Enoch Anderson (1755 - 1824)

Born 1755 in New Port, New Castle, Delaware

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Died 21 Apr 1824 at about age 69 in East Waterford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Captain Enoch Anderson served with 1st Delaware Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Enoch Anderson is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A002372.

Enoch Anderson is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 103454
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DAR has birth as NEWTOWN BUCKS CO PENNSYLVANIA^[1]

January 13, 1776 to Sept., 1778

The following account of his service comes from the writting of Anna Moon:

When only twenty-one years old he entered the Continental Army, serving in the Delaware regiments. January 13, 1776, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Captain Stedman's Company of the brave Colonel Haslet's Regiment of State troops in the Continental services. Seven months after enlistment he was wounded at the battle of Long Island, New York, August 27, 1776. He was made captain, December 3, 1776, and was transferred to Colonel Hall's Delaware Regiment, Continental Establishment April 5, 1777. He retired from service, September, 1778. Enoch Anderson served in "thirteen battles great and small." He also served at the battles of Chatterton's Hill, Trenton, and Princeton. In Addison Ander son's letter to Lyman Draper, he says "Enoch, the eldest son, had led the 'Forlorn Hope' at Trenton and was cut and shot to pieces. He remained during life an invalid."^[2]

Nine children with Eleanor McCalmont, per FamilySearch:

1. Thomas Anderson 1779-1880
2. William Anderson 1780-
3. Sally McCalmont Anderson 1782-
4. John Marcus Anderson 1783-
5. George Anderson 1784-
6. Elizabeth Anderson 1785-
7. Eleanor Anderson 1788-1834
8. James Anderson 1795-
9. Enoch Lucius Anderson 1797-1871

He died in 1824 and is buried in McCullochs Mills Cemetery in Honey Grove, Juniata, PA.

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 6 Oct 2023), "Record of Enoch Anderson", Ancestor # A002372.
2. ↑ Moon, Anna Mary, Sketches of the Shelby, McDowell, Deaderick, Anderson families, 1933, pg. 133

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 18 Feb 2018), "Record of ANDERSON, ENOCH", Ancestor # A002372.
• Moon, Anna Mary, Sketches of the Shelby, McDowell, Deaderick, Anderson families, 1933, pg. 133 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=KLJRAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA128
• FamilySearch
• "United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24Q-VVH9 : accessed 16 March 2023), Enoch Anderson, 02 May 1818; citing Pennsylvania, United States, NARA microfilm publication T718 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962), roll 1; FHL microfilm 1,319,381.
• "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z2GD-J5T2 : 16 September 2021), Colonel Enoch Anderson, .
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