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10 Sep 1735. Patent for 400 acres, Goochland, at fork of Rivanna near the Blue Mountains. PB 16, p.213
17 Mar 1737 Patent for 483 acres, Hanover Co both sides Rockey Crk adj Price. PB 17, p.296
[Either or both of these patents could be his father's.]

1 Feb 1739. Charles Moreman, Junr. 200 acres Goochland on South branches of the Rivanna adj. Majr. Thomas Kerr. PB 18, p.167
1 Jun 1741 Dennis Doyl patent for 400 acres, Goochland, both sides North fork of Moormans River in the Lowgrounds, adj. Charles Moorman. PB 18, p.947.

GoochlandCo VA Deed Book 4:
p. 306 29 Nov 1743 Anthony Pouncy of Brunswick, planter, to Charles Moorman Junr of Louisa Co. 125 acres in Goochland, part of patent to Charles Lynch dated 8 Aug 1735 and patent to Daniel Desion 4 Jan 1735 and now in possession of Anthony Pouncy. Witness: Mathew Graves, Nathaniel Winston, Charles (M) Moorman [likely his father].

Louisa Co VA Deed Books
DB A, p.6b
8 Jan 1742  Charles Moorman of Parish of St Martin to James Buchanan of same.  30#'s.  403 acres on Rockey Creek.  Bounded, Prices corner pine & along his line, the Creek.  483 acres except 80 acres at the dower end of the tract, for the use of Alexander Galaspie.  Signed:Charles (M) Moorman.  Wit: John Smithson, Salem Bocock. 
10 Jan 1742 - Acknowledged by Charles Moorman
p.7b
8 Jan 1742 Charles Moorman to Alexander Galaspa. 80 acres.  Same tract &Witnesses as above.
and some of his neighbors were:
p.39   14 Mar1742   Randolph Bobit, Carpenter, to Philip Reynolds, planter.  For 8#'s.  200 acres, South fork Foster Creek, part of greater track granted to sd Randolph now in the possession of Randolph Bolls. Begin stake in John Price's line, corner pine Charles Moorman's line.  Signed:  Randolph Bobit.  Wit: James Buchanan, John Davis. 
Acknowledged same day.
DB C, Page: 11
10-Apr-1764
Charles Moorman of Louisa Co. Trinity Parish to John Davis and Christopher Johnson; 5s for 1 acre on which the meeting house or place of worship of the people called Quakers is situate. Said acres is to be laid off so as meeting house shall be near center, said meeting house known as Camp Creek Meeting House. Quakers shall at all times have free entry to sd Meetinghouse as a place of Public Worship or for Regulation of Church Discipline. (s) Charles Moreman. Acknowledged by Moorman on the same day.

Louisa Co DB D
p.115  13 Dec 1773  Richard Morris of Hanover to Charles Moorman of Louisa  50#'s.  Tract on fork of Camp Creek.  69 acres. Bounded by lands of George Thomson, Samuel Bunch & sd Charles Mooreman.  Signed:  R. Morris & ack by him on same day.
p.210  16 Apr 1774  David Bunch & Mary his wife to Charles Moorman, Senr.  80#'s.  Tract both sides of Sycamore Fork Creek, 100 acres.  Metes & bounds; Richard Morris's line. 13 Jun 1774 proved by oaths of Nathaniel Anderson & Joseph Bunch.

Louisa Co DB D 1/2
p.400  14 Sep 1772   Indenture between Chas Moreman Junr & Mary his wife and Chas. Moreman, both of Louisa Co.  For 169 #'s. Sold to Chas. Moreman, 293 acres in fork of Camp creek.  Begin Camp Creek at Morris's line; bank of North Fork of Camp Creek called Sickemore Fork, down the same, a new line, Camp creek as it meanders.  Signed:  Charles Moreman, Mary Moreman.  Wit: John Martin, Andrew Moreman, Archelous Moreman.  Ack & Rel. same date.
This deed is confusing …it must be a sale from Charles Senior, whose wife was Mary, to their son Charles who was married to Judith Moon.

SOUTHERN HISTORICAL FAMILIES:
Charles Moorman's will is recorded 12 Oct 1778 in Book 2, p.432, Louisa Co VA There are said to be deeds in Campbell Co, freeing his 28 slaves in May of 1778 [DB 11, p.418 etc.]
He was a Quaker, but was dropped from Meeting for "marrying out of unity and by a priest".

