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In 1697, Richard Saltar was residing at Freehold, N. J. It was in the vicinity of Upper Freehold that his estates mainly lay, and his family lived. As late as 1793, Saltar's Dam, on the main brook, in Freehold, is alluded to.
1697. Richard Saltar, of Freehold, was spoken of as, "King's Attorney."
1700. Some time prior to this date, he was in possession of the Baker Tract, at Upper Freehold, purchased from George Willocks, upon which he built the mills, at Imlaystown. This land passed to his son, Richard Salter, Jr., who sold the mill tract, in 1727, to Peter Salter, Jr
Ellis' History of Monmouth County, p. 617.
1701, Mch. 25. He was a witness to a commission issued in London by William Dockwra to Charles Goodman, of Perth Amboy, to be Deputy Secretary and Register, by which we can infer that he kept up an intimate relation with the old country.
1701, Mch. 25. Wm Dockwra, of London, gave Richard Salter a power of attorney, as land agent, and invested him with additional powers, Mch. 31, following.
1701, Mch. 26. Being in London, he must have conferred with those interested in New Jersey, for Thos Cooper, of London, merchant, gave him a power of attorney to collect debts, wherein he is mentioned as of Freehold, planter.
1701, Mch. 26. Thos Cooper, of London, gave a power of attorney to Richard Salter, of Freehold, and Richard Hartshorne, of Middletown, as land agents.
1702. "Letters of Attorney" were given to Richard Saltar, of Freehold, by Caleb Plum- stead and William Dockwra.
1704. He was a Member of the Second Assembly.
1704. Richard Saltar was a Captain, in the Provincial Service, from Freehold. State Historian's Report, Colonial Series, New York, Vol. II, p. 482.
1704, Feb. 28. He was a Justice and Judge of Monmouth County, and was alluded to as such, Dec. II, 1704, 1705, 1707, 1722, 1723, 1724 and 1728.
Minutes of Assembly and Freehold Court Records.
1706-7. Richard and Sarah Saltar, of Freehold, sold land to Jacob Van Dorn. Both signed. 1708. Richard Saltar and wife, Sarah, conveyed lands.
1716, July 27. Richard Saltar, Gentleman, and wife Sarah, of Freehold, made two con- veyances of land, at Freehold, to Richard Jewel. Both Saltar and his wife signed. Thomas Saltar was a witness.
1709-10, "ninth day of June," 8th of Queen Anne. "Capt Richard Salter, of the town- fhip of Freehold, county of Monmouth, Esq., to Ghertie Romain, Widdow of Stophel Romine, Deceased, of the townfhip of Freehold, conveyed land."
For £450, said Salter sold "two hundred acres of land, more or less, in the County of Mon- mouth. Beginning at a ftake ftanding in the line Between Sd Salter's & Thomas Boel's land ..... and is one of the Corners of John Vankirk's land ..... to another branch of hop brook to a maple tree marked, Standing by ye old Dam Formerly made to flow the Swamp .... to the Mouth of a fmall Run which comes out of Elexander Nipper's land . as Johanus courten Vanvorus' Line Runs till it comes to Alexander Nipper's land ..... till it comes within fifteen chaines of the Intended Highway Spoken of in Said Salter's Deed
from Clement Plumsted, ..... to another ftake Standing Jn Thomas Bole's line along Thomas Boel's line." Bounded "North Eaft by Thomas Boel's Land & South East & South by John Vankirk & Johanus Corten Vanvorus; weft & North weft by Alexander Nipper
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and fd Salter's Land, Intended for ye ufe of ye Prisbyterion Minieft-," under the yearly Preife or Quitrent of three pence, to be paid to the Lords Proprietors.
Witnesses: WM LAWRENCE OBADIAH BOWNE JOHN O KESON
RICHARD SALTER SARAH SALTAR
Acknowledged by Wm: Lawrence and John Okefon, "two of ye fubfcribing evidences," on oath, before John Reid, 2ª of June, 1714.
17II. He was a Member of the Assembly for the Eastern Division of New Jersey.
