Enoch Moore, 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, Nova Scotia.
Background
Elizabeth was born on April 18, 1784 in Wilmot Township, Nova Scotia, died on March 3, 1871 and was buried in New Milford Cemetery, Winnebago Company, Illinois. Enoch was a direct descendant of one of New Jersey"s early colonial officials, Samuel Moore. He was born in a Loyalist refugee camp in New York City and was evacuated with his Quaker family, about 1784, to the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia where his father, Samuel Moore, became a leader in the Quaker community.
Career
Enoch"s political alignment seemed to swing from one extreme to the other throughout his lifetime. He moved to Upper Canada about 1811, where he served as a dispatch rider in the Canadian militia during the War of 1812 against the Americans. His commanding officer was Colonel
Joseph Ryerson.
By 1830, Enoch Moore, had gained the respectable status of school trustee. Enoch"s first son, James Moore, is buried beside Colonel 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 Malahide, Ontario during the Rebellions of 1837.
Court records show that Enoch was arrested and jailed in London on December 21, 1837, convicted of high treason, sentenced to death, then reprieved on May 19, 1838.
His sentence was first commuted to transportation to a penal colony on Van Diemen"s Land (Tasmania) for life, and then relaxed to 14 years of penal servitude but he was eventually pardoned and released on a peace bond on October 5, 1838. Elias then returned to his seat in the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada.
Around this same time, Enoch"s younger brother, Lindley Murray Moore was founding an Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York
Enoch died the next year in Rockford.