Sarah Chandler notes – Sprague, Peckham and Comstock

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Surname/tag: Sprague, Peckham, Comstock, Chandler

Photocopy of an approximately 200-page hand-written booklet by Sarah Almy (Peckham) Chandler (1844 – 1948) Sarah Almy (Peckham) Chandler (1844-1948), written about 1931-5, with three major sections on her ancestors, the Sprague (pp. 2– 85), Peckham (pp. 87-145) and Comstock (pp. 147-183) families, including information up to the time of writing.

She references W. V. Sprague, “Sprague Families in America” (1913), and may have taken much of her information from it.

She also refers to the Peckham Genealogy, presumably the 1922 book "The English Ancestors and American Descendants of John Peckham of Newport, Rhode Island, 1630" by Stephen Farnum Peckham.

Finally, she used "A Comstock Genealogy" by Cyrus Comstock (1907). (Obvious errors in Comstock's entry for Adam Comstock, p.76, were copied as-is by Sarah.)

Her notes on family members from the late 18th century to the early 20th century should be generally reliable. Born in 1844, she would have known much about her recent ancestors and recorded a considerable amount information about even somewhat remote cousins and their families.

In other notes, not included here, Sarah described visits to graveyards; some of the information here was probably gathered in that way.

The pages are numbered from 2 to 197 but there are insertions and a gap in the page numbers. The photocopy consists of 112 sheets (legal-sized) with two pages per sheet. The handwriting is fairly easy to read.

The page numbers on the attached photocopies refer to photocopy sheet numbers. The Sprague section begins at sheet 1, Peckham at sheet 55, and Comstock at sheet 89.

In 1935, Sarah Chandler and her son Willis Chandler visited several graveyards looking for the graves of their Peckham ancestors. Sarah's notes for these visits are in the file "Sarah Chandler later notes on Peckham.pdf."