Enoch Moore
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Enoch Moore (16 April 1779 in New York City – August 1840, likely at Rockford, Illinois) was a landowner and captain of the rebels during the Farmer’s Revolt of 1837. Enoch married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of James Smith and Hannah Hawksworth, on 30 March 1803.
He was born in a Loyalist refugee camp in New York City, during the American Revolution, and was evacuated with his family, about 1784, to Annapolis, Nova Scotia. He moved to Upper Canada about 1811, and started to amass land along the northern shore of Lake Erie. Enoch's first petition for land was based on his service in the 1812-14 War with the Americans. It says, "On the basis of this petition, he was awarded a grant of 'one hundred acres.'" Records also show that he owned 300 acres in Malahide Township and 200 acres in Charlotteville Township.
During the Farmer’s Revolt of 1837, commonly associated with the rebellion led by William Lyon Mackenzie, Enoch was elected Captain of the rebels at Malahide, Ontario. Records from the Court of Law, 21 December 1837, London, Ontario 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, sentenced commuted to transportation to Van Dieman's Land for life, then fourteen years of penal servitude but he was eventually pardoned and released on bail October 5, 1838. He was in jail from December 21, 1837 until October 5, 1838. He and his wife and nine of their 11 children emigrated in July 1840, to Ogle County, Illinois where he died soon after arrival.
