Comfort CHAFFE

1738 - 1811  (73 years)

• Name	Comfort CHAFFE  [1]
  	He had a dark complexion, black eyes and hair, was tall and well proportioned. he probably moved to Wales, a district of Springfield, Mass., with his parents in 1755, and was living there at the time of his marriage in 1758. he was a farmer. May 26, 1759, "Comfort Chaffee yeoman of Wales" bought seventy-five acres of land in the township of Springfield, for L75. As Wales was then a district of Springfield, this land may have been in what was then known as Wales, and which was shortly afterwards made part of Wilbraham. March 19, 1765, Comfort Chaffee was chosen "Deer Reaves" in Wilbraham. He was chosen "Hog Reaves" march 13, 1770, in South Wilbraham, and May 13, 1770, the records of the Congregational church there state that he and his wife, with six others, occupied pew number eighteen. April 6, 1773, Comfort and Mary (Bliss) Chaffee sold for L22, 2s., to Nathaniel, David, Jonathan, and Thomas Bliss of Wilbraham, forty-seven acres of land there, it being part of the estate of the late Nathaniel Bliss, father of Mary. A committee of which Comfort Chaffee was one appointed in Wilbraham, January 2, 1775, to prevent the killing of deer from January 1st to August 1st of that year. His name appears as a Private on the roll of Captain James Warriner's company of Wilbraham "who marched in defence of American Liberty on ye Alarm last April occasioned by Lexington Fight." He served ten days, travelled one hundred and eighty miles, and received L1, 9s. 2d., payment. His further Revolutionary service is as follows: "Chaffee, Comfort. Private, Capt. James Shaw's co., Col. Charles Pynchon's regt.: enlisted Sept. 24, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777; service, 32 days, travel included; company detached to join Gen. Gates's army." (Massachusetts Soldier and Sailors in the War of the Revolution.) During his service, Comfort and another man discovered a deserted British vessel floating near the water's edge. They boarded it and finding it loaded with provisions and ammunition, turned it over to the Government. may 25, 1778, Comfort Chaffee was chosen one of the Constables for Wilbrahan. October 18, 1779, he received L20 as bounty and mileage money for soldiers.... Inscription: From the Chaffee Genealogy by Wm. Chaffee: "In memory of Mr. Comfort Chaffe who died June 4, 1811 Aged 74 Years. Let not the dead forgotten lie Lest you forget that you must die death is a debt to nature due Which I have paid and so must you." Find A Grave [1]
  Birth	20 Mar 1737/8	Woodstock, Massachusetts, now Connecticut   [1]
  Christening	2 Jul 1738	First Congregational Church, Woodstock, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Jun 1811	South Wilbraham, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I73591	Main Tree
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2014

  
  

  Father	Joseph CHAFFE,   b. 17 Jan 1701/2, Swansea, Bristol Co., Massachusetts d. 15 Mar 1760 (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Hannah MAY,   b. 1 Oct 1704, Swansea, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F29825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary BLISS,   b. 21 Nov 1734   d. 15 Apr 1774 (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	19 Jan 1758  [1]
  Family ID	F29824	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Hepzibah GREEN,   b. Abt 1735, Wales, Springfield Twp, Massachusetts d. 19 Dec 1828 (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	5 Jun 1808	South Wilbraham, Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F29821	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2014

  
  

• Headstones

  Comfort Chaffe Headstone Comfort is the son of Joseph Chaffe and Hannah May. He is buried in the Old hampden Cemetery in Hampden, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. Created by: KBrownst Photo Added by: Angie Robinson

  
  

• Sources

  [S5743] William H. Chaffee, The Chaffee Genealogy; Also Certain Lineages from Families in the United States, Canada and England, not descended from Thomas Chaffe 1635-1909, (The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers).