Edward STARBUCK, Jr.

Abt 1604 - 1690  (86 years)

• Name	Edward STARBUCK
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	Abt Feb 1604	Derby, Derbyshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	60
  Reference Number	753677
  Reference Number	773244
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Starbuck-46
  Death	4 Feb 1690	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I501	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward STARBUCK, Sr.,   b. Abt 1580, England d. 1608, Derby, Derbyshire, England (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Eunice REYNOLDS,   b. Abt Oct 1609, Wales d. Aft 1678, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age > 70 years)
  Marriage	1630
  Children	1. Sarah STARBUCK,   b. Abt 1630, Derbyshire, England d. Aft 2 Jun 1714 (Age > 84 years)   2. Nathaniel STARBUCK, Sr.,   b. 20 Feb 1635, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. 6 Aug 1719, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay (Age 84 years)   3. Dorcas STARBUCK,   b. 1639, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. Abt Oct 1696, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay (Age 57 years) + 4. Abigail STARBUCK,   b. Abt 1641, Dover, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Aft 1680, Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age > 40 years)   5. Esther STARBUCK,   b. 1651, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. Bef 13 Aug 1694, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age < 43 years)   6. Jethro STARBUCK,   b. Abt 1651, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. 27 May 1663, Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 12 years)
  Family ID	F113	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

• Photos		Edward Starbuck's signature
  		Petition to the General Court- 1665
  		Monument to Founding Fathers of Nantucket
  		Leicester is and has always been in Leicestershire, not Derbyshire. The evident christening record for my ancestor Edward Starbuck, Jr. (as "Edwardus Starbrook"), in February of 1603, is at All Saints, Derby, Derbyshire -- see source just added. I've therefore corrected the birthplace from "Leicester, Derbyshire" to Derby, Derbyshire. -- His…

  
  

• Notes

  [[Category:New Hampshire, Notables]] [[Category:Dover, New Hampshire]] {{Nantucket Founders and Descendants}} [[Category: Nantucket, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Nantucket_Founders_and_Descendants]] [[Category:Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Puritan Great Migration Project Needs Inline Citations]] {{Puritan Great Migration|GMD||318}} == Biography ==Edward was christened at All Saints Church in Derby, Derbyshire in February 1603[/4].https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KBD6-JPW?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=LC7G-RVY His father's name is listed, but not his mother's. He has been detached from [[Barnes-5611|Anne Barnes]] as his mother. Edward Starbuck came to America about 1635 and settled at Dover. He was a representative in the General Court in 1643 and 1646, an Elder in the church, and in other ways enjoyed the respect of his fellow citizens. He often acted as the arbiter between the Indians and early settlers. There is a tradition that at one time an uprising among the Indians seemed imminent. They appeared to be gathering in hostile groups and they greatly outnumbered the whites. Edward Starbuck did not hesitate to go among them and managed to quiet them. The deed of Coatue to him by the Sachems as a "free and voluntary" gift shows their esteem for him. Tradition says that Edward Starbuck was a man of commanding presence. The meaning of the Danish name Starbuck is a person of imposing presence or grand bearing. Although there is no documented evidence to date, Edward's wife is traditionally known as Katherine Reynolds. As early as 1862, James Savage, in A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, wrote that Edward Starbuck "m. Eunice or Catherine Reynolds said to be from Wales." Early Settlers of Nantucket, compiled by Lydia S. Hinchman and published in 1901, states that Edward's wife was "Katharine (Reynolds), of Wales." A footnote states "Some authorities give Eunice." George Edward McConnell and David Ross McConnell, in Our Family's Starbuck Ancestry, published 1963, state "his wife, Katherine Reynolds, daughter of Robert, is thought to have been Welch." This Reynolds connection was also acknowledged in the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libbey and Walter Goodwin Davis in 1939. They stated that "his wife Katherine is repeatedly called Katherine Reynolds, but no documented evidence of the 'Reynolds' has been seen." Such long-standing tradition should not be taken lightly, despite the current lack of extant evidence, and until research proves otherwise, we will consider that Katherine and her descendants constitute a branch of the Reynolds family in America. It has been written in the above-stated sources that Edward was from Derbyshire, England. The Starbuck genealogy adds that he was from Derbyshire or from Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. Noyes, Libbey, and Davis state that Edward was of Draycut, Co. Derby, and Attenboro, Co. Notts. There has apparently been no success to date with research in English records for the ancestry of either Edward or Katherine, though further study has been started by the RFA. Edward wrote a lengthy letter to Governor John Winthrop concerning the situation in Dover: "To the Right worshp mr. Winthrop the Governer of the massatewsetes give this I pra Worthey Sir, My humble Servis presented to your worship Returning many thankes for all your loving respectes shewed mee and my felowes with mee. You may justly chaling mee for ingratitude because I seeme to have neglected to write to your worship but now having an opportunity I thinke it my