The  story  of  the  captivity  of  Captain  Patrick  Moore,  a
noted  Loyalist,  now  claims  our  attention.  He  had  probably
escaped  from  the  slaughter  at  Ramsour's  Mill,  on  the
twentieth  of  June,  when  his  brother,  Colonel  John  Moore
safety  retired  to  Camden.  Anxious  lor  the  capture  of  Cap-
tain Moore,  Major  Joseph  Dickson  and  Captain  William
Johnston  were  sent  out,  in  the  fore  part  of  July,  with  a
party  to  apprehend  this  noted  Toiy  leader,  and  others  of
his  ilk,  if  they  could  be  found.  The  veteran  Captain
Samuel  Martin,  who  had  sensed  in  the  old  French  and
Indian  war,  was  one  of  the  party.  On  Dawson's  Fork,  of
Pacolet  river,  near  the  Old  Iron  Works,  since  Bivingsville,
and  now  known  as  Glendale,'*  the  parties  met,  and  a
skirmish  ensued,  in  which  Captain  Johnston  and  the  Tory
leader  had  a  personal    rencontre.     Moore  was   at  length


*  Glendale  is  located  on  the  Southern  side  of  Lawson's  Fork,  while  the  Old  Iron  Works
were  on  the  same  bank,  fully  half  a  mile  above,  where  the  old  road  once  crossed  the  stream.
