Thomas Moore, Sr. - Crack in a Brick Wall? Part III of III (Because this posting is lengthy, it is being posted in three parts. See also Parts I and II.) Using the marriage of Thomas' son John and Kitty Siders in Frederick County, VA in early 1808 as a clue, I researched and analysed all of the Personal Property Tax Lists (PPTLs) for all tax districts of Frederick County, VA from the beginning of the tax lists in 1782 through 1812, and came upon the startling fact that Thomas Moore first appears on the 1787 list and appears on the lists every year, except for two, from 1787 through 1807, and always in the same tax district of Frederick County. (By order of the legislature, no taxes were collected in Virginia in 1808 and no PPTLs were made for that year.) No Thomas Moore appears on the Frederick County PPTLs in 1809 or in any subsequent year I examined. During this entire period (1787-1812), only one Thomas Moore appears on the Frederick County PPTLs except for the year 1794 when two appear. There had just been a change of tax commissioners for the district and I believe this was a duplication resulting from the unfamiliarity of the new commissioner with his district. (The years for which no "Thomas Moore" is found on the tax lists were 1792 and 1801. For 1792 there was no list on the microfilm I examined for the tax district in which Thomas Moore resided.) Other interesting results appear from my research in Frederick County. One has to do with Solomon Siders, Sr. Solomon Siders, Sr. first appears in Rockbridge County about 1809, and resides there until his death on April 22, 1838. But he is also found on the Frederick County PPTLs in many years (1794, 1795, 1797, 1803, 1804, 1806 and 1807) and was found in each of these years within the same tax district of Frederick County in which Thomas Moore appears. Solomon's son Conrad Siders also shows up on the Frederick County PPTLs for the first time in 1804, and is found again in 1806 and in 1807. Solomon, Sr. shows up for the first time on the Rockbridge PPTL in 1809 (under the spelling "Cyder"), and both Solomon, Sr. and Conrad appear on the 1810 Rockbridge lists (under the spelling "Siders"), as well as other members of the Siders family, some of whom had started appearing on the Rockbridge lists even earlier in the decade. Conrad Siders was a surety on the marriage bond for John Moore and Kitty Siders on January 13, 1808 in Frederick County. My wife and I made a personal visit to Frederick County for some of this research in October 2002. At the last minute as we were about to conclude our visit, we came upon another interesting fact in the unpublished "Journal of Dr. Alexander Balmain," Rector for Frederick Parish, Winchester, Frederick County, VA for some 30 years. The journal is held in the vault of the Handlery Library in Winchester, VA. His journal records that he officiated at the marriage of one "Thomas More" and Esther Duncan on November 15, 1784. As stated above, the name of the spouse of Thomas Moore, Sr. of Rockbridge County has never been identified nor has any record of her death been found. However, while Esther was a common name at the time, it is notable that all three of the sons of Thomas Moore, Sr. had daughters named "Esther." This fact makes it an interesting to consider whether their mother was Esther Duncan, who had been married to "Thomas More" by Dr. Balmain in 1784 in Frederick County. On the basis of this research I am convinced that Thomas Moore, Sr. of Rockbridge is the same Thomas Moore found in the Frederick County PPTLs from 1787 through 1807. Though less certain, I also think there is a strong likelihood that Thomas, Sr.'s wife was Esther Duncan. End of this posting in three parts. William R. Moore