“I want to refer to Mr. Enoch Sperry, not only as the representative of another industry, but also, for his character as an upright and honorable Christian man, liberal and public- spirited ; he was ready to help forward every plan that seemed desirable for the welfare of the church, or the culture of society.

He had a clothing works, which embraced wool carding and
all the different processes of making cloth, with the exception,
perhaps, of spinning and weaving. The mode of securing
wearing apparel in those times and the present was so different,
that I am tempted to give its history. To begin, the sheep
fed in the pastures, fearless of dogs. Their only care was for
the lambs frisking about, and leaping from rock to rock. (For
these, they would raise their heads with an occasional baa.)
In the month of May, the man who owned them would be
found waist deep in the water, not like Naaman the Syrian,
for the cleansing of his own sins, but for the sheep-washing,
while the boys gave a special ablution to the lambs. Clean and
white, the flock became like those to whom Solomon compared
the teeth of his beloved, when he said of her, "Thy teeth are
as the flocks pf sheep which go up from the washing." They
were then taken to the pasture to dry. After a few weeks,
the flock was gathered home, and the big barn doors were
opened, and the sheep-shearing commenced. The wool was
then taken to the carding machine, and made into nice rolls
some two feet long, and then returned to the home, where the
mothers and daughters spun it into yarn, or some one of the
girls came and spun it at so much a run or skein. Then the
mothers wove it into cloth. It was then taken to the factory
again, and passed through the fulling machine, which thickened
up the cloth 5 then it was teasled, or the nap was raised, and
then sheared, dyed and pressed, and again brought home, to be
made into clothes, by some Rebecca who had learned the
tailor's trade, and with her equipment of the goose, went out
to work from house to house. The beauty of the home-made
cloth depended upon the skill of the manufacturer, in its
finish, and we may well imagine Mr. Sperry must have excelled
in his trade as a cloth manufacturer, as there were seven roads
leading to his clothing works, where now only one road passes
the place.

It was one of -the original grist mills and clothing works in
the county. There were three factories standing within the
memory of some of the present day, and a large number of
persons" were employed in them. Later, he added the manu-
facture of elliptical springs. It was the second place where
they were made in the region, New Haven being the first.”

-- Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society

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Enoch K Sperry
BIRTH
1788
DEATH
1 Jan 1856 (aged 67–68)
BURIAL
Westville Cemetery
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
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age 68

"Enoch is the son of Simeon Sperry and his wife Patience Smith. He was murdered on 1 Jan 1856 (see the Hartford Daily Courant of 3 Jan 1856, p 2, col 4). No mention of any middle name has been found". - KSBlack

His middle name MAY be "Knight" as his inscription on HS is "K". His son Enoch's inscription is clearly written, "Knight".

Family Members
Parents

Simeon Sperry
1739–1805




Patience Smith Sperry
1745–1819



Spouse

Mary Atlanta Sperry Sperry
1795–1864



Siblings

Lois Sperry Hubbell
unknown–1823




Sarah Sperry Perkins
unknown–1861




Simeon Sperry
unknown–1855




Anna Sperry Wooding
1774–1853




Rhoda Sperry Thomson
1778–1828




Nehemiah Sperry
1780–1860



Children

Joseph Hart Sperry
unknown–1846





Lucien Wells Sperry
1820–1890




Stiles D. Sperry
1823–1880




Nehemiah Day Sperry
1827–1911





Laura A. Sperry Ramsdell
1835–1879




Enoch Knight Sperry
1837–1912