 1745 - 1824 (79 years)
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| Name |
LOONEY Moses |
| Born |
1745 |
Looney's Mill Creek, Augusta Co., VA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
12 Jul 1824 |
Knoxville, Knox County, TN |
| Person ID |
I0290 |
Combo |
| Last Modified |
22 Aug 2009 |
| Father |
JR. Robert Looney, b. 1721, Isle of Man, England , d. Abt Feb 1756, Auguata County, VA (now Rockbridge) (Age 35 years) |
| Mother |
RHEA Margaret, b. 1725, Augusta, VA , d. 1803, Knox County, TN (Age 78 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1742 |
Augusta, VA |
| Family ID |
F0146 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Lived in the Western Parts of Fincastle County in June 1776 and signed a petition asking for a division of the county. On November 20, 1778 Moses Looney was recommended for Lieutenant of Militia, Washington County, VA
2/7/1780 at Moses house, Sullivan Co., NC, was organized and court was held there.
Capt. Moses Looney was in Militia Company of Mounted Gunmen. They went from Sullivan Co., to Charlotte, to Camden, SC. and through the Waxsaw settlement to the hills of Santee.
1784 was Tax Collector of Sullivan Co.
was Captain of a company that served as a guard to Griffith Rutherford, Absolum Tatum, James Robertson, Archibald Lytle, and Anthony Bledsoe, Commissioners for ascertaining the bounds of the Military Reservation in 1784.
In the 1784 convention at Joeshboro, Moses Looney voted in favor of a new state of Franklin, separate from NC. In Dec. 1787 he signed a petation of Inhabitants of the Western County to the General Assembly of NC for separation. Later Moses Looney was a delegate to the Constitutuional Conventionof NC at Fayetteville in 1789 which ratified the Federal Constitutuion.
1790 removed to Knox Co., TN
Moses' will is recorded in Knox County, TN in Estate Book 4, page 17, dated August 2, 1823, with codicil of June 5, 1824, as probated at the October session in 1824. Captain Moses Looney died July 12 1824 according to the Knoxville Register dated July 16, 1824.
In his will Moses names wife Sarah, and leaves to brother John Looney's heirs $5; brother Benjamin Looney's heirs $5; brother Samuel Looney's heirs $5; sister Mary Grime's heirs $5; nephew Samuel Looney $5; nephew Moses Looney $10; Jesse, son of my nephew Moses Looney $50; nephews Moses, Round, and Evans, sons of nephew Moses Looney, $50 to be divided; Evan (under 21 years), son of nephew Moses Looney, a new set of blacksmith's tools; Moses, son of nephew Samuel, a rifle. He also mentions John, son of Henry Stephens; Peggy, daughter of nephew Moses Looney; Absalom and Samuel Looney, sons of nephew Absalom; Eleanor, wife of nephew Absalom Looney. Absalom and Samuel, sons of nephew Absalom, are to have the home place after their father Absalom and his wife Eleanor use it. The will also provides that David Holstein, nephew of wife Sarah, shall have a certain land, but the codicil directs that Absalom and Samuel, sons of nephew Absalom Looney, shall have same. Negro slaves are to be free after faithful service to wife Sarah during her lifetime. Executors: Absalom Looney, John Stephens, Jr., William Lyon. Witnesses: Thomas Hudeburgh, Jacob Lenas, and Jesse Wells. Witnesses to codicil: Edwin Wyatt, James Colman, Benjamin Looney (perhaps nephew?).
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