In 1635, aged 45, Starr left the Kingdom of England aboard the Hercules, which launched from Sandwich, Kent. He settled in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay,[4] where he was a founder of Harvard College the following year.[2][5] He came with three of his children and three servants; his wife followed with most of the other children.[1] One of his daughters did not emigrate until after his death.[6]
His sister, Suretrust, also emigrated, and lived in Charlestown, Colony of Massachusetts Bay, with her husband Faithful Rouse.[7]
Prior to his family's emigration, Starr was a warden at St Mary's Parish Church in Ashford, Kent, where he also had a surgery.[3][7]
Starr married Elizabeth Watts on 4 October 1614. They had nine children: Thomas (1615–1658), Judith (1617–1622), Mary (1620), Elizabeth (1621–1704), Comfort (1624–1711), John (1626–1704), Samuel (1628–1633), Hannah (1632–1662) and Lydia (1634–1653).[8] Mary married John Maynard in 1640.[9]Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, was a descendant of John.[10]
After arriving in the Massachusetts Bay, in 1635 he purchased the homestead of William Peyntree in Duxbury.[6] The family moved to Boston just over a decade later.[6]
^Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, Volume 2, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 1921, p. 268
^ abcAncestry of Lawrence Williams, Cornelia Bartow Williams (1915), p. 274
^ abNew England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 3 (1913), p. 1099
^ abAncestry of Lawrence Williams, Cornelia Bartow Williams (1915), p. 275
^John Maynard of Sudbury, Mass. and Some of His Descendants (1914)
