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Enoch Poor (June 21, 1736 – September 8, 1780) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was a ship builder and merchant from Exeter, New Hampshire.
Washington and Lafayette grieved at the death of New Hampshire's Enoch Poor, a brigadier general in the Continental Army. But how he died is still a mystery.
Enoch Poor was a Revolutionary War General and served in many engagement that occurred up north. He was a hero at Saratoga.
Exeter-born Gen. Enoch Poor is an obscure leader in the American Revolution whose death during the revolution remains murky to this day.
POOR, ENOCH. (1736–1780). Continental general. Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Great-grandson of an English immigrant who settled at Newbury, Massachusetts, he was reared on the family farm in North Andover, Massachusetts, had little education, and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker.
When Brigadier General Enoch Poor was born on 21 June 1736, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Poor, was 32 and his mother, Mary Adams, was 28. He married Martha Osgood in 1761, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
Brigadier General Enoch Poor by the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: Born at Andover, Mass., June 21, 1736; Died near Hackensack, N.J., Sept. 8, 1780. In command of a New Hampshire brigade, he rendered signal service at many battles, especially Stillwater, Saratoga, Newtown and Monmouth.
