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,

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. Elizabeth was born on April 18, 1784, in Wilmot Township, NS, died on March 3, 1871, and was buried in New Milford Cemetery,

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. Enoch was a direct descendant of one of

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'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

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and was evacuated with his Quaker family, about 1784, to the

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, Nova Scotia where his father, Samuel Moore, became a leader in the Quaker community. He moved to

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about 1811, where he served as a dispatch rider in the Canadian militia during the

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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

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, during the

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. 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

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, then reprieved on May 19, 1838. Hundreds of his neighbours signed the petition for clemency in the case of Enoch, his brother

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, and neighbour Harvey Bryant. His sentence was first commuted to

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to a

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) for life, and then relaxed to 14 years of penal servitude but he was eventually pardoned and released on a

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Read, C., p.152 on Oct. 5, 1838. His brother,

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, was released after a short stay in jail because the key witness absconded. Elias then returned to his seat in the

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. Around this same time, Enoch's younger brother,

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was founding an Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, N.Y.. Enoch and his wife and nine of their 11 children

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in July 1840, settling in

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. Moore 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.

References

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