Sylvanus Moore is actually my ancestor. Â He founded a town in upstate New York called Oxford, and was from most accounts a gentleman and good sport. Â There are several versions of the meat tub story, but I like to think Sylvanus would approve of this account of his hunting prowess.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.
Lucas, this may be the most stunning character development I have ever seen you produce. And in only 10 frames!
I like your comic very much. Sylvanus Moore was one of the first settlers of McDonough, NY. McDonough has a website here: http://www.mcdonoughny.com/
I came across a website of a family, Curtis, you may be related to: http://www.curtisamerica.com
A man named Richard Curtis made that site and he said, “I have information that Sylvanus Moore married first an Elizabeth Curtis and had a son named Andrew Jackson Moore born 1814. Later I show he married Polly Covil. I have not information directly linking the Elizabeth Curtis to my Curtis family buried in the Moore cemetery (of East McDonough, NY).
Sylvanus did have a daughter by Polly Covil named Mary. She married into my Curtis family by marrying Edmund Bostwick Curtis (who was son of Seth Curtis buried in Union Cemetery). Seth was son of James Curtis buried near Sylvanus Moore.
On the new site you will find info on Edmund and Mary and their descendants still living in Washington DC. Edmund left McDonough and worked for the Treasury Dept in Washington DC.”
By the way, Sylvanus was a jeweler. See this page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~silversmiths/makers/silversmiths/250602.htm