Prescot Moore

Location: the Upper Farm, Alleghany County, Virginia

Prescot Moore as appraised in 1847, $550.00. He was sold at public auction at the Lower Farm in Alleghany County, Virginia on November 15, 1847 to John H. Brown, $650.00. Isaac, Madison, and Marshall were also sold to John H. Brown the same day. John H. Brown was liing in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now est Virginia) when he presented a letter signed by his father, William Brown, of Augusta County, Virginia, to William Madison Peyton and John Lewis Peyton, executors of John Howe Peyton’s estate. This letter served to guarantee any purchases made at the Alleghany sale on November 15, 1847. Shortly after the sale, unbeknownst to the Peyton executors and his father, John H. Brown took Prescot Moore, along with Isaac, Madison, and Marshall into a market (location unknown) and sold them all. William Brown as later required to pay his son’s bond of $2,456.00 plus interest.