Richard Saltonstall

For his uncle, the Lord Mayor of London, see Richard Saltonstall (mayor). For the judge, see Richard Saltonstall (Massachusetts judge).

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Richard Saltonstall
Sir Richard Saltonstall
Born(1586-04-04)4 April 1586
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
DiedOctober 1661(1661-10-00) (aged 75)
England
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Sir Richard Saltonstall (baptised, 4 April 1586 – October 1661)[1] led a group of English settlers up the Charles River to settle in what is now Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630.

He was a nephew of the Lord Mayor of London Richard Saltonstall (1517–1600), and was admitted pensioner at Clare College, Cambridge, in 1603.[2] Before leaving England for North America, he served as a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire and was Lord of the Manor of Ledsham,[3] which he got from the Harebreds and later sold to the Earl of Strafford.[4]

  1. ^ "Sir Richard Saltonstall". Massachusetts Bay First Settlers. Winthrop Society. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Saltonstall, Richard (SLTL603R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Bolton, Charles Knowles (1919). The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad Who Came to the Colonies in North America Before the Year 1701. The Boston Athenaeum. p. 459. Retrieved 8 April 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Papers, Reports, &c., Read Before the Halifax Antiquarian Society. "Guardian" Printing Works. 1901.