Brief Life History of Comfort
When Comfort Fish was born on 9 February 1682, in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Daniel Fish, was 20 and her mother, Abigail Mumford, was 20. She had at least 1 son with William Bradway. She died in 1752, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, at the age of 70.
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- Comfort Fish, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Legacy NFS Source: Comfort FISH - death:
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1703
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as it was from June 22, 1703, when it created the counties of Providence Plantations and Rhode Island, to June 16, 1729, when Providence Plantations County was renamed Providence, Rhode Island County was renamed Newport, and Kings County was created from Providence.
1723 · Pirates Hung in Newport
On July 17, 1723, twenty-eight pirates are hung in Newport, Rhode Island.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English fish, fisch, fisk ‘fish’ (Old English fisc, Old Norse fiskr), a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish.
Americanized form of German Fisch , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. The surname of Jewish and German origin is also found in Britain.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Poisson ‘fish’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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