John Moore (1658-1742)
Attorney General for Pennsylvania & Collector of Customs at the Port of Philadelphia
He was born in England at Fawley near Wantage in Berkshire, a grandson of Sir John Moore, of Fawley, who was knighted by King Charles I in 1627. He came to South Carolina in about 1680 and was appointed Secretary, Escheator-General, and Receiver-General of the Province in 1683. In 1684, Sir Peter Colleton commissioned him as a Deputy to the Provincial Council. In 1692, he followed his relative, Col. Robert Quarry (former Governor of South Carolina) to Philadelphia, where he was commissioned Register-General of Pennsylvania. Whereas Quarry was appointed Judge of the Court of Admiralty, Moore was made an Advocate of the same tribunal. He was appointed by the Crown to the position of Attorney-General of Pennsylvania in 1698, and was re-commissioned in the same position by William Penn in 1701. He was Deputy Judge of the Court of Admiralty (1700-03) before relinquishing that role and that of Register-General to accept his appointment as Collector of H.M.'s Customs at the Port of Philadelphia, a position he held from 1703 until his death in 1732. In South Carolina, sometime before 1685, he married Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Axtell, 1st Landgrave of South Carolina. They owned a plantation in Moyamensing Township near Philadelphia; land in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on which his son William built "Moore Hall"; and, in Philadelphia they lived on Second Street, at the corner of Garden Alley (Coomb's Alley). They had ten children.
Parents (2)
Children (10)
Col. John Moore
Shipping Merchant & Member of the Provincial Council, of "White Hall" New York
1686-1749
Rev. Thomas Moore
D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge & Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester
1689-1789
William Moore
of "Moore Hall" Chester Co., Pennsylvania; Presiding Judge of the Common Pleas
1699-1783
