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Arms.^ Azure, a chevron argent, two estoiles
d'or in chief, crescent argent in point.
^ Copy certified by Public Librarian at Valenciennes, and
by the Alderman (April 6, 1903), and stamped with the seal
of the Public Library, seal of the City, and the seal of the
French Government.

The first of the name of whom we have authen
tic record was CoUard Henno, of Mons (the cap
ital of the ancient county of Hainault), whose
presence at the reception of Burghers, in Valen
ciennes, is given in the Registry of Burghers of
that city under the date of February 7, 1463.
The immediate ancestor of the American
family was, however, his great-grandson, Jacques
Henno, who was lieutenant of the guard formed
by the Huguenot citizens of Valenciennes to re
sist the Spaniards ; and who, after the capture of
the town, fled to England, toward the end of the
16th century.
^ Records of Threadneedle Street church, published by
the Huguenot Society of Ix)ndon ; and extracts from docu
ments relating to the Huguenot immigration of the 16th
and 17th centuries in the British Museum.
^ Jacques Hennot, late lieutenant of the military guard
of Valenciennes, surrendered twice at Tournai, the first
time with Guy de Bres (the celebrated Huguenot preacher,
executed there in 1567), the second time after the death
of the latter. He was then taken under guard toward
Lisle, but escaped through the intervention of a band of
Huguenot horsemen, after which escape all trace of him
was lost by the authorities. He was pursued by order of
Theodore Cresia, commandant of the Italian Cavalry (under
the Duke of Alva), who gave instructions to capture the
Page Seven

With him, at the time, was his son, Jean
Henno, who afterward married Catherine Jone,
and whose son (the grandson of Lieutenant
Jacques Henno), Jacques^ [or James] Henno,
3d, emigrated to America in 1648, and settled at
Windsor, Connecticut.
body of Jacques Hennot wherever he might be found, prom
ising an honorable sum to any one who should deliver him
dead, or a double amount if the said Hennot should be de
livered alive. ("Confiscations et ordonnances concernant
les troubles survenus a la fin du VXI Siecle) — Royal
Archives Brussels), where, also, is found the decree con
fiscating all the lands and goods of said Jacques Hennot,
and branding him as an outlaw. The next trace of him
is in the documents of the British Museum relating to the
religious wars of Flanders. There among the names of the
refugees is found that of Jacques Hennot, late lieutenant
of the military guard at Valenciennes. This Jaques Hennot
settled in an English Province; his son John, however,
repaired to London, where we find the record in the archives
of the Threadneedle Street church of the baptism of James
Hennot, son of John Hennot, on August 21, 1625. This
last-named James Hennot is inscribed in the Historical
Record of the British Museum as having left London for
North America in 1648. "Archives Threadneedle Street
Church," vol. ii., 1576-1624. State papers, etc., 32091-
82096 (from 1086 to 1760), and especially from 1571-
1624. British Museum MSS.
The name is spelled variously Henne, de Henne, Hennot,
Henno, and later, in America, Enno. It was not spelled
Eno until about 1700.

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ENO
THE FAMILY IN FRANCE
1) CoLLAKD Henno
2) Jacques Henne married  Pesquier,
daughter of Nicolas Pesquier, Bailiff of Gand.
3) Jean de Henne married Isabelle Jeanne
Caille, daughter of Toussaint Cail and of Jossine
Pellerin. 4) Jacques de Henne married Jeanne Doye,
daughter of Antoine Doye, Bailiff and Receiver
of Gommegines, and of Rose Dugardin, daughter
of Alard Dugardin and Jeanne Roger.
5) Jean Henno married Catelaine Jone.
6) Jacques (James) Henno married Anna
Bidwell at Windsor, Connecticut, America, in
1648.
References: Collard Henne. 1, Collard
Henne, of Mons, is mentioned as father of
Jacques Henne at the Reception of Burghers,
February 1, 1463.^
^Register of Burghers, City Library, 1461-1463. MSS.
Sec. 41-28, folio 42, Archives of Valenciennes, 1478.
Page Nine

