Early merchant amassed fortune, September 13, 1984

Comfort Starr, son of Capt. Josiah Starr, was one of Danbury, CT's earliest settlers was a merchant and advocate for public education. He acted as a justice of Fairfield Country from 1758 until his death in 1763. He represented Danbury in the colonial assembly. He gave 800 pounds for a public school with a learned and skillful schoolmaster who could teach literature, English Greek and Latin languages, and mathematics. Starr amassed large sums of money from his store on Main Street in Danbury. He also owned interest in a local, produce-shipping business and a 26 acre farm on Town Hill, 38 acres at Pocono in Brookfield, 64 acres at Bound Swamp, 1000 acres in Cornwall, and a working farm in Kent. Upon his death, he left 30 pounds to the Massachusetts Indian school. |Identifier: ms069_devlin_1984_09_13a