Holbrook line: Enos Eddy died 1782

 I wrote about Elisha Eddy, Enos's father, about a year ago and didn't have a lot to say about him.  Our ancestor Enos Eddy also stayed pretty much under the radar, leaving us with many questions about his life.  But we do know a few things...

Enos was the son of Elisha and Sarah Phetteplace Eddy, and was probably born about 1737.  His home was Glocester, Providence County, which had been part of Providence Plantation until 1731.  His parents had lived there as had his Eddy grandparents, so he was born with Rhode Island roots.  

Enos was one of at least four children born to Elisha and Sarah, and would have had a "normal" upbringing, for the time and place.  He likely learned at least rudimentary skills of reading and writing, and as the oldest son, would have been the one who was best trained in his father's occupation of farming.  At the time of Elisha's death, Elisha was called a yeoman and Enos a husbandman, even though Enos already had 100 acres of land which his father had given him shortly before his death.  

He may have been married twice, because I found a reference to Sarah Brown marrying Enos "as his second wife", but I've not found records of an earlier marriage.  He did marry Sarah Brown, daughter of Othniel and Deborah Brown, on August 30, 1761, when he was about 24 years old.  If there was an earlier marriage, it was short-lived and likely the unknown wife died, perhaps in child birth.  

I've not found Enos's name on any of the Rhode Island lists of military service, but that doesn't mean he didn't serve.  He would have been the right age to participate in the French and Indian War, although Rhode Island as a whole doesn't seem to have been to have been as involved in that way as much as, say, Massachusetts or New York.  We know he was on a 1777 military list taken by the state and was then categorized as being between the ages of 16 and 50 (hence the possible birth date of 1737), and able bodied.  Did he participate in the Revolutionary War in any way, either as a Patriot or as a Loyalist? Did he perhaps give supplies to the cause?  He's not in the DAR database, but again, that is not complete.

The glimpses of records we do have show him being admitted as a freeman in 1760, and in 1774 and 1782 census records.  In 1774 his household consisted of 5 persons and in 1782, six.  Enos wrote his will May 28, 1782 and it was proved October 9, 1782, but that seems to be as close as we can come to an actual date of death. He would have been about 45 years old. His and Sarah's four children were all under the age of 21, so his brother, Jesse Eddy, was named as co-executor with Sarah in the will.  I have not seen his will or inventory.

We don't know of any military service, we don't know his religious beliefs (some of his children were Baptist but we don't know whether Enos was), and we don't know of any civic service for Enos.  That's a lot of unknowns.  But we do know that he married and raised a family, lived in interesting times, and likely had a story or two to tell in his time.  

The line of descent is

Enos Eddy-Sarah Brown

Enos Eddy-Deborah Paine

Joseph Brown Eddy-Susan Lamphire

Susan Eddy-Hiram Stanard

Louis Stanard-Mary Alice Hetrick

Etta Stanard-Loren Holbrook

Gladys Holbrook-Richard Allen

Their descendants