the history of the moores of arkansas

7/23/2019 The History of the Moores of Arkansas

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11863 newspaper clipping in the possession of Bill Hurst, cousin of Dr. Burton Allan Moore.


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9Martin, Joseph W., LL. D. "Memorial.10Moore, Lee. ReverendJames Wilson Moore.11Solipsism is sometimes expressed as the view that "I am the only mind which exists."


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12Moore, Lee. Reverend James Wilson Moore.13Martin, Joseph W., LL. D. "Memorial.14The previous edition of this text incorrectly stated that all but one son went to Princeton - a claim made in the

West Point AOGsMemorial, Charles B. Moore. Thank you to Bill Hurst for discovering the error.


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15Moore, Lee. Reverend James Wilson Moore.16Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society3.2.


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17Moore, Lee. Reverend James Wilson Moore.18Moore, Charles Beatty III . "A Short Historical Sketch of Presbyterianism in Arkansas." The History of

Presbyterianism in Arkansas, 1828-1902. Little Rock: Arkansas Democrat, 1902. 10.19Moore, Lee. Reverend James Wilson Moore.


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20Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Presbyterian Panel. Religious and Demographic Profile of Presbyterians, 2011:

Findings from the Initial Survey of the 2012-2014 Presbyterian Panel.21Respondents were given nine ways to classify their employment status. While 43% classified themselves as

retired, only 31% classified themselves as employed full-time. As the median age of members is 63, many

people in other categories are likely retired.


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22Martin, Joseph W., LL. D. "Memorial.63.23Moore, Charles Beatty III. "A Short Historical Sketch.


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24Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society 3.2.


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25For example, Col. Charles Beatty IV Moore appears to have been known to the West Point Class of 1903 as a

relative of Vice President George Clinton and Governor John Reading. See: Class of 1903, A.M.P. "Memorial,

Charles B. Moore: Cullum No. 4194." West Point Association of Graduates.26Leitch, Alexander. "Campus."A Princeton Companion. Princeton UP, 1978.


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30Also of note is Elizabeth Morisons maternal grandfather John Hussey, 1st Baron of Sleaford, Chamberlain to

Mary I and member of the House of Lords. Hussey was martyred for his Catholic beliefs.31Emerson, Kathy L. "M."A Whos Who of Tudor Women.2008.32Campbell, William W. (1849), The Life and Writings of DeWitt Clinton, Baker and Scribner, pp. xxiv.33Chichester, Henry Manners. "Clinton, Charles (1690-1773)." Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900,

Volume 11.34Howell, J. Beatty. "Charles Beatty."The Scotch-Irish in America Volume 9. 7 June 1900. 64.


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35Hosack, David, M.D. Memoir of DeWitt Clinton: With an Appendix, Containing Numerous Documents.New York:

J. Seymour, 1829. 24.


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36The Scotch-Irish in America Volume 9. 73.37History professor John Fea, author of The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural

Enlightenment in Early America (2008)in his 2008 article Presbyterians in Love.38Who Founded Princeton University and When?" Princeton University: News and Information.24 Apr. 2012.

Web.


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39Hageman, John F. History of Princeton and Its Institutions, Volume 1. Philadelphia: J.C. Lippincott, 1879.40The Scotch-Irish in America Volume 9. 69.


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41"Beatty, Charles."Appletons' Cyclopdia of American Biography. Edition of 1900.42Harrison, Richard A. "Samuel Reading Hacket."Princetonians, 1776-1783: A Biographical Dictionary.Princeton,

NJ: Princeton UP, 1981. 170.43Beatty, Joseph M., Ph.D. "Letters of the Four Beatty Brothers of the Continental Army, 1774-1794." The

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XLIV.3 (1920): 194.


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44Cato. "Letter V." New-York Journal22 Nov. 1787.45Cato. "Letter VII." New-York Journal3 Jan. 1788.


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46The history of the Clintons is covered in chapter 3.47E.g. United States. National Park Service. "Brigadier General James Clinton." National Park Service. U.S.

Department of the Interior.48Lohman, Andrew D. "Fort Montgomery: Fortification on the Hudson and Threatened Historic Site." Middle States

Geographer(2010): 85-89.


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49Journal of Lieut. Erkuries Beatty in the Expedition Against the Six Nations Under Gen. Sullivan, 1779. Pennsylvania

Archives, Second Series, Vol. 15, pp. 219-253.50Should any descendants of myself or my sister Isabelle Huyett ever happen upon this history, they should note

that our forebear Capt. Dietrich Huyett was killed during this massacre. Poetically, the attack helped prompt the

Sullivan-Clinton campaign in which our pre-Moore forebears were instrumental.51Fort Stanwix NM Staff. "The Clinton-Sullivan Campaign of 1779." National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the

Interior.


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52Journal of Lieut. Erkuries Beatty in the Expedition Against the Six Nations Under Gen. Sullivan, 1779.53Journal of Major Erkuries Beatty, Paymaster of the Western Army, 1786.54Ibid.


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64Confederate Veteran14 (1906): 124.65Reported inscription on Capt. Moores tombstone, Sylvania Cemetary.


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67See footnote 14.68Princeton records in the possession of Bill Hurst.69"In Memorium: Capt. WILLIAM E. Moore." Newspaper clipping. 1863.


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70Moore, Capt. Wm. E., Ins. Gen 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division Army of Kentucky. "My Dear Wife." Letter to Sallie

Washington Moore. 1862. Camp near Boon County, Ky., 7 1/2 Miles from Ohio River.


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80Glenn, Justin. The Washingtons: A Family History: Volume 4 (Part One). El Dorado Hills: Savas Pub., CA. 1951.


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81This picture was provided by Bill Hurst.82Lena was the daughter of Hardy James Stamps, son of Britton Stamps, son of James Stamps, son of Dr. Timothy

Stamps.83George Clinton, 1stcousin of all Moores, was a close friend of Washington. My sister Isabelle Huyett and I enjoy

an additional connection: Maryland landowner Ludwig Huyettbrother of Capt. Dietrich and son of immigrant

Frantz Carlwas commissioned to supply the continental army by Washington. See: Whittaker, William A. The

Huyetts and their kin. 1952. 11.


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96Henderson, Ashley S. 32.97Class of 1903, A.M.P. "Memorial, Charles B. Moore: Cullum No. 4194." West Point Association of Graduates.98Nesbitt, Melissa. "Civil War Soldier Spotlight.


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104Ibid.105Henderson, Ashley S. 32.


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106Heinemann, Ronald L. "Andrew Jackson Montague (18621937)." Encyclopedia Virginia.Virginia Foundation for

the Humanities.


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108Benham, Edith. Hall, Anne. Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors. 1913. 189.109"To Attend Kermit Roosevelt's Bride." The Spokesman-ReviewTuesday Apr. 9: 8.110Class of 1903, A.M.P.


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111Henderson, Ashley S. 32.112Class of 1903, A.M.P.113Henderson, Ashley S. 33.114Inscription on Matildas tombstone at Christ Church, Middlesex.


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