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ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PEPPERRELL House Fro>Hisf>wce 
 
 LIEUT.-GEN. Sir WII.I.IAM PEPPERRELL hMme. ?o 
 
 Hon. John frost, commandinp H.B.M. Frigate £ia-jr J " 36 
 
 Mary Pepperrell-Frost-Colman-Prescott " js 
 
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.101 1\ SALTKli. MAKlNKi;, 
 
 Tin: Lomlon (irtiphir s;iy-; : " Tlio wirliest n-conl of llio 
 Siiltors ( 'oiiipaiiy U a thnil ilat<'«l tho sc'vcnti'i'iitli year i)f 
 Kiclinnl II. (13!>4), ^rantinj; Hwn.HO to the ('Dinpany <>f 
 Saltors to Im' a ijuiM or fraternity in Imnor of 'tin- I^wly 
 of our I^>nl Jesus Christ in the Chiireh of All Saints, 
 oommoniy callwl AllhaUows, Broad Street.' 
 
 " AI>out half a eentnry hit«'r Thomas Heaiitnond, an 
 eminent eiti/en, h'ft the t>«)ni|iany their first hall, and 
 ap|>ointe<l hy his will cvrtain religious serviees to he |H'r- 
 forme<I hy the priest, hrethren, and sisters of the ^nild. 
 8onje years later an attempt was made to prove that the 
 rclij^ions ^uild an»l the Salters ( 'ompany were two distinct 
 corporations, and that Heaumond intcnde<l to heqneath 
 the pro|>erty to the D'liijions ImmIv exflii>ivrlv ; hnt it was 
 <lt^•ide^^ hy law that the ' Kili^ions (Inild an<l the Salters 
 Com|>any were identical.' 
 
 "On the fi-tti^t of the patron s:iint the l>roth«r> and 
 BWten* of the <-onipany met, and, aftir varions religions 
 •erviiv*, high nuuw, pntconHionM, etc., dine<l to^*ther in the 
 ooni[ittny's Imll. In some of th»' ••ompjinies it wa.s the 
 rule that evcrk' hn»ther ithould hrin^' his wife or ' a 
 maiilen * to tho foaal — not to sit in a ^llerv, a-s in now 
 tlie fitnliion, and look down n|M)n their lords and nnisters 
 fewlin^; Iwlow, hnt t'» sit at th«' tnhh* and to take jKirt in 
 the feast. 
 
 "There were some vcrj* sin^dar ceremonie?* olj«er\*ctl 
 
b JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 by the guilds and companies. The Salters Company, for 
 instance, were enjoined by the will of Thomas Salter to 
 go annually to the Church of St. Magnus for the purpose 
 of keeping an obit, and there they performed the quaint 
 ceremony of knocking upon the grave, and each person 
 saying : ' How do you do. Brother Salter ? ' This prac- 
 tice was only discontinued early in the present century." 
 
 The Parliamentary Commission to investigate the guilds 
 of London, over seventy in number, report the Salters 
 Company and the shipwrights as founded in 1380. During 
 the reign of James I. the Salters Company owned in 
 Ulster, Ireland, 10,900 acres. These lands were originally 
 owned by the O'Neills, and were confiscated during the 
 reign of Elizabeth and James I. Under the Ashbourne 
 act nearly the whole of the county of Londonderry was 
 transferred by the guilds of London to the tenants, the 
 Salters Company holding 250,000 acres. 
 
 J. E. Still well, M.D., says the Salter family may 
 justly lay claim to considerable antiquity. In the reign 
 of Henry VI., temp. 1423, there lived one William 
 Salter, who was possessed of good estate and whose 
 ancestors had resided at and were the lords for over two 
 hundred years of a manor called Bokenhamis, in Eng- 
 land. Walter Salter lived in the time of Richard III., 
 temp. 1482. At the upper end of the south aisle in the 
 church of Tottengen, in the county of Norfolk, there is 
 erected to himself and lady a tablet with the following 
 inscription : 
 
 " Orate pro animabus 
 Walter Salter et Alice uxoris ejus 
 Et pro quibus tenentus." 
 
 " Pray for" the souls of Walter Salter and Alice his wife and for 
 the souls of all that belong to them." 
 
JOHN S A 1- 1 K K , M A K 1 N h U . 7 
 
 In 1')'2 4 Ilt'iirv SalUT was one of the .•>lu'rilTs ()f X(ti- 
 wieh. In 1G05 John Salter was mayor of Norwich. In 
 1GG3 tlie charter wa.s renewed hy CharU's II., and John 
 Salter wiws one of the twenty-four aldfrinen who were 
 a|)pointpd. He tiled Xoveinher 20, lljGO, a^cd seventy- 
 seven years, and was luiried in the f'hureh of St. 
 An«lrew. 
 
 Hridijet, wife of Mathew Salter, died ])r<<'inl)er M, 
 1G7(), aj;iKl forty-two years. She was internd in the 
 Church of St. Ethelre«l, and from her tonil) is copied the 
 following (juaint epitaj)!) : 
 
 " Tho tlead yet dear 
 Tho dead yet dear to me 
 Dead is her body 
 Dear her momorie." 
 
 It is dttiihtless from some of the foregoing persons that 
 theSjiIters in this coimtry are descended. If Mrs. Bridget 
 was, as is positively jisserted, the mother of twenty-two 
 children, it was no wonder that some of them wanted to 
 leave. In Kn;;land at tlic present time the name, though 
 not common, is still considerahly met with in certain 
 Im-alitics, esjM'cially in the vicinity of Norfolk. 
 
 In .Vmeriai there are stn'enil ilintinct fannlie> of the 
 name, wlwne arrival dates hack to the latter part of the 
 seventeenth century. 
 
 The ilejHMMiclantsof .lojm Salter, who settled at Odiorne'H 
 Point, N. If., and Kichard Salter, the «'arly settler in 
 Monmouth County, New Jers<«y, have Ihimi tin- most 
 prominent iti |H>i(it of nmnhers, as well jis the most con- 
 spicuous in HK'ial an<l politind life. 
 
 A family of the name ri'siding in North Carolina 
 
8 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 during the Revolution contributed a commissary to the 
 army and two members to the Provincial Congress. 
 Another residing in New York City during the post- 
 revolutionary period was engaged in mercantile pursuits, 
 and I have been written that in 1878, while the Rev. 
 William Salter, D.D., of Burlington, Iowa, was travelling 
 in Colorado, he met the Rev. Charles C. Salter, who stated 
 that his grandfather came to this country in 1794 from 
 Tiverton, Devonshire. 
 
 Sampson Salter was admitted a freeman March 20, 
 1638, at Newport, R. I. 
 
 The first Salter enrolled as a freeman under the charter 
 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was Will Salter, May 
 25, 1636. He was born in 1607, was well educated, 
 kept the prison, and was witness to many wills now on 
 record in Boston. In those good old times the pious 
 men of Boston captured Indians, sold them as slaves to 
 the planters in the West Indies, and hung Mrs. Hibbins 
 for being a witch. Will Salter witnessed her will. He 
 died August 10, 1675, and was buried in the King's 
 Chapel yard. ]\Iary Salter, his widow, was made execu- 
 trix. In his will he mentions his son John, '■'■ who has gone 
 away, but if he returns he shall have five acres of land." 
 
 John Salter and Henry Salter were enrolled as soldiers 
 in King Philip's war, and on October 9, 1720, Rev. 
 Thomas Foxcraft, of Boston, married Jolin Salter, aged 
 eighty years, to Abigail Durrant, so he must have re- 
 turned for his five acres. 
 
 On January 30, 1598, at Aston Clinton, County Berks, 
 England, Mary, daughter of Henry and Alice Baldwin, 
 was married to Richard Salter. 
 
 In 1622 Alice Baldwin left forty shillings each to her 
 seven grandchildren, and ten pounds to " my daughter. 
 
J O us S A I. IKK, M A K I N K K . U 
 
 Mary Salti-r. " Ilcr executors were Ivirhanl Salter and 
 Hiehanl li.iMuin. The latter, when he died, in will 
 (hitetl l\l)riiary IS, Ki.'Vi, left \\\< sister, Mary Salter, ton 
 pounds, and the >ain(' ti» each of her four chililnii — 
 Marv, John, Sarah, and l>avid. 
 
 David Salter, in his will, April 11. li'.tl'.t, made his 
 widow, Sarah Salter, sole legatee, I iit no trace of John 
 Salter can he fonnd in the English records, and it is (juite 
 possihle that with the money received hy the will date<l 
 in \^\'.\'2 he came to New Kngland. His age is fixed l»y 
 the fact that his father, Ivichard Salter, was married 
 thirty- four years previons. 
 
 The gn'ut plague of l^ondon came in l<i(J4. Twenty- 
 five |>er cent, of the population died and emigration was 
 .«;topjM>d. 
 
 \\ ar-danci> were regularh" held cverv si-ason, hut kiss- 
 ing and ki.s.sing gjimes were nnkniwii and unheard of in 
 New IIamp>hire until Martin I'ring, in June, 1<!(>.'{, 
 jwiiled ten miles up the Piscatatjua in tlu' ship Speedwell, 
 fifty tons, and hark Discoverer, twentv-six tons, carry- 
 ing forty-tiiree meu. He did not see anv Indian girls, 
 if his log-|><M>k can be trn.xtcd, l»ut Samuel de ( hamjtlain 
 luiuled July 15, 1605, at Odiorne's Point, the Plymouth 
 K'M^k of New Hampshire, and f«>und sjivagcs of all kinds. 
 They drew for him a map of the adjacent e(»asts. 
 
 After Champhiin <-ame Captain .lohn Smith, in IHI 4, 
 who ehri.Hteiied the n»uiitry '* New Kngland," rcferre<l 
 to by an old Knglish |MM't, (Jeorge Wither : 
 
 " In that iiiilt* gariifii y<»u N»'w Kn^lunrl Htyle."' 
 
 Caplnin Smith found a large Indian |M)pidation on 
 Ijoth nhoiVH of the IMMiitaqua, but n'ganllejw of the 
 
10 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 savages the first emigrants pitched their teuts and com- 
 menced fishing. 
 
 John Odiorne settled at Odiorne's Point, in 1623, and 
 gave it the name it has borne to this day. 
 
 The tradition handed down to the Portsmouth Salters 
 is that John Salter, the first of that name in New Eng- 
 land, came from the west of England, near Exeter, to the 
 Isles of Shoals, and later settled at Odiorne's Point. 
 John Salter probably brought his wife with him, as 
 maidens" were scarce in the colonies at that period, 
 
 Samuel Hinckes writes, July 19, 1724 : ^' The 14 
 instant went hence volenters from Piscatt after Indian 
 pirets as also Sundryes and one Capt Salter from the 
 Sholes & 4 met at green Tslands, said Salter (since Part- 
 ing from his consorts who arrived here to Day) informs 
 me he meet with the Indian Privateer a sconer once of 
 marblehead full of Indians Extraordinary well fitted who 
 Chased them 3 hours & she Takes all she Can come vp 
 with, so that the fishermen dont go East of this Place or 
 scarce to sea." 
 
 In July, 1729, Captain John Salter and Thomas Man- 
 nery appeared before the Royal Council relative to a cruise 
 " after ye Eastern Indians." 
 
 The latter testified : " Ye Indian Scooner first discovered 
 under ye Eastermost Green Island to ye Westward of 
 Manpomecus last Fryday between 3 and 4 o'clock p.m. 
 and that Capt John Salter was then abt a league and a 
 •half distant to ye Eastwd and to windward withall, and 
 yt ye deponent tackd his vessel to speak wth his con- 
 sort Salter and came up wth him and spoke wth him in 
 less than half an hour, and then told that under yonder 
 Green Island were the Enemy they came to seek for, and 
 asked him if he Avould go and see him ; to which Capt 
 
J O 11 N S A L T K K , M A K I N I : K . II 
 
 SaltiT rt'plyil he would; ami upon s<l Salter's so sayiti}; ye 
 Dt'poiiciit shot aloiiix alu'ad of hiiu toward ye Indn scooncr, 
 and Salter followd on," 
 
 In I72S .John Salter's name appears anion^^ the tax- 
 payers in New Castle, and in \7'.\\ he asked the(ieneral 
 Assemldy to he sit olT to Rye. ( )diorne's I'oint is still 
 in live. 
 
 Deeeinher 1, ITl.'l, ainon<: the list of men who ixtr- 
 rowed 4;l*o, ()(>(> the name of .John Salter appears for L]'!-"). 
 John Frost reeeived f25 an<l Jotham Odiorne, Jr., I'JOO. 
 
 Jatniary '), 174S, John Salter and William Frost si^'n 
 a protest a;;alnst an elt ctioii retnrn. 
 
 W'li.i. <ii' Joii N S.M.rF.i:. 
 PrnhiiUtl at Kn-lrr, .V. //.. IToo. 
 
 In the name of iun\ amen. This IJth day of May 
 in the vear of onr Lord ITo'J. I. .John Salter of Rye 
 in the province of N. II. (ient. heinj; seusilde of my 
 mortality and liein^r advamtd in years, hnt of sonnd dis- 
 jM>sin^ njind and niemory do make and ordain this tn l>e 
 iny last Will and Testament. 
 
