Brigadier General Enoch Poor - Exeter
N 42° 59.380 W 070° 56.952
19T E 341095 N 4761510
A marker celebrating a Revolutionary War officer.
Waymark Code: WMRTR
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2006
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Text of Marker:
Brigadier General Enoch Poor
Born in Andover, Mass., June 21, 1736, Enoch Poor
settled in Exeter, becoming a successful mer-
chant and ship-builder. In 1775 he was appointed
colonel in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment.
Poor was at Stillwater, Saratoga, and Monmouth,
and served under Washington, Sullivan, and
Lafayette. Congress commissioned him Brigadier
General in 1777. Mortally wounded in a duel
fought September 8, 1781, he was buried in
the First Reformed Churchyard in Hackensack,
New Jersey.
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