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Name-Dropper: Gen. Enoch Poor
« on: September 18, 2014, 02:43:37 PM »
The Name-Dropper: General Enoch Poor, Hackensack
September 18, 2014    Last updated: Thursday, September 18, 2014, 1:21 AM
By JEFFREY PAGE
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD
The Record

General Enoch Poor had no ties to New Jersey before the American Revolution. But once the war began, he spent time with Washington at Morristown headquarters, fought alongside Lafayette at the Battle of Monmouth, and was buried in Hackensack, about 100 feet from where a heroic statue of himself later would be placed.

He was a soldier's general, fearless in battle and fearless when confronting authority not behaving well, especially when the welfare of his soldiers was at stake.

Poor was born in Massachusetts but spent most of his life in Exeter, N.H., where he had a shipbuilding business. Even Poor's pre-war activities were the stuff of legend. In Exeter, for example, he led the Colonial boycott of British tea to protest the despised Townsend Acts, which imposed heavy taxes on several important products including paper, glass, and lead, as well as tea.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/hero-of-the-revolution-is-buried-in-hackensack-1.1090808?page=all