He graduated from Harvard College in 1659, beginning the family tradition of higher education at this university.
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Two of their children were Col. Richard Saltonstall (1672 – 1714), and Gurdon Saltonstall (1666 – 1724), later the governor of Connecticut.
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Indeed, he resigned from the Court of Oyer and Terminer around June 8, 1692, the same time as Bridget Bishop's trial and sentence for witchcraft.
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Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in about 1639, to Richard Saltonstall (1610 – 1694), he was the grandson of Sir Richard Saltonstall.
The Saltonstall family is a Boston Brahmin family from the U.S. state of Massachusetts, notable for having had a family member attend Harvard University from every generation since Nathaniel Saltonstall—later one of the more principled judges at the Salem Witch Trials—graduated in 1659.
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Nathaniel Lyon | Nathaniel P. Banks | Nathaniel Bowditch | Nathaniel Philbrick | Nathaniel Dance | Nathaniel Westlake | Nathaniel Rosen | Nathaniel Wallich | Nathaniel Parker Willis | Nathaniel Lardner | Nathaniel Kahn | Nathaniel Peabody Rogers | Nathaniel L. Carpenter | Nathaniel Kern | Nathaniel Heckford | Nathaniel Greene | Nathaniel Bacon | Richard Saltonstall | Nathaniel W. Watkins | Nathaniel Wheeler | Nathaniel T. Oaks | Nathaniel Thayer | Nathaniel Stookey | Nathaniel P. Hill | Nathaniel Philip Rothschild | Nathaniel Morton | Nathaniel Merrill | Nathaniel Macon | Nathaniel Lord Britton |