THE UEOR({E :;:;_, \-_\UY ~L'lXSIOX,

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A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

OF TJIE

SA VERY F Al\!IILIES (SAVORY AND SAVARY)

.IND Ul•' TIIE

SEVERY F AlVIIL Y (SEYEt:rr, SAVEHY, SAV<Ha·, AND 8AL\1tY)

DESCJ•:NDED FHOM IUHLY DDll<.R.\NTS TO Nl~W J!XGL.\NI> AND PHILADELPHIA WITH INTRODl'CTORY ARTICLES ON THE ORIGIN AND JIUiTORY OF THE

NA~ms, AN!> OF ENGLl:SII F.IM!LIES OF TUI! N.Dm SAVEHY IN ITS VA­HIOUS FOIDIS; ,\ I>In'.111.EI> SKETC'II OF Tim UFE ANll LABOitS

OJ,' WILJ.Ll:ir SAVEHY, ~IJ'.'/18TEI: OF Tim c:osp1,;r, [:"< TUE SO('JETY OF FIUl!:'.\l>Sj AXI> .\l'l'EN[>IXES co:-.;T,\IXING

AX .IC'l'(WNT ()F S.\ nm y's INVF,NTlflX OF nm STE.DI ENnJ:-.;E, ANJ> I•:XTit.lCTS FIW~I 1-::,.;n-

1.1,-;11, :"<l•:W EN<H,.\NI>, .IXD BAHll.\l>OES ltECOHVR JrnLATIN(; TO F.DIILJE,-;

OF BUTH N.\~ms.

11,·

01' .1NNAl'OUS ROYAL, :N°OVA SCOTIA, ,JFDHE 01" THE COUNTY COURTS

OF NOVA SCOTIA.

ASSISTED I:'< THE GENEALOGY HY

MISS LYDIA A. SAVARY, I''

OF EAST WAl1EIIAM, 3IA~S.

Mea me virtn::;, et saneta orncula Divnm, Cu!(n:itlque patres, tun terrls dhlltn. fa11111, Conjunxere tihl. YIRG., ,·EN. viii. 131.

BOSTON: 'l'IIE COLLINS PRESS.

18!l3.

PREFACE.

BESIDES my recognized assistant in the compilation of this Genealogy, and those to whom I acknowledged my obligations in the '' New England Historical and Genealogical Register" for Octo­ber, 1887, I am imlehtetl to Dr. William Savery, of Sharon Hill, Penn., for biographical matter pertaining to the Philadelphia Family, to Hon. James B. Severy, Jmlge of the County Court of El Paso County, Col., for information by which I was enabled to trace the branches of the Severy family settled in Maine, and to Dr. Samuel Smiles for the permission acconlc(l me to publish in America the chapter in his "Lives of Boulton and ·watt," which gives an account of Savery's invention of the steam engine.

Auel in this place I would repeat with emphasis the expression of my great indebtedness to ]Hiss Lydia A. Savary for her invaluable and continued assistance, without which I would never have been able to bring the work to a satisfactory conclusion. She gathered n.nd furnished me by far the grenter part of the materials woven into the genealogy of what l lmvc callC\l "Subdivision A" of the Old Colony Family, and a considerable quantity of other important mat­ter nlilizctl in appropriate places in the genealogical portious of the book.

I have consulted, for my sketch of the eminent minister, the "Journal of the Life and Labours of William Savery," edited by Jonathan Evans, Philadelphia; the "Life of Elizabeth Fry," by her daughter, l\Irs. Cresswell; "Anecdotes of Friends" (issued by the "Tract Association of Friends," Philadelphia), and some letters of the minister to his wife from England.

Those who have been surprised and disappointed at the long delay in issuing the book have no conception of the immense amount of time and labor which the compilation of such a work clemnnds, and which was, in this case, aggravate\l by the (listance of my residence from the reconls in which information was to be songht, and my want of suOicient leisure to spare from the duties of an engrossing oflice. The correspondence involved was enormot1s, aml the ex-

iv PREFACE.

penses iucuned so extraordinary that the lluanciul loss will be great relatively to that resulting from the prcparntiou uml publication of most wol'lrn of the same nature. Such books :ire expecte1l to rq1:1y tlie cost of publication, and sometimes partially or wholly the expense of reseat·ches, but the work of compiling arnl w{·iting is a " labor of love." My own expenses are much beyond the possiuility of recoup­ment from sales of the book. It may appear ungracious to mention this, and yet it seems but right to disabuse the minds of those who may suppose that I have entered upon and carried on this work with a prospect of pecuniary gain. What was at first the indulgeuce of a taste for antiqnariau research, family history, nrnl speculations in heredity, grndnally grew iuto a bercnlean task, which I more than once seriously contemplated abandoning in despair.

In beginning my inYestigations in 1881, I was actuated simply by a desire to clearly truce np my own ancestry to its source on the olher side of the Atlantic, and to that end applied for information to several kinspeople in Massachusetts whose aclllrcsses l chance1l to obtain, lmt whom I hnd never met. These, in the <mkr of time, were Hon. ,Villiam Savei·y, of Uarver; Adolphus Davary, Etill., nnd Miss Lydia A. Savary, of East '\Varel.mm; Theodore P. Adams, Esq., of Boston; aml ReY. "\V. H. SaYnry, of Canton, now of South Boston; all of whom most cordially responded, with a large amount of interesting matter, which, while not reaching back for enough to elucidate the transatlantic origin of the family, inspired me with more zeal to discover it, and promptetl the more ambitious task of a full family hhltory and genealogy. The plcnsme I have 1\el'in,d from my correspondence and subsequent acquaintance with these and others of my American kinsfolk, and others not kinsfolk, who have in various degrees contributed to my success, has relieyed ancl lightened my labors.

A complication that rendered my work more difficult was the exist­ence in Plymoutll County of a quite numm·ons family of the same name, wlio, it was taken for grunted by myself and most of my early correspondents, were a part of the " Old Colony" family of Saverys, but whom a careful investigation proYed to haYe been descended from an entirely different source, the name being a tlevelopment from one originally quite different, aml an example of the eurious way iu which iu English-speaking communities a name originally

PREFACE. y

pnrcly French, will, in the comsc of generations, become grndually chnngctl into one of English sound, or locally common ns nu English nnme. The book will therefore be dh·idccl into t,vo parts, the second of which will contain the genealogy of the Severy family, and.9f the Saverys who are descended from the immigrant ancestor of the Severys, whose name, it will be seen, was Sivret, changed to Severit on this side of the water. I at one time thought of publishing this in a separate volume, but decided finally that it would he more inter­esting and useful to both families to place the two genealogies in juxta­position in the same book, in order that difference, as well as identity, of origin and pedigree, and non-relationship, as well as relationship, of people bearing the sa111e names, might be elucillated together. I nm sorry that the genealogy of the Severy family is not fuller. l\l:rny of the 1lcscc11tl:111ts of the first ,Joseph Severy, of Sutton, I

h:we been unable to trnce, nnd there were evidently two of the nn111c, probably his 11nclcs, "·Ito 1·e111ni11ell nt l\farblchead, and were progen­itors of n n11mero11s posterity, who now all write their names " Savory." All the l\Iarblehea<l church aml town records relating to the name I have inserted in an appendix, so that any one who may wish to truce these lines more closely may be aided in doing so. I w:is clis:ippointcd at lliscon~ring that so many esteemed correspontl­ents, worthy of all regard, allll much intercstcll in this Gcucnlogy, were in no wise related to the family of which I was a member, or to any of the co11sa11g11incous families of the same name, whose his­tory alone I for some time thought I was compiling.

In the female lines I did not at first expect to give more than the marri:iges of daughters, and the first generations of their children. ,vherc I hnvc done more, the information wns Yolunteered to me, or was easily obtainable. A genealogy of the descendants of an early immigrant to America on a plan embracing the descenll:ints in female as well ns in male lines is rnrely accomplished, and would have been much beyond my time :ind resources.

A. W. SAVARY. ANNAPOLIS, 1893.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LIST 01' ILLUSTRATIONS

Exl'I,,\NATIONS <w SruN:- ANH .A1m1rnnATIONS

NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND ConnECTIONS •

PART I.

I. INTRODUCTORY. The name Srwery

The N ::une in France .

Modern E1!glish Families

The Name in early New .England Amrnls

II. TnE OLD COLONY FAMILY. Thomas Savory, the Pil-

grim, and his Descendants

Subdivision A

Subdivision B

811hdidsio11 C

III. Tm, EssEx COUNTY F AMILL Robert Savory and his

Descendants .

