Captain Enoch Ilsley

Brief Life History of Enoch

When Captain Enoch Ilsley was born on 4 March 1784, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Stephen Ilsley, was 49 and his mother, Elizabeth Noyes, was 47. He married Margaret S Dutch on 5 January 1811, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1815, in At Sea, at the age of 31, and was buried in Kennebunk, York, Maine, United States.

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Captain Enoch Ilsley
1784–1815
Margaret S Dutch
1782–1870
Marriage: 5 January 1811
Lenora Ilsley
1813–1910
Edwin Ilsley
1813–1815
John Ilsley
1814–1815

Sources (15)

  • Enock Ilsley, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
  • Enoch Ilsley, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Enoch Ilsley, "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980"

World Events (8)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from East and West Ilsley (Berkshire), from the Old English personal name Hild(i) (genitive Hildes) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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