Both books referenced below are out of print. I found the Lefroy books 
with 2 volumes at an exorbitant price of $1,900USD from an antique book 
dealer in London. The Churchill Goodwin Moore book was last privately 
published in the early 1990s for that family's reunion. I'm fortunate 
enough to have inherited Xeroxed copies of pages from each book 
pertaining to the lineage of the Moores in my husband's family. Please 
feel free to use it as a reference.
 
I'm transcribing old family papers for my husband's and my genealogies. 
Among his Moore family papers are 2 Xeroxed copies of pages from old 
books referring to his earliest Moore ancestors in America. The below 
info may be of help/interest to other Moore descendants from Pitt 
County, NC. Note that Richard H. Moore, born 1841, moved to Texas and 
has many descendants here.
 
1. Richard Moore, b:1583 d:1618 was the first governor of Bermuda. He 
was, "armed with the subjoined commission from the Virginia Company," 
in 1612 to serve as governor and manage the company's resources 
invested in the islands. Source: Pages 57 & 58 of Memorials of the 
Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1515-
1685, Volume I, written by Major-General John Henry Lefroy, R.A., C.B., 
F.R.S., reprinted January, 1932, Bermuda Government Library.
 
Pages 57 & 58, transcribed in part:
 
Note: Text is duplicated as exactly shown with old spellings and 
affectations.
 
Page 57, Vol I: 3. The Virginia Company lost no time in dispatching 
Richard Moore, a ship's carpenter by vocation, but an able and resolute 
man, with a company of fifty settlers. They arrived on July 11, 1612, 
to learn that the islands, although they had been left by Matthew 
Somers with a population of only three men, Carter, Chard, and Waters, 
had been the scene of great disturbance since his departure, as already 
related, p. 53. 

Richard Moore was armed with the subjoined commission from the Virginia 
Company, which had received a new grant of the territory in 1609. It 
then consisted of about 800 persons, including every rank and condition 
of society. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, 
the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Worcester, about thirty peers or 
peeresses, nearly all the great City companies, the Trinity House, and 
innumerable knights, appear among the adventurers.
 
Page 58: Governor Moore's Commission, 1612.  April 27, 1612: A 
Commission graunted by vs the vundertakers for the Plantacon of Somer 
Islands vnto our welbeloued frend Mr. Richard Moore and the rest of the 
men and mareniers imployed vpon the said voyage whome wee beseeche God 
to preserue.

Imprismis. 1. Whereas we whose names are herevunder written togeather 
with diuers others have to the glorie of God and good of our Countrye 
undertaken the Plantacon of Somer Islands (sometimes call Bermudaes) 
And for that cause thorough the good opinion conceived of your 
Integritye and wisomde hauve made choise of you Mr. Richarde Moore by a 
comon Consent to goe thither in pson and remaine there as deputie 
Governor for the said Plantacon duringe the tearme of three yeares next 
ensewinge vpon such conditions as are expressed in the orders of our 
Court booke belonginge vnto the said Plantacon, and haue also with our 
greate Costs and Charges furnisht forth in very sufficient manner the 
good shipp called the Plough, Robert Dauiss Captain and Richard Babb 
Mr, with sundrye necessarye pvisions and 50 psons or thereabouts to be 
landed in the saide Islands and lefte residinge to be disposed about 
such necessarye seruice for the said Plantacon as you the said deputie 
shall direct themunto Therefore we will and Require you the said 
Richard Moore that havinge put yorselfe and Companie abord the 
aforesaid shipp you doe (with your vttermost power and skill) indeauor 
the most direct Course for the saide Islands, without makinge stopp or 
stay at any other place, duringe the said voyage and to carrye 
yorselves respectivelye each to other accordinge to yor places both in 
obedience to your superiors and mutuall affeccon againe from them to 
the rest, soe that Loue and Kindness may...
 
2. The complete Moore line from 1066 A.D. England of the above earliest 
Moore ancestor is shown in entry number 960, Samuel Moore and 
Descendants, Pitt County, NC: A Genealogy of the Moore Family, Volume 
I, 1964, by Churchill Goodwin Moore, Jr., and other sources cited 
therein: Index and Digest to Hathaway's NC Historical and Genealogical 
Register, 1956, by W.S. Ray; Nicholas Parish Registers and Court 
Records, County Surrey, England; First Federal Census of 1790, North 
Carolina; and Index and Abstracts of Deeds and Records of Pitt County, 
by Judith D. Ellison.
 