 I reeonunend my soul into the hands of Go«l hopini: for 
 salivation and happiness in and throngh themcrey of Jesiis 
 Christ and niv ImmIv I commit to the earth to he hnrird in 
 a de<'ent manner l»y my executor hereafter named. And 
 touching my wi»rldly estate I ^ive jh'inise and tlisposc 
 thereof in mannner followinj; 
 
 I will and order that my just dehts and funenil <'har^e8 
 Ih" paid in convenient time after my deeeu.>*e hy my Kx- 
 wiitor 
 
 I jfive nnti> my Ii«lov««l \\ ife Amy the sum of Twenty- 
 five |M>uiu).4. I also give her one <*<)W, ami all the swine 
 
12 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 I shall have at the time of my death and all the provisions 
 that shall be in my house at that time. Also all my beds 
 and bedding and household furniture, all the aforesaid to 
 be at her own disposal. I also give her the interest of 
 all the money I shall leave, debts and funeral charges 
 being paid during the time she shall continue my widow. 
 I also give her the use and improvement of the new end 
 of my dwelling house during the time aforesaid and I will 
 and order that the principal sum aforesaid be equally 
 divided among ray children upon the death of my wife, 
 or upon her marrying again which shall first happen. 
 
 I give and devise unto my son Richard and my son 
 Titus the sum of five shillings each. I give unto my 
 grandson John Randall ten pounds. I given unto my 
 daughters Mary Mace, Elizabeth Ruby, Charity Leach, 
 Margery Hall, Martha Sanborn, and Sarah Sloper the 
 sum of five shillings each. 
 
 I will and order that my two acres of Salt Marsh at 
 Little harbor so called, lying near salt marsh of James 
 Clarkson Esq and also my two oxen be sold by my Exec. 
 as soon as may be after my decease and that out of the 
 money that shall be raised thereby ten pounds be paid 
 unto my grandson John Salter, a son of my son Alex. 
 Salter deceased and to whom I give ten pounds, and three 
 pounds fifteen shillings unto Mary Salter and three 
 pounds fifteen shillings unto Lucy Salter daughter of my 
 son Alex. Salter deceased to whom I give three pounds 
 fifteen shillings each. 
 
 I give and demise that tract of land at Rye where I 
 now live containing about thirty acres which I bought of 
 one Joseph Morrell with the buildings thereon unto my 
 grandson Alex. Salter son of my son Alex Salter de- 
 ceased and unto his heirs and assigns forever if he shall 
 
JOHN SALTKK, M A K 1 N K K . lo 
 
 arrive unto the a^e of twinty-one years, but if he shall 
 not arrivi' at that a^e, I give ami devise the same unto 
 my grautlson .Inhii SaltiT hefore mentioned and nnt<t his 
 heirs and assiijns ftm-ver if he shall arrive nntn the age 
 of twenty-one years, l»iit if he shall not arrive at that age 
 I give and demise the s;ime nnto my two grand daughters 
 Marv anil Luey Salter hefore mentioned and unto their 
 heirs ami assigns forever e([ually <livided. 
 
 I will and order that my wife Amy and my ilaughter 
 in law I'liziiheth the widow of my son Alexaiuler de- 
 eeasetl have the use and improvement of the said traet of 
 land so long as they eontinue widows towanls the hring- 
 ing up of the chihlien of my son Alex, deceased, but not 
 to commit any strip or waist thereon. And as to the rest 
 ami resiiluc of my estate both real and pei*son;il whereso- 
 ever and whatsoever I give and beijiuath the sanu' unto 
 my chihlren e«jually divided between them. And I 
 «le.-ire and reipiest, .lames Marden and Stephen Marden 
 both of Rye aforesiiid to be guardians unto the children 
 of my son Ale.\. deceased. And I hereby constitute and 
 apjM)int my wife Amy and my son Titus Salter to be 
 Kxee. of this my last will and testament hereby ratifying 
 this and no other to l>e my hist will and testametjt. In 
 testimony whereof I have hereunto set my haml and seal 
 the day and year first alM)ve written 
 
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 Matiikw LivKiiMoiir. 
 
 If John SalliT, f)f Kyo, gent., u<'rc a«lvani-e«l in years in 
 1752, when his S4>n Richard was forty-thret*, he mu^t have 
 
14 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 been born as early as 1672, at Odiorne's Point. There 
 should be some record in Exeter to show what year he 
 bought the farm of thirty acres left to his grandson, 
 Alexander Salter, eight years old (named after his father), 
 in Rye, where he died November 14, 1801, aged fifty- 
 seven. 
 
 In the North Church records there is a baptism of 
 John, son of John and Martha Salter, October 4, 1730. 
 Martha had probably died before the will was made. A 
 daughter had died, as a grandson, John Randall, receives 
 ten pounds. Nine children are remembered in the will. 
 Amy was the second wife, and probably young, as she 
 was to have the use of the mansion until she married 
 again. Ebenezer Sanborn, born July 25, 1712, married 
 in June, 1740, Martha, named after the first wife. 
 
 Titus Salter, the executor, did good service in the 
 Revolution. In 1765 a petition for a light-house at 
 Odiorne's Point was signed by Titus Salter, Richard 
 Salter, and John Salter, and they were requested to re- 
 port on the estimated cost. Four days after the fight at 
 Bunker Hill, June 21, 1775, the schooner Ann, owned 
 by Titus Salter, was seized by H. B. M. ship Scar- 
 borough, but on October 2d Captain Titus Salter retali- 
 ated and seized the ship Prince George, bound to Boston 
 with 1892 barrels of flour for General Gage's army. The 
 farmers made good soldiers, but it was left to the priva- 
 teers and the few armed boats in the na\'y to supply the 
 hungry soldiers with food and clothing intercepted en 
 route to Boston. 
 
 General Washington was very much pleased with Titus 
 Salter for his capture of flour, even if it were fifty miles 
 away from camp, and wrote William Whipple to send 
 him 1200 barrels. The name of William Whipple appears 
 
JOHN S A I, r i: K , M A K I N 1 i: . I o 
 
 on tlio (tiilv tllc of linston papers nf tlii> pciiiul in the 
 LtMJox Lilmiry. 
 
 •lamiary .">, 177<>, C'apfain Titiis Salter was instructed 
 to enlist ninety men for tlie garrison of Fort Washington, 
 ami also to order every one «)n the Isles of Shoals to leave. 
 
 The ('oMHuittie of Safety in I'xt'ter, .Inly 8, 177!>, ap- 
 |)ointiHl Titus Salter captain of the arnieil sliij) llninjxhn 
 iti the PtMiohscot expedition. 
 
 In 17S;}, at the end of the war, the thaid<s of the 
 (ienend Assenihly were voted to Captain Titus Salter for 
 all his good services for the State. 
 
 March 11, 17!M), Titus Salter made a contract with the 
 State of New Hampshire, and on November IH, 17I>0, 
 ronewetl the contract with Alexander Hamilton, Secretary 
 of the Treasury, to erect and maintain a light-house at the 
 entrance to I'ortsmonth hari)or. 
 
 Titus Salter was horn in Oitoher, 172'J. He died Sep- 
 temher 2n, 17J»S. He marrietl Kli/aheth IJiekfonl, July 
 11, 1745. 
 
 •Mexander Salter, referred to, was on (he niii.»ter-roll of 
 Captain Fnineis Locke's comjtanv, .lulv 'J, 171<), at Fort 
 M illiamand Mary. His son, Alexander, was mnstere<l in 
 Captain Joseph Parsons' (Y)n)j)any of miinite-mcn, Novem- 
 ber '12, 177"). In December, 1785), .Mexander signed a 
 petition for a bridge at New ( 'astle, ami on Di-cember 18, 
 17H7, joined Titus and John Salter in u petition for a 
 bridge at Sng:imor<". 
 
 The will refers t(» a grandson, John Salter. ( )n the 
 pay-roll of a contpany of light-hor>ie volunteers, com- 
 mandetl by Colonel .John I^ngdon in the expe<liti«)n to 
 KhtMJe I-land, in August, 1778, the name of John Salter 
 ap|K".irs. Then* was a tight atC^uaker Hill, Rhode Island, 
 Augu.st 2'Jth. 
 
16 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 John Salter, son of Titus Salter, was appointed second 
 lieutenant of the privateer General Sullivan, November 
 17, 1778. He died in 1794. 
 
 This will is the earliest reliable record that we can find 
 of John Salter. His name is not mentioned in his son's 
 family Bible, printed in Oxford in 1738; 
 '' Richard Salter his book January 2.3, 1739 
 '^ Richard Salter was born March 14, 1709 
 " Elizabeth Odiorne Salter 
 '' his wife born February 21, 1709 
 
 " This cople was married October 8, 1731" 
 Richard Salter died at Halifax, N. S., April 10, 1768 ; 
 his wife died in September, 1748, on Salter's Island, 
 Portsmouth harbor. 
 
 When the first settlement was made at New Castle is 
 unknown, but as early as 1650 it was already a place of 
 considerable importance. Its proximity to Odiorne's 
 Point, just across Little Harbor, where the first house in 
 New Hampshire was built, in 1 623, is sufficient ground 
 to suppose that this island must have been occupied very 
 soon after the landing of the first settlers. In 1660 John 
 Odiorne received forty-two acres in New Castle in a divi- 
 sion of public lands. For many years New Castle was 
 the seat of business of Portsmouth, the most populous and 
 the most aristocratic part of the town. New Castle be- 
 came a port of entry about 1686, and for one hundred 
 years after the shipping business was extensive. 
 
 John Odiorne was born in 1627. He married Mary, 
 daughter of James Johnson, and died at New Castle in 
 1707. His son Jotham, who was born in 1675, married 
 Sarah Bassum, and died in 1748. His Majesty George 
 
JOHN S A L T K R , M A R I N' K R . 17 
 
 II. sij;iie<l :i wHrnint .Fiily 11, 172 1, :i<liiiittin^ liiin tt)"ye 
 i'omii'il of this l*ri>viii<'<\" < >iir <;nintliin>tlu'r was then 
 fiftifii years old. 
 
 Haniiai) W'ciitworth at «li(Tt'ront times luul all these 
 dates engraved on the hottoin of her lari;e silver waiter 
 for the henelit of Kli/.al>eth's t;ninilchildreii : 
 
 C'liii I'KiN oi- liuiiAUit Sai.tki: AM) Klizakkth 
 Odiornk. 
 
 Eliz;iln'th licini .liiK It IT-l'Jdifd 177'J Marrifd Kichard 
 
 Mill< 
 
 Hit (lauiihtor Anne niiirried Moses Copp. 
 
 .John Itoiii 173") died an infant 
 
 Mrhilahle Uorn 17;>S Marri.-.l I>ra«'l Tilthits and had 3 
 ehiidreil 
 
 And .lohn Monlton and iiad J ihildren .K)hn and 
 Nahhy. 
 
 John l)..rn Nov 14 1740 
 Titus 
 
 His Hon Titus married Ahij^ail Krost. 
 
 His jjrand.Hoii .lohn Lake .^alter niurriod four times. 
 
 William not married 
 
 Captain of the hri;; NN'illiani in 17»)8 
 
 liii-hard Married Kli/alieth Avres 
 
 and Kli/;iheth Tuesihdl. 
 
 Harriet C Salter s:iid that when she was a jj;irl she 
 went with her mother to the fnneral of the first wife, who 
 was Jifty-fonr and I'ncle Riehard ahont sixty. After the 
 services her mother told Betsy Tuesdull, then ahont fifty, 
 she wotdd make a pxxl wife for Unide liichanl, and in 
 tlie eours«> of a yi*ar they were married. In th»' North 
 l)nnk'in|^-j^n)und are the stones to tiie memory of lHi/.;ilMth, 
 wife of Captain Uichard Salter, die<l .Inly 2o, 1805, aped 
 
18 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 fifty-four, and Elizabeth, widow of Captain Richard 
 Salter, died June 17, 1836, aged eighty-two. 
 
 Richard Salter had ten children. Three named Eliza- 
 beth and two named John (who died in infancy), and 
 Richard, Perkins, Thomas, Joseph, and Nancy. 
 
 Nancy Salter, born 1778, died 1825, married her first 
 cousin, Titus Salter, son of the executor, Titus Salter, re- 
 ferred to. They had four children : Ann, married C. S. 
 Toppan; Mary, married J. M. Tredick; Charlotte; Henry 
 Perkins Salter (father of Thomas P. Salter). 
 
 The letter-of-marque brig of eight guns called the 
 Scorpion was commanded by Captain Richard Salter. 
 
 In May, 1777, Richard Salter got into trouble, and his 
 sloop, the Friends Adventure, was seized in Massachusetts 
 waters because he had altered his papers to escape capture 
 by British cruisers in the West Indies. His friends 
 thought he was justified in resorting to any device to get 
 home. 
 
 Captain John Salter, Mariner. 
 Born November 14, 1740; died September 28, 1814. 
 
