I have been chatting with Moore descendants and wanted to put a few thoughts down where I could mull and ponder. Some of what I am looking at today was information that I found in an article written by Joseph Moore and published in the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly Volume 4, No 1.
My first question is where was James Moore living before he moved to Philadelphia? Joseph Moore says:
Likely came from the area of Shropshire, England according to Joseph Moore. It is known that they had Moore connectinos living in neighboring Radnorshire, Wales.
James was present in Philadelphia, within two years of the city’s founding by William Penn. James’s town lot at the City Center, on which he built a house in 1684, forms the southwest corner of present Dilworth Plaza. He was a blacksmith by trade and performed work on Penn’s Mill, for which he was partially paid by a 1692 land grant (which he shortly sold) in Merion township, Philadelphia County, and in 1690 he assembled the leaded glass windows for the Quaker’s Center Meeting House in Philadelphia.
Joseph says about James Moore: Likely came from the area of Shropshire, England..... It is known that they had Moore connections living in neighboring Radnorshire, Wales.
So I looked up information via AI go see if there were Quakers in this area in the 1600s and there were. I do not believe that James Moore was a Quaker, but it is possible that he migrated with Quaker family and friends.
So it is quite possible that James Moore's move from Shropshire to Philadelphia was influenced by the persecution of the Quakers in the area even though he was not Quaker himself.
James was present in Philadelphia, within two years of the city’s founding by William Penn. James’s town lot at the City Center, on which he built a house in 1684, forms the southwest corner of present Dilworth Plaza. He was a blacksmith by trade and performed work on Penn’s Mill, for which he was partially paid by a 1692 land grant (which he shortly sold) in Merion township, Philadelphia County, and in 1690 he assembled the leaded glass windows for the Quaker’s Center Meeting House in Philadelphia.
