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Note: amed Libby, and a story my second cousin Dorothy told suggests there were female Moore relatives around in Dauphin County - or maybe even in Philadelphia. Something about an odd way Bessie Mae's sister Nellie, probably about two years younger than Bessie Mae form family photos, was dressed and sent out as a teenager; the family were in Philadelphia by 1908 and probably in the area, maybe in Drexil HIll or Upper Darby, nearby suburbs in Delaware County, earlier. But it sounds like the story took place in Dauphin County, because the story contains several references to Dehart cousins also being around, as well as proximity to a house in Steelton. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885. Thomas Moore, married, b abt 1823 Pennsylvania, age 57, died Apr 1880 of pneumonia, census year 1880, census place Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, Enumberation District 81, line 13. He worked in a rolling mill. He had been a resident of Dauphin County for 16 years, since 1864. Attending doctor was Dr. Hamilton. Parents: Charles Moore's death certificate gives his birth date, says he was born in Pennsylvania, and names his father as Thomas M. Moore. In 1880 census, Eve Moore age 75, b abt 1805, married, wife Thomas Moore, both her parents b Pennsylvania. Noone lived with them. Thomas listed as 66. This appears to be Eve Moore b abt 1805 in 1850 census, lived in Middletown, Dauphin, PA, married to Thomas Moore, ten years younger, had Ann Catharine age 7. -- MERGED NOTE ------------ 1850 census shows Thomas Moore family in Lower Oxford Township, Chester County, PA. Farmer, worth $800. Thomas M. Moore. 30. Wife Emeline, 22, mother in law Elizabeth Riker, Rikere or Rikers, 60, b New York (I recall Riker, Ancestry.com finds Riker). Son William, infant. 7 months. People who saw it transcribed the mother in law as Rikere or Rikers but the little loop at the end of the last letter, which does look exactly like his e's, is at the end of every word the census taker wrote. John Moore Lower Oxford township John Quin 1821 S-3 Wife Jean S-3 218 seller (grantor) deed John Gray 1802 Y-3 185 Buyer (Grantee) James Kennedy 1806 G-3 36 Archibald McKissack 1806 G-3 36 Mechanic's lien Thomas Moore stone cutters 11/6/1847 100 (JOhn Moore as well) Thomas Moore West Chester 2/5/1847 24 This MOORE family was on the preceeding image:1850 US CENSUSLower Oxford Twp, Chester County, PennsylvaniaSeries: M432 Roll: 764 Page: 58a Image: 11August 29, 1850 DWELLING 243/FAMILY 250MOORE, Isaac, 40, male, forgeman, PAMOORE, Rachel, 31, female, PAMOORE, Mary I. or J.?, 14, female, PA MOORE, Harriot, 11, female, PAMOORE, Ain?/Ann? E., 8, female, PAMOORE, John M., 4, male, PAMOORE, Margaret C., 3, female, PAMOORE, William E., 5/12 [5 months], male, PARAYBURN, Catherine, 45, female, PA 1860 census, they moved. Conestoga township, Lancaster County. A laborer, with no real estate, adn personal property worth $75. Thomas Moore, 35, m, w, laborer, PA Emaline Moore 29, f, w, Maryland. William G? or S Moore, 12, Maryland. Elizabeth Moore, 7, Maryland. Francis Moore, M, 6, Maryland. Ida Moore, 4, Maryland. Charles Moore, 11 mos, Pennsylvania. Most people for pages around the Moores were headed by "laborers". There were two furnace men, and a wagon maker. Safe Harbor, in Conastoga Township, was "a largely immigrant company town tethered to the Safe Harbor Iron Works, which sprawled across both sides of the Conestoga River from the mid to late 19th century." The iron works started out producing rails for the thriving Pennsylvania Railroad. During the civil War it switched to producing naval and ground cannons for Union Forces. Several weeks before Lee's surrender in 1865, a devastating flood wiped out facilities on canals along the Conestoga and Susquehanna rivers. Without the plant's lifeline for supplies and shipping of goods, the plant withered. The plant opened for brief intervals by the Phoenix Iron Co until 