South Carolina          |        at Newberry Courthouse

Newberry District     |

To the Hon., the associate judge of this State of South Carolina

The humble petition of Meredith William Moon showeth unto your honors, that your petitioner is a native of that part of the kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland and agreeably to the constriction of the laws of this country is a subject of the King of Great Britain. That he was born on the 24th day of June in the year of Our Lord 1770, respectfully to the best information which our petitioner has been able to obtain and that he is now of consequence a little upwards of 37 years of age. That he left Scotland and went to England and from thence he went to Ireland and from Ireland he sailed for America, and that he landed in Charleston in this State aforesaid, and within the United States of America on the 28th day of January in the year of Our Lord 1794. From Charleston aforesaid he proceeded up the country to Newberry, then County now District, where he has remained ever since, except while absent on necessary business. That he never was out of this State aforesaid, but twice and then on necessary business – once to the State of Georgia and once to the State of Pennsylvania by water. That after his arrival in the District aforesaid he intermarried with Miss Sarah Robertson, who is now about 40 years of age. That of her seven children: Peter Moon about 11 years old and Sarah Moon of the same age; Maria Moon about nine years of age, Meredith William Moon about seven years of age, Delta Lark Moon about five years of age, Dennis Fletcher Moon about three years of age and Elizabeth Ann Moon now an infant. And that your petitioner desires to become naturalized agreeably the provisions of the laws of Congress, for establishing a uniform system of naturalization throughout the United States of America and to become a citizen thereof. Your petitioner therefore prays your honor to admit him to the benefits of the aforesaid Acts. And your petitioner will ever pray.                                                                                                                                                                M. W. Moon

South Carolina          |        at Newberry Courthouse

Newberry District     |

Personally appeared before me James Williams, who, being sworn says that he has been acquainted with Meredith William Moon whose petition for naturalization is fixed ever since the year of Our Lord 1797 or 98, and that he, the said petitioner, has been ever since that time a resident of the District aforesaid.

Sworn to before me this second of November 1807

Y. J. Harrington   JQ                                                                                         James Williams      

We whose names are herewith subscribed do certify that we have been acquainted with Meredith William Moon for several years and that he conducted himself praiseworthy, and as a good citizen and that we believe him well affected towards the government of this State and of the United States and attached to the Constitution of this State and of the United States.

November 2, 1807                                                                                   Benjamin Long, JQ

                                                                                                              Fred Nance

South Carolina          |        at Newberry Courthouse

Newberry District     |

Meredith William Moon, being duly sworn saith that he has resided within the State of South Carolina about 13 years immediately preceding the present date. That he will support the Constitution of this State and of the United States to the best of his ability and that he does absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State and Sovereignty, whatever, and particularly the King of Great Britain.

Filed November 2, 1807
transcribed and contributed by Edith Greisser, Newberry County Geneology Trails.  http://www.genealogytrails.com/scar/index.html

There are several notices of Dr. Moon in T. H. Pope’s History of Newberry County, SC. Here is one extract:

“Dr. Meredith Moon came to the district from Scotland after the Revolution and settled in the vicinity of Chappells about 1794. An extremely well-educated gentleman, Dr. Moon had a large and demanding practice which covered the area within sixty miles of his home. A friend of Bishop Francis I. Asbury and a religious man, he helped establish the Methodist Church in the upcountry; for years Moon’s Meetinghouse was a well-known church in the vicinity of Saluda River above Silverstreet. Dr. Moon’s two sons, Peter and William were also physicians.” (pages 259-260). [comments, RC: Dr. Moon’s three Robison stepsons also became doctors. Dr. Moon and his wife Sarah Lark Robison-Moon are buried at the site of the Moon’s Meetinghouse; I have seen the markers. I have been told that Dr. Moon is mentioned in Asbury’s journals, but I have not seen the record myself. I have a transcript of Lark family data from Dr. Moon’s Bible, but I don’t know where the Bible is now, nor do I have estate papers for Dr. Moon. I do have estate papers for his mother-in-law, Rachel Lark-Waters, in which he is a legatee in right of his wife]. [ email - Randy Currie 3/15/09]

1800- This description of the Moon family is in another history of Newberry County, S. C.  by Belton O'Neall in 1895.

" The name Moon, mentioned above, is also subsequent to the Revolution,  Dr. M. W. Moon lived long and to much good purpose, in the fork between Little and Saluda Rivers.  He was a physician of much eminence and practice.  He was an able and acceptable Methodist preacher.  The estimable son, Dr. Peter Moon, is all of his immediate family who remain in the settlement.

   For Many years after the Revolution, this settlement was foremost for intelligence, patriotism and moral worth. That it has ceased to be as prominent, as it once was is deeply to be regretted.  It is now on of the richest section of the district, and yet judging from some recent indications, I fear there is not so much liberality,  as once characterized it.  I trust, however, that this reproach, (if it be true,) will not long characterize it,  especially when I remember there is the home of so much intelligence, worth and liberality as belong to Dr. Peter Moon." [John Belton O'Neall, The Annals of Newberry, p. 58]

1800 - US Census, Newberry Co., SC,  Roll 50, page 85
            Meridith W. Moon   male    3   2  -   2   -     females   3  -  -  1  -          others   -   slaves   -

            Greenville Co., SC, roll 47   page 277
           John Moon                males   2  -   -   1  -      females   1  -   -   1   -         others  -     slave   6

1807, November 2 - [Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830]

1810 - US Census, Newberry Co., SC roll 61 page 177.  
            Meridith Wm. Moon         2   2  1   2  0       1  2   2  1  0  0  18

1810- Greenville Co., SC census M-252 Roll: 62  Page: 113
            John  MOON                     1  2  0   1  0       2   1   0  1  0  0   8  

1812, December 19 - Meredith Moon apparently had some personal contact with Bishop Asbury, one of the founding preachers of Methodist in the colonies.  Bishop Asbury was present at the conference in Charleston even though a "feeble old man had ridden on horseback from Kentucky, where he was in October, over the mountains of East Tennessee and North Carolina, through the upper part of South Carolina, and on to Charleston.  The weather was severe, and he often had to swim his noble horse, Fox, through the swollen streams.  Although it does not properly belong to this history, we cannot forbear giving one view of this noble old man's travels when he was nearly seventy years old.  Leaving Charleston January 7th, he rode through the swamps of eastern South and NOrth Carolina, suffering much from long rides, insufficient accommodations, and excessive cold. "[History of Methodism in Georgia, page 163]

"The early Methodist preachers were a peculiar people.  This they knew themselves, and they were not disposed to deplore the fact.  They believed Christians ought to be a peculiar people, and especially preachers, and not to be conformed to the world.  The old discipline was the guide-bouk, and no army officer ever regarded more strictly the army regulations than a faithful preacher his dicipline.
     Asbury had brought with him, from England, the dress and habits of an English Wesleyan, and as Wesley was Asbury's model, so he was in his turn the model of the American preachers.  The dress of both preachers and people was as marked as that of the Quakers.  A preacher who did not wear a straight-breasted coat was in sinful conformity to the world.  It was not the coat he wore, but the motive which led him to wear any but a straight-breast, that made it an offence.  The hair was to be cut short, and  brushed neatley down on the forehead.  No preacher ever thought of wearing a beard.  I would have been almost as offensive as a heresy." page 154

1820 -  Newberry Co., SC   Roll: 120  Page: 190  
            W. M.  Moon      males     1    0     1    6    -    1     0    1    1    0    1    0    0    11(total males)   
                                     females     0    0     4    1    2    1    3    2    2    0    1    0    0
                        the oldest males and females are 80-89 years old,  there seems to be a couple of families living together

            Newberry Co., SC Roll: 120  Page: 186
            Peter  Moon       males         0    0    0    1    0    1     0    0    1    0     0     1    0    1   2 (total males)
                                      females       0    0    3    5    0    2     6    1    3    0     0     0    0

1820 - Greenville Co., SC census [United States Archives]

M-33 roll 120                               male      female
page 097     JONES Abner          100010   10100
page 086     JONES Adam          000010   10100
page 086     JONES Ambrose     200010   30010
page 086     JONES John            210001   30001
page 097     JONES John            620010   01210
page 097     JONES Richard       111201   42010
page 097     JONES Solomon     301201   43110
page 106     JONES Solomon     310201   43101
page 097     JONES William       000001   00000

page 092     MOON Jesse            000110   00100  (the only female here is 16-26 years old)
page 111     MOON John             000101   01101  ( one female 10-26 years old of the proper marriagable age by 1832 to be Mary Elizabeth, others 16-26 years old and 45 plus, John is probably the male 45 plus years)
page 079     MOON Robert D.     000200   10100  (female 0-10 years is possibly Mary Elizabeth and 16-26 the apparent mother)
page 111     MOON William        010101   00001  (female 45 plus years)

1825- James Russell, a Methodist minister,  was sent to Savannah to preach but because he went to a very remote area to preach, he also went into debt and thus bankrupt.  He returns to South Carolina where he becomes ill and dies at the age of 45 in the house of Dr. Meredith Moon in Abbeville, S. C.