 Married First. 
 Dorothy Bickford, December 13, 1762. She was born 
 May 13, 1740; died March 18, 1776. 
 
 Married Second. 
 Elizabeth, April 14, 1778. She was born June 26, 
 1745. 
 
 Married Third. 
 
 Jane Frost, November 1, 1783. She was born March 
 7, 1757; died December 10, 1837 
 
JOHN 8ALTKR, M ARINKR. 19 
 
 The siepo of Rotiton continuc<l during tlic summer and 
 iintiitnn of 177"), iuu\ tlicrc would apjuar to l)c no reason 
 wliv an experienced eaptain like dolm Salter, at that time 
 tliirtv-live vears old, slionld not t;o tt) sea in a privateer. 
 Til>l)its refers to his many voyages before this dat<> as a 
 master of vessels. 
 
 John Salter writes Lane, Son tV Fraser that he sailo<l 
 Soptemln^r (>, 1775, from Newhuryport in the ship Cri.tin, 
 iMMind to Antigua, and two days later he was fired upon 
 l)V II. 1>. M. ship Live/t/ and taken t<» Boston. " My 
 whip lies with her airgo in lur yet and what will he 
 done with it 1 cannot write at present. I am kept here, 
 and not permitted to go home nor proceed on my voyage: 
 I have not heanl from Col Hoy<l since I have been here. 
 Such time's N'ew iMigland never saw before. I hope in 
 timl that something will he done in Kngland this winter 
 to make uj) this nnhap])y affair and that we may hear of 
 no more hlood H|)ilt amongst us." Captain Salter stayed 
 on shore until the Revolution wa.s over. 
 
 Bn'wster, in his liamUes, says : '* There are in Ports- 
 mouth harlK>r more than a dozen other islands of various 
 sizes, addiiiir much to the beauty of the water landstajM^ 
 as vi«'\v«Ml from various points. As seen from the Auburn 
 Cemetery, the most pronunent is Salter's Island, a hand- 
 some swell of land, on which is a house sitting very 
 pleasantly in the basin on the east, near Fnune's Point, 
 where the Newcastle bridge eonnivts with Portsmouth. 
 It was for manv vears the n^sidenci' of ( 'aptain John 
 Salter, niarin»T, uhi.di'-d in isl I. nt the .ti/e t.f -.•\.-.niv 
 years. " 
 
 Captain Salter was engjigeil in furuign i-ommeree before 
 the Revolution. He onw left this |)ort for Kngland on 
 a vej»rtel in which was a large number of Imxes of 8{)anish 
 
20 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 dollars. Encountering a storm about Christmas time, he 
 was driven on the rocks at the mouth of the Kennebec 
 River. His vessel was gotten off somewhat damaged, 
 and he went into a neighboring harbor, where he was 
 compelled to remain until March. During all this time 
 he was unable to send a communication to or receive a 
 word from Portsmouth, and no notice of the disaster was 
 received there until the vessel arrived at London. At 
 that time there was no communication along the coast 
 except such as was made by vessels. 
 
 One event in the early life of Captain Salter, although 
 not of much importance, shows his calculating cast when 
 a boy. A stranger of some show and bluster one day 
 called at Frame's Point, and, desirous of visiting New 
 Castle, asked the boy to row him down. Nothing was 
 said about pay, and so the young ferryman, to test his 
 liberality, landed him on Goat Island on the way. The 
 man supposing, as the boy wished he should, that he had 
 reached New Castle, jumped on shore. Bowing to the 
 lad, he said, as he ascended the beach, '' I shall pay you 
 when we meet in town some day." The boat was put off 
 speedily. The stranger looking around soon discovered 
 himself the sole inhabitant of the little island, and called, 
 ''Young man, come back!" The cautious boatman, 
 however, with a " Perhaps we shall meet in town some 
 day," left him, a Robinson Crusoe on his Juan Fernandez. 
 
 In June, 1787, John Salter and Richard S. Tibbits 
 signed a petition to the General Court complaining of the 
 duties on imports. On December 10, 1799, John Salter 
 signed another petition to incorporate St. John's Lodge 
 in Portsmouth. Captain Salter built the house in Wash- 
 ington Street, Portsmouth, where he lived many years. 
 
 In the Cotton burying-ground are monuments to the 
 
JOHN S A L T K R , MAUI N I : R . 21 
 
 memory of .lolm Sultt-r, :ii;('«l scvcnty-tlireo Vf;irs, and 
 Jaiu" Saltrr, aLrr<l ci^lity-itMc vcars. 
 
 .I:i!H' Frost aj>pari'ntly had a lovor in the ( 'niitiiimtal 
 Army in tlu' siege of Bt>ston, in 1775, and ki'j>t one letter 
 fnmi him in the family Rii)l('. Jane was eighteen, and 
 her sister Dorothy sixteen. Samnel Haven was expeetetl 
 to forwjinl letters from Clarissa to Lysiinder. As we 
 hear no inoreai>out I'hiladel})hia militia armed with toma- 
 hawks, we fear that Lysander must have been killed in 
 the Revolution. .lane Frost did not seem disposed to 
 marrv at tlii- [icriod of the war. She certainly had no 
 interest in dohn Salter, who was livini; on his farm at 
 Salter's Island, close to her home in Xcw Castle. 
 
 John Salter lost his wife in 177<>, an<l two years later 
 nuirried l-'Ji/aheth March, who was thirty-three, while 
 Jane Frost was only twenty-one, and the " lovely 
 Lucinda " nineteen. Aficr the treaty of peaee was siji^ned, 
 Jane Fn>st be<"ame the third wife of .lolm Salter, and 
 Don>thy married James .lewelt. 
 
 New Castle wa.s the s<'ene of the tirst important ajigres- 
 sive armetl action of the Revolutionary patriots. liefore 
 Paul Revere — the ori;;inal Roii^h Rider — made his 
 famous ride to L^'xin^ton and ( 'on<-ord, he had taken 
 a much loup-r our, if not so celebrated. Dei-cinber 
 13, 1771, he nnle express from lloston to Portsmouth, 
 di'j«|»;itche<i by the Boston ( ornmittee of Safety. The 
 next day thr Portsmouth S)ns of LilnTty, with the 
 |Mitriots of New Castle, in all alK)Ut \CH), under command 
 of Major .lohn Sullivan, pr(K'<'e«Jeil to tin.' ft>rt and car- 
 ried off one liundrtnl barrels of gunpowder. Most of it 
 waa u.h<h| at Hunker II ill. Trevelyan xiys thev also 
 carne<l away in broad dayli>;ht sixteen <>:innon. 
 
 Ly.santler writes, July 2«>th, when Gage was in com- 
 
22 JOHN SALTER MARINER. 
 
 mand in Boston and expecting the flour that Titus Salter 
 seized in the Prince George (the "base wretches" were 
 probably the officers in the New Castle fort) : 
 
 To Miss Jenny Frost In Newcastle 
 
 My last was committed to the care of a worthy Clergy- 
 man and I hope got safe to hand but not a word from 
 Clarissa yet ! Why may not Lysander be gratified with 
 intelligence how and where she and the lovely Lucinda 
 (her sister D) have spent these last 2 months. Can they 
 be taken up so much with their last winters acquaintance, 
 their minds so much engrossed with the Company and 
 Conversation of their new friends as to forget and neglect 
 their former ones ? However amiable these Gentlemen 
 may be in their private Character Heaven forbid any 
 Daughter of America should treat them with even com- 
 mon civility so long as their professed design of being 
 here is the unnatural unrighteous and disgraceful Business 
 they are now upon ; but if you are yet at your own Home 
 you will say your situation is peculiarly difficult, that 
 there must be a free Complaisance even to such base 
 Wretches. I acknowledge it my lovely friends and can 
 say no more ; the Ladies I know will raise many scruples 
 about writing to the Gentlemen but can there be any im- 
 propriety in an epistolary Correspondence with One who 
 has been as it were of your own family and whom you 
 have so long honour'd with your acquaintance but perhaps 
 the most material Objection will be the unsteadiness of my 
 Abode ; by way of reply would say I generally leave 
 word at the place I leave where I expect to make my next 
 Stage and I doubt not but any letter so directed to me 
 would find me. A letter left with Mr. Saml Haven I 
 should hope to receive. I perceive that the Curiosity of 
 
JUIIN SAl/lKK, MARINKR. 23 
 
 many Ladies hius s<) far oven'omr the timitlity s«» natiinil 
 to your Si'X as to iiultur thorn to visit tlu' Army, Imt 
 tilings art' in sncli a confiisM state as to afford hardly any 
 Acconuu(Klations. 
 
 We have nothing; very special, iuit I will j^ive yon the 
 princi|Mil news. One Company of riflemen consisting of 
 107 who left I'cnnsylvania the 1st ins arrived yesterday. 
 \\'hat I ohserved p«'cidiar in them I shall just mention viz 
 their fnx-k with a kind of ('ape, their Indian Sto<'kinpj 
 ii.sinj; a Tomahawk and not a IJayonet anil their ritle gun. 
 
 We iiad a Regular come in who desertc<l from the 
 enon)ies Lines at Charlestown this morning. Letters have 
 been lately receiv'd from the Selectmen of Boston yet in 
 timt town by their Brethren ont i)urporting that there are 
 2(K) |>ersons in the Almshouse. .{Oof them so bad as not 
 to be able to be mov'd, that (iage wants to be rid of them 
 and will furnish water carriage for their removal. 
 
 Application Iuls been made with success for the Salem 
 Hospital and I suj)pii.-e after obtaining the a|)probation 
 of the (len. Court they will be transported there. Have 
 ju-it been to Corporal Frost's Tent and found him retail- 
 ing a little of the goinl creauture to chear the spirits of 
 liis fellow soldiers. He had just receiv'd a Letter from 
 his Sinter Nabby and told me they were all well ; d(K>s the 
 txlucation of the Youth still go on ".' what is become of 
 my 8ue*"eHsor ? is the plan of my former agreeable re.si- 
 denee entirely fon<aketi ? a thousand things I want to 
 know ; pray infr)rni the anxiotis 
 
 Lysa.ndkk. 
 
 July 2»>. We<Ines<lay Kveg ^ pust 10 o'eloek. 
 
 P. S. Our soMiers won' order' d sevonil Nights within 
 this week to l>e on th«' {Kinule before day and some Nights 
 to lie on their arms but wc have iiad no alarm. 
 
24 JOHN SALTER, MARINER, 
 
 Children of Captain John Salter, Mariner. 
 
 John, born January 20, 1779 ; died February 25, 1781 
 (infant). 
 
 Joseph March, born April 18, 1781 ; died October, 
 1837. Married Sarah Frost March 3, 1806. His son 
 Joseph was in the Navy, and died in Columbus, Miss. 
 
 Dorothy, born August 29, 1782 ; died in 1853. Mar- 
 ried John Frost October 30, 1826. 
 
 Elizabeth, born June 22, 1784 ; died October 24, 1808 
 (buried in Cotton burying-ground). Married W. H. 
 Wilkins. 
 
 William, born January 23, 1787 ; died September 25, 
 1849 (buried in Cotton burying-ground). Married Mary 
 Ewen. They had five children : William, Mary, Ben- 
 jamin, Frances, and Charles. 
 
 John, born July 5, 1788 ; died January 10, 1858. 
 Married Sarah Tibbits. 
 
 Maria Jane, born June 20, 1790. Married Samuel 
 Cushman, member of Congress from New Hampshire. 
 
 Sarah Ann, born February 6, 1 794 ; died, unmarried, 
 in Portsmouth, October 18, 1876. 
 
 Benjamin Salter, born April 6, 1792, in Washington 
 Street, Portsmouth. He attended the academy opened 
 by Ilev\ Timothy Aldeu, Jr., in 1806, and at an exhibi- 
 tion, September 23, 1807, he gave a Greek oration. 
 Harriet C. Tibbits appears on the programme as Leonora 
 in '' The Little Needle-woman," and as the Shop-girl 
 Nancy in " Mrs. Dumford, the Milliner." On the same 
 programme are the names of Hall J. Tibbits, Sarah Tib- 
 bits, Dorothy Salter, and the three sisters, Elizabeth, 
 Maria Jane, and Sarah Ann. Benjamin Salter went to 
 
J O n S S A L T K K , M A K 1 N K K . 2') 
 
 Exctor Aauleiny, i^niduattHl at Howdoin Coliegt' iu IHI 1, 
 anil tnivt'lK'tl in Eiiropo in 1X15. Hr rotiinu'd al)()iit 
 Cliristinas with a lot of toys lie had bought on s|M'<-nhi- 
 tion. I'ht' followinLT vcar he went into business with his 
 hrotht'i* William in FavcttcvilK-, X. ('. The lirni was 
 oui' of the tirst in the eountrv to ship eotton to Europe. 
 For awhile he was President of the United Slates Branch 
 Hank at Fayctteville. Iveturning to New York in 182o, 
 his name appears as one of the founders of tiie Chureh of 
 the Messiah. He was married August 23, 1821, by Hev. 
 Nathan I'arker, to Harriet Chase Tibbits, and went in a 
 chaise on a bridal tour to Exeter. liater in the season he 
 starleil for l-'ayetteville, and was a month driving there. 
 Mails wer«' slow in those days, and on one (x'casioii a ship 
 arrived in the night bringing him information that cotton 
 had risen. 'J'he next morning he rushed f)Ut before break- 
 fast and bought all the cotton in town. P.rnjamin Salter 
 <lied in New York, Se|)t<'mlK>r S, IHoS. Harriet Tibbits 
 S;ilter tlied in New York November 1, 1872. (Jeorge 
 Salter dietl in Washington, August 15, 181)5. They were 
 all biirit d in the I'ortsmouth ( 'emctcrw 
 
 Cim.DRF.N OK nK.N.IAMI.S SaLTKU AM> HaKKIKT 
 
 TimuTs Saltki:. 
 
