Lindley Murray Moore

Lindley Murray Moore (May 31, 1788 in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada – August 14, 1871, in Rochester, New York, USA) is notable for his activities as an abolitionist, and educator.

Born into a Quaker family that had been forced to flee their Rahway, New Jersey home during the American Revolution, he was named after the renowned grammarian, Lindley Murray, who "befriended [his father] Samuel Moore in the difficulties growing out of the war." The family re-visited N.J. in 1810, and Lindley Murray Moore stayed there while his father and siblings continued on to Upper Canada (Ontario). He and his wife, Abigail Lydia Mott, opened a Quaker school in Rahway, N.J. soon after they were married 1813. In 1815, they moved to New York City to take charge of a school under the auspices of the Friends Monthly Meeting. By 1820, they had opened their own boarding school for boys first in Flushing, and then in Westchester Village, NY. In 1831, Lindley and Abigail bought a farm in what is now Rochester and built a two story house in the Greek Revival style that is still in use.

The minutes of November 1836 Farmington Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) show that Moore was the clerk for the men's meeting and his wife was the clerk for the women's meeting at the time that the fellowship published a strong abolitionist statement, published as a pamphlet titled: “An Address from Farmington Quarterly Meeting of Friends, to its Members on Slavery.”

Moore's wife, Abigail Lydia Mott, was sister-in-law to Lucretia Coffin Mott the American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. Lucretia Coffin Mott was the first president of the American Equal Rights Association.

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