Abraham Enloes of New Castle

1671 Census of the Delaware

Pieter Enloes genealogy

Today in New Sweden History: April 22, 1676 Abraham Enloes acquired land at St. Augustine's Creek in lower New Castle County where, on April 22, 1676, Walter Wharton surveyed his tract called Abraham's Delight. Abraham Enloes is the person described as Abraham the cooper by Walter Wharton. He was a son of Peter Enloes, a silversmith, from Duisburg, Netherlands, who sailed from Amsterdam to New Amstel with his wife and children in 1657 and died there by 1663. Later, having married the daughter of Dirck Albertsen, Abraham Enloes operated a ferry between New Castle and Penn's Neck, where his wife had inherited one-half of a 469-acre plantation which Albertsen had acquired by 1669. Abraham Enloes was buried February 11, 1720 at the Swedes/ church in Penn's Neck, where his son Peter Enloes was a member. Source: 1671 Census of the Delaware by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig, p. 59-60.