Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p170

debts in O. E. and £50 out of his rents in Ashford, or as he spelt it,
Eshitisford, to s. Comfort, and his heirs, the ho. and ld. at Ashford; and
to d. Elizabeth the ld. on wh. her present dwel. ho. is built, from the hi, way
back to the mill pond, and to his d.-in=law, wid. of Thomas. Of this will
Mr. Trask has pub. much larger abstr. than mine, in Geneal, Reg. IX.
223, 4. COMFORT, Boston, s. of the first Comfort, brot. by his f. from
Eng. where he was b. a. 1624, educ. at Harv. Coll. where he took his
A. B. 1647, in the Catal. call. Consolantius, is one of the five fellows
nam. in the Chart. of H. C. in 1650, and soon went home, and was benefic. at
Carlisle, Co. Cumberland, and from that liv. eject. by the
Act of Uniform. 1662, retn. to a preach. station at Lewes, Co. Sussex,
where he d. says Calamy, 1711. COMFORT, Middletown, s. of Thomas
of Charlestown, m. Rahcel Harris, had Comfort, b. 1670; Mary, 1672;
Hannah, 24 Mar. 1674; Joseph, 1676; Benjamin, 1679; Rachel,
1681; Thomas, 1684; and Daniel, 1689; Hinman, 239, mak. his wid.
Mary, when he d. 18 Oct. 1693. But I judge, that he was first of Boston,
here by w. Mary, prob. d. of Joseph Weld, as more exactly our
rec. show, bef. his rem. had Comfort, b. 15 Nov. 1666; Joseph, 7 Mar.
1668, perhaps d. soon; Mary, 14 Mar. 1669, d. soon; and Mary, again,
18 Jan. 1672. Of course this Comfort of Boston might be thot. a
differ. man from him of M.; yet he could hardly be that comfort, the
gr. of Harv. But he may, in spite of Hinman, well be the Middletown
man. COMFORT, Dedham, prob. s. of John of Boston, m. Mary, d. of
the sec. Simon Stone of Watertown, had a ch. bapt. 20 Feb. 1687;
Lydia, 7 June 1688; and Hannah, 6 July 1690; all at Watertown, as
Bond, in Hist. 585, correct. on p. 951, exhibits. ELEAZER, Boston
1664, cooper, s. of the sec. John, by w. Martha had Abigail, b. 26 Nov.
1681; Joseph, 26 Aug. 1687; and Benjamin, 7 Mar. 1692. Of the
earlier w. and a d. that Winsor names, I find no trace. JOHN, Boston,
s. of the first Comfort, prob. b. in Eng. had, says Winsor, been at Duxbury
1643, and Bridgewater 1645, by w. Martha had Comfort, b. 4 Feb.
1662; John, 7 Dec. 1664; Comfort, again, 15 Nov. 1666; and Benjamin,
19 Aug. 1667, prob. rem.; may have had others earlier, and ano.
JOHN, of Boston, housewright, d. in the winter of 1703-4, and admin.
of his small est. was in Jan. 1704 giv. to his s. Eleazer, and I kn. no
more of him. JOSIAH, Danbury, s. of Thomas the sec. prob. the youngest,
had, says Hinman, Benjamin and Comfort. ROBERT, Salem, m. 24
Nov. 1650, Susanna d. of the first Richard Hollingsworth, had Robert,
Richard, and Susanna; and his w. d. 17 May 1665; was a sea capt. m. 30
Dec. 1669, Mary Conklin, had Mary, b. 9 Oct. 1670; Sarah and Hannah,
tw. 22 June 1673; and ano. ch.; was k. by the Ind. in Philip's war, may
have been s. of William of Lynn, and his inv. was prob. at Essex prob. Ct.
on 24 June 1679. His s. Robert d. in two yrs. SAMUEL, New London
1663, m. 23 Dec. 1664, Hannah, d. of Jonathan Brewster, had Samuel,
b. 11 Dec. 1665; Thomas, 27 Sept. 1668;