Samuel B. Comstock (1802 - aft. 1824)

Born 8 Oct 1802 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Died after 25 Jan 1824 after age 21 in Marshall Islands

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Biography

Samuel was born on 8 October 1802 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was the son of Nathan Comstock and Elizabeth Emmett.^[1]

Samuel was a 22 year old boatsteerer (harpooner) aboard the whaleship Globe, and was the instigator of the mutiny, which occurred on January 26, 1824, near Fanning Island, 900 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands. Captain Thomas Worth and three other officers were killed. Samuel was killed later by another mutineer.

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDZ-YLB : accessed 25 January 2016), Samuel Comstock, 08 Oct 1802; citing NANTUCKET,NANTUCKET,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823703 IT 1-2.

• Wikipedia: Globe_(whaleship) Mutiny of the Globe
• Heffernan, Thomas Farel ; Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
• Comstock, Cyrus. A Comstock Genealogy, Descendants of William Comstock of New London, Conn., Who Died After 1662 (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1907) Page 138