Richard Saltonstall (bef. 1586 - 1661)

Born before 4 Apr 1586 in Huntwick, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (West) Saltonstall — married before 5 Nov 1628 in England

Descendants

Died Oct 1661 after age 75 in Crayford, Kent, England

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Richard Saltonstall migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 1618) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Richard Saltonstall immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Crayford, Kent England

"Sir Richard Saltonstall has been justly styled "one of the Fathers of the Massachusetts Colony."^[1]

Richard Saltonstall was baptized on April 4, 1586 at Halifax, Yorkshire, England.^[2] His parents were Samuel and Anne (Ramsden) Saltonstall.^[3]He was a nephew of the Lord Mayor of London Richard Saltonstall (1517–1600)^[1]

In 1603 he was a student at Clare College, Cambridge, but did not take a degree; afterwards he was admitted to the Middle Temple on February 24, 1605/6.^[3]

In England Sir Richard Saltonstall was Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire, Lord of the Manor of Ledsham, and Ambassador to Holland.^[4][2]

His first marriage occurred on November 28 1609 at Almondbury, Yorkshire, to Grace Kaye, daughter of Robert Kaye, Esq., and his wife Anne (Flower) Kaye. Grace's father was Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire. They had 4 sons (Maj. Richard, Samuel, Henry, and John) & 2 daughters (Rosamond, wife of Col. Richard Payne; and Grace, wife of Col. Thomas Cooper).^[4][2]Grace Saltonstall died and was buried at Wragby, Lincolnshire on June 27, 1625. Information about their children as follows: ^[3]

1. Richard was baptized at Almondbury, Yorkshire on October 1, 1610. He married Muriel Gurdon on July 4, 1633 at Allhallows, Honey Lane, London. Muriel's father was Brampton Burdon.
2. Rosamond was baptized April 16, 1612 at Wragby in circa 1645 she married Col. Richard Payne of Gunley Hall, Mongomeryshire.
3. Samuel was born about 1614 and died unmarried at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay on January 21, 1696[7?]
4. Robert was baptized at Wragby, Lincolnshire on July 3, 1617. He died by August 15, 1650, unmarried.
5. Henry was baptized at Wragby on November 9, 1619 and was still living in 1657.
6. Grace was baptized at Wragby on February 26, 1624. About 1648 she married Col. Thomas Cooper of London and Wrexham, Denbighshire.
7. John was baptized at Wragby on November 28, 1624. No additional records.

He married (2nd) to Elizabeth West, youngest daughter of Sir Thomas West, 2nd Lord de la Warre, Sheriff of Hampshire, Burgess for Chichester, East Looe, Yarmouth, & Aylesbury and Anne Knollys, between 27 June 1625 and 5 November 1628. Richardson in "Magna Carta Ancestry" says, they had 2 sons (Francis and John) & 2 daughters (both called Anne);^[5][2]Anderson in "The Great Migration Begins" indicates only two children; twins, one a boy and one a girl. Children according to Anderson were:^[3]

1. Anne (twin) was baptized at Isleworth, Middlesex on January 22, 1632/3 and buried there on May 13, 1633.
2. John (twin) was baptized at Isleworth, Middlesex on January 22, 1632/3; no additional records.

Sir Richard Saltonstall was present at a meeting of the Massachusetts Bay Company in London on March 5, 1628/9 and again on March 23,1629 when he took the oath as the First assistant to Governor John Winthrop. He had been chosen assistant the same year on May 13 and October 20... the Company was preparing for the migration to New England in 1630. He sent servants and cattle to New England in 1629; two of the servants were Hugh Tilley and William Eedes. On June 17, 1629 he loaned L100 to the Company.^[3]

Richard Saltonstall migrated with his family in 1630 aboard the Arabella, residing first at Watertown then making a great effort to establish a colony at Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River.^[3]

With only one exception, Saltonshall was present at every meeting of the Massachusetts Bay Company, from August 23, 1630 through March 22, 1630/1, and soon after each one he returned to New England.^[3]

