BENT 
 
 Comey-Comee Family in America
 
 i
 
 THE 
 
 COMEY-COMEE FAMILY 
 
 IN AMERICA. 
 
 WITH NOTES ON Tin, MALTMAN FAMILY. 
 
 ALLEN II. BKNT.
 
 THE 
 
 COMEY-COMEE FAMILY 
 
 IN AMERICA. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF DAVID COMEY OF CONCORD, MASS., KILLED IN 
 KING PHILIP'S WAR, 1676, 
 
 WITH NOTES ON THE MALTMAN FAMILY. 
 
 BY 
 
 ALLEN H. BENT 
 
 OF BOSTON, 
 
 Member of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 DAVID CLAPP & SON, PRINTERS. 
 1896.
 
 [The first five generations are reprinted from the New-England Hist, and Gen. Register fc 
 
 April, 1896.]
 
 THE FIRST COMEE. 
 
 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, 
 
 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. 
 
 Land of the mountain and the flood, 
 
 Land of my sires ! what mortal hand 
 
 Can e'er untie the filial band 
 
 That knits me to thy rugged stand ! 
 
 Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 When the genealogy of the Comee-Comey Family in America was 
 published in 1896, nothing had been clearly ascertained of the trans- 
 Atlantic antecedents of the progenitor of the family, David Corny, who 
 was living in Woburn, Mass., in 1663, but moved a year or two later 
 to Concord, Mass. This deficiency is in a measure supplied bv what 
 follows. 
 
 In Drake's " Founders of New England," in a list of 272 passengers 
 aboard the "John and Sarah" of London, John Greene, Master, 
 bound for New England, dated Search Office, Gravesend, Nov. 8, 1651, 
 is the name of David Mackhome. At first appearance the name of 
 Mackhome does not seem to have the slightest resemblance to Comee or 
 McComey, but the pronunciation will be found identical with the latter, 
 and without doubt David Mackhome of the "John and Sarah" and 
 David Corny of Woburn were the same. The scribe who made the 
 original list wrote the (to him) unfamiliar names as they sounded, as is 
 readily shown by a glance at the other names in the roll. That David 
 did not entirely drop the Gaelic prefix to his name is shown by the fact 
 that m the record of his second marriage twenty years afterward (to 
 Hester or Esther Harvey, Sept. 6, 1671, in Charlestown, Mass.), his 
 name is spelled Macomey. Among his fellow passengers were several 
 Monroes. It will be remembered that David's son married Martha 
 Munroe. The Munro clan was one of the earliest Highland clans. 
 
 The ship's list further states that the "John and Sarah" contains 
 
 household stuffe and other provisions for Planters and Scotch prisoners 
 free by ordinance of Parliament, dat. 20th of October, 1651." The 
 captain was ordered by those employing him to deliver their " Orders 
 and Servants to Tho. Kemble, of Charlestowne, to be disposed of by 
 him according to orders wee have sent him." The ship reached Charles- 
 town in the early part of 1652. 
 
 A glance at the times will throw still more light upon the matter. It 
 was in the days of the Commonwealth in Great Britain. Many of the 
 Scotchmen however adhered to young Charles, afterwards King Charles 
 II., and they rose in his behalf in 1650. On the 3rd September, Crom- 
 well met them at Dunbar, on the east coast of Scotland, and defeated 
 them. The following year, while Cromwell was still busy in Scotland, 
 Charles and his army invaded England. They had advanced as far as 
 Worcester, when Cromwell overtook them and put them to utter rout on 
 the anniversary of the battle of Dunbar. David Mackhome seems to
 
 have been one of the man}' prisoners who were taken at that time, and 
 pardoned by Parliament, 'with the understanding that they should be 
 sent to distant shores. (It will thus be seen that the Indian encounter 
 in which he met his death was not his first battle.) As prisoners of 
 war, their condition, from which they had to gradually raise themselves, 
 was one of partial servitude. This will account for David Mackhome's 
 obscurity in the dozen years succeeding his arrival in New England. 
 
 In Scotland, mainly in the vale of Alford, Aberdeenshire, there are 
 today at least fifty families bearing the name of M'Combie. The b in 
 the name is comparatively modern, added about a century ago, but Wm. 
 M'Combie Smith's " Memoir of the Families of M'Combie and Thorns 
 originally M'Intosh and MThomas," published in Edinburgh in 1890 * 
 (224 pages) will tell the story better. 
 
 The M'Comies, says Mr. Smith, are a branch or sept of the Clan 
 M'Intosh. The name was formerly MacThomas, i. e., son of Thomas 
 (Mclntosh) the name having been originally assumed by one of the 
 younger sons of some early chief of the clan.| Gradually it became 
 corrupted into MThomie/M'Homie and M'Comie. In 1595 Robert 
 M'Homie acknowledges Lachlan Mor, 16th chief of the M'Intoshes, as 
 his " naturall cheiff." There is no record of the particular Thomas 
 M'Intosh from whom the surname originated, but in the original feu- 
 charter (their feudal superior was the Earl of Athole) under date of 
 7th Sept., 1568, the M'Comies are described as being ab antiquo tenants 
 and possessors of the estate of Finnegand, in Glenshee,J in the north- 
 east extremity of Perthshire. 
 
 The very name of Perthshire calls to mind a varied train of pictures 
 that history and literature have given us, the coronation stone of Scone, 
 "The Flow'r o' Dumblane," ""The Fair Maid of Perth," the fairer 
 Loch Katrine, 
 
 " And mountains, that like giants stand 
 To sentinel enchanted land." 
 
 Finnegand lies wholly on the right bank of the river Shee in the 
 parish of Kirkmichael, and at its lowest point is a thousand feet above 
 the sea level. For two miles along the Shee there is a belt of moder- 
 ately fertile land, consisting of level haughs and gently sloping fields, 
 then a series of low rounded heights leading to the foot of the mountains 
 which rise rather abruptly about half a mile from the river. 
 
 The charter of 1568 was granted in favor of John M'Comy Moir. 
 His wife Janet Rattray and son John M'Comy Moir, junior, are men- 
 tioned. Moir or Mor means big, and most of the family in Scotland 
 have been large and powerful physically. John, junior, married Janet 
 Farquharson, by whom he had a son Alexander, whose son John 
 M'Comie Mor, the M'Comie Mor, married Elizabeth Campbell and had 
 at least seven sons. David Mackhome's first son was named John, 
 probably after the M'Comy Mor, who may possibly have been his 
 (David's) father. Of this John, the greatest of the family, many 
 wonderful feats of swordsmanship, etc., are told. At the beginning of 
 
 * A copy has been recently added to the Public Library of the City of Boston. 
 
 t This was a common method of procedure in Scotland. There are only about 60 Highland 
 clans but 400 or 500 septs whose names have come in some similar way. See Frank Adam s 
 " What is my Tartan? " 
 
 t The long, lonely pass of Glenshee," Henry Van Dyke calls it.
 
 Ill 
 
 the Civil War in England he sided with the King's party, but later on 
 changed sides. This led to the downfall of the family. Meanwhile, 
 about the time David M'Comy arrived in America (1652), the great 
 John disposed of his estates in Glenshee and took up the estate of 
 Crandart, in Forter, in the neighboring Glenisla, Forfarshire, in the 
 midst of some of the finest mountain scenery in Scotland. Soon after 
 the Restoration his troubles began. May 3, 1661, the Scottish Parlia- 
 ment passed an "Act and Decree in favor of James, Earl of Airlie, 
 against Johne M'Intosh, alias M'Comie, of Forthar." The names 
 M'Comie and M'Intosh seem to have been used interchangably by the 
 M'Comies until the family was scattered about 1676. Sir Aeneas 
 M'Pherson in his MS. history of the M'Phersons, written about this 
 time (17th century), makes mention of "John M'Intosh of Forter, 
 commonly called M'Comie," as among " the oldest and wisest not only 
 of my own, but all our neighbour families." But the part of the familv 
 in the Civil War and a quarrel of long standing with the Farquharsons 
 resulted in 1673 in the breaking up of the family. Of the seven sons of 
 the M'Comie Mor, John and Robert had been killed by the Farquharsons, 
 James died soon after, Thomas and Alexander were outlawed, so that 
 the future of the family was left dependent upon Angus and Donald. 
 Angus settled in Fifeshire, and wrote his name M'Thomas, which in 
 time became Thomas and finally Thorns, which name his descendants 
 still bear. Donald went north into the vale of Alford in Aberdeenshire, 
 and became the ancestor of Robert M'Comie, junior, who was at the 
 defeat of Culloden in 1745, after which he went to the West Indies, of 
 Thomas M'Combie, a prominent man in Melbourne, Australia, of Wm. 
 M'Combie, a great cattle breeder in Scotland, M. P. 1868 to 1876, and 
 several other substantial Aberdeenshire men. 
 
 To go back still farther, the founder of the Clan M'Intosh was Shaw 
 MacDuff, second son of the fifth Earl of Fife, who distinguished him- 
 self in quelling a rebellion among the Moray tribes against King Mal- 
 colm IV. about 1161-63, and whose descendants thenceforward assumed 
 the name of M'Intosh Mac-an-Toiseach son of the foremost man. 
 The system of Highland clans did not begin until about this time. 
 Previous to this Highlanders were divided into a few great tribes, which 
 exactly corresponded with the ancient earldoms or morrnaerships. 
 
 Gillemichel MacDuff, first Earl of Fife, who died A. D. 1139, was 
 the first to take the name of MacDuff. Surnames before his day were 
 not hereditary. The family claim to be descended from the traditional 
 MacDuff, Thane of Fife (though there never were such thanes), by 
 whom Macbeth was overthrown in 1057. 
 
 ALLEN H. BEHT. 
 
 BOSTON, Dec., 1898.
 
 COMEE-COMEY FAMILY. 
 
 1. DAVID* COMEE, who was in Woburn, Mass., in 1663, seems to be 
 the first of the name in America. When or whence he came is not known 
 with certainty, but the family tradition is that he was a Scotchman. His 
 son John married the daughter of a Scotchman and this same John, in 
 1728, conveys a certain right in Concord "which belongs to the Tenement 
 where my Hon d father David Comey formerly dwelt in the Southerly part 
 of Concord known by the name of Scotland." So it seems there was a 
 parfi of Concord known as Scotland, perhaps because a Scotch colony had 
 settled there. The name is generally spelled Comee until the nineteenth 
 century, when there was a division, about half adopting the form of Comey. 
 On the old records it is occasionally spelled, or misspelled Corny, Come, 
 Comi, Comay and Coomy. The name seems not to be related to those of 
 Coney (Cony), Comer, Comby (Combee) or Comley, that are occasionally 
 met with in New England. Comrie and Comyn are old Scotch names. 
 
 About 1664 David Comee moved from Woburn to Concord (Mass.), 
 where he lived until his death. He was killed, April 21, 1676, by King 
 Philip's Indians in the adjoining town of Sudbury, in one of the bloodiest 
 of Indian encounters. The following petition was presented by his widow : 
 
 " To the honored Court assembled at Cambridge y e 3 day of October 
 1676 The humble petition of Esther Corny of Concord humbly showeth 
 y e wheras y e said esther corny her husband Dauid Corny was slaine by y e 
 jndians at Sudbury and lefte me a poor widow with sixe small children and 
 foure of them bee by a former wife and non of them being com to Age or 
 able to choose their own Gardens: I y e said Esther doe humbly entreat 
 this honored Court to appoynt Gardens for them & to put y m out to som 
 good places : wherby y e boy may learne som trad y e may bee for his futter 
 beinfeet and dispoose of y e Girls as may bee for their weell fare also for y e 
 settlmeut of y l smal estate y e my husband died seized of which doth amount 
 to about eighty pounds which appears by An jnventory given in at court at 
 Charlestown : and I doe humbly desir y e Captaine Timothy Wheeler with 
 on or tow mor may bee appointed for both y e ends aforesaid : whom y e 
 honored court shall see causse to appoynt : hoping y' y e honoured court will 
 Consider me beeing poor and haueing serl children very small on of y m not 
 being Above sixe weeks old when my husband was slaine : so praying for 
 your prosperity : your humble petitioner this 30 : 7 : : 76 
 
 ESTHER COMY."
 
 The inventory accompanying the above is short and amounts to 87 - 
 14- 0, of which 50 is for the house and land. 
 
 Children of David and his wife Elizabeth, ii. recorded in Woburn, iii. to 
 v. recorded in Concord : 
 
 i. ELIZABETH, m. March 29, 1681, John Kendall (1646-1732) of 
 
 Woburn, where she d. in December, 1701. 
 
 ii. MARY, b. Jan. 30, 1663; m. May 24, 1688, Joshna Kibby, of 
 Sherborn, and d. July 9, 1712, ae. 49. He d. in 1731. 
 
 2. iii. JOHN, b. Oct. 18, 1665. 
 
 iv. DAVID, b. Nov. 14, 1666 ; d. before 1676. 
 v. SARAH, b. Sept. 18, 1668. 
 
 David's wife Elizabeth died in Concord, March 4, 1671, and 
 
 he married, second, Esther , who married, Nov. 7, 1682, 
 
 Samuel Parry for her second husband. 
 
 Children of David and Esther born in Concord: 
 
 i. Daughter, name unknown, 
 ii. ESTHER, b. Feb. 14, 1676. 
 
 2. JOHN* COMEE (David 1 } was a farmer and moved from Concord to 
 Cambridge Farms (Lexington) between 1689 and 1693. He 
 died in Lexington, Dec. 6, 1729, ae. 64. Hudson is in error 
 when he gives the date as 1723. He married June 21, 1688, 
 Martha, born Nov. 2, 1667, eldest daughter of William Munroe, 
 who came from Scotland in 1652. 
 
 Children of John and Martha, i. recorded in Concord, iv. and v. 
 in Cambridge. (The first four were baptised Feb. 26, 1699) * 
 
 i. JOHN, b. April 8, 1689 ; probably d. young. 
 
 ii. HANNAH, d. unm. May 26, 1770. 
 
 iii. MARTHA, m. July 9, 1713, Benjamin Smith, and d. Nov. 19, 1749. 
 
 3. iv. DAVID, b. Jan. 11, 1696. 
 
 v. ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 29, 1701. 
 
 vi. ABIGAIL, bap. Oct. 26, 1707; m. Jan. 4, 1728, Jonas Pierce, and 
 d. in Westminster, Mass. 
 
 8. DAVID* COMEE (John? David 1 ) of Lexington, lived to be 104 years 
 old, if family tradition is correct. This would bring the date of 
 his death about the year 1800. In 1729 he is called a yeoman, 
 in 1736 an innholder. He married first, Ruhama, born in Water- 
 town July 15, 1701, daughter of Joseph and Ruhama Brown. 
 
 She died June 3, 1730, and he married second, Sarah . 
 
 David and Ruhama seem to have had five or six children, who 
 died in infancy. Those that lived (born in Lexington) were : 
 
 4. i. JOHN, bap. Sept. 28, 1725. 
 
 5. ii. JOSEPH, bap. Aug. 4, 1728. 
 
 Children of David and Sarah, all born in Lexington : 
 
 6. i. BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 15, 1733. 
 
 ii. SARAH, b. Sept. 11, 1735; m. Dec. 4, 1755, Isaac Parkhurst (1731- 
 
 ) of Waltham, where they lived till 1786. 
 
 iii. MARTHA, b. April 11, 1737; m. at Chelsea, April 2, 1761, William 
 Williams. 
 
 7. iv. EZEKIEL, b. April 27, 1740. 
 
 v. RUHAMA, b. April 15, 1742; m. Dec. 9, 1762, Isaac Corey (1740- 
 1817) of Waltham, and d. at East Sudbury, March 2, 1819. 
 
 8. vi. DAVID, b. April 21, 1744. 
 
 9. vii. JONATHAN, b. April 4, 1746.
 
 4. JOHN* COMEE (David, 3 John, 3 David 1 ) a farmer, moved from Lex- 
 ington to Milton in 1751, but soon after (1753 to 1755) removed 
 to Stoughton, the part known as Stoughtonham (incorporated 
 1762 as Sharon). He seems to have been in the part of the latter, 
 which in 1778 became Foxboro. His name is included in the 
 unsuccessful petition of May 1773 for the incorporation of Fox- 
 boro. At the first town meeting June 29, 1778, he (or possibly 
 it was his sou John) was chosen constable. He died in Foxboro, 
 Feb. 8, 1815, ae. 89. He was married at Milton in 1751 to Abi- 
 gail, born Oct. 22, 1727, daughter of Roger Sumner and a descend- 
 ant of William Sumner (1605-1688) of Dorchester, the ancestor 
 of Charles Sumner. Mrs. Abigail Comee died at Foxboro, May 
 19, 1806, ae. 78. 
 
 Children of John and Abigail, i. recorded in Milton, ii. to v. 
 in Stoughton, vi. in Sharon : 
 
 10. i. JOHX, b. Jan. 14, 1753. 
 
 ii. JERTJSHA, b. Feb. 22, 1755. 
 
 11. iii. OLIVER, b. June 11, 1757. 
 
 12. iv. SPENCER, b. Jan. 24, 1760. 
 
 v. ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 25, 1762; d. unm. Jan. 11, 1790. 
 vi. EUNICE, b. July 15, 1766. 
 
 5. JOSEPH 4 COMEE (David* John,' David 1 ) moved previous to 1771 
 from Lexington to Wrentham, the part taken in 1778 to make 
 Foxboro, where he was a cordwainer (shoemaker) and still living 
 in 1809. He was one of the signers of the unsuccessful petition 
 of 1773 for the incorporation of Foxboro. October 1771, Joseph 
 Comee and wife Mary, of Wrentham, gave quitclaim to estate of 
 their honorable father Benjamin Merriam, of Lexington. Hud- 
 son, however, in his History of Lexington makes it out that he 
 was a member of Capt. John Parker's Company, April 19, 1775, 
 and was wounded in the arm trying to get out of the meeting-house, 
 whither he had been to replenish his powder-horn, but this was 
 probably his son Joseph. He married, about 1750, Mary, born 
 April 4, 1733, eldest daughter of Benjamin Merriam (1699-1773), 
 of Lexington. Hannah, widow of Joseph Comee deceased, died 
 in Foxboro, March 22, 1815. The death of a child of Joseph 
 Comee is recorded in Lexington churchrecords in 1766. 
 Children of Joseph and Mary, all born in Lexington : 
 
 13. i. EZRA, (twin) bap. Oct. 27, 1751. 
 ii. MERCY, (twin) bap. Oct. 27, 1751. 
 
 iii. JOSEPH, b. July 1, 1753; probably the Joseph who d. in Lexing- 
 ton, Oct. 12, 1776. 
 iv. MARY, b. June 22, 1755. 
 
 v. AARON, b. Aug. 15, 1757; nothing further known, 
 vi. BETTY, b. March 23, 1760. 
 vii. RUHAMA, bap. Nov. 14, 1762. 
 
 14. viii. BENJAMIN, b. July 3, 1765 ; m. Ruth Trow. 
 
 6. BENJAMIN* COMEE (David 3 John,' David 1 ) was a cordwainer and 
 at the time of his marriage (1762) was still living in Lexington, 
 but moved soon after to Maiden, where he died in 1774, ae. 40. 
 He married first, March 25, 1762, Hannah Watts, of Chelsea, 
 who died at Maiden, Dec. 1, 1767. She was probably the Han- 
 nah Watts b. Chelsea, Feb. 17, 1743, dau. of Samuel and Hannah.
 
 He married second, Oct. 17, 1768, Hannah Richardson, of Wo- 
 burn, by whom however he had no children. She was probably 
 the Hannah Coome, who married in 1783 Thomas Sargent, of 
 Maiden. 
 
 Children of Benjamin and Hannah, ii. and iii. recorded in Mai- 
 den : 
 
 1. HANNAH, d. in Boston, unm., in 1794. 
 ii. SARAH, b. March 23, 1766. 
 15. iii. BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 21, 1767. 
 
 7. EZEKIEL* COMEE (David, 9 John,* David 1 ) lived in Cambridge 
 
 (Brighton) till 1783, when he probably went to Boston, where he 
 appears in the directories of 1796 and 1800, but not in 1803, so 
 he probably died before that. (No directories published between 
 these dates). Feb. 12, 1806, Mary Ann Comee, singlewoman, 
 aud Charlotte Smith, wife of Ebenezer Smith, all of Boston, sell 
 property in Cambridge, that descended to them from their father 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 Children of Ezekiel and his wife : 
 
 i. MARY ANN. Perhaps the Mary who d. in Boston, Aug. 12, 1824. 
 ii. CHARLOTTE, b. about 1775; m. Ebenezer Smith, a painter and 
 
 glazier in Boston, where he d. July 29, 1810, ae. 36. She d. 
 
 in Boston, in June, 1809, ae. 34. 
 
 8. DAVID* COMEE (David, 3 John' David 1 ) was a farmer, but one of 
 
 "the embattled farmers" that "fired the shot heard round the 
 world." Though not a member of any militia company, as a citizen 
 of Lexington he saw active service April 19, 1775, when his queue 
 was shot off. At the battle of Bunker Hill a bullet from the 
 enemy was shot into the barrel of his musket. He was out two 
 days from March 4 to March 6, 1776, at Roxbury, in Capt. Ste- 
 phen Dana's Company, while the forts were being erected on 
 Dorchester Heights (Rev. Rolls, xviii. 239). Soon after he moved 
 from Lexington to Westminster, the part that was incorporated 
 in 1785 as Gardner (Mass.). His deed from Amos Gates was 
 dated April 19, 1776. From Dec. 12, 1776 to March 1, 1777, 
 he was out in Capt. Manasseh Sawyer's Company in Colonel 
 Dike's Regiment (Rev. Rolls, xxvi. 419). Aug. 22, 1777, at the 
 Bennington alarm, he marched to East Hoosick in Capt. Elisha 
 Jackson's Company with Major Bridge (Rev. Rolls, xx. 108). 
 From Sept. 7 to Nov. 29, 1777, he was in Capt. Nathaniel Car- 
 ter's Company in Col. Job Cushing's Regiment (Rev. Rolls, xviii. 
 31). His house in Gardner, where he died March 8, 1826, aged 
 nearly 82, was about one and one-half miles east of the Centre 
 on the road to Ashburnham and before his day had been an inn. 
 David married first, Christiana, daughter of James Maltman, who 
 came from Scotland to Boston about the middle of the eighteenth 
 century. She died in Gardner, May 17, 1789, ae. 33 years and 
 8 months, and he married second, her younger sister Hannah 
 Maltman, who lived to be 88 years, 2 months aud 18 days, dying 
 in Gardner, Oct. 23, 1852. She was blind the last twenty years 
 of her life. 
 
 Children of David and Christiana, i. born in Lexington, the 
 others in Westminster (Gardner) :
 
 16. i. DAVID, b. Sunday, March 26, 1775. 
 
 17. ii. JAMES MALTMAN, b. Friday, April 18, 1777. 
 iii. BENJAMIN, b. May 28, 1779; d. Jan. 26, 1785. 
 
 iv. CHRISTIANA, b. Oct. 30, 1781 ; m. March 29, 1804, Eliel Bacon, of 
 
 Gardner, and about 1805 moved to Henderson, N. Y. 
 v. MARY, b. Sept. 4, 1784 ; m. June 29, 1806, William Fletcher 2d, of 
 
 Templeton, and d. Oct. 7, 1818, ae. 34. 
 vi. BENJAMIN, b. Dec. 13, 1786 ; d. April 4, 1790. 
 vii. JOHN, b. Jan. 24, 1789 ; d. May 25, 1803. 
 
