McComb, Eleazer, 1740-1798

<b>Eleazer McComb</b><br>
<b>BIRTH</b> 11 Aug 1740<br>
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, USA<br>
<b>DEATH</b> Dec 1798 (aged 58)<br>
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA<br>
<b>BURIAL</b><br>
Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery<br>
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA

<p>Eleazer McComb (August 11, 1740 – December 1798) was an American merchant from Dover, Delaware. He was a delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress from March 1783 until January 1784. He moved to Wilmington, Delaware in 1792 and died there in December 1798.</p>

<p>Eleazer was one of five children of James McComb and an unnamed mother. His parents came to America about 1732 from Ireland, although the family was originally from Scotland. His siblings were: Helena born about 1732 who married Robert Stockton of Princeton; John born 1734 in Princeton who married Mary Davis; Mary born 1736 in Princeton never married; James born 1739 in Princeton who married Brigitha Mott. Eleazer married Lydia Irons. He and his wife died in a yellow fever epidemic in 1798 in Wilmington. Their children were Thomas Irons McComb born 1766, Jennett McComb born 1780 who married Thomas Clayton, Elizabeth McComb, and James Bellach McComb.</p>

<p>Eleazer is pictured as Figure #6 in the John Trumbull painting General George Washington Resigning His Commission.</p>

<p>He is interred at Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery in Wilmington, Delaware.</p>

MCCOMB, Eleazer, a Delegate from Delaware; born August 11, 1740; served in the Revolutionary War as captain of militia; appointed privy councilor in 1779; Member of the Continental Congress, 1783-1784; appointed as one of the commissioners to confer on the subject of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1786; auditor of accounts of the State of Delaware, 1787-1793; moved from Dover to Wilmington about 1792; engaged in commercial pursuits and shipping in Wilmington; director of the Bank of Delaware in 1795; died at Wilmington, New Castle County, Del., in December 1798.

<ul><b>RACES</b>
<li>12/31/1783 DE Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1782 DE Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
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