John Moone, a son of William Moone and Ann Woodsman was born about 1601/2 before his christening date of 24 Jun 1602,[1] at Berry, near Gosport, in the parish of Stoak in Hampshire.[2]
1621 April 30: Asks the Virginia Company of London for he right of his late brother Nicholas's bill of adventure, disposition of the request is uncertain.[3][4] (Note that he was referenced as "Mr. Moone," in the court records, strongly indicating that he was a gentleman.)
1623 March 6: Commonwealth grant: "John Moone, of Warresquioake, planter, 200 acres in Warresquioake, on the easterly side of Warresquioake Creek, and northerly on a small creek know as Vigocs Cree, and extending easterly towards a small creek called Pagan Point Creek, due for the transportation of four persons, viz.: himself, George Martin, Julian Hollier and Clement Thrush, who came in the Katherine of London, 1623.[5]
Other sources have John arriving in Virginia aboard Return.[3][6][7][8][9]
By January 30, 1625 John had seated acreage in Pasbehay on the Governor's land with three young male servants said to have come to the colony aboard Truelove right after the March 22, 1622 Indian attack.[3]
1626: Ordered to pay a debt owed to Captain William Peirce of Jamestown.[3]
1629 February 10: In court at Elizabeth City, a controversy between Mr. John Moone and Mrs. Rastell Pollantine was settled. At issue was use of Mrs. Pollantine’s land in Warresqueak and her servants. A lease and compensation was arranged for half of the acreage, leaving Mrs. Pollantine in possession of her dwelling and tobacco houses.[10]
March 7: Moon runs afoul of the law by insulting Warresqueak's militia commander, Captain Nathaniel Basse of Basses Choice.[3]
1633 March 6: John Moon, a planter, patented 200 acres in Warresqueak, securing his land on the basis of four headrights: his own and the three male servants with whom he had been living on the Governor's Land in January 1625.[3][6]
1635 October 21: Patents an additional 900 acres in Warresqueak (by then Isle of Wight County). Headrights were "due 50 acres for the personal adventure of his wife Susan Moone" and 850 for the importation of seventeen persons: Susan Moone, John Russell, John Price, Robert Bard, Thomas Nermier, Job Sullivard, Norman Williams, John Doyers, John White, Richard Petway, Thomas Boy, Solon a negro, John Rowlett, Anth. Jordan, Richard Bauen, Thomas Warden, John Neale.[11][12]
By 1639 John Moon had begun representing Isle of Wight County in the colony's assembly.[3]
1640 Served as a burgess, 1639/40, April-May 1652, 1654,1655, Isle of Wight County.[3][13][14]
1652 and 1654: Elected to the assembly as one of Isle of Wight's delegates.[15]
Family
When John Moon patented land on October 21, 1635 he used the headright of his wife, Susan _____. By the time of his death in 1655 he was married to Prudence Wilson, a widow (Wilson probably being her married name).
He had at least three daughters who were named in his will: Sarah, Susanna, and Mary.
His widow, Prudence Moon, died intestate without having remarried and on March 9, 1663 her son William Wilson was appointed her Administrator.[16]
John's daughter Mary Moon married Thomas Green, with whom she had a son also named Thomas. Thomas had a daughter Mary who married John Davis, and a daughter Bridgett who married Jeremiah Procter. Mary's first husband died in 1686 and Mary then married as her second husband Phillip MacCoddin.[17]
Death & Legacy
John Moon's will was recorded August 12, 1655. [2] He names himself "Captain John Moon, of Isle of Wight County in Virginia, and born at Berry near Gosport in the parish of Stoak in Hampshire in England" and mentions:
wife Prudence Moon
three daughters Sarah (the eldest), Susanna, and Mary
William Wilson, the son of his wife Prudence
Peter Garland, the husband of Prudence's daughter Joan[16] (Wilson) Garland.
John Moon's property was distributed between his three daughters:
Eldest daughter Sarah was granted his "dwelling house named "Bethlehem, with all of [the] land and houses from Pagan Creek and joining upon Henry Watt's land, unto the easterly side of the reedy swamp and to the mouth of the creek by the dwelling house.
Second daughter, Suannah Moon was granted "all the land and houses from the reedy swamp to the westerly side of the land of that Samuel Nichols now liveth upon, on the easterly side of Bethlehem Creek, that land now [being] named Bethsaida".
Daughter Mary Moon was granted "all the land and houses that lyeth on Red Point side, now named Bethany, with that which Dennis Syllivant liveth upon, and the land belonging to the Poplar Neck that lyeth by the King of All Places".
Rights to an additional 900 acres was to be divided between his wife Prudence (300 acres) and the three daughters (200 acres each).
John's land and Brew house at Jamestown was sold towards payment of his debts. His property in England "lying at Berry and Alverstoak in Hampshire near Gosport and Portsmouth", being mortgaged to hist attorney Mr. Owen Jennings of Portsmouth, was to be redeemed or sold with 5 pounds sterling given each to the poor of Berry and Alverstoak.
He also left four female cattle, with the instructions they be preserved as breeding stock, for the benefit of orphans, elderly, lame and destitute in the lower parish of the Isle of Wright County.
Sources
↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N59S-V29 : accessed 5 December 2015), John Moone, 24 Jun 1602; citing ALVERSTOKE,HAMPSHIRE,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 918,899.
↑ 2.02.1 Demos, John. Remarkable Providences: Readings on Early American History. UPNE (1991). Google Books. The reference given is Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, VI (1899), pp.33-66
↑ Jester, Annie Lash., Hiden, Martha Woodruff. 1883. Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia 1624/1625, Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1625: FamilySearch International, Title No. 2058494., p. 24.
↑ Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, p. 57.
↑Isle of Wight County Records... Officers of Isle of Wight Co. , page 314
↑ 16.016.1Virginia Immigrants..., Prudence Wilson Moon
↑ Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Genealogical Publishing Company (1973). Google Books page 225
"Isle of Wright County Wills", The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol 6 no. 1 (July 1898) pp. 33-42. Virginia Historical Society (Jstor 4242111)
McCartney, Martha W. Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary. Genealogical Publishing Company (2007). Google Books
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