Rutherfordiana/Source Material Extracts/Sketches of Virginia:506

A certain James Moore, of Scottish ancestry, born in Irealand, emigrated to America with his brother Joseph about the year 1726, and took their residence in Pennsylvania. In about two years Joseph died while in a course of preparation for the gospel misistry. James, sometime after his arrival in America, married Jane Walker, also an emigrant from Ireland. Her father John Walker, of Wigton, Scotland, emigrated frist to Ireland, abecame the head of a family of even children, of which Jane was the fourth, and then, a few years after Mr. Moore, emigrated to Pennsylvaia. After his marriage Mr. Moore resided in the Hottingham congregation, for a number of years, His father-in-law, John Walker, having removed with the rest of the fmaily, to Rockbridge county, Virginia, and settled on a creek which bears the family name, Mr. Moore removed his wife and four children and took his residence with them, and made a part of what was pleasantly called by the neighbors, "the Creek Nation".