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According to Lt. Col. Alvin H. Gable (told to Margaret and Charles Gable (Solomon Levi,Solomon Levi, Enoch),Enoch's name was Von Einstein, a Hessian soldier during the Revolutionary War. In Canada he was released from service but instead of returning to Germany he came south to PA. Hessians were not popular there, so he changed his name first to Anstine and finally to Gable. (Mrs. Edna Gable Lister said that Gable was originally spelled Goebbel or Goebel.) This Enoch Gable had two sons, and one day when he shot a deer he gave a piece of antler to each to be passed down to the eldest son of each generation. Col. Alvin is a descendent of Valentine Gable and said that he (or his father) had a piece of it.
Mrs. Alice Lister Worth reported in 1983 that she went to Dalhousie U. Genealogical Bld. She found a record of a German mercenary who had been granted a parcel of land following his discharge. The Index of Loyalist and Land Settlements in Nova Scotia shows a Joseph Alstine (p. 76, 115) The first grant was for a town lot in Shellburne, then 250 acres in RoseWay. In 1818 the land was escheated. It is surmised that at that time he left Nova Scotia and settled in York Co., PA .
According to information received from Dr. Clarence Dail and notes from Jullia E. Hiscox Enoch Gable came from Germany to America in 1750 as a stowaway, landing in NY. From NY he made his way to Lancaster Co, PA, where he settled.
The fact that the Anstine (similar in sound to Einstein) appears in the Alvin Gable account as well as in the Camadian records does seem to give some support to that story.
Any members of the Alvin Gable family might be able to be of assistance...what about "that piece of an antler passed on the the eldest son"?
Also, source of the Hiscox date of 1750? This would be a great help toward resolving the conflicting accounts.
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