{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox person |birth_date = {{birth date|1740|1|18}} |birth_place = Smithfield, Rhode Island |death_date = {{death date and age|1819|4|10|1740|1|18}} |death_place = Corinth, New York |module = {{Infobox AM | embed = yes | constituency_AM = Saratoga County | assembly = New York State | majority = <!--Can be repeated up to 16 times by adding a number--> | term_start = {{Date| July 1, 1792|MDY}} | term_end = {{Date| June 30, 1804|MDY}} | predecessor = Sidney Berry | successor = William Carpenter }} {{Infobox state senator | embed = yes | state_senate = New York State | district = Eastern | term_start = {{Date| July 1, 1805| MDY}} | term_end = {{Date| June 30, 1809| MDY}} | predecessor = {{unbulleted list| Jacobus Van Schoonhoven |Abraham Van Vechten}} | successor = {{unbulleted list| John Stearns| Daniel Paris}} | prior_term = }} {{Infobox military person |embed = yes |embed_title = Lieutenant Colonel of 1st Rhode Island Regiment |allegiance = United States |unit = 1st Rhode Island Regiment |branch = Continental Army |service_years = 1776–1786 |rank = Lieutenant colonel |battles_label = Conflict |battles = {{tree list}} * American Revolutionary War ** Battle of Red Bank {{tree list/end}} }} }}
'''Adam Comstock''' (January 18, 1740 – April 10, 1819) was an officer in the American Revolution, and a politician from New York.
Comstock was born on January 18, 1740, in Smithfield, Rhode Island. On April 10, 1763, he married Margaret MacGregor (September 8, 1745 – March 3, 1807) in Cranston, Rhode Island. They had ten children.
Adam Comstock enlisted in 1776 as a Major in Christopher Greene's Rhode Island Regiment and was later promoted to lieutenant colonel . At the Battle of Red Bank in New Jersey, he assumed command when the commanding officer was wounded and won the battle. He also served with Washington's army at Valley Forge.<ref name=Haden>{{cite web|last1=Haden|first1=Kay|title=Some Descendants of William Comstock|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/comstk/b6632.html#P6632|website=Rootsweb|accessdate=June 6, 2016}}</ref>
After the Revolution Comstock moved with his family in 1786 to Corinth, New York and built the first frame house in the town. He was elected to the New York State Assembly from Saratoga County in 1791 and served twelve years. In 1805 he was elected to the New York State Senate and served for four years. He also served as justice of the peace, associate judge of the New York Court of Common Pleas, had a seat on the Council of Appointment, and served as a presidential elector.<ref name=Dunn>{{cite book|last1=Dunn|first1=Violet B.|title=Saratoga County Heritage|date=1974|publisher=Saratoga County}}</ref>
Adam Comstock died on April 10, 1819, in South Corinth, New York<ref name=Haden /> and is buried in the Comstock Cemetery there.
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