Moore, Jeremiah

  • Quakers who were U.E. Loyalists by: Randy Saylor @ https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~saylormowbray/genealogy/quakerloyalists.pdf
  • BIRTH 22 APRIL 1745 OR 22 JUNE • Sadsbury Meeting House, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  • DEATH 18 MARCH 1813 • Pelham Twp., Welland Co, Ontario, Canada
  • The transcriptions have allowed us to better understand why this Quaker/Loyalist issue came before the very first meeting of Canada Half Yearly Meeting in 1810.
  • In 1803, Jeremiah Moore Junior of Pelham is 24 years of age, petitions successfully for a grant of 200 acres as a settler. He states that he is the son of Jeremiah Moore Senr of Pelham who has been in Upper Canada for 14 years and has a wife and 10 children. There are two affidavits of support, one of them saying he came with his father about the year 1788. He receives a grant and he will pay the patent fees. This is a grant as a settler and not a Loyalist grant. Jeremiah Moore Senior was a Quaker in good standing at Pelham Meeting and in 8 month 1809 a complaint came forward about his having accepted a land grant as a Loyalist.
  • One of the overseers informed this meting that it appears that Jeramiah Moore has exceped a tract of land under the name of a UE Which we beleive to be inconsistant whit our profession[.] William Shotwell and Samuel Taylor are app inted to attend the monthly meting whith this report.
  • This follows a petition that Jeremiah Moore Senior made on 17 Nov 1808 asking the Lieutenant Governor to “Order his name to be inserted on the U.E. List, in order that his children may partake on His majesty’s most generous bounty, presumes that he is now considered as a UE Loyalist that Your excellency will take his services into consideration and grant him 200 acres … [signed] Jeremiah Moore Senr.”
  • There are a number of pages to the petition that give more detail. On 27 Oct 1808, Jeremiah Senior states that he lived in Pennsylvania during the American War “and had it often in his power to be useful to His Majestys faithful subjects in exile, to Prisoners, and to exprisoners and other parties passing secretly through the Country. Although from religious scruples he did not take up arms, he was always faithful to His King and more useful to his fellow subjects and sufferers than he could have been within the British Lines, till the year 1788 he did join the Kings Standard at Niagara with a wife and 5 sons and 3 daughter has since had 3 children born to him in this Province … Prays … to allow his name to be inserted on the U.E. List.”
  • Proven Loyalist in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=5966
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52861843/jeremiah-solomon-moore