Henry Enochs (1732-1784)

Elizabeth Ross (1719-1786)

6X Great Grandparents

Henry Enochs (1732-1784)

Birth 1725 • Frederick, Virginia

Death 14 JUN 1784 • Cacapon Stream, Hampshire

Parents:

Henry Enoch (1675-1782)

Susannah Friend (1670-1830)

Elizabeth Ross

Birth 1719 • Bucks, Pennsylvania

Death 1786 • Hampshire, West Virginia

Parents:

William Ross (1699-1779)

Arminella Whiteside (1698-1782)

Pennsylvania and New Jersey Church and Town Records 1669-1999

Name	Henry Enoch
Event Type	Residence
Residence Date	6 Jun 1727
Residence Place	Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
Denomination	Dutch Reformed
Organization Name	North and Southampton Dutch Reformed Club

Pennsylvania Land Warrants and Applications 1733-1952

Enoch Land Survey written by George Washington

23 Apr 1759

 

Survey Map by George Washington

At the fork of the Cacapon and North Rivers

23 Apr 1759

23 Apr 1759

The 388-acre tract that Washington surveyed for Henry Enoch at the fork of the Cacapon and North rivers on 23 April 1750 became the site of Enoch’s fort during the French and Indian War.
Courtesy Princeton University, deCoppet Collection, W.W. Abbot, ed., The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, v.1, 1748-August 1755 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 24.

Pennsylvania Septennial Census 1779-1863

Name	Henry Enocks
Residence Year	1786
Residence Place	Bethlehem, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA

Pennsylvania Tax and Exoneration 1768-1801

Name	Henry Enoch
Year	1782
Town or Ward	Cumberland
County	Washington
Archive Rollname	340

 

American Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War Rolls

Name	Henry Enoch
Military Place	Virginia, USA
State or Army Served	Continental Troops
Rank	PRIVATE

Washington County Revolutionary War Militia

(A redistricting occurred sometime prior to 22 March 1782 affecting only the 2nd and 4th Battalions)

1st Battalion, 1781

Commanding Officers:

• Lt. Col. Henry Enoch

Township (if known)	Company
Morgan Township	1st Company: Capt. Andrew Ferley
Morgan Township	2nd Company: Capt. Benjamin Stites
Greene Township	3rd Company: Capt. William Crawford
Monongahela between Whitlely and Muddy Creek, probably Big Whitely in Cumberland or Greene Township	4th Company: Capt. (John) Huston
Cumberland Township	5th Company: Capt. James Archor
Greene Township	6th Company: Capt. John Guthery
Cumberland Township	7th Company: Capt. Jesse Pigman
Amwell Township	8th Company: Capt. John Miller

Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index 1775-1783

Evening Orders, 8 January 1756

Evening Orders from George Washington

[Winchester, 8 January 1756]

Evening Orders.

Captain Stewart is to draught out of his Recruits, men enough to complete his Troop to the Establishment; the rest he is to march to town to-morrow, and deliver them over to Lieutenant Bullett, who with Ensign Thompson, is to march them and the Recruits, now in this town, to Fort Cumberland.

He is to set out on Saturday; and proceed by the following Rout: viz.

Saturday the 10th to Jesse Pughs

Sunday the 11th to Henry Enochs

Monday the 12th to Friend Cox’s

Tuesday the 13th to [ ] Cressaps.

Wednesday the 14th to Fort-Cumberland.

This Detachment must receive to-morrow, at 12 o’clock, from the Commissary, twelve Rounds of Cartridges, and six days provision.

The Commissary is to pack up all the Arms here which want repairing, carefully in a Chest; and send them by the first opportunity to Fort Cumberland.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications\u002C 1889-1970

From George Washington to John Blagg, 7 April 1756

To John Blagg

[Winchester, 7 April 1756]

To Lieutenant Blagg, of the Virginia Regiment.

You are Hereby ordered to proceed with the party under your command, with the utmost expedition to Joseph Edwards’s on Great Capecapon; where you are to remain, and endeavour to procure what intelligence you can, and transmit to me from time to time.1 I would by no means have you go in pursuit of the Enemy, unless you are joined by such parties of the Militia, as you judge from the intelligence you may receive, may be able to drive them off; and even in that case, you are not to pursue them too far from your Station, until you receive further Orders from me.

You must endeavour to keep the inhabitants of the place together, as much as possible; to keep them quiet; and afford them all the assistance you can in compliance with your Orders.

You are to endeavour to keep a communication open with Ensign Hubbard at Enochs; who must transmit what intelligence he receives of the Enemy. and if you think it of consequence, you are immediately to let me know. Above all things, I must recommend to you dilgence and care to guard against any Surprize.2 Given under my Hand, April 7th 1756.

LB, DLC:GW.

John Blagg was at this time the lieutenant of Capt. John Savage’s 6th company of the Virginia Regiment.

1. See GW’s Orders, 7 April 1756. Joseph Edwards’s fortified house, or fort, was west of Winchester on the Cacapon River, upstream from Henry Enoch’s fort to the north of it.

2. Ens. Edward Hubbard of Charles Lewis’s company in the Virginia Regiment was on detached duty at Enoch’s. The copyist spelled “Above” as “Alove.”

Name	Henry Enoch I
Birth Date	1700
Death Date	1782
SAR Membership	64924
Role	Ancestor
Application Date	9 Apr 1945
Spouse	Elizabeth Enoch
Children	Henry Enoch
Household Members	Name Age William Henry Hanna Elouise White Hanna Scott Clay Hanna Martha Elizabeth Murphey William Harvey White Margaret Williams Isaiah Murphey Sarah Bell Joseph Williams Elizabeth Enoch Benjamin Bell Sarah Enoch Colonel Henry Enoch II Elizabeth Enoch Henry Enoch I

Burial –

Capon Chapel Cemetary

Capon Bridge

Hampshire County, West Virginia

The Enoch family first appears in Hampshire County, Virginia in 1750, at that time part of Frederick County. The first record is from the Journal of George Washington, who when a young man made surveys in this region. This Journal shows that on April 23, 1750 he surveyed for Henry Enoch land in the Fork of Cacapehon, 388 acres.

From the “Genealogies of Virginia Famlies” pg 688-89 An item in the Journal of George Washington’s tour to the Ohio River shows that on Nov 28, 1770 he dined with Henry Enock’s at the Forks of the Cacapehon (whose land he had surveyed twenty years before).
Henry Enochs was married to Elizabeth Ross.
They had the following children:
Enoch Enoch
Henry Enoch Jr.
David Enoch

U.S. Find A Grave Index 1600s-Current

Land records at Richmond give the following:
Henry Enoch of Frederick county received grant April 22, 1753 for 388 acres on Cacapehon Creek (the land surveyed by George Washington). Henry Enoch of Hampshire county received grant in 1761 for 277 1/2 acres on Little Cacapehon, in 1762 for 38 acres, 1763 another grant for 100 acres on the Great Cacapehon. 1763 for 278 acres on the Great Cacapehon, in 1764 for 57 acres in Enoch’s hollow.

About 1770 the Enochs begin to appear in southwestern Pennsylvania. Henry Enoch appears in Springhill Township, Bedford County (now in part known as Washington county), PA., in 1772. The Enochs were prominent in the organization of the Ten Mile Baptist Church in Washingtion county, Pa., said to be the first church of any kind.

Family Tree

Henry Enochs and Elizabeth Ross

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