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1 743. SALSBURY, page SALSBURY 1. William 1 Salsbury resided first in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, then in Milton, Suffolk (now Norfolk) County. He removed probably in 1675 to Swansea, New Plymouth Colony (now Bristol County, Massachusetts), where he was slain on 24 June 1675, in the first engagement of King Philip s War. [1] He is recorded as buried there the same day. [2] His wife, Susanna, was scalped during the same attack, but survived. She returned first to Dorchester and then to Milton; on 18 September 1681 she was dismissed from the church of the former town to that of the latter. She is said to have died about 11 November 1684, but this claim is not well attested. [3] Children of William 1 and Susanna ( ) Salsbury are: i. (prob.) JOHN 2 SALSBURY, d. Swansea 24 June [4] ii. (prob.) ABIGAIL SALSBURY, m. Milton 9 June 1686 JOHN WILLISTON. [5] 2. iii. WILLIAM SALSBURY, b. 14 Aug. 1659, d. 3 April 1723, m. (1) HANNAH COLE, m. (2) MARY ORMSBEE. iv. SUSANNA SALSBURY, b. Dorchester 27 April 1662, [6] no further information. v. HANNAH SALSBURY, b. Milton 18 May 1665, [7] d. there 29 June [8] vi. SAMUEL SALSBURY, b. Milton 17 May 1666, [9] d. Swansea 26 Aug. 1757, [10] m. (1) say 1695 MARY BROOKS, [11] b. Billerica, Middlesex Co., Mass., 10 Dec. 1671, dau. of Timothy and Mary (Russell) 1 David H. Brown, The Names of the First Men Slain in King Philip s War, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 52 (1898): 145; Robert S. Wakefield, Plymouth Colony Casualties in King Philip s War, American Genealogist 60 (1984): , at George Ernest Bowman, Plymouth Colony Vital Records: Transcribed from the Original Records, Mayflower Descendant 21 (1919): 36-40, at 37; H. L. Peter Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850, ed. Jane Fletcher Fiske and Margaret F. Costello (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), Wakefield, Plymouth Colony Casualties, 241. For Susanna s death date, Wakefield cites Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and Other Contemporaneous Documents (Boston, 1900; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965), 392a. 4 Brown, First Men Slain, 145; Bowman, Plymouth Colony Vital Records, 21:36; Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, 409; Wakefield, Plymouth Colony Casualties, Milton Records: Births, Marriages and Deaths, , Alphabetically and Chronologically Arranged (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1900), William S. Appleton, A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages and Deaths to the End of 1825, 21st Report of the Record Commissioners (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1890), Ibid., Ibid., Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, John Brooks, in his will of 9 April 1713, proved 20 Dec. 1714, names cousin Mary Salisbury, daughter of his sister Mary Salisbury deceased, and cousin Samuel Salisbury, brother of said Mary (H. L. Peter Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987], 65). Samuel was born 15 Aug. 1698, only six days before his mother s death (Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 738). Although no birth record of Mary Salisbury is known to exist, the timing of her mother s death, as well as her placement in John s will, suggests that Mary was the elder child of Mary (Brooks) Salsbury. This is probably the Mary Salisbury of Swansea who m. 25 Dec Ezra Ormsbee of Rehoboth (Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, 175). (see 369. Ormsbee, 2, x.)