Jacques Henne (1st). His father-in-law is
given as Nicolas Pesquier in the will of his
nephew, Francois.^ He was alderman (echevin)
of Valenciennes, in 1466 and 1491, and Prevot
(Royal Governor) in 1480.'
Jean Henne: Jean Henne is given as the de
ceased husband of Isabelle Jeanne Caille in her
will, September 13, 1559,* and as the son of
Jacques Henne in the will of his brother, Fran-
9ois, September 23, 1547.' He was alderman of
the city in 1536-1539 and 1542."
Jacques Henne (2). His father-in-law is
given as Antoine Doye, Receiver of Gomme
gines.' He is mentioned as the son of the late
Jehan Henne and Isabel GuaiUe, in a deed of
sale.' He was alderman in 1560-61-1566, and
Treize Homme in 1577.^
^Archives of Valenciennes, 1541.
¦'' Library of Valenciennes, "Magistrates of the City of
Valenciennes" (MSS. 550-767).
* Archives of Valenciennes, 1559.
' Archives of Valenciennes, 1 547.
^MSS. 530-767.
'' Archives of Valenciennes, 1 540.
* Archives of Valenciennes, March 19, 1549.
»MSS. 550-767.

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THE FAMILY IN AMERICA
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 pro
nounce the s, and the Rhode Island branch of the
family has always retained that form. From the
Rhode Island family came the Delaware Enos.

6) JAMES ENNO, son of Jean Henno and
Catelaine Jone, who founded in America the
family that bears his name, was a native of Lon
don. He was baptized August 21, 1625, in the
Threadneedle Street Huguenot church. He
sailed for America in 1648, and settled in Wind
sor, Connecticut.
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
Page Eleven

Windsor, who seems to have been a man of prop
erty 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 84ith 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 received a grant called Massacoe.^ He
lived in Windsor, as did his son James 2d, but
^ Among other records of property deeded to James Enno
is the following:
"Also had given in the Palizado a stray of land on rodd
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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. (Simsbury Records, lib. I,
p. 90.)
"In the year 1660, James Enos had fifty acres
of land and an Island granted to him within the
limits of Simsbury by Mr. Henery Clark and
Mister Matthew Allyn apoynted by the Cort and
John Moses and others had also land then granted
to them in like manner, a true coppy. I, Mathew
Grant,'' do testify that James Enos had this grant
made to him as above sd. taken out of a coppy I
in breadth and in length from the four side of his shop as
it now stands back to the line of Walter Taylers land and
bounded North by the land of Tahan Grant and east by the
Towne Common. Nov. 28, 1663." (Windsor Records.)
"a Book of town wages in Windsor begun by Matthew
Grant in 1654."
* Mathew Grant was the ancestor of General U. S. Grant.
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had by Mister Henery Clark and Mister Mathew
Allyn." 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 imder the Simsbury moxmtains.
In 1664, James Enno with six others presented
a petition to the court asking for chvu*ch privi
leges and baptism for their children. Signed by
William Pitkin, of Hartford; Michael Hum
phreys, of Windsor; John Stedman, of Hart
ford; 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 accord
ing to the jointure (she being his 3d wife), and
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the remainder ordered to be delivered to his chil
dren forthwith, the children agreeing to pay the
duties against the estate.
Inventories 263. 12. 9
also 14. 13. 6

