- Dr.
Comfort STARR, son of Thomas Starr, bp. Cranbrook, Kent, England, 6 July
1589, d. Boston, Mass., 2 January 1659/60, married 4 October 1614 at
Northiam, Sussex, England, Elizabeth WATTS, b. ca. 1595, d. Boston, Mass.,
25 June 1658, aged 63. Dr.
Comfort arrived in New England in 1635 on the Hercules.
- Elizabeth
STARR, bp. Ashford, Kent, England, 3 June 1622, d. Boston, Mass., 4 June
1704, m. by 1642, John FERNISIDE, b. ca. 1611, d. Boston, Mass., 13
November 1693.
- Hannah
FERNISIDE, b. Boston, Mass., 8 March 1650, d. after 13 May 1726, m. 1st
ca. 1672, Captain Reuben HULL, bp. Launceston, Cornwall, England, 23
January 1649, d. Porstmouth, N.H., between 23 December 1689 and 30 October
1693, the dates on which his will and written and proved, 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, 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, son of Captain George
and Hannah (Alcock) SNELL [George Snell’s first marriage].
- Jane
SNELL, b. Portsmouth, N.H. 28 January 1696/7, d. Rochester, N.H. after
1766, m. first Tristram HEARD, b. Dover, N.H., 26 March 1695, d. there 31
August 1723, son of Tristram2 (John1) and Abigail
(---) HEARD. Jane married
second Benjamin HAYES, b. Dover, N.H. 6 September 1700, d. Rochester,
N.H., 16 May 1756, son of John and Mary (Horne) HAYES.
Jane was the beginning of an article I wrote: Heard-Hayes Family Bible: An Annotated Guide, New Hampshire Genealogical Record 23 (2006):15-26. That article takes the line down three more generations. I am six more generations further for a total of 14 generations between Dr. Comfort Starr and myself.
Sources:
Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-35 Vol. VI (R-S) (Boston, NEHGS, 2009).
Genealogical Dictionary of
ME and NH by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton
Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis (Portland, 1939, reprinted Baltimore, 1988).
Both of these works rely totally on primary sources and can be cited as is.
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