Identifier: genealogyrecolle00moor (find matches)
Title: Genealogy and recollections
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Moore, A. A. (Albert Alfonzo), 1842-
Subjects: Moore family O'Melveny family Biggs family Moore, James, b. 1716
Publisher: San Francisco, Priv. print. by The Blair-Murdock company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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parent owners cannot use them. They are ofno value to them unless it be a speculative value,trading on the sentiment of surviving Moores andWhitesides now dispersed. In fact Belle Fontaine is the cradle of the firstAmerican settlement in Illinois. To the cemeteriesnamed could be added the names of several morewhere the forefathers of the hamlet sleep, in deso-late neglect, unnoticed by historical societies or anyone. Having been devoted to sepulture, MonroeCounty could take possession of them, but does not. In Illinois Historical Collections, Vol. II, Vir-ginia Series, Vol. I, there is reference to the fact thatJames Moore was the leader in that first settlement ofIllinois by Americans, and at page 517 is a copy of hislast will. See also page 323. His will was made shortly before his death. It wasregistered by Cerre at Cahokia. The will and courtproceedings found at Quebec after removal of therecords of the French are as follows: Today, the first day of September, 1788, there ap- (so)
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GENEALOGY peared M. Dorsiere acting in the name of M, GabrielCerre absent, bearer of the Testament of James Moore,and he had for and in the name of the said M. Cerre,required the registry thereof as follows: In the name of God Amen, I, James Moore of Belle-fontaine of the County of Illinois, being In perfect healthof body and soul and memory, render thanks to God forcalling to memory the mortality of my body, and knowingthat the lot of every man is to die once, I make, ordainand constitute this present my last will and testament; thatis to say, firstly, and the first of all, I give and recommendmy soul into the hands of the Almighty God who gave it,and I recommend my body to the earth to be interred inChristian burial; and the funeral to the direction of myTestamentary executors, that at the general resurrection Imay resume it again by the Supreme power of God; and asto my temporal goods, which it has pleased God to give mein this life, I give, devise and dispose of the said goods int

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