£278. 6. 3
Died July 11, 1682, and was buried in Wind
sor, Married, 1st, August 18, 1648, Anna Bidwell,
daughter of Richard Bidwell, of Windsor. She
was born October 22, 1634, and died October 7,
1657. The ancestor of the Windsor Bidwells
was John BidweU, proprietor at Hartford, Con
necticut, 1640, by "courtesie of the town." He
married Sarah, daughter of John Wilcocks, of
Hartford, both members of the second or fourth
church of Hartford, 1670. He died in 1687.
She died in June, 1690.
Married, 2d, August 5, 1658, the widow Eliza
beth Holcombe; she died October 7, 1679.
Married, 3d, April 29, 1680, the widow Hester
(Williams) Egleston, relict of James Egleston;
she died July 10, 1720, and is said to have been
the first white child bom in Hartford.
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Issue (by his first wife) :
1. Sarah Enno, b. June 15, 1649; d. in April, 1732;
m., 1st, April 12, 1667, Benjamin Holcombe; m., 2d,
Samuel Phelps.
2. James Enno, of whom below.
3. John Enno, b. December 2, 1654. He was an early
inhabitant of Simsbury. The town was destroyed and
the buildings burned by the Indians, March 26, 1676.
Upon the return of the inhabitants land was granted
on condition that the grantee should improve it. Sims
bury Records, lib. I, fol. ii : "At a gen'" Towne meeting
of ye inhabitants of Simsbury given John Eno yt land
which was formerly Arthur Henberies, which sd. land
lyes on the westerly syd the Brooke commonly called
by the name of Griffins Brooke. Given to ye said Eno
upon these articles yt ye sd. Eno lives in ye sd. Town
of Simsbury Ten years and carry on plantation duties
as Building fences and by breaking up ye sd. land.
These sd. articles to be fulfilled according to each par
ticular before ye sd. Eno shall have power or any wages
disposed or make alienation of ye sd, land." [This land
seems to have been forfeited by Arthur Henberry for
failure to improve.] Simsbury Records, lib. 1, p. 50:
Humphrey Pryor and John Eno were admitted inhab
itants June 27, 1687. lib. 1, p. 59: "Dec. 29, 1687.
At a Towne meeting of the inhabitants of Simsbury 20
acres of land on the south of John Williams' grant was
given to John Eno," lib. I, p. 67: "May 21, 1688. By
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ye Inhabitants of Simsbury to John Eno 20 acres of
land from ye river lying west of Baccons westward of
John Williams south of ye river." Record of deeds to
James Enno and John Enno occur from 1660 to 1690,
but the following record indicates that John afterwards
moved to Jersey. Simsbury Records, Red Book, p. 255 :
"James Enno (weaver), of Windsor, as Attorney for
his Brother John Enno, of the county of Gloucester and
province of West Jersie, husbandman," gives a deed to
Christopher Roberts, signed by James Enno and Mary
Eno, wife of John Eno, August 27, 1694. M., May 10,
1681, Mary Dibble, daughter of Eben and Mary
(Wakefield) Dibble.
Issue: i. Mary Enno, b, October 12, 1682. ii.
Martha Enno, b. April 6, 1685; m, John Winchel,
iii, Anna Enno, b. May 7, 1687, iv. Sarah Enno, m.
John Loomis,
7/
7) JAMES ENNO,^ ' son of James Enno
and Anna (Bidwell) Enno, was bom in Windsor,
October 30, 1651. He was a soldier in the Indian
^ Roger Wolcott, afterward Governor, was apprenticed
to "old Mr. Eno" to learn the trade of weaver.
^ Simsbury Records, book II, p. 149, a letter from Josiah
Ogden, of Newark, giving to his "trusty and well beloved
friend, James Eno, of Windsor, in the county of Hartford,
in the colony of Connecticut, yeoman," the power of at
torney.Page Seventeen