Richard Saltar was a man of marked ability, of high social standing, and a lawyer by education. Through his talents, and the influence he may have acquired by his marriage, he attained, and was able to hold, a leading position in the community. He was in sympathy with the Middletown Patentees and their successors, and took a spirited part in opposing the encroachments of the Proprietary Party. As counsel for the people, in which capacity he seems to have been employed, he championed their rights both within and without the halls of the Assembly, though he needed not the stimulus of identity of interests to defend so just a cause. While acting in his professional capacity, he, and Capt. John Bowne, undertook to raise money to defend the Patentee rights before Lord Cornbury, then Governor of the Province. This provoked the ill will of the Proprietors, who charged them with committing felony, crime, etc. Capt. Bowne, who was a Member of the House of Representatives, was brought up for discipline, but proving obdurate, was expelled. Lord Cornbury was also notified of their displeasure in a lengthy phillipic, which provoked a rejoinder, in which he took occasion to comment upon the illegality of this removal, and to deny the accusation that the money, thus raised, had been conveyed to him for the purpose of dissolving the Assembly, that the people might escape payment of the Proprietors' quit-rents. The impeachments were subsequently proven to be false, and resulted merely from the intense party feeling then existing. Saltar and Bowne represented the people, and were sustained by them in all their acts, despite the criminations of the Proprietary Party.
To estimate the character and services of Richard Saltar, at this distant date, is a difficult matter. We, who are in sympathy with the people, see him as a man, great in his day, in that locality-as one who, by his deed as well as word, served to mould the events of his time, and as one of those who have stood out, in all ages, as fearless and resolute advocates of individual rights. Viewed from the standpoint of the Proprietary Party, he appears as, "a factious and seditious person," given to false representation and desirous of evading, as well as assisting others to evade, their just obligations. According to our own individual convictions will these opinions prevail.
The dates of Richard Saltar's birth and decease are not known, but the latter occurred subsequently to 1728, for, at this date, he was still an acting Judge in his County.
He married Sarah, daughter of Capt. John Bowne, by Lydia Holmes, his wife. She was born, at Gravesend, L. I., Nov. 27, 1669, and was living as late as 1714, the date of her brother, John Bowne's will, in which she and several of her children, are mentioned as devisees.
This brother, John Bowne, between the date of his will, in 1714, and the date of its probate, in 1716, recognizing his approaching end, made a deed of trust, which largely distributed his estate, and mentioned many of his kinspeople, among others, the Salters:
1715/16, Feb. 5. John Bowne, of Middletown, merchant, gave a bond of £5260, at eight shillings the ounce, to William Lawrence, Sr., and Richard Hartshorne, in trust, for the use of said John Bowne's wife, Frances; and John Bowne, Anne Bowne and Lydia Bowne, son and daughters of Obadiah Bowne; and Richard Saltar, William Saltar, Ebenezer Saltar, James Saltar, Deborah Saltar, and Oliver Saltar, children of Capt.
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Richard Saltar; and Margaret Hartshorne, Richard Hartshorne and William Hartshorne, children of William Hartshorne; and Thomas Taylor, James Bowne and Samuel Willet, their executors, administrators and assigns.
To Frances Bowne there was to be paid, yearly, £45, during her life, at the dwelling of said Richard Hartshorne or William Lawrence.
To John Bowne, son of Obadiah Bowne, there was to be paid £400, when he reached the age of twenty-one years.
To Anne and Lydia Bowne there was to be paid £200, each, when they reached the age of eighteen years.
To Richard Saltar, William Saltar, Ebenezer Saltar, Deborah Saltar, James Saltar and Oliver Saltar, there was to be paid £125, each, when the boys reached the age of twenty-one years, and the girl the age of eighteen years.
To Richard Hartshorne, Margaret Hartshorne and William Hartshorne, there was to be paid £1 50, each, when the boys reached the age of twenty-one years, and the girl the age of eighteen years.
Thomas Taylor, James Bowne and Samuel Willet were to be discharged from all debts.
Witnesses: Joseph Dennis and John Saltar.
Freehold Deeds, Lib. G., p. 101.
1713. Sarah Saltar was a member of the Baptist Church, of Middletown.
Issue
2 Thomas Saltar
3 John Saltar
4 Hannah Saltar
5 Richard Saltar
6 William Saltar
7 Ebenezer Saltar
8 James Saltar
9 Deborah Saltar
IO Oliver Saltar
Still others appear, in the Freehold Records, who must be the issue of Richard Saltar, or his children:
1713. First Tuesday in June. Nicholas Salter, defendant, in a suit brought by John Mills to recover a debt of £12. Plaintiff ordered to give bail to pay costs within thirty days, or be nonsuited; defendant to plead thirty days before next Court of Judgment.
