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Edward Moseley (born 16 February, 1682 or 1683 - died 11 July 1749), 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. Edward Moseley was also Speaker of the North Carolina House of Burgesses (the lower house of the legislature) for several terms, as he was consistently re-elected by his party. He briefly acted as Royal Governor of North Carolina while Gov. George Burrington was traveling out of the province. ==Early life== John Moseley married Mary Beaman at All Hallows London Wall on February 5, 1681/2. Their son Edward was born February 16, 1682/3 just prior to his father’s 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 Christ's Hospital. School records confirm that Edward Moseley was a pupil at Christ's 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 of 7 or 8 and was accepted the following year on July 2, 1691. There, he studied the trade of a navigator for more than six years. Discharge records show that Moseley left Christ's Hospital December 24, 1697, aged 14/15, to serve an apprenticeship which was to last until December 1703, with Captain Jacob Foreland on the ship ''Joseph'', trading in the port of Bilbao (a Spanish iron market). Curiously and somewhat irregularly, a handwritten postscript to the indenture with Foreland states "friends of the said boy would not suffer him to be bound to the said captain and have otherwise provided for him." Unknown wealthy friends of Moseley purchased his indenture so that he would not have to go to Spain with Foreland. Soon thereafter, Moseley landed in Charleston, Carolina.〔http://bcbrooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/edward-moseley-impressions-of-albemarle.html〕 Edward Moseley served southern Carolina as an Ordinary Court clerk (January 1701-02) directly under Governor James Moore. Interestingly, Moseley ceased his role when Nathaniel Johnson succeeded Moore. A possible friend of Moseley’s, John Barnhill (later known as “Tuscarora Jack”), replaced him at that time. Afterward, Moseley worked under Dr. Thomas Bray as a librarian for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1703. While in Charleston, Edward Moseley demonstrated a fondness for books and administration and, as a good Anglican, even collected religious texts that he later donated to the Anglican Church in Chowan County. Moseley received £5 15s for cataloging the first library in Carolina. This work he performed for Dr. Bray and the Society in May 1703, following the books’ arrival in Charleston. Dr. Bray’s acquaintance provided the connections for Moseley’s future marriage to northern Carolina's, or Albemarle County's, governor Henderson Walker’s widow. Moseley met Henderson Walker and his wife Ann while involved with acquisition of these books. Gov. Walker seemed greatly interested in obtaining a similar Christian library for Albemarle’s capital of “Queen Anne’s Town,” later Edenton, in October of 1703. He wrote to the Bishop of London, Thomas Tenison, requesting a similar gift as the Rev. Bray’s.〔http://bcbrooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/edward-moseley-impressions-of-albemarle.html〕 By April 1704, Governor Walker had died. Moseley quickly became a resident of the Albemarle Sound region, marrying Mrs. Walker in 1705. Edward Moseley, then about 23 years old, immediately began his career as a surveyor and lawyer. <--''When did he learn surveying or study the law?'' 21 April 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Moseley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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