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Author: Comstock, William

Biography:

COMSTOCK, William (fl 1827-75)

Born about 1804 to Nathan and Elizabeth (Emmet) Comstock, Quakers, in Nantucket. The family moved to New York City about 1809. His elder brother Samuel (1802-1824) was a notorious mutineer who led a massacre of all the officers on the whaler Globe in 1824 and was shot by fellow crewmen in his turn: William published a biography of him in 1840. Other publications after 1840 include plays in favour of temperance. (WorldCat 6 May 2018) HJ

 

Other Names:

  • W. Comstock
 

Books written (1):

The Intolerants. A Drama. Three First Acts of Things among Us; as Performed at the ****** ****** with More Effect than Applause.

Philadelphia: for the purchaser, 1827