Christopher Comstock

{{Short description|American settler (1635–1702)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Christopher Comstock

|office=Deputy of the
General Assembly
of the
Colony of Connecticut
from Norwalk[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YCgBAAAAYAAJ/page/n81 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Norwalk]

|term_start=October 1686

|term_end=May 1687

|predecessor=John Platt, Samuel Hayes

|alongside=John Platt

|successor=Samuel Hayes

|term_start2=May 1689

|term_end2=October 1689

|predecessor2=

|alongside2=

|successor2=Samuel Hayes

|term_start3=May 1690

|term_end3=October 1690

|predecessor3=Samuel Hayes

|alongside3=Thomas Seamer

|successor3=Samuel Smith

|birth_date={{birth date|1635|10|07}}[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=francescha&id=I63436 RootsWeb]

|birth_place=Culmstock, Devon, England

|death_date={{death date and age|1702|12|08|1635|10|07}}[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ixYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VnUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3608%2C4296230 The Hour - 350 years of history build faith in future]

|death_place=Norwalk, Connecticut

|restingplace=

|residence=Norwalk, Connecticut

|religion=

|spouse=Hannah Platt (m. October 6, 1663, Norwalk)[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_8661434_000/page/n259 Norwalk v.1]

|children=Mercy, Daniel, Hannah, Abigail, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel Comstock, Nathan, Moses Comstock

|occupation=tavernkeeper

|rank=Sergeant

}}

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Christopher Comstock (October 7, 1635 – December 8, 1702) was an early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1686, May 1689, and May 1690.

Comstock emigrated from England and originally settled in Fairfield in 1654.

On May 29, 1654, Comstock wrote an affidavit about his visiting with a woman named Knapp who was charged with witchcraft and who was later executed. On January 27, 1661, Comstock bought land from Thomas Betts. On September 19, 1692, he was part of the grand jury investigating witchcraft.

Comstock was nominated to be named a Freeman on October 10, 1667.

On October 14, 1686, he was a deputy to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut. On January 16, 1694, he was appointed to a committee to obtain a minister for Norwalk.