MOORMAN FAMILY

MOORMAN FAMILY

Family Group Sheet

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Four Known Children

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M Achilles MOORMAN

Birth: __ ___ ____

Marriage 1: _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Elizabeth Adams.

Marriage? __ ___ ____

Death: _______________, _______________, Bedford Co., VA.

Burial: __ ___ ____

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M Charles MOORMAN

Birth: __ ___ ____

Marriage 1: _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Mary Adams.

Marriage? __ ___ ____

Death: __ ___ ____

Burial: __ ___ ____

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M Thomas MOORMAN

Marriage 1: _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Rachel Clark.

Birth: __ ___ 1705 _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________.

Death: __ ___ 1765 _______________, _______________, Bedford Co., VA.

Marriage? __ ___ ____

Burial: __ ___ ____

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F Judith MOORMAN (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0698.) (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.) (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.)

Birth: __ ___ 1711 _______________, Greene Springs, Louisa Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0698.).

Marriage: __ ___ 1731 John DOUGLASS (b. circa 1700, d. 1761), son of William DOUGLASS and Grisheald MACCLEAND; _______________, _______________, Louisa Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0698.).

Daughter: 18 Dec 1733 Elizabeth DOUGLASS; _______________, Barboursville, Orange Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I2774.).

Son: 22 Feb 1752 Achilles DOUGLASS; _______________, _______________, Orange Co., VA.

Death: after __ ___ 1763 _______________, Barboursville, Orange Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.).

Burial: __ ___ ____

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Family Group Sheet

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One Known Child

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M Charles MOORMAN (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.)

Research: _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________.

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; ...Among the most influential of these Quakers was Charles Moorman(3) of Louisa County, who married Elizabeth reynolds. She bore him five children, Thomas(4) (1708-1766), Judith(4) (Douglas), Ann(4) (Martin), Achilles(4) and Charles(4). The family purchased considerable land in Albemarle County on and near Moormans River, a stream named for Thomas ("Wm & Mary Quarterly", "The Moorman Family of Virginia"; Paullin, Charles O.; 2nd Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 1931), pp. 177-180.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; ...Charles, the other son, lived in Louisa County near "Green Spring" where he had settled in 1704. He married Elizabeth Reynolds. They were both devout Quakers, although they owned slaves. Charles was a Justice of the Peace and with his son, Thomas, was an overseer of the Society of Friends. Charles died in 1756.

He had five children by Elizabeth Reynolds.

The first was Thomas (1705-1765) who married Rachel Clark. They lvied in Louisa County ner Green Spring, but a few years before he died, he and his family moved to Bedford County where he held large tracts of land. Records at Bedford show that he first bought land in that County, July 17, 1762. His will is dated July 22, 1765; it was probated in November of the following year.

The second child of Charles and Elizabeth was Judith, who married John Douglas.

The third child, Charles, married Mary Adams; the fourth child, Achilles, married Elizabeth Adams and lived in Bedford County.

The second son of Rachel and Thomas Moorman, Micajah (1735) married Susannah Chiles and lived on land upon which part of Lynchburg now stands. He was one of the trustees of the City. Micajah (1735-1806) raised his own eleven children, as well as his sister Elizabeth's sons, Moorman and Christopher Johnson, after her death. These two nephews afterwards married Micajah's two daughters. The eldest son, Zachariah, in 1763, settled five miles south of Lynch's Ferry on the James. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Terrell of Caroline County in 1755. His second wife was Elizabeth Johnson. Many of the Moormans were disowned by the Society for holding slaves and "marrying out of unity". Thomas Clark Moorman, with almost his whole family started migration to the West when he set out in 1755 for the Ohio Wilderness. Many Quakers followed him later (Brown, Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers, pg. 60-61.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; CHAS/ELIZ [I begin this with a bit of trepidation for this is one of the major

couples in our shared history. So much is already known about them, one may

wonder how I expect to write anything new? I don't. What I intend is a discussion

of facts without tradition. Thus, I deliberately do not use the many times

published traditional sources. Please bear with me through the tedious

discussion of changing boundary lines; this is important to understanding records

and recognizing other logical areas to search. It also keeps us from projecting a

physical move when merely changing boundary lines is the reason for a sudden

disappearance from one area and reappearance in records of another. Earlier I

identified this man as Charles "M" (from Rosalie Davis' abstracts of his signature

or "sign by mark") as a tool toward keeping the numerous Charles Moormans

straight. I never intended to suggest it was his middle initial, but now realize I

inadvertently created confusion. Thus, I'm changing to the more traditional:

Charles Moorman (c1683-1757). Before I begin, I want to emphasize that the

FIRST official record of Charles in Virginia is 1708/9. EVERYTHING (including

the first four paragraphs of this report) written about him prior to 1708/9 is based

entirely on interpretation of a limited number of actual records; I acknowledge I

may err in some of my interpretation. Therefore, comments and rebuttals based

on interpretation of facts and not purely on tradition, are welcome. For the record:

my sole reason for grouping Charles within the family of Thomas, Andrew and

Mary is these are the only MOORMANs in the early VA records. I want to extend

a special thanks to Mary Stewart who has generously shared her genealogical

expertise, data and encouragement during the writing process. LSS]

Charles MOORMAN and Elizabeth REYNOLDS

by Linda Sparks Starr March 1999

I have as many "guesses" for Charles' birth year (1670 to 1690) as I have

traditional accounts; the bottom line is all are guesses, no matter who reported

the information. My "best guess" is a more narrowed range: not before 1680 and

no later than 1684. My reasoning: Charles appears in St. Paul's vestry records

before his brother Andrew (baptized 1689 [1]); therefore I project him the elder of

the two. With a sister baptized in 1686, Charles' birth is moved backward once

again. Because he doesn't appear in processiong records until 1708/9, I think he

was born after 1680. This also agrees with what is known about his "probable"

father, Thomas. [THSMORMA.txt] Thomas Moorman is found in Blisland Parish

in 1677 and in St. Peter's Parish in 1689. St. Peter's was cut off from the upper

part of Blisland Parish in 1680. Therefore, with a birth between 1680-1684, we

can say Charles Moorman was "probably" born in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent

County, Virginia.

There are at least two good reasons for the lack of birth records for

Charles: Blisland's birth register is not extant and St. Peter's doesn't begin until

1682. Even then several of the first few pages are completely missing or have

many torn places. I project Charles' birth record is among those missing entries -

and believe this is the only reason for lack of his birth record.

We perhaps have better luck with Elizabeth REYNOLDS. Although more

research is called for, I project the "Eliz. daugh' to Tho. Renalls Bapt 15 of March

1690-1" [2] is the same Elizabeth who married Charles Moorman. Louisa Court

records identify Charles' wife as "Elizabeth" and tradition says REYNOLDS.

Although Tillman and others say she descends from Christopher Reynolds of Isle

of Wight Co., VA, I believe Thomas as her father makes a far stronger case.

Charles and Elizabeth's marriage date is problematic, but surely comes

within the first five years of the eighteenth century. Tradition says Elizabeth was

13 when she married - IF she's the above Elizabeth baptized March 1690/1

[1691] that gives them a marriage date circa 1704. However, the same tradition

says Charles was 15, thus born circa 1688. St. Peter's records show the baptism

of his sister in 1686 and his brother in 1689. It's possible, but not likely his mother

would have three children in three years and his father would fail to register the

birth of only one. For all the above reasons, I personally believe Charles was

born circa1683.

Every four years the General Assembly required parish vestries to perform

a task called "processioning." In the days before property was fenced, neighbors

walked their boundary lines with two neutral overseers as witnesses. In the

process they re-stacked fallen marking stones and remarked all those hickory

and red oak trees seen in early deeds. This kept boundary disputes from taking

up court time.

In 1706 St. Paul's Parish was created from the upper portion of St. Peter's

Parish, but both parishes remained in New Kent County. The first vestry book

entry regarding processioning begins "July ye 28th 1708, Ordered that the parish

be forth[ ]th divided into precincts for processioning according to law ." [3] The

order further directed this be carried out between September 30 and March 31.

The vestry met that September to divide into precincts; the results from its 39

precincts were returned 14 March 1708/9.

Charles makes his first appearance in Virginia records in 1708/9 among

those living in the 19th processioning precinct: James Tate, Geo. Phillips, Chas

MOORMAN, Nich: Mills Jr. and Thos Glass. Tate and Glass were appointed

precinct overseers that year. [4] A study of land patents [5] suggests this group of

neighbors lived near Totopotomoy Creek, Whiting Swamp and the Pamunkey

(then called York) River. However, since so many of these men owned several

tracts of land, it is difficult to determine which was the residential tract for any

single individual.