deuty to writ and there with allso to manifest the Caues of this delay. Retourning home in safety from your Courte wee did acquint our governer and neighboures with the pleasur of your honred Court and after som agitations wee with diveres others of our naighboueres to the number of 29 consented unto your Articeles and determined to send forth with for mr. Broadstreet and a messenger was nominated and appointed to that end to accompany mr. Knowles to ipsich according to your order to have conferred with the elders of the Church and others, who weare prepared accordingly to set fowardes on the second day following but that which leted was A scruple springing up in the Consience of our governor which as hee saied much troubled him soe that hee had no Rest in his spiret where upon the people at his Commaund was willed to meet againe the 5 day following and mr. Knowles and the messenger stayed from their appointed Journey and A strict Charge was given by the governer to him selef that noe man within our Jurisdicktion should write into the bay thereby to give intelegence of the buesnes in Agetation of mr. helmes stricktly questioned by him upon suspition that hee had written somthinge into the bay which strict Charge was the Caues that I did not write to you before now, wherefoure I prayou do not take it ill from mee neither impute it to me as neglect. If I had had liberty as I have had oportunetey you should have Read my lynes eare now may itpleas your worp thefore to understand that the 5 day aforesaide the people meeting according as the weare commanded held a court purpouesly about the saide buesnes which being set out governer making a speech to the people conserning the saide Artickeles which wee brought from youre Generall Couert and presed them with these Artickeles following I how it cough stand with their Alegence to their kinge to give them selves and theirs to the State of the masatewsetes for ever to becom one bodey politick with them. Their answer was that the state of the masatusetes being the kings loyall subjects and for ought the knew the best that hee had the thought it noe breach of theire Alegence to subject them selves and thereres to be laufully governed by them under his magestey 2 qu. In as much as it was expected that pouer from the king by Comision might ere longe com to establish government in the River and for ought the know this yeare, how could the answer this their Act of dispouesing of them selves and thereres under another Jureyesdicktion without his Consent And not break theier Alegence which at the first somewhat feared the people. But answer was made that such a pouer had beene long expected from his magestey by som, but in as much as his magestey did not Answer their expectations but Rather seemed to neglect them the might therefouer the thought lawfully take the best Cource to live under such a government as was authoriesed by his magestey without feare of being called to acounte by him for breach of their Alegence. But if pouer did com indeed from his magestey to settle government heare in thie River and by vertew there of the people shall be commanded to be subject to that Authoretey than how will the keepe theier Alegence with his magestey and there league with the masatewsetes their answer was that if the could not have leave to com of from theier vountuarey Subjecktion to the masatewsetes to live under the poure and Athoratey that his magestey shall be pleased to sett up in the River according to god which the hoped would not be denied, then the could sell their estates and houses heare and remove to the masatewsettes without breach of theire Alegence soe long as the obayed in doing or suffering and not breakeing Covenant or league made with the state of the masatewsetes. And here upon it was Replyed that if his magestey doe indeed send and establish government in these northerne pertes or but in this whole River, Comaunding all his faithfull and lyall servants to be subject tothat his authoratey soe established then in Case the State of the masetewsetes will not as here is no Claues binding them in thes there Articeles so to doe, give the people leave to fall of from theier government and to be subject to the kings Authoratey then heare established, the must either breake theier Alegence with the king or theier league with the massatewsetes or at least sell theier houses and soe ourne theier backs of the king and his Authoratey. This the people could not for the present tell how to deney but desired som further Consederation before the gave a full answere, wheareupon at last it was conclewded that the buesnes should be demurred and time was given by an unanemoues Consent of all the people to demur deliberate and consider there of until our next geneerall Couerte which was the 1 day of the 11 month And it was then allso agreed and ordered that the governer should forth with write to mr Broadestreet to acquinte youer state or Counensell with this demur about your first Articell which leter was sente to Exeter to be sente to goe by the firest opertewnitey. This leter being sent our governer being upon som occasion at Agamenticus mr. hooke toulde him that his father certefyed in a leter out of ingland that there was Comision granted and gone out from his magestey for the government of these northerne partes. Allso mr. wanterton had Receved as the said leteres from a ship and with them A box with a commission in it as was supposed directed to mr. Vines whereupon our governer having some Conference there, was advised to perswade the people to confirme there owne Combination least those to whome the king had granted his Comision finding them unsettled should setel such A government among us or Joyne us to such a government wee should not like of. And the governer to effect this caled a covert to that end which being assembled and he having propounded the same thinges to the people and the being suddenly