1883. The village's houses were heavily damaged by a 1904 ice jam and flood. The remains were sold for scrap material for $30 apiece in 1913. In its prime the plant hummed with 250 workers and perhaps 500 lived in the village. By 1851, Safe Harbor was known as one of the "booziest" towns anywhere in the county. It had five taverns, three liquor stores and six beer halls. I suspect these kids may have been born in Pennsylvania. The 1860 census shows a second Thomas M. Moore, age 34, farmer, in Upper Uchlan. Seems to ahve been far more successful. Real estate worth $10,000, and $2000 in personal property. Wife Cahrity, children Stephen T, Francis R (5), William A (2), a farm laborer and a servant. i860 it says all the children but Charles were born in Maryland, though they lived in PA between births of William L/T an dElizabeth. 1870 census July 11, 1870, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, Ward 1, p 126 b (186th district) Thomas More age 43, Laborer, PA Emeline More age 43, PA William age 26 b PA Elizabeth 18 PA Franklin 15 b PA Mariah 11 b PA Charley/ Charles 10 b PA 1850 census Thomas M Moore 30 farmer property worth $800 Emeline 22 William P or S looks like S. 7 months census enumerated 30th August 1850 born abt Jan. 1850 Elizabeth Riker 60 b NY Sampson and Ruth Moore of East Nottingham - from poor children's list Children of Sampson Moore:Mary Ann b. about 1816William b. about 1818, married Eliza Ferguson.Rachel b. about 1819Thomas b. about 1820Sampson b. about 1823 Susan b. about 1825Phebe b. 1828, married Jacob Foulkrod. b 27 Jul 1827 Lower Oxford PA, according to Ancestry, died PA, Somerset, 24 Aug 1894, named her one daughter Susan (Sissie). A Thomas Moore, born Penna, parents born PA, age 57, worked with rolling mill, died in April 1880, of pneumonia, resident of county 16 years, in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA. U.S. Federal census mortality schedules. Samson Moore lived in 1789 in East Nottingham, Chester, PA, and in 1820. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6692620/person/764907252 Ancestry tree Samson Moore, b 1780, East Nottingham, Chester Co, PA, died abt 1875 in East Nottingham, Chester Co, PA. Father John Moore b 1755. Father of William G. Moore, b abt 1820 in Chester Co PA, death 1885 in Lenawee Co MI, who married Eliza Ferguson. Wife Ruth b abt 1785, died 1835, East Nottingham, Chester Co, PA Sampson Moore served in the War of 1812, with Capt Collins Co, PA Vols, as a private. There is also an application card; soldier Samuel Moore, widow Ruth Moore. Pvt Capt Thos Collins Co. PA Mil. So Sampson was Samuel. His widow, Ruth, applied for a pension for his service in the War of 1812. East Nottingham rate. 1789. Sampson Moore. 35 Acres w builds? at 6 pounds? 2 horses, 2 cattle, 4 sheep? 3-6 on land and buildings, 3-3 on animals. 1830 U.S. Federal Census. East Nottingham, Chester, PA. 1 M < 5 1 M 10-14 1 M 40-49 (b 1780 - 1789) 1 F 5-9 1 F < 5 1 F 10-14 1 F 15-19 1 F 20-29 1 F 30-39. Sampson Moore died May 11, 1875, h/o Ruth Moore, died 95 Years of age, buried Nottingham Cemetery, Chester County, PA. (born 1780) Ruth Moore is buried in the same place, and she died in 1835. Birth unknown. Another Ancestry tree; Ruth L 1785- 1835. I am finding wildly contradictory information on this person, in the original source material as well as in Ancestry trees, where people have posted more contradictory source information. There was a Sampson Moore and wife Ruth, whose children made it into the poor childrens’ list for East Nottingham, somehow, somewhen. I just posted on that. They had seven children born between 1816 and 1828. I don’t know if children could have continued to be born to this family after 1828 or not. I ‘ve no clue what is the date when they appear in the poor children’s list. I have Sampson Moore, born about 1780, in East Nottingham, of East Nottingham, died in 1875 in East Nottingham and is buried there, and his wife, Ruth, died in 1835. In Find a grave, it