Enoch Moore (loyalist turned rebel), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Enoch Moore (loyalist turned rebel)
- Enoch Moore (April 16, 1779– August 1841), son of Samuel Moore U.E.
- and Rachel Stone, married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of James Smith and Hannah Hawksworth, on March 30, 1803 in Old Holy Trinity Church, Lower Middleton, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
- Elizabeth was born on April 18, 1784 in Wilmot Township, NS, died on March 3, 1871 and was buried in New Milford Cemetery, Winnebago County, Illinois.
- Enoch was a direct descendant of one of New Jersey's early colonial officials, Samuel Moore. Enoch's political alignment seemed to swing from one extreme to the other throughout his lifetime.
- He was born in a Loyalist refugee camp in New York City and was evacuated with his Quaker family, about 1784, to the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia where his father, Samuel Moore, became a leader in the Quaker community.
- He moved to Upper Canada about 1811, where he served as a dispatch rider in the Canadian militia during the War of 1812 against the Americans.
- His commanding officer was Col.
- Joseph Ryerson.
- By 1830, Enoch Moore had gained the respectable status of school trustee.
- One of the teachers in his employ was Egerton Ryerson son of Col.
- Joseph Ryerson, who became the founder of the public school system in Ontario.
- Enoch's first son, James Moore, is buried beside Col.
- Joseph Ryerson in the Methodist cemetery in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Ontario. Even though he was raised in a Loyalist and Quaker home, Enoch was elected Captain of the rebels at Malahide, Ontario during the Rebellions of 1837.
- Enoch and his brothers comprised one of the most active Loyalist families to join the rebels.
- Court records show that Enoch was arrested and jailed in London on Dec.
- 21, 1837, convicted of high treason, sentenced to death, then reprieved on May 19, 1838.
- Hundreds of his neighbours signed the petition for clemency in the case of Enoch, his brother John, and neighbour Harvey Bryant.
- His sentence was first commuted to transportation to a penal colony on Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for life, and then relaxed to 14 years of penal servitude but he was eventually pardoned and released on a peace bond on Oct.
- 5, 1838.
- His brother, Elias Moore, was released after a short stay in jail because the key witness absconded.
- Elias then returned to his seat in the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada. Around this same time, Enoch's younger brother, Lindley Murray Moore was founding an Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, N.Y.. Enoch and his wife and nine of their 11 children immigrated to the United States in July 1840, settling in Ogle County, Illinois.
- Enoch died the next year in Rockford. His brother, John Moore, built a fine home in Sparta, Ontario that is still standing, now known as the John Moore House.
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