James Salter was born about 1805, in Newport, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada as the son of Robert Salter.
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English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English salter(e) ‘producer or seller of salt’. There may have been some post-medieval confusion with Souter ; see also Saltman .
English: occupational name from Middle English sautreour ‘minstrel, player of the psaltery (a stringed musical instrument)’ (Old French sautere ‘psaltery’, Latin psalterium, Greek psaltērion, from psallein ‘to sound’). Compare Rutter .
German: northern variant of Salzer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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