A fine portrait of General Gurdon Saltonstall, completed in 1753 by Joseph Blackburn, is held by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, in New London, Connecticut, and may be viewed at their website.

Gurdon Saltonstall is identified as being buried in the Saltonstall Tomb in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 11 (1857), pages 26-27. It states,

"The Saltonstall Tomb is also near the centre of the ground. It consists of a spacious subterranean vault, which was excavated by Governor Saltonstall in 1710 to receive the remains of his second wife (Elizabeth Rosewell). The rounded summit of the vault is crowned with a freestone table, bearing a rude representation of the family arms, (on a marble plate inserted in the stone), and the following inscription in capitals:—

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF

THE HONOURABLE GURDON

SALTONSTALL, ESQUIRE

GOVERNOUR OF CONNECTICUT

WHO DIED SEPTEMBER THE

20th. IN THE 59th. YEAR

OF HIS AGE. 1724.

A considerable number of the descendants of the Governor have been gathered into this receptacle. His oldest son, Capt. Roswell Saltonstall, was here interred in 1738, and the youngest of his children, (except one that died an infant), the Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall, a Brigadier General of the Revolution, was laid here in 1785. Winthrop Saltonstall, Esq., a son of the last named, and Register of the Court of Admiralty during the Revolutionary War, was also deposited here in 1811. This tomb was last opened in 1845, to receive the remains of Ann Dudley Saltonstall, an unmarried daughter of Winthrop."

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Brig. Gen. Saltonstall commanded Connecticut state troops in the early part of the Revolutionary War. First appointed a colonel in 1775 in command of the 3rd Connecticut regiment of militia of New London and Lyme. Appointed a brigadier general in Sept 1776 and commanded nine militia regiments from eastern Connecticut in the action around New York City. Commanded the 3rd Connecticut brigade of militia from Dec 1776 until Jun 1777 when he resigned his commission.

1) Johnston, Henry P. Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution 1775-1783. Hartford, CT (1889). Pages 96, 429, 433, 445, 450.

2) NSSAR Patriot P-283923

3) DAR A099412

Contributor: P. Dahl, USMC (Ret.) (#48987692)

A fine portrait of General Gurdon Saltonstall, completed in 1753 by Joseph Blackburn, is held by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, in New London, Connecticut, and may be viewed at their website.

Gurdon Saltonstall is identified as being buried in the Saltonstall Tomb in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 11 (1857), pages 26-27. It states,

"The Saltonstall Tomb is also near the centre of the ground. It consists of a spacious subterranean vault, which was excavated by Governor Saltonstall in 1710 to receive the remains of his second wife (Elizabeth Rosewell). The rounded summit of the vault is crowned with a freestone table, bearing a rude representation of the family arms, (on a marble plate inserted in the stone), and the following inscription in capitals:—

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF

THE HONOURABLE GURDON

SALTONSTALL, ESQUIRE

GOVERNOUR OF CONNECTICUT

WHO DIED SEPTEMBER THE

20th. IN THE 59th. YEAR

OF HIS AGE. 1724.

A considerable number of the descendants of the Governor have been gathered into this receptacle. His oldest son, Capt. Roswell Saltonstall, was here interred in 1738, and the youngest of his children, (except one that died an infant), the Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall, a Brigadier General of the Revolution, was laid here in 1785. Winthrop Saltonstall, Esq., a son of the last named, and Register of the Court of Admiralty during the Revolutionary War, was also deposited here in 1811. This tomb was last opened in 1845, to receive the remains of Ann Dudley Saltonstall, an unmarried daughter of Winthrop."

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Brig. Gen. Saltonstall commanded Connecticut state troops in the early part of the Revolutionary War. First appointed a colonel in 1775 in command of the 3rd Connecticut regiment of militia of New London and Lyme. Appointed a brigadier general in Sept 1776 and commanded nine militia regiments from eastern Connecticut in the action around New York City. Commanded the 3rd Connecticut brigade of militia from Dec 1776 until Jun 1777 when he resigned his commission.

1) Johnston, Henry P. Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution 1775-1783. Hartford, CT (1889). Pages 96, 429, 433, 445, 450.

2) NSSAR Patriot P-283923

3) DAR A099412

Contributor: P. Dahl, USMC (Ret.) (#48987692)