Born in Andover, Mass. June 21, 1736, Enoch Poor settled in Exeter and became a successful merchant and ship-builder. In 1775 he was appointed colonel in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment. He 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 he fought September 8, 1781, he was buried in the First Reformed churchyard in Hackensack, New Jersey.