 Mary, married by Kev. Orville Hewey. P. 1>., < >ctober 
 29, 18 lo, t.. Uichnnl (J. Porter. 
 
 Jane, niarrieil by liev. Samuel ()sgoo<l, 1>.I>.. Ni.vtin- 
 l>er 22, 185 1, to Samuel W. Thomas. 
 
 (Jeoi^e, married by Rev. Samuel <)sg<M>d, 1>. !>.. .lan- 
 uary 14, 1H5H, to Mar)- E. Ke<'ler. 
 
 Caroline, nmrrit^l to Mareelo M. I)elgado. Ajirii 22, 
 1861. 
 
26 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 William, married by Rev. Henry AV. Bellows, D.D., 
 May 18, 1872, to Georgianua Harrison. 
 
 Harriet, married by Rev. O. B Frothingham, Feb- 
 ruary 26, 1875, to J. Freeman Howard. 
 
 Albert, married June 21, 1877, by Bishop Niles, of 
 New Hampshire, to Frances Philbrook. 
 
 Three children died in infancy : William and Frances, 
 each fourteen months old, buried in Cotton Cemetery, 
 and Harriet, fourteen days old, buried in the Hudson 
 Street Cemetery, New York. 
 
 Grandchildren of Benjamin Salter and Harriet 
 Chase Tibbits, 
 
 Frank Porter, married Emma Hobart and Ida Stow. 
 
 Harry Porter, married Virginia Raney. 
 
 Edward Porter, married Josie Wakefield. 
 
 Elizabeth Porter, married George Ruge. 
 
 William Porter, married Effie Walker. 
 
 Richard Porter. 
 
 Rodman Porter, died January 18, 1881. 
 
 Frank Thomas, married Estelle Claremont. 
 
 Robert Thomas, married Mary Fletcher and Louise 
 Shaw. 
 
 Agnes Thomas, married Wilmot Townsend. 
 
 Wesley Bray Salter, ^ 
 
 Jasper Colton Salter, V children of George Salter. 
 
 Mabel C. Salter, j 
 
 Huldah Jenness Salter, daughter of Albert Salter. 
 
 May Florence Salter, daughter of William T. Salter, 
 died July 13, 1886. 
 
P K P P K R R K L L . 27 
 
 CJkka r(;i;AM'< iiii.DiiKN ok Bkn-Jamin Sai.iki: am> 
 
 IlAUIJItrr ClIASK TlBHITW. 
 
 CliiKirfii of Frank I'ori* r : IMimmd Hol)art, Frances 
 luHlinai), aixl Marietta. 
 
 (liiKlrtn of Harry I'ortt-r : Harriet Fraiurs, Mary 
 Tibhits, Virjjinia IvJiiioy, Ilichanl, f^lizahotli Lamar, and 
 (iillHTt lUxlmaii. 
 
 CliiMreii of Fdwanl I'orttr : Ftliel, KtluanI JJaniard, 
 .lo-sephine, and lOlcanor Wakefield. 
 
 C'|jildrein)f Klizaheth Porter linire : Ilernian, Karncst, 
 h^lwiii Weed, and ( >liv»'. 
 
 Children of William Porter : Mary, Richard, Walker, 
 an<l I><'ila. 
 
 Children of Aj^nes Thomas Townsend : Snsana Bell 
 and Janet Salter. 
 
 ( hildren of Knhert 'riiorna> : N'ir-^Mnia Fletcher, Kuhy 
 Lonise, and Ruth. 
 
 PKPPl.RKl.LL. 
 
 Kverett Pe|)|x;rell Wheeler sjjys : 
 
 "Colonel Pe|)|)errell, a nativoof Devonshire, P'n^land, 
 \v:lh left an orphan at an early aj;e, withont resources of 
 aov kind except his own indomitahle eounij^e. lie came 
 frvm Kn^^land dnrin^ the rt?i^;n of William an«l Mary, 
 and was apprentice*! to the (*:iptain of a ti-^hin^ schoon(>r 
 ciu|)Ioye«l on the coast of Newfoniulland. When he 
 finishnl \\\» term of service he t4M>k tip his alM»de on the 
 I»le« of Shoals, at that time inhaliited liy tishermen, who 
 souj^ht them» lonely isles for security from the Indiana, 
 and who found in their adventurous trade the means of 
 
28 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 earning a livelihood, and in one instance at least the 
 means of acquiring the beginnings of a fortune. 
 
 ''The Colonel had three sisters probably with him at 
 the Shoals, which had a population at one time of six hun- 
 dred, supported an able minister, and sent two delegates 
 to the General Court of Massachusetts. 
 
 ''After the Colonel married and settled at Kittery, about 
 1680, a garrison house was erected and maintained at the 
 Point, to which families might resort when threatened by 
 sudden assaults from Indians, and as early as 1700 a fort 
 was erected which went by his name. Colonel Church, 
 in 1704, had orders to send his sick and wounded to Pep- 
 perrell's Fort. In 1714 the province of Massachusetts 
 made Kittery Point a port of entry, and erected a fort, 
 with six guns. Pepperrell had command of this fort, 
 also a company of militia, and rose to the rank of Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel." 
 
 Maegery Bray. 
 
 Kittery obtained a charter in 1647, and about 1660 
 John Bray, ship-builder from Plymouth, County of 
 Devon, England, arrived at the Piscataqua, bringing 
 with him his wife, Joanna, and his daughter, Margery, 
 a year old. 
 
 King Philip's war broke out in 1675, and on the re- 
 turn of peace John Bray was able to extend his business 
 upon a large and lucrative scale. Ship-building, which 
 he followed during a long life, was an early and an ex- 
 tensive branch of industry on the Piscataqua. It was 
 rendered particularly profitable by the policy of the home 
 government which favored ship-building more than any 
 other trade, insomuch that the ship carpenters on the 
 
Col. William Pepperrell 
 
r K r V K K K K L L . 29 
 
 Tliaiiu's compIaiiuHl in 1721 that tlu'ir Imsiiu'ss was hurt 
 ttiitl thfir \V(»rkiiK'ii eini^rattil, cansnl hy th<> Imilditii; nf 
 so many vessels in New Knphuul. 
 
 Marijery ha<l arrived at the age of seventeen when she 
 first siiw C'oU)nel Pepperrell, who, smitten witli her 
 yonthfnl eharms, was not slow in making his impressions 
 known ; hut he was so poor that Margery would not 
 listen to him, ami the prosperous ship-l)nil(ler di<l not 
 favor the young tisherman froiu Appledorc However, 
 in a few years, l»y his industry and frugality, he ae»juired 
 enough to send out a hrig, wliieh he loa<li'd to Hull, Kng- 
 land. liy this timi' Margery was out of her teens, and 
 her fatlnT gavr his consent. They were marrietl and 
 built the I'ei)jMTrell mansion at Kittery, which is still 
 u.st'd :us a dwelling-house. In the next half century the 
 largest fortune then known in New Kngland was aecu- 
 mulatt^l in this house. 
 
 Colonel I\'p|>erreirs letters to his cjiptains are written 
 in a gixxl haml : 
 
 • PaseatiUjua 1 day May 1 7 !"_' John \'cimard you 
 hceing now master of ye sloupe Mirnim now riding in ve 
 harhor of I*as<'ata»iua hy Otxl's grace hound to Antego 
 my t)nler is for you to imhrace ye first fare wind ( Jod 
 shall s«'n«l and siiile dereetly for Ant«'go and heing thare 
 arrive*! my onler is ft)r you to adres your selfe to Mr 
 Anthony Mountert) and to him deleavre my letters and 
 giMxls." 
 
 " ( 'ojiey of this 1 reed which hy (nni's assistance I 
 iutend to follow." Sign«*<l 
 
 .loii.v Vkxnakd. 
 
 (*ol«)ncl i*ep|MTrcll tdiicat'd his children in the hest 
 manner the time and place |H'nnitli'<l : 
 
 .Vmlrrw, Ijorn .lulv 1. 1«;*<1. .Marrieii .lane Klliot. 
 
30 JOHN" SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 They had two daughters : Sarah, married Charles Frost ; 
 Margery, married William Wentworth. When Andrew 
 died his widow married another Charles Frost. 
 
 Mary, born September 5, 1685. 
 
 Margery, born in 1689, married Peletiah Whitemore 
 and Elihu Gunnison. 
 
 Joanna, born June 22, 1692. Married George Jackson. 
 
 Miriam, born September 3, 1694. Married Andrew 
 Tyler. 
 
 William, born June 27, 1696. Married Mary Hirst. 
 
 Dorothy, born July 23, 1698. Married Andrew 
 Watkinsand Joseph Newmarch. 
 
 Jane, born in 1701. Married Benjamin Clark and 
 William Tyler (another case of two sisters marrying two 
 brothers). 
 
 William Pepperrell, who married Mary Hirst, March 
 16, 1723, was the leading merchant of New England, and 
 by his great popularity obtained the command of the ex- 
 pedition against Louisburg, with four thousand men. In 
 1747 he visited England, and was greeted by King and 
 people as the hero of Louisburg. He was made a Baronet 
 for his services, and appointed Lieutenant-General Feb- 
 ruary 20, 1759. During the latter part of his life he was 
 the most prominent man in America, George Warshington 
 alone excepted. 
 
 The following notice of our grandmother's death ap- 
 peared in the Boston Post Boy : 
 
 " Kittery, April 30, 1741. Last Friday, after a short 
 illness, dej)arted this life, and this day was decently in- 
 terred. Madam Margery Pepperrell* of this place, in the 
 eighty-first year of her age. She was born in Plymouth, 
 in Old England, came hither with her parents in infancy, 
 who left their native country for the free enjoyment of 
 
LieutenantGenersI Sir William Pepperrel 
 
 \ 
 
rKPl'KKRKLL. 'M 
 
 their relipimis principles. She was, through the whole 
 eoiirse oi her life, very exetnplarv for uimfTei-tc<l j)iety 
 and amial^le virtues, esj)ecially her charity, her courteous 
 afTability, her pnulence, meekness, patience, and her un- 
 weariui'ss in well-<loi!i^. As it jtleased < lod to afford her 
 worldiv advaiitajrt's and a large c.ipacitv for <h)inp go«Kl, 
 9*1 she improved tiiem to the honor of iicxl and the service 
 of her generation — heing charitahle without ostentation, 
 and making it her constant rule to d(» go«Ml to all as she 
 had opportunity. She was not only a loving and discreet 
 wife and tender ])an'nt, hut a sincere friend to all her 
 acquaintances. She hath left hehind her one son and five 
 <langhters and many gnindchildren, who rise up and call 
 her blessed. She was justly esteemeil while living, and 
 at death a> much regretted. As she lived a life of faith 
 and constant obedience to the Crospol, so she died with 
 great inward peace and conifort, and the most <'heerfid 
 n^ignation to the will of (Jod," 
 
 Colonel IVpperrell held the otlice of Justice of the 
 Peace from 1690 to 172o. In 171") he and Charles Frost 
 were appointed .Tiidges of the Court of Common Phais. 
 Augu.st l<i^ IT.iU, Colonel Pepperrell writes Thomas 
 Salter, enclosing account sales for two hundred and 
 niiH'ty pounds : " I do not desire to keep any man's money. 
 I shall |xiy ye money down (»r give oniers for it at Boston. 
 Am ufruiil to come to Hoston forfrareof ye small p«»cks." 
 Colonel IVpjwrroll die<l February 1"), IT.'M, aged eighty- 
 seven ye:»rs, and left each of his six daughters five hun- 
 dred {>ounds. His two sons, .Andrew and William, 
 carried on the !umlH>r business, lus ap|>ears by the h'tter 
 of Major-Genenil Hnidstn'ct. tJovernor of Newfound- 
 land, who dii>il ill Nfw ^'nrk in 177t. 
 
