Henry Saltonstall

"HENRY SALTONSTALL, B. A., son of Sir Richard Saltonstall, the first of the six patentees of Massachusetts and one of the first settlers of Watertown, probably accompanied his father to Massachusetts in the same ship with Governor John Winthrop, in 1630. He was admitted to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company as early as 1639, three years before he graduated. In 1642 he was proprietor of a farm of three hundred acres, besides eighty-eight acres of meadow, in Watertown. He returned to England. In 1644 he was in Holland.

The Fasti Oxonienses contains this notice: 1652, “June 24. HENR. SALTonstal a knight's son, fellow of New coll. by the favour of the visitors, and doct. of phys. of Padua, was then incorporated.—The said degree he took at Padua in Oct. 1649.” From the list of Fellows on the records of the New College, Savage cites “Henr. Saltonstall, 1653–1657, Med. Dr. Patavii & Oxoniae, Equ. aurati filius Author. Parl. 1650.”

In the Triennial Catalogue of Harvard University, the word “Socius’’ is affixed to his name; but as he does not appear by the College records to have been a Fellow, and the title is not on any catalogue till late in the eighteenth century, it is doubtless an error, occasioned probably by the juxtaposition of the words “Oxon.” and “Socius,” between which, at a comparatively recent date, “1652” has been interposed, to designate the year when he became Fellow at Oxford."

• Source - Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University: In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Volume 1 by John Langdon Sibley and Clifford Kenyon Shipton, pg. 67.