Samuel Moore (Quaker leader)

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,[1] and flee to New York in 1777.

"[3] In 1786 and 1787, Samuel hosted his brother, Joseph, and his Quaker companions who had collected donations in the United States for the poor of Nova Scotia, Canada.

When Joseph Hoag, the well-known Quaker preacher from New York and New England, visited the Canadian Maritimes in 1801 and 1802, he stayed with Moore's family, and took Samuel with him on his journeys.

"[6] Hoag recorded that when he became quite sick, he convalesced at the Moore home for the first three months of 1802, and "was brought near the grave" but did recover and returned to the United States on April 23 of that year.

Samuel had sold considerable holdings in Nova Scotia, and was able to purchase about 10 farms across southwestern Upper Canada from St. Thomas to Simcoe, Ontario.

His brother, Joseph, was a Quaker minister who was part of a group sent to facilitate the peace treaty talks at Sandusky, Ohio in 1793 between the United States and the Western Confederacy.