William Witcher and family

I started a Colonial Dames application for Sara Jane this weekend and after an entire weekend of trying different lines, I happened on to a line that was REALLY fun.  It appears that Sara Jane has Witcher connections and that William Witcher has already been recognized as a proven ancestor in the Colonial Dames.  I found her connection to be Agnes Witcher (b.1793) who Ancestry trees suggest was the wife of   Stephen Wilson.  I have found their marriage record on the WV archives site.  They were married in Cabell County VA  20 Dec 1810.   At that time Cabell County was a huge county encompassing the entire area that is now southwest WV.  

I have found Daniel Witcher in Cabell County in this time period.  In the land records three Witcher men show up 1810, 1811, 1812....Daniel Witcher Sr, Daniel Witcher Jr., Sanders Witcher.  And in 1815 my ancestor, Solomon Hensley, purchases land on Beech Fork from Daniel Witcher Jr.  It is not surprising that some of these names are found together as I believe that Solomon Hensley is married to Elizabeth Morrison who is the oldest daughter and perhaps the oldest child of William Morrison who is married to Rachel Witcher.  They are living on a beautiful farm on the other side of the Guyan River from Barboursville.  William Morrison is squatting on the land as his son does not buy it for several more years.  

My research indicates that William Witcher (the patriot in Pittsylvania County) had children between the years of 1742 and 1765.  The first four children had mother, Ann Majors: John, Daniel, Ephraim and James.  The second four children had mother Lydia Atkinson: William, Caleb, Rachel and Elizabeth.  I descend from Rachel who married William Morrison.

So my question at this point is who is the father of Agnes Witcher Wilson.  I will do some more research and sorting out and post more.  

Here is the URL for the site that seems to have answers to many of my questions that I received after a post to the Witcher Facebook site:

https://witchergeny.com/daniel-witcher%2C-jr?fbclid=IwY2xjawQKom1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCTEdobnVLN0Y5Ym44bk54c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHg3DXB7Z6kRC_KDUYuLXDZXOAB-a5j8PwrDlcC_E_0InO2g7fEPuHZinGPZ__aem_vFfMir_DXgfUI2QC-2PKag

Immigration of James and Rose/Roose Moore into Philadelphia c.1682

 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?  

Likely came from the area of Shropshire, England according to Joseph Moore.  It is known that they had Moore connections 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.  This lot is on  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.

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/search?q=Philadelphia

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2015/02/james-and-rose-moore-in-philadelphia.html

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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.