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Debate on the convention question, in the House of Commons of the legislature of North Carolina; Dec. 18 & 19, 1821 By North Carolina General Assembly House of Representatives Published: Raleigh. Gales. 1822. FIRST EDITION. -- BOUND WITH -- Debate on the bill directing a prosecution against the several banks of the State and to restore and preserve the character of the circulating medium, which took place in the House of Commons of North Carolina from December 29th, 1828, to January 6th, 1829. By North Carolina General Assembly House of Representatives Published: Raleigh : Printed by J. Gales & Son, 1829. FIRST EDITION. 78, 121 pp. Two incredibly rare separately paginated early NC pamphlets bound together. With inscription "Presented to my Grand Son Alfred Cleon Moore, March 24th 1887 by his old Grand Father A.C. Moore," Obituary of A.C. Moore (more info below) pasted on inside of front cover, corner torn off first 2 pages, staining and acidification, separation between spine and front cover. Second pamphlet also signed. A really nice copy of this work. Not Ex-Lib. A.C. Moore was a relatively wealthy man and apparently well respected by the community. He was born in Patrick Co. Va. in 1805 to William Moore (1771-1819) and Jane Hanby (1783 - 1817), and was the fourth of nine children. Both of his parents had died by the time he was only fourteen, and he was raised by his uncle and guardian, Gallahue Moore, just over the N.C. state line in Surry Co. Gallahue became a North Carolina state legislator from 1825-6, while young Alfred attended Madison Academy, and eventually North Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to his 1890 obituary, he studied law under Powell Hughes, and was elected to the N.C. state house as one its youngest legislators ever, at age 23. Three times he was elected from Surry Co. between 1828-1830, receiving his N.C. law license in 1829. During what proved to be his third and final term in the legislature, he somewhere met Ann Frances "Nancy" Kent of Wythe Co., Va., and married her in March of 1830. Their first child, Margaret Lucinda Emily was born December 1st, during the middle of the three month long 1830 session of the state house. He did not stand for re-election in March of 1831, having moved to Wythe Co., Va. It is not known if he was in Wythe Co. or in Raleigh on his first child's birthday. Alfred was appointed Colonel of the 35th Virginia Military Infantry, 19th Brigade, 5th Division in May, 1839, and promoted to Brigadier General of this same militia sometime before the Civil War. His tombstone, erected upon his death in 1890 in the McGavock-Kent Ft. Chiswell Cemetery, reads "Gen. Alfred C. Moore". The census of 1850 valued his estate at $20,000. He and his wife, the former Ann "Nancy" Frances Kent had eight children: Margaret Lucinda Emily 1830-1845; Sarah Jane (Finnie), 1832-1917 (2 children); Joseph Kent, 1834-1841; Algernon Sidney, 1836-1862; Jacob Melvin, 1838-1893 (4 children); Robert Emmett, 1838-1924 (twin with Jacob); William Orville, 1841-1913 (10 children); Ann "Nancy" Eliza, 1843-1871; In 1860, A.C. Moore's real estate was valued at $15,000 and his personal estate at $8,000. Undoubtedly his fifteen slaves (ranging in age from sixty to five years old) made up the bulk of the value of his personal estate. The slave census of 1860 also indicated that A.C. Moore possessed three "slave houses." Just as interesting was the fact that in the 1860 census, Eliza Kent, Nancy's sister, owned thirty-five slaves, real estate valued at $12,000, and a personal estate of $16,000. Slaves were costly, and the possession of thirty-five slaves put Eliza in the upper echelons of Virginia's wealthy. It is probable that A.C.Moore made use of Eliza's slaves on his own farm, considering the family ties, and the fact that she had moved into the house with him and five of his six living children, as recorded in this same census. A.C. Moore's Civil War career fluctuated greatly with the events and fortunes of war. On M.
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