[Sir]. American colonist, born in Halifax, England, 1586. He emigrated to Massachusetts as assistant governor to Winthrop in 1630; was associated in the founding of Watertown in 1630; went back to England the next year, and did not return to Massachusetts; befriended the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and was a patentee of Connecticut. He died in England in 1658.—His great-grandson, Gurdon Saltonstall, governor of Connecticut; born in Haverhill, MA, on the 27th of March 1666. He was graduated at Harvard in 1684, studied theology, and on November 19, 1691, was ordained clergyman of New London, CT. In 1709 he introduced the first printing-press in Connecticut, influenced the building of Yale College at New Haven instead of Hartford, and later took the principal direction of its affairs. He was annually chosen governor of the state from 1707 until his death in New London, CT, on the 20th of September 1724.—His nephew, Richard Saltonstall, a jurist; born in Haverhill, MA, on the 24th of June 1703. He graduated from Harvard; represented Haverhill in the general court in 1728; was a member of the council; and from 1736 till a short time before his death was a judge of the superior court. In 1737 he was chairman of a commission to settle the boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He died on the 20th of October 1756.—His grandson, Leverett Saltonstall, a lawyer; born in Haverhill, MA, on the 13th of June 1783. He graduated at Harvard in 1802; practiced law in Salem; was state senator in 1831; mayor of Salem in 1836; member of Congress from 1838 to 1843; and was at different times speaker of the lower house in the legislature and president of the state senate. He died in Salem on the 8th of May 1845.
