Orton Plantation
In 1725, the Lord Proprietors granted Colonel Maurice Moore 1,500 acres of land where he established Brunswick Town, North Carolina in June of 1726.
Colonel Maurice Moore had seven brothers and four sisters. One of his brothers, Roger Moore built Orton Plantation using some of the lands that were granted to Colonel Maurice. Most of the Moore family moved to Brunswick Town following Maurice and Roger.
Notes: Archaeology and Genealogy work together to discover the ancestors and history. It is always best to walk the old property to get a real feel for the times. In this instance, the seventeen hundreds was a profound era of colonial settlements on the American Continent.