affected with it helided presentely to his proposition and propounded 6 of the freemen to be chosen assistentes to our Governer whereof 2 Refused and 4 weare elected magestrates with him After which election the governer and assistante as I heard have written to your honored Councel of the state a full and final answer to the Artickeles you sent but what is therein contained I am altogether ignorant of it. being sent before the Court held the 1 of the 11 month was the Reason. I thinke your Articele weare not mentioned at all then as was before intended. Reverend Sir this is the som of all paseves so neare as I can Relate them I am sorey that youre artickeles weare not Receved of our people yet I hope still that the lord will one waye or another bring it to pas and I doe think that It might yet be effected if one thinge would be granted which is liberty of Consience in one pointe which is the sp[torn] the first evidence not that I am an enemy to the graces of god or to those that evidence there estates that way. Right worshipfull I would I might bed 2 or 3 lines from youre worship I should thinke my selef muchonored by you I have a great desire that this River might be youeres and could be glad if the lord would be pleased to use mee as an unworthy instrewment of doing anything that way therefore Sir make use of mee and by godes help you shall finde mee faithfull. Soe with my prayers to god for you and youers I take leave beging pardon for my Rewdnes. Iam no Scoler. Youer worshipes servant in the lord Feb. 1639/40 - Edward Starbuck"The Winthrop Papers- Vol. IV, pp. 185-8 As is generally the case in early colonial records, there is much documented about the life of Edward Starbuck, but little information about Katherine, his wife. Edward first appears in the records of Dover, NH in 1640, when he is found on a list of inhabitants of Dover and appeared in a court suit. Edward signed the letter to the Governor of Massachusetts and the Dover Combination (he signed the latter as "Edward Starr"). "Letter from the Inhabitants of Dover to the Governor of Massachusetts. Northam, 4, 1 month (1.40). Honored Sir: We, the Inhabitants of Northam, make bould to trouble you with these few lynes, certifyinge you that whereas wee suppose Captaine Underhill hath informed you and the rest of your brethren of the Matechuseth baye, that wee are all willinge voluntarily to submit ourselves to your Government upon fformer articles propounded; truth it is wee doe very well aprove of your judicious wayes, and shall be very joyful, yu please God to enlarge us, that wee may be free from other ingagements and promises wch some of us are obliged in to the owners or patentees, from whom under his Mat's Letter Patents we enjoy our free liberty, wch causeth us not for present to submit to any other government than that wch wee have already entered into combination to observe according to the King's Mat's lawes, until such time as the owners come over to us, wch we suppose will be about three months hence, and then our prpositions considered as the Lord shall direct us, we will labor more to satisfy you. But for the proceedings of Captain Underhill seeking to undermyne us, and contrary to his oath and fidellyty as we suppose intrusted to him, hath went from house to house, and for his own ends, by flattery and threatening gotten some hands to a note of their willingness to submitt themselves under your government, and some that have no habitation to bring his purposes to pass; we doubt not but you are well acquainted with his stratagems in plotting his owne designe wch wee refer to your grave judgments. Some of those that subscribed to his note have this day utterly prtested against their own act, for he hath raysed such a mutinie amongst us wch if we take not course for the stoping thereof, it may cause the effusion of blood, by reason he hath by his designes privately rent the combination as much as in him lyeth, contrary to his act, that is that wee should continue in the same govmnt except an agreegment or cause showed to the contrary in open court, agreed on by the major p'te, thus much we thought good to acquaynt your wor'p with all beseeching your favourable construction, hoping you will weigh our case in equity and conscience, and not any way to enforce us to any act whereby wee should break prmise or covenant wth the patentees or amongst ourvselves whchin soe doinge we should sinne greatly. Wee heartyly desire your prayers for us, and comit you to the prtection of the Almightye at yor- to be comanded... Edward Starbuck..."NH State Papers- Vol. I, pp. 126-8 "Whereas sundry Mischeifes and inconveniences have befaln us, and more and greater may in regard of want of Civill Government, his Gratious Matie haveing hitherto setled no Order for us to our Knowledge: Wee whose names are underwritten being Inhabitants upon the River Piscataquack have voluntarily agreed to combine our Selves into a Body Politique that wee may the more comfortably enjoy the benefit of his Maties Lawes. And do hereby actually ingage our Selves to Submit to his Royal Maties Lawes together with all such Orders as shalbee concluded by a Major part of the Freemen of our Society , in case they bee not repugnant to the Lawes of England and administred in the behalfe of his Majesty. And this wee have Mutually promised and concluded to do and so to continue till his Excellent Matie shall give other Order concerning us. In Witness wee have hereto Set our hands the two & twentieth day of October in the Sixteenth yeare of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God King of Great Brittain France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c Annoq Domi: 1640. John Follett, Samuel Haines, Robert Nanney John Underhill, William Jones, Peter Garland Philip Swaddow, William Jones, Richard Pinckhame Steven Teddar, Bartholmew Hunt, John Upgroufe William Bowden, Thomas Canning, John Wastill