Record of Common Pleas, Freehold, Monmouth County, N. J.
In 1715, Nicholas Salter was still living in Freehold, and owned land adjoining John Salter.
1719, February. Samuel Saltar was a party to a suit in Monmouth County, N. J.
1720, Aug. 5. Margaret Salter, a supposed grand-daughter of Richard Saltar, I, was born. Mrs. Levi Holbrook, of New York City, a lady conspicuous in genealogical and historical circles, descends from Margaret Salter, born 1720; died June 16, 1799; married William Dey, or Dye, Sr., of Monmouth County, N. J., born July 6, 1718; died Sept. 6, 1784. They lived on a fine farm near Hightstown, N. J.
There is some reason to believe that Margaret Salter, born 1720, was a Crawford, rather than a Salter.
1725. James Grover, Elizabeth Forman and Mary Saltar, being severally called on their recognizances, appeared to give evidence to the jury.
1726. William Everingham vs Mary Saltar. Suit for debt £40.
1728. Samuel Saltar brought before the Court for breaking jail.
Freehold Court Records.
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1727. Peter Saltar, Jr., bought of Richard Saltar, Jr., land lying at Upper Freehold. Ellis' History of Monmouth County, p. 617.
1733, June 4. Peter Salter and Rebecca Mount were married at Christ Church, Phila- delphia, Pa.
1743. Sarah Salter married Nathan Allen, of Monmouth County, N. J.
1748. . . . . Salter married Ann Rockhill, widow, shortly after 1748. From Mr. Howard Deacon, of Philadelphia, Pa.
2 THOMAS SALTAR, son of Richard Saltar, I, died in early manhood, during the life- time of his father. He was of age in, or before, 1716, as appears by the will of his uncle, John Bowne. He dwelt at Freehold, and I have found but very few allusions to him.
1716-17, Mch. 5. Thomas Saltar, yeoman, of Freehold, bought of Thomas Parker, Sr., of Freehold, merchant, two hundred acres, more or less, lying at Crosswicks; bounded by Richard Borden, Philip Smith, Doctor's Creek, "the Mill Dam he bought from William Purdy," etc., including all buildings, orchards, fields, etc., and appurtenances belonging to the mill and the farm. The conveyance was signed by Thomas Parker and Mary Parker, his wife, by their marks, and witnessed by John Saltar, Jonothon Robins and George Parker. The deed was recorded in 1739, when Jonothon Robins acknowledged witnessing the same, before John Campbell, Esq., one of the Judges for Monmouth County.
1719, August. He was a Petit Juryman.
1722, June 13. Will of Thomas Saltar; proved Apr. 25, 1723, mentioned :
Wife, Rachel
Father, Richard Saltar; his executor.
Daughter, Hannah Saltar
Daughter, Deborah Saltar
Son, Richard Saltar
Trenton Wills, Lib. II, p. 248.
1725. Richard Saltar, Esq., executor of Thomas Saltar, was sued by Cornelius Van Horne, for a debt of £60. Freehold Court Records.
1731, June 29. Thomas Saltar, of Freehold, and Rachel, his wife, for £50, sold lands, at Freehold, to James Ashton, Esq., and Elisha Lawrence, Gent., both of Freehold. Rachel, the wife, made her mark. Witnesses: John Saltar, Richard Borden, Thomas Smith.
Issue
II Hannah Saltar -
12 Deborah Saltar
I3 Richard Saltar
not traced .
3 JOHN SALTAR, son of Richard Saltar, I, was born Oct. 22, 1694, as deduced from his tombstone, standing in the Yellow Meeting House graveyard, at Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, N. J., which states:
John Saltar died, Aug. 29, 1723, aged 28 years, 10 months, and 7 days.
In 1714, he is alluded to as, a minor, in the will of his uncle, John Bowne, but in 1716, when that instrument was probated, he had passed his minority, and received property with other devisees.
1716-1717. He was a witness to a conveyance from Thomas Parker to his brother, Thomas Saltar, and was probably then residing at Freehold, where he dwelt to the date of his decease. 1719, November. He was a Petit Juryman.
