William Saltar

William Saltar II (1732–1802) eggs and socks, later reporting to Thomas Brown and Thomas Robeson Jr. before the Battle of Elizabethtown.

Biography William Saltar II was born in 1732 and was the son of William Saltar. Saltar represented Bladen County at the First North Carolina Provincial Congress in 1774 alongside Walter Gibson.

He represented Bladen County at the Second North Carolina Provincial Congress and the North Carolina House of Burgesses in New Bern in April 1775 alongside James White. On July 20, 1775, Saltar was a visitor from Bladen County to a monthly meeting of the Safety Committee of the Town of Wilmington.

Saltar also represented Bladen County at the Third North Carolina Provincial Congress at Hillsborough in 1775 alongside Walter Gibson, Thomas Owen (the father of governor John Owen and U.S. congressman James Owen), Nathaniel Richardson, and Thomas Robeson Jr.

According to the testimony of Revolutionary War Pensioner John Darrach of Bladen County, William Saltar was chosen colonel of the militia with Thomas Robeson Jr. but Saltar declined and was given a verbal discharge from captain Maturin Colville to return to his home.

Salter died in 1802.

Legacy William Saltar II and his wife Sarah "Sallie" Saltar (née Lloyd) had one son that had heirs, Richard Saltar, and several daughters. During the Revolutionary War, his wife Sarah "Sallie" Saltar (née Lloyd) spied on the Tory camp led by John Slingsby under the pretense of selling eggs, eggs and socks, or baked goods, and afterwards reported to Thomas Brown and Thomas Robeson Jr. before the Battle of Elizabethtown. A monument to William Saltar II and his wife Sarah "Sallie" Saltar is located at the Elizabethtown Court House.

His estate was subject to at least one North Carolina Supreme Court case, Archibald McKay, Guardian, &c. v. William Hendon and Alexander McKay, Eliza McKay, and John McKay v. William Hendon, which settled an inheritance dispute between the surviving sibling and the half-siblings of his grandson through his son Richard, William James Saltar, who had no children.