John Phillips, John Heard, Tho: Dunstar John Hall, Fran: Champernoon, Abel Camond Hansed Knowles, Henry Beck, Edward Colcord Robert Huggins, Henry Lahorn, Thom. Larkin Edward Starr, Richard Waldern, James Nute William Waldern, Anthony Emery, William Storer Richard Laham, William Furber, William Pomfret Tho: Layton, John Crosse, Tho: Roberts George Webb, Bartholmew Smith, James Rawlins This is a True Copy compared with ye Originall by me Edw Cranfield"''The Dover Combination''- Dover Public Library at: https://www.dover.nh.gov/government/city-operations/library/history/the-dover-combination.html 1643 "7th day of 7th mo... Edward Starbuck is fined for 3 weeks absence 40s..."New Hamphire State Papers- Vol. I, p. 169 He was named as a Proprietor in 1642. In 1643 and 1646 he was chosen as Representative from Dover to the General Court of the Mass. Bay Colony. On 20 Apr. 1644 it was ordered that Edward along with Richard Walderne and William Furber were to be wearesmen for Cotcheco Fall & River for life or as long as they lived there. The “wearesmen” were in charge of management of the fisheries on the river. On 30 Aug. 1643 Edward received a grant of 40 acres of land on each side of the “Fresh River… at Cutchechoe, next above the lot of John Baker at the little water brooke, and also I platt of Marsh above Cutchechoo great Marsh that the brook that runs out of the great river runs through, first discovered by Richard Walderne, Edward Colcord, Edward Starbuck and William Furber.” The land was at Fabyan’s Point and the marsh was called Starbuck’s Marsh. He acted as agent for Mr. Valentine Hill in 1646, and was a partner with Richard Waldron in lumbering on the Maine side in 1648. His grants included the mill privilege at Cutchechoe 2nd falls and the timber to “accommodate” jointly with Mr. Thomas Wiggin in 1650 and 200 acres with Elder Nutter in 1659. In 1653 he sold half his sawmill grant to Peter Coffin. In 1657 he sold to Thomas Broughton one-quarter of the mill above Capt. Waldron's mill at Cochecho, other owners being Capt. Wiggin (one-half) and Peter Coffin (one-quarter). He was a deputy to the General Court in 1643 and 1646 (and was fined for three weeks absence). ''Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire''- pp. 656-7 On the 20th, 2 mo. 1644 it was ordered that Mr. Edward Starbuck, Richard Walderne & Wm. Furber be wearesmen for Cotcheco fall & river during their lives or so long as inhabitants. Various other grants were made to him, two of those being one of the Mill privilege at Cutchechoe 2nd Falls and one of timber to 'accomodate' in 1650. In "Landmarks in Ancient Dover" mention is made of Starbuck's Brook in 1701 as a boundary of property which Peter Coffin (son-in-law of Edward) conveyed to John Ham. Starbuck's Marsh was granted to Edward 30 Aug 1643, and Starbuck's Point and Marsh, now called Fabyan's Point, were granted to Edward in 1643. He is recorded several times as called on to be one of the "lot-layers." He was Representative in the General Court in 1643 and 1646, was an Elder in the church and in other ways enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens.Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire, by Mary P Thompson, publ. 1892 - https://archive.org/details/landmarksinancie00thom/mode/2up?q=starbuck He was on the Grand Jury in Maine in 1647 and in that year Edward Godfrey was writing to Gov. John Winthrop: "The Right Worshipll John Wynthrop senr. Govr of the Mathesusetes thes present in Boston Pascatowaie adi 20th July 1647 Right Worshipll, You conjugall lose I cannot but deply condole but you that ar a comfortor to all God will not be wanting to gyude you with his goodness in all thinges you knowe the myseryes of this Cuntery for want of trad and Comerce in which each man much study and indeavor to further the generall good, as when your sonne and mr Gellam came to procuer mastes in thes partes, I and mr. Josselin ware not backward eather in advise or action: sence mr. Va: Hill imployed some men as mr. Richard Walden and Edw. Starbuck to get some and fynding Commodiusnes in Pascattaqua River on our sid they came to me I knowing the [ ? ] where they ware to belong to some friends from [ ? ] had letters this last yeare to advise them of [ ? ] here, gave them adnswer except they would [ ? ] and become tenantes to the propriators could not; [ ? ] other Considerations mr Josselene and I gave them [ ? ] of land, with bounds not possessed by any and remoa[ ? ] manes lottes: Now Nicolas Frost and his associates [ ? ] they have what they wyll and live 3 myles from theme In a most ryotus mutinus and turbulent maner not onely molesteth them, but would throw doune all ppower and Authorryty by governing by waie of our Commition, and bee governed by them selves or such as they shall choase threatening to pull mr Josieline of the Bench and displace us: for that I hope wee have and shall take Course to rectify to the Cuntery Content: But soe it is wee being but weake, Frost and his associates spitfull malicious turbulent factious, and with the Rud multitude in waie of pretence of common priveledg ar hard to bee suppressed by our weake power whear all ar parties and seeme plantives. My humble request is that you would advise us and the partes mr Walen and Starbuck, the safest waie to qualify thes broyles tell order come out of England and although Frost and some of them ar not in your Jurisdiction yet those they imploy ar in your [ ? ] and wee for divers Causes desyer the matter [ ? ] by you, and judicated in any of your Courtes what [ ? ] or Starbuck doe commence they wilbe bound to [ ? ] like will I for the propriators of the lands. I [ ? ] pardon for my bouldnes, desyering your assistanes [ ? ] of your magistrates, and ame your worshipes to be commanded Edw: Godfrey I protest and soe the parties may one oathe that I neather have Interrest or benefit, direcly or indirectly one penny heerby