Moore, Enoch

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Moore_(loyalist_turned_rebel)
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Enoch Moore (April 16, 1779– August 1841) was involved in political matters in British North America, and was convicted of high treason and sentenced to hang. His sentence was first commuted to transport to Van Diemen’s Land, and then to parole. He eventually returned to, and died in, the United States of America.
    • Moore was the 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.
    • Even though he was raised in a Loyalist and Quaker home, Moore was elected Captain of the rebels at Malahide, Ontario, during the Rebellions of 1837. Moore 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 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.
  • Son of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=5971
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