Comfort Tyler
| Comfort Tyler | |
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| Born |
February 22, 1764 Ashford, Connecticut, United States |
| Died | August 5, 1827 (aged 63) Montezuma, New York, United States |
| Burial place | Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York |
| Occupation | Early settler, surveyor and engineer, instrumental in the development of Onondaga County |
| Spouse(s) | Deborah Wemple (died 1785) Elizabeth "Betsey" Brown (died October 21, 1827) |
Comfort Tyler (February 22, 1764 - August 5, 1827), one of the original settlers of modern Syracuse, New York, brought his family in the spring of 1788 to what became the hamlet of Onondaga Hollow on the future Seneca Turnpike, south of the city's center today. He joined Asa Danforth and Ephraim Webster, the first whites to settle there, who had obtained permission to live there from the Onondaga. Tyler built the more ambitious house in Onondaga Hollow and contributed his engineering skills to the development of Central New York.
Comfort Tyler was a major figure in the early development of Onondaga County.
He was born on February 22, 1764 in Ashford, Connecticut, and was fourth of seven brothers.
In the year 1777, at age 13, he resolved to enlist in the Continental Army as a soldier in defense of his country. At age 14, he entered the army with his father's consent and served in the American Revolutionary War with most of his duty in and about the fortress of West Point.
In 1783, he became a surveyor and school teacher at Caughnawaga, New York on the Mohawk River.
His first wife was Deborah Wemple (died 1785), half-sister of General Nicholas Herkimer. She died soon after they married, leaving one daughter, Deborah Tyler, who married Cornelius Longstreet, and was the mother of Cornelius Tyler Longstreet of Syracuse, New York. Comfort Tyler married a second time to Elizabeth "Betsey" Brown, who died on October 21, 1827, at age 58 not long after her husband. Together, they had a daughter named Mary Tyler Olmstead who settled in Cohoes, New York.
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