In 1711 the vestry appointed three committees to divide the parish into

processioning precincts; each committee was assigned to one large area --

between "the lower line and Totopottomoy's Creek"; between "Totopottomoys

Creek and Machumps Creek"; and "above Machump's Creek." [6] The returns of

30 precincts were reported to the vestry 17 MAR 1711/12. This time Charles

lived in the 6th district composed of: Anthony Winston, Thomas Glass, Jno

Sanders, widow Winston, John Brown, Charles Moorman, Nich. Mills, James

Tate and Geo Phillips. Thus we know he didn't move; the precinct number

merely changed. The precinct number and neighbors remained mostly

unchanged in the 1716 processioning as well.

However, Charles' name also appears in the 15th district with neighbors:

Edwd Moore, Joseph Baughon, Wm Bostick, Widd [or Didd] Leak, Simon Woody,

Chas Bostick, James Woody, Charles MOORMAN, Chas Brian. Overseers

Moore and Baughon returned the list 8 DEC 1711 with notation it was

"subscribed by all persons except Moorman." This notation suggests Charles did

not live on this particular tract, for was not available to walk the lines with his

neighbors. The composition of this new neighborhood is surprisingly similar to

the 1689 list of neighbors in then St. Peter's Parish: Char. Brya[], Char. Bostick,

Chris. Baker, Tho. MOORMAN, Tho. Snead, Jam. Moor, Edw. Qurill [Dorill]. [7]

Andrew Moorman makes his only appearance in St. Paul's Parish records

in 1716. He is listed among the same 15th district neighbors where Charles' name

appeared four years earlier: Joseph Baughan, Wm Bostock, Edw Moore, Widd:

Leak, Simon Woody, Walter Leak, Chas Bostock, Andrew MOORMAN, Jas

Woody and Chas Brian.

Based on these three processioning lists, it is almost too easy to come to

this logical conclusion: St. Peter's birth register proves Thomas is father of

Andrew; thus Thomas is father of Charles Moorman (c1683-1757). This agrees

with tradition and all but one of the earlier researchers. Brother Ambrose thought

Charles was the son of Zachariah and Mary. However, I'm very uncomfortable

with the 23-year gap between the St. Peter's record showing Thomas Moorman

living among these neighbors and the St. Paul's record with Charles and then

Andrew living in the same neighborhood.

Based on these same records, we can show Thomas REYNOLDS was

another near neighbor to Thomas Moorman as was Edward Johnson and various

SNEADs. (BLDFNTES.txt and EDWJOHNS.txt) We tend to think of these

processioning precincts as distinct neighborhoods, when in fact the lines were

arbitrarily drawn, often dividing known family groups. Therefore, to point out a

pitfall in making assumptions based on too few records, I present the following

"What if" scenarios: "WHAT IF Elizabeth inherited this tract from her father?" As a

married woman, her husband's name would appear on all legal records. This

explains his name on the 1711/12 processioning record. Then "WHAT IF they

sold this tract to Andrew Moorman?" Or `WHAT IF Thomas Moorman sold this

tract several years earlier?" and `WHAT IF Thomas Reynolds was the purchaser

and then bequeathed it to his daughter in his will?" Or "WHAT IF Charles

Moorman simply purchased the tract between the 1708/09 and 1711/12

processionings?" The records are just not available to say which, if any, of the

above is correct; we can't be sure it's even the SAME tract or just in the same

neighborhood. My point in this is to say: "It's just not good genealogy to make

assumptions with so few records." We are hindered from making further

conclusions by the lack of New Kent County records; the 1704 Quit Rent roll [8]

is little help for only shows that no person named MOORMAN had patented land

by 1704. Quit Rent was only required on patented land (granted by the King's

agent), and not on that received by deed of gift (will) or purchased from an

individual. [9]

Hanover County

By 1719 the list of neighbors for Charles and Elizabeth changed

dramatically suggesting they moved north and west after the spring of 1716 and

before fall 1719. However, this closely coincides with the creation of a new

county so one has to be careful. Almost all the early Hanover County records

were destroyed; but one small Court Orders book survived and does contain

helpful information. The will of Thomas Glass (Jr.) dated 21 FEB 1725/6 gives "to

son Robert 150 acres left me by my father joining upon land I bought of Charles

Moreman . to son Thomas the 100 acres I bought of Charles Moreman."[10] A

look back at St. Paul's 19th precinct list in 1708/9 and 6th list in 1711/12 shows

Thomas Glass as near neighbor of Charles Moorman. This will proves Charles

sold land to Thomas Glass before 1726; that coupled with the sudden change of

neighbors on procession lists between 1716 and 1719 implies Charles and

Elizabeth moved from one area of "now" Hanover County to another between the

two processions. Meanwhile, Charles' neighbors in his old precinct remained

nearly the same in 1719/20 as they had been. They were Thos. Glass, John

Saunders, Widd Winston, John Brown, Nicho: Mills, for Jno Glass's orphan,

James Tate, Isaac Winston for Anth Winston's Orphan & Geo. Phillips. [11] The

combination of Glass' will and the 1719/20 processioning convinces me that

Charles had in fact moved.

The other Court Order entry names Charles Moorman, John Douglas and

Anthony Pate appraisers of the estate of Robert Holt 22 MAR 1734. This John

Douglas is likely the one who married Judith Moorman, daughter of Charles and

Elizabeth.

Names on the 1719 processioning list include: Sam Chamberlayne, Jere:

Parker, Stephen Sunter; Charles MOORMAN, Maj. Nich'l Meriwether, Cap Nath'l

West, Wm Pulliam, Thos Johnson, Wm Williams, Doct Blair and Haunce

Hendrick. A note explains Hendrick's lands now belong to the orphans of Anth.

Winston, lately dec'd. Some of these names reappear on a road maintenance

order by St. Paul's Vestry:

"In obedience to an order of Court dated ye 4th of 8br 1723.

Ordering Charles Moorman to Succeed Jere: Parker, deceas'd in ye

Road he was Surveyor of: Order'd that he have to assist him in

Maintaining the said road, William Webb, Thomas Johnson, Rich'd

Allen, John Killcrease, Franc's Clark, John Smithin, Thos Rowland,

William Thacker, John Raglan, Stephen Raglan, Timothy Sullivan,

Timorthy Reach, & Wm Harris, with all their male Tithables." [12]

Thus we have a list of several near neighbors; the trick now is to locate

the general area where they lived. Charles' patent for this land is found in Book

12: "Charles Moorman 111 acs (N.L.), Hanover Co; beg. At Charles Moremon's

cor. In Moor's line; to Thomas Rowland; on Licking Hole Swamp; 9 July 1724, p.

35. 15 Shill." [13] ("N.L." means "new land" and "Moreman's cor" indicates they

already owned land in the area before the survey was made.) To get from

locating unclaimed land to the actual patent required many steps and usually

several years. Today, there are several Licking Hole Creeks in VA, but no Licking

Hole Swamps; however, the designation "creek" and "swamp" appear to be

interchangeable in early records. Neighbor Thomas Rowland's 1728 patent is

more helpful: "on both sides Ash Cake Road; adjacent to Henry Kirby, Thomas

Rowland, Charles Moreman, and Moore's line; on Licking Hole swamp." [14]

(Today, Ashcake Road in Hanover County meanders from near the Pamunkey

River to where it intersects with Licking Hole Creek just south of the town of

Ashland before heading off to the northwest.) A road order dated 29 8br 1720

[OCT] shows Jeremiah Parker's precinct stretched from "Stony Run between

Chickahominy Swamp, and the branch of Machum's Creek . to Megirts path, to

Tottopottomoy's Creek and from thence to the mouth of Stony Run." [15] This

precinct was divided in 1721 with the area between Ash Cake Road and

Machumps Creek remaining in Parker's precinct. The fact Charles took over

supervision of this precinct [by order dated 4th 8br 1723] after Jeremiah Parker's

death is very important. It "implies" that Charles lived in the precinct, thus

matches up with his owning land in the area before the 1724 patent. But how he

acquired this land is lost with the New Kent Co. records.

For some reason, processioning records for the St. Paul's Parish during

the 1720s are not available. Neighbors in the 9th precinct (returned January

1731/2) include: Henry Bowe, John Anderson, Joseph Perrin, Wm Alsup,

Timothy Sillivant, Thos Rowland, Peck's orphans, Stephen Ragland, John

Ragland, John Guess, Ed Davis, John Smithin, Chas Moorman, Wid Cole, John

Snead, John Pulliam, Chile's orphans, Michael Holland, Francis Clark, John

Gilchrist, Geo Davis, Thos Johnson, Chas Talley, Wm Nichols, Robt Allen, John

Cannon, Thos Cawton, John Ragland, Wm Alsop. A note indicates that Clark and

Allen didn't show. This list of neighbors remained much the same on the 1735,

1739 and 1743 processioning lists although the precinct became the 3rd in 1735.

