Enoch Poor

Enoch Poor (June 21, 1736 (Old Style)? – September 8, 1780) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. He was a ship builder and merchant from Exeter, New Hampshire.

Poor was born and raised in Andover, Massachusetts. His father, Thomas Poor had been part of the 1745 expedition that captured Louisburg, Nova Scotia, during King George's War. In 1755 young Poor enlisted as a private in one of the Massachusetts units raised to accompany Jeffrey Amherst's expedition to retake it during the French and Indian War. His unit enforced the expulsion of the Acadians. After the war, he came home to Andover, but only briefly. Poor eloped with Martha Osgood, and the newlyweds settled in Exeter.

Poor supported the separatists as early as the Stamp Act protests in 1765. He served on various committees for the town throughout the period of rising rebellion. In 1775 he was twice elected to the provincial Assembly. When the Battle of Lexington caused the assembly to call for three regiments of militia, Poor became the colonel of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment.

While the other regiments under colonels John Stark and James Reed were sent to Boston, the 2nd was stationed at Portsmouth and Exeter. After the Battle of Bunker Hill, they were also sent to Boston, arriving on June 25. In the summer of 1775, the unit was absorbed into the Continental Army. They were soon ordered into the Northern Department and went with General Richard Montgomery's invasion of Canada.

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