32 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 St John May 29, 1748 
 Dear Sir 
 
 This is the first oppertunity which has offerd this 
 spring for New England wch I embrace with great 
 pleasure ; first to assure you of my sincere regards as also 
 to let you see I hold my good friend always in remem- 
 brance. The two letters you wrote me from Louisburg 
 last fall 1 rec'd and fully answered in a few days after 
 wch no doubt you have rec'd. As to publick news shall 
 not troble you with any as what we have hear is of no 
 shorter time than the beginning of April which no doubt 
 you must have had. We look for the ffleet in every day 
 from England. On the 24 inst brocke out a fire in this 
 Town which has consumed to the value of twenty thousand 
 pounds sterling and had not the wind favor'd us greatly 
 the whole town must have been Burnt Down ; if Brother 
 Andrew has any Lumber Vessels he cannot send them 
 here in a better time than this for their is not any in the 
 Harbor and is greatly wanted. I am at work watching 
 the motion of the ffrench on the North part of this Island 
 where they carry on a fishery I am not without hopes of 
 ouer having a trick at them this summer if they come their. 
 
 I suppose now you will be quite easey with regard to 
 the affairs of your regiment as you are so greatly better' d 
 in your Liut.-Colo. I hope you have had a plesent 
 winter and that your Lady Pepperrell and family have 
 injoyd perfect health. My wife has been as bad as any 
 person could be for this two months past but thank God 
 she is recovering and joins with me in our sincer com- 
 plements to you and your Lady and family. I am with 
 the greatest sincerity and regard sir your Most Obedtand 
 most humble Servt Jno Bradstreet. 
 
 The Honble Sir Willm Pepperrell Bart. 
 
Mir. Rr;i. Pernerrell 
 
FROST 33 
 
 NKIH) LAS FHOST. 
 
 Ni<liula> I'rost was horn al»oiit loSo, in Tiverton, 
 Devonsliiiv, Kiii;lan»l, and wlu-n forty-Hvo years old 
 marrie«l Hertlia Cailwalla, ai^ed twenty years. They 
 arrivtd at Litth' Ilarhor in Jnne, HJ.'>1, and l!IIiot, 
 .Maine, in KJ.'^tJ. Xichohis I'nist was a fanner, t'sttcnied 
 a triistwt»rthy, ju<lieinns citizen, and appointed eon.-tahh- in 
 1«IJ<». Octohor H), 1<)4!», he wjuj on the ^nind jury that 
 met at (ior<:eana. Iledied .Inly "JO, KW;.'*,, Uavinir tivt'«'hii- 
 dren : John, Xiehohis, ( 'atharine, Kli/ahcth, and ( "iiarhs. 
 
 The latter, horn in TivtM-tuii, .liil\ .'><>, l(i;51, n-- 
 et'ived the hoinestratl and live hnmln-d acres of land. 
 The howling of wolves aronnd his father's cahin was 
 ins evcnlnjj entertainment, and from the neighhoring hill- 
 top hi- niornini; vision eonld survey the cnrlini; smoke 
 arisinj; from the numerous Imlian viilaj^eson the trihntary 
 stream of the Piseatacjna. The savaije yell and war- 
 whoop awakened no fearful throhhings in liis youthful 
 iieart, hut rather s<^rved to enkindle a zeal for (hiring and 
 lieroie achi<'vements. He early evinced a fondness for 
 military exereis<s and j)ar:ides, ami Ixing enrolled as a 
 sohlier at sixteen he gnidnally ros«' through sueeosive 
 grades to he eommander-in-chief of the militia of Maine, 
 ihe Major l)o<*ame a distinguished man in civil and 
 military live. Maine heing a provirwe of Massj|c|i(i>M-ttM, 
 he was chosen to represent it at the (Jenerui (.'oiirt in 
 1058, when he was twenty-six years of age. He hehl 
 the oftioo five years, and in \(WJ he was s<Mit again and 
 phu^ni in command of six companies of Maine militia. 
 He e<>mmande<l a ("omiMiny in King Philip's war, which 
 hroke out in KJTo, and for two years was actively engage*! 
 
 3 
 
34 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 in fighting the ludiaus, who had burnt a vast number of 
 houses on the Piscataqua and killed two hundred and 
 sixty settlers. King William's war began in 1688, and 
 raged with great fury. August 23, 1689, in the reign of 
 William and Mary, Charles Frost, was appointed Major 
 of the military forces of the province. In 1693 the war 
 raged with increased barbarity, and continued until his 
 death, July 4, 1697, within a mile of his dwelling. 
 
 Colonel Pepperrell writes to Captain Hill at Saco, No- 
 vember 12, 1696 : '' T think it may be safer and better 
 to bend her sails before you launch her so as to leave 
 immediately, for Sir it will be dangerous tarrying there 
 on account of hostile savages in the vicinity. I send you a 
 barrel of rum and there is a cask of wine to launch with." 
 
 Joseph Storer writes from Wells : ''It hath pleased 
 God to take away Major Frost. The Indens waylad him 
 last Sabbath day as he was cominge whom from meetting 
 at niffht ; and killed him and John Heards wife and 
 Denes Downing and John Heard is wounded. Mistress 
 Frost is very full of sory and all her children Cousin 
 Charles and John was with their father and escaped 
 wonderfully." 
 
 Two hundred years later a tablet was erected in 
 memory of Major Frost, and an address delivered by 
 Rev. William Salter, D.D., of Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 Major Frost married Mary Bolles, of Wells. Her 
 father is mentioned in the will of John Bolles, of St. 
 James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, dated July 1, 1665 : '' I 
 given unto my brother, Joseph Bolles, living in New 
 England, three hundred pounds." 
 
 Joseph Bolles was town clerk of Wells, 1654 to 1664, 
 and his house was burned by the savages, and volume one 
 of the town records destroyed, so Mistress Frost must 
 
FROST. as 
 
 havi' hatl some sjul ex|K*ritMioes with the liormrsof Indian 
 warfare tlurin^ a loni; life. Majt»r Frost «lir<l in Felmi- 
 ary, 1G7S, ai^ud scvrnty years, leaving a lari,'«' estati" to 
 his widow, who died in Xoveniher, 1701, to six dan^hters : 
 Sarah, Ahij^ail, Mehitahh\ Lydia, Mary, and KlizalM'th, 
 and thret* sons : CharU's (who had ten children) : Nicholas 
 (who left a widow autl two children), ami Jolm. 
 
 ]I< IN. .IdllN I'kost 
 
 ^^'as horn March 1. 1«j81, and whih' a hoy with a 
 loaded musket watched for Indians while hi- father 
 worked on the farm. ( )n one occasion an alarm wa> 
 ^iveii and the house was surrounded l»v sjiva;x«'^i who 
 were tinally driven off. .lohu escjiped wond<'rfullv, as 
 the record says, returning; from church, at the age of six- 
 teen years, when his father was killed. When he wa.s 
 twenty-one years of a^e he fell in love with the heantifid 
 dauii;hter t>f ( 'olonel I'epperrell. He was married hy the 
 Kev. Joseph Hammond, Septemher 4, 1702, t») Mary on 
 her seventeenth hirthday, and they had seventeen chil- 
 dren. John Frost «ommanded H. I'». .M. friirate Efhrord 
 in 17n!». He afterward pursued the profe.s,si((n of a mer- 
 chant iu New Castle, wIktc he soon ros<' to eminenee, 
 h«'lil a hiu'h rank, Iwcame wealthy, was tnneh »listin^nishe<l, 
 anil hi|;hly respecte<l in civil life. H<' was sworn in a- a 
 Hoyal Councillor, July 2(5, 17_'l, l>y onier of (teorjje 11.. 
 the sjime year as .lotham < >dioruc. 
 
 .Vt a criuncil held in l'ort.>^mouth .July lo, 1717, Cap- 
 tain John Frost, in command of the ship lionettti I'inck, 
 complaineij of a pinite called Ar (irauil^ two hnndnHl 
 and tifty tons htirden, earryinj; twenty jruns and one 
 hundre<I and seventy men. They ceiehnitetl the Fourth 
 
36 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 of July by taking from him forty hogsheads of rum, 
 several barrels of sugar, and a negro man — presumably 
 to mix the drinks. The cargo came from Barbadoes, and 
 was bound to Portsmouth. All captains at this time 
 brought slaves to New England. 
 
 In the island referred to, in a census taken by order of 
 his Excellency, Sir Jonathan Atkins, in 1679, Richard 
 Salter was reported as having two hundred and seventeen 
 acres of land, four white servants, and one hundred and 
 twenty negroes. There would appear to be no necessity 
 for S0 many hands on a small farm unless he was sup- 
 plying the rich people of New Castle with household 
 servants. 
 
 In the burying-groiind at New Castle, close to the 
 road, may be seen three graves, viz. : 
 
 ''Here lyes the body of the Hon. John Frost, Esq., 
 who departed this life Feb. 25, 1732, aged 50 years, 11 
 mos and 24 days." 
 
 ''Here lyes buried the body of Joseph Frost, Esq., 
 who departed this life Sept. ye 14th, 1768, aged 50 years 
 and 11 months." 
 
 " Sarah, widow of the late Capt. Richard S. Tibbits and 
 youngest daughter of Joseph and Margaret Frost, aged 85." 
 
 John Frost's widow married again, and died April 18, 
 1766, aged eighty years, and was buried in Danvers. 
 
 Joseph Frost's widow married again, and died July 15, 
 1813, aged eighty-nine years, and was buried in Somers- 
 worth. 
 
 Captain Tibbits died in the West Indies. 
 
 Mary Pepperrell Frost lived in elegance at New Castle 
 after her marriage in 1702. Her best bed was covered 
 with white tabby silk. Her father and husband were 
 rich, and she accumulated an enormous quantity of silver 
 
Hun. ju'.l. FfOSt, 
 
 Commanding H B M, Frigate "Edward" 
 
FROST. 87 
 
 for the tinios. TIhto was en()ii;;h to till a lar^jo ciost't, 
 ami wlu'ii she married aj,^aiii it all went with Iht to 
 Boston. ^^'illiaIn TvliT writes to Sir \\'illiam iNpiK-rp-lI, 
 July 5, 174') : " Your sister Frost came to town to see 
 her son .Iose|)h who was thoiij^ht would have died and 
 Rev. Dr. Colniaii has pei-suaded her to e«)ine and live 
 with him and they are to !>«■ marricil in thirtv days from 
 this date." 
 
 riie news of the eaptun- of Litiiislmr;; had rrathe«l 
 IV>ston two days before, and a irtMicrai illumination took 
 place. Mary Pepperrell Frost had heen a witlow thir- 
 teen years, and was now sixty years ohl, twelve years 
 younger than Parson Coleman. They were married by 
 ilev. Joseph Sewall, I>. 1>.. Au^'ust FJ, 174'). Dr. 
 C'olman, the first pastor of the IJnittle Street ( hnreh 
 was »tne of the most distiuijuished ministers in New Fnj;- 
 land. In hi:;h iiitelUn'tual ridtivation he had hut few 
 etjuals. To nature as well as to culture he was indelit«Kl 
 for a most graceful antl winnini; manner and pleasing 
 address, which constituted one of his most distinguishing 
 a<-complishmcnts. Horn in l>ost»>n ()ctol)er 19, l(j7;t, 
 graduated at llarvanl at nineteen, he spent four years in 
 ]»ndon, where he was ordaineil August 4, 1609, and at 
 once returned to Boston and coinmcnci'<l to preach. W*- 
 was invite«l to he i'resident of llarvanl in 17"JI. '-i" di-- 
 cline*!. 
 
 The parsonage must have heen well st<Mk»il with niUrr 
 after the arrival of the thin! wife of the |)4»pular |mrson. 
 Wc<lilir»g-gifts weri' always numer«»us to the clergy in 
 eolt>uial times, when they (x-eupietl a nuich higiuT |MHi- 
 tion in j»olitieal life than they do nr»w. His colleague 
 says : " The music of hi>< voi<-e, the pmpriety of \uh 
 accent, and the decency of his gestures showeil him one 
 
38 JOHN" SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 of the most graceful speakers of the age. He composed 
 with great rapidity aud elegance, and his pre-eminent 
 talents in this respect were in constant requisition to draft 
 letters and addresses from the churches to the General 
 Court, the King and his ministers." He married in 
 1700, when he was twenty-seven years old, Jane Clark, 
 aged thirty-one years. Later he married Sarah. 
 
 Sarali had her trunks filled with spoons, and must have 
 been the most fascinating woman in Boston. Her charms 
 of person or purse were such that she was irresistible. 
 Born September 15, 1672, Sarah married at twenty-three 
 William Harris, treasurer of the Brattle Street Church, a 
 rich and influential merchant. After his death, in 1721, 
 Sarah married the Hon. and Rev. John Leverett, Presi- 
 dent of Harvard, a widower. After the death of the 
 President, the Hon. John Clarke appeared, and he was 
 united to Sarah, then forty-three, by Parson Colman. 
 John died, .and Sarah, though a year older than the 
 parson, captured him. Sarah died April 24, 1744, aged 
 seventy-one. Parson Colman lived only two years after 
 his third marriage, dying August 29, 1747, aged seventy- 
 four. On October 6, 1748, his widow married, for the 
 third time. Judge Benjamin Prescott, and became step- 
 mother to her son William, and her relatives for years 
 after talked about the chests of silver-plate from the 
 parsonage, contributed at so many weddings, that all 
 went to Danvers never to return. Lieutenant-Geueral 
 Pepperrell, who died July 6, 1759, visited his sister at 
 her home on his return from Boston in the spring of 1759. 
 
