Genealogy and recollections . nant. The new settlement by him established at theBelle Fontaine, between this the Kahose, refers tohis settlement at the spring still called Belle Fontaine,near Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois, where heand many descendants and old pioneers lie in neg-lected graves. Kahose means Cahokia, which inthose days and even in mine was called Kaho. He probably was a captain before that, for May 21,1781, Shannon, Commander of General I. D., writesGeneral George Rogers Clarke that he had sent Cap-tain Moore to Lincoln and La Fayette counties to buystores. See Illinois Hist
Genealogy and recollections . nant. The new settlement by him established at theBelle Fontaine, between this the Kahose, refers tohis settlement at the spring still called Belle Fontaine,near Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois, where heand many descendants and old pioneers lie in neg-lected graves. Kahose means Cahokia, which inthose days and even in mine was called Kaho. He probably was a captain before that, for May 21,1781, Shannon, Commander of General I. D., writesGeneral George Rogers Clarke that he had sent Cap-tain Moore to Lincoln and La Fayette counties to buystores. See Illinois Historical Collections, Vol. V,Kaskaskia Records, Vol. II, Virginia Series, p. volume assumes the identity as the incident isindexed under the caption James Moore, shownto be the same. See same volume, page 294, where,under date July 9, 1782, James Moore and otherssigned a writing, showing they had settled at BelleFontaine, and asking leave to establish some sort ofgovernment. Illinois was then part of Virginia, but [38]. GENEALOGY was remote and without much government save thatof the French. The permission was granted, and onAugust 5, 1782, election was had and a magistrateelected. The certificate was signed J^^^^s Moore,Captain. See page 296, same volume; instrumentsigned by James Moore shown at page 369, samevolume. Notices of James Moore and William Biggs (hiswifes brother) in list of settlers with statement thatMoore was leader of the party who settled at BelleFontaine are found on page 421, same volume, withcitations from Reynolds {supra) ^ and Vol. II, page349. See also Houcks History of Missouri (in-dex). In Kaskaskia Records noted is shown photographiccopy of signatures to an instrument of date August27> ^7^7) employing one Tardiveau to take steps con-cerning land rights. Among the names signed areJames Moore and John Moore (my great-grand-father and my grandfather). Enoch Moore, youngest son of James Moore sec-ond (first American Illinoisan), was a member of
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