Ebenezer married Anna Stevens ROSE on 18 Oct 1803 in Lisbon, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Asa ROSE and Ann STEVENS) was born on 17 Aug 1783 in Jewett City, New London, Connecticut; died on 2 Oct 1869 in Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elsie Elizabeth STARR was born on 26 Mar 1807 in Thompson, Windham, CT, U.S.A.; died on 16 Apr 1896 in Scituate, Providence, RI, U.S.A..

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Ebenezer was born 24, baptised 28, Feb., 1741-2, in Thompson,Connecticut. He was a Quaker, a farmer, a tavern keeper, near the Stateline, on the main road from Thompson to Douglas, Massachusetts. Heweighed 325 lbs., and was accidentally struck in the abdomen by aneighbor, 13 Oct., 1804, death resulting almost instantly. He married,first, 21 Dec., 1767, Sarah Porter of Killingly, and, second, 18 Feb.,1773, Mary Stevens, who was daughter of Robert and Mary, and died 8 Oct.,1823, aged seventy-two years, five months, twenty days. Ebenezer had tenchildren, one of whom became a widow with two daughters. The widow wasinterviewed by a widower with two sons, and ultimately the three menmarried the three women.

Ebenezer married Mary STEVENS on 18 Feb 1773 in Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Robert STEVENS and Mary HATHAWAY) was born on 2 May 1749 in Berkeley, Bristol, Massachusetts; was christened on 2 May 1749 in Berkeley, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 8 Oct 1823 in Berkeley, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Comfort Starr was paid by the town of Dedham for going to Roxbury to geta nurse for a small pox patient in 1720.
In 1723, he owned 1,000 acres of land in Killingly, now part fo Thompson,Connecticut, territory formerly claimed by the Bay Colony. His homesteadwas west of "Brandy Hill".

Comfort married Elizabeth PERLEY about 1724 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. Elizabeth (daughter of Isaac PERLEY and Frances UNKNOWN) was born on 10 Oct 1705 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 4 Mar 1742 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lived with her aunt, Sarah Perley, from age 7, after father's death in1712.

Elizabeth Perley was born in Essex 10 Oct., 1705, and died 4 March, 1742,near the birth of her eighth child. She married in 1730 Comfort Starr,who was born 9 Aug., 1696, to Deacon Comfort and Mary-Stone Starr,founders of the Dedham branch of that family, and died in Killingly, Ct.,13 Feb., 1775. He was living in Dedham in 1720. In 1723 he bought 1000acres of land in the North Parish of Killingly, afterwards selling apart, but reserving what still later became his homestead, a little westof Brandy hill, now in the town of Thompson. Quotations from the churchrecords say that "Comfort Starr and others worked on the newmeeting-house; that Jan. 28, 1730, was kept a day of fasting and prayerto humble ourselves before God for our past trespasses and to implore thedevine on us and all our concerns--more especially on the solemntransactions that are before us"--the formation of a church. Mr. Starrwas a signer to the covenant. He was a prominent man in town and church.In sealed instruments he is styled "husbandman." A fine, curious desk,which belonged to him, and perhaps to his grandfather, and many of hisdeeds are still extant. Mrs. Sarah Knapp of Killingly became his secondwife 3 Nov., 1763.

Robert married Mary HATHAWAY on 3 Jan 1745 in Berkeley, Bristol, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John B. HATHAWAY and Marcey JONES) was born on 8 Nov 1726 in Berkley, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 7 Dec 1804 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Comfort inherited 500 acres of land near Concord, and lands nearDeerfield, Walpole, Medway, Massachusetts and in Windham County,Connecticut from his aunt, Mary (Bunker) Lusher.

Comfort married Mary STONE on 14 Nov 1683 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Simon STONE, Deacon and Mary WHIPPLE) was born on 6 Jan 1665 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 20 Apr 1735 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Isaac Perley was married about 1704, settled in Boxford and died 22 Nov.,1711. His wife's name was Frances; she was baptised in the First Church 3March, 1705-6; she died 17 June, 1710, fifteen days after child-birth.They became members of that church in 1706. He was a fence viewer in1705; a surveyor of highways in 1709; a tithing man in 1710. They bidadieu to a promising future and journeyed to the spirit land in thesummer of life, leaving three little ones to the tutelage of friends.

He made his will 20 Nov., 1711. The will was never proved, the witnesses,Samson and Alice How-25, being in Killingly, Connecticut. His brotherJeremiah-10 was, 31 Dec., 1712, appointed administrator of his estate,which was inventoried at œ207 2s, which included credits to the amount ofœ92 11s.

Isaac married Frances UNKNOWN in 1704 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts. Frances was born about 1687 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jun 1710 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicholas married Anne SPUR about 1713. Anne (daughter of John SPUR and Mercy HOAR) was born on 8 Jul 1675 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Marcey JONES on 26 Sep 1723 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Marcey (daughter of Adam JONES and Mary BAKER) was born on 21 Jun 1703 in Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 15 May 1786 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]