This 1743 list is the last time Charles Moorman's name appears in St.

Paul's Parish records. However, we have one problem: Charles Moorman Jr.

married Mary ADAMS circa 1736. Tradition has Charles and Elizabeth in the

Green Springs community well before 1743. So WHICH Charles is the one

participating in the processioning task for St. Paul's Parish from 1735 through

1743? It easily could be the younger Charles who remained behind when his

parents moved to Green Springs. But which years is it he, and which his father?

Or Charles and Elizabeth didn't move to Green Springs as early as tradition has

them? Lack of Hanover County records is particularly burdensome here.

Coupled with the lack of County records, is the formation of another parish,

whose records are also lost.

In 1726 St, Martin's Parish was cut off from the part of Hanover County

and St. Paul's Parish that eventually became Louisa County. But when Louisa

County was cut off from part of Hanover County DEC 1742, Fredericksville

Parish was carved at the same time from St. Martin's Parish. Depending on the

source, a small strip of far-eastern Louisa County remained in St. Martin's Parish

or Fredericksville Parish covered the entire area that was Louisa County. At this

time, Fredericksville Parish and Louisa County also includes a large chunk of

present day Albemarle County. But for now, we are interested in only a small

area of Louisa, referred to as the Green Springs community.

Green Springs, Louisa County

Tradition errs by stating Charles was born at Green Springs, VA; the only

Green Springs in Virginia in the 1600s is Gov. Berkeley's plantation of that name

which lay near Jamestown. In fact land patents suggest land speculators didn't

reach the area of the green springs until 1720s. In 1836 Joseph Martin described

this area: "Towards the upper part of the county is a singular tract of country, of

about 8 or 10,000 acres, called `Green Spring land', (from the mineral spring of

that name situated in it.) This tract lies in an irregular circle, or from four to six

miles diameter, and far exceeds all other high land in the county, both in native

fertility, and in susceptibility of improvement. Its soil is a dark grey, containing

very little sand or stone of any kind; and resting, at a depth of 12 or 15 inches,

upon a stratum of compact, firm, red clay, scarcely penetrable by water." [16] The

National Historic Landmark pamphlet for Green Springs adds: "By the early

1740's Quakers had settled in Green Springs, their arrival a result of a search for

fertile land and a desire to escape from the persecution found in more settled

areas further east. By 1742, when the Quaker Camp Creek monthly meeting was

formed, 16 Green Spring Quaker families were members." Tradition has Charles

and Elizabeth among these 16 families and patent records show Charles was

indeed scouting for land in the area before this.

He patented 400 acres in then Goochland County, (now Albemarle) at a

Fork of the Rivanna River near the Blue Mountain (1735) and 483 acres in

Hanover County on both sides of Rockey Creek (1737). [17] The reference to

Blue Mountain is likely the Blue Ridge and the fork of the Rivanna River probably

became Moorman's River. The Rockey Creek tract fell into the area of Hanover

that became Louisa Co. In fact this Rockey Creek tract confirms Charles and

Elizabeth owned land in Louisa before its creation. The third entry of Deed Book

A identifies Charles as "of St. Martin's Par., Louisa Co., planter" when he sold

403 acres to James Buchannan 8 JAN 1742/3. The land description includes:

". Price's corner . being 483 acres excepting 83 acres at lower end of tract on

both sides Rocky Creek." That same day he sold the withheld 83 acres to

Alexander Galaspa. [18] Obviously this is the entire tract he patented in 1737.

Charles Sr. was one of the witnesses FEB 1749 when James Buchanan sold 200

acres from this tract to Munford Robinson; [19] but, Charles Jr. and his wife Mary

witnessed the deed when Munford Robinson sold those same 200 acres in 1752.

The tract was then described as "200 acres on south fork of Foster's Creek; part

of land taken up by Charles Moorman; conveyed to James Buchanan . Foster's

Creek . to Forrest Green's road ... between Foster's Creek and Rocky Creek."

[20]

Rocky and Foster's Creek are parallel branches of the South Anna River

and near Camp Creek where the Meeting House was located. At the September

13th, 1743 meeting of the Fredericksville Parish vestry, Charles Moreman and

Forrest Green were appointed overseers of the 10th precinct "from Hudson &

Morris upper line between Goochland line, the River and Fosters Creek." [21]

Their brief report to the vestry reads: "March 12, 1743/4 in Obediance to an

Order of Vestry wee have peaceably and Quietly processioned all the lands

within our bounds." [22]

The August 1745 patent for Charles Francis further describes this area:

"on both sides the Goochland Road, on the Goochland Co. line [N60 degrees W];

adj. Secretary Carter, James Merideth & Charles Moreman." [23] Thanks to Doug

Tucker for sharing this experience:

"I have `walked' the entire Green Springs area with a local

historian, Martha Purdy Adams, who was able to point out the

locations (and ruins) of many of the homes you are talking about as

well as the original Camp Springs Quaker Meeting House location

which was on Charles Moorman's property. Charles actually lived

on a low hill the north side of Foster's Creek close to where it enters

the South Anna River. The Camp Creek meeting House was located

on the south side of Camp Creek close to where Camp Creek enters

Hudson Creek and Hudson enters the South Anna River not far from

the crossroads shown as Poindexter on today's maps."

No one questions that Charles Sr. is the one who originally donated the

land for the Camp Creek Meeting House; but it "appears" that Charles Moorman

Jr. is the one who legally deeded the Meeting House property to the Quakers.

The wording retained in the abstract reads: "10 April 1764 Charles Moorman of

Louisa Co., Trinity Par., To John Davis and Christopher Johnson; 5 shillings; one

certain acre of land in Trinity Par. On which sd. Acre the meeting house or place

of Worship of the people called Quakers is situate. Sd. Acre is hereby

Covenanted to be laid off and bounded so as the sd. Meetinghouse shall be

exactly or as near as may be in the Center thereof which said Meeting house is

Generally called or known by the Name of Camp Creek meeting House. The

people called Quakers shall forever freely use and meet on the sd. Acre for the

purposes of Public Worship or for the Regulation of Church Discipline and the

People Called Quakers shall at all times have free entry to and from sd.

Meetinghouse without Trouble, hindrance or Molestation or Denial of any person

or persons." [24]

Returning to the Fredericksville Parish vestry processioning lists, we learn

that in 1743 Charles also owned land in the 17th precinct that fell into the area

"from Harrisses Creek to Gibsons Land between the River and the Road" [25]

overseen by Henry Tate and John Davis. Neighbors, based on their report to the

vestry include: "part of Madm. Johnson, part of Jams. Watsons, part of John

Mechie, part of Love Statom's. part of Mrs. Jouets. Part of Mrs. Jane Chapmans.

part of one tract of John Raglands. Nathan Watson's Finish'd. some Tracts of

John Raglands finish'd. part of Capt. Hollands & some Finish'd. Salem Bocock

Finish'd. Francis Smethings Finished. Part of Chas. Moremans. part of John

Bunches. Jams. Lasley finish'd. Robert Davis finish'd. Saml Johnsons finish'd.

Thos. Gibson's Finiah'd. part of Gilbert Gibsons and our Own." [26]

Since Charles sold the entire tract he patented, how he acquired his

"home plantation" was destroyed with other Hanover Co. records. However, we

can pinpoint the location of their "home planation" as near their 1737 patented

land through other deeds, parish records, and his will. He bequeathed his

residence to his son, Achilles, who sold it in 1772. The legal description on that

deed reads: ". both sides of the South Fork of Pamunkey River . Hudsons

Creek on John Bunches line . along a line marked without Survey by Charles

Mooreman, dec'd, between his son Charles Mooreman and the above Achelis

Mooreman . to Hudsons Creek." [27] His will gave "son Charles three hundred

and --eventy acres more or less he lives on" and "son Achilles four hundred

twenty acres more or less I live on." The above deed says Achilles' land adjoins

that of his brother Charles. The combination of the will and deed "suggests"

Charles' home plantation was an undivided 790 acres or so tract. Lacking

Hanover Co. records, we'll never know for sure.

The remaining entries in the Fredericksville Parish vestry book are

interesting, if not terribly informative. In 1747 Charles and Thomas Moorman

were appointed overseers for the 15th precinct "between Cuffys Creek, Hudson

Creek and the River." [28] In 1752 Thomas and Charles Moreman "Jr." were

appointed overseers for "all land between Hudsons Creek, Camp Creek and

Machunks Creek". [29] The use of "Jr." in the 1752 entry shows that two Charles

Moormans now reside in Louisa County. The lack of "Jr." or "Sr." in the 1747

entry suggests that only one Charles Moorman lived in Louisa at that time. Other

records show the "father" Charles in the county, so the 1747 entry is "father"

Charles and his "son" Thomas. But the 1752 return shows "brothers" Thomas

and Charles Jr. as the overseers. Then in 1760, (after Charles Sr.'s death in

1757) we again find "only" Charles Moorman in records. He then becomes

Charles Sr. when nephews and his own son (all named Charles) enter the

records.

A Goochland County deed indicates one Charles Moorman owned

another tract which eventually fell into Albemarle County; this one ". on the

side of hill nigh Carrolls Creek, a branch of Mountain Falls Creek . " [30] But

again, we have to be careful about distinguishing between Charles and his son. I

think this Goochland / Albemarle tract is more likely Charles Jr. since his father-

in-law, Robert ADAMS, owned property on Carrel's Creek. In fact, this tract might

be part of the land at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain Robert bequeathed in his

1738 will to his daughters Mary Moorman and Judith Clark. [ROBTADMS.txt]

By all accounts, Charles and Elizabeth were among the early settlers in

the area. The real question is: "When did they become Quakers?" The very first

time any MOORMAN appears in VA Quaker records is "1744, 9, 10 Charles & s.

Thomas, co of a mtg lately settled in the upper part of Louisa Co."[31] Yet, we

have other known neighbors (from processioning lists) who regularly appear in

Quaker records from 1700 on. I have no argument with them being charter

members of Camp Creek Monthly Meeting; it's the period before Camp Creek

was organized that I am discussing. Here's some background from Hinshaw:

"Many of the charter members of Camp Creek and Fork Creek

seem to have been heredity Friends, but the records would also tend to

show that the majority of the membership of this new monthly meeting

were Friends by recent conversion. A letter written by Gershom Perdue

in 1878 seems to uphold this interpretation. I quote in part:

`These two families (John & Wm Johnson) with many others of

the higher class in the vicinity, by the preaching of old Joseph Newby

of lower part of North Carolina, became Friends and built up Camp Creek

Monthly Meeting and the meetings composing it: Carolina meeting,

Douglas Meeting and Park (Fork) Meeting. Among other worthies were

Christopher Clark, the Lynches, Anthony, Douglas, Moormans, Terrills

And Ballard and many others ." Gershom Perdue." [32]

Charles' Louisa Co. VA will is dated 9 MAY 1755 and was probated 24

MAY 1757. [See CHASWILL for transcription.] Elizabeth's will is dated 29 JAN

1761 and was probated 11 MAY, 1765. Presumably each died shortly before

their wills were submitted to court. Only five children are named in these wills:

Thomas, Charles, Achilles, Judith and Ann. Mary Stewart is working on an in-

depth report on Thomas and Rachel (Clark). See the following for Achilles' line:

[ACHLSWILL.txt; ACHILLES.txt; ACHLSPII.txt]. I plan to write one on Thomas

and Ann (Moorman) Martin -- unless someone volunteers to write it for me. [See

THOSMRTN.txt for transcription of his will.] I invite descendants of Charles Jr.

and Mary (Adams) and John and Judith (Moorman) Douglas to share information

on those two lines.

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[1] The Parish Register of Saint Peter's, New Kent County, Va. From 1680 to

1787_, published by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of

America, Parish Record Series, No. 2, Richmond, 1904, page 22.

[2] Ibid, page 33.

[3] Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786,

transcribed by C. G. Chamberlayne, reprint ed. 1989, VA State Lib., page

27. [Some quotes from notes on which I didn't record page numbers.]

[4] Ibid.

[5] Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of VA Land Patents and Grants,

abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, vol. II: 1666-1695, VA St. Lib, 1977.

[6] Chamberlayne, page 51.

[7] Vestry Book of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent Co. Virginia 1684-1786,

transcribed by C. G. Chamberlayne, page 21.

[8] The Quit Rents of Virginia 1704, compiled by Annie Laurie Wright Smith,

Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, 1980, pages 62-3.

[9] "Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy", vol. 7,

No. 4, FEB/MAR 1999 within article "John Burrows, 1608 James City

County" by Virginia Lee Hutcheson, page 212.

[10] Hanover County, VA Court Records 1733-1735: Deeds, Wills and

Inventories, abstracted by Rosalie Edith Davis, 1979. [My notes do not

include page numbers.]

[11] Chamberlayne, St. Paul's, page 257.

[12] Chamberlayne, St. Paul's, page 108.

[13] Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants,

vol. III 1695-1732, abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, VA State Library,

Richmond 1986, 2nd impression, page 266.

[14] Ibid, page 348.

[15] Chamberlayne, St. Paul's, page 92.

[16] "A New and Comprehensive Gazeteer of Virginia." by Joseph Martin,

1836.

[17] Cavaliers and Pioneers: vol. 4 1732-1741 , edited by Denis Hudgins, VA

Genealogical Society, Richmond, 1994, pages 86; 132.

[18] Louisa Co. VA Deed Books A and B 1742-1759 , abstracted and compiled

by Edith Davis, Bellevue, Wash. 1976, page 1; Deed Book A, pages 7 to

10: Charles Moorman to James Buchanan / Alexander Galaspa.

[19] ibid, page 55, Deed Book A p. 382-3, James Buchanan to Mumford

Robinson.

[20] ibid, page 72-3, Deed Book A, p. 459-460 Munford Robinson to John Askew.

[21] Fredericksville Parish Vestry Book 1742-1787, vol. 1 , edited and compiled

by Rosalie Edith Davis, Manchester, MO 1978, page 10.

[22] Fredericksville Parish Vestry Book: Indenture and Processioning Returns

1742-1787, vol. 2, transcribed and edited by Rosalie Edith Davis,

Manchester, MO 1981, pages 1.

[23] Cavaliers & Pioneers: vol. 5 1741-1749, edited by Dennis Ray Hudgins, VA

Genealogical Society, Richmond 1994, p. 96.

[24] Louisa County, Virginia Deed Books C, C «, D and D «: 1759-1774,

abstracted and compiled by Rosalie Edith Davis, Manchester, MO 1977,

page 38; Louisa Deed Book C «, page 11-12, Charles Moorman to John

Davis and Christopher Johnson.

[25] Davis, Fredericksville vol. 1, page 11.

[26] Davis, Fredericksvill, vol. 2, page 1-2.

[27] Davis, page 149; Louisa Deed Book D «, Achilis Mooreman to James

Watson 14 SEP 1772, p. 505-7.

[28] Davis, Fredericksville, vol. 1, page 26.

[29] ibid. page 52.

[30] Goochland Co. VA Deeds 1741-1745, abstacted by TLC Genealogy, FL

1990, Goochland Deed Bk 4, p. 304 24 NOV 1743 Anthony Pouncy and

Martin Dauson to Mathew Graves.

[31] Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, by William Wade Hinshaw,

Ann Arbor, 1950, vol. 6, page 260.

[32] Ibid, page 284.

Information re: boundary changes for parishes and counties from the

Library of Virginia's "Parish Lines Diocese of Virginia"; The Handybook for

Genealogists by Everton and "forwards" to several of the above books (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/reports/chaseliz.txt; downloaded 25 March 2007.)

Birth: before __ ___ 1686 _______________, Green Springs, New Kent Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.) (unknown author, "E-Mail message," e-mail to unknown recipient, Stewart, Mary E.; mstewart@kaballero.com; 20 June 2005.).

Marriage: __ ___ 1703 Elizabeth REYNOLDS (b. 1688, d. 11 May 1765), daughter of Christopher REYNOLDS and Eliza Ann/Elizabeth SHARPE; _______________, Green Springs, Louisa Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.).

Son: __ ___ 1705 Thomas MOORMAN; _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________.

Daughter: __ ___ 1711 Judith MOORMAN; _______________, Greene Springs, Louisa Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0698.).

Death: 14 May 1757 _______________, Green Springs, Louisa Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.).

Email: 20 Jun 2005 _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; There is no documentation for the birth date or parentage of the Charles Moorman who married Elizabeth Reynolds.