1827- There is a description of Dennis (L. as he is listed in the book) Moon, the son of Dr. M. W. Moon in the history of Newberry Co.,  This record implies that he didn't live long after the court case in 1827.  The book on Newberry was written by Judge John O'Neall.

1838. May 1839 - Obituary of Sarah (Olivia Moon) Jones, wife of William Townes Jones.

1836- 1848 -  Between these dates Ebenezer Hammond and Maria move to Jackson Co., Arkansas.   Records of the family listed in the History and Genealogy of the descendants of William Hammond of
Ebenezer Hammond is described as the second son of Ebenezer, the son of Elisha, the son of Benjamin 2nd, son of Benjamin who is the son of William.  "He joined his brother Elisha in South Carolina in 1812, where he finished his education, and afterwards studied medicine with Dr. Meredith William Moon of Newberry, S. C." Ebenezer Hammond marries Maria the daughter of Dr. Moon, who died in Jackson Co., Ark.

1843 - John Moon dies. 

1850 - US Census records show him in Laurens Co., S. C:
Benjamin Jones 40 m farmer $500 born in S.C. is here with the above listed children plus what appears to be a nephew, Silas Jones 18m, a farmer. [Laurens Co. p.318]

US Census, South Carolina, Newberry, p. 195
Peter Moon                 54  m             physician       $30,000          South Carolina                  
Susanna                       57   f
J. S.                             24  m                                                                                   blind
Octavia                        17  f
Levi Rogers                 30 m             over seer

The wealth of $30,000 that Peter Moon has is mostly in 102 slaves that he held in 1850.  They ranged in age between 65 and newborn.   Several Satterwhites had numerous slaves as well.  This is the family of Peter's wife, Susanna, that lives nearby. 

      Greenville Co., Gowensville.  Series: M653  Roll: 1220  Page: 399
          James Moon         31  m w        farmer                    $136                South Carolina
          Lucinda                29  f   w        
          William                  6  m w
          Martha  A.             4   f   w
          Thomas W.            1  m  w
          (next door)
          William Moon      63  m  w     farmer                   $1500 / 100      Virginia
          Walter  Moon       28  m  w     cripple                                             South Carolina

1878 -  In The Annals of Newberry on the description of "Physicians"

"Dr. Meredith Moon and his son, Dr. Peter Moon, are both mentioned in O'Neall's Annals, but to what is there stated my friend, Dr. O. B. Mayer, Sr., adds the following: ' Dr. Meredith Moon came to this country from Scotland about the year 1790.  He was looked upon as a man of high education.  His field of practice was extremely large, extending as far as sixty miles from his home, which was in the neighborhood of Chappell's Ferry.  He became a Methodist preacher and practiced medicine, and when he had time made appointments to preach.  It is recollected by many yet living how his language was tinged with Scotch brogue.  He live to be a very old man.'
Dr.  Peter Moon  was the son of Dr. Meredith Moon.  His education was good.  It is not remembered where he graduated in medicine. He practiced his profession only a few years, when he married and turned his attention to planting, at which occupation he succeeded admirably, becoming a very wealthy man.  He died suddenly at the age of eighty-two years.
      Dr. William Moon was a younger brother of Dr. Peter Moon.  He did not live long enough to achieve much reputation as a physician."             [O'Neall.  p. 557]

Source:

Currie, Randy.  records and emails 3/16/09 - curjax@accesstoledo.com
Dobson, David. Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830,
Hammond, Roland, MD. A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond of London, Eng. and his  wife Elizabeth Penn; Through their son Benjamin of Sandwich and Rochester, Mass., 1600-1894, David Clapp and Son, Printers., Boston 1894
Lucas, Rev. Silas E., Jr. Some South Carolina County Records, Vol. 2, So. Historical Press, 1989. c/o Rev. Silas Lucas Jr., P.O. 738 Easley, SC 29641-0738
South Carolina Marriages, Vol. IV. 1787 -1875, Implied in the Miscellaneous Records of South Carolina. 1994, Langdon and Langdon Genealogical Research, 132 Langdon Road, Aiken, S. C. 29801-9536
Newberry County Geneology Records http://www.genealogytrails.com/scar/index.html
 O'Neall, John Belton.  The Annals of Newberry," originally pub. Newberry, S. C., Aull & Houseal, 1892, reprinted Gen. Pub. Co., MD.
Smith, George Gilman.  History of Methodism in Georgia and Florida. Macon, GA, Jno. W. Burke and Co., 1877
South Carolina Archives, Sec of State -Misc. Records Bk. 2, p.532-533, Roll#Misc 16
US Census records.

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