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About Henry Enoch, Sr.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor #: A036907
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Henry Enoch, born c. 1707 in Bucks Coun-ty, was living in Kingsessing in 1730 when he signed the tardy inventory of his brother John's estate. However, he soon left to join his Enochson cousins in western Maryland. He married Elizabeth Ross, daughter of William Ross, and on 23 April 1750 George Washington surveyed for him 388 acres at the Forks of the Cacapon River in Hampshire County, Virginia. George Washington also dined at his home in 1770. Henry died there in 1783. He had seven confirmed children: Henry, David, Enoch, John, Rachel, Elizabeth, Sarah.
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From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=08191962...
In 1737 Henry Enoch was a witness to the will of Samuel Finnly, a merchant. That will was signed and probated in Prince George's County, Maryland.
"Lord Fairfax entered a caveat with the Governour and Council of Virginia in 1733 and 1736 objecting to Jost Hite's grants of 40,000 and 100,00 acres of land. Fairfax claimed that he had rights to the land. Jost Hite filed a lawsuit against Lord Fairfax on 31 July 1749 to protect his and his partners interests." This resulted in the Virginia land originally acquired by Henry Enoch through Hite, to be surveyed by George Washington, with record of the land from Lord Fairfax's grant.
A disposition was taken at "the insistance of Joseph Chaplin. For the purpose of increasing emigration and furnishing homes on a cheap scale to the young, adventurous and enterprising yeomanry of those early years in Virginia's history, and to cause them to colonize and settle upon her Trans-Alleghany domain - her wide spread wilderness territory, the House of Burgesses, by colonial enactments and laws, presented and gave to the actual settlers of these lands, great inducement. Among the laws thus enacted, was that of settlement right and preemption claim. This legislative enactment or colonial law secured to the individuals, who might take up, occupy, clear and cultivate a few acres of land and erect a cabin thereon, a patent for 400 acres of land around and including the improvement, with the further right of preempting by entry or treasury warrant, 1000 acres adjoining the said settlement right of 400 acres, within a specific limited time. There were many persons who made efforts to avail themselves of the liberal provisions of these laws of colonial legislation, but owing to the trouble arising from predatory bands of Indians, then infesting the country, many of these settlers abandoned their claims thus made. Yet under the provisions of these laws a few settlements were successfully made in Western and Northwestern Virginia, while it was embraced in the District of West Augusta, prior to the year 1776. ..."
In 1794, 100 acres were purchased in the Chimney tract by James Largent. That land was the last to be sold by Henry's children after he and Elizabeth were gone. (Nancy L. Carter)
- page 3 "Historical Records of the Enoch Family in Virginia and Pennsylvania" By Harry G. Enoch
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvpioneers/enochf...
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Henry Enoch, Sr.'s Timeline
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1705
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Bucks, Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States
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May 12, 1732
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Virginia
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1736
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Pennsylvania, United States
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1739
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1740
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1740
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West Virginia, United States
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September 29, 1750
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On Capathon River, Hampshire County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1755
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Hampshire Co., West VA
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1784
Age 79
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Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States
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