Samuel Moore

Born: 23 March 1784 Nova Scotia

Married:

   1st to Charity Gifford Abt. 1808

  2nd to Elizabeth L Shotwell  28 Sep 1815  

  3rd to Margaret Abt. 1829 

Died: 16 Oct 1860 Rahway, Middlesex, New Jersey

FATHER

Samuel Moore

MOTHER

Rachel Stone

WIFE

Charity Gifford

Elizabeth Shotwell

Margaret

CHILDREN with Charity Gifford

1. Prince Gifford Moore b. 01 Dec 1812 Falmouth, Barnstable Co., MA

CHILDREN with Elizabeth L Shotwell

1. Walter Shotwell Moore b. 13 Aug 1816

2. Harvey Shotwell Moore b. 19 Jul 1820

3. Philip Dorland Moore b. Feb 1828

Notes on Samuel Moore
by Susan Brooke
Dec 2012

Samuel's brother, Lindley Murray Moore, was running a Quaker school in Rahway, New Jersey in 1812.  In a letter written to his fiancée, Abigail Lydia Mott, he wrote, "I have not I think been at any place where the task of a teacher is more pleasant that where I now am.
I expect to go to New York tomorrow with my brother Samuel who is now at this place and intends returning immediately to Nova Scotia to make but a temporary stay to transact some unsettled business in that country." (1)

Three of his brothers, Enoch, Elias and John, sided with the reformers during the Rebellion of 1838 in Canada and were arrested, but Samuel seems to have escaped trouble.  In July of 1838 his son William stopped off at the home of Lindley Murray Moore for a short visit.  Lindley's wife, Abigail Mott Moore, wrote of that visit to her son.  "Uncle S Moore's son William who has lived in Canada for two or three years was here a few days since on his way to his fathers, he says things have got to such a pap in Canada that he is not willing to remain there any longer, he intends taking his wife and children and going to the west - but with not - without seeing his father first -  he was not enjoying good health, looks thin & miserable. He stopped on his way at Hamilton and requested to see his uncle John, but was not permitted to do so. The latest accounts from that country through the papers are more favorable, I hope peace and quiet will yet be restored without blood shed.  No returns from England yet with regard to those who have received their sentence." (2)

For more information on John and Enoch Moore, see the page for John Moore.

Sources:

(1) Letter from Lindley Murray Moore, to Abigail Mott,  7th mo 31, 1812.  Letter on file with the Moore-Haines Papers at Swarthmore College.

(2) Letter from Ann Moore and Abigail Mott Moore to Edward Mott Moore, 7th Mo 4th 1838.  Letter on file with the Edward Mott Moore Papers at the University of Rochester.

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