George Moore, of Isle of Wight

Biography

George Moore, of Isle of Wight was born in 1649 in of, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. He was a Justice of the Court of Isle of Wight County Virginia. He died on November 30, 1710 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.

George married Jane Barcroft. Together they had the following children:

1. Magdalen Moore married Thomas Carter, Jr.
2. Elinor Moore married Richard Pyland
3. Ann Moore married Thomas White
4. Mary Moore married William Williams

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Children also seen without support and detached:

• Sarah Lettie (Moore) Williams
• Thomas Moore, I, Old Cheraw

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1710 Will of George Moore

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George Moore, “age 78 years,” made his will 30 November 1710; recorded 24 January 1714. He had a codicil added prior to his death. See Chapman, Isle of Wight Wills, p. 54. He named no male heirs. The primary legatees of George Moore were some but not all of his grandchildren whose mothers can be deciphered from other records. Unfortunately, the recorder made some errors in the codicil.

Mentioned were the White grandchildren: Jane, John, Moore Thomas [sic: George Thomas], William, and Henry White. They were the children of Ann Moore who married Thomas White. George and Thomas Pyland were the only sons of Elinor Moore who married Richard Pyland of Surry who actually had five children. Samuel and John Williams were the sons of another daughter, Mary Moore, who married William Williams. Oddly enough, George Moore did not have a grandson named Moore Thomas White. He did have a grandson George Thomas White who can be correctly identified in the will of his mother, Ann Moore White, 18 September 1739. George Thomas White left a will, received by the court on 25 June 1744 and witnessed by John Mecom. See Chapman, Wills, pp. 142, 147. The name Moore Thomas White appears on no other record. The recorder clearly erred in giving George Thomas White the wrong first name “Moore.” The only Carter grandson mentioned was one of his namesakes, George Carter, whose considerably younger brother Moore Carter, was also probably supposed to be included. The late Rev. E. S. Lucas of Southern Historical Press was undoubtedly correct that the recorder confused Moore Carter and his first cousin George Thomas White. George and Moore Carter witnessed the last recorded deed of their grandparents George Moore and wife Jane on 22 February1709. See Isle of Wight Deed Book # 2, p. 145.

Will book A, page 586 Will of George Moore, aged 78 years, dated Nov. 1710, probated Jan.24, 1714.

• Legatees: Wife, Jennie:
• dau., Jane White. Codicil:
• grandsons: George Carter, John White, Moore Thomas White, William White, Mary White, land adjoining Thomas Carter.
• Grandson, Samuel Williams, reversion to his brother, John Williams: Grandson: George Piland.
• Witness to codicil: Wm. Baldwin, James Simpson, Henry White.
• Wit. to the will: Elizabeth Brown, Henry Baker, Lawrence Baker.
• Wife: Jennie, Executrix.
• Will probated by Magdalen Carter

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Champion-22

In the Will of Thomas Moore, 28 September 1696, Isle of Wight County, Virginia[4]. Thomas Moore was father [or brother] of Priscilla Moore. She was wife of Edward Champion, Jr.

Heirs:

• Item: Edward Champion, Jr.: My land I bought of Edward Cobb
• Item: Orlando Champion: All my land on the west side of Blackwater Swamp. These said lands are to be for the use of Edward Champion, Sr., father of them, the said Edward and Orlando until the shall severally attain the age of one and twenty years.
• Item: Alice Champion, daughter of Edward Champion, feather bed, pillow, bolster, blankets, hand made rug, bedstead and curtains.
• Item: Benjamin Champion, son of Edward
• Item: Elizabeth Moore, loving wife
• Item: George Moore, brother; Charles Chapman, friend; Magdalena Carter, niece.
• I do appoint my wife and my brother executors of my Will and Mr. Charles Chapman and Mr. Carrillo as overseers.
• Proved in open court, Isle of Wight County the 9th October 1696.

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Justice of the Court of lower IOW which became are called Fishing Creek/Granville/Gates after splitting from Bertie.

23 Sept 1661 - administration on Charles Barcroft's estate granted to his son-in-law George Moore. [George Moore had married Jame daughter of Charles Barcroft.

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From “MOORE-(WILLIAMS) EXCERPT” < link >

MOORE-(WILLIAMS) EXCERPT

4. Colonel George Moore (1632-1713/14)George Moore (1632-1713/14) married Jane Barcroft.

He is documented quite thoroughly by Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, passim, as he served as High Sheriff of the County and Justiceof the Court from 1680 until at least 1698 (ibid., pp. 202, 634, 704). One document of 1675, when he wasthe bondsman for Sarah Bressie as the widow of John Bressie, indicates that he rose to the rank of Colonel(Chapman, Wills , p. 68). He probably lived most of his adult life in the Lawne’s Creek “community,”established as one of the early “nesting places” of the merchant-mariners including Charles Barcroft,cJustinian Cooper, William Cooke, Francis England, Robert Flake, Thomas Gwaltney, William Miles, JohnMunger, James Pyland, James Tooke, and Henry White. He appeared often in the records of both Surryand Isle of Wight Counties. After he, William Cooke, and William Miles claimed land at Blackwater during the 1660s, the Isle of Wight Court appointed James Powell and George Moore on 9 July 1680 tomeet with their Surry counterparts about building a Blackwater bridge (ibid., pp. 591-92). This assignment was also related undoubtedly to the adjustment of the boundary between Surry and Isle of Wight, as manyBlackwater planters had land in both jurisdictions—a situation that undoubtedly caused much inconvenience. The Surry court took note of the fact on 7 July 1683 that the Isle of Wight court hadordered Powell and Moore to work with Colonel Arthur Allen and Robert Caufield of Surry to assure thatthe boundary was properly processioned. See Surry County Court Records, January 1682-1691, Book # 4, p. 407.