Lands in New England

At Watertown on July 25, 1635 in the Great Divident, as "Sir Richard Salteston" he received one hundred acres; An additional thirty acres was granted in the Beaverbrook Plowlands on February 28, 1626/7; thirty acres in the Remote Meadows on June 26, 1637. The Watertown Inventory of Grants indicated a total of eleven parcels. On March 3, 1635/6 it was "ordered that the bounds of Watertown shall run eight miles into the country from their meeting house, within the lines already set out, & it is agreed, that Sir Richard Saltonstall shall have one hundred acres of the meadow, to be set out indifferently by John Pratt and William Rescue." Again on June 2, 1641 "then is 500 acres of ground granted to Sir Rich[ard] Saltonstall, knight, to be set out by Mr. Pinchon and Mr. Smyth below Springfield, if it fall within our patent.^[3]

Sir Richard, was apparently a man before his time and believed in religious tolerance. He wrote to Mr Cotton and Mr Wilson, the ministers of Boston, New England, who had migrated there because they were seeking religious freedom, that he was saddened by reports of their persecution of other seeking those same freedoms by tyrannical fines, whippings and imprisonments.^[6][1]

Saltonstall returned to England in 1631^[7]taking with him his two daughters and a younger son, leaving behind his two eldest sons. He maintained an interest in the colonies and was one of the patentees of the Connecticut Colony. ^[1]

By 1640, Sir Richard Saltonstall's wife Elizabeth had died. Probably in that same year he married for a 3rd time to Martha (Cammock) Wilsford, daughter of Thomas Cammock and Frances (Rich) Cammock; widow of Francis Wilsford. They had no children.^[3][4][2]

Sir Richard Saltonstall appears to have been in Newtown, Montgomeryshire (Powys), Wales at the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660. On 18 July 1660 the Council of King Charles II issued an order to Sir Matthew Price, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire to take into safe custody Vavasour Powell (described as, "a most factious and dangerous minister"), Sir Richard Saltonstall, and Richard Price of Aberbechan.^[8]

"According to Sir Matthew Price's letters to Secretary Sir Edward Nicholas, Vavasour Powell, Sir Richard Saltonstall and Richard Price were concerned in a plot to depose King Charles II. Letters were found in their possession indicating the plot extended all the way to London. By 2 August 1660 Vavasour Powell was taken into custody, while Sir Richard Saltonstall and Capt. Richard Price "had left these parts"^[8]

Sir Richard Saltonstall died a short while before 25 October 1661 at Crayford, Kent, England.^[3][4][2]His wife, Martha died by October 25, 1662.^[3]

Sir Richard was an early benefactor of Harvard College and left a legacy to it in his will.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} "Historical Sketch of Haverhill", Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, (1816) 2nd Series, IV:155, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/collectionsofmas24mass#page/154/mode/2up accessed 2 November 2017.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol IV, page 551.
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10} The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Featured name. pp 1618-1621. by subscription.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 487.
5. ↑ Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 329.
6. ↑ Convers Francis, An Historical Sketch of Watertown, in Massachusetts, from the First Settlement of the Town to the Close of its Second Century, (Cambridge: E W Metcalf and Company, 1830), 135-6, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/historicalsketch00fran#page/134/mode/2up accessed 2 November 2017.
7. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson. "The Great Migration Directory, Immigrants to New England 1620-1640." New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston, MA 2015.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Wikipedia.[1]
9. ↑ An Historical Sketch of Watertown, in Massachusetts, 16, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/historicalsketch00fran#page/16/mode/2up accessed 2 November 2017.

• New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 by Robert Charles Anderson.see link for subscribers$
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013), 5 Volumes.
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2011), 2nd Edition, 4 Volumes.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Saltonstall
• DNB. (Misidentifies his parentage)

See also:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltonstall_family
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown,_Massachusetts
• http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/saltonstall/
• Greenlaw, Mrs. Lucy Hall. Sir Richard Saltonstall's Letter to Gov. John Winthrop, Jr., of Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1897) Vol. 51, Page 65-67.