WILLIAM MOFFATT
(1738-1794)

by Betty Carolyn Clark (Mrs. Parks) Weaks

My Revolutionary War ancestor was born in County Antrim, Ireland, 
and migrated to Chester County, South Carolina, where most of the 
family remained for several generations.

William Moffatt was born in 1738 in County Antrim and married Barbara 
Chestnut, a native of Ireland, in 170.  Their children were Samuel, 
born in 1770, who married Polly Curry; Mattie, born in 1777 and married 
John Millen; John, born in 1783, married Elizabeth Strong; James who 
married Rosanna Harbison; David, who married Molly Strong; and William, 
born in 1786, who married Margaret Hemphill.

My line descends through John, born in Chester, Co., S.C., January 17, 
1783, and died at Troy, Tennessee, 1859.  Elizabeth Strong, to whom he 
was married on July 23, `803 died in Chester County.

John's great granddaughter, Mary Eliza Moffatt born in Chester County 
in 1863, married Rev. James Thomas Curry, my grandfather, who was born 
at Lawrence County, Tennessee in 1852.  Their daughter Mariana, my mother, 
who was born at Franklin, Tennessee October 6, 1896, married my father, 
David English Clark, born March 25, 1895, at Luray, Virginia.

William Moffatt listed as his place of residence during the Revolution, 
Chester County, S.C. and he died there on January 20, 1794.  His wife 
died in Chester County on September 6, 1829.

Mrs. Parks Weaks is the only member of the Jacob Flournoy Chapter DAR 
who is descended from William Moffatt.


Taken from the Fulton Daily Leader, Fulton, Kentucky, August 29, 1975.