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0 UR FAMILY'S STA.RBUCK ANCESTRY by George :Edward McConnell Mount Vernon, Ohio and David Ross McConnell Boston, Mass. 1 6 O 4 1 9 6 3 OUR FAMILY'S STARBUCK ANCESTRY Published July 1963 AGNEW PRESS Mount Vernon, Ohio OUR t.AMILY' S STARBUCK ANCESTRY TABLE or CONTENTS A Starbuck Coat of Ams (opposite page) • • • • • • l Preface • • • • • • • • • • • • l Biographical Sketches The Earliest Starbucks in America • • • • • • 3 The Ohio Starbucks • • • • • • • • • 8 Families • • • • • • • • • • • • 25 Map of The Nantucket Area • • • • • • • • 35 Map of The Barnesville Area • • • • • • • • 56 Map of The Wilmington Area • • • • • • • • 65 Appendix Other Relatives • • • • • • • • • • 85 Starbuck Colonial Ancestry • • • • • • • • 86 Some Unusual Relationships • • • • • • • • 87 The Ancestry of Margaret ( Starbuck) McConnell • • • • 88 The Ancestry of Hezekiah Starbuck • • • • • • • 90 The Ancestry of Mary Coffin ( Thurston) Starbuck • • • • 92 Starbuck Royal Ancestors • • • • • • • 94 Bibleography • • • • • • • • • • • 95 Post Script • • • • • • • • • • • • 96 Index • • • • • • • • • • • • • 97 ABBREVIATIONS: b born d - died m - married dis- mou dismissed, married out of unity (to a non-member) rpd - reprimanded- (maiden name) This crest or coat or arms is one of two that we found, that are supposed to have been used by the Starbucks. PREFACE• - • - - • So far as we can learn, most of the 5100 Starbucks in this country today, and an even larger number of their daughter's descendents, could trace their ancestry back to Edward Starbuck (1604-1691) of Derbyshire, England, according to James C. Starbuck of Chicago. He indicates there are a few Starbucks in Columbus, Ohio, of German origin, as well as a few later emigrants from England, who settled in Connecticut. He also advises that the James Starbuck of TV is probably a descendent of a .Portugese cabin boy, brought home to Nantucket from the Azores by a Starbuck sea captain. This often happened. They usually took the name of the captain. Others have been adopted into the family also. "The name Starbuck is Scandinavian and signifies a person of imposing appearance, great or grand bearing". This is from Alexander Starbuck's History of Nantucket. He also states that it is not improbable that the family was of Danish origin and settled in England in the days of the Danish invasion, during the last half of the ninth century. The movement of people from place to place is always interesting, but especially so in our own family. F.dward Starbuck, mentioned above, came to America during the mass migration from England, to avoid religious persecution in the seventeenth century. His later move to Nantucket was part of another migration, although much smaller. Some left the Massachusetts Bay Colony to avoid puritan persecution. It seems nearly impossible to have much understanding of this family, without first taking a quick look at the history of Nantucket Island. Tristram Coffin., of Salisbury, Massachusetts, was the leader in negotiations with Thomas Mayhew for Nantucket Island. A deed was drawn July 2, 1659, to nine purchasers. The price was thirty pounds sterling and two beaver hats. By agreement, each purchaser was allowed to take on a partner. Later, others were added on a half share basis. There was a total of 27 shares, but only 11 actually settled and stayed on to populate the island. They were: Coffin, Macy, Hussey, Swain, Bernard, Starbuck, Coleman, Worth, Wyer, Gardner, and Folger. In the early fall of 1659, Thomas Macy, his wife and five children, accompanied by F.dward Star buck and a 12 year old boy, Isaac Coleman, traveled in a small open boat, from Salisbury, out around Cape Ann, then Cape Cod, and on to Nantucket. This was a total distance of more than 100 miles. After the deed from Mayhew, the next step was to treat with the Indians, who lived on the island, for it's second purchase. From the first they dealt honorably with the Indians. They drew up a formal deed for the land they occupied in the SUJID'ller of 1660, the year that ten families settled there. The islanders lived without fonnal worship for forty years. About 1700, a group of quaker missionaries visited the island. Among their first converts was Mary Coffin Starbuck. The first quaker meeting house was built in 1711. Quakerism dominated the island for nearly 200 years. By 1750 the island had become a refuge for the Quakers and there were 2000 members of quaker congregations on Nantucket. This was more than half the population. The circumstance of the American Revolution dealt harshly with Nantucket residents. At the time, whaling and fishing had brought prosperity to the people. In 1773 the popu lation was nearly 5000. The islanders owned a sailing vessel for each three or four houses. Although the Revolution actually started in 1775, fishing, whaling