IV. THE NEw HAMPSHIRE FA.ilHLY. Richard Stwory and

l'AGE

ix xi

xiii

1

7

8

12

19

31

74

nr,

102

his Descendants 125

Y. THE NAME IN BAllBADOES 133

YI. THE Pmr.ADELPmA FAMILY. "\Villiam Savery, Sr., and

his Descemlants 136

VII. "\YILLIAl\I SAYERY, THE EMINENT IllINISTEll

PART II.

VIII. THE SEYEHY FA!IIILY AND SAYERYS rnoM THE SAME

ANCESTOR:

146

Intrml11ctory: The Name and its Origin 177

John Severit or Senry and h~s Dcscemlnnts 179

viii TABLE 01!' CONTENTS.

V .A.LEDICTORY RE)lARKS 213

APPENDIX A. Extracts from Rcconls relnting to Savery

I◄'t,mily . 217

Extracts from Records relating to Severy Family, 224

APPENDIX n. Savery's Invention of the Steam Engine 2:W

APPENDIX C. Extracts from Records relating to the Sa-

verys of Devonshire

INDEXES

245

255

For Indexes of names in original hook, see pages 255 et seq.

For Notes, Additions, and Corrections to original book, see pages

ix tu xx, following page 266.

For Indexes of names in Supplement, see end of Supplement.

ILLU8TRATIONS IN SUPPLEMENT.

Portrait of the nnthor Frontispiece.

,, ,, Eliz:1 T. Hunt, wife of the author, opposite page 19 .

. , Freel '\,V. Lamb ,, ,, 31.

,, ., Rev. Thomas ,v. Savary " "

49.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Trm SA v AHY MA NsroN AT r: Hon,;r.,, Nil, 1\1 AHS.

At:TO<;f!Al'IIS OF T110MAs SAVORY oF Pr,YMOUTll

PoHTHAIT OF l\Irss LnHA A. SAVAHY

" CArT. 1sAAC SAv~;HY

" " " "

" "

"

" "

BEN.JAMIN SA VERY

UmA11 SAVERY <w NovA 8<'0TIA

,TAMES C. SAVEHY

ANNE NoLANP, 1V1F1•: 01,• ,JAMES

C. 8Av1my

B1,;~srn C. OTTY, LATE ,v,n: ()!<'

THE AUTIIOR

lloN •• JonN 8AVEHY

lloN. WM. SAVEHY <w CAHVEH

1V11,LIAM L. S11mnrnT1·, 1\1. D.

PHINI~As JU. SA n:HY <W M1ssrss1PPI

HON. GEORGE SAVARY

HEv. w~,. H. SAvABY

REv. G1wwrn 8AvA1n-

EnwAm1 Hos~11m SAVARY

SILHOUETTE OF 1V11.LIAU SAVERY, THE MINISTRH

COAT 0~' ARMS o~' nm SYv1rnTs OF JERSEY

PORTRAIT OF R:i,;v. G.:o. W. SAvonY

" TIIE AUTHOR

Frnntispiece

Pages 20 and 21

Opposite page 31

" ,, 40

" " "

"

" " " " " " " " " " " " "

" " "

"

42

48

54-

56

" 6.5

" Ra

" !J 1

" \l4

" 100

'' 103

" 117

" 121 ,, 123

" " " "

14 7

177

201

213

EXPLANATIONS OF SIGNS AND ABBllEVIATIONS.

THE snrnll figures over the Christian uames rlenote the number of the generntion in which the person namerl is removed in descent from the im­migrant ancestor of his family. The names between brackets and in Italics :ire those of the ,lircct linPal ancestors of the person treat.Pel of back to his immigrant ancestor, who is in such case numbered with a small ' over the Christian name in the same manner, the son of the immigrant numbered', grarulson \ :tml so on ,!own to the present generation. The Homan nu­merals in :t column on the left of the names where births :tre recorded are intemled to show the number of the children born of tl1e same parents and the ordPr of their births. The familiar Arabie numerals in the margin farther to the left show the order in which an extentle,l am! fuller reconl will be given of the person so nnmbere(i, and the births of his or her chil­dren, awl so on. In casf' of a person not having any ehildren, or onlr un­married children, and in female lines, it 1liti not sePm rwcessary always to carry the name forward in that way, unless there was something spct·ial to · l'l'l'Onl in t.lu• pcrR<m"s own can•t>r, s11d1 as important military or civil pub­lic RNvice, profesRioual eminPIICP, ete. I 11 some cases the necessary infor­mation came too late to µ:ivP it in a further Pxterulerl rPconl. In tracing down a liuP of dPst·ent, tht• n\adPr will look in the mitl,lle of the page for the same numher as that on the left side antl Llin·ctly against the name of the person traced from: a111I so, converselr, in tracing back, look in the IC'ft-haml margin of the previous pages for the same number as appears in thP middle of thC' page above the name of the person whose aneestors you desire to trace.

ln England am! the colouips the ,luliai~ Calendai· was retained until 1752, "·h1•n the I/rr'!f"tian mle11.tlm·, or nC'w style, wns adoptt>•l. Iu ordPr, tl1cn•­l'on·. lo nutlrn 1.hP dn.t.PR hPfon• 17,i:! 1·01T11i.po111I 111 111" Rolnr yrn1r t.o 1111• IIPW

st .. l'I .. , iL i,- mit•n~s:iry Lo add ten to dal,eR ol' days h..t.,n•en moo :ind liOO, and eleYPn to tlates bet\\·eeu liOO am! 1 ili2. Thus the "Mary :uni ,John"' arrivPrl 011 May 1, Hl34 (old style), to which, a1hling ten, woul1l he May 11, lfl34 (new st,rlu). Tiu.• year in old st.de was computed to hegin on March 25, 1,0 that most of her passengPrs took the oaths of $Upremacy anti allegiance l)pforP sailiug, iHareh 24, 1633, although we would sny it was in tlw s:ime yC'ar as that in which thPy arrived. Some of her passengers took the oaths on the 26th of March, which was the seconrl day of the ypar 1634.

Where I have used the prefi:ces "DPacon," "Captain,'' etc., it is in most casPs for the purpose of rlistinguishing the person designated from otlwrs of thP same Christ.inn rnnne, or because the prefix was a common or well-known 1lesig11atio11 or the person. I concluded it a safe rule to applr to clngymen aml physiri:ms, senators and members of a State executive, the titles unirr•rso/ly accon!Pd to tlll'm by the usages of the country in which they lh·e,l. In cases of persons who heh! officPs, in rPspect to which there i~ a diwrsity of usagP, or the prt>fix "honorable'' is merely given by courtesr, I have omitted that prefix.

AllllimVIATIONS: h., bo1·n; d., died or dead; m., 11w1Tied; ch., child or rh ildrrn; ,!nu., da11!thlri-.

l'AHTICL!LAlt HE•JL'E:<T.-,t11yprl'.<1)1! 1l!hO may rlisc11te1· an// el'1'111'i1 the t:,,n,,c,lo!f/1 will confer a yreat_tir1·01· on the authoi· by immrtlil/te[!f 1wt{ti1inr1 hirn lhrl'r'<J.(.

PART I.

THE SAVERY ~'AMILIES.

TIIE SAVERY FAMILIES.

