Thomas, Leah, 1710 - 1761

Leah Thomas (c. 1710-May 24, 1761) was the daughter of Solomon and Sarah Thomas of Natick, Massachusetts.  She married Jacob Chalcom in 1729.  The couple had at least three children, Jacob, Benoni, and Phenias. Another son Daniel was born before this marriage.  The family lived in Natick in a framed house on an English-style farm.  Their children were literate and were given dowries when they married.  After Jacob's death, Leah inherited the thirty-acre homestead, which they petitioned to sell the land and the money be put to interest on their account.  She then married Job Comecho on December 11, 1754, and had three daughters, Esther, Hepsibeth, and Abigail.  Leah died in the early summer of 1761.  Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Ancestry. O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees, 150-152.  O'Brien, "Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Woman in Eighteenth-Century New England," in Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland, and Ulrike Strasser, eds., Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History (New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 1996).