About 1738 or 1739 these people settled along the Cape Fear, Black, Tar, Haw, Little, Flat and Eno Rivers. They at once built "meeting houses" and services were held by members of the community. Many years passed before they had settled ministers and organized churches.
.....in the church that bears the name of the river on the banks of which the first Eno Presbyterian Church was built
So the original church was not located where the present church stands.
In 1755, Scotch-Irish immigrants first established what became known as Eno Presbyterian Church. The first church was built on the banks of the Eno River, in an area between the Eno and Haw Rivers known as the Hawfields. The religious needs of the Presbyterian settlements in North Carolina were met by missionaries from Pennsylvania and New Jersey—colonies with established and rapidly-growing Scotch-Irish populations. One of these missionaries, Hugh McAden, was sent on an extensive tour of Virginia and North Carolina in 1755 to promote the ministry in the southern colonies. McAden first preached to the Eno congregation in August 1755. His service is counted as the first formal organization of the church. McAden served Eno and other area churches until 1765.
The first regularly installed minister was Henry Patillo (of the New Hanover Presbytery), who served from 1765 to 1774. Patillo was also pastor at nearby Little River and Hawfields churches. The first Eno church building was made of logs; the second was a frame building. The third structure (built in 1878) was destroyed by fire in 1893. The church was then moved a few miles away to the village of Cedar Grove, and a new building was erected in 1898. Readable stones in the cemetery date from 1789. The Old Eno cemetery, at the previous location, underwent restoration in the mid-1960s. The Department of Transportation was persuaded to build a road into the site, which had become a wilderness. The cemetery was cleared, and a new bronze marker was placed to commemorate the site.
References:
A. A. Ellis and T. T. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church(1955)Herbert Snipes Turner, Church in the Old Fields (1962) 
Location: Eno Cemetery Road at Carr Store Road east of Cedar Grove
I can not figure out how to insert an arrow. The marker is on the left hand side of Eno Cemetery Road which starts at the bottom of the photo close to the middle and runs up to join Carr Store Road. The marker looks blue in the photo.
References:
A. A. Ellis and T. T. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church(1955)Herbert Snipes Turner, Church in the Old Fields (1962)
There are 365 unmarked graves in the cemetery shown below:
The Haw Old Fields: https://archive.org/stream/churchintheoldfi00turn/churchintheoldfi00turn_djvu.txtThe Great Trading Path was not only the gateway to the inte-
rior for the early pioneers ; it also determined in large measure where
they settled. Between 1737 and 1740 the Scotch-Irish came into the
Haw old fields and staked out their home sites, some moving far-
ther on and settling along the Eno River. About the same time
Presbyterians from central Virginia moved farther down and
formed the Nut Bush and Grassy Creek communities near the
Virginia-Carolina line. These communities in the early days were
often served by the same minister who preached at the Hawfields.
Still others settled along this trail in the Yadkin Valley and on
toward what is now Charlotte. A look at the map will show that
these communities were all on a line near this old trail, which ...
Still later another settlement grew up on the Eno, and the town
of Hillsboro was laid out. When this outpost became one of the
seats of government along with the settlement at Salisbury, the
old trading path was the natural line of communication between
these two places ; and many of the famous officials of colonial times,
first on horseback and then by stage coach, traveled back and forth
between these two towns through the Hawfields. It was along this
path, which had now become the Hillsboro-Salisbury Road, that
Governor Tryon led his troops to meet the Regulators at the Battle
of Alamance in the spring of 1771. ....On March 17 or 18, 1776, Daniel Boone and his company set
out from Hillsboro along this road through the Hawfields on his
way to the West. So we can see that the Haw Old Fields is west of Hillsborough
....There is an entry in the old Bible which the Clendenin family
brought with them to America which shows that those who finally
settled in Hawfields also shared in these hardships. It is all the
more eloquent because there is only the simple comment: "Rose
died at sea.".... The number of white people in Virginia is between sixty and
seventy
thousand; and they are growing every day more numerous by the im-
migration of the Irish, who, not succeeding so well in Pennsylvania as
the more frugal and industrious Germans, sell their lands in that province
to the latter, and take up new ground in the remote counties in Vir-
ginia, Maryland and North Carolina. These are chiefly Presbyterians
from the northern part of Ireland, who in America are generally called
Scotch-Irish." 2....By 1750 one-fourth of the population of Pennsylvania was
Scotch-Irish. Benjamin Franklin estimated their number to be
350,00c 24 Watson's Annals, in 1743, contained the notation, "The
Proprietors, in consequence of the frequent disturbance between
the Governor and Irish settlers, after the organization of York and
Cumberland Counties, gave orders to their agents to sell no lands
in either York or Lancaster Counties to the Irish." 25
Accordingly, by the time the migration was reaching its peak,
Pennsylvania had become only a temporary stopping place in which
to gather supplies and make preparations for moving farther on.