TN the title I give precedence to the form of spelling the name use<l by the nmjority of those who will he mentioned in the work, allll nearly nniversal in the '' Old Colony" branch, from which I am myself deseende<l, awl which is the oltlest family uf the name in America;* arnl there is better :wthority for "Savery," or "Savory," as an English or Ahieriem1 name, than there is fm "Sa.vary.'' The latter is distinctively the Freneh form, the other two are E11glish forms of the same ancient name. T 11 old ~ on nan Freneh the a and the e were almost <:onvertible letters.t In the French lai1guage there is no a1·1·m1t, or, whn.t is the same thing, the accent i8 equalized over all the x_yllahlex of :t word, with :t xlight xLrexx 011 tlie last,, wliil<:, in th<\ pmgrexxive growth and development of the l•:11glixh lang11agc, a 111a.rkc<l aeeent on a part.icnlar Ryllalile, generally the antepenult, hecame in process of time a recog-11ized rule, bringing with it a tendency to abbreviation. Hence, the xeco]J(l or mrnecente<l vowel in this name, not affecting the ;;11111Hl, lmc:tme n, nmtter nf no importance, with an ever-recur­ring pref pre nee for the e, l>m:aux1: it praeLical ly retlnee(l it to two ;;_yllahle;;. It. is interesting to note, however, that in its t-irHt appPam.1H·e in t.ltm,e ol<l English reeonl;;, the Hundred l{ollx, it ix 1111der the form "R:wn,ry," ,fol111 Savary in the

* l\l y fat.ht•.r w.i~ the lll'!-lt tn hi~ llm~ to a«lopt the form, whirh, ncconl\ng to modern l't1:-1t.0111, hn:,,: pa~~t•.d to 11w and mine 1,y l11lmrlt.1u1cc. lh, followed tlw. 11011. Gco1·~c Rnvnry, of Brnd ronl 1 l\ta:-::-:., who:-ac fnthor was t.llo llt·st i11 hi1-1 line to n1lopt \t. 'rhc 1•,hnuge tn every ,·:1~e wn.~. 110 1lo11l,t.1 1Hrt•dly or indin•ctly 1luc to the pt·o1111ncncc in t.hc <.•.nrly part or the 1·t.·11h1ry of t.lw 11:1H1P or :--:.11u1ry, Hue• do lto\'i~o, N:q1o!Pon'~ cl'lPht·:ttl'f\ gcncrnl antl mini1-4ter of polkc.

t Bard~ley 011 ~ur11amc~.

2 THE SAVEltY FAl\HLII~S.

Hmulrecl of vVestlmry, eo1111ty of \V-ilts, l>ci11g Clll'Olhi<l as a jmor in the thirty-ninth year of flcmy llf., A. n. 12!)f>, l>11t. ever afterwarde; i11 t.l1rn,;e l'l!l:01·<b, as i11 tlie early reeonls of Nli\\' Englarnl, it is spelt i!l(]iffore11tly ·' S:wery" a1Hl ·' Savory," with every varit:Ly of Lcrn1i11aLion LhaL wonl<l give the sa111e sound as the y. Settled rules for the spelling of sumames were unknown or despised until about the hegiuning of this century. In early colonial days learne<l men on lioth si<lcs of the ocean not only wrote their names phonetically a)l(l aec<ml­ing to each one'::. ear or taste, but entirely at mn<lom, and often in several different ways in the same documeut. So great wa:; the diversity in orthography generally, that an eminent antl10I'­ity on names * suggest::; that the <li::.pl.!)' of variety in thi::. respect may have been considerecl ornamental, just as a writer aiming at elegance to-clay wonlcl strive to avoid repeatiHg the same word or phrase in a sentence. A rnong the Frcnd1 similar <liffonrnc:e:-;, !mt 110L (o :-;o :-;[.riki11g a11 wdc11(., existed i11 re,;pect to this 1mme.· In Agnew's '· List of Freneh Protestant Exiles in England," we find not only Matthew all(l Btepl1eu Savary ancl sons Luke aml .fohn, ancl Da11ielt S,w,u·.r, but in 1701, Elias Sn.voret, John Snvonret, a11cl Zacliary Savory.

The most rn.ti01rnl etymology o[ the w1me is that given by Ferguson in his excellent work on English surnames. He makes it a compound of a wc)l'(l in the mwient Tcntouic lan­guages, "Salm" or "Sahas," a sword (whence onr modern " sabre "), and the familiar old German termination 1·ilt or n'elt, implying rule or dominion, a11ll generally rell(lerccl "Prince,'' as in "Heiurieh," German, whence "Henry," English, from old

German, Heim, home - qua.~i "Pri1wc of l1ouw," arnl "Friedrich," German, - "Frederic," English, - from old Ger­man, Fried, peace, meaning "Prince of peace."+ I tieleet

* Lower. t l\Ientioned iu lettei·s of deuization repruthwod Uy Mr. rJa:i .... am from su~::H.!X t·ecords

in the "Register," Boston, Vol. XXX\r., p. :.!45, t Perhaps the tnrn siguUlcancc i~ rather thut "home," or'" pence," '' the swunl," etc.,

is ruler or prlncc, the tm11timc11t Lciug adopted null applirnl a-o a proper uamc. Rich or 1·ih is conuccte<l with the Latin reyo.

1'1-rn SAVIWY J?AJ\IILmR. 3

these two exa,mples a,s illustmting the evolntion of two distinct termina,tions, y a,nd ic, in na,mes compounded of the sa,me a,bo­rigirrnl rili or rich. The letter b softenecl into a, v nmcle the name Sava,rich, nncler which form it is found in Centml Europe to-day.* Thus the name means "Prince of the sword." t

Sa,baR wa,s a Gothic bishop in the fifth century, mentioned in <lihbon's "Decline mHl F:tll," mid the 1mme a,nd vrtrions com­po111Hls of it existecl not only on the Co11ti11e11t, lmt in EHglancl hcfore the Nommn co11qnest. It is ,mggeste!l tliat the name Savage is from this rnot, Sa.varich Rhorteued into Srwaich, and thence moclemize<l to it.'l present lesR congenial form. Sabe, Latinizc!l Lo Sabi1111s, wonl,l be rn-:wglitic,l to S:thi11, an,l Sea­bright nm,r come from Srwbeorht.:j:

B11L Llic Nornmns were 110L only the 1110RL 111:1rtial of the northern 1rntio11s; they earlier attaiuell a comp:trati vely refined all(] complex civilization, :md a more complete ancl polished language. Descended from the vangnanl of the pristine Germanic tribes, themselves the flower of the Swedes, Da1wR, a11cl No1·w(•gia.11s, t.l1ey lmcl scWecl tlicmsd veR in tlmt pn.rt of ancient Gn.nl to which they gave the un.me indicative o[ their northern origin, learned and imp1·ovc<l on the native lm1gnage, and left indelible tmceR of their conquests ,md

1< 'rhc transition of B to V, in the clevelot•ment of Euroµcnn languages, is wel1 known to the linguist. The Greek n hns the sound of V in modern Greece. In post-classical Lntinity F1t1ch words ns mi?·af,ifr nre found ,vritten 1ninwile: ·rerbu.m, 1:enm,m., etc., in<li. catiug a ch,1.11g-c of sound. In Germany the mctnl i~ still .<,ill>r.r, while it is "silver n in 11!11;::la11d. Any 01m <·.an oh~t~rvt: how chil1lrc11 will ,·.nil m:11'hleR, "marvel!'\." 111 mtr ea,rly recor<ls l1:ar11e1l hut. c..mrclc:-1l-l writ.orl-1 wrote "Mnr\'il tlcn1l" for the name of Lhc i\laRsachusetts town.

t A writer on :'3ltch ~uhjce,t.~ haR Rug-gc~tc,l for the origin of the nnmc the snme root as the l1~rr.nch Xavier, with the menning '' hrighf.," '' hrillin.11ti1

' whir,h has 1n·omptrnl n ncnt ode tu the 11nmc from the gifted pen of .John Sn.vary, Esq., o( tl1e Congrcssiomtl Library, \Va~l1i11gton.

t ,vchster derheA t.hc :uljcctivc"" R:tvnl-{c" from the Ar1norlc, i.e., nrcton, '1 savnich," whit•,h point:-1 t.o tlie origin of the ua/11(!, though hli-1 i-lllA'l,!l'.Kt,ctl connl'<:tion wit,h t.hc Latin -~!llua. i~ prohah1y fn11dful. Lo,ver Bay:-t the name Savage wn.:-1 brought ovct· to E11gla1Hl in the train of I:-1nhclla, the 1i,rench t'OllRot't of lhmry IL l might sui.q:;cRt, t.hnt the lo~s of the,. wa.H tlut> t.o th<• ll':-t,~ p<~rfect. e11t1nt·.iaLlo11 of l1'rnnk a.ml Hnxon :t!-1 compared with the more ('01TC1·.t :u11l poli:-;hctl ~orman. Burke, however, a~:-tig-11:-1 a !'\on1rnn origin to an J1·i:-1h fttmily, armol'ially il1Cntitiell with a. prominent. Englh-1h 01w of the nn.rne.

