Memorial Tablet

by Cynthia Guinn

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Memorial Tablet

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Cynthia Guinn

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Photograph

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Inscription reads: A MEMORIAL / TO / COL. MAURICE MOORE / GENTLEMAN AND SOLDIER OF THE KING / WHO IN THE / YEAR OF OUR LORD 1725 FOUNDED IN A WILDERNESS / THE TOWN OF BRUNSWICK / RESERVING FOR THE GLORY OF GOD THE PORTION OF LAND / ON WHICH WAS BUILT THIS PARISH CHURCH OF ST. PHILLIP. / ALSO TO THE / HEROES AND PATRIOTS OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR WHOSE / BRAVE DEEDS ILLUSTRATED ITS COLONIAL HISTORY / BRUNSWICK WAS FOR A TIME THE SEAT OF THE ROYAL GOVERN- / MENT IN THE PROVINCE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THE / RESIDENCE OF ITS GOVERNORS / JOHNSON, DOBBS, TYRON / IT WAS THE SCENE OF THE FIRST ARMED RESISTANCE / TO THE STAMP ACT IN ANY AMERICAN COLONY WHEN / CITIZEN SOLDIERS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF / HUGH WADDELL AND JOHN ASHE / DEFIED THE POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN AND PREVENTED / THE LANDING OF THE STAMPS / FROM HER SHIPS OF WAR / NOV. 28, 1765 / THIS TABLET IS THE GIFT OF / SELINA M. HARVEY AND IDA N. MOORE / DESCENDANTS OF MAURICE MOORE / AND WAS ERECTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE / NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY / OF THE / COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICAN / A.D. 1902. / FOR THESE ARE DEEDS THAT SHOULD NOT PASS AWAY / AND NAMES THAT MUST NOT WITHER.
Brunswick Town, North Carolina USA.
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