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who married in 1801 Frances (7-1829), daughter
of Samuel Owings, Jr. (1733-1803); Samuel (1773-
1857), who married first, in 1796, Ann M. How-
ard (ca. 1765-1827), and second, in 1828, Ann
G. White (1800-1865); William (1779-1779);
George Washington (1780-1799); and Randle
Hulse (1782-1864), who married in 1822 Eliza-
beth Smith Peck (ca. 1807-?). DAUGHTERS. Eliz-
abeth (1759-1822), who married in 1794 Richard
Curzon, Jr.; Rebecca (1763-1840), who married
in 1780 Thomas Russell; Rachel (1775-1776);
Frances (1777-1781); and Mary North (1783-
1793). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RE-
LIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican; rented pew in St.
Paul's Church, Baltimore Town. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES: Mr., by 1758; Esq., by 1772. A
drawing of Baltimore Town in 1752 has been at-
tributed to John Moale. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
merchant, land developer, planter. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Bal-
timore County, 1768-1769 (election of entire
county delegation declared void on June 14, 1768,
because of "treating of voters"; reelected on July
5, 1768, to 2nd session of the 1768-1770 Assem-
bly, but election of the county delegation was
again voided on November 30, 1769, for miscon-
duct of sheriff during the election; Public Offices
2), 1771; Conventions, Baltimore County, 1st,
1774 (appointed, but did not attend), 2nd- 3rd,
1774, 4th, 1775 (elected, but did not attend), 5th,
1775, 6th-8th, 1775-1776 (Claims 6; did not at-
tend the 7th Convention). LOCAL OFFICES:
churchwarden, St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore
County, 1753-1754, 1758-1759, 1765-1766, 1767-
1768; St. Paul's Parish Vestry, Baltimore County,
1761-1763, 1770-1773, 1782-1784, 1786-1789;
commissioner of Baltimore Town, by 1768, at
least 1780-1787; justice, Baltimore County, 1769-
1775, 1777-1789, 1791-1797 (quorum 1772-at
least 1775); justice, Especial Court of Oyer, Ter-
miner, and Gaol Delivery, Baltimore County, 1772
(quorum); trustee for the poor, Baltimore County,
appointed 1773; Committee of Observation, Bal-
timore County, by 1776; justice, Orphans' Court,
Baltimore County, 1777, 1781-1790; commis-
sioner of the tax, Baltimore County, 1777-1783,
1786; justice, Criminal Court, Baltimore County,
1788-1790, 1793. MILITARY SERVICE: lieutenant
colonel, Baltimore Town Battalion, Baltimore
County Militia, commissioned May 25, 1776;
colonel of the same battalion, commissioned Sep-
tember 12, 1777; resigned commission because of
gout, March 17, 1780. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRI-
VATE ISSUES: at a meeting of Baltimore merchants
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in 1769, Moale voted against allowing the sale of
goods imported in defiance of the nonimportation
agreement. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: received from his mother's estate
£162.13.5 sterling and £958.2.6 current money as
his portion of his father's estate, 1761; owned 9
slaves in Baltimore Town, 1790. ANNUAL IN-
COME: ground rent on 24 leased lots yielded ca.
£280. 0.0 per year, 1783. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION:
2,145 acres in Baltimore County, over 6 acres and
8 lots in adjoining Baltimore Town, and ca. 3 lots
in Baltimore Town held on 99-year leases (624
acres in Baltimore County inherited from his
father, 26 acres gained by resurvey, 128 acres in
Baltimore County and 6 acres and 6 lots in Bal-
timore Town acquired by purchase, 1,367 acres
in Baltimore County and 2 lots in Baltimore Town
acquired through marriage). SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND
DEATH: Between 1770 and 1779, Moale and his
wife established trusts for all of her land, retaining
life estates for themselves with title then passing
to various of their children. The trusts were ad-
justed in later years to reflect changes in trustees
or devisions among children, but the general pro-
visions remained substantially unchanged. Moale
purchased 1 lot in Baltimore Town in 1772 and
the reversion rights to 129 acres in Baltimore
County in 1779. He sublet one of his large lease-
hold lots in Baltimore Town in 1778. In Novem-
ber 1781 an Act of Assembly incorporated Moale 's
6 acres adjoining Baltimore into the town. Moale
subdivided the acreage into at least 50 lots, which
he leased out between 1782 and 1784 on long-
term leases, usually for 99- years at rents of about
£7.0.0 current money per year. Over the next
fifteen years, a few of these lots were surrendered
back to Moale, but he appears to have had no
trouble finding new lessees for them. Moale pur-
chased 20 acres in Baltimore County in 1784 and
part of a large lot in the original section of Bal-
timore Town in 1783. He sublet another large
town lot and several small lots in town in 1782-
1784. Moale's brother Richard inherited from their
father 457 acres in Baltimore County, comprising
most of the peninsula between the middle and
northwest branches of the Patapsco River. When
Richard died in 1786, he devised most of his estate
to John, including 360 acres of this land (some
already leased out), plus long-term leases on 6
lots within the town itself. In 1788 Moale sold his
lease on one of the original lots in the center of
town for £3,000.0.0 current money and thereafter
concentrated on the development of Richard's
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