In 1783, a group of seafaring men from Massachusetts and Rhode Island were seeking a safe harbor for their vessels because of attacks by the British Navy during and after the American Revolution. When they saw Claverack Landing with its high bluffs, deep waters, and two bays, they appointed a committee which proceeded to buy large tracts of land, much more extensive than what is now Hudson. They purchased the land in the spring of 1783. By the Fall, two families had arrived. In the spring of 1784, more families arrived, some with houses which had been prefabricated in Nantucket.
This group, numbering no more than thirty, called themselves the Proprietors. A sizable number of these individuals were Quakers. They made a pact that bound each individual to settle here personally or sell his holdings to the others "at first cost, without interest". They established rules and regulations and laid out the City on a grid pattern, with lots 50 x 120 feet. Gangways, twenty feet wide were laid out between long streets. In 1785, the City of Hudson became the third chartered city in the state of New York.
Reuben H. Moores, a captain by seafaring profession and not military rank, was among the original settlers of Hudson, a founding member of the Masonic Lodge (Hudson Lodge No. 7, Ancient & Honorable Fraternity of Free & Accepted Masons, originally chartered in 1787, cornerstone at Union and Third Streets laid in 1795) and a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, or more commonly (but originally derisively), Quaker. (1)
As Quakers were unable to bear arms, he never served in the American Revolution, and was still living on the island of Nantucket until 1772, when at age 8, he moved with his Quaker parents to the community surrounding the Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook, Dutchess Co., New York.
Ever since an erroneous 1974 DAR patriot transcript of the Hudson City Cemetery (followed by a 1988 publication by Patricia Law Hatcher), his gravestone is often mistakenly cited as that of the American Revolutionary War Drummer/Corporal Reuben Moore (Find A Grave Memorial #29686209), born in 1758 in Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess Co., NY and who died in 1833 in Livingston Co., NY; burial as yet unknown.(2)
Corp. Reuben Moore (not Moores), the drummer veteran of the American Revolution, had no connection whatsoever with Hudson, NY, or this Capt. Reuben H. Moores, a pacifist seafaring Quaker.
Sources:
1) Barber, Gertrude A., "Gravestone Inscriptions of Columbia County: Volume 4 - Gravestone Inscriptions of the Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, New York, 1936;" p. 22 "Moores, Reuben d Apr 23, 1835 71y" [MOORES, not Moore].
2) Hatcher, Patricia Law, "Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 3 L-R," Pioneer Heritage Press, Dallas, TX; 1988; p. 98 "MOORE Reuben Hudson City Cem Hudson Columbia Co NY 74" [erroneous citation].
This group, numbering no more than thirty, called themselves the Proprietors. A sizable number of these individuals were Quakers. They made a pact that bound each individual to settle here personally or sell his holdings to the others "at first cost, without interest". They established rules and regulations and laid out the City on a grid pattern, with lots 50 x 120 feet. Gangways, twenty feet wide were laid out between long streets. In 1785, the City of Hudson became the third chartered city in the state of New York.
Reuben H. Moores, a captain by seafaring profession and not military rank, was among the original settlers of Hudson, a founding member of the Masonic Lodge (Hudson Lodge No. 7, Ancient & Honorable Fraternity of Free & Accepted Masons, originally chartered in 1787, cornerstone at Union and Third Streets laid in 1795) and a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, or more commonly (but originally derisively), Quaker. (1)
As Quakers were unable to bear arms, he never served in the American Revolution, and was still living on the island of Nantucket until 1772, when at age 8, he moved with his Quaker parents to the community surrounding the Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook, Dutchess Co., New York.
Ever since an erroneous 1974 DAR patriot transcript of the Hudson City Cemetery (followed by a 1988 publication by Patricia Law Hatcher), his gravestone is often mistakenly cited as that of the American Revolutionary War Drummer/Corporal Reuben Moore (Find A Grave Memorial #29686209), born in 1758 in Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess Co., NY and who died in 1833 in Livingston Co., NY; burial as yet unknown.(2)
Corp. Reuben Moore (not Moores), the drummer veteran of the American Revolution, had no connection whatsoever with Hudson, NY, or this Capt. Reuben H. Moores, a pacifist seafaring Quaker.
Sources:
1) Barber, Gertrude A., "Gravestone Inscriptions of Columbia County: Volume 4 - Gravestone Inscriptions of the Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, New York, 1936;" p. 22 "Moores, Reuben d Apr 23, 1835 71y" [MOORES, not Moore].
2) Hatcher, Patricia Law, "Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 3 L-R," Pioneer Heritage Press, Dallas, TX; 1988; p. 98 "MOORE Reuben Hudson City Cem Hudson Columbia Co NY 74" [erroneous citation].