However, land records including the processing records of St. Peters and St. Pauls parisheds of New Kent and Hanove rcounties lead me to believe that Charles was the eldest son of Thomas New Kent County. Thomas had land in New Kent and appears in 1689 as a processioner in St. Peters Parish. St. Pauls Parish was cut off from St. Peters and Thomas' land was in the new parish. Charles' land was processioned along with many of the same people who had been Thomas' neighbors. Although there is no direct evidence, it is likely that Thomas had died and Charles, as eldest son, had inherited his land. Later, Charles moved farther west (near present day Ashland) and his younger brother, Andrew appears with the same neighbors Charles had earlier.

We don't know Charles' birthdate but it was likely before the known baptismal dates of his siblings, Mary and Andres (29 Aug 1686 and 4 Nov 1689) (E-mail.)

Son: Charles MOORMAN

Son: Achilles MOORMAN

Burial: __ ___ ____

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One Known Child

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M Zachariah MOORMAN (web site; FTW; no sources available.) (web site; FTW; no sources available.) (web site; FTW; no sources available.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Zachariah Moorman (1620- c. 1702) b. Isle of Wight, Eng. d. Nansemond co., VA., probable son of Thomas Moorman (ca. 1593-ca. 1640) who came to VA with London Co. in 1619 on the Nova Bona. Zachariah m. Anne (or Mary) dau. of Lt. Col. William Candler of Callan Castle at Belfast, Ire., was a captain in English Army, and a Quaker. He was also armigerous. Sailed from Southampton on Glasgow to Barbados, West Indiws in 1669 and then after a stop in N.C. went to Virginia in 1670 with children:

1. Thomas m. Elizabeth (Clark?)

2. Sally Ann m. Micajah Clark

3. Charles (ca. 1668-1757) (Bro. Ambrose Carroll, O.S.B. Moorman, Descendants of Zachariah Moorman in the Male Line, The (Mount Angel Abbey, St. Benedict, OR: author, 1966), pg. 3. Hereinafter cited as Zachariah Moorman Descendants.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; The surname Moorman appears in England as early as the fourtheenth century and is said to be Saxon in origin, therefor it may have a common ancestor with the German family of Mohrmann, whos members emigrated to English speacking countries adopted the spelling of Moorman. It is also spelt Morman, Moreman, Mooreman and Moormann. The meaning is obvious "man of the moor." The family coat of arms as found on old seals in Virginia dating from about 1750 are: "or, a cross engrailed chequy gules and argent." That is: a gold field with an engrailed cross checkered red and silver. The crest is: "A cubit hand proper, holding four arrows argent, points downward." It has been said that it was originally a hand in its proper colors holding four silver arrows with the points upward, but after the founder of the American family, Zachariah Moorman embraced Quakerism the peace loving attitude of his new co-religionists prompted him to make the change. The motto used by most Moormans and being the original form is: "Esse Quam Videri," that is, "To be that which I seem," but some Ohio Moormans and their descendants have and do use: "Esse Quam Video" to which they assign the same translation, but should be correctly translated as : "To be that which I see."

In 1670 Capt. Zachariah Moorman, Gentleman, a Quaker, emigrated from England to Nansemond County, Virginia, where members of that peculiar sect early found a refuge, there came with him his three children, Charles, Thomas, and Sally Ann.

In the first half of the eighteenth century a considerable number of Quakers purchased lands in what is now Louisa and Caroline counties and established meetings at Cesar Creek (not far from the Louisia boundary line) in Hanover County and at Colansville in Caroline County, sometimes called the Caroline Meeting. Among the most influential of these Quakers was Charles Moorman, who some historians have claimed to have been the son of Thomas, son of Zachariah who settled in New Kent county, but it seems he was the son of Zachariah himself. Charles settled near Green Springs, Louisa County and married Elizabeth Reynolds who bore him five children. Zachariah's son Thomas seems to hav edied in New Kent County, but his son, Andrew went to what was then Anson County, North Carolina in 1850, with his family.[This should be 1750 **map] Charles' land extended into Albemarle County and Moormans River is named for him. Thomas, Charles' oldest son moved with his family to Caroline County in 1746 and shortly before he died in 1766 in bedford (later Campbell) County, becoming a member of South River Meeting, near Lynch's Ferry (later Lynchburg). His wife's nephew, John Lynch, founded the town (Moorman, Zachariah Moorman Descendants, pg. 1.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; In 1670 Zachariah Moorman(1), a Quaker, emigrated from the Isle of Wight to Nansemond County, Virginia, where members of that peculiar sect early found a refuge. There came with him his three children, Charles(2), Thomas(2), and Sally Ann(2). In 1686 when Thomas' name makes its appearance in Virginia records, he was living with is wife Elizabeth in New Kent County, probably at Green Springs, about thirty miles above Jamestoen, where there was a Quaker settlement. In that year his daughter Mary(3) and three years later his son Andrew(2) were baptized in St. Peter's Church, Episcopalian, New Kent County. In 1690 a third child, Charles(2) was born at Green Springs ("Wm & Mary Quarterly", "The Moorman Family of Virginia"; Paullin, Charles O.; 2nd series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 1932); pp. 177-180.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; The Moormans of South River Meeting trace their descent from Zachariah Moorman, who was born in Isle of Wight, England, in 1620. While yet in his teens he enlisted in the army and became a captain under Oliver Cromwell. He followed Cromwell through the Irish campaign, and after the conquest of that Island, remainied for a time near Belfast. While here he met and married the daughter of William Candler who was a lieutenant, also with Cromwell. Zachariah later returned to his birthplace and one family historian says, "Being a sympathizer with Charles I, he became an enemy of Cromwell, for having the King beheaded, and was exiled from the British Isles". However, I find that the dates do not tally in this instance, as Cromwell had died in 1658 and the Moormans did not leave England until the early part or 1669. The other explanation of his exodus from England is more probable, that is, he was fleeing from persecution as a Quaker. At any rate, in 1669 he and his children, Thomas, Charles and Sally Anne (wofe of Micajah Clark), set sail on the ship "Glasgow" from the port of Sourhtamptonand a few weeks later dropped anchor at the Island of Barbadoes in the West Indies. There is no record of his wife having been with him, it may be that she had died before this time. The Moormans were attended on this voyage by the entire family of Michael Clark, in which there were six sons, and also by David Terrell. Early the next year Zachariah Moorman, his three children and his son-in-law, joined the emigrants who stopped at the Island enroute to South Carolina. This group landed near Charleston and established the first permanent colony in that State. The Moormans and Michael Clark did not remain in South Carolina but moved on that same year to Virginia and settled in Nansemond County. Thomas, the son of Zacharian, was a vestryman in the Episcopal Church in 1671 (Brown, Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers, p.60.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Zachariah Moorman of (1) b. circa 1620 Isle of Wight, England, held the rank of Captain in the British Army. M. circa 1646 Mary Elizabeth Candler, and settled circa 1660 Nansemond County, Virginia. Issue: Thomas b. circa 1647; Charles b. circa 1648; and Sallie Ann b. circa 1650 (Tillman, Thomas Moorman of the Isle of Wight, England, pg. 9.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Zachariah Moorman, the founder of the family in Ameirca, was born in 1620 on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, where a branch of the family had lived since at least the early part of thesixteenth century. In 1639, at the age of nineteen, he joined the English army and advanced to the rank of captain, in which capacity he served under Oliver Cromwell through the Irish campaign, and after the conquest, remained for a time near Belfast, where he married Ann Candler, the daughter of William Candler, who served under Cromwell as a lieutenant. On returning to his birthplace he soon found himself forced to disagree with Cromwell's policies of government and resigned his commission.

About the time he left the army he and his family disassociated themselves with the Church of England and became members of the newly founded Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, just then taking root in England, under the leadership of George Fox (1624-1691).

Between 1661 and 1697 over 13,000 of the members of this denomination were jailed in England, 198 transported as slaves and 338 died in prisons. Thes epersecutions were under such pretexts as refusing to pay tithes, to swear or remove the hat; for preaching in public places or traveling on the Sabbath. Under such conditions Zachariah, perhaps his wife, although she is not mentioned in colonial records, and his children, Charles, Thomas, and Sally Ann, sailed from Southampton, in1669, on the "Glasgow" and a few weeks later dropped anchor at the Island of Barbados in the West Indies. The Moormans were attended on this voyage by the entire family of MIchael Clark, whose son, Micajah, married Sally Ann. Early the next year Zacharia, his three children and son-in-law, joined the emigrants who stopped at the island enroute to South Carolina. This group landed near Charleston and established the firstpermanent colony in that State. The Moormans and the Clarks however, did not remain, but moved on that same year to Virginia, and settled in Nansemond county. (Douglas Summers Brown: A Hist. of Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers and Their Meeting House) (Ambrose, Charles C. Moorman Ancestors, p. 4.)