 Our grandmother died April 18, 1766, aged eighty. 
 
Mary Pepperroll-Froit-Colman-Prescott 
 
FKOST. 39 
 
 ('lIll.DHKN OF .loIlN I'lioyr AND MaUV I 'r.l'i'KIIUI.M . 
 
 Mar^tTV, hin'ii I'cltniars' I, 17<il ; dird in iiifaiifv. 
 
 William, hnm Aiij^ust 2n, 17Uo ; marrii'<l Kli/.al)i>th, 
 tlaii^htiT of lu'v. Iicnjatiiiu IVcscott, wlm married his 
 niotluT < )ct(>l)t'r 0, 17 is. 
 
 dolm, l)oni May TJ, 1701* ; married Sarah ( Icrri-^li. 
 
 Charles, horn Atiirn-t 27, 1710 ; married doaniia daek- 
 soii and Sarah daeksoii. 
 
 Mary, Ixirii Aiimist 10, 1711 ; dieil in iiifani-y. 
 
 Sandi, horn I'\'hrnarv 1, 171.". ; mairied K'.v. .IkImi 
 lUnnt, of Now Castle. 
 
 Miirv, horn J'\'hriiarv hi, 1711 ; dit<l in infaney. 
 
 Andrew, horn April 12, 171tl : was many years hlind. 
 
 •Joseph, horn Septemher "Ji', 1717 ; marrie<l Mariraret 
 Colton. 
 
 Ahi^ail, horn May lit), 171!> ; not married. 
 
 (ieor^e, horn .Vpril 2il, 1720; married an IjiL'lish 
 woman, and second wife Widow Smith, of I)nrlKun. 
 
 Samuel, horn Ani:iist 1!>, 1721 ; died in infaney. 
 
 IJenjanun, horn .May 15, 172"> ; died in infaney. 
 
 .lane, horn .May 1'), 1725; marrit-d Andrew W'atkins. 
 
 Miriam, horn < )etoher S, 1722; married Klliot Frost 
 and .Mexander Kaitt. 
 
 Marv, horn didv 2, 172(J ; die«l in infaney. 
 
 I)orothv, horn .Vu^ust 21, 1727 ; marrinl ( aptain 
 ClifTt.rd, of Salenj. 
 
 (Note. — Three infants named .Mary died.) 
 
 Jolin Alhee says liev. .luhn I'dunt married into a 
 notahle family, whose name has heen hoiionihl y a.HritKMate*l 
 with New Castle from ahoiit 17()0. .Ma<iame Sandi llhmt 
 wrote poetrv. Her. -i«ters wen* e«'|ehn»t«-d for their 
 
40 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 amiability and intelligence. Abigail died in the splendor 
 of early womanhood, January 30, 1742, aged twenty-two. 
 
 Released from cares at rest she lies, 
 
 Then peaceful slumbers close her eyes. 
 
 Her faith all trials did endure 
 
 Like a strong pillar firm and pure. 
 
 Did adverse winds tempestuous roll 
 
 Hope was the anchor of her soul. 
 
 We by the olive in her hand 
 
 Her peaceful end may underetand. 
 
 And by the coronet is shown , ^ 
 
 Virtue at last shall wear the crown. 
 
 Joseph Frost. 
 
 Born September 29, 1717, died September 14, 1768. 
 He married Margaret Colton, October 20, 1744, and the 
 year following he was so ill in Boston that his mother 
 came to see him, and a month later gave him her house. 
 in New Castle, as she had concluded to reside in Boston. 
 
 December 9, 1749, '' Joseph Frost, mariner, of New 
 Castle, bought of Alec Clarke's widow four thousand 
 acres of land that she got from Geo. Davie." This deed 
 is witnessed by Elizabeth Prescott, who married William 
 Frost, November 24, 1750 ; also by William and George 
 Frost, and recorded by Daniel Moulton, in liber 28. In 
 liber 2, folio 45, is the record by Walter Phillips of the 
 sale of this tract to George Davis by Nicodeshant Quese- 
 meck and Obias for the sum of twelve pounds, dated 
 December 21, 1663, in the '' 15th year of the reign of 
 our Lord King Charles the second by the Grace of God 
 of England Scotland France and Ireland King and de- 
 fender of the faith." The land is described as lying on 
 the west or north side of Wicheaseke Bay, west or north 
 side of Mount Swedes Bay. 
 
COLTON. 41 
 
 COLloN. 
 
 riiniiias ami Maruiin-t IWiss wiTt- inarrit'<l in l']ni:lan<l, 
 \vhi«'h tlu'V left t»ii afcoimt of rt'li^ious |H'rstHMitioii. Tliov 
 had >i.\ cliililrt'ii Itoni in l\ii<rlaml and four in Ainfri<a. 
 Tlicir >on Lawronre canif to tliis ronntrv with his fatlur 
 in 163o, and die<l in 1 »)"•>. Hi' nuirrinl, ()ctol)or 25, 
 |t!'il. Lydia, ninetifn wars old, dan^ditrr of Saniiicl 
 NN'ri^hl, onr of the first sottU-rs in the ('(>nntfti«-ut 
 X'allev, at Sprin^tield, and the M ri^ht sort of a wife fi)r 
 colonial days, when every man t<M>k his pun tochiirrh and 
 sat at the foot of the i>ew rcaily to nish to the do(»r when 
 the <;uards j>osted outside iiave the alarm. I\lder Krewster 
 could preach and pray, luit never hesitiited a moment 
 when it liei-.ime neeess;iry to po on Indian c5im|Kiii:ns and 
 tiirht I he sava;^os. It was only a <juestion of life or dtalh, 
 and there was no time to lose. The Indians owne<l the 
 country, and the white folks wen- driving' them out, hut 
 the ministers overlooked all questions of morals and prin- 
 ciples when savages were coneerncd. and joimnl their 
 parishioners in the fi;;hts. 
 
 The Deerfield mass;iore sent a ihrill (»f hornir through- 
 out New Kngland, Hushand.-. di<l not last lont; in thoso 
 terrible Indian wars of Kin;; Philip. Lydia IkuI four 
 lovers, married them all, and died a witlow at the aire of 
 >ixty-foiir, Decemher 17, ]C,UU. Her father had l»ecn 
 kilhtl liy the Indians at Northfield in 1«>7"». and tui 
 ( )etolM'r 'M, KITS, Lydia married John Nort«m. < )n 
 •lanuary 7, HJHS, she married Jolui I*;iml», and on March 
 I, 1692, it was (Ici^rj^ Colton's op|M)rtunity, and he hud 
 rdi>is for sevf'U years, until Fehruary l'-\, \*VM\ and then 
 for ten months Ly<lia wa- '• f' -In., nifh her four i."'Id 
 wiHlding rinp*. 
 
42 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 Dr. Coltou says that our American Adam, George 
 Colton, from Sutton, England, has honorable mention in 
 the Springfield, Mass., town records of 1645. Was rep- 
 resentative in 1669. Died February 13, 1699. Married 
 Deborah Gardner and had five sods and four daughters. 
 
 Lawrence Bliss had a sister, Hannah Bliss, who married 
 Thomas Colton, son of George Colton. Lydia and Han- 
 nah were sisters-in-law until the fourth marriage, when 
 Lydia became mother-in-law to Hannah. 
 
 Margaret Colton, daughter of Samuel Colton and 
 Margaret Bliss, of Springfield, and great-granddaughter 
 of George Colton, the ancestor of all the Coltons of New 
 England, was born April 19, 1724, and attended school 
 in Boston. Margaret was married at home at the age of 
 twenty, and rode on horseback behind her husband all the 
 way from Springfield to New Castle 
 
 Joseph Frost died in 1768, twenty-four years after his 
 marriage. Margaret remained a widow twenty-four 
 years, and at the age of sixty-eight, in 1792, she married 
 Judge Rollins, of Rollinsford, N. H., who died eight 
 years later. 
 
 Our grandmother passed her childhood in a section of 
 the country that had witnessed the fiercest Indian battles 
 recorded in colonial times. Then she moved to Boston 
 during the great excitement caused by the French war. 
 She was visited by her mother-in-law in 1745, when 
 Joseph was ill. At that time news had come of the great 
 victory achieved by the four thousand soldiers raised in 
 New England, commanded by her husband's uncle. Our 
 grandmother was in New Castle during the Revolution, 
 and probably had many friends in the army. Reference 
 is made to Corporal Frost in the letter to her daughter 
 Jenny. In the war of 1812 our grandmother was at 
 
COLTON. 48 
 
 Iu)Hinsf(>rtl, wImti' slu* dictl, .luly \'>, 1S1:», apnl eij^lily- 
 iiinr. 
 
 ClIlIKKEN OK .losKl'll Fi;nv|- .\m> M A1:< J A ItKT OjLTON. 
 
 Mariran't, Itoni l)icfinl)('r S, 1717 ; Au-A in ISO'). 
 Marrietl John NN'oiitworth and .lolm W'aldntii. 
 
 .Iost>j>li, horn May :{. 174;> ; died in l.s;J<>. .M:mi.d 
 Sarah Siini)st)n. 
 
 (iconic, l)orn NovcniluT -\, 17')0; dii'd in 1808. 
 Married Al)iirail I ''ell. 
 
 Marv. Ixtrii .lamiarv '_'!», 17",:! ; died in ISl'.t. Married 
 Strpinn Clia-f. 
 
 Miriam, hnrii I'fliniarv 11, 17.")") ; dii-d in 17.")»). 
 
 .lane, Iidiii Mali li 17, 17.')7 ; died in 18;',7. Marriid 
 .Iol>n Saitt-r. 
 
 I>iin»tliv, horn |-\hrnarv 1^7, 17")'.» ; diid in 1838. 
 Married dames Jewett. 
 
 Saniiiel, horn . January '2~ , 17<!0 ; died in l.S"J7. 
 
 Al)ii;ail, horn Septeniher »j, 17t)2 ; died in IS IS. 
 
 William, horn Sopteniher HJ, 1704 ; (Ued at sea. 
 
 Saraii, horn dune 11, 17<ltl ; di((l .lannary 1, 1852. 
 Married Ivieharil S. Til)hits. 
 
 < )nr L'nindmotljer, Sarah Tihltits, who \va> two years 
 old when her father died, was the last survivor of a lar^ 
 family. She and Ahipiil Frost lived toijcther many yt ars 
 in the I*leas:int Street House, (»p|Misite the hill. ll<r 
 sisttT Mary marrieil Stephen ( 'has«', Aj)ril 2S, 1771. 
 Their jjrandson, Noah Tihi)its, has a son of the same 
 name livinix in iirooklyii. 
 
 .Masson, in the Vankte AV/ry, puhlishiHl in 1898, says: 
 " Historians have randy «lone justiee to the stTvie**?* of 
 unr navy (hiring; the war of the Kevolution. In a<ldition 
 to the government ships of war, hastily improvis«d and 
 
44 JOHN" SALTER. MARINER. 
 
 in great part recruited from the merchant vessels, the 
 colonies fitted out privateers of their own, aided in many 
 instances by private citizens, and there can be no doubt 
 that our success in the war could not have been accom- 
 plished except by the co-operation of these daring navi- 
 gators. They kept the army supplied with arms, ammu- 
 nition, and clothing captured from the enemy, and many 
 a time when the spirit of our troops was at the lowest 
 ebb, some bold naval exploit served to revive their cour- 
 age. Most of the battles fought by tlie Americans were 
 fought with implements captured from the British vessels. 
 The principal things the Contiuental Army lacked were 
 guns, ammunition, clothes, and money. In order to 
 pamper the soldiers with luxuries of this sort it was 
 necessary to capture them from the enemy. So Com- 
 modore Hopkins sailed away in his fleet in February, 
 1776, to the Bahama Islands, and in March took Xew 
 Providence and secured a huridred cannon and some valu- 
 able stores. On his return with the spoils, after taking 
 two vessels, the commodore retired from the service. In 
 1776 the 3IeUish was captured with ten thousand British 
 uniforms. It is needless to say that these were very 
 welcome to our impoverished army." 
 
 In 1776 the American Xavy had twenty- five vessels, 
 carrying four hundred and twenty-two guns, to oppose 
 the British fleet of seventy-eight, mounting 2078 guns. 
 But, with the aid of privateers owned by individuals or 
 the colonies, they captured eight hundred British merchant- 
 men. Daring the eight years' war the American loss in 
 gunboats was twenty-four, while the British was one 
 hundred and two ships of war. xA.t the close of the war 
 three gunboats were left, and they were promptly dis- 
 posed of, in order to rid the country of any semblance of 
 
T1BBIT8. 46 
 
 a navy. The navv v-as a relic of the past, good while it 
 
 lasted, but of no further a ■ -e. \^^v.- ' ' - 
 
 had no need of iliern. A ^ ; from 1 i 
 
 said the navy is a menace to our republican inKtitutions, 
 and '•' elevfij . ' .te men now in hlaverx* i- " ' 
 
 is the pretext f ^' out a fleet." L'p to • 
 
 1793, Portugal, who kept a stronp fleet at Gibraltar, 
 airr.--] t . ].r .!•• t A: • ri<.«n vestiels. In 1795 a j> 
 
 arr.iiij^'-d wnu Ai^':,.i.>. Not havinfr a navy 
 
 ' ' !:_: -^l to buy our sailors back. It <• irt aLM>ut a million 
 
 • 1 liar- to do it, and an annual tribute of twenty -two 
 
 t]i<»ur»a.nd dollars to Algiers. Then O--, — 
 
 and by a majority of two ordered th< 
 
 twenty other gunUiats. Our naval war with Kranoe 
 
 la-t.-l from Mav 2«, 1798, to Februarv .;, 1801. 
 
