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Hannah Comstock formerly Parris

Born 1756 in Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Daughter of Elkanah Parris and Grace (Mott) Parris

Sister of Daniel Parris, Caleb Parris, Deborah (Parris) Matteson, Thankful (Parris) Southwick, Huldah (Parris) Buffum and Chloe (Parris) Comstock

Wife of David Daniel Comstock Sr. — married 19 Apr 1792 in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Mother of Amos Comstock, Parris William Comstock, David Comstock Jr., Hannah (Comstock) Phillips and Elisabeth Comstock

Died 19 Apr 1792 at about age 36 in Danby, Rutland, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Hannah Parris was born in 1756 in Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay, daughter of Elkanah Parris (1728–1813) and Grace Mott (1739–1818).

Hannah (35) married David Comstock (38) (born on January 25, 1754 in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island; son of William Comstock and Ann (Spink) Comstock) on April 19, 1792 in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts.

Hannah died on April 19, 1792 in Danby, Rutland, Vermont, United States, aged 35.

HANNAH PARIS COMSTOCK

HANNAH PARIS was born in 1765, and Baptized on May 11, 1765. She was the daughter of ELKANNAH PARIS and GRACE MOTT.

NOTE: per to spelling of the family name: the one reliable source citation record listing Hannah's Baptism, and the one work of genealogical literature (A History of the Comstock Family in America, 1949) both show her maiden name spelled as "Paris". However, in a second notable genealogical literature (The Tilson Family Genealogy) which contains a substantial mention of Hannah's father: Elkanah, the family name is spelled "Parris". The full body of that text is shown further below, in part because it lists Hannah Parris as a daughter of Elkanah Parris and Grace Mott, and mentions Hannah and two of her brothers in regard to witnessing land transactions of her father.

A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America

Page 64

Family #217---551. DAVID COMSTOCK (William, Thomas, Samuel, Samuel, William) born West Greenwich, R. I., Jan. 25, 1754; died Berlin, N.Y., May 11, 1827 (C.B. Comstock Geneal. of 1907 gives Sept. 13, 1855, in error)

Married (1st) June 25, 1778, Rebecca Briggs, b. E. Greenwich, 1756; d. Williamstown, Mass., 1790, an insane suicide;

Married (2nd) April 19, 1792, HANNAH PARIS, daughter of ELKANAH and GRACE (MOTT) PARIS of Williamstown.

DAVID COMSTOCK was a Quaker. He lived at Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. He was a member of the New York Militia. His will was recorded 1827.

CHILDREN

1429. WILLIAM,7 d. young.

1430. ANNA, m. Clark Green.

1431. NATHAN, b. W. Greenwich, R. I., Jan. 3, 1780; d. Lyons, Wisc., Dec. 24, 1868; m. Nov. 10, 1800, Chloe Paris. Family 495.

1432. MERCY, m. Joshua Niles.

1433. AMEY, b. Feb. 25, 1783; m. Samuel Green.

1434. GIDEON, d. age 23; m. Lydia Gardner.

One child d. at 2 years.

1435. LYDIA, d. before 1827; m. Luke Coon.

1436. DEBORAH, d. age 2 or 3 years.

1437. AMOS, b. Berlin, N. Y., April 12, 1794; d. Lapeer Co., Mich., Sept. 13, 1855; m. Nov. 11, 1813 Hannah Upton. Family 496.

1438. PHEBE, d. before 1827; m. Feb. 4, 1814 Benjamin Haight of Chatham. In 1815 they were at Hudson.

1439. HANNAH, b. Petersburg, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., June 21, 1799; d. Lockport, N. Y., July 23, 1832; m. 1817-18 JOSEPH PHILLIPS of Lockport.

1440. WILLIAM PARRIS, b. Berlin, N. Y.; buried at Trenton, N. Y.;

m. (1st) Jan. 5, 1818 Rhoda Upton;

m. (2nd) Roxseana Hiscox. Family 497.

1441. DAVID, b. 1798; d. Shaftsbury, Vt., Jan. 5, 1841; m. Sarah Philips, sister of Hannah’s husband. Family 498.

1442. ELIZABETH, m. Lockport, N. Y., June 10, 1819, Edward Weeks.

1443. THOMAS

1444. ELKANAH, b. Petersburg, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1802; d. Petersburg, Jan. 16, 1806.

1445. A girl, b. 1805.

DAVID COMSTOCK and wife Hannah of Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York, March 3, 1807, deeded land in Williamstown, Mass., to Benjamin Thurber.

