WASHINGTON ARMY LODGE NO. 10
WILLIAM MOORE (OM) b. at Oxford, MA, 16 Jun 1752; d. there 6 Aug 1819; son of Richard and Mary (Learned) Moore; filed his m.int. at Oxford 10 Jun 1784 to Martha ‘Patty’ Campbell, b. at Oxford, MA, 5 Feb 1765; d. Beloit, Wisc., 26 Sep 1845; d/o Duncan and Elizabeth (Stearns) Campbell of Oxford.
William was a 2nd Lt, 3rd Continental Infantry, 1 Jan-31 Dec 1776; 1st Lt, 4th Mass., 1 Jan 1777; Captain, 15 Jun 1779, and served to 3 Jun 1783. After the war he returned to Oxford, but removed to Putney, VT, in the late 1790s, as we find him there with his family in the 1800 United States Census: one son under 10; one daughter under 10; two daughters between 10 and 16; and his wife. He subsequently returned to Oxford, but she did not, going to Canada to live with her daughter, Elizabeth Goodhue. Captain Moore was termed ‘Esquire’ in a legal deposition in 1817 in Oxford. William was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 3 Apr 1797, and he applied for
a Soldiers’ pension 10 Apr 1818. His widow applied for a pension 10 Jan 1839 from Orleans Co., VT, but lived at Sherbrooke in the Prov. Of Lower Canada aged about 73, in 1843 in Beloit. William was an Original Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati from 1783 until 1819. His obituary appeared in the Columbian Centinel 14 Aug 1819.
Children, born in Oxford (unless otherwise noted):
i. Polly, b. at Worcester, MA, 08 Sep 1784, d. young.
ii. Sophia, b. 29 Mar 1786; m. Rufus Russell
iii. Elizabeth Stearns, b. 08 May 1787; m. at Putney, VT, 1 Feb 1810 Charles Frederick Henry Goodhue of Sherbrooke, Que.,
Canada, a member of the Canadian Parliament.
iv. Clarissa Harlow, b. 11 Nov 1791; m. int. was filed at New Braintree, MA, 1 Jun 1823 to Col. Samuel Mixter.
v. Tyler Henry, b. 3 May 1795
