This text is extracted from (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/reports/gengeorg.txt) at Linda Sparks Starr's web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/
I make no commentary at this time. I have made comments about a letter (said to be) from this Thomas Moorman to Mary Ann Lynch. There are common themes between the two letters. (Thomas Moorman Letter & Commentary).
[Comments in brackets with initials LSS are from Linda, with PLS are Patricia Stanley's, ECM is Ed Marsh]
[LSS begins -- The following from Patricia Stanley strongly suggests a kinship between the two lines. These are not the same letters discussed by Doug Tucker in DOUGCAND.asc file; McNaught doesn't offer enough info to determine if one is the same letter she cites from VA Mag of History [see above]. Both letters were written by Lucy Clark Moorman to her cousin Thomas Moorman; the first was written c1788.
[ECM here is a link to article Linda mentioned http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/reports/dougcand.txt ]
"Colony of Quakers from Pittsylvania and Albemarle counties to Lynch's crossing -- a place where Charles Lynch made a crossing on the James River, about 1756, and settled in the Yadkin Valley. Among those fast bucks was our cousin, Micajah Clark, Zach Moorman and some cousins about six times removed, Zed and Henry Candler, and a half brother Zack Candler.
Two years afterwards your cousin George Rogers Clark got together some Indian fighters -- adventuresome, daredevil fellows like himself -- and concluded to follow this colony across the border. In less than a year some of them had returned and reported that the Yadkin Valley colony had removed some to Western N.C., Georgia and Ohio Valleys.
[Is it significant that she refers to the general as "your cousin" rather than "our cousin"? LSS]
"Finally Zed Candler came back
[this Zed Candler married Ann Moorman, daughter of Zachariah Moorman and Elizabeth Terrell PLS]
Tradition says that Zed Candler's father settled the part of Pittsylvania County which he called 'Calland's Castle."
[Note by K. B. Lawrence: Samuel Calland and Sr. b. 1750 in Scotland, established a store at what was then Chathan, VA, later to become known as Callands, and had a thriving business by 1774. His granddaughter, Eliza Calland, married Achilles Herndon Moorman. PLS]
The Candler boys are distant relatives and I have often heard from old members of the family way back in England. They report that Zachariah Moorman of Cromwell's Army married a Miss Candler, and that Miss Lucy Moorman married a Candler also. Miss Lucy was the daughter of Zachariah Moorman.
[Which Zachariah? LSS]
The mother of the Virginia Candler boys has a fine estate near Lynchburg. She is a remarkable woman for good sense, is well read, a fine talker and devoted mother. With an old Scotch teacher named McBridge she undertook to teach her children at home. She made a pretty good job of it."