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You asked about how Aaron Moore's line connects to the Biggestaff I line I mentioned in my earlier post. Aaron's sister Elizabeth Moore married Samuel Biggerstaff. One of their sons was Benjamin Biggerstaff (who named a son presumably after his great-uncle Aaron). Benjamin was constable for what became Rutherford County, N.C. in the years leading up to the American Revolution. Elizabeth's first cousin John Moore (this is the son of Aaron and Elizabeth's brother Moses; they also had a brother named John) was a Tory leader defeated at the Battle of Ramsour's Mill in N.C. Benjamin Biggerstaff initially worked for the Continental cause, but apparently was influenced by his older cousin and ended up with the Tories, or at least was accused of having done so. He was charged with treason and held in a prison in South Carolina, where he died toward the end of the war. Benjamin Biggerstaff's young children, including my ancestor Aaron, were taken from his wife Mary VanZant Biggerstaff and raised by other families, apparently because of the Tory connections.
Aaron Biggerstaff's granddaughter Lurranah Hutchins married a Taylor in Kentucky in the mid1800s. Where do the Taylors in your line come from?
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