This version gives all the footnotes.
- Dr. Comfort STARR, son of Thomas Starr, bp. Cranbrook, Kent, England, 6 July 1589[1], d. Boston, Mass., 2 January 1659/60[2], married 4 October 1614[3] at Northiam, Sussex, England, Elizabeth WATTS, b. ca. 1595, d. Boston, Mass., 25 June 1658, aged 63[4]. Dr. Comfort arrived in New England in 1635 on the Hercules.[5]
- Elizabeth STARR, bp. Ashford, Kent, England, 3
June 1622[6], d.
Boston, Mass., 4 June 1704, aged 83[7]
m. by 1642, John FERNISIDE, b. ca. 1611, d. Boston, Mass., 13 November
1693.
- Hannah FERNISIDE, b. Boston, Mass., 8 March 1650[8],
d. after 13 May 1726, m. 1st ca. 1672, Captain Reuben HULL, bp.
Launceston, Cornwall, England, 23 January 1649[9],
d. Porstmouth, N.H., between 23 December 1689 and 30 October 1693, the
dates on which his will and written and proved[10],
son of the Rev. Joseph and Agnes (---) HULL. Hannah married second at Portsmouth ca. 1698, Captain
George SNELL who died there March 1707/8.
- Elizabeth HULL, b. Boston, Mass., 9 September
1673[11], d.
after 13 May 1726, m. ca. 1695, Lt. John SNELL, b. ca. 1667, Portsmouth,
N.H., d. before 3 September 1718 when administration to his estate was
granted[12], son
of Captain George and Hannah (Alcock) Snell [George Snell’s first
marriage].
- Jane SNELL, b. Portsmouth, N.H. 28 January 1696/7[13],
d. Rochester, N.H. after 1766[14],
m. first Tristram HEARD, b. Dover, N.H., 26 March 1695[15],
d. there 31 August 1723[16],
son of Tristram2 (John1) and Abigail (---)
HEARD. Jane married second
Benjamin HAYES, b. Dover, N.H. 6 September 1700[17],
d. Rochester, N.H., 16 May 1756[18],
son of John and Mary (Horne) Hayes.
[1] Cranbrook Parish Registers, FHL #962998 Item 1.
[2] Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths,
1630-1699, Ninth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1883; reprint Baltimore 1978), hereinafter
Boston VRs, p. 71.
[3] Northiam, Sussex, Bishop’s Transcripts, FHL #2186712.
[4] Boston VRs, p. 66.
[5] NEHGR 75:220.
[6] Ashford Parish Registers, FHL #1751481 Item 2.
[7] Boston Deaths, 1700-1799 by Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart (Boston: New
England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999).
[8] Boston VRs, p. 31.
[9] Search for the Passenger of the Mary & John 1630, 17:96.
[10] NH State Papers 31:331.
In his will he refers to “my sister Sarah Ferniside.”
[11] Boston VRs, p. 128.
[12] NH State Papers 32:73.
[13] Ed Wentworth, “Ancient Bible Has Heard, Hayes Family
Records” in The Genealogical Record of Strafford County, N.H., 24[2001]:91-92, hereafter “HH Bible Records.” A
typescript transcription of this Bible at the New Hampshire Historical Society
was used in William Copeley, New Hampshire Family Records (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1994), 318-19,
hereafter “Copeley transcription.”
[14] New Hampshire State Papers, 35:432-33.
[15] Dover Historical Society, Vital Records of Dover,
NH 1686-1850 (Heritage Books, Bowie,
MD, 1990), 29, hereafter Vital Records of Dover.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Vital Records of Dover, 21.
[18] HH Bible Records.
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