wars, and Stiles says that he probably served in
the Swamp fight in King Philip's war, * * He
owned part of a grist miU at Pequonnock. He
lived at Windsor, but owned lands in Simsbury,
not only those derived from his father, but lands
acquired by himself.'' "
James Enno, 2d, deeded most of his lands to
his children before he made his wiU. He gave his
half of the island to his sons, James, Wilham,
and John, of Simsbury, and Samuel of Windsor.
His will is dated June 24, 1709. Inventory dated
August 5, 1714. Estate £642-17-6. His wife
* "History of Ancient Windsor," by Henry B. Stiles.
* Eleven petitioners in 1705 for a grant of land for
services in King Philip's war, being the sole survivors of
the "Swamp fight"; among them was James Eno.
° "Simsbury Records, lib. I, Jan. 28, 1674. At a town
meeting of the inhabitants of Simsbury given to James
Enno a certain tract of land in ye mountain lyeing adjacent
to his marsh on the west side of ye said marsh which ye
said Enno bought of Jonathan Gillyt, Sen"'', of Windsor.
The grant was that ye sd. Enno should prosecut the outsyd
lyne next the hill till he came to the southerly end of ye sd.
marsh and there to end his measur; and from thence to
turne ye squar easterly to ye marsh. This said tract of land
within this compass was given to ye sd Enno."
* "Jan. 16, 1674. Given at a towne meeting of ye inhab
itants of Simsbury to James Eno, his heirs and assigns
forever, foure acres of land on the west syd of his marsh
joyning to ye other upland given by the town to his father."
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died in 1728, and her son-in-law, Joseph Case,
presented the inventory of her estate.
Died July 16, 1714.
Married, December 26, 1678, Abigail Bissell,
daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Holcombe)
Bissell. She was born July 6, 1661, and died
April 19, 1728. It is probable that the Bissell
family is of Huguenot origin, but the founders
of the American branch came directly from Eng
land. John Bissell was in Windsor, Connecticut,
before 1640, and died October 3, 1677. Samuel
Bissell, third son of the preceding, was bom in
Windsor, and died May 17, 1697. He married,
June 11, 1658, Abigail Holcombe, daughter of
Thomas Holcombe; she died August 17, 1688.
Her father was a freeman of Dorchester, Massa
chusetts, in 1634, and a member of the constitu
tional convention of Connecticut in 1639,
Abigail Bissell, daughter of the preceding, mar
ried James Eno.
Issue :
1. James Enno, 3d, b. September 23, 1679. He was
called Sergeant James Enno. D. in 1764; m., 1st,
April 5, 1703, Mary Grant, daughter of John Grant
Page Nineteen

and granddaughter of Matthew Grant. M., 2d, July
15, 1708, Hannah Phelps, daughter of Timothy and
Mary (Griswold) Phelps.
2. Ann Enno, b. April 10, 1682; d, June 10, 1760;
m,, April 6, 1699, Joseph Case, son of John and Sarah
(Spencer) Case,
3. William Enno [who spelled his name Eno], b,
January 5, 1684. He lived in Simsbury, His descen
dants are said to have settled in Massachusetts, The
Enno family seems to have been always attached to the
Church of England. We find in Simsbury Records,
Book VI, of Deeds, May 30, 1743, land lying in Scot
land conveyed to Lieutenant William Enos and William
Case, of Simsbury, as members of the Church of Eng
land in trust for the Church, The Episcopal Church
in Scotland was organized in 1740, and called "St, An
drews." The first church was located at a fork in the
roads on the road from Adams' Hotel southward toward
Hartford. D. in 1763; m„ in 1709, Mary North,
Issue: i, William Eno, b, December 6, 1721-2.
4. Abigail Enno, b. March 1, 1686-7; m., April 3,
1707, Samuel Phelps,
5, Mary Enno, b. May 5, 1691; d, September 15,
1697, 6, John Enno, b. January 5, 1693.
7. Samuel Enno (Captain), b. July 7, 1696. He
lived in Windsor and seems to have been a man of some
means. In 1759, Mr, Wolcott, Samuel Eno, and Pela-
tiah Mills were appointed agents to apply to the general
Page Twenty