Research: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________;

ZACHIST

[I'm taking liberty with this latest report from Douglas Tucker

by appending a couple paragraphs from his letter of July 6, 1997

to his enclosed report. This is an update of CLNDRCHG.txt which

circulated last year. I plan a "MOORMAN Hodge-Podge" with more

passages from this letter and comments sent by others on several

previous reports. I apologize for not being on top of things

this summer, but my "other life" has kept me occupied. I hope

things will get back to normal late August/early September. As in

other reports, the ideas are Doug's; typos are mine. LSS]

Zachariah MOORMAN and Mary CANDLER:

History Helps with Key Dates!

by Douglas Tucker

JUL 1997

Looking back over several reports on Thomas Moreman, the Warwick

shire grocer who sailed to Virginia on the Bona Nova in 1619, got

me to thinking again about how little we know about Zachariah and

Mary (Candler) Moorman. What particularly distresses me is that

the dateline still being applied to Zachariah Moorman and his

children does not reflect the few known and documented facts

about this particular Moorman.

Before preparing the attached paper on Zachariah, I went to the

DAR Library and the library of the National Genealogical Associa-

tion and reviewed accounts of the MOORMAN family legend that have

been reported over the last 150 years - including the versions

reported by Johnson in _Ancestry of William & John Johnson_, Col.

Stephen Tillman (several versions over a 40-year period),

O'Donnell, as reported by Boddie in _Historical Southern

Families_, Coulter in _Some Families of Revolutionary War

Patriots,_, Burk in _History of VA Quakers_, Eldrige in _The Moor-

man Family_, the NSCD in its _Seventeenth Century Colonial Ances-

tors of Members of the National Society of Colonial Dames_, vol.

XVII, and the version presented in the _Compendium of American

Genealogies_, vol. VII.

I wanted to refresh my understanding of the "essence" of the MOOR-

MAN Family Legend and to see if any of the dates cited for

Zachariah Moorman had sources other than "oral histories" ap-

parently first collected and printed in the mid-19th century (no

sources were cited for any information about Zachariah Moorman).

My instinct, after rereading many different presentations of the

Legend, remains that the basic substance of the Legend is

reasonably consistent across all versions. However, the datelines

vary a good deal and frequently reflect a general ignorance of

English history. I have focused on the "historical context of

Zachariah Moorman" in the attached paper in order to refine and

correct the key dates associated with Zachariah Moorman and his

children. [The actual report follows. LSS]

The calendar commonly offered for Zachariah Moorman in various

versions of the MOORMAN Family Legend is roughly as follows:

1620 Birth of Zachariah, son of Thomas Moorman of Isle

of Wight, Hampshire [England]

1639 Zachariah joins the Army

(A) Zachariah serves under Cromwell in Ireland

(B) Zachariah married Mary CANDLER in Ireland

(D) Son Thomas is born in Ireland

(E) Zachariah and/or Mary Moorman join Quaker faith

(F) Zachariah and Mary return to Isle of Wight. Zachariah

persuades older brother Thomas to join the Quaker

movement. Thomas serves as Quaker missionary, first at

Hulst, Holland and later Damme, Germany where he

settles and raises a family

1669 Zachariah and Mary Moorman and family leave Southampton

on the Glasgow bound for Barbados, an intermediate

stopover enroute to Virginia

1670 Moorman family arrives in Virginia and settles at the

Quaker refuge near Somerton, Nansemond Co.

English and Irish history can help us pin approximate dates to

items A through F above.

(1) The Irish Rebellion began in 1649 and while hostilities

ended about 1653, the English Expeditionary Army did not begin to

disband until March 1655. There were three stages to the disband-

ment. The first occurred in March 1655, the second in August 1655

and the third in June 1656. Therefore, if Zachariah Moorman

served in Ireland, he was not free to marry until after March

1655. (Junior Army officers could not be married or marry while

on active duty.) Might Zachariah have served in Ireland before

the Rebellion began in 1649? No chance, as English and Irish

military records show there were no domestic English troops sta

tioned in Ireland from 1620 until August 1649. (The Anglo/Irish

and Scots families living in Ireland were responsible for raising

their own troops.)

(2) English regimental records show that William CANDLER was a

Captain in the Army as early as 1647 (see Firth and Davis'

_Regimental History of Cromwell's Army_, 1940) and that he served

in Ireland under Sir Hardress Waller from December 1649 through

at least March 1655 when his unit was demobilized and given land

in-lieu-of-back-pay in County Wexford. (see Prendergast, _The

Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 1856_). Candler held the rank

of Captain throughout the Irish campaign but when he retired from

the Army in 1655, he was cited for "bravery in the field" and

breveted to the rank of Lt. Colonel and granted an estate at Bal-

liknockan in Kings County, Ireland (see Dr. William Petty's _1659

Census of Ireland_). Therefore, in late 1655, an unmarried Wil-

liam Candler remained in Ireland, recently retired from the Army

with a nice Lt. Col's pension and substantial Irish property.

(3) In the Petty Census of Ireland that was completed in early

1659, William CANDLER of Balliknockan is referred to as an

"esquire" and is shown as the head of a household containing four

"English persons". Dr. Petty's charge was to firmly establish the

English population of Ireland, and his count is considered to

have been exceedingly accurate and complete. The King's County

tabulation was taken before August, 1657). The Petty Census

tells us that not only did William Candler retire from the Army

with a Lt. Colonel's pension and an Irish estate, but he had sub-

sequently been granted the hereditary title of Esquire. Since

Candler certainly was not married from 1647 through 1655 while he

was in the Army, it seems likely that his 1657 instant "family"

probably included children from an earlier marriage. (Household

servants probably would have been Irish, of which there were 22

counted in Balliknockan.

(4) According to members of the CANDLER family (Charles W.

Candler in particular) who have expanded on the earlier family

research of kin Allan Candler, William Candler was born about

1610/12, possibly in London, of a family that originally came

from Norfolk. He married about 1634/35 and settled in Kent, pos-

sibly his wife's home county. The Candlers had several children

but only two daughters survived infancy. William's wife died

during the English Civil War and shortly thereafter, William

joined Parliamentary forces opposing the King. When William

joined the Parliamentary Army, the young Candler daughters were

placed in the care of relatives, but whether they were Candler's

or his wife's relatives is unclear. After the end of the Civil

War, William Candler remained in the Army and subsequently volun-

teered for service in Ireland, attracted by the promise of Irish

land grants when the Rebellion was put down. Once in Ireland, he

remained for the rest of his life.

William Candler died at his estate at Callan, County Kilkenny

about 1680. (This was the "Callan Castle" property that was

granted to Candler by Charles II in 1670/71). His oldest son,

Thomas Candler, born at Balliknockan in 1663 by his second wife,

Ann Villiers Candler, had already acceded to his father's Esquire

title at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Burrell in 1684.

The other English members of the William Candler household at Bal-

liknockan in 1657 probably included one or both of William's

daughters, who by 1657 would have been in their late teens or

early twenties. Whether Mary Candler had already married

Zachariah Moorman by 1657 is problematical. What is clear is that

Zachariah and Mary could not have been married in Ireland before

Zachariah was demobilized sometime after March 1655. Furthermore,

the Candler girls could not have been present in Ireland until

the very end of 1655 at the earliest because English civilians

were banned from traveling to Ireland until November 1655. There

fore, it seems highly unlikely that Zachariah Moorman could have

married Mary Candler before 1656.

(5) William Candler married the widow Ann Villiers sometime be

tween early 1661 and 1663. Ann's first husband, John Villiers,

3rd Viscount Grandison of Limerick, died sometime between Novem-

ber 1660 when he is mentioned in Irish muster records and March

1661 when his younger brother George is referred to in Parliamen

tary documents as the 4th Viscount Grandison. William Candler and

Ann Villiers were already married in October, 1663 when they are

cited by name in an appendix to the 1663 Acts of Settlement en-

titled "Names of Persons in the Grants Under the Acts of Settle

ment and Explanation" (_Records of Ireland_). This proves nothing

about Zachariah Moorman except that his mother-in-law was not Ann

Villiers Candler as some have suggested.

(6) When he was demobilized, it is possible that Capt. Zachariah

Moorman was granted confiscated Irish land in the vicinity of Bel-

fast, in the northern part of Ireland some 125 miles from Bal-

liknockan where William Candler lived. However, the Petty Census

does not show an English person named Moorman living in the

vicinity of Belfast. This may mean that Zachariah Moorman may

have refused to accept confiscated Irish land or sold his

property rights to others. I find it difficult to believe that

Moorman would volunteer to serve in Ireland and then refuse to

accept payment for his services. However, there was much dissatis-

faction with the confiscated lands program instituted by Cromwell

to pay his soldiers and many sold off their land grants and

returned to England as quickly as they could.

