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1800 - Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
1800 - Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
Name: William Salisbury
Assessment Year: 1800
Assessment Place: Greenfield, Saratoga, New York, USA
Residence Year: 1800
Residence Place: New York, USA

NOTE: Also listed is Commings Salsbury

Ancestry.com. New York, Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
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1802 Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
Name: William Salisbury
Assessment Year: 1802
Assessment Place: Greenfield, Saratoga, New York, USA
Residence Year: 1802
Residence Place: New York, USA

NOTE: Also listed is Cummins Salisbury

Ancestry.com. New York, Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: New York (State), Comptroller's Office. Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799–1804. Series B0950 (26 reels). Microfilm. New York State Archives, Albany, New York.
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1803 - Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
Name: William Salisbury
Assessment Year: 1803
Assessment Place: Greenfield, Saratoga, New York, USA
Residence Year: 1803
Residence Place: New York, USA

NOTE: Also listed - Cummings Slasbury

Ancestry.com. New York, Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
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1810 Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
William Salisbury
1 male, 16-25
1 male, 45+
1 female, 45+

Living near Cummings Salisbury
1820 - Is this him?
It is possible that the William Salisbury from the 1810 census is now living in Stillwater, Saratoga, NY
Free white males
under 10 - 0
10–16 - 0
16–18 - 0
16–26 - 0
26–45 - 1
45 and over - 1
Free white females
under 10 - 0
10–16 - 0
16–18 - 0
16–26 - 0
26–45 - 1
45 and over - 0

He is living near Preserved Salisbury, Daniel Thompson and Oliver Salisbury

Daniel Thompson is likely the
Brother: of Elisha Thompson who married Lydia Salisbury,
Sister: of Preserved and Oliver
William SALISBURY - Date: September 19, 1821 Location: New York Paper: Saratoga Sentinel  Date: October 17, 1821 Location: New York Paper: Saratoga Sentinel  This
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Date: September 19, 1821
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel

Date: October 17, 1821
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel

This is a sheriff's sale notice (also called a "sheriff's execution sale") from 1821 — a great genealogical find if you're tracing the Salisbury or Stafford/ Avery families.

Full transcription:

By virtue of an execution, to me directed and delivered against William Salisbury, Cummins Salisbury, and Silas Salisbury, I shall sell at publick vendue, at Nehemiah Wing's inn, in Greenfield, on the 31st day of October next, at one o'clock P.M. all the right and title of Cummins Salisbury to a lot of land, situate in the town of Saratoga Springs, and bounded as follows, viz. on the north and east by the lands of the widow Stafford and Amos Stafford; on the south by the lands of Benjamin Avery; and on the west by the lands of Samuel Stafford — containing 130 acres, more or less. — Dated Sept. 17, 1821.

JOHN DUNNING, late Sheriff.
POTTER JOHNSON, Deputy. 18 6w

What it means, genealogically:

"Execution" here is a legal term — a court order to seize and sell a debtor's property to satisfy a judgment (i.e., someone won a lawsuit against these three men and the court authorized the sheriff to sell their assets to pay the debt). This is not a criminal execution.
William, Cummins, and Silas Salisbury were jointly named in a debt judgment. Only Cummins Salisbury's interest in this particular parcel is being sold — suggesting the three may have held property jointly or been co-signers/ co-defendants on a bond or note.
"Publick vendue" = a public auction.
Nehemiah Wing's inn, in Greenfield — taverns and inns were the standard venue for these sales; this tells you Greenfield (likely Greenfield, Saratoga County, NY, given the Saratoga Springs land) is where the auction physically took place, even though the land itself was in Saratoga Springs.
The land: 130 acres in Saratoga Springs, bounded by lands of the widow Stafford, Amos Stafford, Benjamin Avery, and Samuel Stafford — these four neighboring names are gold for cluster/ FAN research (Friends, Associates, Neighbors), since they were likely relatives, in-laws, or long-term associates of the Salisburys.
John Dunning, "late Sheriff" and Potter Johnson, Deputy — Dunning had apparently just left or was leaving office (hence "late"), with Johnson carrying out the sale as deputy.
"18 6w" at the end is a typesetting notation — it ran for 6 weeks starting around the 18th (of some month), standard for legal notices requiring public posting over time.

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