assembly for a division of the town of Windsor, but the
town was not incorporated till 1768. D. August 17,
1778; m., December 24, 1735, Eunice Marshall, daugh
ter of Thomas and Mary (Drake) Marshall. Issue:
i. Eunice Enno, b. March 4, 1737 ; d. young, ii. Samuel
Enno, b. March 19, 1738; d. December 9, 1797. iii.
Eliphalet Enno, b. March 29, 1740. iv, Daniel Enno,
b, April 12, 1742 ; d. August 26, 1818, v. Asahel Enno,
b, August 2, 1744; d, August 7, 1821. vi. Eunice
Enno, b. October 5, 1746; d. October 29, 1816. vii.
Moses Enno, b. August 13, 1752 ; d, November 21, 1826.
8, Susannah Enno, b. May 16, 1699.
9, David Enno, of whom below,
III
8) DAVID ENNO, youngest son of James
Enno and Abigail (Bissell) Enno, was born in
Simsbury, Connecticut, August 12, 1702. He
was a soldier in the French-Indian wars, taking
part in the campaign to Cape Breton, where he
died. He lived in an old house on the site of
Averit Wilcox's house in Simsbury street. He is
said to have perished in the attack upon Louis-
bourg by General Wolfe.
Died in June, 1745.
Married," October 20, 1726, Mary Gillet,
^"Simsbury Records," book III., p. 251.
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daughter of Nathan Gillet, descended from
Nathan Gillet, who came from England to Con
necticut in 1634. She was born February 28,
1702-3, and died in Simsbury, November 23,
1760. She was buried in Simsbury graveyard; a
tombstone has the following inscription: "Mary
Eno died Nov. 23, 1760. aet. 58. bom Feb. 29,
1702." Issue :
1. Mary Enno, b. August 4, 1727.
2. Roger Enos, b. in Simsbury, in 1729. He was in
the military service, first of the Connecticut colony,
then in the Continental army, and finally of the state
of Vermont, from 1759 to 1791, attaining to the rank
of major-general. D. in Colchester, Vermont, and was
buried at Burlington, in the same burial lot with Gen.
Ethan Allen and Gen. Ira Allen. The following is the
inscription on his tombstone, which was probably erected
by his daughter, Jerusha: "Major-General Roger
Enos, whose remains are deposited here, was a patriot
of the Revolution and assisted in the foundation of this
State. He died at Colchester on the 6th day of October,
1808, aged 75 years. This testimony of respect is paid
by his surviving 7 children." M. in Windsor, Connec
ticut, March 10, 1763, Jerusha Hayden, daughter of
Daniel and Esther (Moore) Hayden, Issue: i, Jerusha
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Enos, b, February 6, 1764 ; m. Gen. Ira Allen, brother
of Ethan Allen, ii. Sibbel Enos, b, February 6, 1766 ;
d. in East Windsor, June 19, 1796 ; m, Noahdiah Bis
sell, of East Windsor, Connecticut, iii. Roger Enos,
b. February 14, 1768. iv. Pascal Paoli Enos, b. Feb
ruary 17, 1770. V, Elizabeth Enos, b. May 20, 1774.
3. David Enno. Issue: i. David Enno, d, without
issue, ii, Elihu Enno, d, without issue, iii. Theodosia
Enno, never married, iv. Clementina Enno, m. Mr,
Clark, and had two daughters, one of whom m, Mr, Per
kins. She lived in New York and had sons and
daughters. 4. Mercy Eno, b. in 1734 ; d. November 3, 1806 ; m.,
