There was a Samuel Comstock , part owner of a frigate, or barque, called the Swallow. This Comstock seems to have been involved in privateering.
"In the fall of September 1654, a Samuel Cromstock and Anna Tchuys were arrested and convicted in New Amsterdam, for adultery." Both were apparently already married. There has been no marriage record found. This is where the pirate story comes from though. Others will need to determine if it is the same couple found at Providence in 1654, though the date overlap makes me believe not.
However, the Ann I am showing here does appear to be the Ann Smith, Thomas Wallen ran away with.
1654 |
Samuel
Comstock was in Providence, married to Ann -_____ *
|
1654 |
Samuel
Comstock bought house and lot in Providence from John Smith
|
1660 |
Samuel Comstock has died. He and Ann have two sons, Samuel
(Jr.) and Daniel |
1660 |
Ann married a John Smith.
He was the son of John, the mason.* Town records call him Jameco |
1660 |
March 9 -John has died Town
council took action about the estates of Samuel Comstock &
John Smith, deceased,
|
1661 |
April
27 -Ann
Smith ,widow, ask the town to secure the inheritance of her son,
John Smith. |
1661 |
April
27- Robert Colwell * became
guardian of Margaret Smith, daughter of Jameco (John) Smith (and
Unknown)
|
1661 |
May 4 -Ann
Smith sold house & home share of former husband, Samuel
Comstock, to Roger Mowry |
1661 |
Dec. “the
said Tho:Walling being now departed the Towne;”
Mary Wallen petitions for relief to take over
the care of a young boy named "Ann Comstock's son"
Daniel .
“
the Towne shall from this day take care of the said Ladd” he
was later apprenticed to William Carpenter |
1663 |
Mary Wallen asking for help again “Towne
being doubful of the returne of the said Thomas Walling” |
1664 |
October
Thomas Wallen indicted & fined 40 schillings Committing
Fornication with Ann
Smith, late of
Providence ( this may be Boston area)
|
1666 |
October
Thomas Wallen indicted “that he did Asault beate and Wound
Robert Colwell”
|
1667 |
May-
Mary
Walling & children “left destitute by the sayd Thomas
Walwin who
is supposed to be run away with Robert Colwell's wife.
|
1667 |
July- Court
granted Robert Colwell's petition for divorce from Margret
(White) Colwell |
1683 |
March 17 -John
Smith petitions for his inheritance from his father John Smith's,
” sometime knowne by the name of Jameco” estate. John sold the
25 acres to Samuel Comstock |
|
* there was charge of adultery between a Samuel Comstock with
Ann Tuchys but not clear if this was the same pair. |
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*John Smith ,the mason ,father of Jameco, bought land from
Thomas Wallen * Could Robert Colwell be related to the first unknown wife of John "Jameco" Smith? |