George Moore probably lived in England briefly—perhaps first pursuing an education and then onfamily business interests. On 29 July 1650, when he was only 18, he and his future father-in-law CharlesBarcroft were on the headright list of John Munger (Nugent, I, 191). As noted above in the material onBarcroft, Moore and his purported brother-in-law Richard Williams witnessed the assignment of Barcroft’seffects in 1654 to his third wife Magdalen and son William, probably a year or so before his marriage toBarcroft’s daughter Jane. On 25 September 1663, George Moore was a headright, along with severalBlackwater people, including Ann Wombwell and Joseph and Thomas Poole, of John Harvey who was patenting along the Carolina frontier (Nugent, I, 191, 427). Joseph Poole is noted above as the secondhusband of Moore’s purported aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore Champion Poole Walton. John Harvey was theson-in-law of James Tooke whose will was witnessed by Thomas Carter, # 8, on 1 February 1659.Concerning the Harvey-Tooke connection, see William Carter, # 2, the note at “ca. 1625/29. A settledcareer in Isle of Wight probably began for George Moore when his purported brother-in-law Robert Flakeconveyed to George Moore land at Blackwater from Flake’s 2,700-acre patent on 20 August 1666 (Boddie, Seventeenth Century, p. 558). Flake and wife Katherine deeded George Moore additional land on 18October 1669 (Isle of Wight Wills and Deeds, 1662-1715, Vol. I, p. 201). Neither the amounts of land nor any consideration are mentioned. Robert Flake and George Moore were the bondsmen for Mary Skinner,daughter of Katherine Flake by her first husband, name unknown, as administratrix for Mary’s husbandRichard Skinner on 9 April 1677 (Chapman,
Wills, p. 104). George Moore had already added to hisholdings in 1669 when he patented 1,400 acres on the “2d Swamp” of the Blackwater adj. CaptainWombwell and the Beaver Dam Branch, from whence came part of the plantation of son-in-law hisThomas Carter; one of his headrights was John Collins who became the third husband of theaforementioned Mary Skinner, evidently George Moore’s niece. See Nugent, Vol. 2, p. 57.

From https://sallysfamilyplace.com/maple-lawn/george-moore-jane-barcroft/

George Moore (ca 1634 – 1714) |his parents/ & Jane Barcroft (ca 1641 – ), daughter of Charles Barcroft (ca 1610 – 1666) & Maudlin [relict] of Isle of Wight County, Virginia

George Moore married Jane, daughter of Charles Barcroft. This George Moore was the brother of Thomas Moore 1643 – 1696 married ca 1665 Elizabeth [widow of Samuel Eldridge]. They probably also had a sister.

From Dr. Barry Hayes* “The circumstantial evidence is strong that Mrs. Priscilla Champion was…. a sister of the proved brothers a.Thomas Moore and b. George Moore…… e. –?– Moore and his wife Mrs. Anne Rogers Moore Baron Matthews Davis, whose only Moore son was yet another John Moore, f. Elizabeth Moore who married 1st Thomas Barlow and 2nd William Baldwin, and g. Katherine Moore who married 1st unknown and 2nd Robert Flake.”

Children of George Moore and Jane Barcroft:

• 1. Ann Barcroft Moore ca 1660/70 – 1742 married Thomas White
• 2. Magdalen Moore ca 1656/57 – aft 1737 married ca 1673 Thomas Carter
• 3. Elinor Moore ca 1656/60 – married Richard Piland
• 4. Mary Moore ca 1670 – married William Williams ca 1665-1712

Isle of Wight Co., Va. Deed Aug. 11, 1673. ” George Moore, in consideration of the marriage between Thomas Carter and Magdalen, daughter of said Moore, gives to Thomas Carter, and Magdalen in writing, 400 acres land laid out of dividend of 1400 acres in Blackwater Swamp, patented by Moore 5/12/1669.

Notes

Charles Barcroft married 1st Dorothy Crosbie on 20 Feb 1632/33 at St. Olave's of Southwark in London. She was the daughter of John Crosbie of St. Albans in Hertfordshire. She apparently died a short time after the birth of her daughter Elizabeth.

Charles Barcroft married second ca 1634-36 Elizabeth. In Calendar of State Papers: Colonial America and the West Indies 1675-6, Addenda 1574-1674 p. 83, #189 an entry for 8 March 1639 about "Elizabeth, wife of Charles Barcroft of Old Ford, Middlesex" to the effect that in August 1636 her husband abandoned his trade in London and went to Virginia "where he yet lives." The entry goes on to note that "his brother John Barcroft was there deceased" and that Charles Barcroft "merchant" was sending her yearly expenses. On his departure for Virginia, she had gone to live with her father and mother at Whitechapel where she stayed about a year. The entry concluded that "she denies any unlawful familiarity with John Barcroft, Thomas Bulkeley, or any other lewd person."

Charles Barcroft married a third wife named Magdalen ca 1640.

12 March 1654 - Charles Barcroft makes his will and leaves his property to his son William and wife Magdalen. Chapman 1 3

23 Sept 1661 - administration on Charles Barcroft's estate granted to his son-in-law George Moore. [George Moore had married Jame daughter of Charles Barcroft.

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Dec 2014: disconnected as child of Dea. John Moore & Abigail Pinney. John Moore of New England had six children, but none of them were named George, and none of his children went to Virginia. See Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, pp 1276-78

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