• 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