William Sallé, Jr.

Wendell E. Wilson, The Huguenot Ancestry of Jane “Jinny” Sally of Kentucky, http://www.minrec.org/wilson/pdfs/16A.%20%20Sally.pdf

our ancestor, William [Salle Jr.] (b. 1734), married a woman named Nancy around 1755 and settled down in Buckingham Co., Virginia. They appear to have had 16 children over a 29-year period, from 1756 to 1785. The family moved to Washington Co., Kentucky some time around 1769.

His parents and siblings

William Sallé Sr. (1734-1820)

Guillaume Sallé (1704-1789) had five chiildren by his first wife, Elizabeth Givaudan:

• Elizabeth (1728, died in infancy),
• Elizabeth (1729),
• William (1732, died in infancy),
• William Sallé Jr. (1734) and
• Isaac (1739,died in infancy, during whose birth the mother, Elizabeth Givauden, died).

In 1740 he married Magdalaine Chastain, with whom he had another four children: since Isaac had followed his mother in death shortly after being born, Magdalaine's first child was also named

• Isaac (1741), followed by
• Pierre (1743),
• Jean (1745) and
• Oliver (1749).

Our ancestor, William (b. 1734), married a woman named Nancy around 1755 and settled down in Buckingham Co., Virginia. They appear to have had 16 children over a 29-year period, from 1756 to 1785. The family moved to Washington Co., Kentucky some time around 1769.

References

1. Historical Southern Families. Volume I. Section: Mallett and Salle of Manakintown, Va.. Page 144. < AncestrySharing >