A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of Colony of Connecticut

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Hinman, R. R., "A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of Colony of Connecticut" (Hartford, 1846 (GPC, 1996)) (http://www.archive.org/details/acataloguenames02hinmgoog).

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Text: DANIEL COMSTOCK m. Paltiah, dau'r of John Elderkin, and had three sons, Daniel, Jr., and eight daughters, who were all baptized by Mr. Bradstreet, in April and Nov., 1671, and Kingsland in 1673, and Samuel in 1677, also Mary, b. April 4, 1685, Ann, b. March 13, 1686-7. John is supposed the ancestor of the Comstocks of Lyme, and Daniel of those at Montville. Daniel's dau'r Bethia m. Daniel Stebbins. Abigail Comstock, of Lyme, m. William Peak, (sic,) June 24, 1679, who settled in Lyme. I am indebted to the industry of Miss Caulkins for many of the above facts. Daniel settled at Montville, and d. in 1683. John, Jr., William, and Samuel, Jr., and John Comstock, 3d. had their ear marks at Lyme, in 1738. Daniel sen'r, presented for a freeman of New London, in Oct., 1669. John Comstock sold land to John Larel, in May 1675. John had land in Lyme, April 2, 1674, and an ear mark the same year, and had children b. in Lyme, viz: Abigail, b. April 12, 1662; Elizabeth, b. June 9, 1665; William, b. Jan., 9, 1669; Christian, b. Dec., 11, 1671; Hannah, b. Feb., 22, 1673; John, b. Sept. 21, 1676; and Samuel, b. July 6, 1678. The death of John, sen'r, is not found, but his widow, Abigail, in 1680, was the wife of Moses Huntly, of Lyme.

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Person	Claim	Date	Detail	Age	Evidence
Daniel Comstock	Freeman	Oct 1669	New London, Connecticut, United States [S607:687]		derivative