 Children of David and Hannah, all born in Gardner : 
 
 i. HANNAH MORE, b. April 6, 1790; d. March 10, 1810. 
 
 ii. SARAH, b. Feb. 12, 1793; m. Aug. 11, 1814, Elijah Breck (1792- 
 1866), of Gardner, where she d. June 29, 1877, ae. 84, leav- 
 ing several children, among them Sarah Breck, who m. A. 
 Allen Bent ; and has one son Allen H. Bent. 
 
 iii. PATTY, b. Oct. 2, 1795 ; d. May 19, 1803. 
 
 iv. KUIIAMA, b. Feb. 20, 1798; m. June 28, 1835, Abram Jaquith 
 (1802-1851), of Fitchburg, where she died Dec. 19, 1884, ae. 86, 
 leaving one daughter, Abby Mead Jaquith, who m. David 
 Damon. 
 
 18. v. BENJAMIN, b. Sept. 16, 1800. 
 
 19. vi. JOSEPH, b. Jan. 14, 1803. 
 
 vii. MARTHA, b. June 20, 1805; m. Sept. 29, 1828, Ebenezer Fenno 
 (1801-1846) , of Gardner : and d. at Baldwinsville, Mass., Aug. 
 4, 1880, ae. 75, leaving three daughters. Mr. Feuno was a 
 son of Ephraim Fenno (1759-1820) of Westminster, Mass., 
 and a descendant of John Fenno, who was in Milton, Mass., 
 at its incorporation in 1662. 
 
 20. viii. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. Aug. 22, 1809. 
 
 9. JONATHAN* COMET (David, 3 John, 3 David 1 ) when a lad, followed 
 
 his older brothers to what later became Foxboro, and while still 
 young removed to Holliston, where he lived with a Mr. Samuel 
 Messenger. After his marriage he went to the western part of 
 Hopkinton to live on the west side of Whitehall Pond. At the 
 time of the Lexington alarm he was out eleven days in Capt. John 
 Homes' Company in Col. Samuel Bullard's Regiment. His name 
 is spelled Ju Commey on the muster roll. He married Eliza- 
 beth Wells. 
 
 Children of Jonathan and Elizabeth, alljx>rn in Hopkinton : 
 
 i. PARMELIA, m. Nathaniel Chamberlain, of Hopkinton, and moved 
 to Wardsboro, Vt. 
 
 21. ii. ROYAL, b. Jan. 29, 1772. 
 
 iii. BETSEY, m. Joshua Mellen, and lived in Westboro; where they 
 had one son, the late Judge Edw. Mellen, of Worcester, and 
 four daughters. 
 
 iv. POLLY, m. Jonathan Fairbanks, and lived in Holden, Mass. 
 
 v. NELLIPEE, m. John Wheelock, of Hopkinton ; where she died at 
 the birth of her son John, who was brought up by a Mr. Adams. 
 
 vi. HANNAH, m. Abner Prentiss, of Hopkinton. 
 
 10. JOHN 5 COMET (John* David, 3 John' David 1 ) was a farmer and 
 
 lived in Foxboro, where he died May 24, 1830, ae. 77. At the 
 Lexington alarm he marched as corporal in Capt. Israel Smith's Com- 
 pany and was out four days (Rev. Rolls, xiii. 103). From May to 
 December, 1775, during the siege of Boston, he was in Capt. 
 Samuel Payson's Company in Col. Joseph Read's Regiment. He 
 was also out five and one-half days in Capt. Josiah Pratt's Com- 
 pany in Colonel Gill's Regiment " that inarched on y e alarme to
 
 8 
 
 Roxbury the 5 day of March A.D. 1776 " (Rev. Rolls, xxi. 188). 
 He married Betsey Carpenter, daughter of Nehemiah. Betsey 
 died in Foxboro in February, 1823. 
 
 Children of John and Betsey, all born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. CLARISSA, b. May 29, 1783; d. unm. Dec. 29, 1855, ae. 72. 
 ii. BETSEY, b. Aug. 26, 1784; d. unm. Nov. 13, 1869, ae. 85. 
 
 22. iii. SPENCER, b. April 2, 1786; d. Foxboro. Dec. 14, 1859, ae. 73. 
 
 23. iv. THATCHER, b. March 22, 1788 ; d. Foxhoro, Dec. 23, 1867, ae. 79. 
 v. NABBY, b. Aug. 9, 1790; d. July 13, 1796. 
 
 vi. EUNICE, b. June 6, 1792; d. unm. Oct. 3, 1858, ae. 66. 
 vii. ESTHER, b. March 6, 1794; d. unm. May 25, 1831, ae. 37. 
 viii. NABBY, b. March 1, 1797; m. 1845, Amos Keith, of Norton; 
 where she d. May 1, 1884. < ^ V 
 
 24. ix. JOHN, b. April 1, 1798; d. Foxboro, April 7, 1886, ae. 88. 
 
 11. OLIVER* COMET (John* David, 9 John, 3 David 1 ) was a farmer and 
 
 lived in Foxboro, where he died Jan. 4, 1842, ae. 84. He en- 
 listed July 14, 1778, and served until Feb. 18, 1779, in Capt. 
 John Ellis's Company in Col. Thomas Poor's Regiment, raised 
 to fortify and secure the passes of the North River in New York 
 (Rev. Rolls, xix. 3). In later years was called Captain Comey. 
 He married, Dec. 21, 1786, Elizabeth, daughter of Eleazar Bel- 
 cher. She died in Foxboro, May 12, 1851, aged 83 years, 3 
 months and 26 days. 
 
 Children of Oliver and Elizabeth, all born in Foxboro: 
 
 25. i. OLIVER, b. Oct. 23, 1788; d. Foxboro, May 3, 1875, ae. 87. 
 
 26. ii. AARON, b. July 5, 1789: d. Jan. 6, 1846, ae. 56. 
 
 iii. ELIZA, b. April 27, 1791 ; m. June 3, 1813, Abijah Fales. She d. 
 Dec. 17, 1859, ae. 68. Children: Eliza M., Emily C., Abijah, 
 Elizabeth and Abner. 
 
 27. iv. LYMAN, b. Aug. 6, 1793; d. June 14, 1878, ae. 84. 
 
 28. v. WILLARD, b. March 26, 1796; d. Foxboro, April 23, 1869, ae. 73. 
 vi. PRUDENCE, b. July 7, 1798; d. Nov. 13, 1800. 
 
 29. vii. JASON, b. Oct. 4, 1800; d. Piinceton, Iowa, Sept. 15, 1853. 
 viii. MIRA, b. Dec. 8, 1802; m. Martin Copeland, of Easton. She d. 
 
 March 19, 1878, leaving one son Ephraim M. Copeland, of 
 Foxboro. 
 
 ix. OTIS, b. Feb. 3, 1805 ; went to Pennsylvania about 1833 ; and is 
 supposed to have been drowned. 
 
 30. x. CHARLES, b. April 8. 1807; living in Kennebnnk, Me. 
 
 31. xi. OMAN, b. July 31, 1811 ; d. Foxboro, Nov. 12, 1895. 
 
 12. SPENCER* COMEY (John,* David, 3 John, 3 David 1 ) of Foxboro, 
 
 enlisted Aug. 14, 1777, (when only 17 years old), in Capt. John 
 Bradley's Company in Col. Benjamin Gill's Regiment, marched 
 to Manchester, Vt, to join the Northern Army and was out three 
 months and twenty-eight days. He was in service ajrain in Col. 
 Thomas Nixon's Regiment from Sept. 1, 1779 to Feb. 3, 1780, 
 when he was reported killed (Rev. Rolls, liii. 210). 
 
 13. EZRA* COMEE (Joseph* David, 3 John 3 David 1 ) at the time of his 
 
 marriage was of Cambridge, but seems to have lived on the south 
 side of the river, that is, in the part set off in 1807 as Brighton. 
 About 1782 he moved away. His later years were spent in Dana 
 (Mass.), where he died Nov. 19, 1832, ae. 81. He married Feb. 
 16, 1774, Anna Porter, of Newton. She died at Daua, Oct. 28, 
 1838, ae. 81.
 
 Children of Ezra and Anna : 
 
 i. ELIZA, b. March 21, 1781 ; m. Dec. 29, 1802, Rev. Joshua Flagg. 
 ii. SUSAN, b. July 19, 1791; m. Barney Flagg (1792-1857). 
 32. iii. THOMAS WILSON, b. Jan 3, 1794 ; m. Lydia Towne, of Dana. 
 
 14. BENJAMIN* COMEE (Joseph* David, 3 John, 3 David 1 ) of Foxboro, 
 
 is spoken of both as a cordwainer and a trader. He was a sergeant 
 in the Foxboro militia in 1797. He died in Foxboro, Oct. 11, 
 1842, ae. 77. He married March 24, 1785, Ruth Trow. 
 Children of Benjamin and Ruth, all born in Foxboro: 
 
 1. AAKON, b. Nov. 13, 1785; d. Nov. 13, 1785. 
 
 ii. NANCY, b. April 8, 1787; d. July 20, 1811, ae. 24. 
 
 iii. RUTH, b. March 17, 1790. 
 
 iv. OTIS, b. Aug. 12, 1791; nothing further known. 
 
 15. BENJAMIN* COMET (Benjamin, 4 David, 3 John," David 1 ) moved 
 
 from Maiden to Boston some time before 1793, and continued to 
 live there until 1842, when he moved to Dorchester. In April 
 1848 he moved from Dorchester to Chelsea, where he died June 
 24, 1858, ae. 90. He was a mast-maker and built Comey's 
 Wharf, which first appears in the Boston Directory of 1835. The 
 wharf was taken in 1894 to become a part of the North End 
 Park. Benjamin married first, Hannah Watts, who died in Bos- 
 ton, July 25, 1829, ae. 62. She was born in Boston, Dec. 11, 
 1767, dau. of Bellingham Watts (1732-1767), mariner, who was 
 son of Samuel and Hannah. He married second, Nov. 29, 1830, 
 Nancy, eldest daughter of Robert Howe, of Boston. She died 
 in Reading, Kansas, in 1886. No children by the first wife. 
 Children of Benjamin and Nancy, born in Boston: 
 
 i. ISABELLA HARRIS, b. September, 1832 ; d. in Chelsea, Nov. 3, 1854, 
 unm. 
 
 ii. HANNAH WATTS, b. Sept. 22, 1834; taught school in Chelsea; m. 
 in 1865, Joel Augustus Stratton, of Leominster, Mass., where 
 they lived until February 1879, -when they moved to Reading, 
 Kansas. Mr. Stratton was a Capt. in 53d Mass. Vols. 
 
 16. DAVID 6 COMEE (David* David 3 John* David 1 ), of Gardner, mar- 
 
 ried March 31, 1799, Esther, daughter of John and Betsey Baker 
 of Gardner, where she died Oct. 5, 1863, aged 88 years, 11 months 
 and 5 days. He died Sept. 18, 1848, ae. 73. 
 
 Children of David and Esther, all born in Gardner : 
 
 i. DAVID, b. June 4, 1801 ; d. April 17, 1803. 
 
 ii. BETSEY, b. Dec. 9, 1802 ; m. Dec. 28', 1826, Jesse Lovewell (1798- 
 1838), of Hubbardston, Mass. 
 
 iii. JOHN, b. Dec. 21, 1804; m. 1st, March 18, 1858, Mrs. Mary Ann 
 Robbins, dau. of Robert Reed, of Dunstable, who d. Nov. 12, 
 1867, ae. 57. He m. 2d, March 10, 1870, Mrs. Harriet Stod- 
 dard, dau. of Luke Knight, of Winchendon. John d. in Gard- 
 ner, March 5, 1885, ae. 80. No children. 
 
 iv. LOUISA, b. Oct. 4, 1808 ; m. Dec. 2, 1829, Leonard Lovewell, of 
 Hubbardston. 
 
 17. JAMES MALTMAN S COMEE (David* David, 3 John? David 1 ) of 
 
 Gardner, was the first in the town to engage in chair manufactur- 
 ing, an industry for which the town has since become famous, 
 some $2,000,000 worth being made there annually now. It
 
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 seems to have been in the year 1805 that he began the industry in 
 a small way in one of the rooms in his own house. The chairs 
 he teamed himself to Boston, Salem, Providence and Worcester. 
 The very first were probably wood seats, but they were soon suc- 
 ceeded by the old flag seats. He and his older brother were 
 Masons, probably members of the now extinct Lodge at Temple- 
 ton. His house was on the Ashburnham road, a short distance 
 from the centre of Gardner. He was the first Comee to indulge 
 in the luxury of a middle name. 
 
 James M. married Jan. 26, 1802, Sally, daughter of John and 
 Abigail Putnam, of Fitchburg. She died in Gardner, Dec. 23, 
 1863, aged 84 years, 6 months and 24 days. He died Aug. 27, 
 1832, ae. 55. 
 
 Children of James M. and Sally, all born in Gardner : 
 
 i. MARIA, b. Sept. 2, 1802; m. Nov. 22, 1821, Isaac Jaquith (1797- 
 
 1861), of Gardner, where she d. Feb. 15, 1881, ae. 78. 
 ii. CHRISTIANA, b. April 1, 1805 ; m. June 23, 1825, William S. Lynde, 
 
 of Gardner, where she d. May 7, 1842. 
 iii. SALLY, b. May 14, 1807 ; m. Oct. 27, 1824, Benjamin Franklin 
 
 Hey wood (1802-1843), a chair manufacturer, of Gardner. She 
 
 d. at Fitchburg. 
 
 33. iv. JAMES MALTMAN, b. May 31, 1809 ; d. at Fitchburg, Nov. 11, 1893. 
 v. MARY, b. May 23, 1811; m. Aug. 25, 1829, Gen. Moses Wood 
 
 (1803-1869), of Gardner, and afterward lived in Providence and 
 Fitchburg. She is living in Brookline, Mass. 
 
 34. vi. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, b. Aug. 19, 1813; d. July 22, 1883. 
 
 vii. ABIGAIL, b. April 24, 1816; m. 1st, Nov. 3, 1836, Jonas Harwood 
 (1812-1840), of North Brookfleld; and 2d, Aug. 1, 1847, Rev., 
 Sumner Lincoln (1799-1890), a Unitarian clergyman. She d. 
 at Wilton, N. H., Jan. 24, 1895, ae. 78, leaving one dau. Mrs. 
 Abbie L. Bridges, by her second husband. 
 
 viii. JOHN PORTER, b. Sept. 3, 1818; d. March 8, 1819. 
 
 35. ix. LEANDER PORTER, b. Dec. 26, 1819; d. Dec. 9, 1885. 
 x. ELIZA, b. April 28, 1822 ; d. March 10, 1836. 
 
 xi. DANIEL WEBSTER, b. Aug. 21, 1825; d. unm. in Sacramento, Cal. 
 He went to California in 1853, and was in flour milling business. 
 
 18. BENJAMIN 5 COMEE {David,* David' John? David 1 ) moved from 
 Gardner, Mass., to Henderson, N. Y., about 1838, and thence 
 in 1855 to Hebron, Wis., and later to Seymour, Wis., where he 
 died Oct. 5, 1880, ae. 80. He married first, Sept. 30, 1823, 
 Lovina Mead, born April 7, 1803, daughter of Thomas and Char- 
 lotte Mead, of Lunenburg, Mass. She died at Henderson, N. Y., 
 July 11, 1842, ae. 39. He married second, Mrs. P^liza Ann 
 Seger (born Dye), who died at Hebron, Wis., 1869, ae. 66. He 
 was a cabinet-maker, painter, and decorator. 
 Children of Benjamin and Lovina: 
 
 i. CHARLOTTE EMELINE, b. Aug. 31, 1824; m. Feb. 20, 1841, Samuel 
 Delos Ward; and lives (1895) with her only son, Benjamin 
 Comee Ward, at Superior, Nuckolls Co., Neb. 
 
 ii. CAROLINE AUGUSTA, b. June 26, 1826 ; m. in 1855 John Parsons, 
 and lives in Wisconsin. 
 
 ill. MARTHA ANN, b. Aug. 28, 1828; m. 1st, Gates; and 2d, 
 
 Nicholas Stokes. They live at Lacrosse, Wis. 
 
 iv. JAMES MUNROE, b. Aug. 8, 1830; m. Jennie Thornton; and d. 
 at Lacrosse, Wis., 1862 (?) ae. 32. No children. 
 
 v. SARAH MEAD, b. Oct. 12, 1832; m. 1st, Aug. 20, 1856, Orrin H. 
 Emory, who d. during the War (Oct. 29, 1864). She m. 2d, 
 Oct. 1, 1866, James H. Bower, and lives at Whitewater, Wis.
 
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 Children of Benjamin and Eliza, all born at Henderson, N. Y. : 
 
 i. MARIA ROSETTE, b. Oct. 4, 1844; m. Jan. 1, 1860, Uriel Tibbets; 
 and lives now at Franklin, Minn. 
 
 36. ii. WILLIAM BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 11, 1846; m. 1867, Anna Eliza Fran- 
 
 cis, of Milwaukee, and lives at Seymour, Wis. 
 iii. SQUIRE S., b. Aug. 9, 1848; unm.; lives at Lake Linden, Mich. 
 
 A photographer, 
 iv. HELEN, b. 1854; d. unm. March 15, 1890, at Seymour, Wis. 
 
 19. JOSEPH* COMEE (David* David, 3 John,' David 1 ), after the death of 
 
 his father in 1826, took the old homestead in Gardner, but about 
 1837 moved to New York. He lived for a short time in Hender- 
 son and then in Belleville, but soon located in Ellisburg (N. Y.), 
 where he died Jan. 10, 1856, ae. 53. He married, April 27, 
 1826, Miriam Stone, born Gardner, July 13, 1799, youngest 
 daughter of Samuel Stone. She died Oct. 2, 1863, ae. 64, in 
 Ashburnham, Mass., whither she had removed in 1860. 
 
 Children all born in Gardner, except v., who was born in Hen- 
 derson, N. Y. : 
 
 37. i. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, b. Jan. 28, 1827; was a captain in 94th 
 
 Beg., N. Y. Vols., captured at Gettysburg and confined in Libby 
 Prison. He is an artist and lives in Waseka, Minn. 
 
 38. ii. SAMUEL STONE, b. June 17, 1830; m. Sarah W. Sawin. 
 iii. JAMES, b. Sept. 12, 1832 ; d. May 26, 1839. 
 
 iv. MARTHA STONE, b. Dec. 8, 1834; m. Aug. 19, 1858, Otis D. Sawin, 
 and lives in Waseka, Minn. They have an adopted dan. 
 Winnie, who is m. and lives in Waseka. 
 
 v. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. June 9, 1838 ; m. Dec. 26, 1881, Eliza- 
 beth Kittredge, and has lived in Waseka, Minn., since about 
 1867. No children. He is a furniture mfr. with his brother- 
 in-law, O. D. Sawin. 
 
 20. GEORGE WASHINGTON S COMEE (David, 4 David, 9 John, 2 Daivd 1 ) 
 
 lived in Gardner, Templeton and Fitchburg, and about 1852 went 
 to Worcester (Mass.), where he died May 28, 1878, ae. 68. He 
 married first, May 2, 1833, Fanny Richardson Viniug, born June 
 27, 1810, daughter of John Vining of Templeton. She became 
 an invalid soon after her marriage and died at Templeton, Mass., 
 Aug. 30, 1838, ae. 28. No children. George W. married second, 
 Betsey Howard, of Brookfield. 
 
 Children of George W. and Betsey, all of whom died young : 
 
 i. GEORGE M., b. May 1, 1842. 
 ii. FRANCIS. 
 iii. FANNIE. 
 iv. FRANK. 
 
 21. ROYAL* COMEE (Jonathan* David, s John* David 1 ) was bora in 
 
 Hopkinton, Mass., Jan. 29, 1772 ; and died in Hopkinton, in Octo- 
 ber 1852, ae. 80. He was a well-to-do farmer and always lived 
 in Hopkintou on the east side of Whitehall Pond. He owned a 
 large tract on the west side of the pond and an island, now called 
 Comey's Island. He married Polly Andrews, of Milford, who 
 died Aug. 29, 1873, aged 88 years, 8 months and 8 days. 
 Children of Royal and Polly, all born in Hopkiutou: 
 
 39. i. HIRAM, b. July 18, 1806 ; m. 1832, Emily Gibbs. 
 
 40. ii. ALBERT, b. Aug. 3, 1808; was twice m., and had seven children. 
 
 41. iii. ELBRIDGK GERRY, b. Nov. 21, 1811 ; m. Abigail J. Pierce.
 
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 42. iv. DEXTER, b. Feb. 21, 1814; d. in Westboro, Mass., Nov. 8, 1892. 
 v. MARTHA ANN, b. Aug. 19, 1817; m. William B. Wales, of Hop- 
 
 kinton; and d. April 13, 1845, leaving one child, Mary Ann. 
 vi. MARY, b. July 12, 1823; d. unm. July 18, 1844. 
 
 22. SPENCER 6 COMET (John 6 John, 4 David? John, 3 David 1 ) was born in 
 
 Foxboro, Mass., April 2, 1786; and died in Foxboro, Dec. 14, 1859, 
 ae. 73. He married Polly, daughter of Jacob and Milly Leonard, 
 of Foxboro, where she died Nov. 19, 1883, ae. 85-7-9. 
 Children, all born in Foxboro : 
 
 43. i. WARREN GARDNER, b. Sept. 15, 1821. 
 
 44. ii. SANFORD ERASTUS, b. March 5, 1826. 
 
 iii. JAMES MUNROE, b. March 29, 1829 ; has spent most of his life in 
 
 the oil regions of Pennsylvania, 
 iv. SPENCER AUGUSTUS, b. Nov. 19, 1832 ; d. March 25, 1833. 
 
 45. v. SPENCER AUGUSTUS, b. Aug. 27, 1834. 
 
 23. THATCHER* COMET (John,* John, 4 David, 9 John,* David 1 ) was born 
 
 in Foxboro, Mass., March 22, 1788; and died in Foxboro, Dec. 23, 
 1867, ae. 79. He married Dec. 21, 1823, Mary Thompson, born 
 July 14, 1801, daughter of David and Phebe (Bonney) Thompson, 
 of Easton and Lenox, Mass. Mrs. Comey died in Foxboro, Dec. 21, 
 1867, ae. 66. 
 
 Children, all born in Foxboro : 
 
 46. i. HENRY THATCHER, b. April 30, 1827. 
 
 47. ii. JAMES ALLEN, b. March 22, 1831. 
 
 48. iii. ELBRIDGE CARPENTER, b. Sept. 23, 1836. 
 