Cty. Lou, Book: 2, Page: 432, Charles Moorman, Type: Will, Date: 12-Oct-1778
Will Charles Moorman Sons Robert, Thomas , Jas., Chas. Daughters Elizabeth Johnson, Lucy Johnson, Agnes Venable, Mary Taylor. to my son Robert all land in Albemarle Co. on Branches of Totear... north of Henry Woods Spring Branch from Scot's line... To my son Thomas remaining part of tract in Albemarle. county on Totear, 200 acres in Louisa county purchased of David Bunch, joins son James. to my son James 360 acres on camp Creek and Scymamore Fork, which I purchased of Charles Moorman and the other part of Richard Morris, also other things. to my three daughters: Elizabeth Johnson, Lucy Johnson and Agnes Venable, and the children of my daughter Judith Anthony, dec'd. 367 acres, part of land whereon I now live equally. to my wife 1/3 profits from mill for life. to my sons Thomas and James the other 2/3 profits of the mill with 8 acres in the north side of said mill and 10 acres forever. To my wife Mary. To my daughter Mary Taylor land I purchased for her to be her children's at her death, whereon she and her husband now live. Exors to be my two sons Charles and Robert Moorman, Christopher Johnson, John Pain and son Thomas. 2 Sept. 1778. Sig. Charles Moorman. Wit. James Bunch, Pouncy Bunch, David Bunch, Rec. 12 Oct. 1778.


The following entry has a serious error. The wife's surname is wrong - This Charles' wife was Mary Adams. Mary Venable, born about 1739, married a younger Charles and they had a different group of children although some of the given names are the same.
History of Albemarle County, Virginia
MOORMAN.
Page 285
Charles Moorman came from the Isle of Wight, England, and in 1744 was living in Louisa, not far from the Green Spring. He was a leading Quaker, and at that time he and his son Thomas were overseers of the Friends' Meeting House on Camp Creek, in Louisa. As early as 1735 they were both patentees of land within the present bounds of Albemarle. Charles entered four hundred acres "at the forks of the Rivanna, near the Blue Mountains"--the junction of Mechum's and Moorman's Rivers--and the entry of Thomas comprehended
Page 286
the present Carrs brook, and was described as "including the Indian Grave low grounds." Seven years later Thomas entered a larger tract further up the Moorman's, and thus gave his name to that stream. Charles also purchased land on Totier Creek, where two of his sons, Thomas and Robert, afterwards lived. He himself appears never to have resided in the county. He married Mary, daughter of Abraham Venable, whose home was on Byrd Creek in Goochland, and his children were Thomas, Charles, Robert, Achilles, James, Judith, the wife of Christopher Anthony, Elizabeth, the wife of Christopher Johnson, Agnes, the wife of John Venable, and Mary, the wife of a Taylor.

The following website had a copy of the will as well as documented information on the children of Charles and Mary Adams.
http://www.stanford.edu/`jamila/Moorman_Will.html

1778 Will of Charles Moorman, 1778 - Louisa Co, VA
Will Book 2, pp. 432-434.
Be it known to all men that I Charles Moorman of Louisa county, being of sound mind and memory, for which I desire to be thankful to the Lord, and calling to mind the uncertainty of this life,do make, constitute and ordain this my last will and Testament and do hereby dispose of all my
worldly goods as follows:
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Robert all that part of my tract of land in Albemarle county on the branches of Totier that lies on the north side of Henry Wood and Spring Branch from Scott's line up said Branch to Wood's line and thence on the back line, to him, his heirs and assigns forever.
Item, I lend to my said son Robert the labor of the five following slaves, viz. Phyllis (Toby's daughter), Judy, John (Toby's son), Easter and Rachel, the males until they attain the age of twenty-one years respectively and females to the age of eighteen years, and then after that timeit is my will and desire that the said five slaves and their increase shall forever hereafter be discharged to all intents and purposes from slavery or the service of any person whatsoever and that the said slaves and their increase shall enjoy all the benefits of freedom in the same manner as if they had been born free.
Item, I lend to my son Thomas the labor of the four following negro slaves, viz. Lucy, Hannah, Tom and Adam, in the manner as followeth, the three last named under the same limitation and to be made free after the same manner as the five slaves lent to my son Robert; my will is that the first named Lucy and Nell remain with her mother till she is of age or as long as her motherlives and that whoever shall keep her shall pay reasonable wages to my son Thomas until her mother's death, then she is to be under the same limits as the others to my son Thomas, to be made free at the age of eighteen years.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas all the remaining part of my tract of land in the County of Albemarle on the branches of Totier and also one feather bed and furniture and ten pounds current money, to him his heirs and assigns forever.
Item, I lend to my son James the labor of the four following negro slaves, viz. George, Sary, Amy and Nellie, under the same limitations and to be made free in the same manner as the slaves lent to my son Robert.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son James three hundred and sixty acres of land on Camp Creek and Sycamore Fork, part of which I purchased of Charles Moorman and the other part of Richard Morris, also one feather bed and furniture and ten pounds current money, to him his heirs and assigns forever, and I likewise give him one colt at Totier, to him and his heirs forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas one hundred acres of land in the County of Louisa adjoining the land bequeath to my son James, being the land I purchased of David Bunch, to him his heirs or assigns forever.
Item, I give and bequeath to my three daughters, Elizabeth [&] Lucy Johnson and Agnes Venable, and to the children of my daughter Judith Anthony, deceased, three hundred and sixty-seven acres of land, part of the tract whereon I now live, to be equally divided amongst them, to them and all of them respectively, their heirs and assigns forever.
Item, I lend to my beloved wife for and during her natural life one-third part of the profits
arising from my mill.
Item, I give and bequeath to my two sons Thomas and James the other two-thirds of the profits of my said mill, with eighty acres of land on the north side of said mill and two acres on the south side adjoining same, for and during their mother's life and after her decease the propertyof the said mill and ten acres of land to be wholly and solely vested in my said two sons Thomas and James, to them their heirs and assigns forever.
Item, I lend to my aforesaid beloved wife Mary the five following negro slaves, viz. Morris, John (Rachel's son), Phyllis, Jean and Aggy, and that she have the benefit of their labors during her natural life and after her decease the said negroes to enjoy their freedom as above mentioned, they and their heirs forever to all intents and purposes.
Item, I lend to my daughter Agnes Venable one negro girl slave named Letty under the same limits and to made free in the same manner as the slaves lent to my son Robert.
Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Lucy twenty pounds current money in lieu of the labor of the negro.
Item, I lend to my daughter Elizabeth Johnson one negro girl named Peg under the same
limitations and to be made free in the same manner as the slaves lent to my son Robert.
Item, I lend to my daughter Mary Taylor one negro girl named Millie under the same limitation and to be made free in the same manner as the slaves lent to my son Robert and also one negro girl named Mimi in the same manner and to be made free as above.
Item, It is my will and desire that the land purchased for my daughter Mary Taylor whereon she and her husband now lives, that it be her property during her natural life, then to be equally divided amongst all her children, to them and their heirs forever..
Item, I lend to my beloved wife Mary all my household and kitchen furniture, seventeen cattle which she chooses, my flock of sheep and hogs, two horses and one mare as she chooses, during her life or widowhood; my will is that the remaining part of my horse kind may be sold and the money arising from the sale to be given to my wife for her use in paying of legacies.
Item, It is my will and desire that the slaves hereafter named, viz. Jack, Allen, Rachel, Dinah, Hannah, Sarah, Toby, Let, Beck, Venus and Annis, in consideration of their faithful service, be immediately free and enjoy all the benefits thereof as persons born free. In case the laws of the land will not admit of such freedom that then the said last mentioned slaves and their increase be equally divided amongst my other legatees or their legal representatives.
Item, It is my will and desire and I hereby leave it as my particular instruction that my
executors as soon as may be to make application in the General Assembly of this Commonwealth foran act to confirm the freedom hereby intended to be given to all the slaves above mentioned and in such cases an act cannot be attained that then my legatees keep possession of their respective loans and their increase to descend to them their heirs and assigns forever, reserving nevertheless a right for all the above mentioned slaves to claim the benefit of this my last will and Testament if ever hereafter it should be lawful for them to do so.
My will is that the remaining part of my cattle belonging to this place after my wife's part is taken be sold and the money arising therefrom to pay of legatees, namely my sons Thomas and James and Lucy Johnson, as before mentioned, and all my outstanding debts to be collected and one hundred pounds put in my wife's hands for her use and the rest to be equally divided amongst all my children male and female.
Item, My will is that after my wife's decease all my estates lent to her be equally divided
amongst all my children male and female, and my will is that is either of my sons die without lawful heir that their part of my estate shall be equally divided amongst my sons.
Item, I do hereby constitute, appoint and ordain my two sons Charles and Robert, Christopher Johnson, my son Thomas and John Payne executors of this my last will and Testament and do utterly revoke disannul and make void all other wills and Testaments in anywise heretofore made. In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of September, 1778.
Charles Moorman (seal)
Signed, sealed and published in the presence of us
James Bunch
Pouncy Bunch (mark)
David Brock (mark

Birth	1715
Marriage	Abt 1736	Mary Adams
Death	Bef Oct 1778	Louisa County, Virginia

Spouse	Mary Adams (1716 - )
Child	Elizabeth Moorman (1738 - 1809)
Child	Lucy Moorman (1741 - )
Child	Agnes Moorman (1743 - )
Child	Charles Moorman (1746 - 1803)
Child	Judith Moorman (1748 - 1774)
Child	John Moorman (1750 - )
Child	Mary Moorman (1751 - )
Child	Robert Moorman (1753 - 1813)
Child	Thomas Moorman (1756 - )
Child	James Moorman (1760 - )

Father	Charles Moorman (1688 - 1757)
Mother	Elizabeth ?Reynolds ( - 1765)
Sibling	Robert Moorman ( - )
Sibling	Anne Moorman ( - )
Sibling	Judith Moorman ( - )
Sibling	Thomas Moorman (1705 - 1765)
Sibling	Achilles Moorman (1713 - 1785)