ANSNMRP2 [This is a continuation of ANSNMRMN.txt, submitted by Douglas Tucker. LSS] Thomas Moorman (c1715-1782) John Moorman's older brother, Thomas, bought 200 acres on the east side of the Pee Dee along Hitchcock's Creek in JUN 1750. He added a 400-acre patent along the same Creek in MAY 1758 and another 85 acres in 1760. His Hitchcock's Creek neighbors were Francis and Christopher Clark, William Haley, Benjamin Mims and Andrew Moorman Jr. Although there is no mention of Thomas Moorman in the Camp Creek Meeting records (a 1756 mention of Thomas Moorman was a reference to the teen-age son of Thomas and Rachel (Clark) Moorman) there can be little doubt that he was raised a Quaker. He married the mysterious Sarah Clark about 1751 and had a slew of children be tween 1752 and 1770. Sarah, almost certainly, was Thomas Clark's second wife as Thomas was at least 38 years old when they married. I am certain that Thomas had a son named Andrew by his first marriage. This was the Andrew Moorman who married Ann Diggs in 1761 at the Pee Dee meeting. (I think we need to consider- whether Thomas Moorman's first wife _might_ have been Elizabeth Clark, another daughter of Francis and Cordelia Clark. I do not think she was the wife of William Haley Sr. as some have suggested.) Thomas Moorman wrote his will on 10 APR 1778 but Richmond Co. records indicate he died in 1782. Cane Creek records tell us that Sarah (Clark) Moorman survived her husband by many years, in part the result of being nearly 20 years younger than her husband. I recently came across a Richmond Co. Court document which I believe helps clear up the mystery of Sarah Clark's parentage. The document, dated 15 DEC 1796, states that: Sarah Moorman appoints William Haley Jr. her lawful attorney to settle her interest in the estate of her grandfather, Francis Clark. A Louisa Co. VA Court record shows the sale of 16 JAN 1796/97 by William Haley Jr. of 80 acres to Benjamin Clark for L24. This was probably the settlement of Sarah Moorman's estate claim. Some have interpreted this item as relating to the estate of Fran- cis Clark Jr., and a Haley family record labeled Sarah Moorman as a niece of William Haley Jr. This interpretation is incorrect for many reasons. First, my research shows that Francis Clark Jr. did not die until 1799. Second, I have carefully reviewed Francis Clark Jr.'s children and grandchildren and he did not have a granddaughter named Sarah Moorman. Nor did William Haley Jr. have a niece named Sarah Moorman. William Haley's sister, Lucy, married Benjamin Moorman and their daughters would have been Wil- liam Haley's nieces, except there was no Sarah in Ben and Lucy's family. But these Moorman daughters, in any case, would have been the great granddaughters of Francis Clark Sr. since Benjamin Moor- man was himself a grandson of Francis Sr. Since Francis Clark Jr. was still alive in 1796, Sarah Moorman's grandfather clearly was Francis Clark Sr. of Louisa Co. VA who died in 1769. So who was the Sarah Moorman who was his granddaughter? We know that Francis Clark Sr. had a married daughter named Sarah Moorman who was still alive in 1769 when Francis made his will. But she was his daughter and not his granddaughter, so let's put the daughter aside and look for a granddaughter! It turns out there is only one possible candidate--Thomas Moorman's second wife, Sarah Clark. She married Thomas Moorman in 1752/53 and regularly bore children until 1770. In all likelihood, this Sarah (Clark) Moorman was born between 1735 and 1737. Her father would almost certainly have to have been born before 1715. Of Francis Clark's seven known sons, only Joseph and Thomas are known to have been born before 1715. My guess is that Sarah was the oldest daughter of Thomas Clark, but whether Thomas, Joseph or another son, she was certainly a granddaughter of Francis Clark Sr. With the parentage of Sarah (Clark) Moorman, wife of Thomas, ac- counted for, we have "freed" up Francis Clark Sr.'s daughter, Sarah, or Sallie as she was generally called, for a different Moorman husband. Although not all the discussion and arguments have been made, take my word that, by simple process of elimina- tion, _Sallie Clark was Andrew Moorman Sr.'s second wife._ Thomas, Andrew Jr., Lucy and John were the surviving children of Andrew Sr. and Susannah (Reynolds?) Moorman while