2 743. SALSBURY, page 2 Brooks, [12] d. Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Mass., 21 Aug. 1698; [13] m. (2) (int. Rehoboth 28 Oct. 1699) JEMI- MA MARTIN, [14] b. Swansea 29 May 1672, dau. of John and Johanna (Esten) Martin. [15] viii. CORNELIUS SALSBURY, b. Milton 7 Oct. 1668, [16] m. ca (first child, b. 13 Jan. 1692/3) [17] MERCY ( ) HEATH, widow of Richard Heath of Swansea; both living 7 Nov. 1707, when an agreement for the division of Richard s estate was filed in Bristol Co., Mass. [18] ix. HANNAH SALSBURY, b. Milton 20 April 1671, [19] no further information. x. JOSEPH SALSBURY, b. Milton 5 May 1675, [20] d. Little Compton, Bristol Co., Mass. (now Newport Co., R. I.), 22 June 1714, [21] m. Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Mass., 16 May 1698 MARY PADDOCK, [22] who survived him and presented the inventory of his estate, 25 June [23] 2. William 2 Salsbury (William 1 ) was born 14 August 1659 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, [24] and died 3 April 1726 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [25] He married first, in Swansea on 30 July 1684, Hannah Cole. [26] She was born 14 October 1664 in Swansea, daughter of Hugh and Mary (Foxwell) Cole, [27] and died there on 23 June [28] He married secondly, 27 June 1705 at Swansea, Mary Ormsbee of Rehoboth, same county. [29] She was born 30 March 1671 in Taunton, New Plymouth Colony (now Bristol County, Massachusetts), daughter of Thomas and Mary (Fitch) Ormsbee [30] (see 369. Ormsbee, 2, ii.). She was living as late as 10 May 1732, when she and her stepson Richard Salsbury entered an account of William s estate. [31] Children of William 2 and Hannah (Cole) Salsbury, probably all born in Swansea, are: i. ANNA 3 SALSBURY, b. say 1685, named in father s will, m. Swansea 21 June 1711 SAMUEL BULLOCK, [32] b. Rehoboth 7 Nov. 1683, son of Dea. Samuel and Thankful (Reneff) Bullock. [33] 12 F. Apthorp Foster, ed., Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908), 29 (birth); Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 10 vols. (Woburn, Mass.: Andrews, Cutter & Co., ), 3:33 (parents marriage). See also William R. Cutter and Arthur G. Loring, The Brooks Family of Woburn, Mass., New England Historical and Genealogical Register 58 (1904): 48-54, at Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, Ibid., 496; Harriet Woodbury Hodge, The Martins of Swansea and the Martins of Rehoboth, Mayflower Quarterly 49 (1983): 170-9, at Hodge, Martins of Swansea and Rehoboth, Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , Ibid., James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island: First Series, Births, Marriages, and Deaths: A Family Register for the People, 21 vols. (Providence, R. I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, ), 4: Little Compton, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , Appleton, Dorchester Births, Marriages and Deaths to 1825, In the town record William s date of death is so garbled that the year might be either 1726 or 1736 (Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, 228), but William s will of 9 March 1726, proved 16 May 1726, establishes the correct date (Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , 134). 26 Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Janet K. Pease and Robert S. Wakefield, Additions to the Family of Hugh 2 Cole (ca ) of Swansea, Mass., American Genealogist 64 (1989): , at Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Ibid., Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929), 1:20 (birth), 2:24 (parents marriage). 31 Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 563 (birth), 67 (parents marriage).

