Richard Salter (abt. 1709)

Born about 14 Mar 1709 in Star Island, New Hampshire

Husband of Elizabeth (Odiorne) Salter — married 8 Oct 1731 in Portsmouth, Province of New Hampshire

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

Biography

Birth
Richard Salter was born the 14th March 1709 (probably) at Star Island, New Hampshire the son of Captain John Salter a sea-fairing merchant captain. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

Marriage and Children
Captian Richard Salter married Elizabeth Odiorne on the 8th October 1731 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. [Emery, p.8] ^[1] Elizabeth was born on the 21st February 1709 the daughter of Jotham and Sarah (Bassum) Odiorne. She passed away on Salter's Island, Portsmouth, on the 1st of September 1778. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

The known children of Captain Richard and Elizabeth (Odiorne) Salter of Portsmouth were [Emery, p.9] ^[1]

1. Elizabeth Salter, b. 6 Jul 1732 ; d. 1772
2. John Salter, b. 1735, ; d. infant
3. Mehitable salter, b. 1738
4. John Salter, b. 14 Nov 1740 ; d. 28 Sep 1814
5. Richard [Knight] Salter, bap. 15 Jul 1744 ; d. 2 May 1812
6. Titus Salter, bap. 21 Nov 1745 ; d. 1775
7. William Salter, b. 3 Sep 1749 ; never married ; Captain of the brig 'William' in 1768
8. Margery Salter, bap 18 Nov 1753 ; never married
9. Benjamin Salter, bap 25 Dec 1757 ; d. young

His children were baptized between 1740 and 1757 at the South Church in Portsmouth. In March 1739 he purchased of John Hardeson for L60 a pew in the meeting house and in 1747 he sold one-half of this pew to his brother, Captain Titus Salter for L17. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

Ship Captaincy & Residences
According to family history author Emery, Richard engaged in the fisheries business with his father and later possibly with a Jon Hardeson of Portsmouth from whom he purchased in January 1738 a half-interest in a grant of land in Canso, Nova Scotia with half of the houses, warehouses, flakes [fish-drying platforms] and staging. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

As Richard's sea-going occupation progressed he became a captain of merchant vessels. [Emery, p.8] ^[1] In March 1739 he purchased from John Hardeson three lots on Salter Street, at the corner of South Street and near the South Mill Bridge in Portsmouth, which included a dwelling house, warehouse, wharf and barn. His residency at this location continued for eight years. In 1747 he sold the property to his brother Captain Titus Salter. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

He then purchased of Ephraim jackson, Jackson's Island, renamed Salter's Island, in Portsmouth harbor where he resided the next twenty years. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

In 1767 he transferred the Salter Island property to his son Captain John Salter, Benjamin Akerman and Joseph Leigh all of Portsmouth. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

Captain John Salter was among the grantees of three New Hampshire towns in 1761: Enfield, Lebanon and New Holerness. Of the former two, his son Captain John Salter was also a grantee.

Death
Emery believes that Captain Richard Salter, the progenitor of the Portsmouth Salter's passed away at Halifax, Nova Scotia on the 10th April 1768. [Emery, p.8] ^[1]

Research Notes
At this time this is a 'single (secondary) sourced' profile. It would benefit from primary sourced research from any Salter descendants.

There was a Richard Salter, credited to Dover, New Hampshire, who was a private in Captain Hale's company at Louisburg in 1745. He would have been thirty-six years old. This "may or may not be" Captain Richard Salter of Portsmouth. [Emery, p.9] ^[1]

In the South Church (Portsmouth) records are several Salter marriages whose families have not been identified [Emery, p.9] ^[1] :

• Hannah Salter m. Samuel Homes, 12 Feb 1756
• Ebenezer Salter m. Eliza Davis, Jun 1759

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} Emery, William “The Salters of Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A lineal Descendant of Capt. Titus Salter” New Bedford, Mass., USA, 1935. Accessed 27 Jan 2023. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/51106/?offset=1#page=1&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=

The Salters of Portsmouth, New Hampshire William M. Emery, lineal descendent of Captain Titus Salter New Bedford Printing Co, 1936

John Salter, Mariner William Tibbits Salter John Highlands press, Philadelphia 1900