- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Moore_(Quaker_leader)
- Wiki Biography:
- Samuel Moore (1742–1822) is notable as a leader in the early establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Maritime Canada, and as the progenitor of a number of civic, religious and political leaders in both Canada and the United States.
- As a Quaker, Moore would not join the armed struggles during the American Revolution, and he was forced to leave his Woodbridge, New Jersey home, and flee to New York in 1777. In his deposition to the British-appointed Claims Commission in 1786 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, he testified that he had been imprisoned several times for refusing to assist the rebels. His house and land were confiscated in 1779, and with his wife and 9 children, he was evacuated by the British to Wilmot Township in Nova Scotia. Moore became a leader in the Quaker fellowship there.
- The annalist, Ambrose Shotwell, verifies that Samuel was both a Loyalist and a Quaker.
- Though Quakers and Loyalists, his family became active in the agitation against the Family Compact, a group of elite landholders in Upper Canada. A number of his sons, notably Enoch and John, and grandsons were arrested for their part in the Rebellions of 1837. “All did everything they could, short of taking up arms themselves, to aid the rebel cause, providing an example to rival the Malcolms, of a Loyalist family abetting rebellion.”
- When he died in 1822, Moore’s grave was one of the first in the Quaker Burying Ground on the northwest edge of what is now Norwich, Ontario.
- United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=5971
- Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93641955/samuel-moore
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