Moore, Elias

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  • Wiki Biography:
    • Elias Moore (March 1, 1776 – October 13, 1847) was a Loyalist politician in Upper Canada. Born into a Quaker family in New Jersey just after the American Revolution began, he and his family eventually emigrated to Upper Canada. He later became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, and he is notable for being one of the first Quakers to take an elected seat in Canada.
    • His family was traumatised “by the persecution Quakers suffered for their neutral stand during the American Revolution,” and they soon moved to a Loyalist refugee camp in New York City. They then evacuated  about 1784, to the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia where his father, Samuel, became a leader in the Quaker Community.
    • As a young adult, Moore returned to his home state of New Jersey, and his family followed later. His family had deep roots there, an ancestor, Samuel Moore having held many offices in the early colony of East Jersey right after it had been settled in the 1660s.
    • In 1834, Moore and Thomas Parke, a Wesleyan Methodist from London, won the two seats in the Middlesex riding for the Reformers in the 12th Parliament of Upper Canada. Moore was one of the first Quakers in the Canada to take a seat in an elected house of government. Before 1833, Quakers were not allowed to hold office because they would not swear the oath required by law from elected members before they could take their seats.
    • But the rebellion miscarried when the rebels disbanded and fled. Many were arrested and rewards were offered for the capture of their leader Dr. Charles Duncombe, plus David Anderson, Joshua Doan and others.  He was also arrested for treason but, as the witness absconded, he was not tried.
  • Son of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=5971
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