Family
James Moore married Margaret Berringer, daughter of Lady Margaret Yeamans (by a previous marriage). Their daughter, Mary Moore, married Job Howe, another of the "Goose Creek Men". Altogether James and Margaret had ten children, many of whom moved to the Lower Cape Fear region, where they and their descendants became known as "The Family", the most powerful family in the region. Moore was the great-grandfather of American Revolutionary War General Robert Howe.
The Moore family imported over 4,000 slaves into the Carolinas, mostly for its own extensive plantations and farms in and about Cape Fear area of what later became North Carolina.
James Moore also had a Charleston house and a house in the Goose Creek area nearby to Charleston.
Another Moore family descendent of note is Maurice Moore, Justice of US Supreme Court.
Read more about this topic: James Moore (South Carolina Politician)
Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Govern a small family as you would cook a small fish, very gently.”
—(20th century)
“It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaws them,—to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)