Isaac Moore

Notes:

Historical marker:
The Moses Moore (1738-1812) Historical Marker is located on the east side of State Route 92 near Frost, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The Moore Cemetery is located across the highway from the marker on top of the hill.
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Story of Moses II Moore's Life
Moses Moore was born about 1731 in Timber Ridge, Rockingham Co, VA and died about 1812.

Pioneer, hunter, trapper, soldier, patriot and Indian captive.

Moses Moore came from Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County, VA, about 1770 and settled here on a huge tract of land that he purchased from a man named Ewing for the sum of two steel traps and two pounds English sterling. In May 1758, while on one of his hunting trips, he was captured by the Indians at a place now called "Mossey Springs", near Cass, WV. He was taken to an Indian village near Chillicothe, OH, where he spent many months as a prisoner before he escaped. Moses returned to Rockbridge County, Virginia, where he was married on November 8,1761.

Moses Moore served in the Revolutionary War in 1780 as a private under command of Col. George Rogers Clark. He served with the Virginia Militia during Dunmore's War.

From William T. Price's Historical Sketches of Pocahontas Co, WV (reprinted by McClain Publishing, Parsons, WV, 1963; originally published by Price Brothers, Marlinton, WV, 1901):

"The progenitor of the largest relationship of the name in the county, came from what is now Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County,VA. At the time of the Drennan raid, when James Baker and the Bridger Boys were killed, Moses Moore was living on Swago, in sight of what is now the McClintic homestead. Pheobe, his youngest daughter remembered how the family refuged to the fort at Mill Point, and while the Drenanns and Moores and others were passing around the end of the mountain they heard the firing at the Bridger Notch, when the boys were killed. This would make it 1786 when James Baker, the first school teacher of Pocahontas, was killed. During the first years of his pioneer life in our region, he spent much time hunting and trapping along Back Alleghany, Upper Greenbrier River, and Clover Lick vicinity. He was a close observer of Indian movements, and would make a careful search for Indian movements and signs. Before resuming operations as the hunting seasons returned, the ususal place for the Indians to cross the Greenbrier, in the hunting grounds mentioned, was at a passage narrow enough from them to vault over with a long pole. Moore would take notice accordingly which side of the river the vaulting-pole would be on, and act accordingly. Finally the Indians seemed to have found out his strategy, and thereupon vaulted the narrow passageand cunningly threw the pole back on the other side. This threw the hunter off his guard. It was Saturday; he set his traps, looked after the deer signs, and arranged his camp. The venerable William Collins, yet living (as of 1901), is sure that the camping spot was on what is now the Charley Collins place, on the Greenbrier above the Cassell Fording, at a place near Tub Mill where he was captured by the wily Indians. It was the hunter's purpose to pass the Sabbath at his camp in quiet repose and devotional reading of the Bible he carried about with him for company. He had put a fat turkey to roast about daylight, and was reclining on a bear skin reading a lesson from the word, preparatory to a season of meditation and prayer before breakfast, a habit so charactersitic of the Scotch-Irish at that period. He was interrupted by the breaking of a stick, and upon looking intently and steadily in the direction whence the sound seemed to have come he saw five or six warriors aiming their guns and moving cautiously upon him. Seeing there was no chance of escape, hemmed in as he was, he threw up his hands and made signs for them to come to him. He put the turkey before them and made signs for them to eat. By gestures and gutteral gruntings they gave him to understand that they would not touch it unless he would eat some first. He did so, and thereupon they devoured it ravenously, and it was no time that scarcely a fragement remained, even of the bones. Soon as breakfast was over, they started for their home in Ohio. Having passed but a few miles, they halted at what the pioneers afterwards called the Mossey Spring. The spring - one of the most copious and beautiful of its kind - is near the residence of the late DavidMcLaughlin, four or five miles up the Back Alleghany road from Driftwood. The prisoner was securely bound with buffalo thongs and pinioned to the ground. A detachment went off in the direction of driftwood, and were absent two or three hours. When the party returned they were loaded with ore. This was carried to a place, where another halt was made and the ore was smelted and reduced in weight, so that one could carry what had required two to bring in as raw materials. The prisoner was taken as far as Chilacothe and the Indians seemed to have been greatly elated over thier capture. So much so that as a special compliment to their lady friends it was decided in solemn council of inquiry what to do with the prisoner, that the captive should run the gauntlet. The Indians seem to have known of nothing so intensely amusing than running the gauntlet, and of no compliment more flattering to their favorite lady friends than have them to form the gauntlet lines, and leave it to them to torment the captive. Accordingly two lines of squaws were drawn up about six or eight feet apart. One captive had preceded Moore, who was stabbed, bruised and hacked to pieces. This made him think it was only death any way. He entered the line and passed some distance, finally a squaw with a long handled frying pan struck him. He wrenched the pan from her and knocked her down with his fist and then striking left and right with the handle of the frying pan, he proceeded along the lines, and many of the other squaws ran away. When Moore had scattered them, the warriors crowded around him, patted and praised him, "good soldier," "good soldier," and decided that he should be allowed to live. By degrees he secured the confidence of his captors. In hunting he was very successful and the Indian who was his keeper would give him ammunition, a part of which he would secret. The supply of ammunition was gradually increased, and the time given him to be absent was extended two or three days. With this increase of rations o powder and bullets and extension of time, he ventured to make escape, and got a start so far ahead that the Indians could see no hopeful chance of recapturing him. It is nothing but just to remark Moses Moore is one of the pioneers of this county who will be among those longest remembered in the future by those interested in our pioneer literature. Moses Moore's descendants have proably cleared more land than any one family connection; some of them have been and are prominent in public affairs. The following particulars were mainly furnished by the venerableAndrew Washington Moore, one of his grandsons, now in the 83rd year of his age, residing on Knapps Creek and occupying a part of the old ancestral homestead. About 1770 Moses Moore settled on Knapps Creek, known about that period as Ewing's Creek, and so named in some of the land papers. Traces of the orginal cabin remained for years in the meadow near the old orchard contiguous to Washington Moore's present residence. The tract of land extended from Andrew Herold's to Dennis Dever's gate by the roadside below the Francis Dever homestead. Besides other improvements, Mr. Moore built a mill on Mill Run."

From Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Vol. 1, p. 459: Moses Moore v. Samuel Cloyd. Samuel Cloid be pleased for to pay unto John Risk, my father-in-law, tht money that you owe me, which is five pound, nine shillings, for I have impowered him for to do for me in my absence for to recover it, or to look after it for me. Given under my hand this fifth day of February and year 1766. Signed Moses Moore, Samuel Cloyd. Test, Robert Risk, Martha Risk; 472.



He married Hannah Risk. She was born about 1740 and died about 1810. She was the daughter of John Risk and Margaret or Martha.

Their children were:

John Moore (born 29 January 1762); married an unknown McClung

James Moore (born 5 October 1763)

Margaret Moore (born 29 March 1765 in Timber Ridge, Rockingham, Co, VA)

Moses Moore, Jr. (born 8 February 1769); removed to KY

Hannah Moore (born 6 June 1771); married Abram Duffield

Robert Moore (born 27 May 1772); married an unknown McCollam

Phoebe Moore (born 13 February 1774); married Jonathan McNeill

Rebecca Moore (married unknown Cole)

William Moore (born 18 September 1784); married Christina Dods

Aaron Moore (married Catherine Johnson)

Isaac Moore (married Margaret Wilson)

NOTE: ONLY JOHN, JAMES AND MARGARET WERE THE CHILDREN OF HANNAH RISK. THE OTHERS WERE MARY ELLOTT'S CHILDREN FROM HIS SECOND MARRIAGE.

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Moses married Hannah Risk in 1761 in Augusta Co, Virginia. Hannah was born in 1740 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died in 1810 in Pocahontas Co, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

from John Reedy (1/31/05)
In regards to Moses Moore, and I'm not positive that this is our guy, but he is the only one that makes sense from a standpoint of time and place (to be a daddy to Nancy and to be in Augusta Co. VA) from Lyman Chalkley's "Chronicles of the Scots-Irish in Virginia", Lyman Chalkely, 1912, Moses Moore was a prisoner taken at the Jackson River in May, 1758 (by the Indians), and later in Augusta, Administration of his estate in Aug and appraisers in Nov, 1758 would seem to point out that he died, probably as a soldier at the end of that war. There is no mention of his wife Jane, (as supposedly given) nor any mention of a daughter Nancy.

Moses* married Jane (..) Moore about 1740. Jane was born about 1710; died after 1748. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Moses Moore, born c. 1686; died in November 1758. (Abstracts from the Records of Augusta County, Virginia, Lyman Chalkley, Vol. I, page 82). He left at least one son, Moses Moore