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Eunice was a daughter of Aaron Farnsworth & Hannah Barron.
She was married 1st in April 1756 to Joseph Weston.
She was married 2nd on 16 Oct 1777 at Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine to Col. John Moor.
She was the second woman to move into Somerset County, Maine.
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Excerpt from Benedict Arnold Expedition through Skowhegan in October 1775: [Sunday, 8 Oct 1775]
At 10 a. m. on Sunday they (Col. Arnold and Capt. Eleazer Oswald) passed the seven and fifteen mile streams, and reached the little settlement of Canaan in time to dine at Joseph Weston's, whose house was beside the river.
Would we not like to know what kind of a Sunday dinner Eunice Farnsworth Weston cooked and served for Benedict Arnold in her log cabin beside the Kennebec? Was there dried moose meat, or a fat beaver tail, or salmon from the river, or partridges shot by the boys along the trail? Did they have hominy made of home raised and home ground corn, or beans baked in the ashes? Whatever was upon the board it must have tasted good to the hungry voyagers who were not for many a long day to sit again for a Sunday dinner at a woman's table.
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American Advocate, issue of 23 Nov 1822
In Norridgewock, on the 8th inst. widow Eunice Moor, relict of the late Col. John Moor, and formerly the widow Weston, aged 87 years. She emigrated from Massachusetts with her first husband, by whom she had all her children, as early as the 1772, & was the first white woman who ever resided in within the present limits of the county of Somerset. Her living descendants are nine children, seventy grand children, and one hundred and thirty-seven great grand children; and what may be considered very extraordinary, her numerous descendants with one exception, all reside in the county of Somerset, She was for a great number of years a member of the Congregational Church. She "waited her appointed time" and died in perfect possession of her mental powers and with a full hope of a glorious immortality. More than eighty relatives attended her remains to the grave.
[ Contributed 23 Mar 2014 by Peter M. Smith ]
Eunice was a daughter of Aaron Farnsworth & Hannah Barron.
She was married 1st in April 1756 to Joseph Weston.
She was married 2nd on 16 Oct 1777 at Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine to Col. John Moor.
She was the second woman to move into Somerset County, Maine.
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Excerpt from Benedict Arnold Expedition through Skowhegan in October 1775: [Sunday, 8 Oct 1775]
At 10 a. m. on Sunday they (Col. Arnold and Capt. Eleazer Oswald) passed the seven and fifteen mile streams, and reached the little settlement of Canaan in time to dine at Joseph Weston's, whose house was beside the river.
Would we not like to know what kind of a Sunday dinner Eunice Farnsworth Weston cooked and served for Benedict Arnold in her log cabin beside the Kennebec? Was there dried moose meat, or a fat beaver tail, or salmon from the river, or partridges shot by the boys along the trail? Did they have hominy made of home raised and home ground corn, or beans baked in the ashes? Whatever was upon the board it must have tasted good to the hungry voyagers who were not for many a long day to sit again for a Sunday dinner at a woman's table.
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American Advocate, issue of 23 Nov 1822
In Norridgewock, on the 8th inst. widow Eunice Moor, relict of the late Col. John Moor, and formerly the widow Weston, aged 87 years. She emigrated from Massachusetts with her first husband, by whom she had all her children, as early as the 1772, & was the first white woman who ever resided in within the present limits of the county of Somerset. Her living descendants are nine children, seventy grand children, and one hundred and thirty-seven great grand children; and what may be considered very extraordinary, her numerous descendants with one exception, all reside in the county of Somerset, She was for a great number of years a member of the Congregational Church. She "waited her appointed time" and died in perfect possession of her mental powers and with a full hope of a glorious immortality. More than eighty relatives attended her remains to the grave.
[ Contributed 23 Mar 2014 by Peter M. Smith ]
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Eunice was a daughter of Aaron Farnsworth & Hannah Barron.
She was married 1st in April 1756 to Joseph Weston.