Entry #960, transcribed in part:
 
SAMUEL MOORE and DESCENDANTS
 
Samuel Moore, an early Pitt County settler, when it was in Beaufort 
Precinct of The Albe- (rest of line unreadable)
 
(Next Page)County, Virginia, son of William (d. 1705) Moore, he the 
second son of William Moore (and wife Mary, daughter of Capt. Henry and 
Mary Woodhouse, Jr.), the second son of Edmund Moore, d. 1699, a 1652 
immigrant to Lower Norfolk County. Edmund Moore was a son of Richard 
Moore (1583-1618) first British Governor of Bermuda, 1612-1615, (and 
wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Norwood, 1548-1632, of 
"Leckhampton," Gloucester, and wife Elizabeth, daughter of William 
Lygon of "Madresfield," Worcester), younger son of Sir George More 
(1553-1632 of "Loseley," Surrey, only son of Sir William More (and wife 
Margaret, daughter of Ralph Daniel), only son of Sir Christopher More, 
d. 1549, (and wife Margaret, daughter of Walter Mugge) who acquired 
"Loseley" in 1508, a lineal descendant of Sir Thomas de la Mare (and 
wife Lady Constance d'Umfraville, daughter of Robert, Lord of Tours( of 
"Manor of More," Salop, only son of Richard de la Mare (killed October 
14, 1066, Battle of Hastings).
 
Samuel Moore came from Princess Anne County, Virginia, in 1722, at age 
21, to settle a land patent (inherited from his father’s older brother, 
James Moore who died in 1711 without issue) of 100 acres on Grindle 
Creek in western Bath precinct of “The Albemarle” (just northwest of 
the present Pactolus) in what became Beaufort precinct of Bath County 
(1738) and finally Pitt County, and expanded it 600 acres. Samuel 
Moore’s nearest neighbor was George Moye, Sr. (d. 1743) on “Moye’s 
Run,” whose oldest child and only daughter, Sarah, he married in 1723. 
They had eight children: George, Samuel, Jr., John, Obadiah, Matthias, 
Elizabeth, Sarah and Jemima.
 
Matthias Moore, fifth son, ca. 1732-1811, was a member of the Pitt 
County Committee of Safety and a signer of its “Declaration of 
Independence,” July 1, 1775. He and his wife Anne Cannady had issue: 
Richard, Jesse, Cannady, Matthias, Jr., (m. Elizabeth, daughter of 
William and Mary Crandall Little), Abel (m. Dorothy Albritton), 
Susannah, Mary Anne, Absala, Allen (married Nancy Albritton).
 
Cannady Moore, third son, ca. 1759-1828, and his three wives (the third 
was named Sarah) had issue: Willoughby, Dicey (m. Hardy Whichard), Asa, 
Obadiah, Louis, Burton, Randall, Job, Absala, George, Rachel, Sarah and 
Franklin m. Sophronia, daughter of Reuben and Penelope Harrington 
(Moore) Witherington.
 
Asa Moore, third son, ca. 1786-1820 (a Private, Eason’s Company, Pitt 
County Regiment NC Militia, War of 1812, developed a homestead “in the 
wild woods” on the south side of Swift Creek in southeast Pitt County, 
on property given him by his father, and named it “Doodle Ridge.” He 
married Penelope Harrington, 1795-1876 (who after his death married 
Reuben Witherington) and had issue Patsey Anne and Churchill W. Moore.
 
Churchill W. Moore (Mar 24, 1817-Sep 21, 1856) added to “Doodle Ridge” 
an adjoining thousand acres on the north side of Gardnersville. He 
married, 1842, Alyce Gardner (Aug 23, 1823-Mar 20, 1903, daughter of 
Asa (1796-1870) and Sally Gwartner (1792-1870) Gardner…
 
Churchill W. and Alyce G. Moore reared ten children: Asa (Jan 2, 1843-
Jan 2, 1894) Company H, 27th Regiment NC Infantry, CSA, m. Dec 21, 1865, 
Martha Elizabeth Kirkman (1846-1927), daughter of William and Milly 
Kirkman, and moved to Pamlico County where they reared a large family; 
Penelope (Dec 10, 1844, Aug 18, 1898, m. William Bryant Garris (1833-
1891) and reared seven children; Grey (1845-1865) Company E, 51st 
Regiment, CSA, was killed April 6, 1865, during General Robert E. Lee’s 
retreat from Petersburg to Appomattox; Sara (1846-May, 1914) m. Alfred 
Braneh, had nine children, and moved to Tift County, Georgia, in 1888; 
Edwin (Nov 8, 1847-1866) Quartermaster Sergeant, Company E, 61st 
Regiment, CSA, died from war injuries; Iredell (Dec 2, 1849-Dec 7, 
1920) m. in 1872 Sarah Caroline (1851-1907), daughter of James and 
Weniford Lancaster Clark and reared six children (refer to 
another…Note: next line unreadable.
 
John (1851-Aug 17, 1911) m. in 1875, Rebecca, daughter of Wyatt and 
Elizabeth Corey Gardner, and reared five children; Israel (Mar 23, 
1853-Mar 26, 1926 m. in 1877, Susan Ann (1860-1930) daughter of William 
and Sally Jane Roach Lancaster, and reared eight of fifteen children to 
adulthood; Mary (Feb 14, 1855-July 24, 1931) m. in 1875, James A. 
Stokes (1853-1926), and reared six children; and, Daunie (Apr 23, 1857-
Nov 12, 1935) m. John Washington Kirkman (1851-1936), and reared seven 
children.





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