but doe it for the Cunteries generall good. E.G. "The Winthrop Papers- Vol. V, pp. 173-4 In 1644 an act was passed by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay banishing from the Colony all who should either openly or privately oppose the baptism of infants. While the punishment meted out to some of the offenders was severe, banishment was not always inflicted. Edward Starbuck was one of those who subscribed to the proscribed doctrine and the record of the General Court, under the date of 18 October 1648, says: "This Court, being informed of great misdemener committed by Edward Starbucke, of Douer, with p'fession of Anabaptisme, for which he is to be p'ceeded agaynst at the next Court of Assistants, if evidence can be p'pared by that time, & it beinge very farre for wittnesses to travill to Boston at that season of the yeare, it is therefore ordered by this Court that the secritary shall give commission to Capt. Thomas Wiggan & Mr. Edw. Smith to send for such p'rsons as they shall haue notice of which are able to testifie in the s'd cause & to take theire testimonie uppon oath & certifie the same to the secritary so soone as may be, that further p'ceedings may be therein if the cause shall so require."New Hampshire State Papers- Vol. I, pp. 191-2 There seems to be no indication from the record that the complaint was prosecuted, notwithstanding the severe penalty contemplated by the law. The action of the Court did not seem to affect his standing in his community for he continued to be called upon to lay out land. He was a commissioner to settle the Dover-Kittery bounds in 1654: "Whereas we whose names are here under written are made choice of by the Towne of Dover and Kittery to lay outt the Devidinge Bounds betweene the said Townes, we have Mutually concluded and agreed that the great River At newichawanacke shall be and remaine the Devideinge bound betweene the aforesaid Townes, the one half of the said River to Apptaine and belong unto the Towne of Dover on the south, and the other halfe to the Towne of Kittery one the North. In confirmation hereof we have Interchang- sett to our hands this 4th of ye 2 mo. 54... Edward Starbuck..."New Hampshire State Papers- Vol. I, p. 214 "To the Right Worshipfull the Govr and magistrates & Deputies of the Generall Court now assembled in Boston. The humble petition of the inhabitants of the town of Dover. Shewethe that whereas your poor petitioners were taken under the government of the Mattachusetts, by the extent of the line of the Patent of the Mattachusetts, and likewise the people there are accepted and reputed under the government as the rest of the inhabitants within the said jurisdiction, as also a Committee chosen to bound out the Towne, which accordingly was done, & afterwards was confirmed at the Generall Courte as the Acts do more fully declare. Therefore wee your poore petitioners do humbly crave protection in our habitations and rights accordinge to the laws & liberties of this jurisdiction, & likewise that some order might be taken to restraine such as doe disturbe and molest us in our habitations by challengine us by patent, & threateninge of us & sayinge that wee plant upon their grounde & that we must give them such rent as they please for cuttinge grass and timber, or else they will take all from us, so by this means the people are many of them disqueited, not onely by the Patent, but alsoe by the threats of Edwarde Colcorde who with others of his pretended owners do report that they have fourteen shares & that they are the greatest owners in the Country, which patent wee conceive (under favour) will be made voyde if it be well looked into, so hopinge ever to enjoye protection within your jurisdiction Wee shall ever pray... Edward Starbuck..."New Hampshire State Papers- Vol. I, pp. 213-4 He accompanied Tristram Coffin on his voyage of discovery and Thomas Macy on his voyage of settlement. "At Salisbury, February, '59. At a meeting of the sd purchasers or the major pt of them appved and alowed by the rest together with some others that were owned for associates as will hereafter appe, it was agreed and determined and app'ved as followeth : that these ten owners will amitt of ten more ptners who shall have equal power and interest with themselves : And that either of the purchasers forementioned shall have liberty to take a ptner whom he please not being justly excepted against by the rest : At that meeting Robbert Pyke was owned ptner with Christopher Hussey ; Robert Bernard was owned ptner with Thomas Bernard ; Tristram Coffin Jun. ptner with Stephen Greenleafe and James Coffin ptner with Peter Coffin. At the same meeting it was mutually and unanimously agreed upon determined and concluded that no man whatsoever shall purchase any land of any of the Indians upon the sd island for his owne or other private or particular use ; But what whatsoever purchase shall be made shall be for the generall accompt of the twenty owners or purchasers ; And whatsoever P'son shall purchase any land upon any other accompt it shall be accompted voyd and null except what is done by licence from the said owners or purchasers. At the same meeting it was ordered and determined that there be ten other Inhabitants admitted into the plantation who shall have such accomodations as the owners or purchasers shall judge meet : as namely necessary tradesmen and seamen. At a meeting of the owners of the Island of Nantukket Salisbury it was debated and after debate determined and concluded that as ther had bin a former meeting in Salisbury at the house of Benjamen Kemball in Feb. 6 :59 in which meeting an order was made for ye p'hibitting of any p'son from the purchaseing of any land from any of the Indians upon the Ile of Nantukket except for the use of the twenty owners or purchasers : the order shall stand inviolable and unalterable, as that which is also lately necessary to ye continuance