(7) In the late 1650s, Belfast was the hotbed of Quaker evan-

gelism in Ireland, and it could have been there that Zachariah

and Mary first came in contact with the Quaker faith. In con-

trast, Quaker influence on Isle of Wight was minimal until the

early 1660s.

In addition to the above, we know that several Quaker families

were passengers aboard the three vessel fleet (Carolina, Port

Royal and the sloop Three Sisters) which sailed in January 1680

from Barbados to found a new colony in South Carolina. (See

_Official History of the State of South Carolina_) The Quaker

families were not part of the colonizing party (many of whom were

also Quakers) but rather were emigrants headed for Virginia where

the fleet was planning to resupply before heading back to Bar-

bados. A fierce storm separated the fleet before it reached South

Carolina and the vessel carrying the Quaker families, the Three

Sisters, sought refuge and repair in Bermuda. The Quaker families

were dropped off in Virginia before the Three Sisters finally

reached South Carolina on May 23, 1680. (There are no names as

sociated with the Quaker families that sailed aboard the Three

Sisters, only mention that they were dropped off at "the Nan

semond River in Virginia" before the Three Sisters reached South

Carolina." I suggest the Moorman family was aboard the Three

Sisters and that the circumstances of its voyage led to the rumor

that the Moormans had been part of the South Carolina colonizing

party.) [Doug's report says 1680 in the above account, but I'm

sure that's a typo and should read 1670 based on content. LSS]

Revised Calendar for Zachariah MOORMAN

1620 Birth of Zachariah, son of Thomas Moorman of Isle of

Wight, Hampshire

1630 Zachariah joins the Army

1649-1655 Zachariah serves under Cromwell in Ireland

1656-1657 Zachariah marries Mary CANDLER in Ireland

after 1656 Zachariah and Mary possibly reside in Belfast

c1658 Son Thomas is born in Ireland

c1658 Zachariah and/or Mary Moorman join Quaker faith

before 1660 Zachariah and Mary return to Isle of Wight. Zachariah

persuades older brother Thomas to join the Quaker

movement. Thomas serves as Quaker missionary, first

at Hulst, Holland and later Damme, Germany where he

settles and raises a family.

1669 Zachariah and Mary Moorman and family leave Southamp-

ton on the Glasgow bound for Barbados, an inter-

mediate stopover enroute to Virginia

1670 Moorman family arrives in Virginia and settles at the

Quaker refuge near Somerton, Nansemond Co.

[For those wanting more information on the CANDLER family, I

refer you to several previous reports: the two part IRSHCNDR.txt

and IRHCNDL2.txt are the most detailed; CANDLER.txt,

CNDLRVST.txt, DOUGCAND.txt, and MRMHDGPG.txt. Don't let "txt"

or "asc" following the file name throw you: "asc" appears with

individual files sent via e-mail and "txt" with those files

downloaded from my web page. Same files, just different handling

by cyberspace. LSS]

(http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/reports/zachist.txt; downloaded 25 March 2007.)

Birth: __ ___ 1619 _______________, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, England (web site; FTW; no sources available.).

Son: circa __ ___ 1648 Charles MOORMAN; _______________, _______________, _______________, England.

Daughter: circa __ ___ 1650 Sally Ann MOORMAN; _______________, _______________, _______________, England.

Marriage: __ ___ 1656 Mary Ann CANDLER (b. 1635, d. 1670), daughter of Lt. Col. William CANDLER and Elizabeth Ann ANTHONY; _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Some say circa 1646 (web site; FTW; no sources available.)

Son: __ ___ 1658 Thomas MOORMAN; _______________, Isle of Wight, Hampshire Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.).

Death: __ Jan 1670 _______________, Nanesmond, Suffolk Co., VA (web site; FTW; no sources available.).

Burial: __ ___ ____

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Family Group Sheet

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Three Known Children

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M Charles MOORMAN

Marriage 1: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Some sources say that this is the Charles Moorman that married Elizabeth Reynolds circa 1704 and give no indication of whether or not he had a first wife. These same sources also have him dying in 1757!

It if very doubtful if this is the Charles that Elizabeth married. He would have been over 100 when he died and 50 or more when married. The Charles in question is more likely brother Thomas' eldest son.

Birth: circa __ ___ 1648 _______________, _______________, _______________, England.

Marriage? __ ___ ____

Death: __ ___ ____

Burial: __ ___ ____

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F Sally Ann MOORMAN

Birth: circa __ ___ 1650 _______________, _______________, _______________, England.

Marriage? __ ___ ____

Death: __ ___ ____

Burial: __ ___ ____

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M Thomas MOORMAN (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.) (web site; FTW; no sources available.)

Biography: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________; Thomas one of Zachariah's sons, a vestryman of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent county, was living with his wife, Elizabeth, and three children in that county in 1671.

Note: For Thomas to have three children in 1671, he must have been born earlier than 1658. The 1648 is more likely correct. **map** (Ambrose, Charles C. Moorman Ancestors, p. 4.)

Research: __ ___ ____ _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________;

THOMAS MOORMAN of New Kent Co. and ELIZABETH ???

by Linda Sparks Starr

MAR 1996

[In the interest of making headway on this family, I've decided

to examine only those parts of the MOORMAN/CLARK legend which can

be supported with primary documents. The early vestry book for

Upper Parish, Nansemond Co. was destroyed; therefore there is no

source for an Anglican vestryman Thomas Moorman in that parish.

I've searched many SC records; he was NOT a landed proprietor

there as some earlier researchers said. Therefore I begin this

study in New Kent Co. VA. LSS]

The first appearance in VA of THIS Thomas Moorman MAY BE the one

claimed by Capt. James Turner as one of his headrights in his JUN

1670 patent, book 6. [Nugent Cavaliers & Pioneers, vol. 2] What

makes this entry so intriguing is Capt. Turner received land in

New Kent Co. on "both sides Horse Path at Mahexem and upon up

per side Whyting Branch". Doug Tucker, who used Nugent to plot

CLARK and MOORMAN lands, says "our" Thomas Moorman eventually

settled near Whiting Swamp and in the vicinity of the Mehexem (or

Matrexem) path. Mary Stewart emphasizes we CAN NOT ASSUME ANY

THING about the people listed as "transported" on patent records.

This person MAY NOT BE "our" Thomas; he MAY / MAY NOT have been

an indentured servant of Capt. Turner's.

The above reference is the only MOORMAN (including all variant

spellings) in the index to Nugent's volume 2; Charles is the only

MOORMAN in the index to volume 3. Thus, Thomas did not acquire

his land via the headright / patent route. This study and the one

on son Charles will show Thomas Moorman and his sons remained in

the same area for 30 plus years. Therefore, I think we can

safely assume he eventually acquired land. With the loss of all

will and deed records for New Kent Co., just "how" he acquired

land as well as "how much" is lost forever.

The cycle from indentured servant to landowner is explained in A

Place in Time: Middlesex County, VA 1650-1750, by (historians)

Darrett B. and Anita Rutman, Norton:NY 1984 ISBN 0-393-01801-6,

page 75: "Freed servants rented or cropped to obtain the

wherewithal to buy, then sold or rented part of what they bought

to obtain the wherewithal to develop the rest." They explained

this system began falling apart in 1670. As the number of im

ported slaves increased, the number of white indentured servants

decreased. Down the road, this meant fewer newly freed servants

to rent a portion of the newly purchased land from those who ar

rived before them. The other possibilities for acquiring land

were: outright purchase from an individual, inheritance and mar

riage. Thomas is the first documented MOORMAN in the area so

it's probably safe to say he didn't inherit the land from his

father; every other possibility is open for consideration.

This brings us to 1677 and the first primary source for "our"

Thomas Moorman. When King Charles II heard about Bacon's Rebel

lion and extent of Gov. Berkeley's punishment of the offenders,

he (? what else) appointed a commission to get to the bottom of

everything. The Commissioners went around the countryside meet

ing with settlers, asking them to compile a list of grievances

for the King. In his 50 plus page forward to the 1935 edition of

his Vestry Book of Blisland Parish..., Chamberlayne names all 87

signers at the "north church".

