Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameDr. Comfort STARR 
Birth1589, Cranbrook, County Kent, England3273, p 145,3300, p 1
Baptism6 Jul 1589, Cranbrook, County Kent, England3273, p 145,3806, pp 3, 25, 115 Age: <1
MemoSt. Dunstan’s Church
Removal1635, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts3001, p 319,3273, p 143,3806, p 28 Age: 46
Will22 Apr 16593273, p 147 Age: 70
Burial1660, King’s Chapel Burying Ground, Boston3806, p 115
Death2 Jan 1660, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts3273, p 145,3806, p 115,3807, date only Age: 71
FatherThomas STARR (~1565-<1641)
MotherSusan
Individual Notes
• The Comfort Star who was baptized there [Cranbrook] 6 July 1589 (known from other sources to have been a son of a Thomas Starr, although his father’s name was not given in this entry) was undoubtedly the well-known surgeon of Ashford and of New England who migrated to New England on the Hercules in 1634/5.3806, p 3
• In the early summer of 1635 when the ship Hercules reached Boston, it sailed up the Charles River to the town wharf at Newtowne at the foot of Water (now Dunster) Street. Besides Dr. Comfort Starr, then 46, and his children, Thomas, 19, Mary, 15, and Comfort, 11, and his sister “Truth-Shall-Prevail” (Veritas) Starr, 30, and two men servants, several other families also settled at Newtowne.3806, p 28
• In the early summer of 1635 when the ship Hercules reached Boston, it sailed up the Charles River to the town wharf at Newtowne at the foot of Water (now Dunster) Street. Besides Dr. Comfort Starr, then 46, and his children, Thomas, 19, Mary, 15, and Comfort, 11, and his sister “Truth-Shall-Prevail” (Veritas) Starr, 30, and two men servants, several other families also settled at Newtowne.3806, p 28
Spouses
Birth17 Jun 15903807
Birthabt 15952101, p 703,3346,3300, p 1
Death25 Jun 1658, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts3806, p 9 & p 45,3807, date only Age: 68
Memoage 63 at death
BurialKing’s Chapel Burying Ground, Boston3806, p 115
Marriageabt 1614, England2101, p 703,3273, p 145
Family Notes
• 10 children.3273, pp 147-8
ChildrenThomas (1615-1658)