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- The following is excerpted from the published genealogy of The Brooke-White Family (to Chase Jackson Brooke and his wife Lucy Moore Shaw) available on the Internet.
Lindley's father, a Quaker, had fled the United States during the Revolution so Lindley was born in Nova Scotia. He was named for Lindley Murray, a celebrated grammarian and wealthy merchant of New York who "befriended Samuel Moore in the difficulties growing out of the war." (*) The family returned to New Jersey in 1810. Lindley was already a teacher at Nine Partners when Adam and Anne Mott moved there in 1811. He and Abigail became engaged when she was 17 and an assistant teacher at the school. The pay was not good so they moved to Rahwey, NJ where they opened a Quaker School. Their son Edward Mott Moore was born there in 1814. In 1815 they moved to New York City to take charge of the Monthly Meeting School of Friends on Pearl Street. Lindley and Abigail made their home with her parents, Adam and Anne Mott, on Lombardy Street. However in 1817 they rented a house on Chrystie Street. He had been earning $1,200 a year but in 1820 times were tough and his salary was reduced. Lindley decided to give up the school and move to Flushing and opened a boarding school for boys in 1820. "Seven years later he bought five acres of land in Westchester Village, on the road to New York, about opposite the Friends Meeting house, and removed his school to this place in the Spring of 1828. Here also he prospered, and his residence here is several times referred to in family letters. But he had laid up money and was beginning to think of retiring from the arduous labors of a school to the tranquility of a farm. A visit that he and his wife made at Rochester confirmed him in this desire, and after considerable inquiry and negotiation he purchased, in 1829, the farm of 170 acres then occupied by Erastus Spalding for $5,200. The farm was beautifully situated, on high ground, on what was alter know as Lake Avenue in the City of Rochester, being the direct road from the City to lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Genesee River." (*) In 1831 he built a "two story house in the Greek revival style." (Later the house became a convent for the Sisters of Nazareth Academy.)
Many young, educated, prosperous and forward thinking men were drawn to Rochester in the 1830's. It became a focal point for many agitating ideas. There were a significant number of Quakers living there pushing for social reforms. Lindley helped form the Anti-Slavery Society in 1838 and became its first president. He was also a teacher at the first "High School".
His son, Edward Mott, also became well known in the society and was one of the best surgeons in the state. By 1870, Lindley was living with Edward and his family.
He was a portly man of commanding height and mien, of benevolent countenance and expressive features. His students will not soon forget his kindly ways, nor the sonorous tones with which he repeats the verses of Milton and other English poets." from the History of Haverford College by a student of Lindley M. Moore, Richard Wood.
(*) from "Adam and Anne Mott" by Thomas C. Cornell
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1788 - 1871 (83 years)
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