in 1754, John Langdon.
5. Jonathan Eno, of whom below.
IV
JONATHAN ENO,^ son of David Enno
and Mary (Gillet) Enno, was bom in Simsbury,
in 1739. He was a captain in the militia. He
owned the covenant April 14, 17.65. He built a
house in Hart's Quarters, afterward owned and
occupied by Thomas Gridley, by Captain Eleazer
Curtis, and then by Ira Stanly, Sen*^. He after
ward moved to Simsbury, where he died.
Died December 4, 1813, aet. seventy-four.
^ Tombstone states Captain Jonathan Eno.
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Married, January 7, 1765, Mary Hart, daugh
ter of Ehjah and Abigail (Goodrich) Hart, of
Berlin and New Britain, Connecticut. She was
bom December 26, 1744; died October 8, 1834,
in Simsbury, aged ninety years. She owned the
covenant April 14, 1765.
[Hart, of English origin, the Hart family was estab
lished in the new world early in the seventeenth
century,] Stephen Hart, the progenitor, came from Braintree,
England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1632,
He lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hartford
and Farmington, Connecticut, He was one of the seven
pillars of the church in Farmington,
Thomas Hart, son of Stephen Hart, was b, in 1644,
He was an ensign, lieutenant and captain of the Farm
ington trainband; deputy thirteen years; speaker of
the general court five years; justice of Hartford seven
years, and otherwise prominent and active. He married
Ruth, daughter of Anthony Hopkins,
Thomas Hart, son of Thomas Hart and Ruth (Hop
kins) Hart, was bom in 1680, in Farmington. He
settled in Kensington, Connecticut, where he was an in
fluential citizen, being a justice of the peace, and a
deputy to the genera] court at five sessions. He died
January 29, 1773. He married, December 17, 1702,
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Mary Thompson, daughter of John and Mary (Steele)
Thompson, Elijah Hart, son of Thomas Hart and Mary (Thomp
son) Hart, was born in Kensington, June 18, 1711. He
settled in New Britain, and there d. August 3, 1772.
He m., December 23, 1734, Abigail Goodrich, daughter
of Allen and Elizabeth Goodrich. She was b. Decem
ber 14, 1714; d. January 21, 1809.
Mary Hart, only daughter of Elijah Hart and Abi
gail (Goodrich) Hart, was b. in New Britain, October
26, 1744. She m. Jonathan Eno.]
Issue of Jonathan Eno and Mary (Hart)
Eno: 1. Mary [Polly] Eno, b. December 21, 1765; m.,
April 30, 1782, Elijah Tuller, of Simsbury.
2. Rhoda Eno, b. August 12, 1766 ; m. Daniel Phelps.
3, Jonathan Eno, b, March 15, 1769; d, September
5, 1821 ; m,, in 1790, Theodosia Case. Issue : I. Jona
than Eno, had issue: i. Jonathan Eno, went south and
died. ii. Amanda Eno. iii. Julia Eno. Twins, iv, Eva
Eno, m. Dr. Sanf ord ; v. Ada Eno, m. Mr. Hummason.
II. Nancy Eno, m. Walter FOley, and had two sons.
III. Flora Eno, unmarried. IV. Julia Eno, m. 
Filley, and moved to Illinois. V. Paoli Eno, died young.
VI, Eunicia Eno, m, Elam Tuller, of Simsbury, and
had three sons,
4, Lucretia Eno, b, February 13, 1771 ; m, David
Humphrey.Page Twenty-Five

