Augustine Moore

Augustine Moore (circa 1754–after 1787) was the son of prominent planter and politician Bernard Moore who succeeded his father as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing King William County and at the first Virginia Convention, and then moved toward Hampton Roads, and represented its three counties in the Virginia Senate (1777-1778). Complicating matters, the name "Augustine" was used by two different Moore families in the similar York River watershed area, so the burgess and the senator may have been different people. Early and family life The firstborn son of Anne Katherine Spotswood (1725-1802) (the eldest daughter of Governor Alexander Spotswood) and her husband Bernard Moore was born to the First Families of Virginia. His father owned extensive lands in King William County, and his maternal grandfather owned lands nearer the coast in Gloucester County. He would have four brothers who reached adulthood: Thomas Moore (who died unmarried), Bernard Moore (who married Lucy Ann Hebbard Leiper of Chester County, Pennsylvania, whose father was a medical doctor and mother was sister of Maryland Governor William Smallwood), John Moore (who married his cousin Anna Dandridge); and Alexander Spotswood Moore (1763-1799; who married Elizabeth, the daughter of Col. William Aylett, with whom this man served in the Virginia General Assembly). The family also included at least three daughters: Elizabeth Moore Walker (1746-1809; who married Dr. John Walker of Albemarle County, Virginia), Ann Butler Moore Carter (1753-1809; who married Charles Carter of Shirley plantation and became the grandmother of CSA Gen. Robert E. Lee), and Lucy Moore (who married Rev. Henry Skyren). Augustine Moore received an education appropriate to his class. He married Sarah Rind, and had children. Career Augustine Moore like his father became a planter using enslaved labor. His father received many loans, and used some of the proceeds to buy slaves. When his political ally and brother-in-law, powerful Speaker John Robinson died in 1766, the administrator of Robinson's estate found numerous promissory notes from Bernard Moore, who tried to sell land to pay the debt, but could not, so of some of his land and 55 slaves were auctioned. Bernard Moore of Chelsea died in 1775.