Individual Details
Gideon Comstock
(4 Nov 1709 - 1801)
This record from Smithfield does not agree with the Comstock books which list this marriage as 1729:
Smithfield Vital Records, Vol 1
Smithfield, 3 Mar 1738/9
Gideon COMSTOCK
Ruth ARNOLD
by Thomas Sayles, Justice of Peace
recorded 18 Feb 1739
Gideon and Ruth were 2nd cousins, once removed.
There are some differences in the births and names as transcribed from Smithfield Births online:
COMSTOCK, Adam s Gideon Ruth 18 Jan 1739/40
COMSTOCK, Alpha d Gideon Ruth 12 Mar 1741/2
COMSTOCK, Ruth d Gideon Ruth 13 Jul 1744
COMSTOCK, Free d Gideon Ruth 14 Feb 1745/6
The Comstock book also states that Gideon married 2nd to Freelove Arnold, widow of Josiah, and third Amey, surname unknown. The only wife known to Josiah was Amey Phillips so likely she was the widow Arnold who married Gideon.
Gideon was on a list of freemen from Smithfield in 1747. A Gideon Comstock was also listed in Providence in 1748. Only one Gideon Comstock was known to be living in Rhode Island at that time.
Gideon was administrator of the estate of his father-in-law Richard Arnold. Richard Arnold had left Rhode Island and was presumed death. Gideon brought suit against Thomas Man, who had married Richard's widow in 1743. Gideon said Man had taken away personal estate of Arnold in the amount of 275 £. Man did not pay and was jailed.
Events
| Birth | 4 Nov 1709 |  | |||
| Marriage | 3 Mar 1738/39 | Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island - Ruth Arnold | | ||
| Marriage | Bef Jun 1749 | Amey Phillips | | ||
| Death | 1801 | |
Families
| Spouse | Ruth Arnold (1723 - 1748) |
| Child | Col. Adam Comstock (1740 - 1819) |
| Child | Alpha Comstock (1742 - ) |
| Child | Ruth Comstock (1744 - 1747) |
| Child | True Comstock (1746 - ) |
| Spouse | Amey Phillips (1723 - 1811) |
| Child | Freelove Comstock (1755 - ) |
| Child | Amey Comstock ( - 1825) |
| Child | William Comstock ( - ) |
| Father | Hazadiah Comstock (1682 - 1764) |
| Mother | Catherine Pray ( - 1728) |
| Sibling | Susanna Comstock (1707 - 1736) |
| Sibling | William Comstock (1708 - 1745) |
| Sibling | Rachel Comstock (1711 - 1806) |
| Sibling | Catharine Comstock (1713 - ) |
| Sibling | Hazadiah Comstock Jr. (1715 - 1801) |
| Sibling | Penelope Comstock (1717 - 1736) |
| Sibling | Anthony Comstock (1719 - 1762) |
| Sibling | Andrew Comstock (1721 - 1738) |
| Sibling | John Comstock (1724 - 1790) |
Endnotes
1. Cyrus B. Comstock, Editor, A Comstock Genealogy; Descendants of William Comstock of New London, Conn. who died after 1662. Ten Generations (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1907) Now available online at FamilySearch Books https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE529637, p.20.
2. Cyrus B. Comstock, Editor, A Comstock Genealogy; Descendants of William Comstock of New London, Conn. who died after 1662. Ten Generations (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1907) Now available online at FamilySearch Books https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE529637, p.20.
3. John Adams Comstock of Del Mar, California, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, (Los Angeles, CA: The Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1949), Family 77.
4. Rootsweb or USGenWeb Online Sources
5. John Adams Comstock of Del Mar, California, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, (Los Angeles, CA: The Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1949), Family 77 Gideon Comstock..
6. Richard H. Benson, The Arnold Family of Smithfield, Rhode Island (Boston, MA: Newbury Street Press, 2009), p.94-95; see footnote.
7. John Adams Comstock of Del Mar, California, A History and Genealogy of the Comstock Family in America, (Los Angeles, CA: The Commonwealth Press, Inc., 1949), Family 77.