3 743. SALSBURY, page 3 ii. WILLIAM SALSBURY, b. 31 Aug. 1687, [34] named in father s will, m. by 5 Nov (birth of first known child) BETHIAH, [35] who d. after 5 Oct (birth of last child), [36] perhaps the widow of William Salisbury, formerly of this town, who d. Bristol, Bristol Co., R. I., 14 May 1767, aged 82y. [37] iii. MARY SALSBURY, b. 1689, [38] d. Rehoboth May 1725, [39] named as deceased in father s will, m. Swansea 4 May 1711 DANIEL BULLOCK, [40] b. Rehoboth 7 Nov. 1683, son of Dea. Samuel and Thankful (Reneff) Bullock. [41] + iv. SUSANNA SALSBURY, b. 29 March 1692, [42] d. Rehoboth 7 March 1777, [43] m. Swansea 25 Dec Dea. ROBERT WHEATON, [44] b. Rehoboth 14 Feb. 1689, son of Elder Ephraim and Mary (Mason) Wheaton [45] (see 371. Wheaton, 3), d. 22 Nov [46] v. JOHN SALSBURY, b. 25 May 1694, [47] d. on New Providence, Bahama Is., in Nov. 1745, [48] m. Swansea 4 Dec ABIGAIL CUMMINS, [49] b. 20 Nov. 1698, dau. of Philip and Elizabeth ( ) Cummins. [50] vi. RICHARD SALSBURY, b. 3 Nov. 1696, [51] named in father s will, d. prob. at Scituate, Providence Co., R. I., between 6 March 1741 (will) and 13 May 1742 (probate); [52] m. before 8 Oct (when named as Ruth Salsbury in her father s will), RUTH BOOMER, [53] b. Freetown, Bristol Co., Mass., 31 March 1700, [54] dau. of Matthew (Jr.) and Hannah (Church) Boomer, d. prob. at Glocester, Providence Co., R. I., between 25 Oct (will) and 16 Nov (probate). [55] vii. MARTHA SALSBURY, b. ca. 1698, d. Rehoboth 5 Aug. 1745, aged 47y, [56] m. Swansea 25 March 1722 Capt. PHILIP WHEELER, [57] b. ca. 1700, d. Rehoboth 9 Sept. 1766, aged 66y; both buried Burial Place Hill, Rehoboth. [58] viii. EXPERIENCE SALSBURY, b. 25 Nov. 1700, [59] named in father s will, m. Swansea 18 Jan. 1718/9 SETH BULLOCK, [60] b. Rehoboth 26 Sept. 1693, son of Dea. Samuel and Thankful (Reneff) Bullock. [61] 34 Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Ibid., Ibid., Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 563 (birth), 67 (parents marriage). 42 Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 769 (birth), 384 (parents marriage). 46 Alverdo Hayward Mason, comp., Genealogy of the Sampson Mason Family (East Braintree, Mass.: author, 1902), Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 2: Providence, Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Esther A. S. Briggs, Salisbury Family Record, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 65 (1911): , at Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Nellie M. C. Beaman, Abstracts of Scituate, Rhode Island Wills, Rhode Island Genealogical Register 1 (1978/9): , at Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , Ethel (Aldrich) Gallotta, Freetown, Massachusetts, Vital Records: Births, Marriages, Intentions, and Deaths, (typescript, Providence, R. I., 1963), 18, FHL microfilm 945,020; Robert S. Wakefield, Additions and Corrections to Austin s Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Matthew Boomer, American Genealogist 60 (1984): 77-9, at Nellie M. C. Beaman, Abstracts of Glocester, Rhode Island Wills, Rhode Island Genealogical Register 3 (1980/1): 54-7, at Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 887; Oscar Frank Stetson, Burial Place Hill Rehoboth, Mass., Cemetery Transcripts from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, database online < (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, ), accessed 7 May Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 887.

