Matching family tree profiles for Enoch St. Clair
view all
Immediate Family
-
wife -
daughter -
-
mother -
father -
brother -
brother
-
sister
About Enoch St. Clair
Notes for Enoch St. Clair:
From the History of the Sinclair Family by Leonard Allison Morrison. pub. 1896
He was born Sept. 1, 1790, in Meredith, NH and in his infancy was taken to Hardwick, VT., where they had located. He early attracted the attention of Mrs. Amos Blanchard, the wife of a well-to-do farmer, and his parents reluctantly consented to her urgent request that the child should be a member of her family, which no child faces had ever come to brighten. Time moved on, the child became a young man and a teacher. He had love for books, and a retentive memory, and became conversant with every volume in the district and town libraries to which he had access, and ancient and modern history found in him an apt student.
It was a Presbyterian community and the catechism was early committed to memory, and the Sabbath was observed with great rigidity.
His twenty-first birthday came at length, and donning his "freedom suit", and taking the usual one hundred dollars, he and his brother Asa started for the West. Stopping only a short time at Sackett's Harbor, he then went to Concord, Erie, Co. NY, purchased a farm, upon which he worked in the summer seasons, and taught school in the winters. He then became a blacksmith. Meanwhile, on the 9th of December, 1816 he married Huldah Townsend, who was born in New Salem, Mass. December 15, 1797.*
- She was daughter of Jonathan Townsend, Jr., and his wife, Olive Phiney Townsend. Her father was born at New Salem, Mass. Jan. 21, 1766, and died at Collins, Erie Co., NY October 21, 1838, but had lived in Concord NY. He was son of Johathan and Huldah Newton Townsend, of New Salem, Mass.
With her he set sail upon the sometime uncertain sea of matrimonial life, but a prosperous voyage awaited them. there their children were born and all were educated for teachers. After a thirty-three years' residence in New York he was struck with the western fever and again emigrated, this time to Hartland, McHenry Co. Ill, and employed himself as a farmer and mechanic, where he lived eighteen years, also in Revere, Iowa. In 1863, being no longer able to perform any kind of labor, and wishing to be with his only son, he joined him at Hampton, Franklin Co., Iowa, where he died then years later, April 3, 1873, and is resting in the pleasant cemebery in that town. He was always deeply interested in national affairs, was a Whig, and then a republican in politics.
History of the original town of Concord : Being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York by: Erasmus Briggs
Report of School trustees for Concord: p 136-138 History of Concord.
Enoch Sinclear(Sinclair) was a trustee dated 1833. He is also listed as a patron of the school with 2 scholars (children over five and under 16) and accordingly gave 1/2 cord of wood in support of the school.
About the Townsend Hill School P. 235
A school house was built on Townsend Hill in the early part of 1815 and a school taught therein that summer. It was a framed house and located on land now owned by B. F. Williams, on the S side of the Genesee Rd. abt. 10 rods W. of the transit road. Name of teachers taught in this early time include Enoch Sinclair, winter 1819.
P. 189 Enoch is listed among others as a shoemaker.
p. 492 mentioned as an early settler.
p. 493 also mentioned as one of the early teachers.
P. 489 of the Townsend History in History of Concord: Huldah Townsend married Enoch Sinclair in 1816, in this town, He was a farmer and shoemaker, and lived on Townsend Hill; they left this town and moved to McHenry County, Ill. in 1845, and, in 1864, removed from there to Hampton, Franklin County, IA, where he died in 1873 aged 83 yrs; but she is still living, at the age of 86. There were seven children in their family.
Ancestors are Benjamin Sinclair, Thomas Sinclair, Jospeh Sinkler, James Sinkler, John Sinkler of Exeter, NH.
1870 census, Enoch and Huldah with son AD and daughter Laura E living Hampton, Reeve Township IA. Gender: Male Birth: Circa 1791
New Hampshire, United States Residence: June 1 1870
Iowa, USA Age: 79 Race: White Wife (implied): Huldah St Clair Son (implied): A D St Clair Census State: Iowa Series: M593 Family: 96 Date: June 1 1870 Frame: 00373 Line: 21 Sheet: 11 Image: 373 See household members
view all
Enoch St. Clair's Timeline
| 1790 |
September 1, 1790
|
Meredith, New Hampshire, United States
|
|
| 1837 |
April 28, 1837
|
Concord, Erie, New York
|
|
| 1839 |
July 31, 1839
|
Concord, Erie County, New York, United States
|
|
| 1873 |
April 13, 1873
Age 82
|
Hampton, Franklin, Iowa, United States
|