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1721. John Saltar was frequently sued by one, Gomez, and others, and was "non est," in a number of the suits.
1723. He was spoken of as Mr. John Saltar. Freehold Court Records.
1723, May 4. Will of John Saltar, of Freehold; proved Oct. 1, 1723, mentioned:
Daughter, Lucy Saltar
Daughter, Elizabeth Saltar § all under the age of eighteen years.
Daughter, Sarah Saltar
Daughter, Lydia Saltar
Wife, Elizabeth; appointed sole executrix and guardian of his children. Trenton Wills, Lib. II, p. 254.
His personal estate amounted to £722-8-0, and included nine negroes valued at £300-15-0. John Saltar married Elizabeth, daughter of Elisha Lawrence. She died in 1741.
1728, Oct. 8. Will of Elizabeth Saltar, of Freehold, widow, and sick.
She devised lands situated in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and orders others to be sold, "near the house that I dwell in, at the Iron Works," excepting fifty acres, "near the end of my husband's plantation"; one hundred acres of land "that my father gave me," and mentioned:
Daughter, Sarah
Daughter, Lucy
Daughter, Lidey
all under age and unmarried.
Daughter, Elizabeth
Daughter, Mary
Executors: friends and brothers, Elisha Lawrence, John Lawrence, John Emley and Richard Salter, Jr.
Witnesses: Robert Lawrence, Ebezar [Ebenezer] Saltar and James Tapscott.
Elizabeth Saltar left an estate that was inventoried at £722-8-0.
Issue
14 Lucy Saltar
15 Elizabeth Saltar
16 Sarah Saltar
17 Lydia Saltar
18 Mary Saltar
4 HANNAH SALTAR, daughter of Richard Saltar, I, married Mordecai Lincoln, who was born April 24, 1686.
*Mordecai Lincoln, the son of Mordecai Lincoln, a blacksmith, accompanied or followed by his brother, Abraham, both young men, left Scituate, Mass., early in 1700, where they had spent twenty years, more or less, of their youth, and traveled to New Jersey. Here they lo- cated in Monmouth County, and after a residence of some years, moved on to Pennsylvania, then an inviting field for the venturesome settler, where Mordecai died at Amity, Philadelphia County, in 1736, and Abraham, at Springfield, Chester County, Pa., in 1745.
*Samuel Lincoln emigrated from England to Massachusetts, where he resided at Hingham. He married, about 1648-50, Martha .
, by whom he had born, between 1650 and 1673, the following
Issue Samuel Lincoln Daniel Lincoln Mordecai Lincoln Mordecai Lincoln, 2nd. Thomas Lincoln Thomas Lincoln, 2nd. Mary Lincoln Sarah Lincoln Sarah Lincoln, 2nd.
(Footnote continued on page 185.)
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MORDECAI LINCOLN'S marriage to HANNAH SALTAR, and perhaps her death also, occurred before the year 1714, as appears from the will of her uncle, John Bowne, the settle- ment of whose estate was only accomplished with considerable friction between his legatees. Obadiah Bowne, one of his administrators, brought numerous actions against the said legatees, among which were suits against Mordecai Lincoln in 1716, 1717, 1719 and 1720.
1721, Nov. 30. Mordecai Lincoln reversed this legal status, and became plaintiff in a suit against John Lining, for a debt of £11-9-o. Defendant was non est.
1720, Feb. 2. Richard Saltar, of Freehold, conveyed to Mordecai Lincon, of the same place, for the sum of £152:
"all those Tracts of Land and Meadow on Machaponix River & gravell Brook in the County of Middle- sex ; the first Tract Is bounded on said Machaponix River on ye South by ye Pine Brook East by the Land now or late of Willm Estill on ye West, and by Land unsurveyed on ye North. Also all that Tract Bounded Wes- terly by Gravill Brook Southerly by the Land of William Estill from ye mouth of Long Medow Run Easterly & Northerly by land unsurveyed. Also all ye Long Medow upon ye sd Long Meadow Run Bounded West by ye Last mentioned Tract of land and all round ye other side by upland unsurveyed. In all Containing four hundred acres more or less," etc., the title to which Saltar had, by deed of sale, dated Nov. 7, 1717, from John Reid, Esq. Witnesses: Thomas Cox and R. Saltar, Jun".
