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Early Starrs in Kent &New England **************************** Early Starrs in Kent &New England **************************** by HOSEA STARR BALLOU * Honorary Governor of THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS President Emeritus of THE STARR FAMILY ASSOCIATION Member of THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION THE UNIVERSALIST HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY **************************** BOSTON STARR FAMILY ASSOCIATION 1944 Arranged and Edited by WILLIAM CARROLL HILL Editor and Historian The New England Historic Genealogical Society 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. THE RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. PREFACE "Early Starrs in Kent and New England" is the compilation of a series of articles on the forbears of the Starr family in this country and England prepared for and published in The New England His­ torical and Genealogical Register between the years 1935 and 1944. They were prepared by Hosea Starr Ballou of Brookline, Mass., who had spent many years in this country and abroad in genealogical research. Having previously published the "Life of Hosea Ballou II," "Wm. Blaxton, The First Bostonian" and "The Harvard Yard Before Dunster", Mr. Ballou spent much of the last decade of his life in a study and analysis of the data on the Starr Family. Not having in mind a formal history of the family, Mr. Ballou contributed frequently to The Register of such material as he had at hand at the time, with the result that the articles, while containing a wonderful amount of new and most valuable information, pre­ sented no chronological sequence, being classified in general as "Dr. Thomas Starr in the Pequot War", although the text embraced far more than this narrative. The order of the articles as contributed by Mr. Ballou has been changed to follow as far as possible a sequence of events as affecting the early Starrs in England and New England but otherwise no lib­ erties have been taken with the original text. Mr. Ballou was foremost in bringing about the organization of The Starr Family Association and was its president emeritus when he passed away in December 1943. ENGLISH ANCESTRY WHEN the late Burgis Pratt Starr brought out, in 1879, his "His­ tory of the Starr Family of New England," nothing had been dis­ covered about the English homes and the English ancestry of this family back of Dr. Comfort Starr, surgeon, who was known to have resided at Ashford, co. Kent, for many years, to have had two brothers (J ehosaphat and J oyfuH Starr) and two sisters (Sµret~u~t and Constant Starr), and to have embarked in the spring of 1634/5, with three-children and three servants, on the ship Hercules";hound from Sa,iidw1gi, -co. Kent; for New- England. "How 1oriifthe Starr Family had lived there [at Ashford], or where they came from," wrote Mr. Burgis P. Starr, "is unknown." (Starr Family, p. i.) Since the two known brothers of Dr. Comfort Starr, Jehosaphat and Joy(u!l_, did n()_t migrate to New England, and the two known sisters, although they came to the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay (one, it is now known, after her marriage and one before her mar­ riage), did not transmit the surname "Starr" to their children, the compiler of the "History of the Starr Family of New England" regarded Dr. Comfort Starr as the founder of the Starr family in this country, the head of the earliest generation of the family that came to New England. Since the publication of Mr. Burgis Pratt Starr's book researches have been made in the parish registers of Ashford, and many entries about the Starr family have been assembled, one of which records the burial at Ashford on 18 December 1617 of "Moregi[f]te Starre of Cranebrooke." This entry suggested that Cranbrook, co. Kent, might have been an earlier home of the Starr family; and a search in the register of that parish, preserved in the ancient church of Saint Dunstan, was made by the vicar, the late Rev. William Bell, a canon of Canterbury Cathedral, and revealed several Starr entries, includ­ ing the baptismal records of Comfort Starr, the emigrant to New England in 1634/5, and some of his brothers and sisters, who proved to be, children of one Thomas Starr, later of Ashford, of Canterbury, and of New England.'