316:. The couple's first son, named Augustine Moore to honor his grandfather, may not have married and definitely died before 1760, when his brothers Bernard and Thomas inherited his lands pursuant to the terms of their late father's will. Bernard Moore was probably born at Chelsea plantation, though accounts differ as to his birth year between 1718 and 1725. Their sister Lucy (1716- circa 1750) married the widower
269:(1685-1743), who had emigrated from England and become a successful merchant, then tobacco planter in the York River watershed in Virginia. The couple probably married in 1715, since Moore's English-born first wife Mary Gage died in childbirth in 1713. His father's family traced their lineage to a Lord Mayor of London and Sir Thomas More. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Todd (1660-1724) had a plantation in
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again in 1766, this time by Henry Gaines, who died before the session, but was replaced by Thomas
Claiborne. Either Bernard Moore or his son of the same name, again won election in 1769, despite the debate about Robinson's improprieties. In the last session of the House of Burgesses, this man's son Augustine Moore replaced Phillip Whitehead Claiborne, who had died before taking office.
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Robinson died unexpectedly in May 1766, he proved heavily indebted. Furthermore, the administrator of his estate (Edmund Pendleton) discovered that Robinson had not destroyed old Virginia currency as authorized by law, but instead loaned
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Augustine Moore in the 1787 Virginia Tax census lived in counties southeast of Bernard Moore's former lands, his brother Thomas Moore and his wife Joanna owned 15 adult slaves and 13 enslaved children in King William County in that
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Voters in New Kent County first elected
Bernard Moore as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses in 1744, since Thomas West died, and re-elected him until 1758, when Peter Robinson succeeded to that part-time position. However, Moore again won election in 1761, only to be replaced
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it out to political allies (in effect embezzling circa £110,000 from the
Virginia treasury), and Pendleton sought to recover those funds to repay Robinson's creditors. The largest loans went to William Byrd, but Bernard Moore owed the second highest amount (£8,500).
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Gorsuch and the Todd, Seaton, Moore, Hide and Orth Families of Virginia and Maryland", Virginia Historical Magazine Vol. 25 (1917) p. 433
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