 24. JOHN* COMET (John? John, 4 J)avid, s John* David, 1 ) was born in 
 
 Foxboro, Mass., April 1, 1798; x aud died in Foxboro, April 7, 1886, 
 ae. 88. From 1856 until his death he was a deacon in the Baptist 
 Church and a great temperance worker, and in his younger days 
 (from 1828 until 1831) was captain of a militia company in the 2d 
 regiment. He married, May 23, 1824, Hannah Robinson, born 
 March 13, 1801, daughter of Abishai Robinson, of Raynham. She 
 died in Foxboro, Oct. 17, 1890, ae. 89. 
 Children, all born in Foxboro: 
 
 49. i. GEORGE PRESTON, b. March 30, 1825. 
 
 f tQn ii. ANN MARIA, b. Sept. 24, 1826; m. Dec. 5, 1849, Daniel M. May- 
 hew, who d. July 12, 1875. They had one dau., ElldtsMaria, b. 
 Boston, Aug. 7, 1854, and d. Jan. 17, 1863. Mrs. Mayhew 
 lives (1896) in Foxboro. 
 iii. HANNAH ROBINSON, b. March 31, 1830; is living (1896) unm. in 
 Foxboro. 
 
 50. iv. CHESTER HOLBROOK, b. Feb, 22. 1832. 
 61. v. JOHN FRANKLIN, b. March 10, 1837. 
 
 vi. VODISA JANE, b. Dec. 30, J842; is living (1896) unm. in Boston, 
 where she is a valued teacher in the .Lincoln Grammar School. 
 
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 25. OLIVER* COMET (Oliver, 5 John 4 David, 6 John, 2 David 1 ) was born in 
 
 Foxboro, Mass., Oct. 23, 1787; and died in Foxboro, May 3, 1875, 
 ae. 87. He was a farmer and married Feb. 6, 1812, Keziah, daugh- 
 ter of Spencer Leonard, of Foxboro, where she died Oct. 12, 1879, 
 ae. 88. 
 
 Children, all born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. LOUISA, b. Jan. 25, 1813; m. June 1, 1836, Addison Kingsbury, 
 and is living (1896) in Roslindale (part of Boston).
 
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 li. JUNIA ANN, b. March 12, 1815 ; m. Nov. 9, 1838, Addison P. 
 
 Forrest, and d. in Foxboro, May 11, 1882, ae. 67. 
 iii. JKRUSHA, b. March 24, 1817; m. Oct. 19, 1838, Alfred Hodges; 
 
 and is living (18Q6) in Foxboro. 
 iv. MARTHA LEONARD, b. Jan. 27, 1820; d. unm. in Foxboro, March 
 
 10, 1857. 
 v. MARY, b. March 22, 1822 ; m. April 21, 1847, William Bowers, of 
 
 Boston, and d. in Hyde Park, Mass., Jan. 1, 1870, ae. 47. 
 vi. LAURA AMANDA, b. Sept. 26, 1836 ; d. Sept. 19, 1827. 
 
 52. vii. OLIVER EDSON, b. April 8, 1830. 
 
 viii. AMANDA FRANCES, b. Aug. 18, 1832; m. May 22, 1866, George 
 W. Haynes, of Baltimore, Md., where she is still (1896) liv- 
 ing. 
 
 26. AARON' COMEY (Oliver* John* David, 3 John, 2 David 1 ) was born in 
 Foxboro, Mass., July 5, 1789; and was killed in Milton, Jan. 6, 
 1846 (ae. 56), by being thrown from his carriage while on the way 
 to Boston. Buried in Foxboro, where he had always lived, a farmer 
 and trader. He married in May, 1812, Charlotte, daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Avis (White) Skinner, of Mansfield, Mass. Mrs. Comey 
 was born Nov. 5, 1791, and died in Foxboro, April 20, 1851. 
 Children, all born in Foxboro: 
 
 i. LOWELL FRANCIS, b. Jan. 24, 1814; d. Jan. 25, 1815. 
 
 53. ii. AARON LOWELL, b. Dec. 10, 1815. 
 
 iii. CHARLOTTE BATES, b. May 19, 1818; m. May 14, 1837, Albert 
 Alden, and d. April 29, 1849. They had five children: Char- 
 lotte L., Albert H., Harriet E., Leslie and Arthur B. 
 
 54. iv. WILLIAM SKINNER, b. Sept. 30, 1821. 
 
 v. NANCY MARIA, b. Feb. 11, 1824; m. 1st, May 12, 1848, Elias 
 Chilingsworth Miller, who d. at Augusta, Me., in January, 1854. 
 She m. 2d, May 12, 1858, Samuel Dexter Maybry, of Hopkinton, 
 who d. Jan. 7, 1891. She is living (L896) in Foxboro. One 
 child : Charles Alliston Maybry, b. Sept. 13, 1862 ; m. June 30, 
 1892, Fannie M. Soule, and lives in Middleboro, Mass. 
 
 vi. CHLOE SABRINA, b. Nov. 10, 1827 ; m. June 27, 1852, Henry James 
 Sawyer, of Hopkinton, Mass. She d. April 4, 1857, leaving 
 two children. He lives at Joliet, 111. 
 
 vii. ELVIRA CORDELIA, b. Aug. 9. 1830 ; m. Benjamin Hartwell Spauld- 
 ing, of Milford, Mass. She d. July 13, 1864. No children. 
 
 viii. THOMAS HAYDEN, b. July 30, 1833 ; d. Aug. 17, 1834. 
 
 27. LYMAN" COMET (Oliver* John* David, 3 John, 9 David 1 ) was born in 
 
 Foxboro, Mass., Aug. 6, 1793, and died in Foxboro, June 14, 1878, 
 ae. 84, but lived several years at Sandwich, Mass. He married 
 Nancy Fisher, of Wrentham, daughter of Cyrus Fisher, a Revolu- 
 tionary soldier. She was born Jan. 7, 1794, and died in April, 1832. 
 Children, i. and ii. born in Foxboro, iii. to vi. in Sandwich : 
 
 55. i. LYMAN FISHER, b. Aug. 20, 1814. 
 66. ii. GEORGE ANSON, b. April 7, 1817. 
 
 iii. HANNAH, b. October, 1821; m. at Peterboro, N. H., June 25, 
 
 1844, Alonzo C. Rounds, and lives at Milford, Mass, 
 iv. MARIA, b. about 1824; d. unm. at Foxboro, Oct. 25, 1849, ae. 25. 
 
 57. v. ALBERT, b. Feb. 24, 1828. 
 
 58. vi. WILLARD, b. Dec. 1, 1830. 
 
 28. WiLLARD 6 COMEY ( Oliver, 6 John* David, 9 John, 2 David 1 ) was born 
 
 in Foxboro, Mass., March 26, 1796, and died in Foxboro, April 23, 
 1869, ae. 73. He married first, Esther Boyden, of Foxboro, who 
 died in 1823, and he married second, Celia, daughter of Samuel and
 
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 Sarah Leonard, of Mansfield. She died in Foxboro, June 13, 1875, 
 ae. 80-5-18. 
 
 Child of Willard and Esther, born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. MARY ESTHER, b. June 29, 1823; m. Aug. 29, 1843, Warren G. 
 Comey. (See page 19) . 
 
 Children of Willard and Celia: 
 
 i. ADELINE (twin) ; d. ae. about 8. 
 ii. ALBERT (twin) ; d. ae. about 8. 
 
 29. JASON* COMET ( Oliver* John* David, 9 John* David 1 } was born in 
 
 Foxboro, Mass., Oct. 4, 1800, and died in Princeton, Iowa, Sept. 18, 
 1853. He was a farmer and lived in Foxboro all of his life but the 
 last five months. He married, Oct. 8, 1826, Tryphenia Daniels, 
 who was born in December, 1802, at Foxboro, where she died Feb. 
 29, 1882, ae. 79. 
 
 Children, all born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. SUSAN D., b, July 15, 1828 ; d. Aug. 18, 1843. 
 
 59. ii. JASON, b. Sept. 8, 1831. 
 
 60. iii. JOSEPH, b. May 18, 1835. 
 
 30. CHARLES 8 COMET (Oliver, 6 John,* David, 9 John, 2 David 1 ) was born in 
 
 Foxboro, Mass., April 8, 1807, and is living (1896) in Kennebunk, 
 Me., where he has resided since about 1890. Most of his years have 
 been spent in New Hampshire as a farmer. He married, June 11, 
 1835, Mrs. Martha Marden (nee Berry), of Portsmouth, N. H. She 
 was born at Rye, N. H., May 1, 1811, and is still living. 
 
 Children i. to iv. born in Foxboro, v. to vii. in Boston, Mass., viii. 
 in Danbury, N. H., ix. to xi. in Wilmot, N. H., xii. in Hillsborough, 
 N. H., and xiii. in Wilmot : 
 
 i. CHARLES BERRY, b. May 12, 1836 ; d. Feb. 22, 1837. 
 
 61. ii. OTIS WILLIAMS, b. June 19, 1837. 
 
 62. iii. CHARLES BERRY, b. Aug. 23, 1839. 
 
 63. iv. HENRY HARRISON, b. Aug. 23, 1841. 
 
 v. NATHANIEL WARREN, b. Aug. 18, 1843 ; d. Sept. 5, 1843. 
 
 vi. MARTHA JOSEPHINE, b. Aug. 31, 1844; d. Sept. 24, 1846. 
 
 vii. JAMES EDWIN, b. July 28, 1846; d. Sept. 29, 1846. 
 
 viii. JOTHAM EDWIN, b. Sept. 12, 1847; d. Feb. 27, 1864, at Fort 
 
 Nelson, Ky., whither he had gone in the llth Reg. N. H. 
 
 Vols. 
 ix. MARTHA JOSEPHINE, b. Sept. 21, 1849 ; m. Nov. 10, 1870, Warren 
 
 E. Barney, of Wilmot, N. H. 
 x. JULIA MARIA, b. Oct. 17, 1851 ; m. Sept., 1877, Albert Wetherbee, 
 
 of Boston. 
 
 xl. JASON AUGUSTINE, b. June 8, 1854; d. Nov. 23, 1855. 
 xii. JAMES JASON, b. Jan. 11, 1857 ; d. Nov. 26, 1876. 
 
 64. xiii. JOHN HALE, b. May 25, 1860. 
 
 31. OMAN" COMET (Oliver* John* David,* John,* David 1 ) was born in 
 
 Foxboro, Mass., July 31, 1811, and died in Foxboro, Nov. 12, 
 1895, ae. 84. He was a farmer, and married in November, 1846, 
 Susan Adella Morse, born March 19, 1813, daughter of John Morse. 
 She died April 11, 1877, ae. 64. 
 Child, born in Foxboro: 
 
 65. LEWIS ALVIN, b. Aug. 2, 1850.
 
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 ELIZA" COMEE (Ezra, 6 Joseph* David* John? David 1 } was born in 
 Brighton (then a part of Cambridge, now a part of Boston), Mass., 
 March 21, 1781, and died in Dana, Mass., Sept. 30, 1843, ae. 62. 
 She married Dec. 29, 1802, Rev. Joshua Flagg (born April 21, 
 1773; died in Dana, Nov. 10, 1859, ae. 86), a Universalist clergy- 
 man, who preached in Dana for over sixty years. 
 
 Children, Flagg, i. born in New Salem, Mass., vii. in Scituate, 
 Mass., and the others in Dana. 
 
 i. ELIZA, b. Nov. 11, 1804; m. 1830, Asa Spooner, and d. April 7, 
 
 1840. 
 
 ii. JOSHUA, b. Dec. 31, 1806; d. Aug. 15, 1850. 
 iii. PORTER, b. March 7, 1810; d. Dec. 26, 1880. 
 iv. MARIA, b. Oct. 20, 1812 ; d. Nov. 17, 1865. 
 v. NANCY, b. Dec. 8, 1815; d. Feb. 19, 1887; m. Nov. 10, 1836, her 
 
 cousin Dennis F. Flagg. 
 
 vi. Lucius, b. Jan. 22, 1818 ; living (1896) in San Francisco, 
 vii. ALONZO, b. Oct. 21, 1820; m. Feb. 29, 1844, Hannah N. Babitt, 
 
 and d. Dec. 31, 1878. 
 viii. MURRAY, b. July 19, 1825 ; living (1896) in San Francisco. 
 
 SUSAN* COMEE (Ezra* Joseph,* David, 9 John, 3 David 1 ) was bora 
 July 19, 1791, and died in Chelsea, Mass., July 20, 1876, ae. 85. 
 She married Barney Flagg (born May 24, 1792; died Nov. 6, 1857) 
 and moved to Boston. 
 Children, Flagg: 
 
 i. SOPHRONIA ANN, m. Charles Partridge. 
 
 ii. FRANCIS DENNIS, b. in Dana, Jan. 22, 1815 ; d. in Boston, Oct. 7, 
 
 1884; m. Nancy Flagg. He wrote his name Dennis F. 
 iii. SUSAN PORTER, m. Kobert R. Perkins, and had two children, 
 iv. DENCY, b. 1820 ; d. 1822. 
 v. DENCY, b. 1822 ; d. 1824. 
 vi. FRANKLIN BRIGGS, b. 1824 ; d. 1847. 
 
 vii. HARRIET JANE, b. 1824 ; m. Newell Stanyan, and had two chil- 
 dren. 
 
 32. THOMAS WILSON* COMEE (Ezra, 6 Joseph,* David, 3 John, 2 David 1 ) was 
 born Jan. 3, 1794, and died in Boston, Feb. 5, 1862, ae. 68. He 
 moved to Boston about 1853, but most of his life was spent in Dana 
 (Mass.), where he was buried. He married in 1817, Lydia, born 
 Oct. 19, 1801, daughter of Ichabod Towne, of Dana. She died in 
 Boston, March 25, 1885, ae. 83, and was buried in Dana. 
 
 Children, i. to iv., vi. to viii. and xii. born in Dana; v., ix. to xi. 
 born in Petersham, Mass.: 
 
 66. i. WILSON, b. Jan. 24, 1819. 
 
 67. ii. CHARLES, b. Nov. 2, 1821. 
 
 68. iii. EZRA, b. Oct. 21, 1823. 
 
 iv. MARIA, b. Nov. 24, 1825 ; d. unm. in Boston, May 4, 1893, se. 67. 
 
 69. v. FRANKLIN, b. Dec. 11, 1827. 
 
 vi. NANCY, b. July 17, 1829; m. May 1, 1851, William S. Tuttle (b. 
 in Rowe, Mass., Feb. 19, 1830), and is living (1896) in Boston 
 (RoxburyDist.). They have had three children : Lydia Maria, 
 b. in Barre, 1853; William II., b. in Lynn, 1857, d. 1861; and 
 Charles W., b. 1860. 
 
 vii. LYDIA, b. Feb. 6, 1832 ; d. in infancy. 
 
 viii. SOPHRONIA PARTRIDGE, b. Jan. 21, 1834 ; m. Jan. 5, 1859, Benja- 
 min O. Woods (b. in Springfield, Mass., Dec. 18, 1830, and d. 
 May 20, 1873). She d. in Boston, Sept. 17, 1877. No chil- 
 dren.
 
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 70. ix. DENNIS FLAGG, b. June 6, 1836. 
 
 71. x. JAMES THOMAS, b. Nov. 29, 1839. 
 
 xi. SUSAN ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 6, 1841 ; d. in Boston, Aug. 11, 1858. 
 
 72. xii. FREDERICK TOWNE, b. Oct. 1, 1846. 
 
 33. JAMES* MALTMAN COMEE (James M.* David* David* John' David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Gardner, Mass., May 31, 1809, and died in Fitchburg, 
 Mass., Nov. 11, 1893, ae. 84. Most of his life was spent in Fitch- 
 burg, where he was a chair maker, though never in business for 
 himself. He married first, Emily A. Nichols, of Gardner, daughter 
 of David Nichols. She was born July 21, 1809, and died Sept. 29, 
 1844. He married second, April 29, 1847, Mrs. Mary F. Davis, of 
 New Ipswich (born in Concord, Mass., July 20, 1820), daughter of 
 James and Seba Con ant, and widow of Walter Davis, of Fitchburg, 
 where she is still living (1896). 
 
 Child of James M. and Emily, born at Gardner : 
 
 73. i. JAMES, b. July 2, 1836. 
 Child of James M. and Mary : 
 
 i. WEBSTER HUNTLEY, b. May 4, 1856; d. Feb. 9, 1883; m. May 12, 
 1877, Mary Dunn, who m. again July 5, 1884, William A. Pres- 
 cott, and lives now in Wakefleld, Mass. They had one son : 
 Walter Huntley Comee, b. Sept. 17, 1877 ; living in Wakefield. 
 
 34. WILLIAM WILLIAMS' COMEE (James M., 6 David* David' John' 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Gardner, Mass., Aug. 19, 1813, and died July 
 22, 1883, at the Point of Pines Hotel, Revere Beach (about seven 
 miles from Boston) whither he had gone for his health. He' 
 moved from Gardner to Fitchburg, Mass., where he was proprietor of 
 the American House until 1868, when he removed to Boston, where 
 he resided until his death, except the four years from 1871 to 1875 
 that he spent in Cambridge, while his son was in college. He mar- 
 ried Thanksgiving eve,* Dec. 2, 1835, Maria, daughter of Cyrus 
 Winship, of Westminster (Mass.), where she was born April 13, 
 1817. She is living (1896) with her youngest son in Boston. 
 Children, i. and ii. born in Gardner; iii. in Fitchburg: 
 
 74. i. WILLIAM PORTER, b. July 17, 1837. 
 76. ii. CHARLES HENRY, b. Aug. 17, 1840. 
 76. iii. FREDERIC BOBBINS, b. Jan. 2, 1854. 
 
 35. LEANDER PORTER 6 COMEE (James M.? David* David' John' David*) 
 
 was born in Gardner, Mass., Dec. 26, 1819, and died in Massachu- 
 setts General Hospital, Boston, Dec. 9, 1885, ae. 66, and was buried 
 at Fitchburg (Mass.), where a great part of his life was spent. 
 He kept a dry goods store for several years and afterwards dealt iu 
 horses. He married Sept. 9, 1845, Sarah Louisa Beckwith, daugh- 
 ter of Charles and Mindwell (Alexander) Beckwith. Mrs. Comee 
 died in Fitchburg, July 30, 1866, ae. 44-4-10. 
 Child: 
 
 i. FRANK E., b. July 31, 1851; d. umn. in Boston, March 25, 1882, 
 se. 30. Buried in Fitchburg. 
 
 36. WILLIAM BENJAMIN 6 COMEE (Benjamin* David* David' John, 9 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Henderson, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1846, and is living 
 
 * Thanksgiving was a week later than usual in 1835.
 
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 (1896) at Seymour, Wis. In 1855, he went with his father from 
 New York to Hebron in southern Wisconsin. Later he moved to 
 Seymour (Wis.), where he entered the employ of the Northwestern 
 Manufacturing Company in 1871 as Superintendent of their branch 
 works. He married in 1867, Anna Eliza Francis, of Milwaukee. 
 Children : 
 
 i. JENNIE "W., m. Dr. J. H. Hittner, of Seymour, Wis. 
 ii. ALBKRTIS BENJAMIN, a druggist in Chicago, 
 iii. WILLIAM CLYDE. 
 
 37. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' COMEE (Joseph* David* David? John,* 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Gardner, Mass., Jan. 28, 1827, and is living 
 (1896) in Waseka, Minn., where he has resided for several years. 
 He is an artist by profession. Oct. 25, 1861, he enlisted as 1st 
 Sergeant in Co. G, 94th Reg. N. Y. Vols. He became 1st Lieu- 
 tenant, May 14, 1862, and Captain, Nov. 1, 1862. He was in the 
 battles of Cedar Mountain, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and 
 Gettysburg. At the latter, July 1, 1863, he was taken prisoner and 
 sent to Libby Prison, where he remained until exchanged March 7, 
 1864. He was in Grant's campaign against Lee for about three 
 months, but at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 12, 1864, he broke 
 down with fever and was carried from the field. He never fully 
 recovered from the hardships of the war. He married Sept. 2, 
 1847, Maroa Griswold, daughter of Sylvester Griswold, of Adams, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Children, i. and ii. born in Adams, N. Y. ; iii. and iv. in Ellis- 
 burgh, N. Y. ; v. and vi. in Belleville, N. Y. ; and vii. and viii. in 
 Waseka, Wis. : 
 
 i. EMMA JANE, b. Nov. 6, 1848 ; m. Oct. 17, 1865, William Kandall, 
 
 and d. in Vivian, Minn., Oct. 27, 1866, leaving a dau., Emma, 
 ii. SYLVESTER GRISWOLD, b. April 27, 1853 ; m. 1st, in Livingston, 
 Tenn., Margaret West, and 2d, Nov. 25, 1894, Alice Rooney. 
 No children. He is a painter and lives in Minneapolis, Minn, 
 iii. ADELAIDE LAVERA, b. May 5, 18.55; m. Dec. 7, 1881, John Ward, 
 
 and lives in Waseka, Minn. 
 
 iv. IRENE MOZELLE, b. Dec. 17, 1857; unm. ; lives with her father, 
 v. FLORENCE VILETTA, b. Aug. 29, I860; unm.; lives with her 
 
 father. 
 
 vi. ELLEN MIRIAM, b. Jan. 23, 1862; d. Jan. 9, 1867. 
 vii. SARAH BERTHA, b. July 2, 1866; unm. ; lives with her father, 
 viii. JOSEPH FREDERICK, b. Oct. 19, 1869; a machinist; lives unm. 
 in Missouli, Montana. 
 
 38. SAMUEL STONE* COMEE (Joseph,* David * David, 3 John,* David 1 ) was 
 
 born in Gardner, Mass., June 17, 1830, and is living (1896) in 
 Waseka, Minn. When about seven years old he went with his 
 father from Massachusetts to New York. When a young man he 
 returned to his birthplace for a few years, but soon went back to Ellis- 
 burgh, N. Y. Since 1865, most of his time has been spent in 
 Waseka, Minn., where he is a fruit grower. He married May 13, 
 1855, Sarah W. Savin, born in Gardner, July 3, 1836, daughter of 
 Joseph Dexter Sawin. 
 
 Children, i. born in Ellisburg, N. Y. ; and ii. in Belleville, N. Y. : 
 
 i. MYRA ADELAIDE, b. Sept. 26, 1860; m. Sept. 26, 1888, Rev. Orrin 
 
 L. Robinson, and lives in Baraboo, Wis. 
 ii. MARTHA JOSEPHINE, b. Oct. 16, 1862; m. May 1, 1881, Charles E. 
 
 Leslie, and lives in Hillsboro, North Dakota.
 
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 39. HiRAM 6 COMET (Royal? Jonathan,* David, 9 John? David 1 ) was born 
 
 July 18, 1806, in Hopkinton (Mass.), where he always lived and 
 where he died in 1880. He was a shoe maker and farmer; was 
 a selectman in 1849 and a member of the school committee. He 
 married in 1832, Emily Gibbs, of Hopkinton. 
 
 Children, i. born in Holliston, the others in Hopkinton : 
 
 i. ALPHONSO, b. 1833; never married ; enlisted April 7, 1862, in Co. 
 B, 25th Mass. Vols., saw heavy fighting, and was killed at Cold 
 Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864, and buried in an unknown grave, 
 ii. EMLLY ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 4, 1835 ; m. Seth Aldrich, of Milford, 
 
 and lives at Hopkinton. They have four children, 
 iii. LAWSON, b. 1837; m. 1863, Ursula Taft, of Upton; enlisted 
 Sept. 24, 1862, in Co. H, 42d Mass. Vols., and was killed on 
 the skirmish line at Brashear City, La., June 23, 1863, and 
 buried in an unknown grave. 
 iv. HANNAH MARIA, b. 1838; m. Welcome Temple, of Hopkinton, 
 
 who d. near New Orleans in 1863. She d. in 1862. One son. 
 v. CELINDA, b. 1842 ; m. 1863, her cousin George R. Comey. 
 
