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Jacob fathered twelve children, six by each of his two wives.
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Her name may also have been spelled "Dame".
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Jacob fathered twelve children, six by each of his two wives.
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Edward Allen first appears in Berwick, ME, was fined July 1673 in New York Court for absense from meeting and settled on Dover Neck below Thompsons point. Edward inherited his father's property of 400 acres in Casco Bay (now Portland), Maine, which had been bought from a Mr. Cleeve, and sold deeds to them in 1678 and 1681 to George Bramhall and Henry Kirke. He was prisonkeeper in 1678, probably a bookkeeper for Maj. Waldron, and in 1703-1704 he visited Lynn, MA to assist the widow of his brother, Capt. Benjamin, with his estate. According to genealogist Torrey he died about 1690 and is likely not the Edward Allen who died in Boston 31 May 1693. Edward had three sons, two of whom are known, Edward and Jacob, and "several" daughters, four of whom are known, Rachel, Sarah, Leah and Elizabeth.
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Obadiah Gore, Jr. was one of the Gore brothers who survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre of July 3, 1778 in Pennsylvania. He and his brother Samuel, who also survived, lived in Sheshequin Twp., Bradford Co., PA; the third surviving brother, Daniel, lived in Luzerne Co., PA. Obadiah, Jr. wrote the following letter to Nathaniel Gallup, his uncle, concerning the Massacre. Nathaniel Gallup was the husband of Obadiah's aunt Hannah Gore and an officer of the Revolutionary War.
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Westmoreland 7th March 1779Sir: I have been in the Continental Service Ever since the beginning of August 1776 and was at the White Plains when the Enemy cut off this place last July. You doubtless have heard the particulars of the Action in Which I lost three of own brothers. Viz: Silas, Asa and George, and two brothers in law Timothy Pierce and John Murphy --- Daniel and Samuel was in the battle but escaped, --- Our families were all drove out from this Settlement without the help of horses and cattle, and with no more than what they could carry out through the wilderness on their backs. And our buildings all burnt and our household Furniture and clothing all carried away or destroyed, but we have got the possession again and have about 140 Continental Soldiers here, besides a number of inhabitants that has returned, and we have a very strong fort with Artillery and provisions plenty....... Father moved back his family in Nov. Last and he took the small pox of which he died the 10th of January last--- Mother and the children has had it by inoculation and recovered and now live with me. Daniel and his family & Silas widow and her children are here,-- Asas, widow and her child is at Preston, Hannah and her children is at Plainfield. Lucy and her children are at Canaan.... It is a healthy time with us at present. We have no news or nothing, nor nothing new happening here since the 10th of last month when a party of Indians came down & and killed 3 men, and wounded another who has since recovered. The Indians lost one killed dead on the spot and two others badly wounded as apparent by the blood, but we could not catch them --- I desire to be remembered to Aunt and all my cousins. Mother desires to be remembered to you
and your family.I remain yours,
Obadiah GoreTo: Capt. Nathaniel Gallup
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We do not know who owns the original of this letter. In my possession is a second or third generation copy from an old photostat of an ancient hand-written letter. It was received from Larry L. Kimmel, 6532 Trinette Ave., Garden Grove, CA 92845-2247. He added the note: "Photostatic Copy by Forrest Gore Smith of the original. Copy received from Paul Gore in 1968 to F.W. and Marion Gore. Typed [transcribed ?] 19 October 1998 by Patricia M. Gore Palmer, Alaska." I made a digital image from my copy and gave it to Carmen Johnson who maintains an extensive genealogical file on the internet. She used it to present an image of the letter on one of her web pages.
In July of 2005 I received a phone call from David Smith of Fredericsburg, Virginia. He told me that Forest Gore Smith was his great grand uncle and that he has in his possesion letters by Forrest Gore Smith in which he writes about making a hand written copy of the original letter from Obadiah Gore to Nathaniel Gallup. This probably means that the letter I have was a copy of the Forest Gore Smith transcription.
David Smith did not know what happened to the original letter but believes it was passed down to the children of Forest Gore Smith who died, I believe, in the 1980's at a very advanced age.
A mosaic picture of Judge Gore is inlaid in the Court House wall in Wilkes Barre. He was the first judge of Luzerne County and married the first couple there.
Obadiah, Jr. was also a Leutenant in a rifle company of Hand's Brigade who fought in the Sullivan and Clinton Campaigns of the Revolutionary War.
The remarkable service of men like Obadiah Gore, Jr. in the Revolutionary War has been examined in the article "Struggle for Legitimacy: Junior Officer Leadership in the Revolutionary War " by James Perrin, Department of History, Villanova. The following is an excerpt concerning a little of Obadiah's service.
... Other contemporary journals also recounted tales in which officers demonstrated a natural capacity to lead. Lieutenant Obadiah Gore, Jr., wrote on 6 August 1779, "Lay in camp all day. At evening, Lt. Cramer & 3 of our men went out a scout for some days." Two days later, on 8 August, Gore recorded, "Marched at 5 o'clock & went into Wysocks. On our way we met Lieut. Cramer with his party that was sent out the 6th who had discovered the tracks of some Indian spies." One can only imagine the intensity felt by such a small reconnaissance party as it advanced several days in front of the main body in search of Indian tracks. With the massacre at Wyoming scarcely a year old in the memories of soldiers, what leadership demands were placed upon Lieutenant Cramer once his party advanced beyond sight of the army? Though the absence of any other details regarding this reconnaissance mission prevents us from knowing exactly what happened, it seems evident that under the leadership of Cramer, this small force succeeded both in advancing over a day's march ahead of the army and in locating the tracks of hostile Indians. Perhaps the most compelling feature of this example was the lack of glory associated with mission accomplishment. Cramer received no public recognition for his successful leadership of such a dangerous reconnaissance mission, nor is it likely that he would have demanded it.ertainly one of amazing perseverance. Obadiah Gore, Jr., a blacksmith from the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, recruited twenty soldiers in the summer of 1776 and accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the Connecticut line. He later accepted a commission in the Continental Army and was serving under General Horatio Gates in New York during the fateful summer of 1778. On 3 July 1778, in the Battle of Wyoming, Gore lost three brothers, two brothers-in-law, and all of his family's property in the brutal attack of a combined British and Indian force. Two other brothers sustained serious injury during the fighting while the remainder of his family fled to Forty Fort. Gore was promptly transferred to Fort Penn after the Battle of Wyoming and continued to serve in various military, as well as civilian, capacities for the remainder of the war. Despite extensive involvement in civilian affairs from 1779 to 1783, presumably few people questioned the nature of Gore's commitment to the cause or impugned his service with allegations of social ambition.
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The sisters Anna and Elizabeth Avery, daughters of Richard Avery (1718-1784), married the brothers Obediah and Asa Gore.
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A daughter, Sarah, of Wealthy Anne Gore and her husband Col. John Spalding, became the great grandmother of Utica Celestina Welles, the wife of the famed conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham.
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Richardson removed to Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. He was a Revolutionary War soldier.