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| ~ Bio - Lt. Enoch Eastman ~ | |||||||
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Enoch Eastman was born April 24, 1748 at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He was the eldest son born of Jonathan Eastman and the 2nd of 14 children born of Jonathan and his 2nd wife Elizabeth Wood (1724-1800). Enoch's siblings were: Hannah (b. 1740), Lydia (1745-1796), Cyprian (1748/9-1798), Bathsheba (1751-1843), Jonathan (1753-1816), Peter (b. 1754), Stephen (1755-1819), Esther (1757-1837), Miriam (1758-1839), Calvin (1760-1856), Oliver (b. 1762), Amos (1763-1864), (Justin (1764-1772), and Amy (1766-1853).
In June/July 1776, Lieutenant Enoch Eastman served for 28 days in Captain Gideon Brownson's Militia Company when called out for the defense of the frontiers of the New Hampshire Grants (now the State of Vermont). Enoch Eastman was the Lieutenant in Captain John Warner's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Herrick's Regiment of Green Mountain Rangers, July 20, 1777 to December 3, 1777 when the Company was discharged from service. Captain Warner's Company was engaged in the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777. On May 28, 1778, the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont organized the 5th Regiment of Vermont Militia and selected Gideon Warren, Colonel of the Regiment, and Tehan (Tappen) Noble, Captain, Enoch Eastman, Lieutenant, and Moses Robinson, Ensign of the Rupert Company. On November 7, 1778, Lieutenant Enoch Eastman served in Captain Tehan Noble's Company, Colonel Gideon Warren's 5th Regiment of Vermont Militia for 7 days when called out by order of the Vermont Governor and Council to defend the frontiers of the State. The 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia was established October 23, 1779 upon the reorganization of the 2nd and 5th Regiments of Vermont Militia into 3 Regiments. The Rupert Company was then reassigned from the 5th Regiment to the 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia. Lieutenant Enoch Eastman served in Captain Tehan Noble's Company, Colonel Ira Allen's 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia when the Company was called out to respond to the alarm of March 26, 1780. Later in the same year, October 1780, Lieutenant Enoch Eastman served 19 days in Captain Tehan Noble's Company, the same Regiment, when they were called out during the alarm caused by the raid led by British Major Christopher Carleton into the Lake Champlain Valley and beyond. Captain Enoch Eastman commanded the Rupert Company, Colonel Ira Allen's 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia when they were called into service during the alarm in the month of October, 1781 for about 10 days and again the following year, when the same Regiment was called out by express orders of May 1, 1782, to pursue after the enemy (Tories) which had taken Lieutenant William Blanchard and Captain Hind's son, both of Arlington, Bennington County, Vermont. Enoch married, about 1779, Sarah Rising (1761-1826) by whom he had 15 children (9 sons and 6 daughters): Elijah (b. 1780), Elisha (b. 1781), Enoch (1783-1865), Elizabeth (b. 1784), Enos (b. 1786), Elias (b. 1788), Justin Aaron (b. 1791), Jonathan (b. 1793), Miriam (b. 1795), Orpha (b. 1797), Aaron Rising (b. 1799), Calvin (b. 1801), Sarah (b. 1803), an infant daughter (1804-1804), and Lois (b. 1806). Enoch served the Town of Rupert as Selectman, 1786 and Town Clerk and Lister, 1789. Enoch resided in Rupert until his death on June 23, 1829. Enoch is buried next to his second wife Elizabeth in the North Rupert Cemetery, Rupert, Bennington County, Vermont.
- Biographical information courtesy of Herman C. Brown
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In 1764, or slightly before, Enoch, at about the age of 16 years, moved to Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont. Bennington was first settled, June 18, 1761. Enoch was a Private in the First Militia Company organized in the Town of Bennington, October 24, 1764. In 1766 or 1767, the Eastmans were among the first settlers to move onto the 1st division lots in Rupert, Bennington County, Vermont and commence clearing the land in what is now called East Rupert.