6. Elizabeth Eno, b. August 19, 1773 ; d. in 1868 ;
m,, December 12, 1793, Alexander Phelps,
6, Sintha Eno, b. May 28, 1777 ; m. Hezekiah Case.
7. Salmon Eno, of whom below.
8. Chauncey Eno, b. December 19, 1782 ; d. January
13, 1845 ; m., November 4, 1807, Amarilla Case, daugh
ter of Fithian and Amarilla (Humphrey) Case, of
Canton, Connecticut. Issue: i. Elizur Eno, m, Eliza
beth Fuller, ii. Cordelia Eno, m, Watson Wilcox, iii.
Evelyn Eno, m. Harriet Goodwin, iv. Janette Eno, m.
Rufus Tuller, v, Josiah Eno, lived in Plymouth, Penn
sylvania, and m. Miss Glassell, of Virginia,
9, Abigail Eno, b, February 28, 1785 ; m, October 2
1805, John Viets, She died December 20, 1863.

10) SALMON ENO, second son and sev
enth child of Jonathan Eno and Mary (Hart)
Eno, was born December 13, 1779. He was a
member of the Connecticut legislature in 1834.
He lived first in the house of Mr. Colton just
north of the railroad at Hoskins station, after
wards occupied by Mr. Noble. (Here Amos R.
Eno was born. ) Afterwards he lived in the house
later occupied by Chester Eno, his son, which he
bought of Joseph Humphrey. This house was
built by Captain Joe Humphrey about 1760.
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Died in Simsbury, April 3, 1842.
Married, June 2, 1805, Polly Richards, daugh
ter of Amos and Lydia (Lewis) Richards.
[Richards, Amos, son of John Richards and Mary
French, was b, April 7, 1759. "The Record of Con
necticut Men in the Military and Naval Service during
the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783, Edited by
Henry P, Johnston. 1889." Page 62— Amos Richards,
Col. Hinman's Regt, — 4th Regt, Enlisted April-May,
1775, Discharged Sept, 1, 1775, This Regiment was
"raised on the first call for troops, April-May, 1775,
and recruited mainly in Litchfield County, Upon the
surprise of Ft, Ticonderoga, May 10, Gov. Trumbill
ordered this regiment to march as soon as possible to
secure that Post and Crown Point against recapture.
A request to this effect was also made by the Continental
Congress. The regiment reached Ticonderoga in June,
and Col. Hinman assumed command until the arrival
of Gen'l Schuyler. Took part in the operations of the
Northern Department until expiration of term of
service, Dec, 1775. Regiment suffered much from sick
ness and many men were mustered out in Oct.-Nov.,
1775," Died at Lyons, Jefferson county, New York.
M., March 23, 1780, Lydia Lewis.]
Issue of Salmon Eno and Polly (Richards)
Eno:
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1. Emeline Eno, b. December 11, 1805; m. Ozias
Buell Bassett.
2. Aaron Richards Eno, b. July 4, 1808; d. April 1,
1835 ; m. Ruth Taller.
3, Amos Richards Eno, of whom below,
4, Salmon Chester Eno, b. June 12, 1814; m., Oc
tober 29, 1845, Sarah Cornelia Goodwin, daughter of
Jonathan Goodwin and Candace Bird, daughter of Dr,
Jonathan Bird. Issue: i, Aaron Lewis Eno, b. Sep
tember 28, 1846; m, Harriet H, Phelps, daughter of
Jeffrey 0. Phelps, ii. Charles Goodwin Eno, b. August
6, 1848 ; m. Lena Kasbier. iii. Sarah Cornelia Eno, b.
November 20, 1851 ; m, Charles J. Parker, of New
Britain, Connecticut, iv, George Chester Eno, b, Oc
tober 30, 1854 ; m. Nellie Goodrich, and has issue,
VI
11 ) AMOS RICHARDS ENO second son
and third child of Salmon Eno and Polly (Rich
ards) Eno, was born in Simsbury, Connecticut,
November 1, 1810, A thorough common school
education fitted him for business pursuits and
before he had reached the age of twenty he had
acquired a practical experience in a dry-goods
house in Hartford. Shortly after he went to New
York, and there, in 1833, in company with his
cousin, John Jay Phelps, started the firm of Eno
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& Phelps. From small beginnings this concern
grew to large proportions and became one of the
leading wholesale dry-goods houses in the
metropolis. Continuing until 1850, the firm was
then dissolved, and Mr. Eno thenceforward de
voted himself to his real estate interests that had
gradually grown to large proportions. He was
one of the first to develop certain sections of the
city down town in the neighborhood of the City
Hall, and in 1859 he built the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, at Twenty-third street. Fifth avenue and
Broadway, in an uptown part of the city that
was then considered "out of the world." He was
one of the founders of the Second National Bank
and was connected with other financial enter
prises. He was a man of fine instincts and gen
erous impulses. Among his many benefactions
were a public library, costing fifty thousand dol
lars, and a town farm with buildings to his native
town of Simsbury.
Died in New York, February 21, 1898.
Married, January 14, 1835, Lucy Jane Phelps,
born March 1, 1818; died November 14, 1882;
daughter of Elisha and Lucy (Smith) Phelps,
of Simsbury.
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Elisha Phelps was a graduate of Yale College,
member of Congress from Connecticut, and
Speaker of the House of Representatives. He
was the son of Major General Noah Phelps and
Lydia Griswold, and a descendant of William
Phelps of Tewkesbury, England, who landed in
Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, and was one of the
original settlers of Windsor, Conn., in 1635.
Issue:
1, Amos F. Eno, of whom below.
2. Mary Jane Eno, b. September 23, 1837 ; m, James
W. Pinchot, Issue: I. Gifford Pinchot, II. Amos
R. E. Pinchot. Ill, Antoinette Eno Pinchot, married
Sir Alan Johnstone, of Hackness Hall, Yorkshire,
3, Anna Maria Eno, b. February 26, 1839 ; d. April,
1883. 4. Henry Clay Eno, of whom below.
5. Antoinette Eno, b, January 20, 1842; m., in the
old homestead, Charles Broughton Wood.
6, Salmon Elisha Eno, d. February 19, 1847.
7. John Chester Eno, of whom below.
8. Lucy Phelps Eno, b. October 9, 1849 ; d. August
6, 1851,
9. William Phelps Eno, of whom below.

