Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Comfort Starr

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 598 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Starr 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1644 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Oct 1693 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Marah Weld
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1666 
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  Joseph Starr

  Benjamin Starr

  Rachel Starr (Ahnentafel No:299 )

• Sources for Comfort Starr

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for daughter Rachel Starr.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 287.
  • ³ Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Baldwin Genealogy, From 1500 to 1881, Cleveland, Ohio: Leader Printing Company (1881), 411.
  • ⁴ Ballou, Hosea Starr, Early Starrs in Kent and New England, Boston: Starr Family Association (1944), 129-130.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 1100.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 58.
  • ⁷ Starr, Burgis Pratt, A History of the Starr Family of New England, from the Ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr, of Ashford, County of Kent . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1879), 117-118.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 590.

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