Benjamin, Charles, Sarah, Zachariah, Mary and Archelaus were the surviving children of Andrew Sr. and Sallie (Clark) Moorman. Benjamin was born in 1735 so Andrew Moorman Sr. married Sallie sometime be tween 1730 and 1735 while he still lived in Goochland Co. along Byrd Creek. Before leaving Thomas Moorman, I want to "strongly suggest" that the Andrew Moorman who married Ann Diggs in 1761 was Thomas' son by a first marriage. This Andrew was born about 1739 give or take a year. He was not the son of Andrew Moorman Jr. as I will prove below. John Moorman was too young to have had a son born in 1739 and, in any case, did not get married until 1751. Andrew Moorman Sr. already had a son named Andrew. That leaves only Thomas Moor- man as a possible father candidate. Since Thomas appears to have been born no later than 1715, he was old enough to have had a son born in 1739. (As for who might have been Thomas Moorman's first wife, I will risk stirring up a fire-storm and suggest that she might have been Elizabeth Clark, another of the undocumented daughters of Francis and Cordelia Clark. I have no proof, but it somehow fits this crazy-quilt family. Furthermore, Francis Clark Sr. and Andrew Moorman Sr. lived in close proximity near the Hanover/Goochland Cos. border during the period when Thomas and Elizabeth would have reached marriageable age.) There is another relevant bit of information about Thomas Moorman that might interest the reader. Thomas and Francis Clark Jr. were about the same age and were close friends and neighbors long before the Moorman and Clark migrations to Anson Co. Both were staunch Quakers and active in all sorts of Quaker affairs. Thomas became a Quaker preacher who was granted the title "Reverend" and whose role was to help spread the Quaker word and gain conver- sions to the Quaker fold. Francis Clark Jr. was named by the Cane Creek Meeting as "overseer" of the many small Quaker communities scattered along the "road to TN". During the 1760s and early 1770s, Thomas and Francis regularly made the long journey to TN together, with Francis dealing with Quaker business affairs and Thomas dealing with spiritual matters. [DCT Note: Readers may recall mention of a 1778 letter written by Rev. Thomas Moorman to Mary Ann (Bowles) Lynch that was pub- lished in Allan Candler's 1902 book about his grandfather, Col. William Candler of GA. In this letter, Thomas calls Mary Ann his "cousin", apparently using the cousin term generically, but later uses very specific terminology when describing Mary Ann Lynch's relationship to Zachariah Moorman as "first cousin" and her relationship to Micajah Clark (of the Yadkin adventure) as "cousin of the second remove". Now that we know for certain that Rev. Thomas Moorman was the son of Andrew Moorman Sr., some of these family relationships become clearer. [_First_, Mary Ann Lynch was married to John Lynch, son of Charles Lynch and Sarah Clark. Zachariah Moorman was the son of Thomas Moorman and Rachel Clark, Sarah Clark's sister. Thus John Lynch was Zack Moorman's first cousin. (Mary Ann was a first cousin only by marriage.) _Second_, for Mike Clark of the Yadkin to be John Lynch's "cousin of the second remove", the sibling relationship that produced cousins was two generations before his mother's generation. That means that Mike Clark of the Yadkin was the great-grandson (possibly just grandson) of one of Micajah Clark's brothers and the grandson (possibly just son) of one of Christopher Clark's cousins. Given what we know about the ear- liest Clark generation in VA, Mike Clark's great-grandfather would almost certainly have been Edward Clark, the sexton of New Kent Co. I have written before that I think Edward Clark, the sexton, died intestate in 1713 in Surry Co. VA while he was in process of acquiring land in NC along the Roanoke River. His son, Edward Clark Jr., was a minor at the time but ultimately took title to the Roanoke River property that his father had committed to before his death. Was Mike Clark of the Yadkin a son of Edward Clark Jr., who also had sons named Christopher, Thomas, Edward and John? Unfortunately, I don't have any answers, but I am get ting a better idea of what I should be looking for and where I need to search.] Andrew Moorman of Georgia GA land and probate records tell us that Andrew Moorman of GA, who died in 1761, was a brother of