Elizabeth Combs

Disputed identity

There is no evidence her name was “Hannah Barker.” This seems a mixup with a much later woman.

Family

“Richard COMBS I of Hempstead, Queens Co, Long Island, NY” (document attached)

Background.[2] John I (Richard1), Cordwainer, was born aft 1662 (not on 1683 Hempstead Roll), but before 1686 (presumably of age by 1706), probably in Hempstead, Queens Co, NY). John appears in the household of his mother, Elizabeth, on the 1698 Hempstead Census, and in 1706, Thomas COMES (I) of Freehold, Monmouth Co, NJ, apparently John's brother, for £50 in money and land, relinquishes to John COMES of Mad Nans Neck, Hempstead, Thomas' right to land in Hempstead, in which Thomas' mother, Elizabeth, holds a one-third interest (widow's dower rights). In May 1706, John sells this land, his mother now apparently deceased. No further record of any John COMBS is found in Hempstead again until 1740, and it seems likely that he was the John COMBS with wife, Elizabeth, who was in Freehold Records in 1714, and the John COMES of Freehold who purchased and sold land in Freehold in 1716, and also sold land in Hempstead that same year. In Oct 1727, Monmouth Co, NJ records, reference is made to a John COMBS, Cordwainer (shoemaker) from Long Island, and this is the last record that is identifiable as probably that of John COMES I. There was also a John COMBS in Middlesex Co, NJ, but he appears to have been John I's nephew, s/o Thomas I. According to GDAC, he located no further records of any John COMBES I in Hempstead between 1706 to 1740 (not aware, apparently, of the above-noted 1716 deed), but it appears quite possible that John, like his brother, Richard II, returned to Hempstead, New York.

Research Note

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barker-7750 calls her Hannah Barker. However: “web site that tries to link Combs genealogy to DNA results shows Hannah Barker m. Thomas Combs. See #7 under Richard Combs, upper left. http://www.combs-families.org/combs/dna/virtual_archive/#a0066. Fetterly-28 08:15, 9 October 2021 (UTC). Comment: - that’s a much later woman. “7. Thomas COMBS, SR. (c1765-?) m: Hannah Barker/Baker Note: Sources are a family letter, the internet and the COMBS Research Project. Gen 7 spouse's name Hanna's maiden name Barker or Baker?”