Genealogy and recollections . neighbor-hood of Wheeling. Benjamin, son of John, was father of Catherine,who married James Moore in 1772. One of the sons ofthis Virginia Benjamin Biggs was Zacharias, erro-neously called Zaccheus in the booklet of John Mil-ton Moore, which relates that James Biggs Moore, ason of James the Illinois pioneer, lived for a time inVirginia with that uncle. As we have seen, it wasBenjamin, son of John Biggs, who sold out at Fred-erick and moved to Short Creek near says the elder Biggs removed, but that iserror. Doubtless he called Benjamin the elder b
Genealogy and recollections . neighbor-hood of Wheeling. Benjamin, son of John, was father of Catherine,who married James Moore in 1772. One of the sons ofthis Virginia Benjamin Biggs was Zacharias, erro-neously called Zaccheus in the booklet of John Mil-ton Moore, which relates that James Biggs Moore, ason of James the Illinois pioneer, lived for a time inVirginia with that uncle. As we have seen, it wasBenjamin, son of John Biggs, who sold out at Fred-erick and moved to Short Creek near says the elder Biggs removed, but that iserror. Doubtless he called Benjamin the elder by-reason that he had a son Benjamin. Benjamin whodid so remove had sons Zacharias, or Zaccheus, asurveyor who laid lines over a great part of Ohio;Thomas (killed by Indians), and William Biggs, aClarke soldier who went to the Illinois. In fact threeBiggs sons went to the Illinois, so he had the sixcalled for by Thwaites. I have copy of a letter written from the Illinoisby a son, William, to his brother (also a Benjamin) [22]. A. A. Moore(Photograph taken 1915) GENEALOGY found in the Draper Collection (supra) of date May28, 1789, in which he says, Your two brothers andsister here and her family are well, etc. The sisterwas Catherine Biggs, wife of James Moore son, General Biggs, referred to by Thwaites,of whom I will speak later, was a son of the originalBenjamin who left Maryland and brother of mygreat-grandmother. There is frequent reference to William Biggs, thebrother of my great-grandmother in McDonoughsHistory of Randolph, Perry and Monroe Coun-ties (Philadelphia, 1883), from which may be sum-marized that he was in first and second TerritorialLegislatures of Illinois; he settled where the roadfrom Cahokia descended the bluff; he was the firstsheriff; was born in Maryland, and a soldier underClarke. Was taken prisoner by Indians, etc.; cameback with two brothers; he was in legislative councilfor Monroe, held 400-acre tract, and another of 400acres. At one time he
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