Silas Moore: The Rat Catcher

by Geoff Baggett

There were some very unusual jobs in Colonial America. One of the strangest jobs of all was catching rats. Towns and villages all over the early Colonies had professional rat catchers … men who hunted rats and removed them from homes, shops, and stores. Needless to say, it was a dirty, stinky, and sometimes scary job.Come and meet Silas Moore, a humble man from Colonial Virginia. See why he became a rat catcher, and join him on his first adventure!

24 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 5, 2019

About the author

Geoff Baggett is a small town pastor with a passion for Revolutionary War history. He is an active member of the Sons of the American Revolution and has discovered over twenty Patriot ancestors in his family tree from Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. He is an avid living historian, appearing regularly in period uniform in classrooms, reenactments, and other commemorative events.

Geoff lives on a small piece of land in rural western Kentucky with his amazing wife, a daughter and grandson, and a yard full of perpetually hungry chickens and goats.