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Ezra served Capt. William Stanton Co. 8/16/1780 and Capt. Eliezer Prentiss Co., Col. McClollius Reg. 1782; enlisted 9/26/1778, discharged 11/14/1778. He removed to Albany Co., NY before 1800 and later to Schoharie Co.
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John was a painter and merchant. He and Frances had 14 or 15 children, nine of whom lived to be married. He was an "addresser [?] of [General ?] Gage". John went to Halifax, MA in 1776 and was banished from there in 1778 [for reason unknown] but was pardoned by the Legislature in 1787. It is interesting to speculate that John's banishment may have had a political reason. The Gore's were all strong revolutionaries and John's banishment occurred within two years from the Declaration of Independence when it was simply not clear who was going to win the war. If the political powers of Halifax were Loyalists he could very well have been banished for rabblerousing on behalf of the Revolution because his pardoned came shortly after the revolutionaries had won.
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Samuel Gore was a mechanic, painter and a Deacon of the Brattle Street church of Boston for many years. He was one of the "actors" who participated in throwing the tea into Boston Harbor. His shop was in Court Street, at the comer of Gore's Alley, now Brattle Street. He was also one of the party who took guns from the gun-house on West Street, and secreted them in the school house, when Major Paddock intended to turn them over to General Gage. To wit.:
OBITUARY: "in this city, on Wednesday, Samuel Gore Esq., aged 81. Mr. G. was one of the very small number of mechanics who obtained, secured, and sent out of the town of Boston, when it was in the hands of British power, at the commencement of the Revolution, the only two pieces of cannon then in the town, except those which may have been brought by the British troops. He was also one of the number (and, so far as we know, has left but three survivors) who on the 16th of December 1773 proceeded to the tea ships (which were at the wharf now called Liverpool Wharf, then Griffin's) and destroyed their cargoes."( Columbian Centinel, Saturday, November 26, 1831.)
From Compton's Encyclopedia: Tea and the"Tea Party" "in 1770, a new prime minister, Lord North, believing it unwise for England to hamper the sale of its own wares in outside markets, secured the repeal of most of the Townshend duties. At the request of King George III the duty on, tea was retained, in order to assert the right of England to tax the colonies. The American merchants accepted this compromise, and the agitation in the colonies soon died down. The remaining duty was evaded by smuggling and the odious tax was not paid on about nine tenths of the tea imported after 1770. Then, in 1773, Parliament passed another act that set all the elements of discord in motion. This measure allowed the British East India Company to ship tea to the colonies without paying any of the import duties collected in England. The company, near the brink of bankruptcy, had on hand an immense quantity of unsold tea. It could now sell this tea more cheaply in the colonies than local merchants, who had to pay high duties, could sell the tea that they imported. The company was quite willing to pay the Townshend tax of threepence a pound when its tea was unloaded in America In the colonies this cheap tea was greeted as a bribe offered to the people for their consent to a British tax. The merchants everywhere were alarmed. If the East India Company could receive a monopoly for the sale of one article, it might receive other privileges and thus deprive the local merchants of most of the colonial trade. In New York and Philadelphia the company's ships were not allowed to land. Meanwhile, in Boston, a group of citizens disguised as Indians tossed L15,000 worth of the offensive tea into the harbor. This incident, afterward known as the Boston Tea Party, brought about the greatest pre-Revolu- tionary War crisis for it was the first act of resistance to end in the destruction of a large amount of private property. Since the East India Company was carrying out a British law, Lord North and George III felt that the colonial opposition must not go unchallenged."
The first glass works in Boston were located in what is now Edinboro Street and were established in 1787. After many embarrassments the company began the manufacture of window glass in November, 1793. Samuel Gore was one of the originators of this enterprise. It proved a speculation in which he lost all the accumulations of many years of untiring industry. He became a member of the Lodge of St. Andrew in 1778, and was the first treasurer of the MA Charitable Mechanic Association. He was considered a valuable and influential member of this association, but withdrew from it about the time of the failure of the glass company. He was a man of superior intelligence, kindness of heart and courtesy of manner." - from the history of the Ancient Artillery Company. (Note from Lowell Gore)
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In the Gallup Family Genealogy of 1893 it is written for Hannah Gore, wife of Nathaniel Gallup, that her "ancestors" were benefactors of Harvard College. I determined the basis for this remark to be Christopher Gore. Hannah Gore was his 1st cousin-once removed, as it turns out, so the claimed ancestral connection is false but he was nevertheless an interesting man to have as a cousin.
Christopher Gore was a graduate of Harvard and became an eminent statesman and lawyer. Rebecca (Payne) Gore, his wife, came from one of the finest families in Boston. President John Quincy Adams once described Christopher as a "very fortunate man" who had won remarkable success in his profession and whose family connections had "been extremely serviceable to him". During his life, Christopher gave financial aid and other assistance to Harvard College (now "University") on several occasions. At his death he left an endowment to Harvard which was the largest they had yet received, $100,000. When the Harvard library burned on the night of January 24th, 1764, it was not until 1837 that a permanent replacement was built and it was Christopher Gore's endowment that was used. The library stands today, Gore Hall, an all-stone building, fireproof and of enduring architecture.
Christopher served as an overseer of Harvard and was a Harvard Fellow. He and Rebecca were childless but it is known that they were a doting uncle and aunt to the children of both the Gores and the Paynes. In fact, Christopher and Rebecca educated one of their nephews, John Gore, at Harvard. (About whom I have failed to find anything more.)
The following biographical note is from the files of the U.S. Government:
GORE, Christopher, 1758-1827
Years of Congressional Service: 1813-1816
Party: Federalist
GORE, Christopher, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., September 21, 1758; graduated from Harvard College in 1776; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston; member of the State constitutional convention in 1788; member, State house of representatives 1788-1789, 1808; United States attorney for the district of Massachusetts 1789-1796; commissioner to England 1796-1803; Charge d'Affaires at London 1803-1804; member, State senate 1806-1807; Governor of Massachusetts 1809; appointed and subsequently elected to the United States Senate as a Federalist to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Lloyd and served from May 5, 1813, until May 30, 1816, when he resigned; overseer of Harvard University 1810-1815 and a fellow 1812-1820; died in Waltham, Mass., March 1, 1827; interment in Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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(Lowell Gore, a serious Gore family researcher, states the birth date of Frances Gore as 3 Feb 1743 which would put it 3 months before the marriage date of 5 May 1743 which he gives for the parents of Frances. One or the other date, if not both, is wrong. Since a birth date of 3 Feb 1744 would be exactly 9 months after their marriage, that date has been used on the assumption that Lowell made a typographical error.)
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Born pos. 1706. Family removed to Stonington, CT in 1710.
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The will of John Otis, Hannah's father, bequeaths to her children Mary and Thomas.