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Research Linking Moore and White Families

• Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton has researched the relationship between the White and Moore families and concludes they were closely related to a number of Bristol merchants.^[1]

• He concludes, as it relates to the White family, that Thomas White married the Ann (Moore) White daughter of George Moore. Additionally, he concludes Thomas White might be the son of a John White-haberdasher from Bristol.

• He suggests a George White Sr. (Bristol Merchant/ship owner) had a son George White, Jr. who was a brother of a John White (Bristol Merchant). John White (Bristol Merchant) had a son John White (Bristol Haberdasher).

• George White Sr. was a merchant/adventurer with other merchants participated in the colony in Virginia lying between 38 and 45 parallel.

• Thomas Moore Sr. formed Bristol Corporation in 1632 to loan money to young merchants who was possibility the father of George Moore who married Jane Barcroft from Somerset. George Moore was likely brother of Cathereine (Flake) Moorewho married Robert Flake a tobacco merchant/factor.

• Charles Barcroft was the grandfather of Elizabeth (Sampson) Clarke. He was granted 300 acres in Isle of Wight County, Feb. 10, 1637) C. & P., p. 80). On June 17, 1647, Elizabeth Barcroft was granted 1200 acres of land in Isle of Wight County (id. p. 166). This was Charles Barcroft's daughter, Elizabeth, who married James Sampson, for her son, James Sampson, Jr. , still held this 1200 acres in the Quit Rent Rolls of 1704. Mr. Bar�croft claims land for importing Charles Barcroft for the 4th time, indicating that he made frequent trips to England. Mr. Barcrofts will was dated March 12, 1654,and leaves his property to his sonWilliam and wife Magdalen (Chapman I, 3), but he apparently did not die until 1661, for administration on his estate was granted his son-in-law, George Moore, Sept. 23, 1661 (id. , p.89). George Moore married Jane, daughter of Charles Barcroft, so that the latter had three children, William, Jane and Elizabeth. The son William apparently died unmarried, as he disappears from the records. George Moore, who married Jane Barcroft, was usually known as Lieutenant George Moore, was born in 1632, and died in 1714. From his will and other documents, he had four daughters: (1) Magdalen Moore, who married Thomas Carter and had sons George and Thomas Carter; (2) Eleanor Moore, who married Richard Piland . (Richard died in 1695, his will mentioning his wife and 5 children, two of these being George and Thomas Piland mentioned in George Moore's will and two others probably being James and Richard Piland, who appears in documents in Surry and Isle of Wight in connection with their relatives, the Clarkes, Browns, Wilsons, etc. ); (3) Ann Moore married Thomas White and had issue, Jane, John, Moore Thomas, William and Henry White; and (4) a daughter who married a Williams and had sons Samuel and John Williams mentioned in George Moore's will.^[2] page 21.

• 1669 Edward Brantley was patented 675 acres of land in Isle of Wight County (P.B. 6, p. 261) which was "neer Henry White’s old cart path to the mill.” When Edward Brantley died in 1688/9 his will (Isle of Wight W.&D.B. 2, p.289} was witnessed by Anne White, probably the wife of Thomas White. (Per Jim White Research)^[3]
• 1742 Thomas White died without a will, but in the will and estate of Ann White recorded in 1742 (Isle of Wight W.B. 4, pg. 401,403) it mentions that she is the widow of Thomas White. Her will was witnessed by Edward Brantley. (Per Jim White Research)^[4]

