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| Born | 4 April 1586 |
| Died | October 1661 (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]
- ^ "Sir Richard Saltonstall". Massachusetts Bay First Settlers. Winthrop Society. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ "Saltonstall, Richard (SLTL603R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Papers, Reports, &c., Read Before the Halifax Antiquarian Society. "Guardian" Printing Works. 1901.
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