Edward Moseley

Edward Moseley , was the Surveyor General of the Province of North Carolina before 1710 and 1723 to 1733. He was also the first colonial Treasurer of North Carolina, starting in 1715. He was responsible, with William Byrd II of Virginia Colony, for surveying the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia in 1728.

John Moseley married Mary Beaman at All Hallows London Wall on February 5, 16812. Their son Edward was born February 16, 16823 just prior to his fathers release from indenture. John Moseley began his own merchant tailor business in Cripplegate, just west of Bishopsgate but he had died by April 1690 when his orphaned son applied to Christs Hospital. School records confirm that Edward Moseley was a pupil at Christs Hospital, Newgate, in a division called the Royal Mathematical School which had been founded in 1673 to supply educated navigators to the navy and merchant marine. Moseley applied to the school at the age oforand was accepted the following year on July 2, 1691. There, he studied the trade of a navigator for more than six years.

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