Moore Family

Tazewell County · dedicated 2014 · Route 644, at Moore property site and monument

Black Wolf and a group of Shawnee Indians attacked militia captain James Moore's nearby home on 14 July 1786 during a campaign to deter white settlement of the Ohio Valley region after the American Revolution. They killed Moore, children Alexander, Rebecca, and William, and servant John Simpson. Six others were captured and taken toward Ohio. Children John and Margaret died during the journey. Moore’s wife, Martha, and daughter Jane were killed near Chillicothe, Ohio. Daughter Mary and Martha Evans were sold near Detroit and were later rescued. Sons James, captured by Shawnee two years earlier, and Joseph, absent that day, returned to live in this valley.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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