Genealogy and recollections . roceeding north, founded the Colony of Belle Fon-taine, one of the first settlements made by Americans with-in the present limits of the State. This location was justsouth of the present town of Waterloo. The country wasthen a wilderness, and had recently been rescued fromBritish control by the daring and adventurous campaign ofGeneral George Rogers Clark. It is clear that John Milton, father of the girl whomarried Wooters, then had a family record whichhad come down from the first James to second James,to John Milton, youngest son, and again to John Mil-ton, youn
Genealogy and recollections . roceeding north, founded the Colony of Belle Fon-taine, one of the first settlements made by Americans with-in the present limits of the State. This location was justsouth of the present town of Waterloo. The country wasthen a wilderness, and had recently been rescued fromBritish control by the daring and adventurous campaign ofGeneral George Rogers Clark. It is clear that John Milton, father of the girl whomarried Wooters, then had a family record whichhad come down from the first James to second James,to John Milton, youngest son, and again to John Mil-ton, youngest son, each in turn afte. the first Jamesliving and dying on the homestead. - Well, where was the first James born in 1716?Who was he by blood and what became of his chil-dren other than my great-grandfather James? Therehas been uncertainty as to whether his son, JamesMoore, the Illinois pioneer (my great-grandfather),was born in Maryland or Virginia. I will discussthat later in connection with the family of my great- [10]. William Whiteside MooreNancy Vernon OMelveny, His WifeMy Parents, taken in 1857AT San Jose GENEALOGY grandmother, Biggs, for that family was of Freder-ick, Maryland, with removal to Virginia; but it willnot take much time or space to set out all the factsI know, from whence to draw conclusion concerningthe original James and his nativity. The Atlas history, supra, says that the first men-tion of the family is in England where JamesMoore was born, and that he migrated to migration may or may not have been stated inthe records. The author, it may be, so concluded, byreason of obscure reference, or by being so told, forI am persuaded that several of the Moores have soclaimed. It is not clear that he at first settled in Vir-ginia, though he may have. I think he may have re-moved to Virginia from Maryland, and base that ontwo sets of facts. In the first place there is unbroken tradition in mybranch that the first James Moore before or after set-t
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