Comfort Fairbanks

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Comfort Fairbanks, daughter of Jonathan Fairbanks and Sarah (…), was born at Sherborn, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, 30 October 1690.1 She died at Preston, Connecticut, 6 July 1740.2,3

Comfort married Ensign Joseph Billings, son of William Billings and Hannah Sterry, at Sherborn 6 October 1712.4,5

Comfort is widely reported to be Comfort Denison, but there appears to be no evidence for the statement which seems to first appear in the cited Register article of 1927.2,3

Family

Ensign Joseph Billings b. 28 Jan 1691/92, d. 9 Apr 1763
Children
  • Amy Billings3 b. 18 Dec 1712, d. Jan 1787
  • Sarah Billings+3 b. 27 Dec 1714, d. 25 Feb 1794
  • Joseph Billings3 b. 17 Dec 1716, d. bef. 11 Dec 1797
This person was last edited on1 Jan 2025

Citations

  1. [S2716] Sherborn, Massachusetts, Births, marriages, and deaths: 1663-1810, img 14, FHL microfilm 872789, img 91, further cited as Sherborn Vital Records.
  2. [S1401] Issues and Problems with the Billings Genealogy, online http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wdwrth/Billings/Issues.html, Mary Montagu French Moore: Questions on the family of Joseph Billings (1690-1763), accessed Nov 2009. Hereinafter cited as Billings Problems.
  3. [S1400] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 81 (Apr 1927): 156-178, at 140, further cited as Spencer-Mounsey, "Billings Family of Connecticut."
  4. [S2716] Sherborn Vital Records, img 91; FHL #872789.
  5. [S2717] Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America, 1633-1897 (Boston, Massachusetts: s.p., 1897), 49, further cited as Fairbanks, Fairbanks Genealogy.