Comfort Starr

Comfort Starr (6 July 1589 – 2 January 1659) was a 17th-century English physician who emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies. He was one of the five founders of Harvard College. Early life Starr was born in Cranbrook, Kent, on 6 July 1589. He was one of the seventeen children of Thomas Starr. Emigration 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, where he was a founder of Harvard College the following year. He came with three of his children and three servants; his wife followed with most of the other children. One of his daughters did not emigrate until after his death. His sister, Suretrust, also emigrated, and lived in Charlestown, Colony of Massachusetts Bay, with her husband Faithful Rouse.