MOORMAN.
Charles Moorman came from the Isle of Wight, England,
and in 1744 was living in Louisa, not far from the Green
Spring. He was a leading Quaker, and at that time he and
his son Thomas were overseers of the Friends' Meeting House
on Camp Creek, in Louisa. As early as 1735 they were both
patentees of land within the present bounds of Albemarle.
Charles entered four hundred acres "at the forks of the Rivanna,
near the Blue Mountains"—the junction of Mechum's
and Moorman's Rivers—and the entry of Thomas comprehended
the present Carrsbrook, and was described as "including
the Indian Grave low grounds." Seven years later
Thomas entered a larger tract further up the Moorman's, and
thus gave his name to that stream. Charles also purchased
land on Totier Creek, where two of his sons, Thomas and
Robert, afterwards lived. He himself appears never to have
resided in the county. He married Mary, daughter of Abraham
Venable, whose home was on Byrd Creek in Goochland,
and his children were Thomas, Charles, Robert, Achilles,
James, Judith, the wife of Christopher Anthony, Elizabeth,
the wife of Christopher Johnson, Agnes, the wife of John
Venable, and Mary, the wife of a Taylor.
Thomas Moorman was married twice, first to Rachel,
daughter of Christopher Clark, and secondly to Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert and Mourning Adams. He died in 1787,
and left one son, Robert, who died in 1813, whose widow,
Dorothy, became the wife of John T. Holman, and whose
children were Dorothy, the wife of James L. Neville, Mary,
the wife of Eli Tutwiler, Elizabeth Ann, the wife of Robert
L. Jefferson, and Robert J. Charles married Judith, daughter
of William Moon. Robert married Sarah, another daughter
of William Moon, and had eight children, of whom Mary was
the wife of William Roper, and Elizabeth the wife of Benjamin
Johnson, of Locust Hill on James River; these last
were the parents of Janet, the wife of Austin M. Appling,
Sarah, the wife of John Darneille, Louisiana, the wife of
Edwin H. Gooch, and Dorothy, the wife of William A. Turner.
Robert Moorman sold his land on Totier Creek to John
Harris in 1792, and with the view of emigrating to South
Carolina, appointed John Hudson and William Roper his
attorneys in fact. Achilles married Mary, daughter of
Robert and Mourning Adams, and removed to Bedford
County. The land on Mechunk, which came to the wives of
Thomas and Achilles from their father, Robert Adams, was
purchased by Dr. George Gilmer, of Pen Park.