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Pages 525, 526, 527, 528

Elkanah Parris, (Thomas, Thomas, John, Thomas) b., son of Thomas and Hannah (Gannett) Parris; married February, 1761, Grace Mott of Scituate, Massachusetts and settled in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Children:

Micah Parris, b.; d. in infancy.

Daniel Parris, b. October 29, 1763, in Williamstown, Mass.

Hannah Parris, b. May 11, 1765, in Williamstown, Mass.•

Caleb Parris, b. September 2, 1766, in Williamstown, Mass.

Deborah Parris, b. Feb. 16, 1770, in Williamstown, Mass.

Thankful Parris, b. in Williamstown, Massachusetts

Huldah Parris, b. in Williamstown, Massachusetts

Phebe Parris, b. in Williamstown, Massachusetts

Chloe Parris, b. in Williamstown, Massachusetts

NOTE: the date shown was Hannah's Baptism date, and could have also been her date of birth, however, that is not expressly shown to be the case.

These births were copied from R. H. Cook's Manuscript of Williamstown—Notes, pages 330-337, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Elkanah Parris was at Williamstown as early as 1753. On December 13 of that year he was in the company of Capt. Elisha Chapin at Fort Massachusetts and served a considerable time, probably to near the close of the war. He returned to his native town, Pembroke, and married his wife at Scituate, returning with her to Williamstown.

Soon after he built a house at the easterly part of the village, near Green River. After the Peace of Paris, 1763, he became a Quaker, and was the only family of that denomination in that town.

In 1765 he was part owner in a saw mill near his home, and owned town lots 30 and 57, also 63. He was one of the proprietors of Williamstown and moderator of meeting, April 13, 1770, and Dec. 17, 1771. About 1772 he built a dwelling at the "Hopper," near Greylock Mt., 5 miles southwest from the village, and moved from his former house to it with his wife Grace and four children. The frame of the house is white oak. The writer had the pleasure of dining in it in 1909. It is now owned by Stephen Bacon, 3d, and four generations of Bacons have dwelt in it. From the census of 1790 it is learned that Elkanah Paris was living within the borders of Williamstown, whether at that place we cannot say. Owing to church and town records being burned, very little can be got to trace the early families of the town. No doubt much of the records could have been restored by church and town through family bibles and those then living. The lack of interest is no credit to Williamstown that it cannot produce better church and town records. The church was seeking to save souls, but could it not at the same time restored a part of the lost records.

So prominent a person as he was in the affairs of Williamstown, it is strange that nothing can be learned of what became of the large family of children and of the going out from this world of the parents, Elkanah and Grace Parris.

Census of 1790: Elkanah Parris, 2 males over 16 yrs., 1 male under 16, 6 females.

At a meeting of the proprietors of Williamstown, lawfully warned and held at the Meeting House in said town, on the 13th day of April, 1770. Voted to choose Elkanah Parris moderator. Voted not to lay out another division of land. Voted to build two pews in the east end of the Meeting House. Voted not to accept the Meeting House as finished. Voted not to relay the meadow lots and fifty-acre lots. Not voted. At a meeting of the proprietors, lawfully warned and held at the Meeting House in Williamstown, Dec. 17, 1771: Voted and chose Elkanah Parris moderator. Voted not to revoke any votes past the 22d of Nov., A. D. 1771. Voted not to allow those proprietors and settlers liberty to settle. Voted in the negative. Also voted not to plan nor lay out their common land. 3d, voted in the negative. 4th, voted in the negative. 5th, voted to call proprietors' meeting formally. 6th, voted in the negative. 7th, in the negative. 8th, in the negative. 9th, voted and chose Isaac Stratton, Jonathon Meach, William Hosford, committee to settle with the proprietors' treasurer and dissolved. Test., Wm. Hosford, Pro. Clerk.

Berkshire Co. Records, book 13, page 481:

Isaac Searles to Elkanah Parris for fifteen pounds. One-quarter part of a sawmill standing on Green River in Williamstown, a distance up said river from the south east corner of house lot No, 57. 22 Feb., 1765. Isaac Searls.

