Col. Enoch Poor of Exeter, N.H. from Revolutionary Solders of Dublin, New Hampshire (1901)

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Surname: POOR
Source:  A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, 
          Columbus, Ohio, 1901, page 22

Listed under Colonels:

ENOCH POOR of Exeter, b. Andover, Mass., 1737; d. Sept. 8, 1780, some reports say, killed in a 
duel by a French officer; Jos. Bass says, N. H. S. P., XVII, "he died of a putrid nervous Fever."
He had been appointed Colonel, May 23, 1775, of the 2d regiment, and was made Brig. Gen., Feb. 
21, 1777. He took part in the Canada expedition, in the campaign against Burgoyne in 1777, was 
at Valley Forge, and was active in the campaign against the Six Nations in 1779. The following 
year he commanded a brigade of light infantry under Lafayette, and showed himself an excellent 
officer, whose loss was deeply felt in the American army. It is noteworthy that Gen. Poor had 
seen no service previous to May 23, 1775, when he was commissioned colonel. At Saratoga his 
brigade included the three N. H. regiments, with others. He settled in Exeter about 1765 and was
a shipbuilder. 

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, OCTOBER, 1904.
Col. Enoch Poor, d. Paramus, N. J.