Augustine Moore

Augustine Moore
Member of the Virginia Senate for Elizabeth City, Warwick and York Counties
In office
May 5, 1777 – May 2, 1779
Preceded byDavid Jameson
Succeeded byCorbin Griffin
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses for King William County
In office
1773–1775
Serving with William Aylett
Preceded byPhilip Whitehead Claiborne
Succeeded byCarter Braxton
Personal details
Borncirca 1754
King William County, Province of Virginia
Diedafter 1787
Virginia, US
NationalityAmerican
SpouseSarah Rind
RelationsBernard Moore (brother)
ChildrenAugustine Moore Jr.
Parent(s)Bernard Moore, Anna Katherine Spotswood
OccupationPlanter, militia officer, politician

Augustine Moore (circa 1754–after 1787) was the son of prominent planter and politician Bernard Moore who succeeded his father as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing King William County and at the first Virginia Convention, and then moved toward Hampton Roads, and represented its three counties in the Virginia Senate (1777-1778).[1] Complicating matters, the name "Augustine" was used by two different Moore families in the similar York River watershed area, so the burgess and the senator may have been different people.[2]

  1. ^ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1915) Vol.1 p. 294
  2. ^ William Cabell Moore, "Notes of some Moore and French Families in Virginia and Carolina in the Colonial Period", Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William & MaryCollege Quarterly Historical Magazine (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1982) Vol. III, pp. 784-786