- "The Town Council of Providence took action about estates of Samuel Comstock and John Smith deceased, on 9 March 1660. On 4 May, 1661, Anne Smith, of Providence, widow of John Smith, formerly wife of Samuel Comstock, deceased, sold to Roger Mowry the house and home share of her husband, Samuel Comstock. It comprised four acres in a row of houses in the north part of Providence." She was still living in February of 1667.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/comstk/b290.html
The Early Records of the Town of Providence:
Vol I, p.58-59 4 May 1661 Anne Smith, widow, formerly wife unto John Smith and also unto Samuel Comstock sold to Roger Mawrey the house and home share of land (4 acres) which formerly belonged to John Smith, mason, and was purchased of the said John Smith by her husband Samuel Comstock. Land bounded on the North with home share of Robert Colwell and on the South by Roger Mawrey.
discussion from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/comstk/b290.html
When Mary Mowry, widow of Roger & Administrator of his estate sold property to
Stephen Paine of Rehoboth [senior] in New Plimouth Colony, there was a better description of the property of Samuel Comstock. Mary Mowry sold three house Lotts or home Shares, one originally belonging to Daniel Comstock, another belonged to John Smith, the third belonged to Richard Prey. The lots with housing are in"the north part of ...Towne of Providence. Bounding on the south side the home share of Lawrance Willkenson; the north with a home share formerly belonging to Edward Inman, on the East with the Common, or high way & on the west End with the high way, or Towne streete. She also sold to Stephon Paine, one puchase Right of Commoning within the limits of the Towne of Providence, reading so far west ward as the seven mile line and a 25 acres right of Commoning reaching so far West as the said seven mile, and the lands that belonged to the said two Rights of Comming on the East side the seven mile line which was not devided before my said husband Roger "Mawrey" his decease.
1 Sep 1671
Early Record of Providence, Vol. III, p.209-213
2 Sept 1671 Stephen Paine of Rehoboth of Plimouth, sold to Samuel Whipple of Rhode Island & Providence Planatation, three house lots or home shares with dwellings and out houses, in the north part of the Town of Providence. Bounded on the South with the home share of Lawrence Wilkenson, the north by Edward Inman, the East by the Common, or highway, and on the West with the high way, or Town Street. They were purchased by me of Mary Mawrey, Executrix of her deceased husband Roger Mawrey. One of the lots originally belonged to Daniel Comstock, former inhabitant, another to John Smith, inhabitant of Providence, the third did belong to Richard Prey of Providence. Vol. III, p.206-209
John Smith, the Mason, had sold his house lot to Samuel Comstock in 1654. In 1661, Anne, widow first of Samuel, then widow of John Smith, son of the John, the mason, had sold it to Roger Mowry in 1661.
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- This son of John Smith, mason, also named John, and brother to Joseph, was also known as "Jameco". The various tax records of Providence as recorded show five John Smiths in Providence during the pertinent period but one listed sometimes as Jameco Smith, or sometimes as John Smith, mason, Junr., disappears from the lists about 1660/61 and does not reappear again. The other four John Smiths continue to produce records for some years after that date. The tax records alone prove that John Smith, the mason, was not the John Smith married to Anne Comstock.
two of them were John Smith, the miller, and John Smith, the miller's son] and continued to have a presence in Providence many years after Anne Smith presented herself to the Town Council as the widow of John Smith. It was interesting that the John Smiths seemed to be carefully recorded through the years in an effort to keep them separate. It was not until the son, John III, [the mason's grandson] returned to claim his rights that the name Jameco again appeared in the records.
http://moreleaves.blogspot.com/2009/08/comstock-family-oops-part-2-anne.html
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