Abigail Mott

Abigail Lydia Mott was born on August 6, 1795, in Cow Bay, Long Island, New York.

She attended the Nine Partners Boarding School in what is now Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York, which was started by her grandfather James Mott and run by the Society of Friends.

[2] Mott married Lindley Murray Moore on August 19, 1813[2] and moved that year to Rahway, New Jersey.

[3] Their son Edward Mott Moore, who became a physician, was born on July 15, 1814, in Rahway, New Jersey.

[7] The following year, they bought a farm and built a two-story Greek Revival style house on it.

[9] While teaching at the Boarding School, Abigail met and fell in love with fellow teacher, Lindley Murray Moore.

[12] Mott and her husband, Lindley Murray Moore, operated a Quaker school in Rahway, New Jersey, for several years.

[2] In 1815, they operated a school on Pearl Street in New York City that was administered by the Friends Monthly Meeting.

By 1820, salary cuts forced Abigail and Lindley to move on and open a boarding school for boys first in Flushing, and then in Westchester Village, New York.