of the well-being of the place and the contrary that which tends to ye confusion and ruine of the whole and the subverting of the rule and order already agreed upon and the depriveing of ye sd owners of their just rights and interests. Also it was ordered at the same meeting that all the lands that is fit for Areable land convenient for houselots shall be forthwith measured that the quantity thereof may be known, which being done shall be divided by equal pportion ; that is to say four fifths pts to ye owners or purchasers and ye other fifth pt unto the ten other Inhabitants, where of John Bishop shall have two pt or shares that is to say of that fifth pt belonging to ye ten Inhabitants. Also at the same meeting it was ordered that Tristram Coffin,Thomas, Macy, Edward Starbuck, Thomas Bernard and Peter Ffoulger of Martha's vineyard shall have power to measure and lay out the sd land according to ye above sd order and whatsoever shall be done concluded in ye sd case by them or any three of them Peter ffoulger being one shall be accompted le all and valid."''Land Records Extracted From Nantucket Lands And Land Owners''- Henry B. Worth, Nantucket Historical Association, 1901 at: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/nantucket_land.htm "Towne ordered The 2d of July, 1659. These ptyes after mentioned did buy all right and Interest ____ of the Iles of Nantukket that did belong to Sir Fferdinand Georges, and the Lord Sterling. Mr. Richard Vines steward gen: to Sir fferdinando Georges ; and James Fforrett Steward to the Lord Sterling, which was by them sold unto Mr. Thomas Mayhew of Martha's vinyard ; these aftermentioned did purchase of Mr. Thomas Mayhew these rights : namely the pattent right belonging to the Gentleman aforesaid and also the pcel of land which Mr. Mayhew did purchase of the Indians, at the west end of the Ile of Nantukket, as by their graunt or bill of sale will largely appear : with all the priviledges and appurtenances thereof: the aforementioned purchasers are Tristram Coffin Sen ; Thomas Macy, Richard Swaine, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Stephen Greenleafe, John Sawine and William Pile, the said Mr. Thomas Mayhew himself also became a Twentieth pt purchaser : so that they viz : Mr. Thomas Mayhew, Tristram Coffin Sen. Thomas Macy, Richard Swaine, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Stephen Greenleafe, John Sawine and William Pile had the whole and sole interest, disposal, power and priviledge of the sd island and appurtenances thereof."''Land Records Extracted From Nantucket Lands And Land Owners''- Henry B. Worth, Nantucket Historical Association, 1901 at: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/nantucket_land.htm In the fall of 1659 Edward along with Thomas Macy, James Coffin and Isaac Colman set off in an open boat and arrived on Nantucket Island where they stayed the winter. Edward returned to Dover the next spring.On 9 Mar. 1659/0 Edward deeded his Cochecho house, goods, cattle, etc. to his son-in-law Peter Coffin and moved to Nantucket. Thomas Macy had been at odds with the powers that be in Salisbury and Tristram Coffin and his wife also had issues with the church elders. Therefore, moving to Nantucket to escape the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony seemed like a good idea! "May 10, 1661. At a meeting at Salisbury it was ordered and concluded that the fore mentioned ptyes : viz. Tristram Coffin Sen. : Thomas Macy, Edward Starbuck, Thomas Bernard and Peter Ffoulger shall all measure and lay out all the rest of the lands both meadow wood and upland that is convenient to be appropriated within the bounds of the first plantation or township : also it is determined that ye above mentioned psons together with Mr. Mayhew, Richard Swaine, John Bishop or whatever other of the owners or purchasers that are there pr sent shall have power to determine what land is convenient to be imp'priated and lay'd out and what shall remaine common ; and also to lay out the bounds of the town and record it p'vided always that the land being measured : they shall first lay out a convenient quantity of land with suiteable accomodations of all sorts which shall be p'etually reserved for publique use of the Town. At the same meeting it was ordered that for ye Pticular appointing which lot every man shall have it shall be done by cutting lots excepting only these psons that have already taken up their lots : as namely Thomas Macy, Tristram Coffin Sen : Edward Starbuck and Richard Swaine. At the same meeting Robert Pyke was appointed to keep ye records concerning the Ile of Nantukket at Salisbury and Thomas Macy to keepe the records at the yland as in the above sd order expressed : at pr sent untill farther order be taken by the owners or purchasers. July 15, 1661 : At a meeting on Nantukket of the owners purchasers inhabiting Mr. Thomas Mayhew being pr sent and Peter Ffoulger it was agreed and concluded that each man of the owners or purchasers shall have liberty to chuse house lot on any place within ye limits not formerly taken up and that each house lot shall contain sixty square to a whole accomodation or share or the value of it."''Land Records Extracted From Nantucket Lands And Land Owners''- Henry B. Worth, Nantucket Historical Association, 1901 at: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/nantucket_land.htm In a deed in 1659 Mr. Broughton excepted the house and land on Newichawannock River of Goodwife Starbuck "being formerly given her... in wife's right". Edward did sign, however, a petition to the General Court at Boston in 1665 as being of Dover.Mass. Archives- Vol. 3, p.446 Edward was a leading man on the Island and at one time a Magistrate. He is described as courageous and persevering. When he came to the Island he occupied a house which he built at Madeket. His house lot as laid out was about 1000 feet square, extending northward