Thomas Moorman of Anson Co. NC and, by extension, a brother of John Moorman who died in 1758. Was this Andrew Moorman also Andrew Moorman Jr. of Anson Co. NC? For a long time, I had serious doubts, but after reviewing Anson Co. land records, it became clear that this was the same Andrew Moorman who had been widely known as "Junior" in NC. Andrew of GA married Catherine Robinson in Anson Co. sometime before 1754 because Catherine's father, Charles Robinson Sr., referred to her as "Cathern Moorman" in his DEC 1754 will. By early 1760, Andrew and Catherine and five children had settled along the Savannah River at a place called Poor Robin's Bluff. (Charles Robinson Sr., his wife Sarah and six children had migrated to NC from Augusta Co. VA in 1748. After Charles Sr. died, his widow Sarah, her sons Townsend, Charles Jr. and Cor- nelius and daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, migrated to GA with Andrew and Catherine Moorman.) Andrew Moorman of GA died in 1761 and left a will naming his wife and three sons--Gideon the eldest, Cornelius and Andrew Jr. While Andrew had claimed five children in a 1760 land grant application to the GA Council, in 1763 his wife indicated that only three children were still alive. In 1770, after the death of Catherine Moorman and all her children, Thomas Moorman, as Andrew's "brother and heir at law" petitioned the GA Council to clarify title to his deceased brother's land. Anson Co. land records show that Andrew Moorman Sr. died about 1756 and that Andrew Moorman Jr. disappeared from Anson Co. some time after AUG 1757. GA records show that Andrew Moorman arrived in GA from NC with a wife and five children sometime before 1760. The Other Sons and Daughters of Andrew MOORMAN Sr. It is not clear what provisions Andrew Moorman Sr. made in his will regarding the distribution of his several Anson Co. properties, but their disposal allows us to identify the other male members of his large family. I have already dealt with Thomas, Andrew Jr., Lucy, John, Charles and Benjamin above. By the end of 1761, only Thomas, Lucy and Benjamin were still alive. Sarah MOORMAN (1732/38 - 1800) Sarah Moorman, who was born in either 1732 or 1738, married David DUMAS before 1753. There can be little doubt that her father was Andrew Moorman Sr. as she and David named their first son Andrew Moorman Dumas. They named their second son, Benjamin, after David's father. Their next four children were Unity (after Unity Lucy, David's paternal grandmother), Jeremiah (after David's paternal grandfather), Sarah (for Sarah's mother Sarah Clark) and Frances (for David's mother, Frances Clark Dumas.) Zachariah MOORMAN (1742 - 1789) In OCT 1763 Thomas and Zachariah Moorman "jointly" sold off half of a 213 acre parcel on the west bank of the Pee Dee that had been acquired by their father in 1749. The buyer was Isham Haley. Benjamin and Archelaus Moorman were witnesses to the transaction. (It should be noted that Zachariah was born in 1742 and had just turned 21 when this property was sold.) In July 1764 Zachariah Moorman purchased a tract from John Elkins that was adjacent to the Rockey River property owned by his brother Benjamin. (Thomas also owned property in the vicinity, but based on County road orders, I believe all these Moorman brothers actually lived along Hitchcock's Creek on the opposite side of the Pee Dee some 25 miles down river at least through 1777.) Quaker records tell us Zachariah married Sarah Hall (1) in 1764 and Mary Mathews (2) before 1770. Zack was disowned by the Quakers when he married non-Quaker Sarah Hall. He and Sarah had three surviving children -- Edward, Elizabeth and Mary. Second wife Mary Mathews was a Quaker, and Zack Moorman was readmitted into the Quaker fold. Zack and Mary's children were Ruth, Hannah, Anna, Uriah, Thomas and Susannah. In 1811, son Uriah would later lead a migration of Quakers from Marlboro Co. SC to Leesburg, OH before ultimately settling in Wayne Co., Indiana. Archelaus Moorman (c1745 - 1802) Archelaus Moorman has been called Achilles and Archibald but An- son Co. records show it generally as Archelaus although the spell- ing varies all over the lot. (Was the name choice a response to his brother, Charles, naming a son Achilles?) He first shows up in Anson Co. land records on 11 OCT 1763 when he witnessed a land sale by Thomas and Zachariah