THE ENO FAMILY NEW YORK BRANCH 1920 Arms.1 Azure, a chevron argent, two estoiles d' or in chief, crescent argent in point. 1 Copy certified by Public Librarian ·at V alenciennes, and by the Alderman (April 6, 1903), and stamped with the seal of the Public Library, seal of the City, and the seal of the French Government. The first of the name of whom we have authen­ tic record was Collard Henno, of Mons ( the cap­ ital of the ancient county of Hainault), whose presence at the reception of Burghers, in Valen­ ciennes, is given in the Registry of Burghers of that city under the date of February 7, 1463. ThP- _..__ 1mmPtl-i~-f-p_ ______ .....,_..__'11,1...., ..........9T\l'lP"1-f-n1'9 ....,...,fl,,J ...,......,.... A-P......,.a. +l-.o.., ....... """ ..4...a...LA..&.'-'.£.~~L1 mo..,..;n"'l"" ........... .£,. family was, however, his great-grandson, J" acques Henno, who was lieutenant of the guard formed by the Huguenot citizens of Valenciennes to re­ sist the Spaniards; and who, after the capture of the town, fled to England, toward the end of the 16th century. 1 Records of Threadneedle Street church, published by the Huguenot Society of London; and extracts from docu­ ments relating to the Huguenot immigration of the 16th and 17th centuries in the British Museum. 2 Jacques Hennot, late lieutenant of the military guard of Valenciennes, surrendered twice at Tournai, the first time with Guy de Bres (the celebrated Huguenot preacher, executed there in 1567), the second time after the death of the latter. He was then taken under guard toward Lisle, but escaped through the intervention of a band of Huguenot horsemen, after which escape all trace of him was lost by the authorities. He was pursued by order of Theodore Cresia, commandant of the Italian Cavalry ( under the Duke of Alva), who gave instructions to capture the Page Seven With him, at the time, was his son, Jean Henno, who afterward married Catherine Jone, and whose son ( the grandson of Lieutenant Jacques Henno), J acques2 [or James] Benno, 3d, emigrated to America in 1648, and settled at Windsor, Connecticut. body of Jacques Hennot wherever he might be found, prom­ ising an honorable sum to any one who should deliver him dead, or a double amount if the said Hennot should be de­ livered alive. ( "Confiscations et ordonnances concernant les troubles survenus a la fin du VXI Siecle )-Royal Archives Brussels), where, also, is found the decree con­ :fiscating all the lands and goods of said Jacques Hennot., and branding him as an outlaw. The next trace of him is in the documents of the British ~fuseum relating to the religious wars of Flanders. There among the names of the :refugees· is found that of Jacques Hennot, late lieutenant of the military guard at V alenciennes. This Jaques Hennot settled in an English Province; his son John., however, repaired to London, where we nnd the :record in the archives of the Threadneedle Street church of the baptism of James Hennot, son of John Hennot, on August 21, 1625. This last-named James Hennot is inscribed in the Historical Record of the British Museum as having left London for North America in 1648. "Archives Threadneedle Street Church/' vol. ii., 1576-1624. State papers, etc., 32091- 82096 (from 1086 to 1760), and especially from 1571- 1624. :British ~Iuseum ~ISS. The name is spelled variously Henne, de Henne, Hennot, Benno, and later, in America, Enno. It was not spelled Eno until about 1700. Page Eight ENO THE FAMILY IN FRANCE 1) COLLARD HENNO 2) Jacques Henne married -- Pesquier, daughter of Nicolas Pesquier, Bailiff of Gand. ~ , T - - ,_ - 11 - T ~---,... u~) J-ean a.. e ~enne..L..L m ari-1~u· · .1..:S<1UC1.1C ti Cc:1,J.J..1.lC. Caille, daughter of Toussaint Cail and of J" ossine Pellerin. 4) Jacques de Henne married Jeanne Doye, daughter of Antoine Doye, Bailiff and Receiver of Gommegines, and of Rose Dugardin, daughter of Alard Dugardin and J" eanne Roger. 5) Jean Renno married Catelaine Jone. 6) Jacques (James) Renno married Anna Bidwell at Windsor, Connecticut, America, in 1648. References: Collard Henne. 1. CoUard Henne~ of Mons, is mentioned as father of Jacques Henne at the Reception of Burghers, FebruaTy 1, 1463.1 1 Register of Burghers, City Ljbrary, 1461-1463. 