from the head of Hummock Pond to Macy's Pond. That he was well esteemed among the Indians is evidenced by the deeding of Coatue to him by Wannackmamack and Nicanoos (of the Sachem Indians) "of our free and voluntary willes." "Know al men by thes presence that wee wamuchmack Nickanuse and Nakkootant of our free and volantarey willes doe give freely to Edward Starbuck all that tract of land called by the Indians conveightuct and by the inglish the northest point of Nantucket to him his heires executors and assignes forever to injoy and quietly to poses and doe by this my deed under all our hands and seale as fully confirme it to the said Edward Starbuck and make it his as it is our nowe with all the timber marsh and beaches and pondes or what so ever priviledges doth or may belonge theire unto in witness whereunto wee have her unto set to our hands and seale the third of January 1665… the marke of wamuck M mamick Hicanoe his X mark In the presence of The mark R of Richard Swaine Jane Swaine"Miner Descent- article on Edward Starbuck at: minerdescent.com/2010/06/03/edward-starbuck/ When Edward arrived there were about 1,600 Wampanoag living there but the white men brought disease and by 1763 only 358 native people remained and by the end of that year another 200 had died of the plague. The last Indian, Abram Quary, died in 1855. Indeed Edward owned considerable land and was evidently a man of substance as to possessions as tradition says he was in body." He was a representative in 1643 and 1646, was an elder in the church and enjoyed various other tokens of respect given him by his fellow citizens." He is recorded several times as being called on to be one of the "lot layers". He was representative in the General Court in 1643 & 1646, was an Elder in the church, and in other ways enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. In 1644, it was ordered that he, along with two other men, be a "wearesmen for Cotcheco fall and river during their lives or so long as inhabitants." "His influence was so great," says Nathaniel Barney, "that if at any time a suspicion or alarm arose among the early settlers, he was always in requisition to explain the apparent cause thereof, and to suggest a palliation for their rude and inexplicable action, which served to allay the fears of the more timid." In fact he might have lived comfortably at Dover and died in the midst of his family, respected and contented but that he embraced Baptist sentiments" * In Provincial "Papers of New Hampshire Historical Society," we find the following: "Oct. 18,1648. The Court being informed of great misdemeanor Committed by Edward Starbuck of Dover with profession of Anabatism for which he is to be proceeded against at the next Court of Assistants if evidence can be prepared by that time & it being very farre for witnesses to travill to Boston at that season of the year, It is therefore ordered by this Court that the Secretary shall give Commission to Capt. Thomas Wiggan & Mr Edw. Smyth to send for such persons as they shall have notice of which are able to testify in the sd. cause & to take their testimony uppon oath & certifie the same to the secretary so soon as may be, that further proceedings may be therein, if the cause shall so require" It is not to be wondered at that Edward Starbuck was quite ready to leave Dover under existing conditions. He was fifty-five years of age when he joined Thomas Macy in his voyage from Salisbury to Nantucket; he spent the winter there and in the spring returned to Dover for his family, who all accompanied him to the island excepting his daughters Sarah (Austin) and Abigail (Coffin), who had married and settled in Dover. "Dover lost a good citizen" and Nantucket gained a much respected one; "he was a leading man on the Island and at one time a Magistrate;" * he is described as "courageous and persevering." In "Landmarks in Ancient Dover" mention is made of Starbuck's Brook in 1701 as a boundary of property which Peter Coffin (son-in-law of Edward Starbuck) conveyed to John Ham. Starbuck's Marsh was granted to Elder Starbuck August 30, 1643, and Starbuck's Point and Marsh, now called Fabyan's Point, was granted to Edward Starbuck in 1643, and is again mentioned in 1662, 1702, and 1716 in conveyance of property, since which time the usual desire to change ancient names has destroyed what might be valuable historical landmarks. One son only lived to perpetuate the name, Nathaniel, who married Mary (daughter of Tristram Coffin); he is the ancestor of all American Starbucks. Katherine Starbuck is known through her signing with her husband on two deeds. She signed with him in May or July 1653 when they sold land to their son-in-law Peter Coffin. Later in 1659, Edward and Katherine deeded land to Mr. Broughton, which excepted the house and land on the Newichawannock River which belonged to "Goodwife Starbuck" as "being formerly given her...in wife's right..." Some time during his stay in Dover, Edward came under the influence of the Anabaptists. On 18 Oct 1648, he was charged with refusing to join with the established church in the rite of baptism. There is some question if these religious differences played a part over the next few years in Edward's decision to move his family from Dover. Whatever the reason, Edward gave all his property in Dover to his son-in-law, Peter Coffin on 9 Mar 1659/60, and moved himself and his family, except for Abigail and Sarah who had already married, to Nantucket. His name appears there on the earliest Indian deed in 1660, and on many other deeds and documents in the succeeding years. He was one of the original purchasers and was the partner of Thomas Macy. He served as a selectman in 1673. On 18 March 1685, Edward deeded all his property and good to his son Nathaniel. Edward died at Nantucket 4 Mar 1690, age 86.Nantucket Vital Records, Vol. 5, Page 542 There is no record of Katherine's death. Some