I likewise am interested in the Moore family of NC who may have been in E TN in early times. In 1827 my Margaret Byerley/Bierley married Wm. Watkins b 1805 TN, brother of Samuel Watkins who also married in 1826 Margaret's sister Lucy. The Byerley/Bierly sisters were daughters of Jasper/Casper Byerley, jR, of SC and wife Mary Moore b ca 1767 SC who during the 1820's lived on French Broad River near Concord, Louisville, Blount CO, TN. Wm and Margaret later settled in Loudon, TN, while brother Samuel and his wife Lucy lived by 1840's in old James CO near Ootewah/Chattanooga. Some of Lucy and Margaret's siblings either were born in NC or were married there. Note from my cousin who is one of the major genealogists of Loudon, TN: I think the idea that Jasper Byerley's wife was Mary Moore came from the files of Mr. Will Parham, a professional genealogist who worked in the Blount Co. area back in the 1930's. He did s"Early Ancestral Lines" on Joseph Moore says that "there are 3 Mary Moore's in this generation, first cousins: daughter of John Moore and Jane Walker who in 1786 m her cousin, John Walker; dau. of Capt. James Moore and and Martha Poage who m Rev. Samuel Brown and dau of Joseph and Eleanor." I have this line of Moores who lived in Augusta/Rockbridge CO, VA, after migration during mid 1700's.