23. Moses Greer
Sometimes before the opening of the Revolutionary War he married Nancy Bailey and moved to the back country of Virginia in what is now Franklin Co.. It was from this place he joined the American Army and fought through the whole of the War. He was an Aide to General George Washington in his march on Yorktown to meet Lord Cornwallis. After the close of the war Moses Greer settled down in Franklin Co. and was prominent in its affairs for the rest of his life. One of the original petitioners in the Fall of 1785 for the formation of Franklin Co. from Henry and Bedford Counties, he was one of the first members attending the first session of the Co. court on January 2, 1786. He was for a long time a Justice of the Peace for the Co.. Several times he was a member of the legislature from Franklin Co.. He served in the Virginia House of Deligates in 1794, 1798, 1804, and 1806 thru 1807. He was the presiding Judge of the Co. Court for several years in his later life. Many wills were witnessed by Moses according to Will Book I, Franklin Co. court records. In politics Moses was a Jeffersonian Republican. A convention of 93 members of the Legislature of Virginia met in Richmond for the purpose of framing a Republican Ticket to be submitted to the freeholders of Virginia at the ensuing election of electors in 1800 to choose a President and Vice President. This Convention appointed men from each Co. to carry on a campaign for these electors in their respective counties. Moses Greer was one of the men appointed for Franklin Co.. During his long life in Franklin Co. after the close of the Revolutionary War Moses Greer was a successful business man. He was asurveyor and farmer and accumulated much property.
He was a Baptist minister