Enoch Stowell was born July 16, 1740 in Newton, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.  He was the son of Israel Stowell and his wife Sarah Cheney.  His younger brother Abijah served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  His older brothers Israel (#A110978) and Joseph (#A11098) provided patriotic service as Selectman and as signers of the Association Test in Support of the Committee of Safety in Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. 

In 1764, Enoch with his brothers Israel and Joseph (and their young families) moved to Winchester.  That same year, Enoch joined the Winchester Church.  There he married on September 12, 1765, Sarah Field the daughter of Gaius Field and his wife Sarah Holton.  Sarah was born on April 9, 1743 in Winchester.  Enoch and Sarah Stowell had nine known children: Daniel, Acish, Enoch, Jesse, David, Solomon, Roswell, Royal, and Sylvanus.  Enoch was a farmer and Baptist minister. 

In March 1774 he was selected to serve as Constable.  On December 5, 1776 he entered service for four months as a Corporal in Capt. Francis Townes’s Company, Col. David Gilman’s 2^nd Regiment New Hampshire Militia to reinforce forces at Ticonderoga.  In 1778 he served in Capt. Oliver Capon’s Company, Colonel Samuel Ashley’s 13^th New Hampshire Regiment (afterwards the 6^th New Hampshire Regiment).  In March 1778 and again in February 1781 he was selected for the Winchester committee to hire their quota of men for the Continental army.  Enoch was one of seven representatives from the town of Winchester at the formation of the State of New Hampshire. 

Sarah (Field) Stowell died on December 16, 1815 in Winchester and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.  After Sarah’s death he moved with his son Enoch, Jr. to New Woodstock, Madison County, New York where he died on March 24, 1829.  Enoch Stowell is buried in Smith Valley Cemetery in Lebanon, Madison County, New York. 

References:

“Stowell Genealogy: a record of the descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham, Mass.,” William Henry Harrison Stowell, The Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT, 1922

“The Leading Citizens of Madison County,” Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1894

Enoch Stowell, Revolutionary War Records, www.Fold3.com