Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724)
Minister at New London & 25th Governor of Connecticut
He was born at Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts, and is the first of the Saltonstalls of Connecticut. He graduated from Harvard (1684) before then taking his Masters there in Theology (1687). Four years later (1691), he was appointed Minister of First Christ Church at New London, Connecticut. He became a close friend and confidante of the Governor, Fitz-John Winthrop, so that when he died in 1707 Saltonstall was the obvious candidate to replace him. He was Governor of Connecticut from 1707 until his death in 1724. He inherited the Manor of Killingly at Pontefract in Yorkshire (England) and he built his home on Lake Saltonstall, five miles from New Haven. He married three times and had ten children, seven (listed) lived to adulthood.
