In a letter written by Col. Nicholas Ruxton Moore, dated at Baltimore, February 20, 1787, and addressed to his brother, Col. James Francis Moore, Bear Grass. Ky., he mentions a niece, Betsy, who was making her home with him at that time. She was then 14 years old. Her mother died at Sullivan Fort, which was located on Bear Grass Creek, Jefferson County, Kentucky, when Betsy was only 3 years old. After her mother's death she was sent back to Baltimore, where she remained until she was 14, when she, with her uncle, Nicholas Ruxton Moore, rode on horseback from Baltimore to Louisville, Ky., which was a very perilous as well as a very brave thing to do, as the whole country at that time was infested with hostile Indians. When she was 16 years old she ran away and married Jesse Elliott Pendergrast, a cousin of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott and the father of Commodore Garrett Jesse Pendergrast, who died while in command of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1862, a distinguished naval officer and as fine a gentleman as ever served in the United States Navy.
In a letter written by Col. Nicholas Ruxton Moore, dated at Baltimore, February 20, 1787, and addressed to his brother, Col. James Francis Moore, Bear Grass. Ky., he mentions a niece, Betsy, who was making her home with him at that time. She was then 14 years old. Her mother died at Sullivan Fort, which was located on Bear Grass Creek, Jefferson County, Kentucky, when Betsy was only 3 years old. After her mother's death she was sent back to Baltimore, where she remained until she was 14, when she, with her uncle, Nicholas Ruxton Moore, rode on horseback from Baltimore to Louisville, Ky., which was a very perilous as well as a very brave thing to do, as the whole country at that time was infested with hostile Indians. When she was 16 years old she ran away and married Jesse Elliott Pendergrast, a cousin of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott and the father of Commodore Garrett Jesse Pendergrast, who died while in command of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1862, a distinguished naval officer and as fine a gentleman as ever served in the United States Navy.
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