1727, Apr. 5. Richard Saltar, Jun', appeared before John Anderson, Esq., and acknowl- edged that he was a subscribing witness to the above instrument.
At what date he removed to Pennsylvania, I have no knowledge, but he was a resident of Chester County, Pa., in 1726, and earlier, probably by some years.
1735, Feb. 22. Mordecai Lincon made his will; proved June 7, 1736, in which he mentioned: Wife, Mary
Son, Mordecai Lincon
Son, Thomas Lincon
Daughter, Hannah Lincon
Daughter, Mary Lincon
Son, John Lincon Daughter, Ann Lincon
Daughter, Sarah Lincon
A prospective child, which proved to be a boy, and was named Abraham.
Rebecca Lincoln Martha Lincoln
Mordecai Lincoln, son of Samuel Lincoln, I, married Issue Mordecai Lincoln, born Apr. 24, 1686. Abraham Lincoln, born Jan. 13, 1689.
These two sons were the pioneers of this family in Monmouth County, where they were in evidence as early as 1714, but they had, probably, arrived there some years before this date, and left there in 1721-22, to take up a residence in Pennsylvania.
Mordecai Lincoln, son of Mordecai Lincoln, was born Apr. 24, 1686. He married, as set forth above, prior to 1714, Hannah, daughter of Richard Saltar, who died, according to the late William H. Egle, Esq., the Pennsylvania Historian, "Feb. 4, 1717, in East Jersey."
Abraham Lincoln, son of Mordecai Lincoln, was born Jan. 13, 1689. He settled in Monmouth County, N. J., where, Apr. 3, 1730, calling himself blacksmith, of that place, he sold land to Thomas Williams, which he had received from Safety Borden, by deed dated Feb. 11, 1722. Freehold Records. He made his will at Springfield, Chester County, Pa., in 1745, which mentioned:
Issue John Lincoln Jacob Lincoln Isaac Lincoln
Mordecai Lincoln, "being absent from the Province," and perhaps he who is referred to as Mordecai Lincoln, of Taunton, mentioned in Dean's History of Scituate.
Sarah Lincoln
Rebecca Lincoln ( who received a plantation in Springfield and two houses in Philadelphia.
1770, June 9. Abraham Lincoln married (no name). Records of Augusta Co., Va., beginning 1749.
William F. Reed, Esq., of 915 F. Street, N. E., Washington, D. C., has a full account of William Tallman's descendants. In 1883, Samuel Shackford, of Winnetka, Ill., addressed me, concerning the Salter genealogy, stating he was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, and had been asked, as he had made researches into the Lincoln genealogy, by Isaac N. Arnold, of Chicago, who was rewriting the Life of Abraham Lincoln, to contribute the chapter on Abraham Lincoln's ancestry.
Contributions to Lincoln genealogy in the way of memoranda, appear in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, for April and July, 1872, and in Old Times in Monmouth County, N. J.
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Mordecai's widow, Mary, it is said by the Pennsylvania Lincolns, remarried.
The above will of Mordecai Lincon, establishes the fact that he had a later wife than Hannah Saltar, by the name of Mary, and there is nothing to disprove the fact, that I know of, that he might have had a still earlier wife than Hannah Saltar, except his youth.
There is no positive knowledge of the descent of the children from these respective wives, and there is some clash in the traditions given concerning them. And I feel quite sure that the children are not enumerated in the will in the order of their birth.
However, that Mordecai Lincon's eldest son and heir was John Lincon, there can be no doubt:
1748, Nov. 8. John Lincon, of the Township of Carnarvin, in the County of Lancaster and Province of "Penselvania," weaver, the son and heir of Mordecai Lincon, deceased, sold to William Dye, of the County of Middlesex, yeoman, for the sum of £200, that tract of land, lying in the County of Middlesex:
"Beginning where the land formerly Walter Benthals crosses Cranbury brook from thence along said Benthals land towards the Post Road to the Land formerly Robert Burnets and from thence along said Burnets line, " etc., containing three hundred acres.
1750, May 24. John Lincon, party to the above written instrument, acknowledged the execution of the same, before Andrew Johnston, one of His Majestie's Council for the Province of New Jersey.
