Comfort Wilcox

1757 - 1839  (81 years)

• Name	Comfort Wilcox
  Birth	17 Feb 1757	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	6 Mar 1757	Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Feb 1839	Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire   [1, 4]
  Burial	East Lempster Cemetery, Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire   [4]
  Person ID	I27540	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP
  Last Modified	1 May 2020

  
  

  Father	John Wilcox,   b. 1 Aug 1712, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 21 Oct 1795, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Hannah Wilcox,   b. 24 Dec 1718, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 13 Nov 1807, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	6 Jul 1738	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F16448	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Patty Banks,   b. 4 Aug 1784, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 5 Jun 1839, Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1803	Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire   [1, 7]
  Children	+ 1. John Banks Wilcox,   b. 21 Jun 1805, Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire d. 6 Jan 1886, South Haven, Van Buren, Michigan (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F16446	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Revolutionary War soldier. Two months in Capt. Blake's company, Col. Wadsworth's regiment, Connecticut militia. Six months in Capt. Churchill's company, Col. Sage's regiment, stationed at Governor's Island until the British took New York City; thereafter in Harlem and New Rochelle until discharged. Enlisted 1779 in Capt. Alley's company, Col. Sage's regiment, where he served three weeks at New Haven doing guard duty when it was supposed that the English were about to land.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3900] Orion J. Wilcox and Emma Janette Fellows: Their Ancestors and Descendants by Fred D. Clark. Privately published, 2004. [S3964] Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850, on familysearch.org. [S4063] Bushnell Family Genealogy: Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut by George Eleazar Bushnell. Nashville, Tennessee; dated 1945, but clearly, from internal evidence, published no earlier than 1948., date only. [S4071] Find a Grave page for Comfort Wilcox. [S2230] Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, on americanancestors.org. In print as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, ed. Lorraine Cook White. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994-2002. [S4064] Find a Grave page for Hannah Wilcox Wilcox., year only. [S4072] Find a Grave page for Patty Banks Wilcox., year and place only.