From then on the great tide of migration turned southward,
through the Valley of Virginia and then on into the back-country
of North Carolina and as far south as northern Georgia.
These pioneers followed the ancient Indian trail southward in
such numbers that it later came to be known as "The Great Wagon
Road"; an early map that locates this road is preserved in the
Library of Congress. The road ran from Lancaster and York in
Pennsylvania to Winchester, Virginia, thence up the Shenandoah
Valley, crossing the James River at Looney's Ferry and from there
to the Staunton River at what is now Roanoke. It then followed
this river through the Blue Ridge mountains, and turning southward
it crossed the Dan River below the mouth of Mayo and went on
into the Yadkin Valley. Some of the settlers who followed this
road, after crossing the Dan, came farther east by the old Red
House in Caswell County and on to the Great Trading Path, then
followed it across the Haw River and on into the section around
Salisbury. 26 It was along this road, which as yet was only an Indian
trail, that the early settlers came into the Haw old fields and founded
the settlements on the Eno and in Hawfields sometime between
1736 and 1741. Foote says in his Sketches of North Carolina that "As early as
1740, there were scattered families on the Hico, and Eno, and Haw,"
but he does not give the source of his information. 27 Ian Charles
C. Graham, in Colonists from Scotland, says that "Ulster immi-
grants began to settle along the Eno and the Haw about the year
1738." 28 The Reverend D. I. Craig says in his "Historical Sketch
of New Hope Church," "From certain facts and dates in my pos-
session, I am confident that it was not later than 1741 and not
earlier than 1736 when these families landed on American soil.
How long they remained in Pennsylvania I do not know, but it
was not a great while, perhaps only a few months." 29
Craig also says that at least some, if not all, of those who came
into the Hawfields came to America in the same vessel and that
they were connected by family ties in Ulster. This probably is the
reason for the close connection between the group that moved on
to the New Hope section some ten years later and those who re-
mained in the Hawfields community. These ties were cemented
by marriages between the young people of the two communities
in the years that followed. The New Hope group also worshiped
at the Hawfields Church until a church was erected in that com-
munity. Craig says, "it was mid-winter and as they passed through
Virginia some of the rivers were so completely frozen up that they
Oh, WOW! There is great information about the migration from the ship to NC...I
need to revisit the site. But this is VERY interesting:
Just why these early settlers turned east after crossing the Dan
River instead of following the great stream of settlers into the
Yadkin valley is not known. The only possible clue may be found
in the old Anderson family Bible where one reads that John An-
derson and his wife, on reaching the Dan River and learning of
rumors of smallpox in the Yadkin and Catawba valleys, turned
east and settled at the head of the Eno River.
On arriving in the Haw old fields, although it was mid-winter,
the vast open spaces of gently rolling land, well watered by many
small streams, displayed such charm and beauty that they decided
to make them the end of their journey. Each family selected a
spot along one of the many streams, beside a good spring, and
staked out its claim.
The lush growth of wild pea vines and tall grass, even though
THE GREAT MIGRATION
33
it was winter, was sufficient to supply abundant pasturage for the
various kinds of livestock they had brought with them, and the
abundance of wild game supplemented the scant provisions that
they had been able to bring. The first fruits they ate from the new
land that spring were the wild strawberries. William Byrd wrote
in his The Land of Eden, "All the woods, fields and gardens are
full of strawberries, which grow excellently well in this beautiful
and lovely land." 34 All of this land was still back-country, ef-
fectively cut off from the settlements on the seaboard by the vast
pine barrens to the east.
There is no Lackey/LeakeyLucky mentioned in the book. However, there is excellent information about the regulation that I did not copy.
