Nickname: Comey (‎02 Jan 2024), died ‎± 1671

Born ‎± 1633 at ,, Scotland, United Kingdom, died ‎21 Apr 1676 at Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States‎, age approximately 43 years

When or whence he came is not known with certainty, but the family tradition is that he was a Scotchman. His son John married the daughter of a Scotchman and this same John, in 1728, conveys a certain right in Concord "which belongs to the Tenement where my Hon father David Comey formerly dwelt in the Southerly part of Concord known by the name of Scotland." So it seems there was a
part of Concord known as Scotland, perhaps because a Scotch colony had settled there. The name is generally spelled Comee until the nineteenth century, when there was a division, about half adopting the form of Comey. On the old records it is occasionally spelled, or misspelled Comy, Come, Comi, Comay and Coomy.

About 1664 David Comee moved from Woburn to Concord (Mass.), where he lived until his death. He was killed, April 21, 1676, by King Philip's Indians in the adjoining town of Sudbury, in one of the bloodiest of Indian encounters.

- taken from Allen Bent article in NEHGR v50, "Comee-Comey Family."