I just found this on the web!! Needless to say, I had to join this list and make enquiry if anyone knows this MOORE line, or anything about John's resultant family. I am an AYRES descendant, though this group *is* a bit off the beaten-path. Thanks! Vince Summers. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9793/leech/moore.htm Pennsylvania In its early days Cecil Co. MD intruded into an area that later became part of Chester (and perhaps Lancaster) Co. PA. Many of the names listed in Cecil show up in those counties a few years after 1739. Moore and Leech are particularly significant. Rev. John Cuthbertson was a Covenanter and pastor of the Octoraro Presby[terian] Church in PA. in the 1750's. He kept a journal, extracts of which were published as Register of Marriages and Baptisms. Walter Moore, who lived on Pennypack Creek 15 miles from Philadelphia, is often mentioned in the journal: In 1754 the minister was at the home of Walter Moore and baptized Sarah, Elizabeth Leech, and Mary, all of them daughters of Walter Moore. (Walter Moore's house appeared to be two miles from White Marsh Church. On the same page of the abstracted journal we read that on Dec. 12, 1758 he married John Moore and Margaret Ayres. On the next page: in 1759 he rode 31 miles to Chester, Darby, Philadelphia--left B. Leech." The following day he baptized Anne, daughter of John Wallace. Back on page 201 is a notation that he rode 20 miles to and from Frankford with Brother Leech's child dead. (Cuthbertson had married Sarah, one of Walter Moore's daughters, so we may assume that "Brother Leech" was his wife's brother-in-law. Of course the minister habitually used the term 'brother' referring to his 'brothers in Christ'.) (Unfortunately I have not found the first name of 'brother Leech' in the book. Nor have I had any success in identifying Walter Moore; but I did find a Walter Moore with Alexander Moore and other Moores buried at Bethel cemetery near the Leech property in SW York Co. SC. That Walter lived 1798-1861.) Agnes Moore married John Boyd II, who was born in 1747 in County Antrim in Ireland. They are said to have had 11 sons. (This from Carolyn L. Boyd in Boyd mailing list.)