sources assume that she died in Dover prior to the move to Nantucket; however, Noyes, Libbey and Davis state that she was living 19 June 1678 (without citing a source for this date). It is probable that she had died by 1685 when Edward alone deeded to son Nathaniel. Edward migrated to America about 1635, settling at Dover. He was representative in the General Court in 1643 and 1646, was an Elder in the church and in other ways enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. His influence over the Indians was so great that if at any time a suspicion or alarm arose among the early settlers, he was always in requisition to explain the apparent cause thereof, and to suggest a palliation for their rude and inexplicable action, which served to allay the fears of the more timid. There is a tradition that at one time an uprising among the Indians seemed imminent. They appeared to be gathering in hostile groups and as they greatly outnumbered the whites, it was a very serious affair. In this juncture, Edward Starbuck went unhesitatingly among them and soon succeeded in quieting them. The deed of Coatue to him by the Sachems as a "free and voluntary" gift shows their esteem for him. Tradition says that Edward Starbuck was a man of commanding presence. It is stated that it was at Macy's suggestion that Edward left Dover for Nantucket. He accompanied Macy with his family, Isaac Coleman, and James Coffin, on their historic voyage to the island, which was accomplished in an open boat. Edward was a man in easy, if not affluent, circumstances who had obtained a high position at Dover and an equally exalted reputation for worth and probity. He is also represented as having been "an active, enterprising man, fearless of danger." In 1660, it is said that he returned to the mainland where his representations regarding the island induced some eight or ten families to remove from Salisbury to Nantucket, thus adding to the number in the little settlement. Note. The name Starbuck is from the Norse, and signifies great or grand. === Birth ===:: 16 FEB 1603/4 Leicester, Derbyshire, EnglandPedigree Resource File: Mandy Rindhage, Warren, MI 48091 Pedigree Resource File: : Daniel Hayden - Colfax, Iowa :: 16 FEB 1601/2 Derbyshire, England === ChildrenNew England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, p. 542 ===Edward and Katherine had six children, but only one son, Nathaniel, lived to carry on the name. * Nathaniel * Dorcas * Sarah * Abigail * Esther * Jethro === Death === :: 12 JUN 1690 Nantucket, Massachusetts :: BET 4 MAR 1688/9 AND 1691Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Ma:: 4 FEB 1689/90 Nantucket, Massachusetts (Nantucket)[[#Savage|Savage]] :: 4 Feb 1690/91 Nantucket Co MA Edward was mentioned on a memorial at the Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, with a death date of 4 Feb 1690. '''Memorial''': Find a Grave (has image) {{FindAGrave|10904429}} (accessed 3 October 2022) Memorial page for Edward Starbuck (Feb 1603-4 Feb 1690), citing Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Greg Derylo (contributor 46561377). === Research Notes ==='''Baptism date:''' The day in the parish register baptism record is illegible. But the records are chronological and the preceding record is the 26 February, so the baptism occurred 26, 27 or 28, and possibly 29 since it seems to have been a leap year. '''Great Migration Directory sources:''' Pillsbury Anc. 614; GDMNH 657; Reg. 24:150, 31:297, 33:98, 81:453; Farr Anc. 74, 252; Coffin (1949) 308; Beard (1939) 14; Dover NH Mar. 194; Sanborn Anc. 93; Allen (,10) 10 The following children have been detached from Edward due to lack of evidence/sources: * [[Starbuck-144|James Starbuck (1637-)]] * [[Starbuck-153|Thomas Starbuck (abt.1641-)]] * [[Starbuck-151|Martha Starbuck (1645-)]] * [[Starbuck-152|Mary Starbuck (1645-)]] * [[Starbuck-150|Hannah Starbuck (1649-)]] * [[Starbuck-149|Ruth Starbuck (1651-)]] * [[Starbuck-148|John Starbuck (1653-)]] == Sources == See also:* Christening: "England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KBD6-PNB : 30 November 2017), Edwardi Starbrook in entry for Edwardus Starbrook, Feb 1603; citing Feb 1603; citing Christening, All Saints Church, Derby, Derbyshire, England, Derbyshire Record Office, England; FHL microfilm 1,041,144. * Coffin, Allen, 1881. The Coffin Family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America. Hussey & Robinson, publishers, Nantucket, Mass., [https://archive.org/details/coffinfamilylife00coff/page/52 pages 52, 56]* Hinchman, Lydia S. ''[[Space:Early Settlers of Nantucket Their Associates and Descendants|Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants]]'' (Ferris & Leach, Philadelphia, 1901) * Savage, James. ''[[Space:A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England|A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Who Came Before May 1692]]'' (Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1862)* William Richard Cutter, A. M. ;;Genealogy - Boston and Eastern Massachusetts'' (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1908) Author: * ''Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850'' (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010)* ''Katherine Reynolds Starbuck of Dover and Nantucket Island''- Susan Clement, The Reynolds Family Association at: www.reynoldsfamily.org/line24/*Scales, John. ''[[Space:Historical Memoranda Concerning Persons and Places in Old Dover, N.H.|Historical Memoranda Concerning Persons and Places in Old Dover, N.H.]]'' (Dover, N.H., 1900) * ''Starbucks All: 1635-1985''- James Starbuck, Roswell, GA, 1984 * ''History of Nantucket''- Obed Macy, Research Reprints, NY, 1970* ''Extracts From Dover Town Records'', [[Space:NEHGR|New England Historical & Genealogical Register]] (NEHGS, Boston, 1850) Vol. 4., [https://books.google.com/books?id=NcIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA246 Page 246]