Enoch Poor

Enoch Poor (June 21, 1736 (Old Style) – September 8, 1780) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

His father Thomas Poor had been part of the 1745 expedition that captured Louisburg, Nova Scotia, during King George's War.

In 1755, Poor enlisted as a private in one of the Massachusetts units raised to accompany Jeffery Amherst's expedition to retake Louisburg during the French and Indian War.

In the summer of 1775, the unit was absorbed into the Continental Army; they were ordered into the Northern Department and went with General Richard Montgomery's invasion of Canada.

The unit was renamed as the 8th Continental regiment and joined Washington's main army in December 1776 at winter quarters near Morristown, New Jersey.

Moving south, they joined General Horatio Gates before the Battle of Saratoga, and his brigade was expanded by two regiments of Connecticut militia (Cook's and Latimer's).

They performed well, keeping General Simon Fraser's regulars engaged while Benedict Arnold led attacks on the central column.

In the Battle of Bemis Heights, Poor's brigade was in General Benjamin Lincoln's division on the western end of the American line.

The monument to Gen. Poor, just a few feet from his burial site in Hackensack, New Jersey
Poor's burial site. The inscription includes: In 1824, Lafayette re visited this grave, and turning away much affected, exclaimed, Ah, that was one of my Generals.