John Salthouse (August 3, 1662 – February 1, 1734) was the 9th great-grandfather of Cometan, classified as one of Cometan’s distant paternal ancestors in the Hardacre family line. Born in Peel, Lancashire, John was the spouse of Rebecca Hill (1679 – 1701) and is known to have died at the age of seventy-one in Peel. She was the daughter of John and Margery Salthouse.
In Cometanic ancestry, John is categorised as part of the 11th generation retrograde, classifying him as a distant ancestor of Cometan.