Comfort Sands

Comfort Sands (1748 in 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

New York State Comptrollers

Sands* Curtenius Jones Henry Jenkins McIntyre Savage Marcy S Wright Flagg Cooke Collier Flagg Fillmore Hunt Fuller J Wright Cook Burrows Church Denniston Robinson Hillhouse Allen Nichols Hopkins Robinson Olcott Wadsworth Davenport Chapin Wemple Campbell Roberts Morgan Gilman Knight Miller Kelsey Wilson Glynn Gaus Kelsey* Williams Sohmer Travis Wendell Maier Fleming Murphy Tremaine Yates* O'Leary Moore McGovern Levitt Regan McCall Hevesi Sanzillo* DiNapoli

* as Auditor General, as Auditor, * Acting

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 38985479

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