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Compiled by Jim Moyer. Started 2/16/2020, still researching.
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The “Palace of Enoch Enoch’s”
To George Washington from Robert Orme, 2 March 1756
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I dont know whether a good House
and comfortable Living
is not as well as
the Palace of Enoch Enoch’s.5
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A memorable moment must have been had, especially if you consider all the other happenings on this ill fated Braddock Expedition.
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Perhaps this was a camp dinner with lively conversation between Braddock, Orme and Washington and other staff of the General and the Enochs as host.
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Both Henry Enoch and Enoch Enoch owned land where the North River met the Great Cacapon.
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This area is called the Forks of the Capon.
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The writer of this letter to George Washington is Robert Orme who was the chief aid de camp to General Braddock.
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He was back in England writing a defense of General Braddock and thought the reports of Washington denigrating Braddock had to be untrue, since Washington had too much integrity to criticize the fallen General.
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Founders Online Footnote 5:
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General Braddock
and his staff
[including Orme and Washington]
had probably stopped
at the home of
Enoch Enoch,
just east of the Cacapon River
in Hampshire County,
on their way to join
the troops at Cresap’s.
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Source:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0319
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