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• Hij is geboren op 7 april 1744 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.
• Beroep: .

  Blacksmith, Justice of the Peace

• (Military) .

  Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War

• (Alt. Birth) op 7 april 1744: Alt. Birth.

  Preston, New London County, CT (Wildey source)

• Hij is overleden op 22 maart 1821 in Sheshequin Township, Bradford County, PA, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in On a knoll beside his home in Sheshequin Township, Bradford County, PA.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Judge Obadiah Gore Jr

Hij is getrouwd met Anna Avery.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 22 maart 1764, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Avery Gore  1765-1847 
2. Wealthy Gore  1767-1854 
3. Hannah Gore  1769-1855
4. Anna Gore  1772-1805 
5. Sally Gore  1774-1813

Notities over Judge Obadiah Gore Jr

1.  Obadiah Gore was born in Norwich, Conn., 1744, and came to Wyoming with the early settlers.  He was the eldest son of Obadiah Gore, Esq., who had seven sons engaged in the Revolutionary war, a fact of which Colonel Stone speaks about in his history of Wyoming as "The most remarkable in the history of man.  That a father and six* (*Colonel Stone says six, the number was seven) sons, including two sons-in-law, should be engaged in the same battlefield, is rarely, if ever, known.  Five corpses of a single family sleeping upon the cold bed of death together the self-same night!  What a price did that family pay for liberty!" Obadiah Gore came to Sheshequin in 1783, about the time Captain Spalding removed there, and settled in the lower part of the valley.  Obadiah was an officer in Washington's army, and served throught the war.* (*Obadiah Gore was engaged as an officer in General Sullivan's army.  He kept a connected journal of the entire campaign, which has been read by some of his grandchildren, and which, it is to be regretted, has been lost.) While Westmoreland sent representatives to Hartford, Mr. Gore was sent as assemblyman, and was prominent in public proceedings. ; He was a man of fine appearance, and dignity of character, and pleasing in his address. He submitted to the decree of Trenton, but was on the committee remonstrating against the repeal of the Confirming act, and after removing to Sheshequin, was appointed Associate Judge for the Court of Luzerne county, and served for many years.  He was a man of much taste, and cultivated a variety of fruit.  He also planted the mulberry tree and raised silkworms to some extent.  He was at one time a merchant, and opened a store of goods in his house on the hill, where he always lived, at the same time carrying on farming quite extensively.  There was much in his beautiful situation to comfort his family and attract his friends.

Obadiah Gore had five children and fifty-two grandchildren.  He died March 22, 1821, aged 77 years.
Avery Gore, his son, married Lucy, daughter of Silas Gore, who fell in the massacre of Wyoming.  Mrs. Gore was a rare woman.  Her domestic management of a very large family, part of the time consisting of four generations and numerous dependents, was a marvel to all who knew her position, more than fifty years ago.  "Rising while it was yet dark and giving meat to her household," she would apportion to her domestics the labors of the day, the spinning, the weaving, and the dairy, attending to the butter and the cheese, for which she was noted, and the many supernumeraries, attending upon it all.  Those duties done systematically, day after day and year after year, with a quick step and cheerful face;  the impression was, "Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all."

She lived in the same house where she was married until the time of her death.  She presided at her own table more than sixty years.  When we last called upon her, her sun was declining, and she soon after died, in March, 1867, over 92 years of age.  The eldest sister, Mrs. Wilkinson, who died some years ago, was also over 90 years old.

2.  Obadiah was a lieutenant, Connecticut Line, 3rd Regiment, in the Revolutionary War.

3.  Obadiah's letter to Capt Nathaniel Gallup, 3rd husband of Hanah Gore about the Wyoming Massacre July 3, 1778, Wyoming Valley Pennsylvania:

          ;        Westmoreland 7th March 1779

     Sir: I have been in the Continental Service Ever since the beginning of August 1776 and was at the White Plains when the Enemy _ist
     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 happened 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 Gore

Photostat Copy  by Forrest Gore Smith of the original. Copy  received by Patricia M. Gore from Paul Gore 1968. Typed 19 October 1998 by Patricia M. Gore, Palmer, Alaska

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