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The David W.W. Moore Collection on the Moses Rountree House collection (1970-2010) consists of four folders that originally in a binder organized by David W.W. Moore. The collection contains photos, newspaper clipppings, hand-written notes, and documents related to the Moses Rountree House. This collection documents the history of the Moses Rountree House which was built in 1869 by Oswald Lipscomb. Moses Rountree was one of the most prominent leaders of Wilson society in the nineteenth century. His activities helped to shape the economic, political, physical and the educational environment of the town of Wilson. Rountree was of English descent, and his ancestors came to Nansemond County, Virginia before 1700. Like many Virginians, the Rountree family began to acquire land over the border in North Carolina and by the early eighteenth century the family owned property on the banks of Contentnea Creek in what later became Wilson County. Moses Rountree was the son of Lewis Rountree and Elizabeth Daniel. He was born in 1822 on the family plantation several miles east of the present city of Wilson on what is now Route 264. Rountree was considered one of Wilson's leading nineteenth century merchants. He had several commercial ventures, including the establishment of a merchandise firm and his procurement of properties in Wilson. Less