Elkanah Parris to Dr. Jacob Meach, Sept. 2, 1768. Part of Lot 57 in Williamstown, Mass., beg. at northeast corner of said lot, thence running by the town street twenty rods; thence south-easterly, bearing so much to the west as to take two acres of said lot, reserving to myself only the privilege of a road one rod wide above the bank from the logway northward to accommodate the mill that is now standing or mills hereafter built for one quarter part of said mill or mills, and also the privilege to lay the logs that are brought to be sawed at said mill, and no more; and also liberty below the bank to stick up the boards and timber that shall be sawed by said quarter of the mill or mills and carry ye same.

Elkanah Parris.

Book 6, page 289, Berkshire Co. Records, Pittsfield, Mass.

Elkanah Parris to Theodore Boardman, for five pounds: One half of quarter part of a mill spot and dam standing on Green River, a little distance up the said river from the southeast corner of the house lot No. 57, with all the profit privileges and commodities belonging to same, with the privilege of the stream to build or rebuild.

The one-half of the remains that I bought of Searls and all that I reserved to myself on house lot No. 57, viz., mill road and yard.

Aug. 31, 1780. Book 13, page 480. Sworn to May 23, 1781.

Hannah Parris,

Caleb Parris,

Witnesses.

Book 6, page 481, Berkshire Co. Records.:

Asa Johnson to Elkanah Parris, both of Williamstown, in consideration of eight pounds. Land in common that is the undivided right belonging to house lot No. 37, in Williamstown. March 31, 1769.

Asa Johnson.

Elkanah Parris to James Lusk, fifty acres, lot 20, 1st div. in favor of lot 63, for three hundred pounds. May 22, 1781.

Source:

The Tilson Genealogy

From Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, N. E.

1638 to 1911

With brief sketches of the family in England

back to 1066

BY MERCER V. TILSON

Also brief account of Waterman, Murdock, Bartlett,

Turner, Winslow, Sturtevant, Keith and Parris

families, allied with the parents of the Author

https://archive.org/details/tilsongenealogyf00tils

From:

The History and Map of Danby, Vermont

by John C. Williams

Publication date 1869

Publisher Printed by McLean & Robbins

Page 218

PARRIS, ELKANAH, born 1728, from Williamstown, Mass. in 1797, settled on the farm, and near where his grandson, Wesley, now lives. He was originally from Pembroke, Mass., and son of Thomas Parris, whose father's name was also Thomas, who migrated from England during the latter part of the seventeenth century. : He married GRACE MOTT, of Scituate, Mass., and soon after settled in Williamstown, where they remained until the spring of 1797, when they removed to Danby, the country then being comparatively new. The log house in which they lived, stood a few rods west of the present framed dwelling. He was one of the early members of the Quaker society, of exemplary habits and morals. He was a man of considerable wealth and a respectable farmer, and a worthy, peaceable, influential member of community. Although a man of intelligence and ability, he did not take a prominent part in political affairs, and having been considerably advanced in years at the time of settling here. The descendants of Elkanah Parris are quite numerous, many of whom still remain here, while others are scattered throughout this and other states, being men of wealth and prominence, good abilities and education, and of respectability of character.

Mr. Parris died June 10th, 1818, aged 85; his wife August 19th, 1819, aged 81.

The names of their children are as follows:

MICAH, b. and d at Williamstown

DANIEL

HANNAH, b. 1765

CALEB, b. 17G6

DEBRAH, b. 1770

PHEBE, b. 1772

THANKFUL, b. 1773

HULDAH, b. 1779 and

CHLOE, b. 1781.

HANNAH married DAVID COMSTOCK of Berlin, New York. Of her children were

DEBRA

AMOS lived in Adams, Mass.

PHEBE PARRIS settled in western New York

DAVID settled in Adams, Mass.

HANNAH, ELIZABETH settled at Lockport, N. Y.

ELKANAH

THOMAS and

EUNICE.

Phebe married Joseph Dillingham and lived in Middle Granvile, N. Y. He died in 1821.

Chloe m. Nathan Comstock and removed to Luzerne, N. Y. They had three children;

Cyrus, Thankful and Rhoda.

