Re: Cheraw. I'm still trying & learning about this, apparently an Indian name for an extinct group (tribe) of indigenous people in South Carolina at the time of the Moores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheraw. I've not found any familial connections, yet.
However, on the Moores, some more:
From COLONIAL OFFICER AND HIS TIMES, 1754-1773. BY ALFRED MOORE WADDELL. 1890
Colonel Maurice Moore, of Brunswick on the Cape Fear, commanded these levies. He was the brother of Colonel James Moore, the hero of Nahuckc, and had recently become a citizen of the northern province. Their father, Governor James Moore, married the daughter of Sir John Yeamans, and Col Maurice Moore had assumed charge of the lands on the Cape Fear which his grandfather, the Baronet, had settled in 1665 and abandoned in 1690.
...Sir John Yeamans brought over a colony, and in 1665 settled it upon the site of the former one at the mouth of Town Creek, eight miles below Wilmington, on the west bank of the river. He received from the Lords Proprietors a grant for thirtty- two miles square, and was made the Governor of the colony. He remained there six years, and, in 1671, was made Governor of "Carteret County," as South Carolina was then called, to which place he went, taking his colony with him, and soon after founded Charleston, which was the name of the settlement he had left on Town Creek.
While residing there, James Moore, the grandson of the rebel Roger Moore, who had also come to America to seek his fortune, married the daughter of Yeamans, thus uniting the blood of the English loyalist and Irish rebel, and afterwards was also Governor of South Carolina.
The younger son of Governor James Moore, Maurice Moore, having come with his brother, Colonel James Moore, to suppress the Indian outbreaks in North Carolina in 1 7 1 1 , concluded that he would re-settle the Cape Fear, which had remained unoccupied ever since his grandfather's colony left it, and accordingly he returned there about 1723, and in 1725 laid out the town of Brunswick, about eight miles below the site of the original settlement, and sixteen miles below Wilmington. Two of his brothers, Roger and Nathaniel, came with him, as did many others.
(Pgs. 206-207, COLONIAL OFFICER AND HIS TIMES, 1754-1773. BY ALFRED MOORE WADDELL. 1890)
From SCHOOL HISTORY OF NORTH Carolina, From 1584 to 1879. By JOHN WHEELER MOORE, 1879.
...Colonel Maurice was brother to Colonel James Moore, and they were grandsons of Sir John Yeamans.
P.28, SCHOOL HISTORY OF NORTH Carolina, From 1584 to 1879. By JOHN WHEELER MOORE, 1879.
Early in 1777 the North Carolina Continentals were ordered to the support of General Washington in the North. Four other Continental battalions had been raised, and they were soon to acquire a bloody distinction in the war. General James Moore and his brother, Judge Maurice Moore, both died on the same day, in the same house, in Wilmington, and the son-in-law of the latter, Colonel Francis Nash, was made Brigadier General in place of General Moore.
P.75, ibid
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