 TIJJBITS. 
 
 LlElTE-VANT RlCHAHD SaLTEr' TiBBITS, U. S. XaVV. 
 
 Israel Tlbbits caune from Ix>ndon to Portsmouth, and 
 married, in 1759, Mehitable Salter, then twenty-one year>» 
 old. - '■ 1 
 
 in tlu . . ..._ ,,...- 
 
 Tween South and New Castle Streets. >I liad 
 
 three Sarah, ■ 
 
 May 1' . ... ; ll:r ..; . . 
 
 died in 1771, an<l "d Mr. 
 
 M<^Nilti»nboro, and had two more > 
 
 hin. us an appre«ti«*. The liattle of l^exingtOD was 
 
46 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 fought in 1775, and on September 6th Captain Salter and 
 his nephew sailed away from Newburyport in the ship 
 Crisis, and were captured. Tibbits then made a successful 
 cruise in a privateer. Later he was captured in the 
 Aurora, June 14, 1780, and committed to Old Mill 
 Prison, Plymouth. July 10, 1781, after a year in 
 prison, he writes for money : 
 
 " I am as yet a minor'and an apprentice to my worthy 
 kinsman and uncle, Mr. John Salter, mariner, and many 
 years master of different vessels from and belonging to 
 Mr. George Boyd, merchant, late of Portsmouth. Many 
 were consigned to your house, the latter particularly 
 named the Fidelity, and was sold after having discharged 
 her cargo in London, from whence, in consequence, my 
 uncle and self returned home as passengers. 
 
 " In order to acquire a due experience, sufficient to 
 qualify me in the business of my profession, that of a 
 mariner, by and with the advice and consent of my 
 kinsman and tutor, I left home in a letter-of-marque 
 brig called the Aurora, under the command of Mr. 
 Samuel Gerrish, which vessel was captured on her way to 
 the West India Islands by one of H. B. M. frigates bound 
 home, in consequence of which it hath been my ill fortune 
 to be brought to this place. Previous to my leaving 
 home the voyage before this, in which I was captured, 
 my uncle was pleased to make provision for my relief in 
 case of capture, in his having furnished me with a bill 
 upon your house, which, having no occasion for, I re- 
 turned him on my arrival at home after a safe and pros- 
 perous voyage. My coming with Captain Gerrish only 
 admitted of a small delay." 
 
 Tibbits while in prison kept a log-book filled with 
 problems in geometry and navigation, also copies of his 
 
TIM HITS. 17 
 
 li'tt< rs. August 5, ITcSl, lu' writi's Sanili r>iix«'ll, near 
 S»'h(>t)l-lu»iiso Ltuu', RatflifT lligliway, LitiKlun, for tin* 
 adtlrrssof CJi'Drm.' Ilavd, late mcrrliaiit of I'ort-'iiittutli, l»iit 
 iiow liviiii: ill London. Alllioiigli l»iit niiu'tt'cn, lit* sivs : 
 " Dear .Miss liii.voll : Tlw ainMciil fricii<l>lii|» that has 
 snhsi.stetl ht'twei'ii yon and myself has indneed ine to take 
 the liberty to address a few lines to y(»n, as yonr'father's 
 Christian natui' has eseaped my memory, to a«i|naint you 
 ami your father of my being at j)resent eonlined in this 
 plaee. There is no prospet't at pro.scnt of being relea.se<l 
 from my ntdiappy situation. I hail little e.vpeetation of 
 siieh a dismal prison as this being my residence when F 
 left your father's hons»'," 
 
 Then follows a eopy of a letter to (Jeorge I'.oyd : 
 " Sii: : Mv present unfi»rtnnate and distressi'il siluation 
 of eaptivitv I hope will in some respect apologize for the 
 reason of mv present address. The knowledge I havi' of 
 vour ever humane and benevolent disposition, togetluT 
 with the intimacy ami friend-.hip that had hitherto sub- 
 sisted between yourself and my (HUiue.xions are the prin- 
 cipal motives that in<luee n)e to stiitc to you in part my 
 situation, in hope thereby to e.\<'ite your commiseration 
 and to m»'et vour favor ami bounty. I had the very un- 
 happv and singular misfortune to be eomniittotl here on 
 account of being taken in a letter-of-manpU' brig under 
 the command of ('aptain Samuel ( lerrish, and am here 
 now about a vi'ar, and no m »r.' pro.s[>ect of redemption 
 than the day I was brought here ; my distrens incnases 
 with my time in captivity, for when first imprisone<i luul 
 -avjnl stjme little, that on being sold eontribute<l to my 
 relief, but Time by her woeful ex|M'rience, hath, notwith- 
 standing a becoming prudence, matio way with the whole 
 for some time i»ast, ant! my situation is such as is ucarcely 
 
48 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 to be described, having barely a sufficiency of even the 
 common necessaries of life for the support of nature. 
 You will therefore judge of the distress which I experi- 
 ence, and which is a common calamity. I need not more 
 fully describe to you the woes that are attendant and on 
 almost insufferable with a state of imprisonment when 
 nature is supported with a competent sustenance. When 
 that fails life itself is almost a burthen too heavy to bear, 
 and in which situation have no alternative. I therefore 
 request you will be pleased to favor me with a supply for 
 my relief, such as your bounty shall be pleased to dictate, 
 on account of my honored tutor and kinsman, Captain 
 John Salter, who hath altogether declined following the 
 seas since captured in the Crisis and taken into Boston, 
 who I am satisfied will reimburse you fully for so reason- 
 able a supply to the relief of 
 
 '' Sir your devoted sincere 
 
 '' Humble and distressed servt, 
 
 " Richard Salter Tibbits." 
 
 Tibbits copied in his log-book the names of five hun- 
 dred prisoners ; names of vessels and dates of capture. 
 The brig Fancy, taken in August, 1777, had Francis 
 Salter, from Marblehead, and Thomas Salter, from 
 Frenchman's Bay. The brig Dalton, taken December 
 24, 1776, had Joseph Shillaber, of Portsmouth, who was 
 exchanged ; Captain Gerrish, from Portsmouth, taken in 
 brig Au7'ora, ran away. 
 
 Andrew Sherburne, in his Memoirs, published in Utica, 
 in 1828, gives an interesting account of his capture in the 
 privateer Greyhound, Captain Jacob Willis, of Salem. 
 In the outer yard of the Old Mill Prison he found " Old 
 Aunt Anna," with her hand-cart to supply the prisoners 
 
TIBBITS. 49 
 
 with hreail, butter, tobiuvo, nee<ilei<, and thread. " I 
 liailfd from Pisrataqiia, and tho I*israta(|iia men were 
 rallid ami formed a eireh- around me. Mr. Tihhits was 
 thr oidv j)erst)n amongst them with whom I had had any 
 a<i|naintnnep, thou<;h most of the Portsmouth peojde had 
 known mv father." Sherhurne was sixtfeii, had hren at 
 school l)Ut a few months, and eould not write or fi|rnre. 
 Tihl)its offered to instruct him, and he made ni|)i<l pro- 
 gress. Soon after the eaj)ture of Cornwallis eansed a 
 general exchange of prisoners. Colonel Lawrence, Unitwl 
 States Minister to Holland, was released from the 'I'ower 
 and vi.site<l Mill Prison. 
 
 After fifteen months' ahsence from America Sherhurne 
 writes he arrivtnl at I'ortsmouth. ** There was a letter- 
 of-manjue hrigof eight carriage guns, called the Smrjtiou, 
 fitting out for the West Indies, to he comnuuuled hy 
 Captain Ivichard Salter, ami my good friend liichanl S. 
 Til)l>its, who was my tut(»r in Mill Prison, was going as 
 one of the mates, an<l I had the offer of going as hoat- 
 rtwain. We had Ix^en out about five days, and were dis- 
 covereij by one of his most gnicious majesty's frigates, 
 whi<*h cluused us from 10 a.m. to 3 P.M. un<ler what the 
 sailors would call a stiff and increasing breeze, and though 
 our brig was an excellent sailor she nither gained upon 
 us. We were therefore obliged to heave off our ileckIoa<i 
 of lumber and then very easily escapcil her. We arriv«-<l 
 at (iuadalou|)<' and then .Hailinl for Montserrat, «»ur 
 captain iM-ing dis.-.atisfic«l with the market. The nriti>h 
 cr»iis«'rs at this time kept a sharp lookout among the \\ e.^t 
 India Islands for the Yankees, and as we went out of 
 the bav we dis<t)vere<l a brig which had <H»nc««aIe«l hcr>4'lf 
 behind a |>oint of land. She a|)|K'aretI to Ih' in rather n 
 careless situation iintil we had got so far from the liarlxir 
 
 4 
 
50 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 that she could intercept our retreat. She then began to 
 make sail and gave us chase. We had a fresh breeze and 
 were running almost before the wind ; the masts and spars 
 of each vessel would about bear all we could crowd upon 
 them. It was an eventful period with us, for we saw 
 that she was determined to come up with us, and we had 
 every reason to believe she was an enemy, and that she 
 had too many guns for us. I presume there never was a 
 fairer chase. I do not now record the distance from 
 Guadaloupe to Montserrat, but be it more or less she 
 chased us from one island even into the harbor of the 
 other. The chase continued from 8 or 9 in the morning 
 until 3 or 4 p.m. 
 
 '' Our pursuer was the brig Bee, mounting sixteen guns, 
 and reputed a very fast sailer. She was within a mile of 
 us when the chase began, and after having chased us 
 several hours a heavy squall in which she was obliged to 
 douse a considerable number of her sails, brought her 
 within forty rods, yet she did not fire a gun. We had as 
 many hands — eighteen — as was necessary to work our 
 vessel, and I question whether there was ever a vessel 
 worked in a more masterly manner. The same squall 
 which struck the Bee in turn struck us also, but we 
 having had opportunity to observe its weight and effect 
 upon the privateer were better prepared for it. We being 
 in complete readiness, every man having a perfect knowl- 
 edge of his business, we took in our studding-sails, clewed 
 up our top-gallant sails and let run our topsails, jib, and 
 staysails, and immediately commenced setting them again. 
 Tiie Scorpion now left the Bee as fast as the Bee had 
 gained on the Scorpion in the time of the squall. The 
 Bee, notwithstanding, hurriedly continued even into the 
 harbor of Montserrat. The Bee kept French colors flying 
 
TIBUITS. ol 
 
 iluriiii^ the wiiolo oliasi', luit I am not ctMtaiii \\Ii«tlnr we 
 sliowt'tl any o)l(»rs. Wt- ran as mar tlic slntiv as we 
 (Ian <1, and let p> an anchor. Slu" caino within a hnntlrctl 
 yanis of ns, hove shiji, anil haih-d n-;. ^\'hile laving 
 umh'ronr stern, hroadsiile to, she had oj»j)ortnnitv to have 
 done us eonsiderahle injjiry by rakin;; us ; hut her roni- 
 mander had the luunanity and jjonerosity to refrain from 
 injuriui; us exeept to fri^^hten us, and more speeially the 
 Freneh j>ih»t and his boat's erew, who by this time had p)t 
 on board and seein;; the lUe hiyini: broadside to us, her 
 port- up and iruus out, were in expectation of receiving a 
 broadside, Siune of them juujpcd l)ch)\v an<l (dhers fell 
 upon their faces, eryiu;; out, ' Foiifre d' Aui/lais.' The lire 
 8too<l to sea apiin under all the siil she could set. The 
 fort immediately commence<l tirinij ujxm her, but she 
 sei-mcd to biil llu'in delianee, by haulin;; down her French 
 colors and displaying the Kn^^lish tla^;, and matle her 
 es<'ape without ret'eiviu;; any injury." This extraordinary 
 chase and nuina'uverin^ must have been highly interesting 
 to a disinterested spectiitor. Sherburne says they sailed 
 with a cargo for Alexandria, \'a. , aiul were i-aplured by 
 his Majesty's ship Aiii/»liion, forty gnus, at twt) in the 
 ujorning. '* We were standing directly for each other. As 
 ftoon as we diseovere<l her we hove about, but all our 
 enih'jivors to es<'a|M' her were abortive, for we were within 
 musket shot. The <lischarge of a few of the heavy caiuji>n 
 acoompli.Hhcil her object. Our Captain Tibbits and three 
 others continu(Hl on board the Srarpinn, which was after- 
 wanl cast away, l)ut I Indieve no lives were lost. Thir- 
 teen of us wen? put on bosird the Amphion, and two weeks 
 later we arrive<l at the prison-ship in New York." 
 