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Source Record Abstract

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Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and

Town Records, 1626-2001

Name:..........Hannah Paris

Event Type:..........Baptism

Event Date:..11 May 1765

Place: Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony,

...British Colonial America

Sex:........................Female

Father:........Elkanah Paris

Mother:....................Grace

Sources

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/a/r/Jesse-Edward-Parris/GENE2-0008.html
Source: John Adams Comstock, A History of the Comstock Family in America (Los Angeles, California: The Commonwealth Press Inc., 1949.)
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Source: FamilySearch Family Tree

Citation text: Hannah Comstock (born Paris) Birth names: HannahHannah Paris ComstockHannah ParrisHannah Paris Gender: Female Birth: May 11 1765 - Williamstown,Berkshire,Massachusetts Marriage: Apr 19 1792 Death: Circa 1830 Parents: Elkanah Parris, Grace Parris (born Mott) Husband: David Comstock Children: Eunice Comstock, Thomas Comstock, Deborah Comstock, Phebe Haight (born Comstock), Elkanah Comstock, Parris William Comstock, David Comstock, Elizabeth Weeks (born Comstock), Amos Comstock, Hannah Comstock Siblings: Huldah Parris, Chloe Comstock (born Parris), Phebe Parris, Daniel Parris, Deborah Parris, Caleb Parris, Thankful Southwick (born Parris), Micah Parris, William Parris Page/URL:

http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-40001/familysearch-family-tree?s=195944211&itemId=428537447&action=showRecord&indId=individual-195944211-21062558
Source: Geni World Family Tree

Citation text: Hannah Comstock (born Paris) Gender: Female Birth: 1765 Marriage: Spouse: David Comstock - Apr 19 1792 Death: Circa 1830 Father: <a>Elkanah Paris</a> Mother: <a>Grace Parris (born Mott)</a> Husband: <a>David Comstock</a> Children: <a>Amos Comstock</a>, <a>Lydia Coon (born Comstock)</a>, <a>Deborah Comstock</a>, <a>Gideon Comstock</a>, <a>William Paris Comstock</a>, <a>Mercy Niles (born Comstock)</a>, <a>Phebe Haight (born Comstock)</a>, <a>Hannah Phillips (born Comstock)</a>, <a>Elizabeth Weeks (born Comstock)</a>, <a>David Comstock</a>, <a>Nathan Comstock</a>, <a>Elkanah Comstock</a>, <a>Thomas Comstock</a> Siblings: <a>Micah Parris</a>, <a>Daniel Parris</a>, <a>Huldah Buffum (born Paris)</a>, <a>Caleb Paris</a>, <a>Deborah Matteson (born Paris)</a>, <a>Phebe Paris</a>, <a>Chloe Comstock (born Paris)</a>, <a>Thankful Southwick (born Paris)</a> Page/URL:

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-292308913/hannah-comstock-born-paris-in-geni-world-family-tree
Source: FamilySearch Family Tree

Citation text: Hannah Comstock (born Parris) Birth names: Hannah ParrisHannah Paris Married name: Hannah Comstock Gender: Female Birth: May 11 1765 - Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States Marriage: Apr 19 1792 - East Hoosick, Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States Death: Non-supported date with conflicted associations - Apr 19 1792 Parents: <a>Elkanah Parris</a>, <a>Grace Parris (born Mott)</a> Husband: <a>David Comstock</a> Children: <a>Deborah Comstock</a>, <a>Eunice Comstock</a>, <a>Thomas Comstock</a>, <a>David Comstock</a>, <a>Elkanah Comstock</a>, <a>Parris William Comstock</a>, <a>Phebe Haight (born Comstock)</a>, <a>Hannah Phillips (born Comstock)</a>, <a>Amos Comstock</a>, <a>Elizabeth Weeks (born Comstock)</a> Siblings: <a>Daniel Parris</a>, <a>Thankful Southwick (born Parris)</a>, <a>Chloe Comstock (born Parris)</a>, <a>Phebe Dillingham (born Parris)</a>, <a>Huldah Buffum (born Parris)</a>, <a>Caleb Parris</a>, <a>Deborah Matteson (born Parris)</a>, <a>Micah Parris</a> Page/URL:

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-428537447/hannah-comstock-born-parris-in-familysearch-family-tree
Source: WikiTree

Citation text: Hannah Parris Gender: Female Birth: 1756 - Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Death: 1785 Father: Elkanah Parris Mother: Grace Parris (born Mott) Sibling: Chloe Comstock (born Parris) Page/URL:

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10109-66663087/hannah-parris-in-wikitree
Source: Baldwin Web Site