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<br /> United States Department of the Interior
<br /> National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
<br /> NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No.1024-0018
<br /> Moorefields (Additional Documentation) Orange County, N.C.
<br /> Name of Property County and State
<br /> 36 Durward T. Stokes,"Thomas Hart in North Carolina,"The North Carolina Historical Review Vol.41,No. 3 (July
<br /> 1964)333-334.Lefler and Wager 1953: 53.James Iredell Waddell,"Deeds,Plats, Surveys,for Grayflelds(later
<br /> Moorefields),of Orange County, 1779-ca. 1835"(Raleigh,NC: State Archives of North Carolina).
<br /> 37 Lefler and Wager 1953: 65.
<br /> 38 Orange County's population,in particular,doubled in the last two decades of the 18'century despite the creation
<br /> of Person and Rockingham counties from Orange's expanse.
<br /> 39 Carter et. al 1993: 17,21,25.Lefler and Wager 1953: 70-80.Mattson 1996: 10.
<br /> ao John Louis Taylor,A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of the Late Hon.Alfred Moore: One of the Associate
<br /> Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States(New York:Wiley&Halsted, 1820)4-5.Alfred Moore Waddell,
<br /> A History of New Hanover County and the Lower Cape Fear Region, 1723-1800.Volume I(Wilmington,N.C.:
<br /> 1909)220-221,225.Jacobs 2023: 2.
<br /> a' These 1,200 acres included 500 acres on the south side of Seven Mile Creek,which the Earl of Granville sold to
<br /> John Gray in 1752 and which Gray devised to Thomas Hart in 1775,as well as 200 adjoining acres on the west side
<br /> of Seven Mile Creek that were patented by William Austin and conveyed by him,with an additional 500 acres to the
<br /> south,to Thomas Hart in 1779.Moore added to Moorefields when he purchased 21 acres between Watson's and
<br /> Gray's(now Crabtree)creeks from James and Margaret Watson on October 15, 1789.He purchased an additional
<br /> acre in the same vicinity from their son,James Watson,Jr.,on October 22, 1791.
<br /> 12 James Iredell Waddell,"Deeds,Plats, Surveys,for Grayfields(later Moorefields),of Orange County, 1779-ca.
<br /> 1835"(Raleigh,NC: State Archives of North Carolina).
<br /> 43 Moore's great-grandson—James Iredell Waddell—wrote about Moorefields,"On this plantation Judge Moore
<br /> resided in the summer time and entertained much distinguished company."See James Iredell Waddell,"Biography
<br /> of Alfred Moore,Senior."
<br /> I In this first generation,the Moore family would have included Alfred Moore(1755-18 10)and his wife, Susannah
<br /> Elizabeth Eagles Moore(1759-1811),as well as their four children:Maurice(b. 1778),Anne(1781-1855),Alfred
<br /> (1782-1837),and Sarah Louise(1795-1888).As the children grew,married,and had children of their own,more
<br /> family members progressed annually to Moorefields.Family letters from 1804-1816 suggest that the seasonal trip to
<br /> Moorefields was a multi-stage process: from Buchoi,the family would stop at Bellefont plantation in Bladen
<br /> County;then Fayetteville;and then Raleigh,before reaching their destination.At each stop,the traveling family
<br /> would visit relatives and stay as long as a week,so that the journey might begin in May or June but the destination
<br /> was typically not reached before July. See the Ernest Haywood Collection of Haywood Family Papers, 1752-1967
<br /> Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina,Wilson Library,Southern Historical Collection,No. 01290. Carter et.al.
<br /> 1993: 53.Jacobs 2023: 1.Alfred Moore Waddell, Some Memories of My Life(Raleigh,N.C.:Edward&Broughton
<br /> Printing Co., 1907)7.
<br /> as Guion Griffis Johnson,Ante-Bellum North Carolina:A Social History(Chapel Hill,N.C.:University of North
<br /> Carolina, 1937) 188.Accessed 23 October 2024:htWs:Hdocsouth.unc.edu/nc/johnson/johnson.html.
<br /> 46 Ibid.
<br /> 17 Bishir and Southern 2003: 218.
<br /> "William Bingham,"A Plantation,&c.For Sale," [Advertisement] The North Carolina Minerva(Raleigh,N.C.)21
<br /> July 1801: 2.North Carolina Digital Heritage Center,North Carolina Newspapers. Accessed 30 October 2024:
<br /> https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/Iccn/sn84026570/1801-07-21/ed-1/seq-2/.Also published in The Weekly Raleigh
<br /> Register(Raleigh,N.C.)21 July 1801: 1.North Carolina Digital Heritage Center,North Carolina Newspapers.
<br /> Accessed 30 October 2024:https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/Iccn/sn92073047/1801-07-21/ed-1/seq-1/.
<br /> "Mattson 1996: 8.
<br /> 50 Carter et. al. 1993: 18.
<br /> 5'Lefler and Wager 1953: 16. Carter et.al 1992: 14,22.United States Census Bureau. "Second Census of the
<br /> United States, 1800:Population Schedules,Brunswick County,Wilmington,North Carolina."Washington,D.C.:
<br /> National Archives and Records Administration,Records of the Bureau of the Census.Accessed via Ancestry.com,
<br /> 1800 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
<br /> 12 In this second generation,the Moore family included Alfred Moore,Jr. (1782-1837);his wife,Rebecca C.
<br /> Williams Moore(1785-1816);their daughters Susanna H. (1804-1879),Elizabeth D. (1806-1869),Augusta W.
<br /> (1809-1870),Emma S.(1812-1872),and Caroline R. (1814-1854).Other frequent guests at Moorefields in the early
<br /> 1800s were Moore,Jr's sister, Sarah L. (1795-1888),and Rebecca Moore's mother,Jane Davis Williams.By the
<br /> end of 1812,the Moores had also assumed the care of Rebecca's nieces,Mildred and Betsy Hall,who were also at
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