The Moores of North Carolina and South Carolina
- James Moore (1650–1706), Governor of South Carolina Colony 1700–1703. Ancestor of Maurice Moore.
- Maurice Moore, Judge in North Carolina Colony. Descendant of James Moore.
- Alfred Moore (1755–1810), North Carolina Assemblyman, Attorney General of North Carolina, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1799–1804. Son of Maurice Moore.
- Maurice Moore, Judge in North Carolina Colony. Descendant of James Moore.
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Famous quotes containing the words north, carolina and/or south:
“By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
Lonely from the beginning of time until now!
Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.”
—Li Po (701–762)
“The great problem of American life [is] the riddle of authority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberal and individualistic social order, of living in harmonious and consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure of individual liberation.”
—Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)
“The South Wind is a baker.”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)