Enos Barrett

BARRETT, BELLINGER, ROGERS, CARR

Posted By: County Coordiantor
Date: 11/18/2006 at 22:20:02

Enos Barrett, farmer, Sec 11, P O Boone, was born in Windham county, Vermont, March 4, 1812, whe4n four years of age his parents removed to Jefferson county, New York, where he grew to manhood, the Barrett’s are of Scotch descent and first settled in Massachusetts, his maternal grandfather, Enos Hudson, served under late General Washington in the Revolutionary War, at an early age the subject of this sketch chose toe millwright trade, which occupation he followed exclusively from 1835 for upward of thirty years, in 1855 he removed to this county and was employed in building the first flouring mill in the county, in the mean time he had purchased the farm he now owns, which consists of 180 acres in a fine state of cultivation, he married December 8, 1836, to Miss Louisa Bellinger, born in Herkimer county, New York, she is of German origin, their family consists of seven children living: Malinda L (wife of N P Rogers), Ellen A, George W, Caroline (now Mrs Joseph H Carr), Isaac L, Smith C, and John R, lost one infant son.

1880 Boone Co History Book