Genealogy and recollections . son of the original James, was born in Virginia, butlived a time in Maryland, where his first child, JohnMoore, (father of the said John Milton, and mygrandfather), was born. The Centennial book ofDoctor and McCabe Moore says the second Jameswas born in Virginia. Reynolds Pioneer Historysays of the Illinois pioneer, he was native of Mary-land. As will appear, James Moore was leader of thefirst party of actual settlers in Illinois in 1781 or1780. The party, in leadership of James Moore, wasShadrach Bond (uncle of the later Governor), Gar-rison, Rutherford and Kidd.
Genealogy and recollections . son of the original James, was born in Virginia, butlived a time in Maryland, where his first child, JohnMoore, (father of the said John Milton, and mygrandfather), was born. The Centennial book ofDoctor and McCabe Moore says the second Jameswas born in Virginia. Reynolds Pioneer Historysays of the Illinois pioneer, he was native of Mary-land. As will appear, James Moore was leader of thefirst party of actual settlers in Illinois in 1781 or1780. The party, in leadership of James Moore, wasShadrach Bond (uncle of the later Governor), Gar-rison, Rutherford and Kidd. Reynolds may have con-cluded they were all from Maryland by reason thatsome of them certainly were. Reynolds says thatBond was from Maryland, but see Virginia Series,Vol. II, Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790, wherein itappears that Bond testified in court that he was nativeof Virginia. There is no question but that this Jamessecond lived in West Virginia: that most of his chil-dren were born there, and no doubt that when he [16]. A. A. Moore at 14 years (Taken at San Jose, Cal.) GENEALOGY Started to Illinois, to settle there, he went from WestVirginia; but that does not prove he was born his party of settlers is spoken of as Mary-landers; sometimes as Virginians, and again as ofboth. In truth they were of both, but migrating fromone or the other does not prove birthplace. Stuve and Davidson, page 203, speak of the partyas Moore, Garrison, Kidd, Bond and Rutherford,saying that James Moore was the leader and theywere from Virginia and Maryland, Moore settlingat Belle Fontaine. I judge that is true; some of those men weresoldiers of General Clarke, of which I will speaklater. Clarkes force was partly recruited in Ken-tucky and partly in West Virginia, but not, I think,in Maryland. So Bond probably was born in Mary-land, as many writers say (non constat the affidavitof birth in Virginia), and Kidd and Rutherford,doubtless as Reynolds says, were Clarkes soldiers,recruit
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