4 THE SAVERY ~'AMILrnS.

domination around the coasts as far as _Italy itself. It was soon after their ascendency in England that snmames began to be nse1l to permanently 1listi11gnish families, and w1wrnvc1· the influence of that brilli,wt race prevailed i11 a11 age of wn.r, a name of imch import, a.ppliml to greatm 01· lcsHet' lrnigliLH a1ul chieftains, was sure to be multiplied; sometimes confeneil as a title of honor, or mark of military rlistinction ; sometimes as a prmnomen, as Savary tle Bo1mn ; then as a eognornen, arnl finally as a permanent sumame, as given or Christian names developed into surnames, as we nmlersta1Hl the significance of surnames in modern times. Bnt except in honor of a family alliance, of which there have been many instances in Massa­chusetts, it has not heen so fortunate in retaining its hold as a

. Christian name, as many others of cognate 1lerivatio11 (notably the two I have cited), which are still favorites in the homes of Western Europe and America. Perhaps it droppe1l ont of use when, in the "ages of faith," it hecame the rnle to give the new-born child the name of a tntelar saint, no Savary having attltined the distinction of eanonizatim1.

The· Normans were probably the fast to plant the name in Holland and Flanders, countries which pr01lneeil the clistin­gnisheil painters ttll(l engrnvel's, ,Jolm, B.olaml, a11d Solo111011 Savery, born in the sixteenth eentm·y.

A Hoelarnl ::·hvery from llolla111l viHil:ed tlw New Netlwl'­lauds in the service of the lYntch \Vest lmlia Company in 1654, and in the records of the Heformed Dntch Church at New York is note<l, A. n. Hi7fi, tliu lmptisrn of l ◄'rarn:i:-w11s, so11 of Leell(lert Savam, a1Hl Jearniettie Stevens, his wifo. Pm­lmpH tll() eal'liest ()('.('.lll'l'UIW() or tlH: IIHlllC ill l'(:g11lal' l1i:-dmy is in Dam's " liistoire de la Bretagne," p. 33-!, where it is recorded that Duke Conan III., in the early part of the twelfth century, set himself to chastise the nohles of Britt.my for theil' ernel exactions from the peasantry, in the course of wl1ich he "demolished the mansion of Savary, Visemmt of Donges, ,t1Hl confined in the tower of Nantes, Oliver nf Pontelm11tmin, who

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had become the tyrant of his country." It would be interest­ing to know whether the unhappy noble fled from his desolated domain to that ever-hospitable a:-;ylum, England,* there to foull(l that Devmrnhire family of Savery or Savory, which it is sai(l "came originally out of Rrittany," and, as so often happens, reversecl the traditions of the name in later generations. Darn tell;~ llR that when ,vmiam invaded Englandt "several Breton nobks, wl10111 tlw 1·ivil tro11l>les of t.l1eir prnvi1H'e li:ul :Lllie1l Lo

the int.el'ests of thi:-; foreign prince,:j: accompanie(l him." "re know t.lmt (.he Co11q1wm1· remmletl J,is followers with largo estates, and (translating again from Dam, pp. :10G-308), "The immense fortunes RO :-;uddenly acquired excited the cnpi<lity of thc:-;e trammiarine people so that they rushe(l to the newly con­quered i:-;lmul as it wel'e to a new worM which belonged to evcl'y new-comer." The Northmen lta(l ohtainecl a foothold in Brittany as early aR A. D. 912, and abont the year 990 the Norman Cieoffroi, Count of Hennes, assumed the title of Duke of Bretagne. At the time of the conqueRt many of the nohleR of Brittany were of Norman origin; to which fact the name of "Savary" in that prnvince was unquestionably due. Doubt­leRR Breton:,; of all classes mixed their blood in some clegree · with the Norman element which infused itself into the South and Sonthwest of I<:nglaml, a:-; Britain hernelf had contributed to Brittany in the ti[th and sixth centuries.

Britt:my wa:,; not, tl1c>11 politically a part of Fmuce. Their nati1111al fortune:-;, hlcrnlc<l for a while, had parted, and the val­iant. d11k!'s ol' Non11a11dy :md tlwi1· <ln.n11LlosH follower:,; lia(l pmcticall,y wreRte(l their own country from the control of the C:tl'lovi11gia11 kings; arnl even if the goo(lly Devonshire tree, i11strnul of the still ol<ler Nonnan-Engli:-;h trnnk, had sent out our New England offshnntR, it wonld he erroneous to say that we am of French extraction. The Normans of that (lay were as (li:-;tinet from tl1l' val'ions tribes or raceR that ma1le np the

* Suh a.nno n:,s, I>aru ~ay:4," L' A 11glcterre dn.it alorR l'n~ylc ,lcs Prince~ tll•trfln(•~." t A century earlier than the o,·cmTcnce just relater\. t" Cc prince t'·tntnger.'t

6 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

Fre11ch nation, ai; they were from the Saxons whom they c1·0:ssetl the channel to snbtlne. They were more nearly allied to the Danes thau to the Franks, and ttll were eq1mlly llistant from the Celts, who once held both Ganl awl Britain. The 1rnme is by no mea.us peculiarly a French one, aiul where we Jiwl it in France it is largely due to the influence of the Norman race; and it is surely inaccurate to assign a French extraction to an American family whose ancestor::; were part of the Eng-lish people before the a<lvent of the l1 ngnenots. The cm1tllJ'ies preee<li11g t.lm(; im111igra.tio11 Wl,ru tlw l'm11mtive p1•ri1HI ol' !.lie English drn,racter aml language. Te1myso11 conlll 110t lmve saitl, "Stixon and Freneh ttll(l Ihne am we." *

It is an historical fact not always :mfficiently com;i<lere<l in English ethnology, that for a celltmy or two after the acces::;ion of William the ( '.0111pwror tt l:opi1H1s an1l lllll)rnkeH st.rea.111 of Norman migration poured into Englall<l. The m1thor of a very leame<l aiHl intcrcsl,illg work," Tliu Non11a11 1'1:opk arnl llil'ir Descendants in E11glarnl :rn<l Amel'ica,"t prnves that this result of the cm1qnest gave the :so-calle1l A11glo-Saxo11 race a11 :ulrnix­ture of fully one thinl Norman blood. To this sonrce he tmces in England a.nd America very many French names erroneously ai;signed hy their lllO(lem he,u·ers to a fl ugne11ot migin.

Frnm trm1::;latio11s of \Ve1ulover's Chrouiele (Hohn'::; e1litirn1) it appearH that in 1176 one Savary with Niel1olas rtll(l Tlerhert was appointed Archlleacon by Hiclmnl, Archbishop of Canter­bury, and in 11£!2, Sn.vary, Archtleacon of Nortlmmpton, was elected Bishop of Bath. lll 1 l!l+, Savarie,+ Bi::,]1op of Hath, with others was delivered liy King Hiclmr<l I. to the Emperor Tlenry VT. a.s "l1m;tagu" for Llw 1·1:111,1.i11dur of !.h1: 11w1w_y d110

for his ransom, arnl for the keeping of the peace towanl::; the

*"Saxon und Norman :uul nauc arc we, nnt allure Dane8 in our welcome or thee."

Tt-JNNLSON, to the Prince8S of ]Vates. t Anonymous. IL S. King & Co., London, 18H. t Observe here both terminations y a.ml c given to the snme name lJcforc noted

as t'a..lliug to different mollur11 names of the 8amc primal fot·mation. 't.11·an8latious into Latin a.utl re.tru.nsla.tious into .English at diiforcut epochs or Ly diJfercnt writers may have settled the rule differently in respect to different names.

THI~ SA YE!tY FAl\fIL!ER. 7

Emperor. Later on we find that llemy, Emperor of the Homans, sent Savaric, Bishop of Ifath, his "relative and Chan­cellor,'' from B11rg111Hly to Richard, king of Englm1d, to offer to restore to him his ransom. He was probably of Norman birth .

. From the "Nonnnn People" I gather that the name Peter Sa.vore appears in Norman recol'lls in 1180 1t1Hl 1108. I 1i1Hl Bi1·lmnl Savaria in ll1(' ( 'anlrn·l>11ry rnlls, E11g·b1Hl, 1202; .John Savary (,lolies, ithhrnviated from the Latin Johannes) in vV estlmry, vVilts, 12f>fi ; and Lanrei1ce de S:wore and Rich­anl Saveri, the former of Somersetshire, tlie latter of Leicester­shire, in other Hnmlred Holls, 1272. In the fourteenth cen­tury the 1mme Ot'.cnrs as leg·a.tcc in a. will in Lincolnshire and n,s executm of a will at Bristol. In l--lBB, Thomas Savery, of Yeovil, Somerset, ocenrs in a foit of vVinchester scholars. Everything imlit'.ates that the name, as a family name, origi-1mtetl in vViltshire or one of the immediately adjacent counties, and thence re-enforce<l, perhaps, hy N ornrnn accessions, soon f;prea<l all over Englarnl, as it was ttt the -sn,me time spreading n1·p1• Fra1w1-, l1p1•0111i11.~ al,n11t. pq11ally 1'.0111111oi1 i11 hot.Ji (\01111t.rinK,

and prevailing in France more mnong the aristocrney, in Eng­la11<l more a.111011g llie yeomanry mHl art.i:-mn t·.lass. AK the name doe:,; not n,ppear in "Dnniesda.y Book," it must lmve come into England between the year 1O8G and the last quarter of the following century.

