical disease, possibly yellow fever. He was significantly in debt. His son by the same name was elected to the same office in 1719 following the overthrow of the proprietary governor.

    Family[edit]
    James Moore married Margaret Berringer, daughter of Lady Margaret Yeamans (by a previous marriage).[5] Their daughter, Mary Moore, married Job Howe, another of the \"Goose Creek Men\".[5] Altogether James and Margaret had ten children, many of whom moved to the Lower Cape Fear region, where they and their descendants became known as \"The Family\", the most powerful family in the region.[6] Moore was the grandfather of American Revolutionary War Brigadier General James Moore, and great-grandfather of Major General Robert Howe.

    The Moore family imported over 4,000 slaves into the Carolinas, mostly for its own extensive plantations and farms in and around the Cape Fear area of what later became North Carolina. James Moore also had a house in Charleston and another in the Goose Creek area near Charleston.

    Another Moore family descendent, Alfred Moore, became a Justice of the US Supreme Court.

    Family tree[edit]
    Nathaniel Moore (son of Rory Oge O\'More)































    Margaret Berringer

    James Moore











































    Maurice Moore

    Mary Porter

    Colonel James Moore
























































    James

    John Ashe

    Rebecca

    Maurice

    James Moore


    References[edit]
    ^ Jump up to: a b Doak, Robin (14 August 2007). South Carolina 1540-1776. National Geographic Books. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4263-0066-0. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
    ^ Jump up to: a b c Heitzler, Michael James (2005). Goose Creek, A Definitive History: Volume One, Planters, Politicians and Patriots. The History Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-59629-055-6. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
    Jump up ^ Edgar, Walter B. (1998). South Carolina: a history. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-57003-255-4. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
    Jump up ^ Rowland, Lawrence Sanders; Moore, Alexander; Rogers, George C. (1996). The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-1-57003-090-1. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
    ^ Jump up to: a b Heitzler, Michael James (2005). Goose Creek, A Definitive History: Volume One, Planters, Politicians and Patriots. The History Press. pp. 160, 272. ISBN 978-1-59629-055-6. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
    Jump up ^ Olwell, Robert; Tully, Alan (2006). Cultures and identities in colonial British America. JHU Press. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-0-8018-8251-7. Retrieved 8 October 2011.  [2
    History Governor of South Carolina  [3
    Residence Orton Plantation  [4
    Died 6 Nov, 1706  Charleston, SC Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I644  Ellie Wood Keith
    Last Modified 1 Jun 2023 

    Father Nathanial Moore 
    Relationship putative 
    Relationship putative 
    Family ID F353  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Berringer 
    Children 
    +1. Nathanial Moore
     2. Gov. James Moore, Jr.
     3. James Moore, III
     4. Roger Moore,   b. Aug 1694,   d. 1751  (Age ~ 56 years)  [putative]
     5. Col. Maurice Moore,   d. yes  [putative]
    Last Modified 15 Jan 2018 
    Family ID F350  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Colonel James Moore
    Colonel James Moore
    Col. Moore leads his raiding party past the Ocmulgee trading-post, in this museum display at Ocmulgee National Monument

  • Sources 
    1. [S38] Genealogy.com, http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/o/s/John-Cantzon-Foster/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0616.html.

    2. [S12] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moore_(South_Carolina_politician).

    3. [S36] Genealogy.com.

    4. [S12] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orton_Plantation.