Series 8 - Moore family history

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Entries from the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley)'s Directory of American Biography on:

1. James Moore of South Carolina, who arrived in South Carolina in 1675 and helped overthrow Governor Thomas Colleton in 1690, later becoming governor himself;
2. His grandson, Brigadier General James Moore, prominent leader of the ‘Sons of Liberty’ and one of the leaders who marched on Brunswick, North Carolina in February 1766 to prevent the enforcement of the British government’s Stamp Act. In 1775 he was chosen a delegate from New Hanover, North Carolina to the 3rd Provincial Congress held at Hillsboro, and was chosen Colonel of the 1st North Carolina Continental Regiment.