Enoch Earle

Beekman Patent - Poughkeepsie NY
Quoted From the book "Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty"

ENOCH(3) EARL, (Edward 2-1), was born on 28 May 1692 in Secaucus, NJ, and was named after his mother’s father.

He married on 19 Aug 1713 at Secaucus, Hudson Co., NJ, Anna or Hannah, dau. of William and Rebecca (Anderson) Morris.

Enoch and Anna were sponsors on 11 April 1720 for a son of Steven Bordeth and his wife Anna Earl, Enoch’s sister.

Enoch Earl, married 2nd, as a widower, Greitje Vander Hoff 19 Aug. 1737 at Hackensack, NJ.

He came to Fishkill by 1741, when he was first taxed, and was taxed through 1757.

He had a daughter, Rebecca who married Philip Smith and they also came to Fishkill.

• Philip Smith was taxed from 1738 through 1754.

Records Relating to Enoch Earle:

• Enoch Earl witnessed a deed in Rombout on 1 June 1751. [D II:431].
  
  
• Enoch Earl first bought land in partnership with Peter Outwater from the heirs of Andrew Teller, and Earl sold this land on 22 Sept. 1745. The land was 300 acres, and he and his wife Greitje sold it for £500 to William Hogland of Oyster Bay, Queens.
  
  
• He bought land in Rombout (Fishkill, NY) on 19 Sept. 1750, and he and his wife conveyed some of the land to George Noostrant of Flushing, Queens, NY 6 June 1757.
  
  
• Reserved from the conveyance were 70 acres conveyed by Enoch Earl to Philip Smith (son-in-law) and partly in the possession of Joseph Horton.
  
  
• Enoch Earl and his wife sold for £90 two parcels of land on 12 June 1753, which combined were 70 acres. One parcel of 35 acres is part of a lot of 147 acres and is undivided land held in partnership by Enoch Earl and Samuel Thorn. The second parcel is part of the land where Enoch Earl now lives.
  
  
• Six months later, Philip Smith (son-in-law), Yeoman of Rombout (Fishkill, NY), sold for £105 the same 70 acres to Joseph Horton, carpenter of Rombout. The land was on the north side of the road, nigh Teunis Van Bunschoten’s sawmill and adjoining DeLancey’s line.
  
  
• Enoch Earl mortgaged land on the south side of Wappingers Creek to Charles LeRoux on 19 Oct. 1754 for £68/2/8. John Earl was a witness.
  
  
• Enoch Earle also conveyed two acres of land to Cornelius Ver Way.
  
  

In the Earle Family History written by Rev. Isaac Newton Earle, called the HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE EARLES OF SECAUCUS, the descendants of the Earle Family were not aware of the fact that Enoch Earle came to Rombout (Fishkill), in Duchess County and in the book we have to question some of the marriages and later births, particularly the marriages of Anne and Rebecca and the absence of son Joseph.

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE EARLES OF SECAUCUS has Rebecca, dau. of Enoch, married to Stephen Hunt at Hackensack on 18 Sept. 1733. He was born in Westchester Co., NY about 1709, the son of Thomas and Rachel (Arnold) Hunt.

Stephen Hunt and his wife lived in Westchester, and he died there on 26 June 1786.

Stephen Hunt and his wife named their first child Sylvester and did not name any children Enoch (Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh, Grenville MacKenzie, Hunt Families).

Enoch's daughter Rebecca Earl and her husband Philip Smith definitely came to Fishkill, NY, with her father.

The Rebecca, who married Stephen Hunt, was not the daughter of Enoch. She could be the daughter of Sylvester Earle, Enoch's brother.