I did this for about 8 family names in Carroll County and I refer to the copies frequently. They are not too far apart. I plan to visit all of them in late summer. In 1985, a gentlemen named Charley Moore separated the various Albemarle Moore families, compiled family charts on each one, and filed them at the Albemarle Historical Society. The below information is a summary.
Most birth dates are approximate.
His ancestors immigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1636, a later ancestor went to Long Island NY, and a still later one to Essex Co NJ where Benjamin was born in 1745 and m his wife, Martha. They migrated to Albemarle Co about 1773. This author of the following piece must have been carrying a mighty potent grudge. He was a native of the Old Dominion State, and, like all Virginians, had the peculiar characteristics of all Southern people, mellowed by contact with the more lymphatic temperaments of the Northern race, brought about by years of contact. . . . He married in Ohio 16 November 1842, Mary Williams, daughter of William Williams.