says he is listed as the husband of Ruth, which strongly suggests he did not remarry. I have another Sampson Moore of East Nottingham. He served in the War of 1812. Three documents on this are attached to ancestry trees. His widow, Ruth, applied for a widow’s pension based on his service. No date appears on any of the three documents, except the record of his war service. Now, first of all, he didn’t serve in the War of 1812 if he was born after 1800, not even in that time. Actually the record is of SAMUEL Moore, widow Ruth Moore. Then tehere is an application card that says he was a private in Capt Thos Collins Co, PA Mil. Then ther eis the service record, that says Samuel Moore was with Capt Collins Co, Pennsylvania Vols, Private Nothing says this Samuel was from West Nottingham. So I’m thinking that likely this was a different person. Ancestry trees are copying each other on the belief that Sampson’s father was John Moore b 1755, no other details provided. All trees list one of two of the children of Sampson and Ruth Moore who appear in the list above, complete with the same spouses. (However a poor law list was able to tell us who the children ultimately marry... seems like maybe not all the information came from that document) It seems however that the ages of the Sampson Moores who appear in the census don’t add up. To be sure I thought there was a Sampson Moore who appeared in East Nottingham in the 1789 census, which wouldn’t be the 1790 census, and it isn’t possible if he was born in 1780. However, Sampson Moore first makes his appearance in 1820, after John finishes bouncing in and out of the picture (with the name Phebe that appears later in this family sometimes taking John’s place). Oh, I know why I’m confused – Ancestry turned up an East Nottingham rate, and says it’s from 1789. East Nottingham rate. 1789. Sampson Moore. 35 Acres w builds? at 6 pounds? 2 horses, 2 cattle, 4 sheep? 3-6 on land and buildings, 3-3 on animals. So Sampson born 1780 would have been 9 years old in 1789. ?????????? Now, this Sampson was a landowner, with 35 acres and 4 times as many animals as my ancestor John Smith ever had. He should turn up in the census. Unless he happened to die between 1789 and 1790, and John was his son. Sampson Moore, East Nottingham, 1830 census. 1 M <5 1 M 10-14 1 M 40-49 1 F <5 1 F 5-9 1 F 10-14 1 F 15-19 1 F 20-29 1 F 30-39 1820 Census. 2 M < 10 1 M 26-44 2 F <10 1 F 16-25 1790 Census Phebe Moore (this name seems to run in that family), living in East Nottingham and the only one found there. 1 M >16 2 F 1800 two entries for John Moore of East Nottingham. 2 M < 10 1 M 26-44 2 F < 10 2 F 16-25 1 F 26-44. 3 M < 10 1 M 16-25 1 M >45 1 F <10 2 F 10-15 1 F 26-44 1810 John Moore, Lower Oxford. 2 M <10 1 M 16-25 1 M 26-44 1 M >45 4 F < 10 2 F 10-15 1 F 26-44 Now, perhaps searching the PA Tax and Exoneration records 1768 – 1801 records for Moores of East Nottingham sheds light. Lampson Moore, 1768. East Nottingham. (It’s Sampson.) 60 A __Buildings - 3-7 2 horses, 2 cattle, 6 sheep 3-6 This record was transcribed twice or indexed under more than one name – Samson. John Moore, 1779. East Nottingham. 50 acres, 2 horses, 3 cattle, 9 sheep. Value 626, tax 17. John Moore, 1781. 100 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows. David Moore 1786. 8 acres, tax 8? John Moore 1786 John Moore 1786 he is listed 3 x in 1786 and Phebe once. Never for much land. 1789 Sampson/ Samson Moore entry, and that’ s it for East Nottingham. No Moores appear in these records in Lower Oxford. A Sampson Moore had a land warrant, East Nottiingham, 23 May 1770, for 60 acres. Some sort of reconstructed U.S. census record - Samson Moore, East Nottingham, Chester County, 50 acres, 2 horses, 2 cattle, 2 sheep, no servants. . In Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chester County, PA, landowners of 1774 include Sampson Moore. ---------------------------------- William Moore b 1695 Ireland, died 1732 Maryland. Married Ann. Son Sampson Moore b abt 1720 Cecil Co, MD, died 1777 East Nottingham, Chester County, PA. Married Phebe Gray. Son William Moore b 15 Feb 1758 Cecil Co died 19 May 1823 Union Co Luzerene, PA. Son John b 1716 died 1730 Son James b 1718. Samson and Phebe had Mary Moore b 1756 William Moore 1758 - 1823 - farmer and schoolmaster. Married Dorcas Kerr. By 1820 he lived in Union, Luzerene, PAp was formerly in Cecil Co MD. John Moore 1760 - Chester County formerly Cecil Co. He was born 15 Feb 1758. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Chester County Poor School Childrens Records Index 1810 - 1842. "An Act to provide for the education of the poor gratis" was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1809. The act required the commissioners of each county to direct the assessors of each township to receive from the parents the names of all children between the ages of 5 and 12, who reside in the township, and whose parents were unable to pay for their schooling. Moore Lower Oxford. Sally A. (10), David (8), Katina (6). 1823. Book 1816-1825. P 284. Moore Lower Oxford David (11), Hugh (7). 1827. 1826-1829. Moore. Lower Oxford. William (10), Rachel (8), Thomas (6). 1827. 1826 - 1829. Moore. East Nottingham. William (10) Rachel (8) Thomas (6). Moore. East Nottingham. Thomas, Sampson. 1832. 1832. p 57. Moore. East Nottingham. Susan (7). 1832. 1832. p 57. Moore. East Nottingham. Susan, Phebe. 1833. 1833. 56. Moore. Lower Oxford. Susan, Phebe. 1834. 1834-1836. Moore Mayr Lowe Oxford Keziah (10) 1835 134-1836 Moore Mary Ann Lower Oxford David (10), Sarah Ann (12), Catherine (8) 1825 1816-1825 Moore Mary Ann Lower Oxford Darah Ann 913), Hugh (7), David (11). 1826. 1826-1829. Moore, Mary Ann Lower Oxford. Hugh (8) 8128 1826-1829. Moore, Mary Ann Lower Oxford. Hugh (9) 1829 1826-9 Moore Sampson. East Nottingham. Mary Ann (7), William (6). 1823. 1816-1825. 281. Moore, Sampson. Lower Oxford. Rachel (5), William (7) Moore Sampson Lower Oxford. William (9), Rachel (7), Thomas 6). 8126. 1826-1829. Moore Sampson. Lower Oxford. Susan (10), Phebe (8), 1835, 1834-1836. Moore Sampson. Lower Oxford. Susan (11), Phbebe (9) 1836. Tax Only. Moore Samson. East Nottingham. Mary Ann, William. 1822. 1826 - 1825. 259. Moore Samson Lower Oxford. Mary Ann (9) William (8), Racel (6) 1825 1816-1825. 339. Moore Samson. East Nottingham. Rachel (9), Thomas (7). 1829. 1826 - 1829. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Safe Harbor was laid out and built at the time of the erection of the iron-works at that place, though quite a number of houses had been put up there prior to that time. During the continuance of the operation of the iron-works it was the principal centre of population, but at present the greater part of the houses are unoccupied. It contains one furnace, one rolling-mill, one foundry, two stores, one drug-store, one school-house, one church, two hotels, and a postoffice. For the next 100 years the Township was subdivided as the large plantations were cut into smaller tracts to accommodate growing families. The iron industry came to the Township in 1846 when the Iron Works was built in the village of Safe Harbor. The T-shape rail was the principal produce of the mill. cluding a woolen factor near Safe Harbor, match factory in Safe Harbor, Safe Harbor's trail of history Lancaster New Era Updated Feb 19, 2007 15:40 Originally Published Sep 14, 2004 13:33 By Ad Crable Opened without fanfare in 1997, the easy-walking, dirt trail through open fields and returning woods passes through what was once the bustling river town of Safe Harbor. This isn’t the current Safe Harbor Village comprised of the 21 homes built in the 1930s when the Safe Harbor hydroelectric dam was built. Rather, it’s the ghost town of the largely immigrant company town tethered to the Safe Harbor Iron Works, which sprawled across both sides of the Conestoga River from the mid to late 19th century. Some 70 homes, mostly double houses, were built in 1846 along arrow-straight streets such