Abraham Enloes, I

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"One son was Abraham Pietersen Enloes (before referred to as Abram Enloes), a cooper by trade, who purchased land on 22 April 1676, at St. Augustine’s Creek, in lower New Castle County, Delaware. He married the daughter of Dirck Albertsen. Abraham operated a ferry that traveled between New Castle and Penn’s Neck, where his wife had inherited 469 acres of land. He was visiting his brother when the 1671 Census of Delaware was taken. Abraham was buried 11 February 1720, at Swede’s (Lutheran) Church in Penn’s Neck. At this same church his son Peter Enloes was a member".

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Abraham was Hendricks' and Christiana's 4th child (of 5 total) and 3rd son. He was born across the Chesapeake Bay from Gunpowder Hundred in St. Paul's parish, Kent County, Maryland; it's likely that this was on land originally owned by his mother, who may have been a widow when she married Hendricks Enloe in about 1670. The family were of the Yeoman or small independent landowner social class.

Abraham Enloe married Elizabeth (Silverthorne) Enloe in 1695 in Kent County, Maryland. She was of British ancestry and was born in about 1678 in Accomack County, Eastern Shore, Virginia. The couple moved to Gunpowder Hundred, Baltimore County, Maryland. A few years after their marriage, Abraham inherited part of his father's landholdings at a place named "Dutch Point" where he had a plantation. A family genealogist, who has studied local records and previously-published Enloe family histories, states that Abraham & Elizabeth Enloe had 11 children there:[2]

1. Joshua ENLOES
2. James ENLOES
3. Eleanor ENLOES
4. Temperance ENLOES
5. John ENLOES b: ABT 1703 in Maryland
6. Margaret ENLOES b: ABT 1704 in Maryland
7. William ENLOES b: 1706 in Baltimore Co., MD
8. Abraham ENLOE II b: 10 DEC 1707 in Baltimore Co., MD
9. Anthony ENLOES b: ABT 1708 in Maryland
10. Elizabeth ENLOES b: ABT 1709 in Baltimore Co., MD (twin)
11. Christiana ENLOES b: ABT 1709 in Baltimore Co., MD (twin)

According to his will, written on April 24, signed on June 2 and probated on July 20, 1709, Abraham Enloe mentions that his "loving wife" is "big with child". She had twin daughters shortly after his passing in early July 1709. In keeping with the standards of the day, Abraham bequeathed 30 acres of land to the child, if it were a boy; but gave that land to his older daughter, Margaret, were it a girl. His wife Elizabeth was named Executor. [3]

At least one source states that widow Elizabeth (Silverthorne) Enloe married John ENSOR after Abraham Enloe's death.

Origins

"ENLOES, HENDRICK (1), progenitor, was in Balto. Co. by 1674 and d. there c. 1707/1708; m. by 5 Nov. 1679 Christian (---) who surv. him; as a Dutchman was naturalized by Act of the Legislature of 6 June 1674; took up lands, incl. Dutch Neck and 100 acres 'Tryangle Neck' in May 1673, 100 acres 'Swallow Fork' in May 1683, 150 acres 'The Oblong' in June 1687, and 33 acres 'Low Lands' in March 1687; with wife Christian conveyed 100 acres 'Inloes Loyne' to John Boring in Nov. 1679, and 100 acres 'Swallow Fork' to John Fuller in Aug. 1682.

His will (Will Lib 12 Fol 312) was written 10 Dec. 1707 and probated 18 May 1708. In it he named wife Christian, son Abraham, the heirs of son John, daus. Hester and Margaret, also Christian Wright and Henry Galma; had issue: HENRY (not in will); ABRAHAM; JOHN; HESTER; MARGARET, m. 1st William Galloway and 2nd by 5 Oct 1709 James Durham."