powerful family in the region. Moore was the grandfather of Continental Army Brigadier General James Moore, and great-grandfather of Continental Army Major General Robert Howe. The Moore family imported over 4,000 slaves into the Carolinas, mostly for its own extensive plantations and farms in and around the Cape Fear area of what later became North Carolina. James Moore also had a house in Charleston and another in the Goose Creek area near Charleston. Another Moore family descendant, Alfred Moore, became a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Family tree Nathaniel Moore (son of Rory Oge O'More) References Further reading The South Carolina Encyclopedia. People of Queen Anne's War 1650 births 1706 deaths 17th-century Irish people 18th-century Irish people Colonial governors of South Carolina People of the War of the Spanish Succession South Carolina colonial people Kingdom of Ireland emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies O'Moore family