Comfort Willis

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Comfort was a son of John Willis & Elizabeth Hodgkins.

By wife Hannah he had: Joshua Willis; Samuel Willis; Isaac Willis; and Mercy Willis, married Samuel Hall.

He was a Trooper in Philip's War, and left a manuscript, giving an account of one of the skirmishes of the period, which is now unfortunately lost. Death was in 1692 .

Comfort Willis was the son of Deacon John Willis , a trooper in King Phillips War, and father of The Hon. Samuel Willis Col. His wife was Hannah.[1][2]

Appointment as Trooper

Transcription of May 9, 1671 Bridgewater Town Record Book entry appointing Comfort Willis as a trooper:

The 9th of May 1671, the Towne being mett togeyther gott or chose Comfort Willis to be a trooper for the town [nwver] these tearmes as followest namely for five years and to find a horse and all furniture belonging to the horse for such service of trooping only the towne was to find him a paire of pistols & holsters and to deliver them first into his hands and he was to maintain them so if at any time they were out of [chelter] he was to repaire or mend them the whole tearme of time being trooper at his owne cost and charge and he was to have for his trooping if he went to yarmouth twenty shillings and if to plimouth fiveteene shillings and if to Tauntone tenn shillings and Isarel Packar did promise and ingage to serve in the place of a trooper for the towne upon the same tearmes together with Comfort Willis.[3]

Name

Comfort /Willis/

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Comfort Willis (1641 - 1692)

Comfort Willis

Born 14 Jun 1641 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Son of John Willis and Elizabeth (Hodgkins) Willis

Brother of Nathaniel Willis, William Palmer [half], John Willis Jr., Rebecca Palmer [half], Jonathan Willis, Benjamin Willis, Hannah (Willis) Hayward, Elizabeth (Willis) Harvey, Joseph Willis, Sarah (Willis) Ames and Benjamin Willis

Husband of Hannah (Unknown) Willis — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Father of Deacon Isaac Willis and Joshua Willis

Died 1692 in West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 25 Nov 2020 | Created 1 Jul 2011

Sources

↑ A HISTORY OF BRISTOY COUNTY MA ↑ History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, by Nahum Mitchell
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-HRJ?cc=2061550&wc... : 20 May 2014), Plymouth > Bridgewater > Town records 1656-1702 vol 1 > image 35 of 92; town clerk offices, Massachusetts.
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