General Notes

Comfort Starr was one of the seven founders of Harvard, University.

Comfort came from England with his father on the Hercules in 1635. He graduated from Harvard College in 1647, called "Consolantius" in the catalog. In 1650 he was one of five fellows named in the Charter of Harvard College. http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/charter.html

He returned to England, and was minister at Carlisle in Cumberland county, England, on the Scottish border. At Carlisle he had a son, Comfort Starr III, about 1657. Rev. Comfort refused to conform to the Established Church and was ejected about 1662. He removed to Sandhurst, county Kent, 4-1/2 miles northeast of Rye and 9 miles south of Maidstone. Between 7 February 1663 and 20 March 1673 Josias Starr, Samuel Starr, Hanna Starr, Thomas Starr and John Starr, five children of Comfort Starr and his wife Grace, were baptized there. He returned to preaching at Lewes, county Sussex, where he died in 1711.