 77. vi. JAMES KNOX POLK, b. Feb. 20, 1845. 
 
 vii. LESLIE SCAMMELL, b. Dec. 20, 1847; d. April 3, 1849. 
 viii. MARTHA ANN, b. March 3, 1850; d. unm., 1871. 
 ix. ABBIE ISABELLA, b. March 5, 1853; m. 1874, John Colburn, of 
 Hopkinton, and d. Jan. 26, 1878, leaving two daughters. 
 
 40. ALBERT 6 COMET (Royal, 6 Jonathan* David, s Jo/in, 3 David 1 ) was born 
 
 in Hopkinton, Mass., Aug. 3, 1808, and died in Pawtucket, R. I., 
 Jan. 28, 1886, 83. 77. In 1839 he went to Texas, which had be- 
 come independent four years before, but was still in an unsettled 
 condition. The Indians at this time were particularly uneasy, so that 
 he not only lost everything, but was obliged to flee to the wilder- 
 ness, with a few companions, and for two years he endured all sorts of 
 hardships. At the end of that time, when he returned to New Eng- 
 land, he found that his wife had died and that his family had been 
 broken up. In 1 850 during the " gold fever " he went to Cali- 
 fornia, where he spent the next five years. The remaining years 
 of his life were spent in Pawtucket, R. I. He married first, in 
 1831, Celinda Barton, of Medway, who died April 8, 1840, and 
 second, in 1843, Hannah Walker, of Pawtucket, R. I., who is still 
 living (1896). 
 
 Children of Albert and Celinda, i. born in Medway, Mass.; ii. 
 and v. born in Wreutham ; and iii. and iv. born in Attleboro, Mass. : 
 
 78. i. ALBERT BARTON, b. Feb. 20, 1832. 
 
 79. ii. GEORGE ROYAL, b. Feb. 2, 1834. 
 
 iii. ANN ELIZA, b. May 24, 1836 ; m. Nov. 6, 1853, George W. Temple, 
 
 of Hopkinton, where she still lives, 
 iv. MARIETTA, b. May 5, 1838 ; m. Nov. 8, 1860, Henry L. Stearns, 
 
 of Hopkinton, where she d. July 13, 1891. 
 
 80. v. WILLIAM MACHER, b. Feb. 18, 1840. 
 
 Children of Albert and Hannah, born in Pawtucket, R. I.: 
 
 i. CHARLES DELOS, b. July 11, 1845 ; m. Emma Scott, of Cumber- 
 land, R. I., and lives in Pawtucket. No children, 
 ii. FRANK EUGENE, b. May 29, 1848 ; m. Ella A. Whipple, of North 
 Providence, R. I., and lives in Providence, R. I. No children. 
 
 41. ELBRIDGE GERRY 6 COMEY (Royal, 6 Jonathan* David, 9 John* David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Hopkinton, Mass., Nov. 21, 1811, and died in Hopkin- 
 ton, April 19, 1868, 33. 56. He was a farmer and until about 1843
 
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 lived in Hopkinton, where he was a Lieutenant ia the militia. 
 Then for several years he lived in Holliston, manufacturing horn 
 combs as well as farming. His last years were speut in Woodville, 
 a village of Hopkinton. He was a member of the Congregational 
 Church. He married Oct. 21, 1831, Abigail Jackson, daughter of 
 Ebenezer and Ann (Spring) Pierce, of Hopkinton. She died June 
 9, 1893, as. 86. 
 
 Children, i. to iv. born in Hopkinton ; v. and vi. born in Hollis- 
 ton: 
 
 i. AMANDA ANN, b. Dec. 20, 1832 ; d. unm. in Holliston, Nov. 10, 
 1856, ae. 24. Was educated in Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary 
 (at South Hadley) which she entered in 1851 ; a brilliant scholar. 
 
 81. n. ARATUS, b. Oct. 27, 1837. 
 
 82. iii. HENRY NEWTON, b. March 4, 1840. 
 
 83. iv. MANLIUS, b. March 18, 1848. 
 
 v. MARY ABBY, b. Nov. 28, 1845 ; m. July 15, 1868, George S. Gib- 
 son, of Hopkinton, and lives (1896) in Clinton, Mass. They 
 have five children. 
 
 84. vi. PERLEY PIERCE, b. Jan. 14, 1852. 
 
 42. DEXTER 6 COMET (Royal, 6 Jonathan* David, 3 John, 2 David 1 ) was born 
 m Hopkinton, Mass., Feb. 21, 1814, and died in Westboro, Mass., 
 Nov. 8, 1892, ae. 78. He was a farmer, and boot maker, and a 
 member of the Baptist Church. He married Mrs. Rachel Barlow, 
 but was divorced from her and married Jan. 18, 1852, Mary, daugh- 
 ter of Lyscomb Brigham, of Hopkinton. She died in 1894. 
 Children, all born in Hopkinton : 
 
 i. EMMA ELIZA, b. April 13, 1853; m. July 31, 1887, Leonard V. 
 
 Antonella, and lives (1896) in Fitchburg, Mass. 
 n. MARY ALBREANNA, b. May 1, 1854; m. Nov. 29, 1873, Gilbert 
 Belcher, of Natick, Mass., and lives (1896) in Westboro, Mass, 
 in. WILLIAM HENRY, b. May 27, 1857 ; m. in 1886, Lilljan Smith, of 
 Chelsea, Mass. She d. Feb. 20, 1895, and he m. 2d, March 4, 
 1896, Mrs. Alice L. Beganson, of Chelsea, and lives in Allston 
 (Boston), Mass. 
 
 43. WARREN GARDNER' COMET (Spencer, 6 John, 6 John* David, 3 John, 3 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 15, 1821, and is living 
 (1896) in Quincy, Mass. About 1846, or 1847, he moved to Bos- 
 ton, where he has been, and still is, a successful business man. 
 Since 1867 he has lived in Quincy. He married, Aug. 29, 1843, 
 Mary Esther, daughter of Willard Comey (see page 14). No 
 children. 
 
 44. SANFORD ERASTUS T COMET (Spencer, 6 John* John, 4 David, 3 John,' 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., March 5, 1826, and died in 
 River, Oct. 26, 1863, ae. 37. He married Oct. 14, 1847, Mary 
 Ann Neal, who married second, Nov. 3, 1875, Burgess S. Wilcox. 
 She was born April 9, 1823, and died Feb. 25, 1891. The only 
 child of San ford E. and Mary A. was born in Foxboro: 
 
 i. MARY ANGELINE, b. Sept. 27, 1849; m. April 13, 1876, Joseph 
 Hearn, of Foxboro, where she d. July 5, 1890. They had one 
 child : Grace Sanford Hearn, b. Sept. 5, 1879. 
 
 45. SPENCER AUGUSTUS* COMET (Spencer 6 John,' John, 4 David, 9 John, 9 
 
 7?^V. Wa Jl born in Foxboro, Mass., Aug. 27, 1834, and is living 
 (1896) m Norwood, Mass. March 17, 1856, he moved from Fox-
 
 boro to Boston, where he is still in business. In October, 1892, he 
 transferred his residence from Boston to Norwood. He married in 
 Boston, Nov. 11, 1863, Ann Eliza, eldest daughter of William H. 
 and Eliza. (Eaton) Lawrence, of Lexington, where she was born 
 May 30, 1841. 
 
 Children, all born in Boston, the last four in the part known as 
 Jamaica Plain : 
 
 i. HARRY L., b. June 4, 1867; d. in Lexington, June 28, 1869. 
 il. ALICE G., b. Aug. 14, 1871; d. Oct. 30, 1874. 
 iii. WARREN W., b. Aug. 18, 1875; d. Sept. 5, 1876. 
 iv. WILLIAM A., b. Dec. 3, 1876. 
 v. A. LOUISE, b. Oct. 19, 1878. 
 
 46. HENRY THATCHER T COMEY ( Thatcher? John, 6 John, 4 David, 6 John, 13 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., April 30, 1827, and died in 
 Monson, Mass., Sept. 6, 1887, ae. 60. Buried in Foxboro, where 
 most of his life was spent in the bonnet bleaching industry. He 
 married Nov. 3, 1850, at Foxboro, Mary Richmond Luther, who 
 was born in Taunton, Mass., March 19, 1829, and died in Foxboro, 
 Nov. 28, 1884, ae. 55. 
 
 Children, all born in Foxboro: 
 
 i. HENRIETTA THOMPSON, b. Dec. 16, 1853 ; m. June 14, 1876, William 
 Budd Van Amringe, and lives (1896) in Roxbury (Boston). They 
 have had three children : Harry Sterling, b. in Providence, R. I., 
 July 4, 1877; d. in Dorchester, Mass., April 1, 1884. Robert 
 Comey, b. in Providence, R. I., June 22, 1882. William Martin, 
 b. in Hyde Park, Mass., Oct. 5, 1884. 
 85. ii. ROBERT HENRY, b, Nov. 26, 1857; m. April 26, 1884, Theresa 
 
 Pierce Mellor. 
 
 iii. WALTER RICHMOND, b. April 12, 1866; m. at Los Angeles, Cal., 
 Dec. 29, 1888, Laura Munsey, and d. at Roxbury (Boston), 
 Mass., Sept. 22, 1894, ss. 28. No children. Mrs. Comey has 
 returned to California. 
 
 47. JAMES ALLEN' COMEY ( Thatcher? John* John,* David? John? David 1 ) 
 
 was born March 22, 1831, in Foxboro, Mass., where he still lives. 
 He married Feb. 27, 1853, Susan Samantha Carpenter, of Foxboro, 
 born March 11, 1832. 
 
 Children, all born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. EMMA RICHMOND, b. Nov. 20, 1853; m. Dec. 29, 1874, Abbott S. 
 Smith, of West Gardiner, Me. They have one child: Allen 
 Lincoln Smith, b. Sept. 14, 1875. 
 
 ii. EZRA CARPENTER, b. April 21, 1860; m. Laura E. Felt, of Sharon, 
 Mass. He is an attorney and councillor at law in Foxboro. 
 Has one son, Lawrence Allen Comey, b. May 19, 1881. 
 iii. JAMES THOMPSON, b. May 20, 1861 ; unm., lives in Foxboro. 
 iv. HERMANN ALLEN, b. Nov. 26, 1867; m. Feb. 14, 1889, Katie E. 
 Rowell, of Cornville, Me., and lives (1896) in Charlestown, 
 Mass. 
 
 48. ELBRIDGE CARPENTER* COMEY ( Thatcher? John? John?David? John? 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 23, 1836, and lives 
 (1896) in Somerville, Mass. When he was seventeen years old 
 he left Foxboro and went to Boston to work. Three years later, 
 in 1856, he entered the employ of W. K. Lewis & Bros., deal- 
 ers in pickles, preserves, etc., 93 Broad Street, Boston, and since 
 1866 has been a member of the firm, which has an extensive trade.
 
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 About the same time he transferred his place of residence from 
 Boston to Quincy, where he remained a dozen years. Since about 
 1878 he has lived in Somerville. Mr. Comey is a substantial busi- 
 ness man and has also been much interested in the compilation of 
 the Comey genealogy, and has rendered valuable assistance. He 
 married, May 17, 1860, Josephine Louisa Messinger, who was born 
 in Walpole, Mass., Jan. 25, 1835. 
 
 Their only child was born in Boston : 
 
 86. i. ARTHUR MESSINGER, b. Nov. 10, 1861. 
 
 49. GEORGE PRESTON T COMET (John* John* John* David, 3 John," David 1 ) ^}^uyC .<: 
 was born in Foxboro, Mass., March 30, 1825, and lives (1896) in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. At the age of twenty-one he left Foxboro, and 
 for two or three years worked in Boston, removing thence to Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., where he has ever since been engaged in the straw goods 
 business, which under his able management has assumed large pro- 
 portions. He is much interested in church work and has been for 
 several years Trustee and Deacon of the Strong PI. Baptist Church. 
 He married, Oct. 15, 1848, Clara A. Dean, of Rehoboth. JOi^L 
 Children, i. born in Foxboro; ii. to iv. born in Brooklyn: 
 
 i. LAURA JUDSON, b. July 24, 1852 ; lives unm. (1896) in Brooklyn. 
 
 ii. EMMA FRANCES, b. Oct. 8, 1854 ; m. July 10, 1884, Rev. Daniel J. 
 Ellison, now (1896) pastor of the First Baptist Church of 
 Indianapolis, Ind. They have two children : Willie Hugh, b. 
 in Jersey City, N. J., May 8, 1885. Emma Comey, b. in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1886. 
 87. iii. GEORGE PRESTON JR., b. April 21, 1858. 
 
 iv. ANNIE MYERS, b. July 24, 1860; m. April 14, 1881, John J. Batef 
 
 and live in Westwood, N. J. They have four children : Alice ^ 
 Louise, b. in Paskack, N. J., Jan. 21, 1882. Edith Adele, b. in ^ftfo** th % 
 Paskack, N. J., May 2, 1884. Daisy Dean, b. in Paskack, N. J., 
 March 28, 1887. Arthur Comey, b. in Westwood, N. J. 
 
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 50. CHESTER HOLBROOK T COMEY (John* John, 6 John* David, 8 John' 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Feb. 22, 1832, and died in 
 Cambridge, Mass., March 31, 1881, ss. 49. In 1853 he graduated /y> 
 from the Bridgewater Normal School with honors, and for several 
 years taught ^school with marked success in Foxboro, Kingston, 
 South Dedham (now Norwood), Arlington and Boston (Mass.). 
 In the latter he was sub-master of the D wight Grammar School. 
 His later years were devoted to the insurance business, though 
 he always retained his interest in educational and religious work; 
 was church trustee and deacon in Cambridge. He married Aug. 27, 
 1855, Sarah Dyer Rich, daughter of Capt. Philip S. Rich, of 
 Provincetown, Mass.: 
 
 Children, i. born in Foxboro; ii. in Dedham; iii. in Norwood; 
 and iv. in Cambridge: 
 
 88. i. CHARLES RICH, b. July 21, 1856. 
 
 ii. FRANK HOLBROOK, b. May 25, 1859 ; d. Sept. 14, 1859. 
 
 iii. LOUISA G., b. April 2, 1862; d. Sept. 1, 1867. 
 
 iv. PHILIP ROBINSON, b. Nov. 2, 1871 ; d. Sept. 29, 1872. 
 
 51. JOHN FRANKLIN T COMET (John* John, 6 John* David, 9 John? David 1 ) 
 was born in Foxboro, Mass., March 10, 1837, and lives (1896) in 
 New York city (74"W. 54th St.). Educated at Pierce Academy,
 
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 Middleboro, Mass. In 1855 he went to work in the New York 
 salesroom of John W. Rogers, of Mansfield, Mass., straw goods 
 manufacturer. When Mr. Rogers retired he went into the firm. 
 Ten years later Mr. Comey became sole owner. Since then Mr. 
 Rogers has gone back into the firm again. He lived eleven years 
 in Brooklyn, since then in New York city. He is a Trustee and a 
 Deacon of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, Member of Board of 
 Managers of the International Medical Missionary Society, Trustee 
 of the Southern New York Baptist Association, Treasurer of the 
 American Bible Union, and Trustee and Treasurer of the Mt. Olivet 
 Baptist Church (colored). He married, Dec. 26, 1859, Hattie 
 Grover. 
 
 Children, i. born in Brooklyn ; ii. and iii. in Foxboro ; iv. in New 
 York city : 
 
 i. CARRIE ROBINSON, b. March 5, 1865; d. May 21, 1866. 
 
 ii. HARRIET BARROWS, b. Jan. 11, 1868; m. Sept. 16, 1886, CharlesG. 
 
 Judson. They have two daughters : Marguerite E. Judson, b. 
 
 March 13, 1892, and Sylvia Judson, b. June 10, 1895. 
 iii. BESSIE FRANCES, b. Dec. 15, 1870 ; m. June 2, 1896, Jas. B. Harris, 
 iv. JOHN WINTHROP, b. April 6, 1877 ; is in the Class of '98, Brown 
 
 University. 
 
 52. OLIVER EDSON T COMET ( Oliver* Oliver,* John* David? John, 2 David 1 ) 
 
 was born April 8, 1830, in Foxboro, Mass., where he still (1896) 
 lives. He was engaged in the grocery business for more than twenty 
 years, but retired several years ago on account of poor health. He 
 married first, in July, 1852, Harriet Anderson, who died Dec. 19, 
 1864. He married second,' Jan. 28, 1866, Lucinda Frances Wood, 
 who is still living. 
 
 Child of Oliver E. and Harriet, born in Foxboro: 
 
 i. LUELLA AUGUSTA, b. Sept. 20, 1858 ; m. 1st, Aug. 20, 1883, William 
 S. Whiting, who d. Oct. 23, 1886. She m. 2d, Dec. 11, 1889, 
 Byron T. Roscoe, and they live at East Greenwich, R. I. 
 
 Child of Oliver E. and Lucinda, born in Foxboro : 
 i. DANA WOOD, b. July 12, 1874; d. Jan. 1, 1876. 
 
 53. AARON LOWELL* COMEY (Aaron, 9 Oliver, 5 John, 4 David, 3 John? David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Foxboro, Mass., Dec. 10, 1815, and died in Ortonville, 
 Minn., July 10, 1880, ae. 64, unmarried. He went West in 1856 
 and was a prosperous farmer. July 20, 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany C, Sixth Regiment Minnesota Infantry, and served until the 
 end of the war. 
 
 54. WILLIAM SKINNER T COMEY (Aaron, 6 Oliver, 6 John, 4 David, 9 John* 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 30, 1821, and died in Forge 
 Village, Mass., April 28, 1891, ae. 69. He kept a meat market in 
 Forge Village, in the town of Westford,* Middlesex Co. He mar- 
 ried in 1845 Almira Hay den, of Westford, daughter of Luther 
 Hayden of Groton. She died in Westford, Feb. 27, 1894. 
 
 Children, i. born in Bedford, Mass. ; ii. in Foxboro ; the others in 
 Westford : 
 
 89. i. WILLIAM WALLACE, b. March 4, 1846. 
 
 ii. ARBA HAYDEN, b. May 29, 1847; d. Sept. 6, 1847. 
 
 * Westford was set off from Chelmsford in 1729.
 
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 iii. Bam R, b. Jan. 16, 1849 ; m. Maria Bruso, of Buffalo, 
 
 iv. NANCY MAUIA b July 23, 1850; m. Oct. 1, 1876, Wilford G. 
 Blodgett, and lives (189G) in Graniteville, a village of West- 
 
 v. SARAH FRANCES, b. March 16, 1852: d. Aug. 11, 1852 
 vi. ELLEN CORDELIA, b. May 12, 1853 
 
 ' 
 
 to Wrceste,s . ( 18 96) 
 
 via. ARTHUR EUGENE, b. Oct. 26, 1857; d. in infancy. 
 
 *n L E ons A N b ' an ' ' ] ' Jose P hBruso ' and lives (1896) 
 
 x. CLARA PORTER b. June 28, 1861 ; m. Nov. 25, 1891, George F. 
 Carkm, and lives (1896) in Graniteville 
 
 Xl ' A MSw H rr>? T ' D f W 7 ' 1862; m ' Oct " 14 ' 1894 > Susannah 
 Mellor and has Hazel May, b. April 3, 1895. They live in 
 .r orge Village. 
 
 xii. EMMA FRANCES, b. March 20, 1865; lives unm. in Graniteville. 
 
 55. LTMAN FJSHER* COMET (Lyman,' Oliver? John* David, 3 John,* David 1 ) 
 was born in Foxboro, Mass., Aug. 20, 1814, and died in Foxboro, 
 October, 1867, ae. 53. Much of his youth was spent iu Sandwich, 
 Mass. When he was eighteen he went to sea. Returning he located 
 
 ? Q*S 0r0 .' W . er * he was a 8tone cutter - He married first, about 
 36, Harriet L. Skinner, of Mansfield. She died May 17, 1842 
 and he married second, in 1845, Lydia, daughter of Laban Walden] 
 of Mendon, a lady of Quaker stock, who still lives in Foxboro 
 Children of Lyman F. and Harriet, all born in Foxboro: 
 
 23) 1838; m ' lst ' in 1855 ' Cil 
 ay " She 
 
 iL W i A fi R o EN W T ESTLE Y, b. Jan. 13, 1840; d. in Foxboro, Feb. 14, 
 Mafn'e VoJsTci'vff f ^ ^ MW ServiCe iQ llth 
 
 m. ERASTUS FISHER, b. May 12, 1842; was adopted by an uncle 
 Gracf SS^^S^^ * ^^^ **' He m ' 
 
 Children of Lyman F. and Lydia, all born in Foxboro, except iv. 
 who was born in Wrentham: 
 
 i. LEWIS EDGAR, b. 1847; lives unm. in Attleboro (?). Enlisted 
 
 . .asarwrsfir ta c - B ' 6thMass - vi - 
 
 111. JAMES ALBERT, b. 1852; m. Aug. 17, 1879, Ida Pine, of Wren- 
 tham, and lives (1896) in Connecticut. They have three chil- 
 dren : 1. Charles Henry, b. March 26, 1880. 2. Lewis Edzar 
 b. Oct. 21, 1882. 3. Earle Francis, b. July 21 1888 g ' 
 
 iv. MARTHA JANE, b. 1854; m. Thomas Boyd, and d. May 2 1893 
 v. FRANK ALLEN, b. 1856; d. 1890; m. Carrie Pierce, and had one 
 
 i> 188 - 
 
 56. GEORGE ANSON' COMET (Lyman 6 Oliver, 6 John, 1 David, 3 John* 
 Dawd ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., April 7, 1817, and lives (1896) 
 in Cambridge, Mass., where he has resided since 1875. He married 
 ^ov. 26, 1840, Lydia Fisher Morse, born in Foxboro, Dec. 21. 1818 
 daughter of John Morse. Was a carpenter by trade. 
 Children, all born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. SARAH ANN b. Feb. 2, 1843; m. Nov. 27, 1868, Joseph W Bel- 
 cher, and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
 
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 ii. GEORGE ANSON, b. Sept. 9, 1844 ; d. July 9, 1847. 
 
 90. iii. CHARLES MELVIN, b. Sept. 11, 1846. 
 
 iv. GEORGE OTIS, b. Nov. 17, 1848 ; lives (1896) in Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 91. v. WILLIAM ALNARADO, b. Nov. 12, 1850. 
 
 vi. MARY ALWENA, b. Jan. 18, 1854; d. Aug. 20, 1855. 
 
 vii. MARY EMMA, b. Jan. 8, 1856 ; lives unm. in Boston, Mass. 
 
 viii. ELLA MARIA, b. May 18, 1858 ; d. Aug. 13, 1858. 
 
 57. ALBERT T COMET (Lyman,* Oliver,* John* David, 3 John,' David, 1 ) 
 
 was born in Sandwich, Mass., Feb. 24, 1828, and lives (1896) in 
 Akron, Ohio. His mother dying when he was four years old, he 
 with his oldest sister went to live with his grand-parents and later 
 with his uncle. He went to work at the age of fourteen. After 
 two years spent in Canton, Mass., he went into the B. & P. R. R. 
 repair shops at Roxbury and there learned the machinists' trade. 
 Thence he went to New London, Conn., as a locomotive engineer. 
 After about eleven years spent in this occupation he returned to the 
 machinists' trade and moved, in March, 1858, to Ohio. Since about 
 1870 he has been connected with the Buckeye Co. (Aultman Miller 
 Co.) at Akron, O. 
 