She was married 2nd on 16 Oct 1777 at Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine to Col. John Moor.
She was the second woman to move into Somerset County, Maine.
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Excerpt from Benedict Arnold Expedition through Skowhegan in October 1775: [Sunday, 8 Oct 1775]
At 10 a. m. on Sunday they (Col. Arnold and Capt. Eleazer Oswald) passed the seven and fifteen mile streams, and reached the little settlement of Canaan in time to dine at Joseph Weston's, whose house was beside the river.
Would we not like to know what kind of a Sunday dinner Eunice Farnsworth Weston cooked and served for Benedict Arnold in her log cabin beside the Kennebec? Was there dried moose meat, or a fat beaver tail, or salmon from the river, or partridges shot by the boys along the trail? Did they have hominy made of home raised and home ground corn, or beans baked in the ashes? Whatever was upon the board it must have tasted good to the hungry voyagers who were not for many a long day to sit again for a Sunday dinner at a woman's table.
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American Advocate, issue of 23 Nov 1822
In Norridgewock, on the 8th inst. widow Eunice Moor, relict of the late Col. John Moor, and formerly the widow Weston, aged 87 years. She emigrated from Massachusetts with her first husband, by whom she had all her children, as early as the 1772, & was the first white woman who ever resided in within the present limits of the county of Somerset. Her living descendants are nine children, seventy grand children, and one hundred and thirty-seven great grand children; and what may be considered very extraordinary, her numerous descendants with one exception, all reside in the county of Somerset, She was for a great number of years a member of the Congregational Church. She "waited her appointed time" and died in perfect possession of her mental powers and with a full hope of a glorious immortality. More than eighty relatives attended her remains to the grave.
[ Contributed 23 Mar 2014 by Peter M. Smith ]
Eunice was a daughter of Aaron Farnsworth & Hannah Barron.
She was married 1st in April 1756 to Joseph Weston.
She was married 2nd on 16 Oct 1777 at Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine to Col. John Moor.
She was the second woman to move into Somerset County, Maine.
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Excerpt from Benedict Arnold Expedition through Skowhegan in October 1775: [Sunday, 8 Oct 1775]
At 10 a. m. on Sunday they (Col. Arnold and Capt. Eleazer Oswald) passed the seven and fifteen mile streams, and reached the little settlement of Canaan in time to dine at Joseph Weston's, whose house was beside the river.
Would we not like to know what kind of a Sunday dinner Eunice Farnsworth Weston cooked and served for Benedict Arnold in her log cabin beside the Kennebec? Was there dried moose meat, or a fat beaver tail, or salmon from the river, or partridges shot by the boys along the trail? Did they have hominy made of home raised and home ground corn, or beans baked in the ashes? Whatever was upon the board it must have tasted good to the hungry voyagers who were not for many a long day to sit again for a Sunday dinner at a woman's table.
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American Advocate, issue of 23 Nov 1822
In Norridgewock, on the 8th inst. widow Eunice Moor, relict of the late Col. John Moor, and formerly the widow Weston, aged 87 years. She emigrated from Massachusetts with her first husband, by whom she had all her children, as early as the 1772, & was the first white woman who ever resided in within the present limits of the county of Somerset. Her living descendants are nine children, seventy grand children, and one hundred and thirty-seven great grand children; and what may be considered very extraordinary, her numerous descendants with one exception, all reside in the county of Somerset, She was for a great number of years a member of the Congregational Church. She "waited her appointed time" and died in perfect possession of her mental powers and with a full hope of a glorious immortality. More than eighty relatives attended her remains to the grave.
[ Contributed 23 Mar 2014 by Peter M. Smith ]
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IN memory of
Mrs. EUNICE MOOR,
wife of Col. John Moor
former relict of
Mr. Joseph Weston who
died
Nov. 8, 1822 aged 87.
She was the second woman
who moved into Somerset County
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