The facts rceonle<l in ,vmceKter's "Chronicle," p. 315, thn,t in 1212 Sn.vary <le Manleon rose in anus agn,inst ,John of Engfa]l(l in l'oietiers, and that Pierre Savary wa:,; one of the arhitmtorK or a.inhassa<lors on hehalf of the French king in negotiati11g the peaee which followe<l, remin<l us that there have been Fre11eh families of the name of great renown, notably that of Tonmi11e, whieh has given to Frn11ce from a, very

8 'l'Hl~ SAVERY FAl\lCf,fl,;:-,1.

remote periml a continuons and brilliant liue of geuemls, diplomatists, statesmen, ecclesiastics. A lmuwh of this family, known a.s "de Savary," were Seigneurs of the ble S,wary i11 the Inde. The arms of this family, or of a lnaneh of it, are given in "Le Dictionnaire de la Noblesse," tome 18, as" ecartelc d'argent et sable" (quarterly argent ancl snlile). Savary, Due de Rovigo, Napoleon's minister of police allll most clevoted adherent, accordi11g to the" Nohiliare Universelle," par M. Le Vicomte de lVIagny, tome 4, was born in Champagne. Arms: "D'aznr, cl11 cltev1·ou d'or accoste en c,hef ,le de11x molldk,.; d'eperon d'argent, et en poillte, d'nll sahl'e <le cavalarie pose en pal, d'argent. - Conronne <le Dnc." J\fost of the celebrated French authors and n,rtists of the 1mme iu recent times have been natives of Brittany.

MolllrnN ENoLrnH FAl\llLII~H.

or Lliese, B11rke, in the lasL edition of Iii:-;"' Uu1w1·al Al'IIIOI')',"

and "Barouetage," mentions as bearing coat armor the follow­ing: -

1.

SAVARY. Certified in 17\lH. Arms: "Az. a chev!'on or, betw. two roses in chief of tlte last all(l a lion rn.mp. in hase ar. on a chief gu. n, crescent hetw. two estoiles of the thircl. Crest - A cnbit arm in armor holcling in the lmncl itll ppr. a swol'<l erect ar. hilt arnl pommel or, entilell on the blade with a hoar's head erased, also ppr .. Motto: 'Noeentes prose,pwr.' " The features of the arms and crnst in common with De Rt~vigo point to a cognate origin; lmt perhaps it wonlcl he strai11ell to connect the swonl in each with the Ol'igi1rnl significance of the name. This family, I learn, was foumletl by 11 nohle TI ngnenot of Perigonl, who, at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, fled to the Low Countries, where he alliecl his fortunes to those of the Prince of Orange, arnl following him to r◄:nglall(l, settle<l in Kent.

THg RAVBl:Y l◄'Al\HUgR .

. , .... SA v1mY. A nns : "Qnarterly or anrl azure; a bend gnles."

3.

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SA YO!tY. "Paly of six argent and vert a chief sable" (not very dissimilar from those of de Savary). Crest-" A hand holclillg a clmpean hetw. two hranehes of laurel in orle, all ppr."

4.

SA vim.¥ rm SA YOJ:Y, OF Ih~YONSHI 1m. Arms: "Gnles, a few,. vair betw. three nuicorns' heruls couped or." Crest_:_'' A heron\; (sometimes an eagle's) head erm;ed ar lietw. two wings displaye<l sahlc, hol1li11g in the lieak a11 olin~ linrncl1 vcrt." · Motto: "1\ nt vita liliem ant nwrs glorimm." The latter is no doul>t of modern :ulop!ion, 1wrl1aps 1lati11g from U1c gren,t civil war. This, the mm-.t <:Plcbrate<l family of the 1m11re that England has pr0<lnee<l, seems to lmve been fonncle<l liy .J nhn S:wery, ;if Halberton, in 1501. It gave a ·member or memliers to Parlia­ment for forty consecutive years. Christopher Siwery, son and l1cir of Sir ( 'l1ristopl1!'r S:tV('lJ, lrnigli!, high sh;~rill' of l>cvrn1, was an active _colonel in the Parliamentary itrmy. The Rev. Servi11gto11 Sa\'c1·.r was a patrn11 of the great literary genius, Giffonl, wheu the latter was an in<ligent youth. Gifford, in his characteristic antohiography, speaks r)f him in terms of affectionate gratitude.

But the most illustrious memher of tliis family was Thomas Savery of Shih;to11, "C'apt:tin of E11gineers," whose merits as the tme inventor of the steam engine, long eclipsed by the later glory of \Vatt, are now receiving a tar<ly recognition. I claim for him, ai; the first who constrncte<l a real \vorking en­gine, the right to a statue in vVeHtminster Abhey, beside, or i11 a mm·e ('011spicmn1s placn tha11, those of Holton arnl '.Vatt; for it is 1w extmva.gant l'onjectnrn t.lin.t if lie 1i:ul not livml, we wonl1l lmve been p•t without the sten.111 pngine in its <levelop­ment of to-<lay. As a ecntnr_r might hani elapse<l, in the then

THE SAVEltY PAMILIES.

::;tate of human knowleclge, Lefore a eounte1ptrt of Colnmbns lmcl 1li:,;coveretl ,t New \Vorlil, :,;o Bolton arnl \Vatt might lutve livecl and 1lie<l without any existing m,u:hi110 on whidt Lo clovote Llw resources of their genius autl illllt1stry for it::; improvement ,uHl perfection. Tlw steam e11g-iuo clicl 1w!;, like Ll1e fahlecl 1Vfi11ol'va, is:,;ue all armed and pauoplie1l from the Lmin of any earthly Jove. Savery's genins coneei vetl arnl hronght forth the infant prodigy; they were the later all(l most famons of :,;everal gen­erations of foster parent:,; who nnrturetl and tminecl ih, exparnl­iug powers into their imhlinw mat1u·it_y. .\nil ai-; tho 1.u11cle111:y of everything· in nature is to grow, all(l multiply itself, so in the world of science, machinery, moved by the gia.ut energy of steam, was requirecl for the enrn,trnetion of still more pon­derous mlll powerful engines, till they enlmiuated in those iron monsters that now so marvollmrnly ministei· to tlw i1rnatiahle wants of man. • Colnmlms is honore<l before .. Amerigo Ves­pi'wcio 01· ,faccptos ( \trticr; a111l Jut 111,t Ll1c la.urn ls which 11elo11g to Savery's brow atloru those of Bolton and \,Vatt. *

5.

SA \'ORY. --\.nns grnutc1l to Sir Joseph S,wory, rncently Lor1l Mayor of Lonclo11, a11cl in 1887 sl1el'iff of i\ficldlesox: ·' Paly of six or .till l vei·t ou a chevron ermine H el'Oss crosslets fitel1eo sal,lo a ehief gnles." I fe is t.liu eldest so11 of U1e late Joseph ~avory, Esq., of Buckhurst Pa1·k, Berkshire, and comes from a family whose leacling members have been for generations prominent n,:,; silversmiths, goldsmiths, ancl bullion dealerH at Cornhill, London. l\Jn.uy of them have been active and influ­ential meml>1irs of tl1c Soeiety of Fl'im11ls, of whom ,foi-;eph Savory was the friend of the eminent American mi11ister of the gospel, "\:Villin.m Savery, and will be mentioned in his biography hereafter; Amm Savmy was the frieml, aml for a time at least

* See nccount 01' tile invention ot' the steam eng-ine hy 'rliomns Savery all(l of his other invcotioul:j, from Smi1c::1's "Lives of Bolton a.1ul \Vatt," in Appciulix B. It will he seen that Lho impossil.Jility or mnking- the engine ~troug enough ,viLH the (•,a.use of its· failure to meet the purposes it wa,; inteutletl for.