 Sherburne writes : '* The war beini; ende<l, I ship|M><J 
 on lM>ard the ship Lydin, comnuuuhtl by ray old friend 
 
52 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 Captain R. S. Tibbits, bound to North Carolina, then to 
 Lisbon. 
 
 '^ Nothing nncommon occurred until we made the land 
 on the coast of Portugal. We stood along the coast under 
 easy sail ; it being toward night we did not wish to ap- 
 proach very near the land. The weather was very 
 pleasant and the wind light. 
 
 " The Algerines at this time were committing depre- 
 dations on our commerce. It was but little before this 
 that Captain O'Brien had been taken, who, with his crew, 
 were in slavery among them a number of years. We 
 were in some fear of them and kept a bright lookout. I 
 had gone below at 12 o'clock and turned in, but was not 
 yet asleep. I thought I heard the distant sound of a 
 human voice ; the captain was on deck and busy in talk- 
 ing. I heard the sound again, and began to feel alarmed, 
 and was turning out, but discovered that they heard the 
 sound on deck and were listening and looking out. The 
 sound neared us fast. All hands were immediately on 
 deck. There was now no question but the sound was 
 from an Algerine galley, which was by this time within 
 fifty yards of us. She hailed in several different lan- 
 guages, and Captain Tibbits having the helm, there being 
 plenty of work for every one else, gave them indirect 
 answers. Never were people more alarmed than we were 
 now. Never did a crew make sail quicker ; we set our 
 top-gallant sails, hauling our wind a little, and got out 
 our studding-sails, etc., and by this time our pursuer was 
 within twenty yards of us. She feigned herself in distress, 
 and designed thereby to decoy us. She had laid under 
 the land without having any sail set, and by that means 
 could not be discovered by us before night ; while at the 
 same time she could very plainly discover us, and, having 
 
TIHHITS. 53 
 
 discovered how we were standing, shaped her coni'se to 
 athwart our fore f«iot, as the siiih)r woiihl sjiy, Imt she 
 heiui; to ht'ward was ohlip'd to th-peiid ii|h>ii her oars. 
 She Imd desi^ueil no douht to have hoanh-d ii>, Imt when 
 she sjiw that we were liki'ly to shoot hy her eiuh-avored 
 to deeoy us. Slie did not show a rai; of sail until she 
 had eoni|)lcte!y ^'ained onr wake, and then l)ci,'an a chase 
 with a full press of sail, lint our ship heini; an e.\«'ellent 
 .Siiiler we soon he^^an to leave her, and thus hy the nu'rey 
 of Gtxl we escaped capture and slavery. She <hased us 
 hut a very little while, and findinj; she was no match for 
 us in sailini; ^ave up the chase, took in lier sails, and we 
 soon lost sii^ht of her. The next day we ^ot into Lishon 
 autl reported the ciniinistances of this chase. Tlu-re ini- 
 niediately went out a <;overnnu'nt hrii; in pursuit of her, 
 hut I did not undcr.-taud that she ever found her. W'l- 
 took in a part of oiir carp) at Li>i)on ant! had to j;(» to St. 
 I'l)es for the remainder, and were with a nnmhcr of other 
 vessels convoyed off the coast hy a Portuguese frijiate," 
 
 The Lydin arrived safely in America with liercarj^ of 
 sjilt, and Sherhuriu', who had heen tau^iit to write in 
 Plymouth Prison hy Tihhits, opened a s<1um)1 for hoys 
 on the Saco Kiver, fifty-tivo niih's from Portsmouth, in 
 •laiuiary, 17S»;. Hr says in his Memoirs: " Had I had 
 n<»t heen drawn or rarrie*! throuijh the distrcKsin^ scenes 
 whi<h I have already relate], and heen hxlmtl in ( )ld Mill 
 Prison, I had |irol»al)ly never ac(juired an eilucation sutli- 
 cient to have su-itainc<l these olliccs and to have performiHl 
 the husiness whi<-h has j)rove«l so profitahlc to mc" 
 
 Sherburne representetl the town of ( 'ornish, where he 
 kept S4-hool, at a convention held in Berwick in re^'ard to 
 public buihlin^s. (ienend .lohn Pro>t, of the Kevolu- 
 tionary Army, was calletl to the chair. In SoptendxT, 
 
'54 fOB% S^LTZe, JLJLZISZ^, 
 
 .%» one ftHmlf«d aertr k>>v > M^wadk^ 
 
 ia K , ^ tf» the Xew Haatpe^iier a»KK 
 
 Ij'jf '» re»t tfesw is A9iiis*ie(t, 17WK I» 
 
 A ■ _■ ,-- -.,—-" IT, ... --, f _ . ->.- rt moAs 
 
 >? 9nKVB» oc nKfyrp»iatt>r>«. 
 
 ■ ' ' '■•'* jprocfci M ig^ Sfcw- 
 
 ':r, awl all tktr 
 
 in AfyriJ, ! 
 
 _-.. . : -jnwtjh TicaiflM aa^ 
 Pr ' X«Nr BrvagBviek; aa^ aM(db«r iteualb»Mir Cf> 
 
 K«« V ' ; -' I tiwk aa offMirtrautr t» vint 
 
 the ^ > '^ 'jffHgKile t» wUdb fe wti lj Isr 
 
 tia-. . /«rwy. I yaHi0«d <pref- Ikt p^ 
 
 th« '^'- - -'- -' "" 
 
 7 .'«pQ«t» aaoCker rvn^ m war Umesk, 
 
 €H r :s.% 17«^, tW Britiih kft 5«v Y«vk, aiad 
 
 'T*5, the !»% Xtphgmff Csftaia 
 
 jarf, P«vtiaaMMth, aad Mileii ta 
 
 tlK^ W<K« lEyi>«» with a load 9i humhsr, wihodb «a» es- 
 
 dbaa^«d f«ir |Madb«o«»<if nua, aad haded ia P«*tnMadk 
 
 cft •Si-r.r>«ri'?*^- Ir, J-t't **i*!-t -JBrfrWp ia .faeiC>»=-^ T5«T 'ibWt'!: 
 
TIBBIT9. fth 
 
 Tibhit* (lieil in 1^21); Captain Shm-kforrl wan taken down 
 with t}i«' f»'%'«'r aii'I ■ ■ At I'ort At • 
 
 the raptain went - lenire of tl«> 
 
 nmn<ling offit«r. Port Maria, 0«-i»ya, Morro ( 
 FIa'.:ina, ami othor p«»rtM aro nu'iition«'<i. AmKhcrr lug 
 'lioWH Tilibit-H wai near Havana April ♦*, 1812, 
 
 Li(*iit<*nant TiM)it>» was one of tin- first offufT>s *f\w\v*\ 
 
 for the new navy of the Unite*! States. He had Ix^n 
 
 ' * ' il*rr>ad,ar * - i . . .1 .,?a all hi» life, and wan 
 
 I a ver\ <>T. Me ent«r»d tlw? 
 
 ?»»*rvioe l^ecember 5, 17IJM, during the war with France. 
 
 .I-.liii Alif.i-. who waM then I*r»-<i ' 
 
 mi--i'.ii .l:iiiii.iry 7, 171)9. C. W. <r _ . - - 
 
 r»tarv of the Xavy, wn>te him fonr ilayn later : ** The 
 Pn-i'I'tit of the I'nitr"*! Stat^-^ hy .ind with th<- advice 
 and wnin^nt of the S*;nate, has a{){>ointed you a I,^ •- -. Kit 
 in the Navy of the UniterJ .States. You will ini 
 re|jair on Ikkih! the ^hip PortMm/iuih, cornrnande*! by 
 Daniel .MeNVill." The PoHnnotUh, twenty-f - ■ -, 
 built in I*ortj*mouth, carrie«l .1 r-rew of two hui 1 
 
 twenty men. 
 
 I^ieut«'nant Til»l»it- di»ii in ' ' '' 'i, In r)i f 
 
 IMJI. Ilr inarri'-d Sarah Fro- 7, 17m7. 
 
 uncle, John Salter, marrierl her stater, Jane Froat, No- 
 v.tM»»*>r 1, 1783. Sarah Fro-t Tibbif*, ^ho » 
 
 Inn- 11, 17»i*i, liver! for many yi-an* in I'lea»ui 
 I'orti^moiith, where she die*! January 4, 18.*>2. 
 
 (in ti sheet of pa|ier that had been s<>nt to R. 8. 1 
 tli-n- !- ■«ipie<! an extrart from a letter : 
 
 A ._• «Ht 2»), 1784. Ih not this «*trin«r* w*aih#r* 
 Winter alnrirfie*! the xprinjf, and now aa( 
 
56 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 wish you more time would not be kind, but what time 
 you have you must bestow upon me. Since I was here I 
 have two little letters from you, and have not had the 
 gratitude to write, but every man is most free with his 
 best friends, because he does not suppose that they will 
 suspect him of intentional incivility. I thank you for 
 your affectionate letter. I hope we shall both be the 
 better for each other's friendship, and I hope we shall 
 not very quickly be parted. Your letter was indeed long 
 in coming, but it was very welcome. Our acquaintance 
 has now subsisted long, and our recollection of each other 
 involves a great space and many little occurrences which 
 melt the thoughts to tenderness. Write to me therefore 
 as frequently as you can." 
 
 Children of R. S. Tibbits and Sarah Frost. 
 
 First child, born April 20, 1789 ; died in infancy. 
 
 Richard, born April 25, 1790. Married, in 1822, 
 Martha W. Mellen, and died July 19, 1838. 
 
 Hall, born April 25, 1790 ; died January 31, 1791. 
 
 Sarah Chase, born March 30, 1792. Married, in 1817, 
 John Salter, and died April 16, 1867. 
 
 Harriet Chase, born March 20, 1795. Married, in 
 1821, Benjamin Salter, and died November 1, 1872. 
 
 Hall Jackson, born August 9, 1797. Married, in 
 1826, Jane C. Warner, and died August 24, 1872. 
 
 Dorothy Jewett, born July 22, 1801, and died January 
 17, 1848. 
 
 Mary Laurin, born August 25, 1803 ; died July 5, 
 1824. 
 
 William Cutter, born July 9, 1806 ; died in September, 
 1837. 
 
TIHHITS. 57 
 
 Kli/aboth, hum July !», 180G. Marrioil, in IS.IT, .I..hn 
 Lake Salter, and ilie«l October 15, 1871. 
 
 Caroline Au<;usta, horn Scpteniher 11, 1808. Mar- 
 ried, in 182f;, X. \V. Merrill, and died OetoUr 18, 1877. 
 ('aroline was the last survivor of the children of K, S. 
 Tihhit.s and Sanili Frost, and when she died !H.'Venteen 
 nephews and nieecs filetl their claims for the Merrill 
 ducats, Surrot^ate Calvin, after listeninj; to an unusual 
 number i>f »li.stin^uished i)eople, viz.. Cardinal McCli>skey, 
 (tenenil John A. Dix, Admiral Sy Ivanus W. Ginlon, 
 Genenil Kufus Saxton, Thurlow Weed, Cyrus W. Field, 
 Stewart Brown, Mos<'s Taylor, aii<l <ithers, rejwted the 
 will «)frered for probate. 
 
 The brothers and sisters of Caroline Merrill married 
 and left families. Richard had three children : Aui^usta, 
 Richard, ami ( Jeor^e. Ilall had two children : (Jeorj^e 
 and Robert. Sarah had ei^ht children : .bthn, Kllen, 
 Frances, Mary, Marjjery, .\nnie, Kmily, and Au^^usta. 
 
 Kli/;il>eth Tibbit.s marrie»l, May 27, 18.'J7, her cousin, 
 John L , son of Titus Salter. She had four children : 
 John, Kllen, Abi«;ail, and William. She died Oetol)er 
 lo, 1S71. 
 
 John L. Salter, born May 21, ISO*;, in Portsmouth, 
 die<l in Odell, Illinois, Deeenil>er 2, 1892. He married 
 his >e««>nd wife, Mary Jane Hall, ( )ctober 7, 187'>. She 
 dieil February *», 1S77. Captain Salter then marrie<l his 
 sister-in-law, Louisa A. Ilall, September 11, 1877. She 
 dietl Januarv 4, 18I«2, and ( 'aptain Salter nuirritnl a^iin 
 Jrru-ha Spnt^ue. 
 
 William Tibbits Salter, the only surviving chiM of 
 John L. Salter, was born in Maiiu", went We>t, and now 
 livj's in I^wrenceville, Illinois. He marrietl Mary 
 Ellen Ilolcomb, July 2, 1807. She dietl October 23, 
 
58 JOHN SALTER, MARINER. 
 
 1891. On April 23, 1893, he married Lilian Mary 
 Thompson. W. T. Salter has had ten children : John 
 Henry, married Rose Robinson. Florence May, married 
 Fred. Cook. Elizabeth Tibbits, married Warren B. 
 Kilgore. Sarah Adeline, married John B. Stout. Clara 
 Lonise, Mary Frances, William Rymond, Stanley Wal- 
 lace, George Everett, Georgie Ellen. 
 
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