Thomas Mooreman's name appears page xlv along with his neighbors

based on the first St. Peter's parish processioning list. To

have a grievance April 1677, SUGGESTS he was "on the ground" ear

lier. The Rutmans suggest the cause of the rebellion was a

build-up of frustration -- higher taxes, lower tobacco prices,

weather related crop failures -- a general feeling of things

going from bad to worse.

Another specific reference to Thomas Moorman is found in

Chamberlayne's Vestry Book of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent Co.

1684-1786, page 21. This apparently is the first time the vestry

was divided into precincts for processioning boundary lines.

Thomas's immediate neighbors in 1689 were: Char. Brya[], Char.

Bostick, Chris. Baker, Tho. Moorman, Tho. Snead, Jam. Moor, Edw.

Qorill / Dorill.

Of these people, Charles Bostike signed the 1677 grievance im

mediately before Thomas Mooreman. Others of similar surnames, but

whose signatures on the list were farther from Thomas's, include:

Henry Snead, James Moore and Edward Dorrell. Thus we can say

with certainty that the Thomas Mooreman of 1677 is the same Tho.

Moorman in 1689. These people didn't move; the new St. Peter's

Parish boundary line just took them in.

Long-term leasing is one thing, but surely in 12 to 15 years,

Thomas saved enough to buy his own tract of land that passed to

his sons. The names of near neighbors on the above processioning

list re-appear in the first three St. Paul's processioning lists

-- 1708, 1711, and 1716 -- as near neighbors of sons Charles and

Andrew Moorman.

The Rutmans, page 145: "The possession of land and wealth were

clearly vital elements ... Those without land ... were virtually

excluded from public tasks ... colony law restricted jury duty

and the like to 'freeholders,' few who did not own or hold long

term leases to property were selected ... Among the eighty-four

men active in 1700 ... only three came from the bottommost level

of free society, one serving as a sexton, two as appraisers."

Without New Kent court records, we'll never know if Thomas was

asked to appraise estates or serve on juries. The only time his

name appears in Chamberlayne's abstract of vestry records is the

above processioning list.

Now lets go to The Parish Register of Saint Peter's, New Kent Co.

VA from 1680 to 1787, published Richmond: 1904 by Colonial Dames

of America. Page 22 is the primary source for Thomas's wife and

two of his children: "Mary, ye dau of Thomas Moreman and

Elizabeth his wife bapt ye 29th day of Aug 1686" and "Andrew,

son of Tho Moorman bapt ye 4 day of Nov 1689".

Family legends differ on son Charles' birthyear. I SUGGEST

Charles was the older son, either born in Blisland Parish whose

earliest register book is not extant, or more probably in St.

Peter's Parish. The earliest extant pages were obviously

deteriorated when abstracted one hundred years ago; large por

tions of written entries are missing -- especially the birth

years. Even though the title of the book says "1680", it's impos-

sible to say in what year the first surviving entries were made.

I SUGGEST whole pages of the very earliest entries are missing

altogether -- including Charles' birth / baptism record. Based on

three years between Mary and Andrew's baptism dates and the

"usual" two between births, I PROJECT Charles' birthyear as c1683

to c1684.

What is the Anglican policy on infant baptism? The St. Peter's

entry for Mary and Andrew specifically says "baptized" not born.

Could Mary and Andrew have been older than assumed when they

were baptized? Although Mary and Andrew are the only "proven"

children of this couple, ALL genealogies except Bro. Ambrose Moor-

man name Charles as a son. Doug Tucker proposes another son

Thomas (1688-1782) (hereafter "Jr.") to explain / identify the

parentage of Thomas Moorman (hereafter "III") who was raising his

family in North Carolina mid-1750s. [I'm out of my depth here,

but I present Doug's case for those researching these MOORMANs.)

In his MOORMAN / TUCKER FAMILY IN AMERICA study, page 8, Doug

says this Thomas (Jr.) and the above Andrew, younger brothers of

Charles, "led a small Quaker migration ... south to newly opened

lands along what later became the North Carolina/South Carolina

border. Thomas (Jr.) settled in Anson County, NC and Andrew

settled across the (future) border in Marlboro County, SC."

Doug added a bit more about this Thomas Jr. in his study on Fran

cis Clark and his Children. Coming forward one more generation,

Doug begins with a Thomas (III) who married Sarah CLARK; the

births of their nine children were recorded in Cane Creek Meeting

between 1754 and 1768. Doug says Moorman records say Thomas (III)

was the youngest son of Thomas (Jr.) b. 1688 who reportedly

married Elizabeth CLARK, daughter of the elusive Micajah and

Sallie Ann (Moorman). Thomas Jr. and Elizabeth had three sur

viving children: Andrew b. 1718, Benjamin b. 1722 and Thomas III

b. 1730.

Back to Virginia. Neither Thomas Sr. nor Charles appears on The

Quit Rents of VA: 1704, compiled by Annie Laurie Wright Smith,

GenPubCo: 1980. Doug's understanding is, "only land 'granted'

free by the Colony was assessed quit rent. Land purchased from

the Crown by cash payment, or equivalent, was generally assessed

quit rent for three years after which no more rent had to be

paid. Land acquired in private transactions generally remained

on the quit rent rolls until the owner 'bought' the land from the

colonial government in which case it was removed from the quit

rent rolls." If Doug is correct, the absence of Thomas' name on

this list cannot be used as a "death by" record.

Thomas Sr's name does not appear on the first processioning order

for St. Paul's Parish -- 1708. [Chamberlayne, Vestry Book of St.

Paul's Parish, Hanover Co. VA 1706-1786]. I think this record can

be used as a "death by" record; therefore, he died before 1708.

The very last time we have a record for him is Andrew's baptism,

NOV 1689. I hesitate to GUESS at his birth / death years, but

logical dates seem to be birth in the 1650s and death late 1690s

/ early 1700s.

As I see it, we have no primary source for Charles or Thomas Jr.

as sons of Thomas and Elizabeth. However, I think a good

"preponderance of evidence" case for Charles as son can be made

-- and has been made by Doug Tucker -- by comparing the St.

Paul's processioners with 1689 St. Peter's processioners and even

the 1677 signers in Blisland Parish. [I will get more into this

in my future update on Charles. I leave the NC MOORMANs to other

researchers. LSS]

In his February 24, 1996 study of the Moorman land records, Doug

located the MOORMAN property in "the general vicinity of the up

per reaches of Whiting Swamp (which joins Matadequin Creek just

before the latter enters the Pamunkey River)." In other words,

near the Pamunkey River.

This is important, for SIMPSON is suggested by some as a LIKELY

(not proven) surname for Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Moorman. On

page 7, Doug says an "Edward Simpson lived directly across the

Pamunkey River [from Thomas] along Simpson's Creek in an area com-

monly known as Pamunkey Neck. In the late 1600's, Pamunkey Neck

was part of New Kent Co. and St. Peter's Parish and a ferry was

established across the Pamunkey to connect the sparsely settled

Neck ... with the area south of the Pamunkey ... the presence of

a Simpson family in the immediate neighborhood lends a bit of

credence to the scant evidence that SIMPSON was the maiden name

of Thomas' wife."

The Simpsons weren't there in 1689, however, for the first St.

Peter's processioning list specifically names the nineteen

families living on Pamunkey Neck. Even though only 19 (probably

fewer) families lived on the Neck 1680, the very first entry in

the St. Peter's vestrybook charged William Atkinson with keeping

the parish ferry for benefit of the few inhabitants who lived

north of the Pamunkey River. The SIMPSONs not being there in

1689 is not that relevant, for Thomas Moorman and Elizabeth were

married c1682 IF Charles is the oldest child. To date, we've

found no primary source for Elizabeth's surname

(http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/reports/thsmorma.txtt; downloaded 25 March 2007.)

Birth: __ ___ 1658 _______________, Isle of Wight, Hampshire Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.).

Marriage: __ ___ 1683 Elizabeth Macajah SIMPSON (b. 1659, d. ); _______________, Green Springs, Louisa Co., VA; This may be a second wife, as other sources show Charles born 29 August 1670; Mary b. August 1686, and Andrew b. 1689, with Thomas and Micajah born between Charles and Mary. They also show a wife named Elizabeth Clark (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.) (Tillman, Thomas Moorman of the Isle of Wight, England, p. 9.)

Son: before __ ___ 1686 Charles MOORMAN; _______________, Green Springs, New Kent Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.) (unknown author, "E-Mail message," e-mail to unknown recipient, Stewart, Mary E.; mstewart@kaballero.com; 20 June 2005.).

Death: __ ___ ____ _______________, Green Springs, New Kent Co., VA (Pete Douglass; edouglass@home.com; http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dourlassec&id=I0396.).

Burial: __ ___ ____

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