4 743. SALSBURY, page 4 ix. BENJAMIN SALSBURY, b. ca. 1702, d. Bristol, Bristol Co., R. I., 24 Dec. 1779, aged 77y, [62] m. (1) there 5 May 1734 MARY GIDDINGS, [63] b. Ipswich, Essex Co., Mass., 2 Nov. 1702, dau. of Joseph and Grace (Wardwell) Giddings, [64] d. Bristol 12 Feb. 1752; [65] m. (2) Bristol 31 March 1756 ELIZABETH LAW- TON, [66] who d. there, a widow, 25 Feb [67] x. PATIENCE SALSBURY, b. 5 Feb. 1703/4, [68] named in father s will m. Swansea 3 April 1724 WILLIAM EASTERBROOK, [69] b. Swansea 15 Sept. 1697, son of John and Mehitable ( ) Easterbrook. [70] Children of William 2 and Mary (Ormsbee) Salsbury, born in Swansea, are: xi. RACHEL SALSBURY, b. 12 Aug. 1706, [71] m. shortly after 9 March 1726 SAMUEL COLE, [72] b. Swansea 24 June 1704, son of Ebenezer and Mehitable (Luther) Cole, [73] and died before 6 Oct. 1733, when Benjamin Cole was appointed administrator at the request of Samuel s mother. [74] Since Rachel received no grant of administration or dower and was not appointed guardian of their children, it is likely that she died shortly after the birth of her last child. Children of Samuel and Rachel (Salsbury) Cole, all born in Swansea and living 26 Feb. 1733/4, when Hezekiah Kingsley was appointed their guardian, [75] are: 1. Daniel Cole, b. 26 Aug. 1727, [76] called a son but not named in the appointment. 2. Phebe Cole, b. 11 April [77] 3. Mary Cole, b. 2 Oct [78] xii. EPHRAIM SALSBURY, b. 4 Sept. 1708, [79] d. prob. in Swansea in 1755, will of 19 July 1755 proved 5 Aug. 1755, [80] m. ca (first child, 17 July 1732) ROSAMOND, [81] who survived him. [82] xiii. REBECCA SALSBURY, b. 7 Aug. 1711, [83] m. Swansea 30 Aug JOHN BUSHEE of Bristol, Bristol Co., Mass. (now R. I.). [84] Children, b. Bristol: [85] 1. Rebecca Bushee, b. 14 Oct. 1733, m. Scituate, Providence Co., R. I., 19 Dec Thomas Salsbury of Scituate. [86] 59 Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, Ibid., 563 (birth), 67 (parents marriage) Ibid., 6: Bristol, Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, ), 1:158 (birth), 2:183 (parents marriage) Ibid., 6: Bristol, Ibid., 6: Bristol, Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Ibid., Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Rachel was unmarried on that date (Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , 134), but the final account of her father s estate calls her Rachel Cole, wife of Samuel (ibid., 203). 73 Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, 20. For his parentage, see Pease and Wakefield, Family of Hugh 2 Cole, Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , Ibid., Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Ibid., Ibid., Ibid., H. L. Peter Rounds, Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records: Book 2, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988), Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Rounds, Bristol County Probate Records, , Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Ibid., Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 6: Bristol, Ibid., 3: Scituate, 27.

5 743. SALSBURY, page 5 2. Zubath (Azubah) Bushee, b. 20 Feb. 1736/7, d. Bristol 18 May 1754, aged 18y. [87] She was bp. St. Michael s Church, Bristol, 17 May 1754, [88] and bur. there two days later. [89] 3. Martha Bushee, b. 18 May Susannah Bushee, b. 9 July 1741, m. Warren, Bristol Co., R. I., 10 Oct William Child. [90] 5. (prob.) Mary Bushee, b. say 1743, m. Glocester, Providence Co., R. I., 5 Sept Amos Winsor. [91] xiv. DANIEL SALSBURY, b. 26 Nov. 1714, [92] d. prob. Swansea 7 April 1809, aged 95y, bur. Mason Cemetery, Swansea, [93] m. (1) Swansea 16 April 1742 ANNE HALE, [94] b. there 1 Sept. 1724, dau. of John and Elizabeth ( ) Hale, [95] d. there 23 May 1770, aged 46y, bur. Mason Cemetery; [96] m. (2) Swansea 21 April 1771 PATIENCE (COLE) EDDY, [97] b. ca. 1729, d. prob. Swansea 16 Jan. 1820, aged 91y, bur. Mason Cemetery. [98] 87 Ibid., 6: Bristol, 121. This record does not give her forename, but names her father. 88 Ibid., 8: Ibid., 8: Ibid., 6: Warren, Ibid., 3: Glocester, Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Mason Cemetery, Cemetery Transcripts from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, accessed 7 May Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Ibid., Ibid., 213; Mason Cemetery. 97 Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, 209 (named Patience Eddy in the record). 98 Mason Cemetery (named Patience Cole Salisbury in the record). 5 June January 2006 Austin W. Spencer