Enoch Nelson
(circa 1783 - 29 January 1863)
3 gen. navigation
4th great-grandfather of Darrell Allen Martin.

Enoch was born in New Hampshire, circa 1783.1,2,3 He was the son of ? Nelson. Enoch arrived in Newbury, VT about 1804. He settled on what was later called "the John Miller place" below Boltonville, and was living there, near his brother Stephen, in 1832. William Gardner also lived nearby. He married Lydia? Pike say 1806. The best I can do fitting this family together suggests that Lydia? was married as young as 15 years old, and bore her first child very soon thereafter. Enoch was a head of family, age 50 to under 60 and engaged in agriculture, in the 1840 Census taken in Newbury, Orange County, Vermont. A possible composition of the household was Enoch and his wife Lydia?, their daughter Nancy age 19, possibly their daughter Rebecca age 25, two of their married daughters, those daughters' husbands (both engaged in agriculture), a grandson, and a granddaughter.4 He married Lydia Alexander in Newbury, on 2 July 1842.5 He was a head of household in the 30 July 1850 census taken in Newbury, a farmer age 67; his real estate was valued at $2,000, the equivalent of $43,500 in the year 2000; Lydia Alexander resided in the same household, as "Lydia Nelson" age 61; as did Charlotte J. Parker, a student age 15; and Hugh N. Gardner, as "Hugh Gardiner" a farmer age 18.5 He married ? (--?--) in Newbury, prior to 1863. Enoch died on 29 January 1863 in Newbury.

     Appears on these charts:
          10-generation pedigree for Darrell Allen Martin

     Children of Enoch Nelson and Lydia? Pike:

Hannah Nelson +   (say 1806 - after the 1880 Census)
Polly Nelson   (22 Jan 1807 - 26 Mar 1875)
Sarah Nelson   (say Jul 1810 - )
Eliza Nelson +   (22 Apr 1812 - fol 1880)
Lydia Nelson   (say Feb 1814 - )
Rebecca Nelson   (say Dec 1815 - 1 May 1842)
Abigail Nelson   (say Oct 1817 - )
Alice Nelson (Elsie?)   (say Aug 1819 - )
Nancy Nelson   (26 Jun 1821 - 21 Jan 1866)

Cited documentation:

1. [S29] Nelson, Enoch, 1850 Census Newbury, VT, age 67 b. "NH."
2. [S181] Nelson, Enoch, 1840 Census Newbury, VT, age 50 to under 60.
3. [S4] Felch, Allen, 1880 Census Newbury, VT, as father of "Eliza Gardner", b. "NH."
4. [S181] Nelson, Enoch, 1840 Census Newbury, VT.
5. [S29] Nelson, Enoch, 1850 Census Newbury, VT.

The author strongly cautions the reader about making any assumption concerning the existence of uncited documentation (whether the assumption is that it does exist -- or that it does not).

Content and all unattributed graphics by: Darrell A. Martin

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