Comfort Starr (1666 - 1743)

Born 15 Nov 1666 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1 May 1743 at age 76 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Comfort Starr was born 15 Nov 1666 in Boston, Massachusetts^[1][2] or about 1669 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut^[3]

He married Elizabeth Hobson.

Comfort died 1 May 1743 in Guilford, Connecticut.

The year of birth (1669) of Comfort Starr II is taken from the Inventory of the estate of his father, also named Comfort Starr, who died October 1693, in Middletown, Connecticut. The Inventory was taken in December 1693 by William Cheeny, Samuel Collins, and John Hall. The children named are

1. Comfort age 24 years,
2. Joseph 17,
3. Benjamin 15,
4. Thomas 7,
5. Daniel 4,
6. Mary Starr 22,
7. Hannah 20,
8. Rachel 10.

Mary Starr, the widow and mother of these children, presented the Inventory in Court.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Originally published as A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699; Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, 1883.
2. ↑ ibid., p. 101;
3. ↑ Starr ancestry
4. ↑ Starr ancestry

See also:

• Smyth, Ralph. John Sheather of Guilford, Conn., and His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1905) Vol. 59, Page 46
• Pane-Joyce Genealogy, a very detailed and accurate family genealogy.
• Guilford Deaths, 1735-1783 (Connecticut State Library) Page 10
• Guilford (Conn.) Vital Records, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1936) Vol. 13, Page 244.
• Adams, Charles Collard. Middletown Upper Houses, A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, From 1650 to 1800, With Genealogical and Biographical Chapters on Early Families and A Full Genealogy of the Ranney Family (The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, New York) 1908. p. 157; citing archive.org.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #167973507 for Dr Comfort Starr II, 1666-1743, Alder Brook Cemetery, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut