Thomas Moore

1760 - 1822  (62 years)

• Name	Thomas Moore  [1]
  Relationship	with Gustave Jean Baptiste Pitard
  Born	1760	Loudoun Co., Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	1822
  Notes	From the Sandy Spring Museum Website: "This silhouette is the only known likeness of Thomas Moore (1760-1822), inventor, engineer, and intimate friend of President Jefferson. Married to Mary Brooke, Moore built Longwood and invented the refrigerator, in a patent signed by Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison. Jefferson named Moore to lay out the National Road from Cumberland to Ohio. He engineered the Erie Canal, the state road from Buffalo to Albany, the Aqueduct Bridge over the Potomac, and the James River & Kanawha Canal. With brothers-in-law Isaac Briggs and Caleb Bentley he laid out the mill town Triadelphia. Perhaps his greatest exploits were in agriculture. Working with Briggs and often with Jefferson, he developed new plowing and fertilizing techniques and created the National Agricultural Society--James Madison president--for national and international exchange of farming innovations." Their marriage certificate read "Thomas Moore, Jr., of Loudoun County, Virginia, m. 21st day of 9th month, 1791, to Mary Brooke, Jr., of Montgomery County, Maryland, having announced their intentions as Indian Spring in Anne Arundel County, were married at Sandy Spring n Montgomery County." Their 4 children are recorded in Peden. [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I5531	lansdalepitard
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2006

  
  

  Spouse / Partner	Mary Brooke           b. 27 Sep 1760, Montgomery Co., Maryland
  Married	21 Sep 1791	Sandy Spring Friends Meeting, Montgomery Co., Maryland   [3]
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2006
  Family ID	F3880	|  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Born - 1760 - Loudoun Co., Virginia  Married - 21 Sep 1791 - Sandy Spring Friends Meeting, Montgomery Co., Maryland   = Link to Google Earth
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  Pitard, Derrick. "Thomas Moore". Genealogy at Pitard.net. https://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I5531&tree=1sttree (accessed July 15, 2020).