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"According to letters sent to me years ago by correspondents, William Salyer was a weaver and a Huguenot refugee from France. He died in Brookhaven, NY and had two sons: William (about whom I don't have any additional info) and Charles born abt 1672 in Brookhaven, Long Island. Charles married first May Jones and second Rebecca Bloomfield. Elizabeth Kath Salyer had information on Charles in her book on the Salyer Family."
"Barbara, I have a copy of the report made by Frank Grant Lewis,Ph.D.,N.Y. on SALYER (SALLIER) GENEALOGY, 1943, he says: While records of the births and deaths of the Salyer family of Brookheaven prior to 1708 are misssing, yet, as William Salyer was recognized as a man in the community as early as about 1657, he is likely to have been born about 1630. The town records show that he was a man of sufficient prominence to hold some town offices. In spite of the lack of birth records for Brookheaven prior to 1708, there are some indications as to the children of William Salyer and his wife. One of thes is that the name of William Salyer (sometimes spelled Sallier) continues to appear after the time when William the immigrant probably died. Feb 21,1710, William Sallier and Elizabeth Severance were married, as the records of the Newtown Presbyterian Church, Newtown, shows being a neighboring community.......The Salyer name continues in the Brookheaven records until 1774, when William Salyer, on July 4 of that year, as No 41 of 55 persons drew 4 chains 55 links of lots on the South beach from Whole House West to Long Cove, but the name of Salyer does not occur in the 1790 census of Long Island."