Till<; RAVEH.Y l•'Al\lILII~R. 11

co-worker with the minister, and like -him a corrm;pondent of

Elizabeth Fry : and Hester Savory was the Quaker maiden whrnrn early death Charle:-; Lamb deplored i11 a te)](ler poem.* Sir .foseph claims a Huguenot descent, hut nmy, however, have no better authority for it than the prevn1c11t error that the name is nece:-;:-;arily Frnneh. The family can be traced back in vVandsworth a11,l King:-;ton, Surrey, on the reconls of the Friell(b, tot lie yrn.1· 1.li!lti, only eleven yearn after Llic rnvoeation of the Edict of Nn.ntcs. There are imlicatiom; on the same rccm·,ls of 1i1emhlH'8 of tl1e family lmi11g settlml in Kent as early a:-; tluit llate. Peter Sa.very was retnmed to Parliament for the borongh of Southwark in Suney i11 G ITem,r VI., 1427; a11d all-ho11gli a 1•olo11y of l'rntPsla.11! \V:1110011:-; lia.tl eomo to v\Tawbworth in 1.570, :t.Jl(l e:-;talili:-;he,1 a d1mel1 there i11 1f>7;{,

it i:-; noL 11nlikl'l,\· tlmt tlii:-; falllily abo i:-; of Norman E11gli:-;lt

yeoman origin, perha.p:-; ,le:-;eended through the intervening

county of Berks from the :-;a.me "Tilt.shire family from whieh I cledncc the Sayer.rs of ,\ nwri(·a. Sir .To:-;eph, through ,t fc11mle a11ee:-;tor, is de:-;cemle,l frn111 Kiug E1lwrtnl Lt

SA YOlff. '.\nus gra11te1l to Sir vVillimn Schofield Savmy, the eminent :-;urg-eon: "Argent, 2 pa.llet8 between flanche:-; vert,

* "'hen mai1lcn~ snch ns Hester dit•, 'l'lleir place ye may not well ~upply, Though ye nmong a thomm111l try,

\Vith vni11 e1l(lcnvor.

. A mo11t,h or mort• h:it.h ~he been dc:11I, y.,t, e:1111wt. I hy force he lcrl To think upon the wormy hcd,

. \ 1111 her togct,hcr.

1\ :-.pring,r motion i II her ~nit, A rising :-i.tep, rlid huticntc Of pritlc and Joy no common rate,

'11hat 11u~her1 her Bpirlt.

I k11ow not. lty what, 11:1111<1 he~ldu I sh:tll <':tll it-if 't.was 11ot pride, rt. w:is :1 joy to that nllle,l,

She dh.J. inherit.

Her 1mre11ts held Lhe Quaker rule, ,vhiclt rloth the humnn feelh1g- cool, nut she wa::1 trained in nature's school;

Xnture had blest her .

A wnking eye, a prying mind, A hcnrt tlint st,lrs is h:tnl to hi11<l, 1\ hnwk's keen sight ye c.'lnnot 1J1inf1,

Ye could not Hester .

l\ly sprightly neighbor! gone before To thnt unknown and silent shore, Shnll we not meet, ns heretofore,

Some summer morning-,

When f1•0111 thy 1•.hcc1•.f'ul eyes II r:,.y. llnth strnck :, bliss upon the 11:ly,

A bliss thnt, wonltl not. A'O nwny, A sweet forewarning?

t .. ,ostcr'H- '' ~ohlc and Gentle .. "'amilies of Royal Descent."

12 'l'Ug SAVrnHY l•'AJ\IILrnH.

on a chief salile, a staff entwine(! liy a- serpe1tt pl'Oper." He was son of ,vmiam Remy Savory of the eity of Lornlon, prohahly tlw one who appears in ll1e Dirm:tory ol' 1820 as :t "fish faetor" at Love Lane.

An original doe1u11e11t, temp. l le11ry \'I 11., sl111ws Lim(, one

Henry Navory, a p:.tl'ty to it, then of Sonthamptou, was liorn a suliject of Fmnce. William Savery, age 25, wa;; among the p:tssengen, of the :,;hip "(Holm" of Lo1ulon, Bl:wkwcll, mastcl', to Virginia, in lGBfi. ,Tnly 2, 1 (i(iO, Bridget B1rnl>y, widow of NidH1la:;, nf Boxtm1, 111e11tio11s in a. <kl'tl lw1· <b11g-hh•r Catherine, wife of \Villiam S:wery of Norwich, E11glarnl. In Barb:uloes the mtme appeare(l soo11 afte1· it;; :ulve11t to New Eughtn<l, eonple<l with :,;eveml Christian nmnes common in lioth migratiom,. The name Anthony, mrc amo1tg the Pilgrims arnl Pmitan~ of that <lay, lint comrnon to the \Yilb .. l1irc :tll<l Plym­outh County Saverys, appears to me very imggestive of a

kin:,;llip; !mt as 1 ~mspect that the Philath•lphia. fa111ily 1k­scemle<l from thi;; source, it will he e:qie(lient to treat of tl1e name in Ihrlnuloe:; dsewhere .tll(l more in <ll'tail.

The iiftidh 11ame Oil the lirsL li:;L or freellH~II of l'lynum(h Colony, H.ilW, i;; A11thony Savery, repeated i1• :t longer li;;t of 1636-7, and again in a li:;t of 1n:rn.* Oppo:;ite the name Oil

this list i:; the word " (lea(l," but he is mentione<l in the records nntil as late as l(i-!2.

The second oeenrrence of tl1e name is that of Thonms Savory in April, 1 HB-!, as one of that i!l-,ulvi:-etl ex:pe<litio11 mga11ize<l hy Howl,md, the1t one of the governor',; :t:-;;ista11t,-;, to dislodge the alleged i11truder Hocking from his tr,ul'i11g po;;itio11 on the Kennebec River, which he held, it was :;ai(l, in defowee of the chartered l'ights of Plymouth Colony. Hocking refn,,ing to depart when snmmoned, Sn,vory was onlere<l, with John Frish

• Wrongly printe,l "l(ii\3," as a close look at the 111 S. shows.

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all(l William Rennole:,;, to "cut hi:,; cahles,'' antl succeeded in

cutting one, "but were 1hifted away from the other by the strength of the streme." Mr. Howland, seeing they could not reach it, "('allc1l him ahonl all(l hill Mrn.;cs Talbot goe· with

them, who went very red<lily a)l(l brought the canow to Hock­ing's cable.'' Bnt Hocking then came on <leek with a "carbine arnl a pistole in hi;; hand a.n<l p'sently p'sented hi;; peece at

Tlio111a,; Savory; 1>11!. LIH\ ca11ow with the tide wa.s pnt nere the how of the bal'<pte, w•·h Hocking Heeing p'sentl_y pnt his peece a.11110,;t, to i\loy,;p,; Talluit.t'::; hca<l. w•·h lVI' Irowla11<l Hcci11g calle<l

to him <le;;icring him not to ;;}mt hi8 man h11t to take himselfe for hi;; 11mri,," saying "hi;; men <li1l lmt that which he com-

. nmndcd tliem." I locki11g, however, Jired a.ml slwt Tall,ot, and

wa,; hi11rnelf irnrnedia.tely killerl h,r a ,;hot from Howlarnl's

"lia.rkc." Bnulfonl in his jo111·1rnl call:-; tl1is affair on.e of t.l1e

Ha<ldest tl1i11g;; which hefell them since they cmne. Ouvernor

\Vinthrnp rleplore:-; it as "much condemned by all men," and whi<·h '' hronght 11,; :tll anrl the gospel nn<ler a eommon reproach of ('lltti11g one anotlwr\.; tl1rnats for heaver.·• .John _,\l<le11, Llie

l'uriln.n 111agislral.e, wn.,; prcse11t, a1ul wa,'l arrested a]l(l pnL under bonds for ltis appearance to answer for his complicity in it when reqnire1l. .. \ 11 in vestigati011 h_y the proper anthoritieH in E11glancl flisclosed that llocki11g was really a trespits:-;er; aurl therefore the a;;:-mult 011 him ,vas technically jnstifie<l, though none the le,;s injlHlieion,; and reprehensible. Bnt it ciune near 1;iaking this genealogy impo;;sible.

