In a message dated 10/12/2006 4:41:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I'm researching the ancestors/descendents of John Moore 1752-1807. He > married Ann Kimball (Kimple) 1789-1843. I've done as much research as I can on > ancestry.com and rootsweb. Do not know who their parents were. They lived in > Nockamixon in the late 1700's into the early 1800's. They are both buried in > Upper Black Eddy in the Pursell graveyard. They had 11children that I know of. > Oldest daughters were born in Bucks County, Christiana Moore b.1781 married > John Williams. Catherine Moore b.1784 married Brice Pursell. Elizabeth Moore > b.1786 married James Iliff...all from Bucks County, Nockamixon or Tinicum > Townships In checking The Direct Tax of Upper Bucks County 1798 There are three Moores, they are all in Plumstead Twp and no John listed. ONly Edward and Steven. There is a John and Peter Mourer on the 1798 landowners map of Nockamixon. The 1790 Census of Bucks County shows a John Moore in Bensalem quite far from Upper Bucks. Adam, Rockhill Edward, Plumstead James, Bensalem Phbe, Plumstead Samuel, Warwick John Mowerer, Milford John Moot, Nockamixon Battle History of Bucks County The borough of Quakertown is situated at the center of an elevated elliptical plain (the basin of the swamp— the circumference being a belt of trap rock), the diameters of which are six and four miles respectively. In the immediate vicinity the owners of land, in 1715, were Morris Morris (one thousand acres), Michael Atkinson (two hundred and fifty acres), James McVaugh (one hundred acres), John Moore (two hundred acres); in 1737, John Bond (two hundred and fifty acres), John George Bachman (two hundred and thirty-four acres); in 1774, Hugh Foulke (three hundred and thirteen acres). The residents of this vicinity, in 1730, were Hugh Foulke, John Lester, John Adamson, Arnal Heacock, John Phillips, William Morris, John Richards, William Jamison, Edmund Phillips, John Ball, John Edwards, Thomas Roberts, William Nixon, Arthur Jones, and Edward Roberts. Scull’s map of 1770 locates the public house of Walter McCool at the intersection of two well-known and much-travelled roads, one leading from Bethlehem to Philadelphia, the other from Milford to the southern part of the county, and within the present limits of the borough. The Friends’ meeting-house completed the number of houses at that time, and but little change was apparent before the close of the century. But, as must inevitably occur at a place combining the advantages of cross-roads, hotel, and meeting-house, a hamlet eventually came into existence; and in 1803 it received a name and the appointment of its first postmaster in the person of William Green. For many years its growth was scarcely perceptible, and such houses as were built were not at a greater distance than necessary from the Red Lion hotel. The condition of the roads was not flattering; it is said that within the memory of persons now living the highway leading east from the village was almost impassable except in the summer months, and a dense forest lined it on either side. page 491 COUNTY AUDITOR.— 1810, William Stokes; 1811, Isaac Hicks; 1812, George Burgess; 1817, John Moore; 1818, William Long; 1819, Asher Miner; 1826, John N. Solliday; 1827, John P. Hood; 1828, Lewis S. Coryell; 1829, John Moore; 1830, page 555