Person:Comfort Peters (1)

From the History of Bradford County (PA) 1770-1878, The Reverend Mr. David Craft, Columbia Township as found at www.rootsweb.com/~pabradfo/craft/columdc.htm: Comfort Peters settled on the Pettibone farm the same year, and Sheldon Gibbs came in 1809 to the same neighborhood. Both of these men were basket-makers, and peddled their wares through the country round a bout, even as far away as Oswego. For this reason the road on which they lived was called Basket street, and still rettains its early cognomen, and is the road leading from C. H. Ballard's to Austinville. Phineas Jones came in about the year 1808. He was a brother of Mrs. Comfort Peters, and came from the same locality. He removed in 1818 into central New York.

Under Revolutionary War soldiers of Bradford County, Comfort is listed as from Columbia T. His place of death is listed as Swansey, NH.

In 1830, Comfort and a wife are shown in the census as being 70-80 yrs. old and in Columbia T. Cenus, page 8.

Also, from PIONEER AND PATRIOT FAMILIES, BRADFORD CO., PA, 1800-1825 by Clement F. Henerly, vol 11, Towanda, PA, Brandford Star Print, 1915 is the following about Comfort: "Comfort Peters, who enlisted in the Revolutionary war at Douglass, Mass., came to Columbia township in 1808. He was a noted basket-maker and supplied a wide section of country with his handiwork. In 1831 he sold to Daniel Gregorg and returned East; died April 9, 1833 at Swansey, NH, aged 78. Comfort S., Genebeth, and Wilmot Peters were evidently his sons."

1. ↑ Henerly, Clement F. Pioneer & Patriot Families, Bradford Co., PA, 1800-1825. (Name: Towanda, PA, Bradford Star Print, 1915;).