1ISS. Sec. 41-~8., folio 42, Archives of Valenciennes, 1478. Page Nine Jacques Henne (1st). His father-in-law is given as Nicolas Pesquier in the will of his nephew, Francois.2 He was alderman ( echevin) of Valenciennes, in 1466 and 1491, and Prevot (Royal Governor) in 1480.3 Jean Henne: J" ean Henne is given as the de­ ceased husband of Isabelle Jeanne Caille in her will, September 13, 1559,4 and as the son of Jacques Henne in the will of his brother, Fran­ <;ois, September 23, 1547.5 He was alderman of the city in 1536-1539 and 1542.6 Jacques Henne ( 2). His father-in-law is given as Antoine Doye, Receiver of Gomme­ gines. 7 He is mentioned as the son of the late J ehan Henne and Isabel Guaille, in a deed of sale.8 He was alderman in 1560-61-1566, and Treize Homme in 1577.9 2 Archives of V alenciennes, 1541. 3 Library of Valenciennes, "lVIagistrates of the City of Valenciennes" (l\ISS. 550-767). 4 Archives of Valenciennes, 1559. 5 .-\.rchives of Valenciennes, 1547. 6 l\1SS. 580-767. 7 Archives of Valenciennes, 1540. 8 Archi \,es of V alenciennes, l\Iarch 19, 1549. 91\f ss. 550-767. Page Ten THE FAMILY IN AMERICA The name has been variously spelled on this side of the Atlantic, Enno, Eno, Enos [Enoe­ rarely]. Maj or-General Enos added the :final s to his name in spelling, al~hough he did not pro­ nounce the s, and the Rhode Island branch of the family has always retained that form. From the Rhode Island family came the Delaware Enos. I 6) JAMES ENNO, son of Jean Renno and Catelaine Jone, who founded in America the family that bears his name, was a native of Lon­ don. He was baptized August 21, 1625, in the Threadneedle Street Huguenot church. He sailed for America in 1648, and settled in Wind­ sor, Connecticut. The first American mention of James Enno is a record in "Windsor Church Records" of his marriage to Anna Bidwell, August 18, 1648. There has been found no record of his arrival in this country, but his grandson, Samuel Eno, of Page Eleven Windsor, who seems to have been a man of prop­ erty and influence, and who was nineteen years old when his father died, and thirty-three years old when his mother died, was there£ore probably familiar with the history of his grandfather, and caused a tablet to be erected to his memory in the Old Windsor burying ground with the following inscription: "In memory of Samuel Eno, Esqr. and Eunice, his wife. He died August 17, 1778, in the 83d year of his age. She died May 7, 1792, in the 84th year of her age. And also Eunice, daughter of the deceased, who died March 23, 1757, aged 9 days. And also Sam'l Eno, son to Mr. Samuel Eno, junr., who died Feb. ye ~7, 1789 in the 4th year of his age; and also Mr. James Eno who came from England and settled in Windsor A._D. 1646, and died July 11, 1682. His wife died Oct. 7, 1679. Also James Eno ~d, who died July 16, 1714- his wife died March, 17~8, and was buried in Simsbury, old burying ground. Also Lieut. Dan'l Eno, died Dec. 9, 1797 in the 56th year of his age." He received a grant called Massacoe.1 He lived in Windsor, as did his son James 2d, but 1 Among other records of property deeded to James Enno is the following: "Also had given in the Palizado a stray of land on rodd Page Twelve both owned lands in Massacoe or Simsbury, which was an appendix of the plantation of Windsor and was not incorporated as a separate town till the year 1670. He owned an island in Simsbury River, near Scotland, about twenty-one acres, which he gave to his sons .James and .John. This island, with :fifty acres of land, was granted to him in 1660, "by Mr. Henry Clark and Mr. Matthew Allyn appointed by the Cort," and john Moses and others had also land then granted them in like manner. ( Simsbury Records, lib. I, p. 90.) "In the year 1660, J" ames Enos had fifty acres of land and an Island granted to him within the limits of Simsbury by Mr. Henery Clark and Mister Matthew Allyn apoynted by the Cort and .John Moses and others had also land then granted to them in like manner, a true coppy. I, Mathew Grant, 2 do testify that.James Enos had this grant made to him as above sd. taken out of a coppy I in breadth and in length from the four side of his shop as it now stands back to the line of Walter Taylers land and bounded North by the land of Tahan Grant and east by the Towne Common. Nov. 28, 1663." (Windsor Records.) "a Book of town wages in ,vindsor begun by ~Iatthew Grant in 1654." 2 ~Iathew Grant was the ancestor of General U. S. Grant. Page Thirteen had by Mister Henery Clark and Mister Mathew Allyn." In April 1666, James Enno and John Moses, acting as agents for the town of W"indsor, bought from N assahegan, sachem of Poquonnoc, a tract of twenty-eight thousand acres, for which service the town granted him lands known as Tilton's Marsh, situated under the Simsbury mountains.