 He married, Oct. 19, 1851, Mary Ann Brayinton, of Tariffville, 
 Ct. She was born in England, Oct. 11, 1829, daughter of William 
 Brayinton. 
 
 Children, i. born in Jamaica, L. I., ii. born in Bridgeport, Ct., iii. 
 to v. born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio: 
 
 i. CHARLES LYMAN, b. Nov. 15, 1852 ; m. Alice M. Stowell, and has 
 one son, Arthur M., b. July 5, 1877. They have lived in Grand 
 Kapids, Mich., since 1890. 
 
 ii. CATHERINE HANNAH, b. May 11, 1854; m. Charles H. Myers, and 
 lives in Akron, O. They have one son. 
 
 92. iii. GEORGE BRAYINTON, b. April 2, 1859. 
 
 93. iv. WILLARD, b. March 16, 1863. 
 
 v. FRANK IRVING, b. Dec. 19, 1868; lives unm. in Cleveland, O., 
 where he is in the employ of Comey & Johnson. 
 
 58. WILLARD T COMET (Lyman* Oliver? John,* David, s John, 2 David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Sandwich, Mass., Dec. 1, 1830, and lives (1896) in Wren- 
 tham, Mass. His mother died while he was yet in infancy, and 
 he was brought up by his grandfather Cyrus Fisher, of Wrentham. 
 At the age of ten he went back to Foxboro, where he remained 
 four years, after which he went to live with his sister in Upton (Mass.), 
 where he remained until 1848, learning the boot maker's trade. 
 From Upton he went West for a couple of years, living in Cincin- 
 nati and Louisville. Returning, he lived in Hartford and New 
 Haven, Ct., for nine months and then gravitated back to Upton, 
 where he remained several years, working in the straw business. The 
 five next years were divided between Worcester and South Framing- 
 ham, Mass., and Woonsocket Falls, R. I. In August, 1862, he 
 enlisted in the 1st R. I. Cavalry and served until the close of the 
 war. He was a prisoner in Libby and Belle Isle, and upon his 
 exchange in 1864 was so disabled that he was transferred to the 
 Veteran Reserve Corps. In 1865 he returned to Massachusetts, 
 and for three years was in the straw manufacturing firm of Smalley 
 & Comey. After 1868 he became interested in various inventions 
 and has patented in his own name over twenty articles and machines. 
 Since disposing of his business in Westboro in 1889 he has lived in 
 Wrentham.
 
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 He married first, Oct. 1, 1851, Esther E., daughter of Lewis 
 Rockwood, of Upton, Mass. She died in Upton, Aug. 11, 1857, 
 ae. 24, and he married second, Oct. 1, 1867, Velzora, daughter of 
 Sidney L. Turner, of Westboro, Mass. She was born in Portland, 
 Me., Sept. 3, 1833, and died in the hosiptal at Boston, July 18, 1889. 
 
 Child of Willard and Esther, born in Upton: 
 
 i. FRANK LEWIS, b. June 27, 1857 ; followed the sea after he was 
 eighteen, became an officer in the whaling vessel "Vigilant" 
 of New Bedford and was lost, with all on board, during the 
 winter of 1879-80, in the Arctic Ocean. 
 
 Child of Willard and Velzora, born in Westboro: 
 
 i. EDWARD OLIVER, b. Aug. 15, 1871 ; in 1892 entered the employ of 
 the Adams Express Company at Worcester, Mass., where he 
 still remains. He m. Sept. 28, 1893, Alice Ophelia, dau. of 
 Leander M. Rowland, of Whitinsville, Mass. They have a son, 
 Willard Howland Comey, b. March 5, 1895. 
 
 59. JASON T COMET (Jason, 6 Oliver,* John* David, 3 John, 2 David 1 ) was 
 
 born in Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 8, 1831, and lives (1896) in Fran- 
 conia, N. H., where he has a farm. He married Feb. 18, 1854, 
 Julia A. Aldrich, of Dalton, N. H. 
 
 Child of Jason and Julia, born in Foxboro, Mass. : 
 
 i. JULIA M., b. Oct. 31, 1858; m. April 25, 1882, Adelbert Jessman, 
 of Lisbon, N. H. No children. 
 
 60. JOSEPH' COMET (Jason, 6 Oliver* John* David, 3 John' David 1 ) was 
 
 born in Foxboro, Mass., May 18, 1835, and still resides in Fox- 
 boro, where he is a farmer. He married first, Dec. 21, 1858, 
 Lucretia Aldrich, of Dalton, N. H., a sister of his brother's wife. 
 She died April 28, 1861, and he married second, Oct. 6, 1869, Ellen 
 F. Blake, of Wrentham, Mass. 
 
 Child of Jason and Lucretia, born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. JOSEPH H., b. Aug. 9, 1860; lives unm. in Foxboro, a farmer; he 
 is deaf and dumb, the result of scarlet fever. 
 
 Children of Joseph and Ellen F., born in Foxboro : 
 
 i. CHARLOTTE ELLEN, b. Sept. 12, 1870; m. Aug. 27, 1892, at Mans- 
 field, Mass., to Albert Edward Hanscom, of Machias, Me. 
 ii. ANNA FLORENCE, b. March 28, 1876. 
 
 61. OTIS WILLIAMS* COMET ( Charles, 6 Oliver, 6 John, 4 David, 3 John' 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., June 19, 1837, and was killed 
 in front of Richmond, Va., Oct. 2, 1864, ae. 27. He enlisted in 
 Co. E, 10th N. H. Vols. Before the war he was engaged in farm- 
 ing. He married in June, 1859, Rebecca Olive Johnson, who died 
 Feb. 22, 1864. 
 
 Children, born in Wilmot, N. H. : 
 
 i. WARREN OTIS, b. Feb. 15, 1860; is a shoemaker; lives unm. in 
 
 Raymond, N. H. 
 ii. CLARA ESTHER, b. April 19, 1862; m. April 13, 1880, John H. 
 
 Keyser (b. Feb. H. 1851), of North Sutton, N. H., where they 
 
 stiU live. 
 
 62. CHARLES BERRT T COMET ( Charles* Oliver, 6 John, 4 David, 3 John* 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboroj Mass., Aug. 23, 1839, and lives
 
 (1896) in Monroe City, Iowa, a farmer by occupation. He enlisted 
 in August, 1861, in Co. A of the famous " fighting Fifth" Regiment, 
 New Hampshire Volunteers, in which he served three years, being 
 severely wounded at Gettysburg. He married in June, 1866, Irene 
 W. Tenney, who was born Feb. 5, 1838. 
 Children : 
 
 i. CORA B M b. March 13, 1866. 
 
 ii. CHARLES E., b. Oct. 11, 1868; d. Aug. 29, 1869. 
 
 ill. GRACE E., b. July 28, 1871 ; d. Oct. 1, 1873. 
 
 iv. CHARLES, b. July 25, 1874. 
 
 v. MINNIE M., b. Aug. 14, 1877. 
 
 vi. MYRTLE I., b. Dec. 15, 1878. 
 
 63. HENRY HARRISON T COMEY ( Charles, 6 Oliver, 6 John* David* John, 2 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Aug. 23, 1841, and lives 
 (1896) in the part of Boston formerly Dorchester. In August, 
 1861, he enlisted with his brother in Co. A, 5th N. H. Vols., serv- 
 ing for a year. He was at the siege and capture of Yorktown, Va., 
 and on the Peninsula with McLellan until July 5, 1862, when he 
 was sent to David's Island, N. Y., sick with typhoid fever. Since 
 1863 he has resided in Boston, and since May 1, 1877, has been in 
 the custom house, where he is an inspector. He married June 25, 
 1874, Caroline Elizabeth Derby (born July 23, 1843), of Boston. 
 Children, all born in Boston: 
 
 i. CHARLES HENRY, b. Nov, 8, 1875. 
 ii. ELLEN MARIA, b. Oct. 17, 1877. 
 iii. HERBERT DERBY, b. Nov. 5, 1884. 
 
 64. JOHN HALE' COMEY (Charles, 8 Oliver, 6 John, 4 David, 3 John' David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Wilmot, N. H., May 25, 1860, and lives (1896) in 
 Melrose, Mass., where he has resided since May 15, 1886. He 
 learned the tailor's trimmings business in Boston with N. W. God- 
 dard, with whom he was connected from Sept. 6, 1880, to Jan. 1, 
 1888, since which time he has been with Cumner, Jones & Co., 
 Boston, in the same business. He is now a travelling salesman. He 
 married, Nov. 26, 1885, Isabella Hunter McKay, daughter of Donald 
 A. McKay. 
 
 Children, all born in Melrose: 
 
 i. HENRY CHEEVKR, b. Jan. 9, 1887. 
 
 ii. NETTIE MAY, b. June 6, 1889 ; d. June 13, 1889. 
 
 iii. JOHN ODLIN, b. May 18, 1890; d. Jan. 8, 1894. 
 
 iv. FRANCIS WILSON, b. April 16, 1892. 
 
 v. MILDRED, b. Jan. 1, 1895. 
 
 65. LEWIS ALViN 7 COMEY ( Oman, 6 Oliver, 6 John, 4 David, 3 John* David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Foxboro, Mass., Aug. 2, 1850, and still lives there. 
 He married, June 20, 1872, Ella M. Briggs, of Mansfield, Mass. 
 Children, all born in Foxboro: 
 
 i. LEWIS EDWARD, b. April 13, 1874; d. Dec. 31, 1883. 
 ii. IDA ISABELLE, b. Nov. 19, 1875 ; d. Nov. 8, 1878. 
 iii. CORA JOSEPHINE, b. Feb. 17, 1877 ; m. James Everett Campbell, 
 of Mansfield, and has one dau., Mildred Olive, b. June 9, 1894. 
 iv. HERBERT AUGUSTUS, b. June 9, 1879. 
 v. WALTER LAWRENCE, b. Sept. 17, 1881 ; d. March 2, 1893. 
 vi. EVA MAY, b. May 4, 1885. 
 vii. BERNARD EVERETT, b. Dec. 30, 1893.
 
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 66. WILSON' COMEE ( Thomas W., 9 Ezra, 9 Joseph* David, 3 John,' David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Dana, Mass., Jan. 23, 1819, and died in Boston, Mass., 
 Aug. 5, 1860, ae. 41. Buried in Dana. He moved to Boston in 
 1848 and was engaged in the grocery business. He married, Sept. 
 28, 1841, Maria Sibley, of Dana, who was born July 14, 1822. 
 Children, i. to iii. born in Dana, iv. to vi. in Boston : 
 
 i. ANSON SIBLEY, b. Oct. 19, 1842; d. in Boston, Sept. 28, 1892, 
 ae. 50. He m. in Boston, March 8, 1881, Annie Cruther, who 
 was b. March 22, 1855. No children. 
 94. ii. EDWARD WILSON, b. June 29, 1844. 
 
 iii. CORDELIA WOODWARD, b. April 3, 1848 ; d. Aug. 30, 1851. 
 iv. GEORGE FRANK, b. Feb. 10, 1851; d. in Barre, Mass., March 
 12, 1895. He m. in Barre, Nov. 27, 1883, Anna Maria Barrett, 
 b. in Barre, Sept. 23, 1858. No children, 
 v. MARY ANN, b. Aug. 12, 1853 ; d. in Boston, Jan. 9, 1856. 
 vi. WALTER HOBART, b. Sept. 15, 1855 ; d. April 1, 1856. 
 
 67. CHARLES T COMEE ( Thomas W., 6 Ezra, 6 Joseph,* David, 3 John, 9 David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Dana, Mass., Nov. 2, 1821, and lives (1896) in West 
 Somerville, Mass. He moved to Boston from Dana in 1848. He 
 married, Nov. 26, 1843, Samantha G. Richardson, born in Dana. 
 Oct. 6, 1823. 
 
 Children, i. born in Dana, ii. in Boston, iii. in Chelsea, Mass. : 
 
 i. EDGAR FRANK, b. Feb. 15, 1849 ; m. Sept. 9, 1879, Marion Alice 
 Garcelon, b. in Frederickton, N. B., Aug. 2, 1859. They live in 
 Somerville, where they have had born two children : Roy 
 Eliot, b. Feb. 1, 1882, and Edgar Randolph, b. July 6, 1893. 
 
 ii. CHARLES ALBERT, b. March 20, 1858 ; d. June 3, 1858. 
 
 iii. LILLIAN MAY, b. March 12, 1866. 
 
 68. EZRA T COMEE (Thomas W., 6 Ezra, 6 Joseph, 4 David, 8 John, 2 David 1 ) 
 
 was born Oct. 21, 1823, in Dana, Mass., where he still lives. He 
 still owns the farm where his mother was born, but for a few years 
 has kept a store at the town centre. He married, Nov. 10, 1844, 
 Arbelia Whipple, born in Dana, April 11, 1822, and died in Dana, 
 Nov. 6, 1894. 
 
 One child, born in Dana: 
 
 1. EUGENE THERON, b. July 6, 1850; m. Feb. 10, 1877, Mary Etta 
 Towne, by whom he has one child, Ethel, b. in Greenwich, 
 Mass., Aug, 5, 1882. He is in business with his father at Dana. 
 
 69. FRANKLIN 7 COMEE (Thomas W. Ezra, 6 Joseph* David, 3 John* 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Petersham, Mass., Dec. 11, 1827, and lives 
 (1896) in Brighton, Boston, Mass., where he is a paper hanger. He 
 moved to Boston about 1853. He married, Nov. 28, 1849, Lucinda 
 Rockwood, born in Dana, Aug. 16, 1831. 
 Children, both born in Boston : 
 
 i. FRANK HERBERT, b. April 26, 1858; m. at South Framingham, 
 Mass., Feb. 16, 1881, Lillian A. Stewart, and lives (1896) in 
 Boston. 
 
 Ji. MARION LOUISE, b. Dec. 23, 1865; m. at South Framingham, 
 Mass., Nov. 10, 1886, Nathan Parker Colburn 2d, of Hopkinton, 
 b. March 30, 1864. They have had two children born at South 
 Framingham : Lizzie Rockwood, b. Nov. 16, 1887, and Ralph 
 Parker, b. Aug. 23, 1889, and d. Feb. 16, 1890.
 
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 70. DENNIS FLAGG T COMEE (Thomas W.? Ezra, 6 Joseph* David* John* 
 
 David 1 } was born in Petersham, Mass., June 6, 1836, and lives 
 (1896) in Boston, where he has resided since youth. He married, 
 March 26, 1856, Ellen Maria Hearne, who was born in Sebago, 
 Me., June 12, 1835, and died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 6, 1870, ae. 35. 
 One child, born in Boston. 
 
 i. WALTER JAMES, b. Feb. 18, 1857 ; d. in Boston, Sept. 3, 1871. 
 
 71. JAMES THOMAS' COMEE (Thomas W.f Ezra* Joseph* David* John? 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Petersham, Mass., Nov. 29, 1839, and lives 
 (1896) in Brighton (Boston), Mass., where he is a sergeant on the 
 police force. He married first, Dec. 8, 1866, Fanny L. Steadman, 
 born in Mill Village, N. S., Jan. 20, 1844, and died in Boston, Nov. 
 23, 1886. He married second, Oct. 16, 1890, Vesta Louise Pomeroy, 
 born in Boston, Nov. 12, 1849. No children by the second mar- 
 riage. 
 
 Children of James T. and Fanny L., born in Boston : 
 
 i. SUSAN AUGUSTA, b. Jan. 22, 1866; m. in Dorchester, Mass., Aug. 
 17, 1887, James Henry Shumaker, b. in Roxbury, Mass., April 
 22, 1868. They have two children, born in Boston: Henry 
 Wilson, b. Sept. 20, 1888, and Albert David, b. June 4, 1890. 
 ii. WILSON STEADMAN, b. April 15, 1867; m. at Hyde Park, Mass., 
 Sept. 10, 1889, Elizabeth Harwood Lockman, b. in Brantford, 
 Canada, May 16, 1866. They have one child, James Harwood 
 Comee, b. in Hyde Park, March 30, 1891. 
 
 72. FREDEBICK TOWNE T COMEE (Thomas W., e Ezra," Joseph* David* 
 
 John? David 1 ) was born in Dana, Mass., Oct. 1, 1846, and lives 
 (1896) in Woonsocket, R. I., whither he removed in 1884 to become 
 Assistant Superintendent of the Woonsocket Rubber Company. In 
 1887 he became Superintendent, and this position he still holds. For 
 thirty years previous he had made his home in . Boston, where he 
 was a member of the St. John's Lodge of Masons, was Worshipful 
 Master, 1877-78; member of St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter, 
 Most Eminent High Priest, 1879-80; member of the Boston Com- 
 mandery of Knights Templar, was Eminent Commander 1884-85; 
 member of Massachusetts Consistory (32d degree), and was also 
 Most Eminent Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chap- 
 ter of Massachusetts, 188586-87. He has been much interested 
 in this genealogy and has furnished valuable assistance. 
 
 He married, May 25, 1871, at Salisbury Point, Mass., Mary 
 Adelaide Morton, born in New Bedford, Mass., Oct. 9, 1846. 
 
 Children, i. born in Salisbury Point, Mass., ii. in Boston : 
 
 i. FREDERICK MORTON, b. Aug. 21, 1872. 
 ii. ARTHUR METCALF, b. Feb. 19, 1877. 
 
 73. JAMES 7 COMEE (James M.,* James M.,' David* David, 3 John, 3 David 1 ) 
 
 was born in Gardner, Mass., July 2, 1836, and died in Fitchburg, 
 Mass., Feb. f, 1883, ae. 46. He went to Worcester, Mass., in his 
 teens, and there married April 5, 1859, Charlotte M., daughter of 
 Roland Pollard, of Nantucket, Mass., and moved to Boston, where 
 he remained until about 1864, when he returned to Worcester to 
 become superintendent of the street railway there. Three years 
 later he went to New York to take a similar position. His health
 
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 broke down and he went to his father's home, where he died. 
 Mrs. Uomee is liviug in Worcester. 
 
 Child of James and Charlotte M., born in Worcester : 
 i. ELIZA M., b. Feb. 4, 1864; m. Dr. William T. Spring. They live 
 a Worcester, where they have a son Willie Raymond Spring. 
 
 74. WILLIAM PORTER 7 COMEE ( William W.,< James M., 6 David* David, 9 
 
 ii^Vi^S ! } M a8 v 01 ? % Gardner ' Mass '' Ju] y 17 1837 and 
 lives (1896) m New York City. In youth he worked in Barnard & 
 
 humners dry goods store in Worcester. He was afterwards con- 
 itor on the railroad between Fitchburg and Worcester. He and 
 brother Charles were the tallest men in the Fitchburg Fusileers 
 
 d were drafted at Lincoln's first call, but both were unable physic- 
 ally to go. Most of his life has been spent in the hotel business. He 
 has been chief clerk at the Revere, Tremont, Parker and Coolidge 
 
 Louses in Boston, was a year at the United States Hotel, Saratoga, 
 and a season at the Point of Pines, Revere, Mass. Since 1894 has 
 been steward at the Hotel Grenoble, Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 He married, June 4, 1875, Alice Ferry, of St. Albans, Vt. 
 
 Child, born in Cambridge, Mass. : 
 
 yS^?Stf^!l b ' March 4 ' 1876 5 8ince mi ha been night 
 clerk at Hotel Emire, New York City; is a member of Co! C 
 
 ' taken several medals 
 
 75. CHARLES HENRY' COMEE (William W.,' James M., 6 David* David' 
 John, JJamd) was born in Gardner, Mass., Aug. 17, 1840, and died 
 unmarried in Fitchburg, Mass., Sept. 1, 1878, ae. 38. For a longtime 
 he was m the employ of the father of the famous Jim Fisk, first as 
 an express messenger between Boston and Brattleboro, Vt., the home 
 Bisks, and later, during the Civil War, running a cotton 
 steamer on the Mississippi River for Jim Fisk himself, when the 
 latter was cotton buyer for the firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co., of 
 >ston. On his return from the South, Mr. Comee entered the 
 employ of Otis F Ruggles, Superintendent of the Vermont & Massa- 
 chusetts Railroad, with offices in Fitchburg, and at the time of the 
 leasing of the road to the Fitchburg Railroad, Jan. 1, 1874, he suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Ruggles with the title of Division Superintendent of the 
 Vermont & Massachusetts Division of the Fitchburg Railroad from 
 Fitchburg to Greenfield. This position he held at the time of his 
 
 76. FREDERIC BOBBINS' COMEE ( William WJ James M.* David* David,' 
 
 *!?<3Ssfl T , '? ?**""& Mas8 " Jan - 2 > 1854 > and 
 
 lftfi ( !r } ln , Bo8t > Whlther he removed with his P^ents in 
 i \r ^ a f ed from the Boston Latin Sch ool in 1871, a 
 frn^n V ^t 8cl f lar ',f nd the J^ar entered Harvard College, 
 from which he graduated in 1875. For six years he was employed 
 
 88 A^i ^ g l" ee S de A P artment of the Fitchburg Railroad. From 
 
 I to 1884 he was Assistant Treasurer of the Bijou Theatre in 
 
 Bos on. In December 1885, he became Assistant Manager of the
 
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 He married, Dec. 12, 1894, at Hotel Brunswick, Boston' Clara E 
 daughter of United States Deputy Marshal Frederick Galloupe, Oi 
 Somerville, Mass. 
 
