Robert Bruce Moffat ^{4 5 6 7 8}

  General Notes:

Excerpts from "Moffit Family" page 382 and 383 of "The Heritage of Randolph County North Carolina Volume 1 1993" LDS call number 975.661 H2h v. 1

"Adam, William, Hugh, James, Charles, John, Robert, Margaret, and Mary came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Ireland sometime before 1750. The record is unclear as to whether the parents, Robert and Margaret, came with them or not. They stayed in the Philadelphia area for several years and then five of the brothers moved to the southeast section of what is now Randolph county and the western part of Chatham County, N.C.
William and Charles settled on the waters of Richland Creek in the area where Moffitt's Mill was developed. Moffitt's Mill was for many years a very prosperous and influential area of Randolph County, and many Moffitts from this line became industrialists, mill owners, and successful business people. "
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2. ROBERT BRUCE2 MOFFAT (CHARLES1) was born Abt. 1710 in Moffetts Wells, Dumfries, Scotland, and died 1783 in Ulster, Ireland ?. He married MARGARET STEWART Abt. 1732 in Northern Ireland or Moffetts Wells, Scotland. She was born Abt. 1720 in England, and died in Ireland.

Notes for ROBERT BRUCE MOFFAT:
Came to America through Virginia and settled in Randolph NC area
Others say died in Ireland abt 1760 (Ulster, Ireland?)
DOB may be 1705

According to Kay Frances Suckow, after the marriage of Robert Bruce Moffat & Margaret Stuart in Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland, they moved to County Donegal, Ireland where their children were born. Six of his sons went to America. Of those five stayed, one was to return to Ireland, but died at sea.

One family tradition which accounts for the change of spelling of name---when the sons went to America they agreed to adopt the "itt" at the end of the name to identify them wherever the name was found as belonging to the Robert Moffitt/Moffat line.

It is likely that the Moffats were originally from Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland, the ancestral home of the Moffat Clan. They quite likely migrated to Ireland during the Plantation periods of the 17th Century.


Note: Some sources give his birthdate as 1716 in Donegal, Londonderry, IRL.
William MOFFITT b: 1731 OR 1740 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Margaret MOFFITT b: 1733 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Catharine MOFFITT b: 1735 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
James MOFFITT b: 1736 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Adam MOFFITT b: 1738 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Mary MOFFITT b: 1742 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Charles MOFFITT b: 14 FEB 1743 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Hugh MOFFITT b: 1740 OR 1745 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Robert MOFFITT b: 1745 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
John MOFFITT b: 1747 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL
Patrick MOFFITT b: 1748 in Londonderry, Donegal, IRL

Abbrev: Moffitt Bible Record - Abijah
Title: Bible Record of Abijah Moffitt
Page: "Robert Moffitt was born in Scotland and went to Ireland when young. There he married Margaret Stuart from England, a near relative of King James II. Their children were James, Charles, William, Adam, Margaret, Mary, Catheren, Robert, Hugh, John and Patrick, the latter never came to America. John came over first alone and went back to Ireland. He, being pleased with country, came back with five of his brothers to Philadelphia and remained there for some time. They, then went to North Carolina, Chathem or Randolph County. James went into Georgia or South Carolina about the year of 1790. William, Adam and Charles died in North Carolina. Hugh went to Ohio in 1798-9 and settled near Chillico where he died about the year of 1800. Robert started back to Ireland and was never heard from again by those who remained in America. They supposed he was lost at sea. William and Hugh married Davis daughters of North Carolina. The Davis girl's father was born in England....


Notes for MARGARET STEWART:
may be "Mary"?
May be Stuart?


Children of ROBERT MOFFAT and MARGARET STEWART are:
3. i. WILLIAM3 MOFFITT, SR., b. 1731, Londonderry, Donegal, Ireland; d. August 1797, Randolph Co., NC (Richland Creek area).
ii. JAMES MOFFITT, b. Bet. 1734 - 1736; d. November 1827.
4. iii. HUGH MOFFITT, b. Bet. 1740 - 1745, Donegal, Ireland; d. Abt. 1800, Chillico, Ohio (1799?).
5. iv. CHARLES MOFFITT, b. February 14, 1743, Londonderry, Donegal, Ireland; d. February 22, 1818, NC.
v. MARGRET MOFFITT, b. 1733.
vi. MARY MOFFITT.
vii. CATHERINE MOFFITT, b. 1735.
viii. JOHN MOFFITT.
ix. PATRICK MOFFITT.
x. ROBERT MOFFITT.
6. xi. ADAM MOFFITT, SR., b. 1738, Donegal, Ireland; d. August 1809, NC.

Robert married Margaret Stuart in 1730 in Moffatt, Dumfries, Scotland.^{1 2 3} (Margaret Stuart was born in 1720 in England,¹⁴ died in , Columbia, PA, and was buried in Ireland.)

  Marriage Notes:

Reference Number:H5
apparently married in Scotland , afterwards migrated to Ireland where their children were born.