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VII
AMOS F. ENO, eldest son of Amos
Richards and Lucy Jane (Phelps) Eno, was
bom in New York, June 13, 1836. He served in
the Civil War on the staff of his uncle. General
John Phelps, of Missouri, retiring with the rank
of colonel. He was a large holder of real estate
in New York city. He was a member of the
Manhattan, Union League, Jekyl Island and
Turf and Field clubs. The Century Association,
The Down Town Association, The New England
Society, the American Geographical Society, and
patron of the American Museum of Natural His
tory. Died October 21, 1915.
12 ) HENRY CLAY ENO, second son and
fourth child of Amos Richards Eno and Lucy
Jane (Phelps) Eno, was born in New York city
October 28, 1840. He was graduated from Yale
College in 1860, M. A., 1864, and from the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in
1864. He became a physician and served in the
civil war as a medical cadet. He practiced his
profession in New York until 1882.
He was a member of the University, Groher,
Psi Upsilon, City, Midday, New York Yacht,
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Larchmont Yacht, Seawanhaka - Corinthian
Yacht clubs, and the Century Association.
Married, October 12, 1869, Cornelia Lane,
daughter of George William Lane, and Ann
Augusta Bulkeley, a descendant of Peter Bulke-
ley, of Odell, Bedfordshire, who came to Boston,
Mass., in 1633, of New York city. He was for
many years president of the Chamber of Com
merce of New York and was comptroller of New
York city under Mayor Havemeyer. He was a
descendant of George Lane, who settled in Rye,
New York, in 1660.
Died July 16, 1914.
Issue of Henry Clay Eno and Cornelia (Lane)
Eno: 1, Henry Lane Eno, of whom below,
JOHN CHESTER ENO, fourth son and
seventh child of Amos Richards Eno and Jucy
Jane (Phelps) Eno, was bom January 22, 1848.
He was graduated from Yale College in 1869,
and for many years was in business in New York
city. Died February 28, 1914.
Married Harriet A. Christmas.
Issue:
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1. Florence Eno, m. William Leon Graves and has
issue, 2, Mary Eno, m. Haakon Bjornsten Steffanson,
WILLIAM PHELPS ENO, youngest son
of Amos Richards Eno and Lucy Jane (Phelps)
Eno, was born June 3, 1858. He was graduated
from Yale College in 1882. He is a resident of
Washington, D. C, and belongs to the Univer
sity, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, New York
Yacht, and Yale clubs, the Automobile Club of
America and City of New York; the Cosmos,
Metropolitan, Riding and Hunt, University,
Chevy Chase and Play House clubs of W9,shing-
ton, D. C. ; the Graduates and Quinnipiack clubs
of New Haven, and the Boston Club of New Or
leans, Louisiana.
He devoted much of his time to real estate until
1900, and since that time has been almost entirely
occupied in the regulation of street traffic in New
York and Paris, both of which cities have of
ficially adopted his regulations. His chief works
on the subject have been "Street Traffic Regula
tion," published in English in 1909, and "Le
Probleme de la Circulation," published in French
in 1912.
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Married, April 4, 1883, Alice Rathbone, of
New Orleans. She died in Washington, D. C,
December 19, 1911. nil
13) HENRY LANE ENO, son of Henry
Clay Eno and Cornelia (Lane) Eno, was born in
New York city, July 8, 1871. He was graduated
from Yale in 1894 and from Columbia Law
School in 1898. Since 1915 he has been a mem
ber of the Faculty (Department of Psychology)
of Princeton University. He has published a
number of scientific articles, "Activism," a vol
ume of philosophy (Princeton University Press
1920), "The Baglioni," a play in verse (N. Y.
1905), and a volume of poems (1920) .
During his travels abroad he investigated the
genealogical records of the Eno family, and has
contributed the data relating to the ancient his
tory of the family which appears in this article.
He personally verified the genealogy of the
family at Valenciennes by examining the muni
cipal records, and he also examined the records
that were left during the short sojourn of the
family in England.
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He is a member of the University, Century,
and New York Yacht clubs, the Nassau Club of
Princeton, and the MetropoUtan Club of Wash
ington. Married, October 19, 1898, Edith Labouisse,
of New Orleans, daughter of Peter and Pauhne
(Rathbone) Labouisse, descendant of an ancient
Huguenot family from Languedoc, in the south
of France, where these records may be found
back to the fifteenth century.^
Issue :
14) 1. Alice Labouisse Eno, b. August 2,
1903. 2. Amos Eno, b. August 19, 1909.
'¦ "La France Moderne." N, J. Villain.

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