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He was born in Ireland, and came to America with his parents in 1723.
He was among the leading pioneers in the settlement of Sadsbury, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a very pious man. The old mill below Christiana was re-built by him, and he erected substantial stone dwellings along the Octoraro which, together with the mill, were standing in good condition for more than one hundred years. Most of the old improvements in that neighborhood were built by himself and his family.
James Moore was a minister in the society of Friends, and labored greatly for the advance of truth and righteousness, not only among those of his own society, but amongst others. He contributed largely for the purpose of erecting a meeting-house at Sadsbury, about the year 1760, and afterwards bequeathed a large sum of money in care of the society, the interest of which was to be applied to the education of the children of members in low circumstances; but provided it was not needed in the society, then it should be appropriated for the education of others who were not members, without regard to color; this money remained a school fund in the hands of the society into the 1870s.
Mr. Moore was a man of herculean strength, who was able to carry nine bushels of corn up the mill steps at one time. He was able to take a fifty-six pound weight on each of his little fingers and touch them together over his head.