Maj. Richard SALTONSTALL, Esq.

1610 - 1694  (84 years)

• Name	Richard SALTONSTALL  [1, 2]
  	Migrated to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630, age 20, with his widowed father, siblings Rosamond, 18, Samuel 16, Robert, 13, Henry 11, and Grace 8. His father and most of his siblings (Richard and Samuel remained) returned to England in April 1631. Richard, himself, embarked for England from Nantasket on the Lyon on 23 November 1631, remaining about four and a half years. In the summer of 1635, now 25 (although listed as age 23 in the passenger lis), with his wife "Merriall', age 22, and daughter 'Merriall' aged '9 months,' he embarked at London on the 'Susan and Ellen' and settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts. Richard traveled back and forth between England and New England multiple times over the next decades, the final return in 1688. [1] Maj. Richard Saltonstall, born at Woodsome 1610, matriculated as 'Mr. Fellow Commoner' in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, 14 Dec 1627; emigrated with father in 1630, before taking a degree, admitted freeman 18 May 1631, resided Watertown, embarked for England 23 Nov 1631 and remained there four years, in April 1635 embarked at London in the 'Susan and Ellen', with wife Muriel, and daughter Muriel, settled Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630, returned to England 1631, returned with wife Muriel and young daughter to settle at Ipswich, Massachusetts, Deputy of Ipswich to the General Court 1635-7, Assistant from 1637 to 1649, in 1664 and from 1680 to 1683, visited England several times, visited Holland with son Henry in 1644, when Richard's portrait was painted, it is said, by Rembrandt, in 1672 in England (when his three daughters were living married there), and the last time in England in 1683, died at Hulme, co. Lancaster, the seat of his son-in-law Sir Edward Moseley, on 29 Apr 1694. [2]
  Prefix	Maj.
  Suffix	Esq.
  Birth	1610	Woodsome Hall seat of the Kaye family, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2]
  Christening	1 Oct 1610	Almondbury, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Son of Sir Richard Saltonstall and Grace Kaye   [1]
  Death	29 Apr 1694	Hulme, Lancashire, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I89193	Main Tree
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Richard SALTONSTALL, Knt.,   b. 1585/6, Halifax, co. York d. Aft 1658 (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Grace KAYE
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	2 Jul 1609	Woodsome Hall   [3]
  Family ID	F37723	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Muriel GURDON,   b. 1613, England d. 21/22 April 1688, Hulme, Lancashire, England (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	4 Jul 1633	Allhallows, Honey Lane, London   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Nathaniel SALTONSTALL,   b. 1639, Ipswich, Massachusetts d. 21 May 1707, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age 68 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F36927	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 4 Jul 1633 - Allhallows, Honey Lane, London  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S8841] American Ancestor.org, Early New England Families, 1641 - 1700, Vol. 1. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S11979] Marston Watson, Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry Vol. IV Pelham-Avery-West.