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From: "Lawrence Gordon More" <>
Subject: Re: Quaker Migration Patterns/Quaker Affiliation (More/Moore)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:56:19 -0600


In trying to find the ancestors of my great great grand father James Wiley
More, b. 1824 in Esopus, Ulster County, NY. I discovered from an obituary
of his wife that he was from the Friends church in Esopus. Off to the
library I went, to find the history of Ulster county. The History book
stated that southern Ulster county was settled by the Religious Society of
Friends from Long Island, and Westchester county. Edward Hallock, of
Chatauqua, Long Island, bieng the first, settling on a farm a mile or two
south of what is now Milton, in 1760. The nearest MH, was Nine Partners, in
what is now Dutches county, origianly part of Ulster, but none the less a
few miles away. The first convert(?) was said to be David Sands ( Later
read acounts the he was a travling minister with the Society) who was said
to be a staunch Prysbeterian. And at the time Edward is said to have held
meeting in his home. It's some 35 to 40 years later before land is set
aside from Nine Partners for another meeting house, at New Marlborough (now
Milton) and in 1793, the meetings held at Cornwall (Edward Hallock's home)
purchased land at Platkill, then in the town of Marlborough. So within a
few years there's a half a dozen, meeting houses. So what happened in the
first 35 years, they met in peoples homes, making it to Nine Partners when
they could, and David Sands the Friends traveling preacher is taken as a
staunch Prysbeterian. The Friends on the East side of the Hudson have an
even rougher time getting to Nine Partners, and in the mean time there's a
revolution to boot, with all kinds of soldiers marching up and down the
banks shooting the place up. Esopus was burnt to the ground. Some where
around 1815 there looks to be a Quaker explosion in the area, and by 1830
or so there's a half dozen meeting house's built. Most likely they were
already there and in larger numbers than apeared on the surface, at least
from what I've read of the wills of the Friends that originally purchased
the land. Sure enough, I got curious and traced the trustee's apointed to
purchase the different meeting house's, and they were Friends from Long
Island, and Westchester County, who's ancestors had purchased the land some
time earler. I guess what this leads to is the meetings held, in Mr. Thorn
or Mr. Wright's kitchen don't always have the best of records and are more
often kept in the family Bible than at the Monthly Meeting house. Just a
thought.
Oh by the way still searching for the Parrents of James Wiley More
[chuckle]
Larry More

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