Richard Saltonstall

Bef 1586 - Bef 1661  (< 75 years)

• Name	Richard Saltonstall  [1]
  Birth	Bef 4 Apr 1586  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Baptism	4 Apr 1586	Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England   [2, 3, 4, 5, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	4 Apr 1586	Church of St. John the Baptist, Halifax, Yorkshire, England   [6]
  Alternate death	Abt 1658	England   [2]
  Alternate death	Sep 1661	Crayford, Kent, England   [4]
  Death	Bef 25 Oct 1661	Crayford, Kent, England   [3, 5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I14187	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Samuel Saltonstall,   b. Abt 1562, Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England d. 8 Jan 1613, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Anne Ramsden,   b. 1564   d. 1589 (Age 25 years)
  Marriage	Bef 4 Apr 1586  [6]
  Family ID	F9016	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Grace Kaye,   b. Bef 3 Sep 1579   d. Bef 27 Jun 1625 (Age < 45 years)
  Marriage	28 Nov 1609	Almondbury, Yorkshire, England   [3, 5, 6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Maj. Richard Saltonstall,   b. Bef 1 Oct 1610   d. 29 Apr 1694, Hulme, Lancaster, England (Age > 83 years)
  Family ID	F8948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth West   d. Bef 1640
  Marriage	Bef 5 Nov 1628  [3, 6]
  Family ID	F21679	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2023

  
  

  Family 3	Martha Cammock,   b. Bef 16 Nov 1587   d. Bef 25 Oct 1662 (Age < 74 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1640  [3, 6]
  Family ID	F21680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2023

  
  

• Notes

  From Abandoning America (citation details below): Sir Richard Saltonstall, a London lawyer, was first elected an assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Company in England on 23 March 1628/9. [...] In 1629, he sent servants and cattle ahead of him to New England. Saltonstall sailed to New England in 1630, as a widower, with five of his six children. He settled at Watertown. He attended all the meetings of the Massachusetts Bay Company in New England between 22 August 1630 and 22 March 1630/1. He left New England on the Lyon, 1 April 1631, and arrived in London on 29 April. He was elected an assistant in Massachusetts in 1633, in his absence, but never returned. Saltonstall continued to take an interest in New England. He defended Massachusetts against the charges of Philip Ratcliffe, Thomas Morton and Sir Christopher Gardiner. He diverted his attention to fresh colonising ventures by Lord Saye and Sele and Lord Brooke, outside the boundaries of Massachusetts, but made heavy losses. In 1639 he handed over his New England interests to his son Robert, who had returned there c. 1638. Saltonstall spent time in the Netherlands, 1643–4, where Henry Saltonstall joined him. From 1649 he controlled the sales of crown property, and this profitable post helped him to boost his fortunes. In 1650 he and his son Richard became members of the High Court of Justice, commissioned by the Rump Parliament to try the crimes of the Commonwealth's enemies. From 1658 he lived near Wrexham, and associated with the congregationalist Vavasor Powell. He criticised Massachusetts for its intolerance: he wrote to John Wilson and John Cotton c. 1652, advocating freedom for Quakers. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Saltonstall opposed the crown in the civil wars, and his fortunes recovered with the parliamentarian victory. In March 1650 he was appointed a commissioner of the high court of justice, set up to punish opponents of the regime. From 1649 he held lucrative posts controlling the sales of crown property, and by 1658 he could afford to buy Brymbo Hall, near Wrexham, Denbighshire. After the Restoration, however, he was forced to flee arrest as a 'seditious person', and died at Crayford, Kent, in 1661, probably in September.

  
  

• Sources

  [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S1585] Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall by Leverett Saltonstall. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012. [S6777] The Descendants of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall of Haverhill, Massachusetts by Scott C. Steward. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2013. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.