An American Family History

also spelled Cumstock

Levi Comstock was born about 1769 in West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island. He was the son of John and Lydia Comstock.

He married Abigail Richardson Griffin.

Levi and Abigail's children probably included:

William Comstock (1790, did not marry Mary Hoadley),
Aaron Comstock (1791, married Clarissa Fish),
Mary (Polly) Comstock (1793 married Alanson Baxter),
Joseph Richardson Comstock (1794/95, married Mary (Polly) Hogaboom),
Phebe Comstock (1801, married William Mallory, son of Daniel Mallory), and
Levi Comstock (1803, married Jane Forrester).

In 1791, Levi signed a petition in Thurlow, Hastings County, Ontario requesting that the township be laid out in lots.

Levi received the north part of lot 20, concession 1 in Yonge.

In 1805 the widow, Abigail Comstock was living in Yonge Township.

According to Douglas McCalla in Consumption Stories: Customer Purchases of Alcohol at an Upper Canadian Country Store in 1808-1809 and 1828-1829, Abigail Comstock bought 6 quarts of whisky during the 1808-9 year. He also said that

Widow Abigail Comstock, head of a family of five with twenty acres under culture, bought sixteen yards of four kinds of fabrics worth twenty dollars during the year in yardage, Comstock's purchases were just above the median amoung those buying fabrics. . .

Smith Burtch, Abel Root, Ruggles Cain, and Levi Comstock were early settlers on Grenadier Island.