as Walnut, Cedar, Spring, Griffin, Willow and Race. The trail starts from the parking lot at Safe Harbor Reservation Park at a stone monument. The tennis courts to your left are where the one-acre rolling mill once stood. Begin walking uphill on what was Cedar Street. There’s nothing here now but lush grass sprinkled with looming trees that were planted around the homes. It’s now an arboretum with 50 kinds of trees and shrubs. Unfortunately, many of the identifying labels are gone. Soon, the blue and white trail markers on trees instruct you to turn sharply left. There, on a facing hill is the breathtaking ironmaster’s house, a huge stone mansion wonderfully restored by its current owners. The home dates to at least 1725 and the stone work was crafted by Benjamin Eshelman, an early Mennonite settler. You are now walking along a stone wall that once fronted Spring Street, the village’s main thoroughfare. Look carefully for the old stone foundations of one of the double houses that included a chimney in the center that could be used for heating and cooking by families on both sides of the house. These houses were occupied by Irish “puddlers,” the nickname for the men who worked in sultry conditions to convert molten pig iron into malleable iron. The Philadelphia company that built the iron works journeyed to Ireland, in the midst of its devastating potato famine, and had little trouble recruiting puddlers. “They were very, very dedicated to the company that brought them over,” remarks Louis Gable, of Silver Spring, a member of the Safe Harbor Citizens’ Advisory Committee and perhaps the man most responsible for building and maintaining the trail. The iron works started out producing rails for the thriving Pennsylvania Railroad. During the Civil War, it switched to producing naval and ground cannons for Union forces. Several weeks before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in 1865, a devastating flood wiped out facilities on canals along the Conestoga and Susquehanna rivers. Without the plant’s lifeline for supplies and shipping of goods, the plant withered. The plant opened for brief intervals by the Phoenix Iron Co. until 1883. It was later converted to a match factory and housed the machine shop and air compressor station for the contractor that built the Enola Low Grade Line from 1903 to 1907. All the buildings were razed about 1907. The village’s houses were heavily damaged by a 1904 ice jam and flood. The remains were sold for scrap material for $30 apiece in 1913. But in its prime, the plant hummed with 250 workers and perhaps 500 lived in the village. By 1851, Safe Harbor was known as one of the “booziest” towns anywhere in the county. It had five taverns, three liquor stores and six beer halls. Imagine the clamor of a payday night as you continue on the trail to the handsome Odd Fellows Hall, among the handful of buildings still standing from those rollicking days. The Charles M. Howell Masonic Lodge was founded here with members meeting on the third floor until moving to the club’s current site in Millersville in 1899. Near the building is the Safe Harbor Independent School, now a home. Continue on the trail into the woods, watching out for cobwebs — unless you like eating gossamer, a very nutritious treat. Depressions off to each side mark the sites of former homes, now sprouting arching trees and tangled with multiflora rose. To the right was the original school, built in 1850. Only a few foundation stones remain left amid the weeds. Near the top of a hill the woods opens to a clearing. Here — the highlight of the trail for me — stood St. Mary’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Atop a pedestal of stones salvaged from the walls of the church is a circa 1955 picture of the church, abandoned but still standing, including the arched apse of the altar. The church was built by the Irish puddlers and served the workers and their families from 1853 to 1883, when the parish had shrunk to fewer than a dozen. Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/8466_Safe-Harbor-s-trail-of-history.html#ixzz2hdUpg1dX --------------------------- Chester County currently identifies the date of origin for East and West Nottingham Townships as 1718 based solely on their first appearance in the tax lists (County archivist). It appears that something occurred at the May 27,1718 meeting of the Quarter Session of Chester County calling for Nottingham Township to be divided in East and West. Based upon this evidence, the members of the East Nottingham Township Historical Commission proposed to the Supervisors of East Nottingham Township that they officially adopt the date of May 27, 1718 as East Nottingham Township’s date of establishment and separation from Nottingham Township established circa February 28,1716. On May 10, 2005 The East Nottingham Township Board of Supervisors adopted May 27,1718 as the date of Establishment for the township. Records of the Quarter Session of Chester County List of Constables appointed leading up to East Nottingham Township’s formation 1714-1723 Compiled by Ralph Denlinger April 2005 It appears that the Nottinghams were first under jurisdiction from Kennett and then New Garden. West Nottingham was centered at that time on the Quaker meeting not far from Rising Sun, Md. and East Nottingham was centered on the area around Brick Meeting House at Calvert, Md. Most, if not all, of the Nottingham constables listed below were residents of what would now be Maryland. It is named after Nottinghamshire, England.[1] The township was originally disputed territory between Pennsylvania and Maryland, resolved eventually by the Mason-Dixon Line.[2] Half of the current township also formed part of the northern section of Susquehanna Manor later known as New Connaught, a large settlement tract established by Maryland and named after the western province of Connacht in Ireland that courted Irish settlement into the area.[3] [4]The dispute led to heavy Quaker and Scotch-Irish settlement of the area.[5] From History of Cecil County, Maryland: Talbot extended his manor 3/4 of a mile up the Octoraro, or 5 1/4 miles north of the current state line. Susquehanna or New Connaught Manor now included about 1/2 of the Fifth, all of the 6th, and 7th, and nearly all of hte 9th districts of Cecil County, and all of West Nottingham, about 1/2 of East Nottingham, and 1/3 of Lower Oxford township, in Chester County. n 1833 a portion of East Nottingham was taken to form Oxford borough, and in 1853 Hopewell borough was partly taken from it. In 1857 it was still further reduced by the formation of Elk township In 1774, Sampson Moore was a landowner in East Nottingham. The Hopewell Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1] The township is named after Oxford, England.[2] The township was also acted as an early genesis point and catalyst for large Irish and especially Scotch-Irish settlement and expansion into Chester County and points west in Pennsylvania. [3][4][5] Part of the township was originally disputed territory between Pennsylvania and Maryland, resolved eventually by the Mason-Dixon Line. One third of the township formed part of the northern section of Susquehanna Manor later known as New Connaught, a large settlement tract established by Maryland and named after the western province of Connacht in Ireland that courted Irish settlement into the area.[6] The township was also originally part of neighboring Londonderry Township, named after Derry/ Londonderry, Ireland, and settled by Irish (primarily Scotch-Irish) settlers entering Pennsylvania.[7][8] ====================== Chester County Deeds Index 1820-1855. Moore, Thomas M. spouse Eveline. Lower Oxford. sold to Abner D. Campbell. O-5, page 415, year 1852. Moore, Thomas M. spouse Charity Ann. Uwchlan. Sold to Jonathan Evans. 1854. x-5. p 29. seller (grantor). Moore, Thomas. Uwchlan. bought from James G Buffington. 1852. Q-5, 191.
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