Moore, Samuel, 1742-1822

p. 64. Samuel Moore was born in 1742 in Rahway, New Jersey and died in 1822 in Norwich, Upper Canada. He was a direct descendant of Samuel Moore/Moores, who was born around 1630 in Newburyport, Massachusetts but left that hostile environment in 1656 to become one of the civic leaders in the early years of New Jersey. As a Quaker, Samuel would not join the armed struggles during the American Revolutionary War, and he was forced to leave his Woodbridge, New Jersey home, and flee to New York in 1777. In his deposition to the British-appointed Claims Commission in 1786 at Halifax, he testified that he had been imprisoned several times for refusing to assist the rebels. His house and land were confiscated in 1779 and, with his wife and nine children, he was evacuated by the British to Wilmot Township in Nova Scotia. Moore became a leader in the Quaker fellowship there.
p. 65. Moore re-located his own family to Upper Canada near the end of the War of 1812. His journey from Nova Scotia to Upper Canada took a detour to his old hometown in New Jersey. His wife, Rachel Stone died there, and one son, Lindley Murray, decided to stay in New Jersey.... Samuel married Rachel Stone in 1763. Rachel had been born on 21 September 1743 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey and died on 7 December 1813 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey at age seventy. Together, they had eleven children. Sarah, Joseph, Crowel, Phoebe, Rachel and Elias were born in New Jersey, Enoch and John were born in New York City, and Samuel, Edward and Lindley Murray were all born in Nova Scotia.