Born in Anne Arundel, Maryland
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Joseph Cromwell
— married
1 Dec 1728 in St Margaret's Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland
Descendants 
Mother of
Comfort Cromwell, Nathan Cromwell, Ruth Cromwell, Joseph Cromwell, Joseph Cromwell, Philemon Cromwell, Chloe Cromwell, Stephen Cromwell, Mary Ann (Dorsey) Hill and Richard Cromwell Sr.
Died
at age 77
in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Contents |
Biography
1710 Birth and Parents
Comfort Dorsey was born 3 July 1710 in All Hallow's Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. [1]
She was the daughter of John Dorsey, b. Abt 1682, All Hallow's Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, d. Aft 1735, Baltimore County, Maryland (Age ~ 54 years) and Comfort Stimson, b. 7 Oct 1684, All Hallow's Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, d. 23 Jan 1746/47, Baltimore County, Maryland - Probate (Age 62 years) Her parents married 22 Aug 1702 in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Her parents were both of Middle Neck. [1]
Mackenzie has Comfort as "surname unknown", who married Joseph Cromwell. [2]
1727 Marriage to Joseph Cromwell
About 1727 in Baltimore County, Maryland, she married Joseph Cromwell, b. 21 Aug 1707, Baltimore County, Maryland, d. 12 Oct 1769, Baltimore County, Maryland (Age 62 years) [1]
Joseph Cromwell was born 21 Aug 1707 in Baltimore County, Maryland. [3]
Joseph Cromwell of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was born 21 August 1707. He was the son of William Cromwell of Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1678-1735) and his wife Mary Woolguist.[2]
He was the son of William Cromwell, b. 14 Aug 1678, Baltimore County, Maryland , d. 12 Feb 1735/36, Baltimore County, Maryland - Probate (Age 57 years) His mother was Mary Woolquist, b. 1674, Whorekill Town, Delaware Bay, Delaware, d. Aft 1758, Baltimore County, Maryland (Age > 85 years) His parents married about 1700 in Baltimore County. [3]
Joseph Cromwell died 12 October 1769. [2]
Joseph Cromwell died 12 Oct 1769 in Baltimore County, Maryland [1]
1787 Death
Comfort Dorsey died 12 Jul 1787 in Baltimore County, Maryland [1]
Children
Joseph Cromwell and his wife Comfort had 7 children. [2]
- Nathan, b. 17 March 1731 [2]
- Ruth, born 20 May, 1738, married Ezekiel Towson [2] Ruth Cromwell (1723-1808) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Joseph Cromwell (1700-1769) and Comfort Dorsey (1708-1788) . [4] Ruth Cromwell married Ezekiel Towson (1723 - 1790) who was born in London on 1723 to William Towson (1725-1772) and Ruth Gott (1721-1735). [5] In the early 1700s, Ezekiel and his brother Thomas built a log cabin in the once desolate spot where Susquehannough Indians hunted where the old Towson Theater now stands. [6]
- Joseph, b. 2 September 1741, d. 1782, married Anne Orrick [2]
- Philemon, b. 16 Sept 1743, d. 11 November 1767 [2]
- Chloe, b. 1 May 1746, d. 16 September 1823, married Capt John Cockey [2]
- Stephen, Captain, b. 8 November 1747, d. 10 April 1783, married Elizabeth Murray, who married, second, Samuel Chenoweth. [2]
Comfort was born in 1710. She passed away in 1787.
- Fact: Residence (1710) Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States
- Fact: Burial (1787) Germantown (Montgomery), Montgomery, Maryland, United States of America
- Fact: Christening WESTMINSTER PARISH, ANNE ARUNDEL, MARYLAND
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mike Marshall. Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Comfort Dorsey. Accessed 3/18/2019 jhd
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 George Norbury Mackenzie and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995. Page 108 Accessed 3/18/2019 jhd
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mike Marshall. Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Joseph Cromwell Accessed 3/18/2019 jhd
- ↑ Ancestry.com Family Tree. Owner and sources not specified.Ruth Cromwell 1723 Accessed 3/18/2019 jhd
- ↑ Ancestry.com Family Tree. Owner and sources not specified. Note that the dates provided on this Ancestry site are not workable. Ezekiel Towson 1723 Accessed 3/18/2019 jhd
- ↑ Suzanne Loudermilk. Towson cemetery in poor condition Graveyard: No one seems to have the time or the money to look after the historic burial ground that is said to be the final resting place of 18 Towson family members. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-03-20-1996080007-story.html The Baltimore Sun March 20 1996] Accessed 3/18/2019 jhd
- The Murray Family, Early Vital Records of Ohio, copied by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Robert Barnes, author, May 1966, p. 3
Acknowledgements
- This person was created through the import of Shortened files.ged on 30 December 2010.
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 16 January 2020, 02:39), entry for Comfort Dorsey(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LTZJ-3S7); contributed by various users.
- https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/42564411/person/252122605991/facts
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Comfort by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Comfort:
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Husband & several children overlap. Please note that 1723 dob for daughterRuth Cromwell is at odds with the 1738 date provided in Dorsey-404's bio; the 1738 date is consistent with Cromwell-1086's dob.. Son Nathan is also mentioned in Dorsey-404's list of children, but a profile for him is not set up -- this is certainly Nathan Cromwell.