Comfort Sands

Comfort Sands (1748 Cow Neck, Long Island - 1834) was an American merchant, banker and politician.

Life

Sands was a member of the New York Provincial Congress, the body which appointed him the first New York State Auditor-General in 1776. He resigned the office in 1782. In 1784, he became one of the first directors of the Bank of New York at its incorporation. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from New York County in 1784-85, 1788 and 1788-89. He was President of the New York Chamber of Commerce from 1794 to 1798.

Family

The poet Robert Charles Sands was his son. U.S. Representative Joshua Sands was his brother.

Sources

• History of the Bank of NY, in New York Times on August 8, 1878
• His brother Joshua, at Brooklyn history
• Political Graveyard
• Minutes of the NY Provincial Congress
• Google Book: The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• The DUMBO historical project (page 12)

Political offices
Preceded by (none)	New York State Auditor General 1776–1782	Succeeded by Peter T. Curtenius as Auditor

Persondata
Name	Sands, Comfort
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Date of birth	1748
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Date of death	1834
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