and trading with England were restricted prior to that time. All this seriously effected the economy of Nantucket, so dependent on ships and shipping. The British seized a million dollars worth of ships owned by the people of Nantucket, one hundred thirty four in all. It also cost them an undetermined loss of life, that has been estimated as high as 1600. It is known that at least 1200 were killed or captured by the British. At the close of eight years of actual war, there were 200 widows and 342 orphans among the 800 families still living on the island. The suffering was acute, both from hunger and cold, since their food and fuel practically all had to come from the mainland. The poor sandy soil never produced well. (1) Many families left the island between 1774 and 1800. It was during this period that this family really began to scatter. Gayer Starbuck and his wife and family moved to North Carolina, in 1774. He and his wife lived there the rest of their lives. Hezekiah, his brother, arrived there about eleven years later, with his wife and family. His children were among the scores of Quaker families that moved north, to avoid slavery, and west to new lands of opportunity. They reached Ohio in 1805. This family history, as you will find it here, really started about 1937, with in• quiries into the family Quaker background. Individual family record sheets were used from the first to gather vital statistics. Unfortunately, little attention was paid to biographies even when talking to older members of the family. They were not inclined to volunteer information about themselves or their ancestry. Even at family reunions, this was not discussed, that we know of, prior to 1957. In fact, it was at about that time we bec·ame aware there was a possibility of tracing our children I s Starbuck ancestry back as far as colonial times. When the really interesting history of the family became apparent to us, we became m:>re and more engrossed in it. We wrote distant cousins we had never met, asking a lot of questions. We became aware that many were interested but found almost no written records available in the family, not even family bible records. We have seen only one. Soon we felt that what we were learning should be made available to others. Hence this publication. Library research has proven quite interesting and confusing as well. It is difficult to evaluate the accuracy of some publications and they do not always agree. During the middle of the eighteenth century, two changes were made in the calendar. The first month of the year was changed from March to January, and in 17.52, a ten-day error was corrected. This makes dates prior to that time confusing. For example: 12-4-1690 is 2-4-1691, by our present day calendar. Unfortunately, few books of real value in geneological research are available outside a few special libraries. Many of these must be used entirely in the library reading room. David did the library research for the biographies and roya,. connections. Our amateur courthouse research has been fruitful but not as productive of biograph ical facts as we had hoped. Several of the biographies are sketchy for various reasons. We would like to have included more information, but this is all we had that we considered worth passing on and that we felt was accurate. The family pages are an attempt to record the descendents of Hezekiah Starbuck (1749- 1830). They are as complete as we could get them at the time this went to press. Dates of birth, marriage, and death are shown. Parentage of spouse and present addresses are shown where known. While this is intended primarily .for the descendants of Ohio Star bucks, others may find something of interest in it. A few copies will be placed in certain local and geneological libraries. Space has been left on the family pages for other children to be added, marriages listed, and dates of death recorded. Each family record, kept up to date, will be most interesting to its future readers. Information has been gathered from many sources too numerous to list. Much credit for extensive research in the family history must be given to James C. Starbuck, 1346 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Chicago 40, Illinois. Edwin P. Arthur, JllO Las Faldas Drive, Fullerton, California, has also made available some of the more remote family connections. ! partial bibliography will be found in the back. We feel that it is sufficiently com plete that an interested reader would have a good place from which to launch further research, or prove his own Starbuck ancestry for more than 300 years back to quite a number of important people in this country's early development. Even a:s this goes to press, we are working on other sections of the history of our family ancestry. We have found it lQts of fun.

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