Jacques Eno (abt. 1625 - 1682)

Born about 21 Aug 1625 in Threadneedle Street Church, London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Unknown) Eno — married 18 Aug 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Eno — married 5 Aug 1658 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut

Husband of Hester (Kelsey) Williams — married before 21 Apr 1680 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 11 Jun 1682 at about age 56 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

James Eno was a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

This profile is part of the Simsbury, Connecticut One Place Study.

James was born about 1625, some say the son of Huguenots Jean De Henne and Catelaine Jou'e-Jones who was baptized 21 Aug 1625 London, Middlesex, England.^[1] (The Hennot family, Huguenots, escaped France to England in 1598. Threadneedle Street Church was a gathering place for these displaced French people and their records gave their native names, though in daily use, the family had become known as Eno or Enos.)^[2]

This is disputed. See comments below profile.

He should not be confused with his namesake and son James Eno, who was born in 1651, and who passed away about 1714.

He was granted land called Massacoe in what is now Simsbury. In 1660 he was granted an island in the Simsbury River, amounting to about 21 acres, as well as an additional fifty acres on the mainland. In April 1666, he and John Moses, acting as agents for the town of Windsor, negotiated with Nassahegan, the sachem of the Poquonnoc, to buy 28,000 acres. For this service, the town granted him additional lands, known as Tilton's Marsh.^[3]

Half-Way Covenant^[4]

Eno and Humphrey had been complained of because their insistence upon what they considered their rights had caused disturbance in the Windsor church. Now, with the other petitioners, they based their appeal in part upon the King's Letter to the Bay Colony of June 26th, 1662, wherein Charles commanded that all persons of good and honest lives and conversation be admitted to the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the said book of common prayer, and their children to baptism.

From Eno Family, New York Branch:^[1]

The first American mention of James Enno is a record in "Windsor Church Records" of his marriage to Anna Bidwell, August 18, 1648. There has been found no record of his arrival in this country, but his grandson, Samuel Eno, of Windsor, who seems to have been a man of property and influence, and who was nineteen years old when his father died, and thirty-three years old when his mother died, was therefore probably familiar with the history of his grandfather, and caused a tablet to be erected to his memory in the Old Windsor burying ground with the following inscription:

"In memory of Samuel Eno, Esqr. and Eunice, his wife. He died August 17, 1778, in the 83d year of his age. She died May 7, 1792, in the 84th year of her age. And also Eunice, daughter of the deceased, who died March 23, 1757, aged 9 days. And also Sam'l Eno, son to Mr. Samuel Eno, junr., who died Feb. ye 27, 1789 in the 4th year of his age; and also Mr. James Eno who came from England and settled in Windsor A. D. 1646, and died July 11, 1682. His wife died Oct. 7, 1679. Also James Eno 2d, who died July 16, 1714— his wife died March, 1728, and was buried in Simsbury, old burying ground. Also Lieut. Dan'l Eno, died Dec. 9, 1797 in the 56th year of his age."

He lived in Windsor, as did his son James 2d, but both owned lands in Massacoe or Simsbury, which was an appendix of the plantation of Windsor and was not incorporated as a separate town till the year 1670. He owned an island in Simsbury River, near Scotland, about twenty-one acres, which he gave to his sons James and John. This island, with fifty acres of land, was granted to him in 1660, "by Mr. Henry Clark and Mr. Matthew Allyn appointed by the Cort," and John Moses and others had also land then granted them in like manner.^[5]

In April 1666, James Enno and John Moses, acting as agents for the town of Windsor, bought from Nassahegan, sachem of Poquonnoc, a tract of twenty-eight thousand acres, for which service the town granted him lands known as Tilton's Marsh, situated under the Simsbury mountains.

In 1664, James Enno with six others presented a petition to the court asking for church privileges and baptism for their children. Signed by William Pitkin, of Hartford; Michael Humphreys, of Windsor; John Stedman, of Hartford; James Enno, of Windsor; Robert Reeve, John Moses, of Windsor, and Jonas Westover, of Windsor. This petition, written and signed, is still preserved at the State Library in Hartford.

