James Moore
BIRTH
1737
New Hanover Precinct, North Carolina
DEATH
April 15, 1777
Wilmington, North Carolina
FAMILY
FATHER:
Maurice Moore
(?-1921)
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Moore, James
(1737-1777)
James Moore was a North Carolina Patriot and Continental Army brigadier general. He helped organize resistance in the Cape Fear region, commanded forces during the campaign culminating at Moore’s Creek Bridge, and briefly led the Continental Army’s Southern Department before his death in 1777.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Moore's Camp Marker | NC 87, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA | MARKER | ||
Brunswick Stamp Protest | 8884 St Phillips Rd SE, Winnabow, NC 28479 | MARKER |
DIED:
Wilmington, North Carolina
Apr 15, 1777
The exact date and place of James Moore’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies James Moore with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. James Moore died on Apr 15, 1777 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.