In 1783, a group of seafaring men from Massachusetts and Rhode Island were seeking a safe harbor for their vessels because of attacks by the British Navy during and after the American Revolution. When they saw Claverack Landing with its high bluffs, deep waters, and two bays, they appointed a committee which proceeded to buy large tracts of land, much more extensive than what is now Hudson. They purchased the land in the spring of 1783. By the Fall, two families had arrived. In the spring of 1784, more families arrived, some with houses which had been prefabricated in Nantucket.
This group, numbering no more than thirty, called themselves the Proprietors. A sizable number of these individuals were Quakers. They made a pact that bound each individual to settle here personally or sell his holdings to the others "at first cost, without interest". They established rules and regulations and laid out the City on a grid pattern, with lots 50 x 120 feet. Gangways, twenty feet wide were laid out between long streets. In 1785, the City of Hudson became the third chartered city in the state of New York.
Reuben H. Moores, a captain by seafaring profession and not military rank, was among the original settlers of Hudson, a founding member of the Masonic Lodge (Hudson Lodge No. 7, Ancient & Honorable Fraternity of Free & Accepted Masons, originally chartered in 1787, cornerstone at Union and Third Streets laid in 1795) and a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, or more commonly (but originally derisively), Quaker. (1)
As Quakers were unable to bear arms, he never served in the American Revolution, and was still living on the island of Nantucket until 1772, when at age 8, he moved with his Quaker parents to the community surrounding the Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook, Dutchess Co., New York.
Ever since an erroneous 1974 DAR patriot transcript of the Hudson City Cemetery (followed by a 1988 publication by Patricia Law Hatcher), his gravestone is often mistakenly cited as that of the American Revolutionary War Drummer/Corporal Reuben Moore (Find A Grave Memorial #29686209), born in 1758 in Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess Co., NY and who died in 1833 in Livingston Co., NY; burial as yet unknown.(2)
Corp. Reuben Moore (not Moores), the drummer veteran of the American Revolution, had no connection whatsoever with Hudson, NY, or this Capt. Reuben H. Moores, a pacifist seafaring Quaker.
Sources:
1) Barber, Gertrude A., "Gravestone Inscriptions of Columbia County: Volume 4 - Gravestone Inscriptions of the Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, New York, 1936;" p. 22 "Moores, Reuben d Apr 23, 1835 71y" [MOORES, not Moore].
2) Hatcher, Patricia Law, "Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 3 L-R," Pioneer Heritage Press, Dallas, TX; 1988; p. 98 "MOORE Reuben Hudson City Cem Hudson Columbia Co NY 74" [erroneous citation].
This group, numbering no more than thirty, called themselves the Proprietors. A sizable number of these individuals were Quakers. They made a pact that bound each individual to settle here personally or sell his holdings to the others "at first cost, without interest". They established rules and regulations and laid out the City on a grid pattern, with lots 50 x 120 feet. Gangways, twenty feet wide were laid out between long streets. In 1785, the City of Hudson became the third chartered city in the state of New York.
Reuben H. Moores, a captain by seafaring profession and not military rank, was among the original settlers of Hudson, a founding member of the Masonic Lodge (Hudson Lodge No. 7, Ancient & Honorable Fraternity of Free & Accepted Masons, originally chartered in 1787, cornerstone at Union and Third Streets laid in 1795) and a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, or more commonly (but originally derisively), Quaker. (1)
As Quakers were unable to bear arms, he never served in the American Revolution, and was still living on the island of Nantucket until 1772, when at age 8, he moved with his Quaker parents to the community surrounding the Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook, Dutchess Co., New York.
Ever since an erroneous 1974 DAR patriot transcript of the Hudson City Cemetery (followed by a 1988 publication by Patricia Law Hatcher), his gravestone is often mistakenly cited as that of the American Revolutionary War Drummer/Corporal Reuben Moore (Find A Grave Memorial #29686209), born in 1758 in Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess Co., NY and who died in 1833 in Livingston Co., NY; burial as yet unknown.(2)
Corp. Reuben Moore (not Moores), the drummer veteran of the American Revolution, had no connection whatsoever with Hudson, NY, or this Capt. Reuben H. Moores, a pacifist seafaring Quaker.
Sources:
1) Barber, Gertrude A., "Gravestone Inscriptions of Columbia County: Volume 4 - Gravestone Inscriptions of the Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, New York, 1936;" p. 22 "Moores, Reuben d Apr 23, 1835 71y" [MOORES, not Moore].
2) Hatcher, Patricia Law, "Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 3 L-R," Pioneer Heritage Press, Dallas, TX; 1988; p. 98 "MOORE Reuben Hudson City Cem Hudson Columbia Co NY 74" [erroneous citation].
Inscription
REUBEN MOORES
died
April 23, 1835
Aged 71 years.
----
Gravesite Details
Barber, Gertrude A.; Gravestone Inscriptions of Columbia County: Volume 4 - Gravestone Inscriptions of the Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, New York, 1936; p. 22 "Moores, Reuben d Apr 23, 1835 71y"
Family Members
Advertisement
Advertisement