Charles Carleton Coffin, in his Life of Abraham Lincoln, says: "John, son of Mordecai, was born, in Massachusetts, by a first wife." Also that Ann and Hannah Lincoln were daugh- ters by a second wife. On the other hand, David J. Lincoln, of Birdsboro, deceased, stated that John Lincoln was a full brother to Ann Lincoln, and she a daughter of Mordecai Lincoln by Hannah Saltar. Here is direct contradiction, and if the first authority cited is correct, then Mordecai Lincoln had three wives, the second of whom was Hannah Saltar.
The descent of John Lincon and the other children may be conjectured from the disposal of the lands of Mordecai Lincon:
To John, he conveyed the tract of three hundred acres that he, John, sold, in 1748, to William Dye.
To two of his daughters, he deeded one hundred acres, and to the other two daughters, one hundred acres, which he had bought, in 1726, when of Chester County, Pa., from Richard Saltar.
The land he owned in Pennsylvania was bequeathed to his sons, Thomas, Mordecai and Abraham.
It would seem from this partition of his estate that John Lincon, and his four sisters, inheriting all the New Jersey lands, were children by the wife, Hannah Saltar, while the other three children were by the wife Mary.
Issue
19 John Lincoln
20 Hannah Lincoln; married Joseph Millard.
21 Mary Lincoln; married, first, Mr. Morris; second, Francis Yarnell, Jr. In 1769, Francis Yarnell, his wife, Mary, and brother-in-law, Joseph Millard, were living in Pennsylvania.
22 Ann Lincoln, born Mch. 8, 1725; married, in Pennsylvania, William Tallman, son of Benjamin and Patience (Durfee) Tallman, son of Peter Tallman, of Rhode Island. He was born, in Rhode Island, Mch. 25, 1720, and died, in Virginia, Feb. 13, 1791. Issue: Benjamin Tallman, born Jan. 9, 1745; mar-
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ried Dinah Boone, cousin of Daniel Boone, and daughter of Benjamin and Susannah Boone. She was born May 10, 1749. Their descendant, Miss M. J. Roe, 6901 Harvard Ave., Chicago, Ill., has studied the Lincoln and Tall- man families.
23 Sarah Lincoln
24 Mordecai Lincoln, born 1730.
25 Thomas Lincoln
26 Abraham Lincoln, born 1735-6, died 1806.
26ª "Debora Lincon"; died, May 3, 1720, aged 3 years and 6 months. Tombstone very rudely cut, and of poor quality, like a field stone, in the Graveyard on the Robbins' farm, (wherein all the other stones are relatively modern), about a mile beyond Cox's Corners, near Imlaystown, Monmouth Co., N. J.
5 RICHARD SALTAR, son of Richard Saltar, I, was born, probably, in 1699, and be- came a prominent personage in his State.
1717, May. Richard Saltar, was a witness, in court, which may refer to his father.
1720, Nov. 22. Richard Saltar was foreman of the Grand Jury, which, however, may mean his father.
1724. Richard Saltar, Jr., was mentioned in a suit. Freehold Court Records.
1733, Mch. 6. Richard Saltar mortgaged lands to the Commissioners of the Loan Office, lying in Upper Freehold, for £26-13-4.
1734, June 8. He again mortgaged to the Commissioners of the Loan Office, for £25, land amounting to three hundred acres, in Upper Freehold, bounded by Rob Imlay, James Tapscott, and land "late John Saltar's."
1744, 1745, 1746 and 1748. Richard Saltar was a Justice. Shrewsbury Town Poor Records. 1745. Gov. Lewis Morris recommended him for a seat in the Council.
1746. He was designated one of those who were to give orders for firing the beacon lights, on the Navesink Highlands, to indicate the approach of French cruisers.
1748. He was suggested, by Ferdinand John Paris, to fill the place of John Hamilton, the lately deceased President of the Council, and was endorsed for it by James Alexander, as a "man of good understanding." He, soon thereafter, was appointed and filled the position until 1762, the date of his decease.
1754, Mch. 29. Judge Morris tendered his resignation and suggested Mr. Saltar as the best man for the succession, being "a man of good understanding and fortune, a firm friend to the government, and will act in that station with honor to himself, and justice to the public."
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