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Short, upright, slate gravestone, contemporary to burial
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Author: Stephen Renouf
My Revolutionary War ancestor, Enos Hotchkiss, descends from an English Family from Dodington, County Shropshire. Enos’s immigrant ancestor, Samuel Hotchkiss I, was born in Dodington, England around 1622. He immigrated to Connecticut, and settled in the New Haven Colony. His son, Samuel Hotchkiss II, served as a lieutenant in King Philip’s War in 1675. Enos Hotchkiss married Elizabeth Shepard on February 5, 1756 in East Haven, Connecticut and they had nine children: Enos Hotchkiss (January 25, 1757), Elihu Hotchkiss (December 1757), Elizabeth Hotchkiss (October 2, 1763), Ruth Hotchkiss (October 2, 1763), John Hotchkiss (June 17, 1764), Huldah Hotchkiss (1765), Stephen Hotchkiss (October 30, 1772), Hannah Hotchkiss (August 10, 1774), and Samuel Hotchkiss (April 25, 1778). Enos Hotchkiss served as a Private in the Revolutionary War for Connecticut in Captain William Van Deursen’s Artillery Company of State Guards, stationed at New Haven in 1781. He enlisted on February 20, 1781, and was discharged on August 1, 1781. Elizabeth Shepard died on February 21, 1819, in Brattleboro, Vermont. Enos and Elizabeth are buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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