TlH· lll'X t. Hll'nl ion of the 11n.111e is. n.mo11g l-11e pa;;sm1gerH of

t.hl' "Mary au<l .Jol111,'' who took the oatl1s of allcgin.nce it1Hl s11pn\11m1·y (\XHd,1\d hdorn IP:wing l1:ngla,11d 011 tlw ~-Hh da.y of

March, t1i;rn, which in old st_yle was the hu;t (lay of the year. Thmwts Savery is the twelfth on the list, imd \Yilliam Savery

t.lic hre11tietli. They n.nivrnl at Ipswich iu May, Hi:1--1-, after a

pa;;sage of abont live or six weeks. Savage, in his "Oe11ealogi­cal Dictirnmry,'' hetmys a ;;trn.11ge en.reles,;neR:,; in eonfonmli11g t,his seeoml Thomas with the Plymonth nmn so often a11(l favor-

14 'l'JII~ HAVIW.\'. FAMILll~H.

ably mentione1l in Ol<l Colony affairs. Bnt however nmmvm_y the tale told by the Ipswieh records of this new-comer, we are left in the 1brk as to the precise nature or tlegree of his offence. It was certainly in part of au ecdesiasti1:al elmmcter, for it took pl.ice "i11 the time of exercise." \Ve lrnow that hitter d isxen­:,;ions ex:istell in the early ehurch itt lpswieh, liy whieh some account for the loss of the church hoolrn, - their tlestrnetion promptetl, it is suppm;ecl, by a desire to linry the scandal. fo ,t

iimall cmmirnnity 1tirni11g at an itleal perl'celiou i11 faiL11 ,t1Hl mmahl, the a1lministmtion of elrnrd1 a111l stat1• was hlc1Hh•d, a,11d Llw mos[, vull i:d deli ll![ 1iu111:i1,s \\'t•n~ n:g'ard1:d w i l 11 a

mieroseopic eye; while thll :tltermttive of whipping (all(l even i;ometimes death) or banishment was prc:,;e11tc1l a:,; the dreail penalty of a too aggressive religious heterndoxy. That thi:,; Thmrnts was not a brul man is pmvetl hy the fad that inunedi­ately aftm· hiH :,meo1Hl all(l mon: Herions eseap:ule, lie n·1110\'t:d Lo Newpmt, IL I., with Coddington, one of t\1e e:nlit~st d1:unpi011s of frne1lmn of rnligio11s lh1111ght in llw New \Vorld, wlui 111lde1·­tnok after his own wn,y to fonrnl a eolo11y whid1 was to he "j1Hlge1l an1l gni<le11 hy the laws 1)f Christ"; of which it mnst be confessed those of 1fassachrn,ett:; Bay were lmt a travesty. In n, list of "Iuliahitants a<lmittetl at the town of Nienport Since 30 th 3"1 mo. 1UB8 " (IL I. Ili:;t. Coll., Vol. I., p. H2), the 11:une "Thomas S:morie" occurs next before that of Hugh Dunlall. Tnrning lmek to p. --1-8 of the vohmw ,inst eited, we foul a receipt from the lrnlian \Vaslrnganee:,;et witnessed by .lluyh Durdall arnl Tlwnms Saber!}, the latfo1· sig11i11g hy mal'k, l'lll' m01wy paitl hy Co1ltli11gton am! hi:,; frie1ul:,; I'm g-rn111ul bmken np, or any other title, etc., of tl1e isl:m1l of .\qnetl1wek. f li111l 110 tnuiu ol' hi111 at'(er his sut.tle11w11(. a(, NPwpor!, 11or a11y

iJHlication that lw left postllrity. Heqnie;scat in pace. Of hi:,; companion \Villiam we find HO further rneHtion, lmt,

:ts we will :,;how hernafter, no doubt he removed to N ewlmry with the Ipswid1 people, an<l was the father of ltohert, the nndonbted progenitor of the Essex County SavOl'ys.

lfi

Several <listinet tnulitimrn in tl1e Plymouth branches repre­sent t.he early Saverys a,.<; remarlrnhle for greatness of stature, aquiline or Homan nose, and black hair contrasting with blue eyes;* and l have met with striking examples of these' physi­cal tr[titf.; in hnth families.t

Fa,nner, in hiR "Cienea1ogical RegiHter of the Early Settlers of New E11glall(l," A. D. 182H, Rap of the Pilgrims, Thom;,s and Anthony, that they "came from Sla<l~ in Devonshire before 1 G.t:O.'' Sa..-agt', in hi:,; later a1Hl more elabomte ,vork, Ra,y:,; that no Rnch place war,; fonll(l by him. It is, however, the name of the manor or family seat of it lm1,11ch of the Srwerp of Devom;Jiire, :-itnatecl in the then parish of Plympton, St. l\fary, now partly in Comwornl, hnt the first of the name who lived tlH\l'<' wa,s Bi<·hanl. of Willing-, in Battery, who, imceeecling ltiR fat her at \\'illing in 1 Ii 1R, aftenvanl8 removed to Sla<le, aml <li<'d t,here in lli-1-1>.:j: A faint oral tradition of a Devm1sltire origin lHrn come <lown iu one line, hut I failed to trace it to any som·ce earl .Y P1m11gh to give it Ya! ne, an<l a thorough seftrch of Devo11shire pa.risl1 recol'!ls HIHl wills :tbsolntely tlisere<lits it.

*Some cthnologistA con~idcr thfg contrnst intlicativc of a Norman extrnction. Jn R0111c plnccs in Great Britain the Normnn hlood has hccn preserved in more ptn·ity thnn i.n others, nml AO with \\"e]sh nn,l Dnnish, while other communities arc more purely Saxon. i:rhc Normn1rn who invndccl t.hc South antl ,rer,it or Rnglarnl were 11istingnishcd from thdr "o~nntc rncc, the I>nnc~ of tho N01·th and En~t, hy llnrker hair n1ul Jes~ Horill complexion, while hoth preserve,! the truces ,~erule; O('rtli, noted hy Tncitus in the ancient Tcnto11ic tribes. 'l'he Normans prolJa.hly 1uul Lo some ex.tent, during a. 8outhern re~i. tlcnce, mixccl their lJlood with people who had Inherited n tlnrker complexion hr an earlier ml111ixtnre with remnants of tho primitive Bnsque or lhorian rncc. hemmed ill or driven to the seacoast in a fl.till more remote ngc hy the.advancing Celts.

t The following interesting anecdote, t.old mo Uy my fnthcr, I gh·e for what it i~ wort.\1: Once, on visiting F.nE\tport, he met a former ncighhoi· then rcsitliug there, who rclnt-ed t.hnt he 1m,l n•,·ently f!CCH n A"(mUctnttn 011 the fltrcct, who~c gait in wa1kin,; wa~ so much like thnt of his (my father's) father, t.h:it It e:rnit.,•,l his curioslt.y to 11iscovcr who he wa~,n.rnl he lenrnc,1, on imtniry, that he w:i~ the Ilou. Ueorge S:wary, of nnuHord, 1\lnBs., whose record ns Aixth from Robert, of Newbury) win nppcnr in its pro1Jerplncc. Jf there is anything in physical type to proyc kinship after so long t\CRcent, and so nrnny intermarringe:-i., it eo11ne<·.t~ the Plymouth, l~R~ox County, n11d New IlnmpRhirc fnmilicB of thi~ nnme. The lnte Dr. Charle~ A. Sn,·nry, of Lowell, whom 1 cannot trnec to H.ol.Jort, of Ncwhury, or Thomn~, of Plymouth, horc n f;tl•iking rc8-emh1nnee to my 1nte fatlH't' in every pnrtlcular, except t.\10:-ic in which my fnthct·.(liffcrc,l from the original typical f;a.very~. rrhc ,loctor hn1l the t'omrn:uuliug stature and a,p1ilinc noRe, whkh my fnther hn.il not, hut. whtch hi8 t'nth~r, my ~rnrnlfnthtw, Juul.

t I hnn: lately fn11111l another Rl:ul(• 11enr ~id11111uth, llpv011, hut 110 trncc of n 8:tvcry i11 the parish.