Moorman to Isham Haley. To witness a deed of sale required Archelaus to be at least 16 years of age. This would establish his birth date as 1747 or perhaps a year or two earlier. In DEC 1768 Archelaus acquired an Anson Co. patent for 300 acres which he sold the following NOV to William Pratt. Archelaus Moorman's name does not appear frequently in Anson Co. documents but there is mention of another 163-acre patent granted to Ar- chelaus in JUL 1784 on Rockey Fork of Hitchcock's Creek near where Archelaus had a mill. (Cane Creek Meeting records show that an Archelaus Moorman died in 1778. I believe this was a reference to a young son of Thomas and Sarah Moorman's.) Archelaus Moorman's name last appears in Richmond Co. NC records in 1802. I do not know whether he ever married or had children. Other Daughters There are hints in several records that Andrew Sr. and Sallie had additional daughters named Mary and Agnes. I found no record of these daughters, but Agnes may have been the Agnes Moorman who was reported to have married Christopher Clark after his first wife, Elizabeth (Stone) Clark died in 1769. I have included Mary and Agnes in Andrew Moorman Sr.'s family listing with appropriate question marks. There remain many unanswered questions about Andrew Moorman Sr. and his Carolina progeny. His children were born over a 30+ year period. We know he had two wives, but was Susannah (Reynolds?) his first wife? Did he have any other daughters? Was Andrew Sr. a practicing Quaker? Thomas, John, Benjamin and Zachariah were Quakers, but Andrew Jr., Lucy, Charles, Sarah and Archelaus never appear in Quaker records. On the following pages are family listings for Andrew Moorman Sr. and his children and grandchildren. ------------------------------ APPENDIX A North Carolina MOORMAN Family Units, First Two Generations And. MOORMAN Sr.(1689-1752); 1 Susannah REYNOLDS? 2 Sallie CLARK Thomas c1715 - 1782 m. ?? (1) Sarah CLARK (2) Andrew Jr. c1718 - 1761 m. Catherine ROBINSON c1750 Lucy c1723 - ? m. James JOHNSON 1739 John c1727 - 1758 m. Tabitha CLARK 1751 Benjamin 1735 - 1782 m. Lucy HALEY 1756 Charles c1737 - 1759 probably didn't marry Sarah 1738 - 1800 m. David DUMAS 1753 Zachariah 1742 - 1789 m. Sarah HALL (1) 1764 Mary MATHEWS (2) Mary ?? c1743 Archelaus c1745 - 1802 m. ?? Agnes ?? 1747 - 1780 m. ?? Thomas MOORMAN (c1715-1782) / ?? (1) Sarah CLARK (2) Andrew * 1739 - m. Ann DIGGS (1) ? (2) Rachel 1753 m. James Adcock or Elisha JOHNSON Agnes 1754 - m. John WALL Mildred 1755 - m. John SANDERS (1) John ELLYSON (2) Josiah TOMLINSON (3) Archelaus 1756 - 1778 died young Thomas Jr. 1757 - 1801 m. Susannah CREW (1) Sarah WILSON (2) John ** 1758 - m. Rebecca DIGGS ?? Nancy 1760 - m. Robert CLARK ?? Ann 1761 - died young Frances 1762 - m. Benjamin COVINGTON Sarah 1763 - m. James JOHNSON Zachariah 1767 - 1767 died young * Andrew Moorman's position on this chart is speculative. ** possibly the adopted son of John and Tabitha (Clark) Moorman. Andrew Moorman Jr. (c1718-1761) / Catherine ROBINSON Gideon c1754 - 1768 died young Cornelius c1756 - 1768 died young Andrew Jr. c1758 - 1768 died young John Moorman (c1727-1758) / Tabitha CLARK (c1726-1728) Delia 1752 - m. Henry ADCOCK Benjamin 1754 - 1798 m. Anne CLARK John ?? 1758 - m. Rebecca DIGGS Sarah Moorman (1732/38-1800) / David DUMAS (1730-1803) Andrew M. 1754 - 1803 m. Jemima ? Benjamin 1756 - 1790 m. Susannah HUTCHINGS Unity 1760 - Jeremiah 1767 - 1841 m. Nancy Macker Sham Sarah Clark 1770 - Frances Lucy 1772 - 1830 m. Arnold THOMPSON Obediah 1773 - m. Mary Lucy Zachariah 1776 - 1846 m. Elizabeth Lucy Nehemiah 1778 - Azariah 1780 - 1849 m. Mary HARRIS (1) Susannah HARE (2) Benjamin Moorman (1735-1782) / Lucia (Lucy) HALEY Andrew 1757 - 1757 died young Benjamin ** 1754 - 1798 m. Anne CLARK William 1762 - Lucy (Lishee) 1763 - m. ? CRAWFORD Charles 1767 - 1818 m. Elizabeth JOHNSON Mildred 1769 - m. Peter SANDERS Elizabeth 1771 - ** Adopted son of John and Tabitha Moorman Zachariah Moorman (1742- ? )1.Sarah HALL 2. Mary MATHEWS 3.Nancy? Edward 1768 - 1810 m. Charity STRICKLAND (1) Mary THOMAS (2) Elizabeth 1771 - Mary 1773 - m. Obediah HARRIS John 1776 - m. Sarah THOMAS Ruth 1778 - m. Jonathan CLARK Hannah 1780 - Susannah 1782 - did not marry Anna 1784 - 1848 m. Benjamin THOMAS Uriah 1785 - 1848 m. Hannah MENDENHALL (1) Elizabeth MORRIS (2) Thomas 1786 - 1788 died young