Elsie married Jonas WARD on 2 Nov 1834 in Ashburnham, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.. Jonas (son of Caleb WARD and Rebecca FOSTER) was born on 15 Feb 1785 in Ashburnham, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.; died on 28 Apr 1842 in Oxford, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Angeline WARD was born on 26 Feb 1840 in Oxford, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.; died on 19 Dec 1899 in Johnston, Providence, RI, U.S.A..

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]

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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]

Asa married Ann STEVENS on 6 Jan 1771 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Ann (daughter of Robert STEVENS and Mary HATHAWAY) was born on 23 Nov 1746 in Berkeley, Bristol, Massachusetts; was christened on 23 Nov 1746 in Berkeley, Bristol, Massachusetts; and died. [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]

Thomas married Sarah HARRIS on 28 Jan 1742. Sarah (daughter of Thomas HARRIS and Elizabeth CHURCH) was born on 18 May 1722 in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut; died in 1793. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]