WILLIAM SALISBURY

• Death Notes
  • William Salisbury
    Born:  12 May 1622
    [city], [parish], Denbighshire, Wales  
    Died:  24 Jun 1675
    Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA 
    

• General Notes
  • "From James M. Ferrell, correspondent.
    William Salisbury and son, John, of Swanzey were the first killed in King Philip's War. He came to New England before 1656.
    William Salisbury, the first of this line, who came to America from England. He was born in Wales, doubtless in Denbighshire, son of John Salisbury of Llanrhaidr, Wales 14th generation from Henry Guelph, Duke of Bavaria. He disposed on May 12, 1656 that he was 34 years of age and if this be true he was born in 1622. He was in Dorchester, Mass. as early as 1648. He was for a time herdsman of the town cattle. He settled in Milton, formerly a part of Dorchester and signed the agreement regarding the parsonage land May 18, 1667. He moved to Swansea, Mass. as early as 1671 being the first man of the name in the town. William married Susanna ? who was admitted to full communion at the Dorchester church May 7, D.S.T. and was dismissed to the Milton church September 18, 1681."2 William Salisbury was born in 1635.1 He died in June 1675.1 
    
    
    
         Child of William Salisbury:
    Susannah Salisbury+   b. 27 Apr 1662
    Citations
    
    [S217] John Julian Lawton, The Seamans Family in America, p. 1.
    [S218] William Salisbury and King Phillips War, online http://www.sprague-database.org/w1675/i17.htm.