Pane-Joyce Genealogy
37679. Enoch Arnold.
37680. Mary Arnold.
37681. Zebedee Arnold.
37682. Christopher Arnold.
37683. Comfort Arnold. Born ca 1743 in Smithfield, RI. Comfort died in Fleming, Cayuga County, New York on 23 Mar 1827. Buried in Arnold-Comstock Cemetery, Fleming.
On 22 Dec 1786 Comfort first married Mary Brown (50772) , daughter of William Brown (ca 1709-27 Jan 1756) & Patience Arnold (33636) (ca 1708-9 Sep 1754), in Smithfield, RI.561 Mary died in Fleming, Cayuga County, New York on 7 Sep 1818. Buried in Arnold-Comstock Cemetery, Fleming.

Comfort, son of John Arnold deceased, and Mary, daughter of William Brown deceased, were married by Welcome Arnold, Justice.561
On 19 Dec 1819 Comfort second married Judith Bowen.

Check out the article “Historical Truth, Clothed and Naked: The Peculiar ways of Judith (Bowen) Freeman Arnold,” Nathional Genealogical Society Quarterly, 90 (2002), pages 99–110.

Apparently, Judith’s marriage to her first husband Warren Freeman was dissolved when she married Comfort, but her marriage with Comfort was one of convenience. After his death (and perhaps sometimes while he was alive), she returned to Warren.
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