Inventory of his estate offered at Hartford by his widow, and his son James and relict Hester Enno appointed administrators July 19, 1682. His children agreed to the distribution of his estate, and John Mandsley, Return Strong, and John Moore set out to the widow her £20, given by jointure to her and housing and lands according to the jointure (she being his 3d wife), and the remainder ordered to be delivered to his children forthwith, the children agreeing to pay the duties against the estate.

Inventories 263. 12. 9 also 14. 13. 6 £278. 6. 3

Died June 11, 1682, and was buried in Windsor.^[6]

Married, 1st, August 18, 1648, Anna Unknown, some say widow of Richard Bidwell, of Windsor.

"… Anna Bidwell, the widow of Richard Bidwell. Anna's parentage is unknown but she was born about 1624/25, probably in England. She had only one known child by her first marriage … and probably a second unreported child as well. … James' [Eno] first wife, Anna, died 10-7-1657, in Windsor."^[7]

BUT:

"It is extremely likely that the Anna Bidwell who m. Aug. 18, 1648, James Eno, was widow of Richard Bidwell who was buried in Windsor, Dec. 25, 1647. Positive proof has not been seen. --D.L.J." ^[8]

James Eno married, 3d, April 29, 1680, the widow Hester Kelsey (Williams) Egleston, relict of James Egleston; she died July 10, 1720, and is said to have been the first white child born in Hartford.^[1]

Research Notes

Spelling

From Eno Family, New York Branch: The name has been variously spelled on this side of the Atlantic, Enno, Eno, Enos [Enoe—rarely]. Major-General Enos added the final s to his name in spelling, although he did not pronounce the "s" and the Rhode Island branch of the family has always retained that form. From the Rhode Island family came the Delaware Enos.

Ancestry

I [who?] have found no document that "proves" James' parents. A document from his lifetime that lists James either as the son of Jean or John Hennot or at least as a Huguenot would be important for this. Circumstantial evidence seems to prove it—Jacques is often translated as James and Hennot could easily evolve into Eno. However, there was at least one family around Lincoln with the last name of Eno around 1600. And there is a Jacques Hennot having a child in London in 1663, when our Jacques was 38. So some kind of documentation would be helpful.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Henry Lane Eno, The Eno Family - New York Branch, (NJ: Princeton University Press, 1920), Internet Archive, p 9, 15.
2. ↑ "The Eno Family from Their Origins in France to the Present, Part I," Simsbury Genealogical and Historical Research Library Quarterly, Summer 2010, Volume 17. [1]
3. ↑ Douglas C Richardson, The Eno and Enos Family in America, (New York: privately printed, 1973), p 1.
4. ↑ M Louise Greene, "The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut," Chapter IV The Cambridge Platform and the Half-Way Covenant, (SermonIndex.net). [2]
5. ↑ Simsbury Records, lib. I, p. 90.
6. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, (AmericanAncestors.org: NEHGS, 2011), Windsor, p 93; giving "Enno, James, Sr., d.June 11,1682."
7. ↑ Douglas C. Richardson, The Eno and Enos Family in America: Descendants of James Eno of Windsor, Conn, (Sacramento, California: unknown, 1973 and 1985), 1-2; giving James Enno or Eno1.
8. ↑ Philip M Smith, editor, "Queries and Answers," The American Genealogist, (AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 -), 10:60. [3]

See also

• Baptism (Christening): listed as a French Huguenot on Threadneedle Street in London, as found at ["England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5LK-BQK : 30 December 2014), Jacques Hennot, 21 Aug 1625; citing THREADNEEDLE STREET FRENCH HUGUENOT,LONDON,LONDON,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 942.1 L1 B4H V. 13, 942.1 L1 B4H V. 16, 942.1 L1 B4H V. 9.]
• "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch 15 October 2012), entry for Hannah Or Anna BIDWELL.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #15174002, James Eno.
• Henry Reed Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor Connecticut, (New York: C. B. Norton, 1859). [4]
• Phelps, Noah Amherst. History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton, from 1642 to 1845 (Case, Tiffany and Burnham, Hartford, 1845) Page 169
• Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898) Page 15
• Wikidata: Item Q100447582