Knight of Rookes and Huntwick. Puritan.
Baptized at Halifax, April 4, 1586. Married Grace Kaye at Almondbury, November 28, 1609. He was lord of Ledsham Manor, near Leeds, which he purchased from the Harebreds and which he later sold to the Earl of Stratford. After the death of his first wife, Grace Kaye, he sold his property and removed with his children to New England, where he was an associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and an assistant to Governor John Winthrop. He commenced the settlement of Watertown there in 1630 but returned to England in 1631. Ambassador to Holland, 1644. In his later years he resided at Wrexham in Denbighshire, Wales and at Crayford, Kent. At the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 a warrant was issued to Sir Matthew Price, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, to take into custody Vavasour Powell, Sir Richard Saltonstall, and Richard Price. Powell was apprehended but Saltonstall and Price had already fled that area. Sir Richard Saltonstall was buried just months later in his native Yorkshire.
Baptized at Halifax, April 4, 1586. Married Grace Kaye at Almondbury, November 28, 1609. He was lord of Ledsham Manor, near Leeds, which he purchased from the Harebreds and which he later sold to the Earl of Stratford. After the death of his first wife, Grace Kaye, he sold his property and removed with his children to New England, where he was an associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and an assistant to Governor John Winthrop. He commenced the settlement of Watertown there in 1630 but returned to England in 1631. Ambassador to Holland, 1644. In his later years he resided at Wrexham in Denbighshire, Wales and at Crayford, Kent. At the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 a warrant was issued to Sir Matthew Price, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, to take into custody Vavasour Powell, Sir Richard Saltonstall, and Richard Price. Powell was apprehended but Saltonstall and Price had already fled that area. Sir Richard Saltonstall was buried just months later in his native Yorkshire.
Knight of Rookes and Huntwick. Puritan.
Baptized at Halifax, April 4, 1586. Married Grace Kaye at Almondbury, November 28, 1609. He was lord of Ledsham Manor, near Leeds, which he purchased from the Harebreds and which he later sold to the Earl of Stratford. After the death of his first wife, Grace Kaye, he sold his property and removed with his children to New England, where he was an associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and an assistant to Governor John Winthrop. He commenced the settlement of Watertown there in 1630 but returned to England in 1631. Ambassador to Holland, 1644. In his later years he resided at Wrexham in Denbighshire, Wales and at Crayford, Kent. At the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 a warrant was issued to Sir Matthew Price, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, to take into custody Vavasour Powell, Sir Richard Saltonstall, and Richard Price. Powell was apprehended but Saltonstall and Price had already fled that area. Sir Richard Saltonstall was buried just months later in his native Yorkshire.
Baptized at Halifax, April 4, 1586. Married Grace Kaye at Almondbury, November 28, 1609. He was lord of Ledsham Manor, near Leeds, which he purchased from the Harebreds and which he later sold to the Earl of Stratford. After the death of his first wife, Grace Kaye, he sold his property and removed with his children to New England, where he was an associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and an assistant to Governor John Winthrop. He commenced the settlement of Watertown there in 1630 but returned to England in 1631. Ambassador to Holland, 1644. In his later years he resided at Wrexham in Denbighshire, Wales and at Crayford, Kent. At the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 a warrant was issued to Sir Matthew Price, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire, to take into custody Vavasour Powell, Sir Richard Saltonstall, and Richard Price. Powell was apprehended but Saltonstall and Price had already fled that area. Sir Richard Saltonstall was buried just months later in his native Yorkshire.
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Buried February 26, 1660/61.
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