MOORE, JOHN W. MOORE, JOHN W. (ca. 1797–1846). John W. Moore,
signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and early Texas
official, was born in Pennsylvania about 1797. He traveled to
Texas from Tennessee in 1830 and settled in Harrisburg
Municipality. In December 1831 the ayuntamiento of San Felipe de
Austin announced his election as comisario of the precinct of
San Jacinto. Moore was a friend of William B. Travis and was
with him on July 30, 1835, when a company of volunteers under
Travis forced the capitulation of Antonio Tenorio at the fort at
Anahuac. Moore was a delegate from Harrisburg to the
Consultation and was elected contractor for the army by the
General Council on November 18, 1835. He was one of the three
representatives from Harrisburg at the Convention of 1836 at
Washington-on-the-Brazos and signed the Declaration of
Independence. On October 3, 1836, Moore was seated in the House
of the First Congress of the Republic of Texas as a member from
Harrisburg County, but his election was contest