 Co. B, 25th Reg. Mass. Inf., and served until the *"**"** 
 He was wounded, and also in the hospital. He married, , June 26, 
 1873, Sylvania Rhoby Quimby, who died in Milford Ja ^ lb ' ^ 
 ae. 41. She was born in Blackstone, Mass., May 10, 1- 46, daugn 
 ter of Sullivan J. Quimby. 
 Children : 
 
 i. LAWSON HERSCHEL, b. in May, 1874. 
 ii. ALFRED L., b. Sept. 6, 1877. 
 iii. MARIA LOUISE (twin), b. Sept. 27, 1881. 
 iv. MAUD FRANCES (twin), b. Sept. 27, it 
 
 78. ALBERT BABTOH' COMET l^^^ 
 
 DaviP) was born in Medway, Mass., Feb. 20, 1832 and liv 
 (1896) in Framingham, Mass. He resided in Hopkinton, Mass, 
 until 1858, when hi moved to the adjoining town of Ashland where 
 II remained about twenty years; engaged first m the grai. , busies 
 and later in the manufacture of boots and shoes. In 1878 he pur 
 chased property in South Framingham, a few miles from AsWand, 
 and at the same time built a summer cottage at Lake View Camp 
 Ground. A few years later he transferred his residence to Normal 
 Hill in Framingham Centre. Aug. 23, 1862 he , enlisted in Co. E 
 5th Reg. Mass. Inf., and was in service until July 2, 1863. He 
 a member of the Fifth Regiment Veteran Association; of Post BS, 
 G. A. R.; of the Framingham Historical Society; and of two or 
 three fraternal organizations; as well as being a deacon ir 
 St. Baptist Church at South Framingham. He has been much 
 interested in the history of the Comey family, and nearly all of the 
 information about Royal Comey and his descendants _has come ^f rom 
 him. During Mr. Comey's term of service in the war 1 3 was 
 almost constantly active, often on the skirmish hne, and once for 
 several days scout outside the Union lines. His regiment was 
 ordered toNorth Carolina and attached to the 18th Army Corps 
 MHior General J G. Foster. He took part in the engagements of 
 SheSclk Southwest Creek, KinsL, TOM^gM 
 Newbern, Rodman's Point, Little Washington, Blount s Mills, Dover 
 Road, Gum Swamp and Bachelor's Creek again. During all the 
 time he kept a diary, which is filled with interesting and exciting 
 
 ^He married, Feb. 19, 1854, Miranda J. Temple, of Hopkinton. 
 Children, all born in Ashland, Mass. : 
 
 i. SUSIE M., b. Aug. 1, 1862; m. Sept. 7, 1887, Elmer Ellsworth 
 
 Graves, of Hopkinton, where they have two sons, 
 ii. ALBERT CARLETON, b. July 5, 1871 ; lives unm. in Frammgharn. 
 iii. BERNARD ERNEST (twin), b. Nov. 3, 187-4. 
 iv. BERNICE ELIZA (twin), b. Nov. 3, 187A
 
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 79. GEORGE ROTAL T COMET (Albert? Royal, 6 Jonathan* David* John' 
 David, 1 ) was born in Wrentham, Mass., Feb. 2, 1834, and died in 
 Hopkinton, Mass., Nov. 26, 1870, ae. 36. When a young man he 
 was with Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's expedition to Utah in 1857 
 and 1858 to restore order among the Mormons who were in open 
 revolt against the national government. Later he was with a survey- 
 ing party in the wilder part of the West. June 18, 1861, he enlisted 
 at Omaha in Co. E, 1st Neb. Vols., and was in active service until 
 Aug. 18, 1862, when he was honorably discharged, the cause being 
 ill health. He soon came East and on Jan. 1, 1864, enlisted in the 
 15th Mass. Battery, in which he remained until the close of the 
 War. His battery was sent immediately to Louisiana. The fol- 
 lowing Fall they went up the Mississippi, first to Arkansas and then 
 to Memphis, Tenn., but on Jan. 1, 1865, they were back in Louisiana. 
 The following month they were sent to Alabama, and almost immedi- 
 ately to Florida, but were soon back in Alabama. A wound caused 
 by the bursting of a shell at the siege of Blakely, Ala., in April, 
 1865, eventually caused his death. 
 
 He married, in 1863, his cousin Celinda, daughter of Hiram Comey, 
 of Hopkinton, Mass. She died Nov. 7, 1868, ae. 26. 
 
 Children, i. born in Hopkinton, Mass., ii. in Aurora, 111. : 
 
 i. ACHSAH, b. Sept. 15, 1864; m. Dec. 30, 1887, Frank G. Proctor, of 
 Ashland, Mass. They live (1896) at South Framingham, Mass. 
 
 ii. WALTER LAWSON, b. Sept. 28, 1866; m. June 29, 1891, Lizzie 
 Dyer, of Ashland, and lives (1896), at Milford, Mass. They 
 have one son, Harvey Dyer, b. in Milford, Sept. 21, 1894. 
 
 80. WILLIAM M. 7 COMET (Albert, 6 Royal, 6 Jonathan* David, 3 John, 3 
 David 1 ) was born in Wrentham, Mass., Feb. 18, 1840, and lives 
 (1896) in the village of City Mills in the town of Norfolk (Mass.), 
 where he has resided since 1865. He enlisted at Chicago, Jan. 24, 
 1861, in Battery B, 4th U. S. Artillery, and was ordered at once to 
 Newport, Ky. January 27, he was detailed as mounted orderly 
 to report to Major McRae at St. Louis. January 31, he left St. Louis 
 for Galveston and San Antonio, Texas. Thence he started for Fort 
 Arbuckle, but learned before reaching there that General Twiggs 
 had surrendered all the troops and supplies in the states. Major 
 McRae was a Union man and decided to march to Little Rock, 
 Ark., which he reached after a hard march. That night the garrison 
 was surrendered, but they were allowed to proceed toward St. Louis 
 without arms. At St. Louis, Comey was detailed as orderly to 
 General Lyon. April 11, he was taken violently ill. At the end 
 of May he re-joined General Lyon, and June 18 was at the battle 
 of Boonesville, Mo., his first engagement. Immediately he was sent 
 to Fort Kearney, Neb., and Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but by the 
 first of August was back in Missouri, and on August 10 was in the 
 battle of Wilson Creek, where General Lyon was killed. Comey 
 was near General Lyon at the time and was wounded in the knee 
 himself, was placed in his saddle and rode 125 miles without dis- 
 mounting. October 15 he returned and was attached to Fremont's 
 Body Guard, which was disbanded on Thanksgiving Day, and Comey 
 was attached to Co. C, 2d U. S. Infantry. December 20, he was 
 ordered to Washington, D. C., where he was detailed on special
 
 detective service until March 8, 1862. March 9, his regiment took 
 possession of the abandoned forts across the Potomac, and soon after 
 sailed down the river. At Hampton Roads the steamer foundered. 
 Then came the siege of Yorktown, and the battles of Williamsburg 
 May 3, Ellison Mills May 23, Hanover Court House May 27, 
 Seven Pines May 31, Fair Oaks June 1, and several other im- 
 portant engagements, including Malvern Hill July 1, Cedar Moun- 
 tain August 8, and the 2d Bull Run August 30. At the latter 
 Comey received five wounds in the left hand and arm and was in 
 the hospital at Philadelphia until November 15, when he returned 
 to his regiment in Virginia. Dec. 12-13, 1862, he was in the battle 
 of Fredericksburg, the following May at Chancellorsville, and in July 
 at the battle of Gettysburg. His regiment pursued Lee until ordered 
 to New York to suppress the draft riots, remaining until September. 
 On the night of November 27-28, Comey and several other pickets 
 were captured, but with seven others he made his escape and re- 
 joined his regiment, and remained with it until Jan. 24, 1864, when 
 he received his discharge. He is a member of Antietam Command 
 U. V. U. at Boston and of Post 60, G. A. R. at Franklin. Of the 
 latter post he is historian. In 1892 he was on the staff of Com- 
 mander-in-chief Palmer at the G. A. R. parade in Washington, 
 D. C. Since 1868 he has been engaged in the manufacture of bonnet 
 wire, picture cord, etc., and has taken a prominent part in town 
 affairs, has been auditor, moderator, etc., and is a notary public also. 
 
 He married, Dec. 7, 1865 (National Thanksgiving Day), Ophelia 
 H. Scott, daughter of Col. Saul B. Scott, of Franklin, Mass. 
 
 Children, both born in Norfolk, Mass. : 
 
 i. ETHEL O., b. Nov. 30, 1877; d. Dec. 6, 1877. 
 ii. FRANK ROY, b. Jan. 2, 1880. 
 
 81. ARATUS' COMEY (Elbridge G.* Royal, 6 Jonathan* David* John* 
 
 David 1 ) was born in Hopkinton, Mass., Oct. 27, 1837, and resides 
 (1896) in Newton (Mass.), where he has lived since April, 1874. 
 He is a tinsmith, his business being in Boston. He married, Jan. 1, 
 1861, Annie C. Leland, of Holliston. 
 
 Children, i. to iv. born in Hopkinton, the others in Newton, Mass. : 
 
 i. HARRY LELAND, b. Jan. 26, 1862; d. in Holliston, April 5, 1867. 
 ii. IRVING WINFRED, b. Dec. 18, 1863; m. Oct. 20, 1887, Emma J. 
 
 Coombs, of Newton, where he resides. He is an engraver 
 
 and works in Boston. No children. 
 
 iii. ANNA TEMPLE, b. June 6, 1866 ; d. in Holliston, April 3, 1867. 
 iv. BERTRAND, b. May 13, 1869 ; lives (1896) unm. in New York City, 
 v. EDITH RHODA, b. July 21, 1874; lives unm. in Newton. 
 vi. JENNIE LOUISE, b. Feb. 5, 1879. 
 vii. RALPH, b. Dec. 19, 1883 ; d. Jan. 20, 1884. 
 
 82. HENRY NEWTON* COMEY (Elhridge G., 6 Royal* Jonathan* David* 
 
 John, 3 David 1 ) was born in Hopkinton, Mass., March 4, 1840, and 
 lives (1896) in Swampscott, Mass., his business being in the adjoin- 
 ing city of Lynn, where he has been connnected with the Smith & 
 Dove Manufacturing Co. (linen threads manufactory in Andover), 
 for about eight years. May 25, 1861, he enlisted as private in Co. 
 G, 2d Reg. Mass. Infantry. Nov. 1, 1862, he became second lieu- 
 tenant; June 6, 1863, first lieutenant; and May 24, 1864, captain,
 
 in which position he was active until the close of the war. For a 
 year or more he was at Harper's Ferry and Winchester, Va At 
 the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862, he acted as captain 
 
 Sf r o5 R n i ime W -n a8 D W at the front con stantly and was at 
 the 2d Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam and Chancel- 
 rsvil e. At the latter, he was for the time being in command of 
 several companies and was wounded by a split bullet. At the battle 
 Beverly Ford, Va., he commanded a company of marksmen. His 
 regiment arrived at Gettysburg on the evening of July 1 and was 
 ordered to the extreme right, where they remained until the after- 
 noon of the 2d. That night and the next morning they tried to 
 regain their position and lost nearly half of their men. Lieutenant 
 Comey was twice wounded. He re-joined his regiment in New 
 York during the draft riots and soon after went to Virginia, then to 
 lennessee and finally to Alabama, where he passed the winter fight- 
 ing guerillas and guarding the railroads. At Tullahoma, Tenn he 
 fractured his leg. Leaving the hospital at Nashville, Tenn., in the 
 spring of 1864, he joined his regiment on its advance from Chatta- 
 nooga to Atlanta, Ga. He took part in many of the battles until 
 the capture, Sept. 2, 1864, of Atlanta, where as officer of the day 
 on provost duty he took the Confederate flag from the court house. 
 Un bherman's famous March to the Sea his regiment (the 2d Massa- 
 chusetts) was the first to leave Atlanta, and continued with Sherman 
 from Savannah to Columbia, S. C., and Goldsborough and Raleigh 
 During this time Captain Comey did valiant work in repuls- 
 ing attacks. In March, 1865, he was present at the grand review 
 in Washington, and was on duty at the trial of the conspirators 
 His campaigns extended through all of the southern states east of 
 the Mississippi, except Mississippi and Florida. Since the war has 
 lived in Woodville and Woburn, Mass., in Vermont, in Chicago, 111 
 (about seven years), but about 1887 located in Lynn, Mass. 
 
 He married, Oct. 16, 1866, Augusta Wood, daughter of Col. 
 Albert Wood, of Woodville (Hopkintou). 
 Children, both born in Woburn, Mass.: 
 
 i. AGNES AMANDA, b. Sept. 19, 1869; m. June 18, 1895, Joseph F. 
 
 Hoyt, of Lynn, and resides in Swampscott. 
 n. MAKY AUGUSTA, b. Dec. 27, 1870; lives with her sister. 
 
 83. MAHLIUB' COMET (Elbridge G.' Koyal* Jonathan* David* John' 
 n ti 7oL A D H P kinton Mass., March 19, 1843, and died 
 Dec. 20, 1864, ae. 21. July 27, 1862, he enlisted in Co. F, 14th 
 Mass. Infantry, was afterwards transferred to the 1st Battalion Mass 
 Heavy Artillery. He was in the forts around Washington, with 
 trrant m his advance on Richmond in the spring of 1864, at the 
 battles of Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor and 
 Petersburg!!. At the latter, June 24, 1864, he was captured and 
 hurried off to Belle Isle prison at Richmond. Thence he was trans- 
 ferred to Andersouville, Ga., and on to Millen, Ga. Sherman's 
 advance, with Comey's brother among the officers, obliged the Con- 
 federates to vacate Millen, and the prisoners went to Savannah and 
 thence to Florence, S. C. From the latter he was paroled, but 
 although of a naturally robust constitution the confinement and 
 hardships had proved too much for him and he died on board the
 
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 steamer New York, while on the way from Hilton Head to Fortress 
 Monroe. His body was brought to Massachusetts and he was buried 
 in his native town. 
 
 84. PERLEY PIERCE T COMEY (Mbridge G.,* Royal," Jonathan* David,* 
 
 John, 9 David 1 ) was born in Holliston, Mass., Jan. 14, 1852, and 
 lives (1896) in Clinton, Mass. In 1860 his father moved to Hop- 
 kinton, and here the youth of the future doctor was spent. He 
 fitted for college at the Oread High School in Worcester, but was 
 unable to go, so learned the apothecary business in the same city. 
 Later he studied medicine with Dr. A. P. Richardson, of Boston ; 
 and at the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 
 1878. In August of that year he located in Clinton, where he still 
 remains, enjoying a lucrative practice. He is a member of the 
 Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Worcester County Medical 
 Association, of the State Association of Boards of Health, of the 
 Clinton Board of Health, of which he was chairman several years, 
 of the medical staff of the Clinton Hospital. For three years he 
 was chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and is now chairman of 
 the Board of Trade. He is a member of Trinity Lodge of Masons 
 at Clinton, and of the Worcester County Commandery of Knights 
 Templar. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and several other 
 fraternal organizations. He has been assistant surgeon-general of 
 the Patriarchs Militant, is surgeon of the Worcester Continentals, 
 and originator and president of the Clinton Riding Club. His por- 
 trait appears in the History of Worcester County published in 1889. 
 
 He married, Oct. 8, 1873, Marion L. Jones, daughter of John O. 
 Jones, of Quincy, Mass. 
 
 Children, i. born in Worcester, ii. and iii. in Clinton : 
 
 i. EFFIE MARION, b. Sept. i, 1874; entered Smith College in 1892. 
 ii. GERTRUDE JULIETTA, b. Aug. 17, 1881. 
 iii. CLIFTON JONES, b. June 14, 1885. 
 
 85. ROBERT HENRY S COMEY (Henry T., 1 Thatcher* John, 6 John* David, 3 
 
 John? David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Nov. 26, 1857, and 
 lives (1896) in Camden, N. J., where he has resided since the 
 autumn of 1883. Previously he had been in Philadelphia for about 
 fourteen months. He is a dyer and bleacher of straw goods. He 
 married at Camden, April 26, 1884, Theresa Pierce Mellor, daugh- 
 ter of Jonas Mellor, formerly of Yorkshire, Eng. 
 Children, all born in Camden, N. J. : 
 
 i. HARRY MELLOR, b. April 25, 1885; d. Sept. 8, 1885. 
 ii. MIRIAM POWELL, b. Sept. 28, 1886. 
 iii. HENRIETTA LOUISA, b. Nov. 5, 1888. 
 iv. KOBERT HAROLD, b. Dec. 28, 1891. 
 
 86. ARTHUR MESSINGER S COMEY (Elbridge <7., 7 Thatcher* John, 6 John* 
 
 David, 9 John, 2 David 1 ) was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 10, 1861, 
 and lives (1896) in Cambridge, Mass. He prepared for college at 
 Adams Academy, Quincy, graduated from Harvard in 1882, studied 
 at the Polytechnikum in Zurich, Switzerland, and afterwards took 
 the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D., at Heidelberg University, Germany ; 
 was instructor of chemistry at Harvard College from 1884 to 1889, 
 and senior professor of chemistry at Tufts College from 1889 to
 
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 1893, since which time he has been engaged in preparing a " Dic- 
 tionary of Chemical Solubilities" which has just been published 
 (May, 1896). 
 
 He married, Sept. 9, 1885, Kate Coleman (of LaFayette, Ind.), 
 who was born Sept. 5, 1861. 
 
 Their only child was born in Somerville, Mass. : 
 I. ARTHUR COLEMAN, b. Sept. 6, 1886. 
 
 87. GEORGE PRESTON" COMET JR. ( George P.? John? John? John? David? 
 
 John David ) was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 21, 1858, and 
 96) in Cleveland (Ohio) in which city he has resided since 
 1880. He is engaged in the manufacture of ladies' straw and* felt 
 hats at 7 Academy Street, the firm being Comey & Johnson. He 
 marned, June 29, 1881, Nannie J. Gill, daughter of Bartholomew 
 bill, of Hinsdale, Mass. 
 
 Children, all born in Cleveland, Ohio: / - A^? /?/*L' 
 
 tT^wJ** 1 * 'f^ 
 
 7 tjus * CLARA MAY, b. Oct. 16, 1884.^" >< *^' v i^ + i tfllf 
 
 I (A* K <f-4i. FLORENCE LILLIAN, b. Dec. 20, 1886. J s$a*<>4r*' 
 iii. GEORGE LAWRENCE, b. Oct. 10, 1888A 
 iv. FREDERICK HARLAN, b. Feb. 5, 1893. 
 v. EALPH HOWARD, b. Aug. 27, 1894. 
 vi. HAROLD DEAN^ b. April 20, 1896. 
 
 88. CHARLES RicH 8 COMEY (Chester ff.? John? John? John? David? 
 
 John, David) was born in Foxboro, Mass., July 21, 1856, and 
 ives (1896) in Mansfield, Mass. He graduated from Harvard Col- 
 lege in 1878, and the following year entered the employ of Comey 
 v VV? 1 ^ whom he has been ever since ' P arfc of the time in New 
 on i ool lty T aDd ? art of the time in M a n sfield. He married, June 
 ^U, 188d, Josephine M. Mead, of Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Children, all born in Mansfield, except i. born in Cambridge : 
 
 i. MABEL LOUISE, b. Feb. 11, 1885. 
 ii. EDITH MEAD, b. Oct. 9, 1886. 
 iii. CHESTER FRANCIS, b. Aug. 21, 1888. 
 iv. PHILIP RICH, b. Aug. 29, 1893. 
 
 89. WILLIAM WALLACE 8 COMEY (William * Aaron? Oliver? John* 
 
 Damd, John? David 1 ) was born in Bedford, Mass., March 4, 1846, 
 and for several years kept a market in Fitchburg, Mass., which he 
 sold in 189o He married, March 21, 1871, Mary, daughter of Isaac 
 Jackson, of Hodgdon, Me. 
 
 Children, born in Forge Village ( Westford) Mass. : 
 
 i. FLORENCE MAY, b. June 23, 1872 ; d. June 24, 1872 
 n. ADNAH PRESCOTT, b. March 17, 1878. 
 
 90. CHARLES MEL viN 8 COMEY ( George A.? Lyman? Oliver? John? David? 
 
 John Damd) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 11, 1846, and 
 lives (896) in New Bedford, Mass., where he has resided since 
 about 1868. He married first, July 8, 1868, Hannah C. DrW s , 
 born Oct. 31, 1847, daughter of James D. Driggs, of New Bedford! 
 bhe died Beb. 25, 1887, and he married second, in 1891, Mrs. Eliza- 
 eth Lldndge Carsley, daughter of Ira Gerrish, of Fairhaven, Mass
 
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 Children, all born in New Bedford : 
 
 96. i. JAMBS DAVIS DRIGGS, b. March 7, 1869. 
 ii. ALICE LOUISE, b. Sept. 9, 1872. 
 iii. FRANCES EMMA, b. Dec. 14, 1873 ; d. Nov. 28, 1874. 
 iv. CHARLES MELVIN, b. Aug. 18, 1876; d. Jan. 24, 1880. 
 v. MORRIS LORING, b. April 29, 1879. 
 
 91. WILLIAM ALNARADO* COMET ( George A., 1 Lyman* Oliver? John* 
 
 David? John, 11 David 1 ) was born in Foxboro, Mass., Nov. 12, 1850, 
 and died Oct. 17, 1890, in Cambridge, Mass., where he had lived 
 since 1875. He married, Oct. 3, 1878, Mary J. Caldwell, of Cam- 
 bridge, daughter of James Ayer Caldwell. She is still living in 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Children, all born in Cambridgeport : 
 
 1. FLORENCE LYDIA, b. Feb. 3, 1882. 
 ii. ELMER HARDING, b. Feb. 22, 1888. 
 iii. GRACE EVELYN, b. Sept. 6, 1890. 
 
 92. GEORGE BRATINTON" COMET (Albert, 7 Lyman? Oliver, 6 John* David, 3 
 
 John? David 1 ) was born at Cuyahoga Falls, 0., April 2, 1859, and 
 lives (1896) at Akron, 0. He married Nora Brannon. 
 Children of George B. and Nora : 
 
 i. ALBERT, b. March 23, 1884. 
 ii. CLARENCE, b. June 21, 1886. 
 iii. JOHN, b. April 13, 1893. 
 iv. GEORGE, b. Sept. 18, 1894. 
 
 93. WiLLARD 8 COMET (Albert, 7 Lyman, 6 Oliver, 6 John, 4 David, 3 John, 3 
 
 David 1 ) was born at Cuyahoga Falls, O., March 16, 1863, and lives 
 (1896) in Cleveland, 0., where he has resided since July 5, 1888. 
 He is a hatter by occupation. He married, May 25, 1887, Lottie 
 C. Neigher. 
 
 Children of Willard and Lottie : 
 
 i. MARION E., b. March 15, 1888. 
 ii. ELIZABETH C., b. April 15, 1890. 
 
 94. EDWARD WILSON" COMEE ( Wilson, 7 Thomas W., e Ezra* Joseph* 
 
 David 3 John, 2 David 1 ) was born in Dana, Mass., June 29, 1844, 
 and lives (1896) in North Dana. He married, in Boston, May 22, 
 1873, Emma Jane Dutton, born in Roxbury, Mass., May 22, 1849. 
 Children, i., ii. and vi. born in Dana, iii. in Petersham, and iv. 
 and v. in South Boston : 
 
 i. WALTER HERBERT, b. Jan. 5, 1874. 
 
 ii. SUSAN MARIA, b. July 5, 1876. 
 
 iii. MARCELLA JANE, b. Feb. 19, 1877 ; d. Aug. 6, 1877. 
 
 iv. MARGARET FULLER, b. Aug. 29, 1879. 
 
 v. MILLIE ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 5, 1881. 
 
 vi. ARTHUR EDWARD, b. Aug. 21, 1883. 
 
 95. JAMES D. D. 9 COMET ( Charles M.* George A., 7 Lyman* Oliver* John* 
 
 David, 3 John, 3 David 1 ) was born in New Bedford, Mass., March 7, 
 1869, and is living (1896) in Fall River, Mass., where he has been 
 located since the Fall of 1891, teaching music. He is organist of 
 the First Baptist Church, and conductor of the Fall River Choral 
 Society. Studied the organ with H. C. McDougall, of Providence,
 
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 R. I., and George E. Whiting, of Boston ; piano with Arthur Foote, 
 and composition with George W. Chadwick, of Boston. He married, 
 Oct. 12, 1892, Angeline S. Capen, daughter of Andrew Jackson 
 Capen, of New Bedford. 
 
 Children, born in Fall River: 
 
 I. MARGARET, 10 D. Aug. 5, 1894. 
 
 ii. HELEN, b. Jan. 3, 1896.
 
 MALTMAN FAMILY. 
 
