Saltonstall, Gurdon, 1666-1724

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Saltonstall, Gurdon, Governor of Connecticut

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1666-03-27

1666-03-27

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1724-09-20

1724-09-20

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Saltonstall (A.B. 1684) served as governor of Connecticut (1708-1724).

From the description of A memorial offered to the General Assembly of his Majesties Colony of Connecticut holden in Hartford May 7th-10th, 1716 / by Gurdon Saltonstall [Esq.] : one of the trustees in Trust of the Mohegan Fields, in the Township of New London, for the use of Cesar, Sachem of Mohegan & his Indians; upon the occasion of wsch Cesar complaint to wsh Assembly, of wrong done him & his Indians in and upon wsch (sic) fields : manuscript, 1716. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612826177

Epithet: Governor of Connecticut

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000409.0x00005f

Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724), governor of Connecticut, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on March 27, 1666. He received an AB from Harvard in 1684 and an AM in 1687. He was appointed governor of the Colony of Connecticut in 1707, and served until his death on September 20, 1724.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Harvard College undergraduates often copied academic texts and lecture notes into personal notebooks in place of printed textbooks.

Jonathan Mitchel (1624-1668), a minister in Cambridge, Mass., was born in England in 1624. He received an AB from Harvard in 1647 and an AM in 1651. He was ordained as a minister of Cambridge, Mass. on August 21, 1650 and served as a member of the Harvard Corporation. Mitchel died on July 9, 1668.

From the description of Photostat copy of the notebook of Gurdon Saltonstall ca. 1684. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 695671303

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