George Moore and Jane Barcroft did not have a daughter Elizabeth who married a John White, Jr. The daughter Ann married Thomas White. See Chapman, The Marriages of Isle of Wight, p. 49. The father of Thomas White has never been proved. He was quite possibly the Henry White who was much connected with the Barcroft-Moore-Sampson group but for whom no estate papers have surfaced. George Moore, “age 78 years,” made his will in 1710, to which a codicil was added prior to probate on 24 January 1714 (Chapman, Isle of Wight Wills, p. 54). The only legatees were his wife and some of his mostly YOUNGER grandchildren: Jane, John, Moore Thomas [sic: George Thomas], William, and Henry White were the children of Ann Moore who married Thomas White. George and Thomas Piland were evidently two of the youngest of the five or six children of Eleanor Moore who married Richard Piland of Surry. Samuel and John Williams were tsons of another daughter, Mary Moore, who married William Williams. Oddly enough, George Moore did not have a grandson named Moore Thomas White. He did have a grandson George Thomas White who can be correctly identified in the will of his mother, Ann Moore White, 18 September 1739. George Thomas White left his own will, received by the court on 25 June 1744 and witnessed by John Mecom. See Chapman, Wills, pp. 142, 147. The name Moore Thomas White appears on no other record. The recorder clearly erred in giving George Thomas White the wrong first name “Moore.” The grandson Moore Carter was not mentioned at all. I suspect that the recorder confused Moore Carter, one of the youngest of the several Carter grandchildren, and his first cousin George Thomas White. The only one of the Carter grandsons to be made a legatee was the testator’s namesake George Carter who had joined Moore Carter in witnessing a deed by George Moore in 1710. The estates of Ann Moore White and husband Thomas White were appraised between 22 March 1741 and 26 July 1742 by Thomas Day, John Goodrich, and Edward Brantley (Chapman, Wills, p. 142)æall much connected with the Moore family and their Browne and Piland kinsman. Ann White made her will 18 September 1739, perhaps just after her husband died, evidently intestate; the will, received by the Isle of Wight court on 24 May 1742, named son John White, her grandson Thomas White, granddaughter Mary White, with the reversion to her grandson William (son of John) and evidently her great-grandson Thomas White (son of her grandson Thomas White), and son George Thomas White executor (Chapman, Wills, p. 142). Issue: (1) Jane White is identified in the will of her brother William as the wife of a Lee and the mother of John Lee and Francis Lee.She evidently married Francis Lee, Sr. (2) John White was one of the two sons of Anne Moore White to survive her and was made her primary beneficiary. He would appear to have been the John White who made his will on 7 December 1753; probated 2 May 1754 (Chapman, Wills, p. 177). He named his son William White and daughter Mary White who was left in the care of Francis Wrenn and his wife Mary. Both children were named also in the will of their grandmother. The wife had evidently predeceased John White; no conclusive evidence that she was a Wrenn has surfaced. No will for William White has surfaced. He was possibly the William White whose conveyance to Samuel Cannady on 10 July 1725 of land adjacent Arthur Whitehead and Richard Braswell in Bertie County, North Carolina was witnessed by George Moore’s grandson Joseph Carter (Bertie Deed Book # B, p. 59). (3) William White made his will on 13 October 1722; probated 23 February 1723.Obviously, he never married because his legatees were his mother, his brothers, his sister Jane White Lee, and several nieces and nephews. One of the witnesses was his cousin Samuel Williams (Chapman, Isle of Wight Wills, p. 108). (4) Henry White made his will 17 February 1733; received by the court 28 May 1733. He named his wife Sarah, possibly a daughter of Lawrence Baker who witnessed the will (ibid., p. 116). He left legacies to his son Baker White and daughter Mary White. Baker White moved to Northampton County, North Carolina where his name stands prominently in the deed books. Their progeny remain untraced. (5) George Thomas White had his name clarified by his mother’s will, as noted above. Ann White, the widow of George Thomas White, filed an accounting of the estate “of George Thomas and Ann White” on 25 June 1744. She was quite possibly the daughter of John Mecom, who signed the document. George Thomas White left unnamed orphans.See Chapman, Isle of Wight Wills, p. 147).^[5]

• Ann (Moore) White married Thomas White (possibility son of John White Haberdasher Bristol).

• Surry County Tax ^[6] :
  • 1683 in Chipoakes w/Tho: Broome, John Gardner, Wm Bly, Jos. Rogers
  • 1684 in Lawnes Creek w/Arthur Long
  • 1685 in Lawnes Creek w/Arthur Long
  • 1686 in Lawnes Creek w/Arthur Long
  • 1687 in Lawnes Creek w/Arthur Long
  • 1688 in Lower Lawnes Creek
  • 1689 in Lower Lawnes Creek
  • 1690 in Lower Lawnes Creek
  • 1691 in Lower Lawnes Creek
  • 1692 in Lawnes Creek w/William Price
  • 1693 in Lawnes Creek w/William Price, John Price
  • 1703 in Lawnes Creek
  • 1703 in Lawnes Creek w/William Ward

Sources

1. ↑ https://walterfitzgilbertdehamilton.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/white-and-moore/
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/60768-historical-southern-families-v-01?offset=22
3. ↑ https://jimserver.net/downloads/White_Family.pdf
4. ↑ https://jimserver.net/downloads/White_Family.pdf
5. ↑ https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/barcroft/37/
6. ↑ http://sites.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ForrestKing.html