- Further search in the parish register of Ash­ ford, made in August 1895, disclosed records of later children of Thomas Starr and also of children of Dr. Comfort Starr, but before giving these records, discovered since the publication of Mr. Burgis Pratt Starr's book, mention should be made of an important article entitled "Two Early Passenger Lists, 1635-1637," which was com­ municated to the REGISTER of July 1921 (vol. 75, pp. 217-226) by the late Eben Putnam of Wellesley, Mass., a life member of the New England Historical Genealogical Society since 1886 and a genealogist well known as a founder and publisher of genealogical magazines, an organizer of genealogical societies, and a compiler of genealogical 1 books.* This article contains the complete text of a list of passengers on the ship Hercules, sailing from Sandwich, co. Kent, for New Eng­ land in the spring of 1634/5, and also the complete text of a list of other passengers sailing from the same port for New England up to 11 May 1637, both lists having been copied from the records of Sandwich, Yearbooks C and D, 1608-1642, by J. A. Jacobs, Esq., of Sandwich, an alderman of that town and honorary curator of its archives. In his introduction to this article Mr. Putnam wrote: "Notwith­ standing the fact that the existence of these lists has long been known, although for a time their exact location in the records was forgotten, this is the first time they have been printed in complete form. Partial copies, omitting the names of the children and also of the individuals grouped under the heading 'Servants,' but giving the numbers of such persons accompanying the various heads of families, were first printed by William Boys in his 'History of Sand­ wich,' published at Canterbury, England, 1786-1792, pages 750 and 752. In 1843, in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Series 3, vol. 8, pages 274-276, the late James Savage ... reprinted these lists from the 'History of Sandwich,' and suggested that the name of each child and servant, perhaps the age also, might be found in the original record." Although other reprints of these passenger lists, in their abridged form, were made from time to time, it was not until Mr. Putnam communicated to the REGISTER the complete copy made by Mr. Jacobs that all the information con­ tained in the lists was made public. "Aside from the corrections made by Mr. Jacobs to the printed lists of signers of certificates and heads of families," wrote Mr. Putnam (in his introduction to the "Two Early Passenger Lists"), "the names of seventy-seven-chil­ dren and kinsfolk of the heads of families emigrating and the names of forty-three servants ... have been brought to light in this copy. Under the heading' Servants' are included apprentices, and in many cases ... relatives of the head of the family." The first passenger list reveals the names of all the children and servants who accom­ panied Dr. Comfort Starr when he sailed from Sandwich, co. Kent, for New England on the ship Hercules in the spring of 1634/5, and the second list gives the names of the persons who accompanied Thomas Starr of Canterbury, yeoman, now known to have been the father of Dr. Comfort Starr, in his voyage to New England.t In the REGISTER of January 1925 (vol. 79, pp. 107-109) Mrs. Elizabeth (French) Bartlett, who stated that she had copied these lists, verbatim et literatim, in 1911 from the Sandwich records, kindly contributed a few corrections and one addition to the lists as given in the copy communicated to the REGISTER in 1921 by Mr. Putnam. The information pertaining to the Starr family that has been dis­ covered in the parish registers preserved in Saint Dunstan's Church, * Mr. Putnam died at Wellesley 22 January 1933, and a memoir of him may be found in the REGISTER of October 1933 (vol. 87, pp. 380-382). t Savage (Genealogical Dictionary, vol. 4, p .. 171) stated that this Thomas Starr was a younger brother of Dr. Comfort Starr, and he also confused him with Dr. Comfort Starr's son Thomas, the surgeon in the Pequot War. 2 Cranbrook, and in Saint Mary's Church, Ashford, since the late Burgis Pratt Starr brought out, in 1879, his "History of the Starr Family of New England," together with the facts about this family derived from the two passenger lists described above and from various other British and New England sources, is in substance as follows: 1$89 Comfort Star baptized at Cranbrook 6 July.* [The date of the earliest entry in the parish registers of Cranbrook is 1553 [?1559]. The Comfort Star who was baptized there 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.J 1591 J':,lgstrength,Star baptized at Cranbrook 2 May. 1592 Moregift~ Starr baptized at Cranbrook 1 October. [He was buried at Ashford 18 December 1617. On 4 March 1616/17 he married at Biddenden, co. Kent, by licence dated 1 March 1616/17, Rachel Bigg of Biddenden, who was baptized at Cranbrook 20 October 1594 and died before 3 May 1638.
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