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Rachel Norton (Starr)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Death: September 30, 1755 (73)
Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Comfort Starr and Marah Starr
Wife of Thomas Norton, Sr.
Mother of Rachel Stone; Thomas Norton, Jr.; Daniel Norton; Reuben Norton; Leah Stone (Norton) and 2 others
Sister of Comfort Starr; Mary Ranney; Hannah Sage; Joseph Starr; Benjamin Starr, Sr. and 2 others

Managed by: Andrea Bernadette Twiss-Brooks
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About Rachel Norton

Biography

Rachel Starr was born on 23 DEC 1681 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut to Comfort Starr and Marah Weld.[1] [2] She was baptized on 25 Dec 1681 in Middletown, Connecticut. [3]

On 28 May 1701 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Thomas Norton married Rachel Starr. [4] [2] [5] [6]

Children born in Guilford:

  1. Rachel, b 12 J uly 1702; died 31 March 1750; mar Timothy Stone ·
  2. Thomas, b 1 October 1704; died 8 September 1768; married Bethiah ( )
  3. Daniel, b 17 January 1707; died 4 December 1789; mar Sarah Bradley ·
  4. Reuben, b 6 April 1711; died 28 November 1796; mar Hannah Hooker
  5. Leah, b 3 April 1715; died 17 January 1783; mar Daniel Stone
  6. Eber, b 8 November 1718; died 6 February 1794; mar wid. Ruth Evarts
  7. Timothy, b 3 February 1721; died 1 October 1793; mar Elizabeth Ward

She died on 30 Sep 1755 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA[2][4] [5]

Sources

  • 1. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (The Barbour Collection) p 428 Guilford / Starr (LR1:16) ("Rachel d. Comfort, b. Dec 23, 1681")
  • 2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Burgis Pratt Starr, A history of the Starr family of New England, from the ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr of Ashford, County of Kent, England, who emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1635 (Hartford, CT: Case Lockwood & Brained, 1879) p 119 link
  • 3. ↑ Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920: Volume 070 Part 2 Middletown p 532
  • 4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alvan Talcott and Jacquelyn Ricker, Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, Vol 2 (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc. and New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1984) p 858, 861
  • 5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Walter Whittlesey Norton, Some descendants of John Norton of Branford, 1622-1709, with notes and dates of other emigrant Nortons, etc. (Lakeville, Conn., The Journal press, 1909 p 38 link
  • 6. ↑ Gary Boyd Roberts, “The Descendants of Thomas Norton of Guilford Conn.,” in Genealogies of Connecticut Families Vol II (Boston, MA: NEHGR 1983) p 665-667
  • Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, Vol. II [database on-line]. Page 867. AncestryImage
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Rachel Norton's Timeline

1681
December 23, 1681
Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
December 25, 1681
December 25, 1681
Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
December 25, 1681
Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut
1702
July 12, 1702
Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony
1704
October 1, 1704
Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
1707
January 17, 1707
Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut
1711
April 6, 1711
Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1715
April 3, 1715
Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States