 JAMES MALTMAN came from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Boston, Mass., 
 about the middle of the eighteenth century. The tradition is that he left 
 his native country to escape being drafted into the army. It is possible 
 that the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48), known in America as 
 King George's War, was the cause of his coming to the New World, but 
 of this there is nothing certain, and it should be understood that what is 
 known of this James Maltmau is from family tradition entirely. England 
 was dragged into this war by her King, George II., a native of Germany, 
 much against the wish of the people, in the year 1743, and the army was 
 recruited with difficulty, so it will be seen that there is at least plausibility 
 in assigning this as the cause of Mailman's leaving Scotland. The story 
 goes that he was twenty-one when he left his old home and that after com- 
 ing to Boston he met a young lady, Christiana Castor, who had come from 
 Glasgow, and that he afterwards married her. After her death he married 
 again. He was a cabinet maker by trade, and a member of the Masonic 
 fraternity. At one time he lived in Providence, R. L, but died, it is sup- 
 posed, in Gardner, Mass., at the home of one of his daughters, though there 
 is not the slightest clew to the date of his death. 
 
 Children of James and Christiana : 
 
 i. CHRISTIANA, b. in September, 1755; m. about 1774, David Comee, 
 of Lexington (see p. 6), and died in Gardner, Mass., May 17, 
 1789, ae. 33 years and 8 months. Their second son was named 
 James Maltman Comee. 
 
 ii. MARY, m. Joseph Clark (1757-1837), who went from Sherborn, 
 Mass. , to Gardner, among the early settlers of the latter. They 
 had one son, Joseph, b. March 3, 1787. 
 
 ill. HANNAH, b. Aug. 5, 1764 ; m. about 1789, after the death of her 
 sister, David Comee (see p. 6), and died in Gardner, Mass., 
 Oct. 23, 1852, ae. 88-2-18. She was blind during the last twenty 
 years of her life. 
 
 The name Maltman seems to be purely Scotch. In the year 1527 there 
 was living in Aberdeen, an Alexander Maltman, flesher (butcher). 
 
 Hercules Maltman, of Edinburgh, writes (1894) that there are only four 
 Maltmans in that city, but thinks there are more on the east coast, at Dun- 
 bar and Eyemouth. He himself went from Glasgow to Edinburgh about 
 1881. There is a Robert Maltman, in Ringford, Kirkcudbrightshire. 
 
 The supplement to Allibone's Dictionary of Authors has a James Malt- 
 man, minister of the gospel, and author of " Holiday Papers " on teetotal- 
 ism, an 8vo volume published in Edinburgh in 1888. The Saturday 
 Review (Ixv. 300) says: "Mr. Maltman * * * * falls upon teeto- 
 talers and smites them, taunts them, ridicules them, curses them."
 
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 In Gray Friars Churchyard, Edinburgh, are the graves of James Malt- 
 man 1778, Ann Maltman 1791, and Ann Maltman (ae. 62) 1825, widow 
 of Alex. Ross Porter. 
 
 A recent Glasgow directory has three Maltmans, and in London (Eng- 
 land) there is one, George Maltman, export clothier, a native of Scotland. 
 
 Among the passengers from England to Virginia in the ship " Thomas," 
 Henry Taverner master, in 1635 (probably) was a Thomas Maltman 
 ae. 17. 
 
 John Maltman (1800-1853?) came from Edinburgh to Canada and 
 thence to New York City. He was a son of William Maltman, of Glas- 
 gow. John's son, Thomas B. of New York, writes that the only other 
 Maltman he has known, John Maltman, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y., came 
 from Perth, Scotland. William Maltman, stone cutter, appears in the New 
 York City directory of 1827, and ten years latter there is a James Maltman, 
 store-keeper. 
 
 There was a John S. Maltman, 1st Lieut, of the 17th Reg. Mich. Vols., 
 April 13, 1865. The regiment was organized at Detroit, in August, 1862. 
 
 William H. Maltman is in the 1893 directory of Melbourne, Australia. 
 
 A search of the 1893 directories of the ten largest cities in the United 
 States reveals only seven Maltmans: one in New York City, two in 
 Chicago, three in Philadelphia, and one in Boston.
 
 NOTES ON KING PHILIP'S WAR. 
 
 As the originator of the Comey-Comee family in America was killed in 
 King Philip's War, a few notes upon that subject may not be out of place 
 here. The general notes are mainly from " The Beginnings of New Eng- 
 land," by John Fiske, and the local additions from the History of Sudbury, 
 Mass., by Rev. A. S. Hudson. 
 
 Since the destruction in 1637 of the Pequots, perhaps the most powerful 
 of the early Indian tribes in New England, there had been no serious out- 
 break. Meanwhile John Eliot of Roxbury, who after fourteen years of 
 hard study had translated the Bible into the Algonquin dialect, had suc- 
 ceeded in gathering into his villages some 1500 "praying Indians," mostly 
 of the Massachusetts tribe that took its name from Massawachusett, or Great 
 Blue Hill, in Milton. There were as many more in Martha's Vineyard, 
 300 in Nantucket and about 700 in Plymouth Colony. These latter were 
 mostly from the Wampanoags, and they, with the Massachusetts, were 
 among the weaker tribes. The stronger tribes, the Narragansetts, around 
 the bay of that name, the Mohegans in Western Massachusetts and the 
 Nipmucks among the hills of what is now Worcester County, furnished few 
 converts. They thought that the English were trying to absorb the weaker 
 tribes and thus strengthen their fighting capacity. 
 
 In 1660 Massasoit, chief sachem of the Wampanoags, died, leaving two 
 sons, Wamsutta and Metacom, or Alexander and Philip as the English 
 nick-named them. Soon after Wamsutta had succeeded his father he was 
 called to Plymouth to account for some of his actions. He seems to have 
 explained them satisfactorily, but before leaving he either caught cold or 
 imbibed too much "fire-water" and died of a violent fever on the way 
 home. Philip suspected the English of having poisoned his brother, for to 
 the savage normal death must come by the tomahawk or firebrand, abnormal 
 death from poison or witchcraft. Philip's dark plotting presumably began 
 about this time. Twice he was summoned before the federal council, but 
 both times protested his innocence. 
 
 It was not until June, 1675, that Philip, issuing from his lair on the west 
 side of Mount Hope Bay, R. I., laid waste the towns of Swanzey and Dart- 
 mouth and the war really began. Middleboro and Taunton were destroyed 
 soon after. In July the Nipmucks attacked Mendon. The Mohegans 
 remained faithful to the English. On the night of August 2, Philip, whose 
 home had become too hot for him, took part in a fierce assault upon Brook- 
 field. The scene then shifted to the Connecticut Valley and simultaneous 
 attacks were made September 1 upon Deerfield and Hadley. Meanwhile 
 the more powerful Narragansetts, under their chief Canouchet, evidently
 
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 remembering that the latter's father Miantonomo had been put to death 
 by order of the English in 1643, had taken the warpath. On the morning 
 of Sunday, December 19, Gov. Josiah Winslow, of Plymouth, and his men 
 captured the Narragansett fort in what is now South Kingston, R. L, and 
 a thousand of the Indians (full half their number) were killed. 
 
 Feb. 10, 1676, Philip, who had disappeared since the Brookfield fight of 
 the previous August, led a furious attack upon Lancaster. Medfield was 
 attacked the same month, and then Worcester and Marlborough. The 
 burning of the latter on Sunday morning, March 26, left Sudbury unpro- 
 tected on the west, and for the next month the settlers kept a sharp lookout 
 for signs of the savages. At daybreak on the 21st of April* the Indians 
 came, mostly Nipmucks, variously estimated from 500 to 1500. During 
 the preceding night they had disposed themselves in small squads so as to 
 burn the houses and attack all of the six garrisons at once. Toward one 
 of these, the Haynes garrison, " twelve resolute young men from Concord " 
 were rapidly approaching to give their assistance, for the fighting was par- 
 ticularly hot here. As they drew near they were decoyed down to the river 
 meadows until eleven of their number found themselves surrounded, and as 
 a result ten, including David Comey, were killed. The scene of this slaughter 
 was on the west side of the Sudbury River a mile or more east of the present 
 Sudbury Centre. The Haynes garrison house stood for two hundred years 
 after, and it was not until within twenty years that it was demolished. The 
 main fighting of that day was the west side of Green Hill, a little northeast 
 of the present village of South Sudbury, and it was here that the monument 
 to Captain Wadsworth and his brave followers was erected. Five of those 
 killed at the Haynes garrison were brought iu boats the next day to the 
 foot of the old town bridge and buried. Was David Comey's body one of 
 them? 
 
 The Indians were still active and many another town felt the effects of 
 their savage fury, but Canonchet was captured in April and gradually the 
 Indians were killed, until in August Philip himself was captured at Bristol 
 Neck, R. I. A dozen of the leading sachems were hanged or shot, and 
 hundreds sent to the West Indies and sold into slavery. Among the latter 
 was Philip's son, a lad of nine years. Of the ninety towns iu the Massa- 
 chusetts and Plymouth colonies twelve had been utterly destroyed, while 
 forty others had been the scene of fire and slaughter. Hundreds of brave 
 men had perished and an enormous war debt incurred, but severe as this 
 had been for the English, for the Indians it meant utter annihilation, and 
 southern and central New England ceased to be troubled by the red men. 
 
 There has been an endless controversy on the date of this encounter, whether it was 
 April 18 or 21.
 
 MILITARY SERVICE OF THE COMEY-COMEES. 
 
 DAVID 1 COMET, the progenitor of the Comees and Comeys in America, 
 was killed by King Philip's Indians at Sudbury, Mass., in 1676. 
 
 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 
 
 David* Comee, of Lexington and Gardner, Mass., was at the battles of 
 Lexington, Bunker Hill and Benningtou (see p. 6). 
 
 Jonathan* Comee, of Hopkiuton, Mass., marched to Lexington, April 19, 
 1775 (see p. 7). 
 
 John 6 Comee, of Foxboro, Mass., marched to Lexington, April 19, 1775, 
 and saw other service (see p. 7). 
 
 Oliver 6 Comee, of Foxboro, Mass., was in service in New York in 1778 
 and 1779 (see p. 8). 
 
 Spencer 5 Comee, brother of the two preceding, enlisted in September, 
 1779, and was killed Feb. 3, 1780, ae. 20 (see p. 8). 
 
 Ezra? Comee, of Cambridge (part now Brighton) appears in the list of 
 Revolutionary soldiers in Drake's History of Middlesex County, but not in 
 Massachusetts Archives (see p. 8). 
 
 Joseph 6 Comee, of Lexington, according to Hudson's History of Lexing- 
 ton, was in Capt. John Parker's Company of Minute-men, April 19, 1775, 
 and was wounded in the arm in trying to get out of the meeting-house, 
 where he had been to replenish his powder-horn, but Charles Carleton 
 Coffin, in his "Daughters of the Revolution," says he was wounded'as he 
 was standing in the doorway of Robert Munroe's house. His name does 
 not appear in the Massachusetts Archives. This was doubtless Joseph 
 Comee Jr. (1753-1776). (See p. 5.) 
 
 NOTE. The William Cotney that appears in the Index to the Massachusetts Revolutionary 
 Rolls was probably the William Coney, born in Stoughton, March 4, 1745. 
 
 CIVIL WAR. 
 
 Capt. Christopher C* Comee, 94th N. Y. Vols. (See p. 17). 
 
 Capt. Henry N? Comey, 2d Mass. Vols. (See p. 32). 
 
 Aaron LI 1 Comey, 6th Minn. Vols. (See p. 22). 
 
 Albert B? Comey, 5th Mass. Vols. (See p. 30). 
 
 Alphonso 1 Comey, 25th Mass. Vols., was killed at Cold Harbor, Va., 
 
 June 3, 1864. (See p. 18). 
 Anson S* Comee, 34th Mass. Infantry and 16th Light Artillery. (See 
 
 p. 27).
 
 43 
 
 Charles B? Comey, 5th N. H. Vols. (See p. 25). 
 Edward W. 9 Comee, 42d Mass. Vols. (See p. 36). 
 
 George R? Comey, 1st Neb. Vols., and 15th Mass. Battery. (See p. 31). 
 
 Henry H} Comey, 5th N. H. Vols. (See p. 26). 
 
 James K PJ Comey, 25th Mass. Vols. (See p. 30). 
 
 Jotham E? Comey, llth N. H. Vols. (See p. 14.) 
 
 Lawsori 1 Comey, 42d Mass. Vols., was killed at Brashear City, La. June 
 
 23, 1863. (See p. 18). 
 
 Lewis E* Comey, 6th Mass. Vols. (See p. 23). 
 
 Manlius 1 Comey, 1st Battalion Heavy Artillery Mass. Vols., was starved 
 to death in prison. (See p. 33). 
 
 Otis W. 1 Comey, 10th N. H. Vols. (See p. 25). 
 
 Warren W. 9 Comey, llth Maine Vols. (See p. 23.) 
 
 Willard'' Comey, 1st Battalion R. I. Cavalry. (See p. 24). 
 
 William M. 1 Comey, Battery B, 4th U. S. Artillery. (See p. 31). 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Mrs. Sally (Comee) Hey wood (see p. 10) d. in Fitchburg, Mass., Dec. 
 29, 1881, 3d. 74. 
 
 Nancy Comee of Hardwick, Mass., m. Aug. 17, 1796, Joel Woodward 
 (of Petersham) who was b. March 28, 1774. She may have been a dau. 
 of Ezra* Comee, of Dana, which was set off from Hardwick, Petersham 
 and Greenwich in 1801. 
 
 Job Comee was Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Masons 
 in Massachusetts in 1 783. Who was he ?
 
 COMEE-COMEY INDEX. 
 
 Aaron (1757), 5 
 
 Aaron (1789-1846), 13 
 
 Aaron Lowell (1816-1880), 22 
 
 Abbie Isabella (1863-1878), m. Colburn, 18 
 
 Abigail (1707), m. Pierce. 4 
 
 Abigail (1727-1806), b. Sumner, 5 
 
 Abigail (1762-1790), 6 
 
 Abigail (1816-1895), m. Harwood, 10 
 
 Abigail Jackson (1807-1893), b. Pierce, 19 
 
 Achsah (1864), m. Proctor, 31 
 
 Adelaide Lavera (1865), m. Ward, 17 
 
 Adnah Prescott (1878), 36 
 
 Agnes Amanda, m. Hoyt, 33 
 
 Albert (1808-1886), 18 
 
 Albert (1828), 24. 
 
 Albert H884), 36 
 
 Albert Barton (1832), 30 
 
 Albert Carlton (1871), 30 
 
 Albertis Benj, 17 
 
 Alfred L. (1877), 30 
 
 Alice, b. Rooney, 17 
 
 Alice (1880), 23 
 
 Alice, b. Ferry, 29 
 
 Alice Louise (1872), 36 
 
 Alice M., b. Stowell, 24 
 
 Alice O., b. Howland, 25 
 
 Alphonso (1833-1864), 18 
 
 Almlra, 22 
 
 A. Louise (1878), 20 
 
 Amanda Ann (1832-1856), 19 
 
 Amanda Frances, m. Haynes, 13 
 
 Angeline 8., b. Capen, 37 
 
 Ann Eliza (1836), m. Temple, 18 
 
 Ann Eliza (1841), b. Lawrence, 20 
 
 Ann Maria (1826), m. Mayhew, 12 
 
 Anna (1757-1838), b. Porter, 8 
 
 Anna Eliza, b. Francis, 17 
 
 Anna Eliza, m. Bruzo, 23 
 
 Anna Florence (1876), 25 
 
 Anna Maria (1858), b. Barrett, 27 
 
 Annie (1856), b. Cruther, 27 
 
 Annie C.,b. Leland, 32 
 
 Annie M., m. Bate, 21 
 
 Anson S. (1842-1892), 27 
 
 Anitas, 32 
 
 Arbelia, b. Whipple, 27 
 
 Arthur Coleman (1886), 38 
 
 Arthur Edward (1883), 36 
 
 Arthur Herbert, 23 
 
 Arthur M., of Grand Rapids, 24 
 
 Arthur Messenger, 34 
 
 Arthur Metcalf, 28 
 
 Augusta, b. Wood, 33 
 
 Benjamin (1733-17741, 5 
 Benjamin (1765-1842), 9 
 Benjamin (1767-1858), 9 
 Benjamin (1800-1880), 10 
 Bernard Ernest (1872), 30 
 Bernard Everett (1893), 26 
 
 Bernice Eliza (1872), 30 
 Bertrand, 32 
 Bessie Frances, 22 
 Betsey, m. Mellen, 7 
 Betsey, b. Carpenter, 8 
 Betsey (1784-1 869), 8 
 Betsey, m. Lovewell, 9 
 Betsey, b. Howard, 11 
 Betty (1760), 5 
 
 Caroline A., m. Parsons, 10 
 
 Caroline E., b. Derby, 26 
 
 Carrie, b. Pierce, 23 
 
 Catherine H., 24 
 
 Celia, b. Leonard, 13 
 
 Celinda, b. Barton, 18 
 
 Celinda (1842-1868), m. Comey, 18, 31 
 
 Charles (1807), 14 
 
 Charles (1821), 27 
 
 Charles (1874), 26 
 
 Charles Berry (1839), 25 
 
 Charles Bingham (1876), 29 
 
 Charles Delos (1845), 18 
 
 Charles Henry (1840-1878), 29 
 
 Charles Henry (1875), 26 
 
 Charles Henry (1880), 23 
 
 Charles Lyman ( 1852) , 24 
 
 Charles Melvin (1846), 35 
 
 Charles Rich (1856), 35 
 
 Charlotte (1775-1809), m. Smith, 6 
 
 Charlotte (1791-1851). b. Skinner; 13 
 
 Charlotte Bates, m. Alden, 13 
 
 Charlotte Ellen, m. Hanscom, 29 
 
 Charlotte Emeline, m. Ward, 10 
 
 Charlotte M., b. Pollard, 28 
 
 Chester Francis (1881), 35 
 
 Chester Holbrook (1832-1881), 21 
 
 Chloe Sabrina, m. Sawyer, 13 
 
 Christiana (1755-1789), b. Mailman, 6 
 
 Christiana (1781), m. Bacon, 7 
 
 Christiana (1805-1842), m. Lynde, 10 
 
 Christopher C. (1827), 17 
 
 Clara A., b. Dean, 21 
 
 Clara E , b. Galloupe, 30 
 
 Clara E , m. Keyser, 25 
 
 Clara May (1884), 35 
 
 Clara Porter, m. Carkin, 23 
 
 Clarence (1886), 30 
 
 Clarissa (1783-1855), 8 
 
 Clifton Jones (1885), 34 
 
 Cora B., 26 
 
 Cora J., m. Campbell, 26 
 
 Daniel Webster, 10 
 David (d. 1676), 3 
 David (1696-1800?), 4 
 David (1744-1826), 6 
 David (1775-1848), 9 
 Dennis P., 28 
 Dexter (1814-1892), 19
 
 46 
 
 Earle Francis (1888), 23 
 
 Edgar Frank, 27 
 
 Edgar Randolph, 27 
 
 Edith Mead, 36 
 
 Edith Rhoda, 32 
 
 Edward Oliver, 25 
 
 Edward Wilson, 36 
 
 Edwin Ruthren, 23 
 
 Effie Marion, 34 
 
 Elbridge Carpenter, 20 
 
 Elbridge Gerry, 18 
 
 Eliza (1791-1859) , m. Fales, 8 
 
 Eliza (1781-1743), m. Flagg, 9, 15 
 
 Eliza Ann, b. Dye, 10 
 
 Eliza M., m. Spring, 29 
 
 Elizabeth (d. 1671) ,4 
 
 Elizabeth (d. 1701) , m. Kendall, 4 
 
 Elizabeth (1701), 4 
 
 Elizabeth, b. Wells, 7 
 
 Elizabeth (1768-1851), b. Belcher, 8 
 
 Elizabeth, b. Kittredgc, 11 
 
 Elizabeth C. (1890), 36 
 
 Elizabeth E., b. Gerrish, 35 
 
 Elizabeth II., b. Lockman, 28 
 
 Ella A., b. Whipple, 18 
 
 Ella M., b. Briggs, 26 
 
 Ellen C., 23 
 
 Ellen F., b. Blake, 25 
 
 Ellen M., b Uearne,28 
 
 Ellen M. (1877), 26 
 
 Elmer H. (1888), 36 
 
 Elvira C., m. Spaulding, 13 
 
 Emily, b. Gibbs, 18 
 
 Emily A. (1809-1844), b. Nichols, 16 
 
 Emily E., m. Aldrich, 18 
 
 Emma, b. Scott, 18 
 
 Emma Eliza, m. Antonella, 19 
 
 Emma Frances, m. Ellison, 21 
 
 Emma Frances, 23 
 
 Emma J ., b. Coombs, 32 
 
 Emma Jane (1848-1866) m. Randall, 17 
 
 Emma Jane, b. Button, 36 
 
 Emma Richmond, m. Smith, 20 
 
 Erastus F., 23 
 
 Esther, 3, 4 
 
 Esther (1676), 4 
 
 Esther (1774-1863), b. Baker, 9 
 
 Esther (1794-1831), 8 
 
 Esther (d. 1823), b. Boyden, 13 
 
 Esther E. (1833-1857), b. Rockwood, 25 
 
 Ethel (1882), 27 
 
 Eugene T , 27 
 
 Eunice (1766), 5 
 
 Eunice (1792-1858), 8 
 
 Eva May (1885), 26 
 
 Ezekiel, 6 
 
 Ezra (1751-1832), 8 
 
 Ezra (18*3), 27 
 
 Ezra C. (1860), 20 
 
 Fanny L. (1844-1886), b. Steadman, 28 
 
 Fanny R. (1819-1838), b. Vining, 11 
 
 Florence Lillian (1886), 35 
 
 Florence Lydia (1882), 36 
 
 Florence Viletta, 17 
 
 Francis Wilson, 26 
 
 Frank Allen (1856-1890), 23 
 
 Frank E. (1851-1882), 16 
 
 Frank Eugene (1848J, 18 
 
 Frank Herbert (1858), 27 
 
 Frank Irving (1868), 24 
 
 Frank Lewis (1857-1880?), 25 
 
 Frank Roy (1880), 32 
 
 Franklin (1827), 27 
 
 Frederick Harlan, 36 
 
 Frederick Morton, 28 
 
 Frederic Robbing, 29 
 
 Frederick Towne, 28 
 
 George Anson (1817), 23 
 George Brayinton (185W), 36 
 George Frank (1851-1895), 27 
 George Lawrence (1888), 35 
 George Otis (1848), 24 
 
 George Preston (1826), 21 
 George Preston (1858), 35 
 George Royal (1834-1870), 31 
 George Washington (1809-1878), 11 
 George Washington (1838), 11 
 Gertrude Juliette (1881), 34 
 Grace Evelyn (1890), 36 
 
