Prudence (West) Comstock (1772)

Born 23 Feb 1772 in Tolland, Connecticut

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Biography

Prudence West, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Lathrop) West, was born on 23 Feb. 1772 at Tolland, Connecticut.^[1][2]

She married Thomas Comstock, son of Lancaster, perhaps by 1790.^[3]

She appeared on the census of 11 Sep. 1850 in the home of her son at Newstead, Erie County, New York.^[4]

Census

11 Sep. 1850

Newstead, Erie County, New York

• Gideon Comstock 47 b. MA farmer.
• Locena Comstock 42 b. NY.
• Caroline Comstock (sic - Conklin) 10 b. NY.
• Harriet Comstock (sic Conklin) 8 b. NY.
• Prudence Comstock 84 b. CT.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Prudence West Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection).
2. ↑ A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this Country: Embracing the Descendants, as by Elijah Baldwin Huntington. Page 93.
3. ↑ A Comstock genealogy; descendants of William Comstock of New London, Conn., who died after 1662: ten generations The Knickerbocker Press. New York. 1907. Pages 107,8.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Year: 1850; Census Place: Newstead, Erie, New York; Roll: M432_499; Page: 227A; Image: 135 1850 US Census Gideon Comstock