 Hannah (d. 1770), 4 
 
 Hannah (d. 1815), 5 
 
 Hannah (1743-1767), b. Watts, 5 
 
 Hannah, b. Richardson, 6 
 
 Hannah (1764-1852). b. Maltman, 6, 38 
 
 Hannah (d. 1794), 6 
 
 Hannah (1767-1829), b. Watts, 9 
 
 Hannah, m. Prentiss, 7 
 
 Hannah (1801-1890), b. Robinson, 12 
 
 Hannah, b. Walker, 18 
 
 Hannah (1821), m. Rounds, 13 
 
 Hannah C. (1847-1887), b. Driggs, 35 
 
 Hannah Maria (1&38-1862), 18 
 
 Hannah More (1790-1810), 7 
 
 Hannah Robinson (1830), 12 
 
 Hannah Watts (1834), m. Stratton, 9 
 
 Harold Dean, 35 
 
 Harriet, b. Knight, 9 
 
 Harriet (d. 1864), b. Anderson, 22 
 
 Harriet B. (1868), m. Judson, 22 
 
 Harriet E. (1838), m. Pierce, 23 
 
 Harriet L. (d. 1842), b. Skinner, 23 
 
 Harvey Dyer, 31 
 
 Hattie, b. Grover, 22 
 
 Helen (1854-1890), 11 
 
 Helen (1896), 37 
 
 Henrietta Louisa (1888), 34 
 
 Henrietta Thompson, m. Van Amringe, 20 
 
 Henry Cheeyer, 26 
 
 Henry Harrison, 26 
 
 Henry Newton, Capt., 32 
 
 Henry Thatcher (1827-1887), 20 
 
 Herbert Augustus, 26 
 
 Herbert Derby, 26 
 
 Hermann Allen, 20 
 
 Hiram, 18 
 
 Ida, b. Pine, 23 
 
 Irene Mozelle, 17 
 
 Irene W., b. Tenney, 26 
 
 Irving W., 32 
 
 Isabella Harris (1832-1854), 9 
 
 Isabella H., b. McKay, 26 
 
 James (1836-1883), 28 
 
 James Albert (1852), 23 
 
 James Allen (1831), 20 
 
 James D. D., 36 
 
 James Harwood, 28 
 
 James Jason (1857-1876), 14 
 
 James K. P. (1845-1884), 30 
 
 James Mnltman (1777-1*32), 9 
 
 James Maltman (1809-1893), 16 
 
 James Monroe (1829), 12 
 
 James Munroe (1830-1862?), 10 
 
 James Thomas (1839), 2 
 
 James Thompson (1861), 20 
 
 Jason (1800-1853), 14 
 
 Jason (1831), 25 
 
 Jennie Louise (1879), 32 
 
 Jennie W., 17 
 
 Jerusha (1755) ,5 
 
 Jerusha (1817), m. Hodges, 13 
 
 Job, 43 
 
 John (1665-1729), 4 
 
 John (1689), 4 
 
 John (1725-1815) ,5 
 
 John (1753-18X0 ,7 
 
 John (1798-1886), 12 -> 
 
 John (1804-1885), 9 
 
 John Franklin, 21 
 
 John Hale, 26 
 
 John Winthrop, 22 
 
 Jonathan (1746) ,7 
 
 Joseph, (1728), 5 
 
 Joseph (1753-1776), 5
 
 47 
 
 Joseph (1803-1856), U 
 Joseph (1835), 25 
 Joseph Frederick, 17 
 Joseph H. (I860), 25 
 Josephine, o. Mead, 35 
 Josephine L., b. Messenger, 21 
 Jotham Edwin (1847-1864), 14 
 Julia A., b. Aldrich, 25 
 Julia Maria, in. Wetherbee, 14 
 Julia M., m. Jessman, 25 
 Junia Ann, m. Forrest, 13 
 
 Kate, b. Coleman, 35 
 Kate E., b. Rowell, 20 
 Keziah, b. Leonard, 12 
 
 Laura, b. Munsey, 20 
 Laura E., b. Felt, 20 
 Laura Judson, 21 
 Lawrence Allen, 20 
 Lawson (1837-1863), 18 
 Lawson Herschel, 30 
 Leander Porter, 16 
 Lewis Alvin, 26 
 Lewis Edgar (1847), 23 
 Lewis Edgar (1882), 23 
 Lillian A., b. Stewart, 27 
 Lillian May, 27 
 Lottie C., b. Neigher, 36 
 Louisa, m. Lovewell, 9 
 Louisa, m. Kingsbury, 12 
 Lovina, b. Mead, 10 
 Lucinda, b. Rockwood, 27 
 Lucinda F., b. Wood, 22 
 Lucretia, b. Aldrich, 25 
 Luella Augusta, 22 
 Lydia (1801-1885), b. Towne, 15 
 Lydia, b. Walden, 23 
 Lydia F., b. Morse, 23 
 Lyman (1793-1878), 13 
 Lyman F. (1814-1867), 23 
 
 Mabel Louise, 35 
 
 Manlius (1843-1864), 33 
 
 Margaret, b. West, 17 
 
 Margaret (1894), 37 
 
 Margaret Fuller, 36 
 
 Maria (1802-1881), m. Jaquith, 10 
 
 Maria (1817), b. Winship, 16 
 
 Miu-iii (1824-1849), 13 
 
 Maria (1822), b. Sibley, 27 
 
 Maria (1825-1893), 15 
 
 Maria Louise (1881), 30 
 
 Maria Rosette (1844), 11 
 
 Marietta, m. Stearns, 18 
 
 Marion A., b. Garcelon, 27 
 
 Marion E. (1888), 36 
 
 Marion L., b. Jones, 34 
 
 Mariou L., m. Colburn, 27 
 
 Maroa, b. Griswold, 17 
 
 Martha, b. Munroe, 4 
 
 Martha (d. 1749), m. Smittf, 4 
 
 Martha (1737), m. Williams, 4 
 
 Martha (1805-1880), m. Fenno, 7 
 
 Martha (1811). b. Berry, 14 
 
 Martha Ann (1817-1845), 12 
 
 Martha Ann (1828), 10 
 
 Martha Ann (1850-1871), 18 
 
 Martha Jane ( 1854-1893), m. Boyd, 23 
 
 Martha Josephine (1849), m. Barney, 14 
 
 Martha Josephine (1862), m. Leslie, 17 
 
 Martha Leonard (1820-1857), 13 
 
 Martha Stone (1834), m. Sawin, 11 
 
 Mary (1663-1712), m. Kibby, 4 
 
 Mary (173:!), b. Merriam, 5 
 
 Mary (1755), 5 
 
 Mary (1784-1818), m. Fletcher, 7 
 
 Mary (1801-1867), b. Thompson, 12 
 
 Mary (1811), m. Wood, 10 
 
 Mary (1822-1870), m. Bowers, 13 
 
 Mary (1823-1844), 12 
 
 Mary (d. 1894), b. Brigham, 19 
 
 Mary, b. Jackson, 35 
 
 Mary Abb) , m. Gibson, 19 
 
 Mary Adelaide, b. Morton, 28 
 
 Mary Albreanna, m. Belcher, 19 
 
 Mary Angeline, m. Hearn, 19 
 
 Mary Ann (d. 1824?), 6 
 
 Mary Ann (1823-1891), b. Neal, 19 
 
 Mary Ann, D. Brayinton, 24 
 
 Mary Augusta (1870), 33 
 
 Mary Ella, m. Lee, 23 
 
 Mary Emma (1856), 24 
 
 Mary Esther (1823),m. Comey, 14, 19 
 
 Mary Etta, b. Towne, 27 
 
 Mary F., b. Conant, 16 
 
 Mary J., b. Caldwell, 36 
 
 Mary R., m. Luther, 20 
 
 Maud Frances, 30 
 
 Mercy (1751), 5 
 
 Mildred, 26 
 
 Millie Elizabeth, 36 
 
 Minnie M., 26 
 
 Mira (1802-1878), m. Copeland, 8 
 
 Miranda J., b. Temple, 30 
 
 Miriam (1799-1863), b. Stone, 11 
 
 Miriam P. (1886), 34 
 
 Morris L., 36 
 
 Myra A., m. Robinson, 17 
 
 Myrtle I., 26 
 
 Nabby (1797-1884), m. Keith, 8 
 Nancy, m. Woodward, 43 
 Nancy (1787-1811), 9 
 Nancy, b. Howe, 9 
 Nancy (1794-1832), b. Fisher, 13 
 Nancy, m. Tuttle, 15 
 Nancy Maria, m* Maybry, 13 
 Nancy Maria, m. Blodgett, 23 
 Nannie J., b. Gill, 35 
 Nellipee, 7 
 Nora, 36 
 
 Oliver (1757-1842), 8 
 
 Oliver (1787-1875), 12 
 
 Oliver Edson, 22 
 
 Oman, 14 
 
 Ophelia H., 32 
 
 Otis (1791), 9 
 
 Otis (1805), 8 
 
 Otis W. (1837-1864), 25 
 
 Pamelia, 7 
 
 Perley Pierce, Dr., 34 
 Philip Rich, 35 
 Polly, m. Fairbanks, 7 
 Polly, b. Leonard, 12 
 Polly, b. Andrews, 11 
 
 Ralph H., 35 
 Rebecca O., 25 
 Robert Harold, 34 
 Robert Henry, 34 
 Rosette, 11 
 Roy Eliot, 27 
 Royal, 11 
 
 Ruhama (1701-1730), 4 
 Ruhama (1742-1819), 4 
 Ruhaina (1762), 6 
 Ruhama (1798-1884), 7 
 Ruth, b. Trow, 9 
 Ruth (1790), 9 
 
 Sally (1779-1863), b. Putnam, 19 
 
 Sally (1807-1881), m. Hey wood, 10 
 
 Samantha G., 27 
 
 Samuel S., 17 
 
 Sanford E., 19 
 
 Sarah < 1668), 4 
 
 Sarah, 4 
 
 Sarah (1735), 4 
 
 Sarah (1766), 6 
 
 Sarah (1793-1877), m. Breck, 7 
 
 Sarah Ann (1843), 23 
 
 Sarah Bertha (18*56), 17 
 
 Sarah Dyer, b. Rich, 21 
 
 Sarah Louise, b. Beckwith, 16 
 
 Sarah Mead (1832) ,10
 
 Sarah W., b. Sawin, 17 
 
 Sophronla P., 15 
 
 Spencer (1760-1780), 8 
 
 Spencer (1786-1859), 12 
 
 Spencer Augusta, 19 
 
 Squire S., 11 
 
 Susan (1791-1876), m. Flagg, 9, 15 
 
 Susan Adella (1813-1877), 14 
 
 Susan Augusta (1866), 28 
 
 Susan Elizabeth (1841-1858), 16 
 
 Susan Maria (1875), 36 
 
 Susan Samantha, b. Carpenter, 20 
 
 Susie M., m. Graves, 30 
 
 Sylvania R., 30 
 
 Sylvester G., 14 
 
 Thatcher, 12 
 Theresa P., 34 
 Thomas W., 15 
 Trypheuia, 14 
 
 Ursula, 18 
 
 Velzora, 25 
 Vesta L., 28 
 Vodisa J., 12 
 
 48 
 
 Walter Herbert (1874), 36 
 Walter Huntley (1877), 16 
 Walter Lawson (1866), 31 
 Walter Richmond (1866-1894), 20 
 Warren Gardner, 19 
 Warren Otis, 25 
 Warren Westley, 23 
 Webster Huntley, 16 
 Willard (1796-1869), 13 
 Willard (1830), 24 
 Willard (1863), 36 
 Willard H., 25 
 William A. (1876), 20 
 William Alnarado (1850-1890), 36 
 William Benjamin (1846), 16 
 William Clyde, 17 
 William Henry (1857), 19 
 William Macher (1840), 31 
 William Porter (1837), 29 
 William Skinner (1821-1891), 22 
 William Wallace (1846), 35 
 William Williams (1813-1883), 16 
 Wilson (1819-1860), 27 
 Wilson Steadman, 28
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OTHER THAN COMEE-COMEY, 
 AND TO PLACES. 
 
 Akron, O., 24 
 Alden, Albert, 13 
 Aldrich, Julia A., 25 
 
 Lucretia, 25 
 
 Seth, 18 
 
 Anderson, Harriet, 22 
 Andrews, Polly, 11 
 Antonella, Leonard V., 19 
 Arctic Ocean, 25 
 Ashland, Mass., 30 
 
 Babbitt, Hannah N., 15 
 
 Bacon, Eliel, 7 
 
 Baker, Esther, 9 
 
 Barlow, Mrs. Rachel, 19 
 
 Barney, Warren B., 14 
 
 Barre, Mass., 27 
 
 Barrett, Anna M., 27 
 
 Barton, Celinda, 18 
 
 Bate, John J., 21 
 
 Beckwith, Sarah Louise, 16 
 
 Beganson, Mrs. Alice L., 19 
 
 Belcher, Elizabeth 8 
 Gilbert, 19 
 Joseph W., 23 
 
 Bent, Allen H., 7 
 
 Berry, Martha, 14 
 
 Blake, Ellen F., 25 
 
 Blodgett, Wilford G., 23 
 
 Boston, Mass., 6, 9, 15, 16, 20, 
 26-29 
 
 Bower, James H., 10 
 
 Bowers, William, 13 
 
 Boyd, Thomas, 23 
 
 Boyden, Esther, 13 
 
 Brannon, Nora, 36 
 
 Brayinton, Mary A., 24 
 
 Breck, Elijah, 7 
 
 Briggs, Ella M., 26 
 
 Brigham, Mary, 19 
 
 Brighton, Mass., 6, 8, 27, 28 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y.,21, 35 
 
 Brown, Ruhama, 4 
 
 Brown University, 22 
 
 Bruso, Joseph, 23 
 Marie, 23 
 
 Caldwell, Mary J., 36 
 Cambridge (Mass.), 16,21,23 
 
 35 
 
 Camden. N. J., 34 
 Campbell, James E., 26 
 Capen, Angeline 8., 37 
 Carkin, George W., 23 
 Carpenter, Betsey, 8 
 
 Susan S., 20 
 
 Carsley, Elizabeth E., 35 
 Chamberlain, Nathaniel, 7 
 Chelsea, Mass., 5, 9 
 Cleveland, O., 24, 35 
 
 Clinton, Mass., 34 
 Colburn, John, 18 
 
 Nathan P., 27 
 Coleman, Kate, 35 
 Comey's Wharf, 9 
 Comey & Johnson, 24 
 Conant, MaryF., 16 
 Concord, Mass., 3, 4 
 Coombs, Emma J., 32 
 Copeland, Martin, 8 
 Corey, Isaac, 4 
 Cruther, Annie, 27 
 
 Damon, David, 7 
 Dana, Mass., 8, 15, 27 
 Daniels, Tryphenia, 14 
 Davis, Mrs. Mary F., 16 
 Dean, Clara A., 21 
 Derby, Caroline E., 26 
 Driggs, Hannah C., 35 
 Dunn, Mary, 16 
 Dutton, Emma J., 36 
 Dye, Eliza Ann, 10 
 Dyer, Lizzie, 31 
 
 Ellisburg, N. Y., 11, 17 
 Ellison, Rev. Daniel J., 21 
 Emory, Orrin H., 10 
 
 21, Fairbanks, Jonathan, 7 
 Fales, Abijah, 8 
 Fall River, Mass., 19 
 Felt, Laura E., 20 
 Fenno, Ebenezer, 7 
 Ferry, Alice, 29 
 Fisher, Nancy, 13 
 Fitchburg, Mass., 7, 11, 16,28, 
 
 35 
 Flagg, Barney, 15 
 
 Rev. Joshua, 15 
 Fletcher, William, 7 
 Forge Village, Mass., 22 
 Forrest, Addison P., 13 
 Foxboro, Mass., 5, 7, 8, 12-14, 
 
 23, 25, 26, 34 
 
 Framingham, Mass., 27, 30 
 Francis, Anna E., 17 
 Franconia, N. H.,25 
 34, 
 
 Galloupe, Clara E., 30 
 Garcelon, Marion A., 27 
 Gardner, Mass., fi, 7, 9, 11, 16. 
 
 29 
 
 Gates, , 10 
 
 Gay, Joseph, 23 
 Gerrish, Elizabeth E., 35 
 Gibbs, Emily, 18 
 Gibson, George 8., 19 
 Gill, Nannie J., 35 
 Graves, Elmer E., 30 
 
 Griswold, Maroa, 17 
 Grover, Hattie, 22 
 
 Hanscom, Albert E., 25 
 Harris, James B., 22 
 Harvard University, 29, 34, 35 
 Harwood, Jonas, 10 
 Hayden, Almira, 22 
 Haynes, George W., 13 
 Hearn, Ellen M., 28 
 
 Joseph, 19 
 
 Henderson, N. Y., 7, 10, 11 
 Hey wood, B. F., 10 
 Hittner, J. H., 17 
 Hodges, Alfred, 13 
 Holliston, Mass., 19, 34 
 Hopkinton, Mass., 7, 11, 18, 19, 
 
 30-34 
 
 Howard, Betsey, 11 
 Howe, Nancy, 9 
 Howland, Alice O., 25 
 Hoyt, Joseph F., 33 
 
 Jackson, Mary, 35 
 Jaquith, Abby M., 7 
 
 Abram, 7 
 
 Isaac, 10 
 
 Jessman, Adelbert, 25 
 Johnson, Rebecca O., 25 
 Jones, Marion L., 34 
 Juclson, Charles G., 22 
 
 Keith, Amos, 8 
 Kendall, John, 4 
 Keyser, John H., 25 
 Kibby, Joshua, 4 
 29,King Philip's War, 3, 40 
 Kingsbury, Addison, 12 
 Kittridge, Elizabeth, 11 
 Knight, Harriet, 9 
 
 Lawrence, Ann Eliza, 20 
 Lee, Edwin B., 23 
 19-Leland, Annie C., 32 
 Leonard, Celia, 14 
 
 Keziah, 12 
 
 Polly, 12 
 
 Leslie, Charles E., 17 
 Lewis, W. K. & Bros., 20 
 Lexington, Mass., 4-6 
 Lincoln, Rev. Sumner, 10 
 17,Lockman, Elizabeth H., 28 
 Loveweil, Jesse, 9 
 
 Leonard, 9 
 Luther, Mary R., 20 
 Lynde, William S., 10 
 Lynn, Mass., 32 
 
 McKay, Isabella H., 26 
 Maiden, Mass., 5, 9
 
 50 
 
 Maltman Family, fi, 38 
 Mansfield, Mass., 35 
 Harden, Mrs. Martha, 14 
 Masonic Lodges, Members of, 
 28 
 
 Maybry, Samui'l D., 13 
 Mayhew, Daniel M., 12 
 Mead, Josephine, 35 
 
 Lovlna, 10 
 Mellen, Joshua, 7 
 Mellor, Susannah, 23 
 Theresa P., 34 
 Merriam, Mary, 5 
 Messinger, Josephine L., 21 
 Milford, Mass., 11, 13, 18, 30, 
 Miller, Elias C., 13 
 Milton, Mass., 5, 7, 13 
 Morse, Lydia F., 23 
 
 Susan A., 14 
 Morton, Mary A., 28 
 Munroe, Martha, 4 
 William, 4 
 Munsey, Laura, 20 
 Murray, Grace, 23 
 Myers, Charles H., 24 
 
 Neal, Mary Ann, 19 
 Neigher, Lottie C., 36 
 New Bedford, Mass., 35 
 New Hampshire Comeys, 14, 
 New York City, 21, 28, 29, 32 
 Newton, Mass., 8, 32 
 Nichols, Emily A., 16 
 Norwood, Mass., 19 
 
 Parkhnrst, Isaac, 4 ' . 
 
 Parry, SamueT, 4 *. T, $ 
 
 ' P-arsons, John, 10 
 Partridge, Charles, 15 
 Pawtucket, R. I., 18 
 Perkins, Robert R., 15 
 Philip's War, 3, 40 
 Pierce, Abigail J., 19 
 Carrie, 23 
 Cilecius M., 23 
 Jonas, 4 
 Pine, Ida, 23 
 Pollard, Charlotte M., 28 
 Pomeroy, Vesta L., 28 
 Porter, Anna, 8 
 Prentiss, Abner, 7 
 Prescott, William A., 16 
 Proctor, Frank G., 31 
 Putnam, Sally, 10 
 
 Quimby, Sylvanla R., 30 
 Quincy, Mass., 19, 21, 34 
 
 10, Randell, William, 17 
 , 34 Reading, Kan., 9 
 
 Itri'd, Mary Ann, 9 
 
 Rich, Sarah D., 21 
 
 Richardson, Hannah, 6 
 
 Samantha G., 27 
 
 Robbing, Mrs. Mary A., 9 
 
 Robinson, Hannah, 12 
 
 Rev. Orrin L., 17 
 
 Rockwood, Esther E., 26 
 
 Lucinda, 27 
 31 Rogers, John W., 22 
 
 Rooney, Alice, 17 
 
 Roscoe, Byron T., 22 
 
 Rounds, Alonzo C., 13 
 
 Rowell, Kate E., 20 
 
 Sandwich, Mass., 23, 24 
 Sargent, Thomas, 6 
 Sawin, Otis D., 11 
 
 Sarah W., 17 
 Sawyer, Henry J., 13 
 Scott, Emma, 18 
 
 Ophelia H., 32 
 Seger, Eliza A., 10 
 Seymour, Wis., 10, 17 
 25 Sharon, Mass., 5, 20 
 
 Shumaker, James H., 28 
 Sibley, Maria, 27 
 Skinner, Charlotte, 18 
 
 Harriet L., 23 
 Sj&alley & Comey, 24 
 Smith, Abbott S., 20 
 
 Benjamin, 4 
 
 College, 34 
 
 Ebenezer, 6 
 
 Lillian, 19 
 
 Somerville, Mass., 20, 27 
 Spaulding, Benjamin H., 13 
 Spinney, Louise, 23 
 Spooner, Asa, 15 
 Spring, William T., 29 
 Stanyan, Newell, 15 
 Steadman, Fanny L., 28 
 Stearns, Henry L., 18 
 Stewart, Lillian A., 27 
 Stoddard, Mrs. Harriet, 9 
 Stokes, Nicholas, 10 
 Stone, Miriam, 11 
 Stowell, Alice M., 24 
 Stratton, Joel A., 9 
 
 Sndbury, Mass., 3, 40 
 Sumner, Abigail, 5 
 
 Taft, Ursula, 18 
 Temple, George W., 18 
 
 Miranda J., 30 
 
 Welcome, 18 
 Tenney, Irene W., 26 
 Thompson, Mary, 12 
 Thornton, Jennie, 10 
 Tibbetts, Uriel, 11 
 Towne, Lydia, 15 
 
 Mary E., 27 
 Trow, Ruth, 9 
 Tufts College, 34 
 Turner, Velzora, 25 
 Tuttle, William S., 15 
 
 Upton, Mass., 24 
 
 Van Amringe, William B., 20 
 Vining, Fanny R., 11 
 
 Walden, Lydia, 23 
 Wales, William B., 12 
 Walker, Hannah, 18 
 Ward, John, 17 
 
 Samuel Delos, 10 
 Waseka, Minn., 11, 17 
 Watts, Hannah (1743-1767), 5 
 Hannah (1767-1829), 9 
 Wells, Elizabeth, 7 
 West, Margaret, 17 
 Westboro, Mass., 19, 24 
 Westford, Mass., 22 
 Westminster, Mass., 4, 6, 7, 16 
 Wetherbee, Albert, 14 
 Wheelock, John, 7 
 Whipple, Arbelia, 27 
 Ella A., 18 
 
 Whiting, William S., 22 
 Wilcox, Burgess S., 19 
 Williams, Erastus F., 23 
 
 William, 4 
 Wilmot, N. H., 14 
 Winship, Maria, 16 
 Woburn, Mass., 3, 6, 33 
 Wood, Augusta, 33 
 
 ,Lucinda F., 22 
 
 Moses, 10 
 
 Woods, Benjamin O., 15 
 Woonsocket, R. I., 28 
 Worcester, Mass., 11, 25, 28, 29, 34 
 Wrentham, Mass., 5, 13, 23, 24, 31
 
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