16 THR SA vmw l!'AMlLrns.

disclosing no t1:,tee in that eounty of any ~\ 11tho11y Savery whatever, and none of any Tlunuas who eo11l<l he ideutilie1l with the early immigrants. It is, however, ,tll historical faet that the passengers by the "~fory and John" were from Wilt­shire or places on its borders, awl· were iuflneuceil in their migration by their devotion to the person arnl ministry of the celebrated Rev. Hobert Parker, of Newhmy, Berlrnhire, whose early home was near Hanington, Wilts; aud a se,trd1 iu the 1·ec0l'ds of that parish, while it tloes not give me any Thonms and William whom I can de.trly indentif•y as t.lie Thmmu, ,mil Williiun of the " Mary arnl .Tolm, gives" me a Tl1onuts arnl an Anthony answering to those of tha,t name who appearml at Plymouth the year before. The names of Thon1<tt\ .u11l Antl1011y are frequently mentioned together in the Old Colony remmls, and in such a way in the later reconls as if tlwy lived together, occurring jointly in 1642 in an allotment of cattle, Thomas always having precedence, as if the elder; so we infer they were brothers.

On May 1, 1598, Rohert ~iwery was hmie1l at Ffanington, and on the 15th his will, in which he is stylell lmsl>amlma11, was proved hy his widow ,loall. He left his .. l'reo lamls" to his son Thomas, and -10~. each to his '' three. hrnthers, Richard, Tlwmas and .Antlwnie," hut 1loes not s,ty where thet-1e hrothers lived. l infer that Tlwmas was ltis only son, arnl he umst have remaineu at l-fanington, on the patenm1 acres 1levise(l to him. The recOl'ds of all the neighboring parishes in Wiltt:>hire, aml over the borLler, in Berks, cont.tin ,tlnnulant 11iention of the name, but some recol'(ls do not ex.tend baek lptite so for as these of Hanington, while the latter 1lo not, nntil ,t co111:1i1lembly later date, give the pareuta.ges in mtBe of ha.pti::1m, m· the ages at death in case of hnrials. Bnt on .fan. :W, 159t-i, Thonms .Savory, who it seems eert,tin was this only son of Hohert, manie1l 'Mary ,vuodrorke, ai1d I foul, in dne comse, a Hobert Savoty chris-. tened May 14, 15H8. That this ehil1l shoultl luive lieen given the name of his father't:1 father wn.s in accor1l.mce with a ens-

THE SAVl~ltY FAl\llLrns. 17

tom almost universal in those llays.* Nex:t in 1601, March 4 (1602, new style), less than two years after Robert's birth,. "Thoma.'> Sa".ory the younger" was baptized; the younger, I think, indicates that his father's name also was Thomas. Again, Feb. 8, 1603 (1604, new style), Thomas Savory was baptized, Thomas Savory, Sr., and vVilliam Batson, .Jr., being godfathers. This godfather may have been the brother Thomas mentioned in the will of Robert. A Thomas Savory (whether this now oltl man, or one of these infants does not appear) was hnriC\l Feb. 17, 1604, and an "Anthonie Savorie" wa.'l baptized ;ran. 20, Hi05 (lliOfl, new style). There is the strongest prolmbility that one of these infant Thomases and this Anthony were the brothers (second and third sons of Thomas Srwory ancl Mary \V O()(lrorke, and gramlRons of the tm,tator Robert), who ca.me to Plymouth in the wake of the Pilgrim fathers. If T t\onlcl fin<l the llescernlanb, of their great-uncle Anthony, mentioned in Rohert's will, I shoulcl ex:pcct to find in one of his gramlchil<lren the Anthony who died in Barhadoes in 1682, while among the later descendants of this younger Robei:t, or of his great-n11cle Richard, might perhaps ue fonnd the Robert who appears in Portsmouth, N. H., in 17 46. Richard and Rohert, sous of Riclmnl, were born at Ifanington in 1G50 and 1(1154, reRpectively, a circumstance that repeated itself in or near Portsmouth or Seabrook, N. H., about 1781 awl 1783. There were several \Villiam Saverys tit Hanington, and orie at least at Lambourne, Berkshire, about thirteen mileR distant, about this period; the names Thomas and \Villiam, Thomas and .Anthony, ·William and Robert, Robert and Richard, run alter­nately as of father and son, or in couples as of brothers, all throngh theRe Hanington all(l adjacent records, while the name II nmphrey also was common, one of that name who was lmrie<l ,tt Ilaniugton, July 13, 1H15, mentioning in his wil~, dated .June 20, and proved Nov. 27 of that year, his eldest ROil Thomas (Rnggesting that hiR father's name was Thomas),

,1r In \Vnlc~, 1.l1n·iil np .Join, np Dnvtd np ,John, nn1l i=:io on, often ru1u1 Uncli: mnny ge11crntlons.

18 '.tHE SAVEltY l!'AMILms .

. and his youngest son Richard, and John Savery, of Farrington, and C.itheriue Savery. All these names, except Thomas, which was common everywhere, and Anthony, a favorite among Romim Catholics, were distinctively Norman names; arnl while the Essex County and younger New Hampshire branch preserved most of them as family names, the Plymouth family retained only those of the immigmnt ancestors, seeming to tum their backs upon all the traditions of their fathers as soon as they touched the New Woi-ld. In 1637, Thonms S:wory was churchwarden of Hanington. The family was allied Ly inter­marriage to one of l\farsl1, at one time of co11si<lemlile note in the parish, one of whom, Rev. 'l\iptolemus Marsh, D. n., became Archbishop of Dublin. From this family, therefore, as so many offshoot.,; or scions from a parent tree, still well rep­resented on the old soil, I deduce all of the name who ,tre treated in the emmiug pages, except those show11 to lie <leticeude<l from the Severits or Severys, of 1\-farblehea<l, including the Philadelphia, family, provided I am correct in my matured opinion that the undoubted ancestor of the latter was bom in Barbadoes.

Anthony Savery evidently 1lic<l in or soou nfLer t.he year 16J2, and I find no trnce of his leaving any chil<lreu. The births of none appear in the records, and l think lie was un­married, unless the Mary Savery, who in l(j61 mttrried ,Joseph Ramsden, when Th.onms's daughter Mary was lmt seven years old, was his widow.* Still it is possible that he may have been married, and the father of a ,Joseph, mentioned hereafter.

* She lfU8 Uamsuen's secon<l wife, he havlog tlrst marriell, 1U46, Uacl1cl, <laughter of l!'rancls Eaton.

THlli\lA8 RAVOttY, Tl-rn PlLf:llIM. 19

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY.

THOMAS SAVORY, THE PrLGRIM:.

Son, as I think, of Thomas Savory ancl Mary W ooclrorke, a11d gmlHlso11 of Robert Siwory of Hanington, ,:vntshire, England, who died in 1598. The next mention of his name in Old Colony recorcls is in Pierce's colony fo;ts (Company rolls, p. 73), confa,ining 11ames of all male persons residing in Plymouth Colony able to perform military cluty, i. e., between 16 and 60 yeiu-s of age, in April, 1643, "as she\Vll hy the special return of an actual examination and inspection made at that time." In l 041 we find he Rolil a honr-e at Sq nenill to ,Josiah Pratt. "Squerrill hill" is suppm;ed to have been on Summer Street, 1war tlie r-ite of the rolling rnillr- in moclern Plymouth. Iii deeds he is always styled "Planter." In 1.646 he had a differ­ence "aho11t a eanoc" with "Tilliam Bra(Hord, who was ordered by the court, to pay him five shillings. .From 1644 to 1650 he is often mentioned as cnstodian of the cattle kept at the public expemie fo1· the benefit of the poor.* In 1652, "Thomas Savory ir- endented with hy the Court to setve in the office of under-Ma.rr-hall, awl to have 20 nobles per annum besides his ordinary fees." , On the 211 August, 1653, Thomas and his wife Anne covenante1l with Thomas Lett.ice that Thomas Savory, ,Jr., "a,ged 5 years or thereabouts on the 15th day o-£ March" previous, should remain ,yith him as an apprentice till the age

• In 1623, Mr. Winslow hntl vislte,l England, nn,I returning in 1624 hrought with him the first cattle Introduced Into the colony, consisting of a bull nn<l thi·ee heifers. One of the lntter, sent by l\fr. Shirley, a wnrm frien,l of the colony, was to be held, with Its increase, fo1• the benefit ol the poor.

20 THE SAVERY 1!'Al\ULrns.

of 21. This document, found in Vol. II., Part 1., p. 71, of the Registry of Deeds, Plymouth, contains the autogra,ph signature

We are surprised at the apprenticeship of a child so yonng, but it was quite in accord with the custom of the times. So we find John, son of Samuel Ed(ly, not yet eight years old, ap­prenticed to Francis Gould, April 3, 1645.* "Happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them." Was it a rule of brotherly love among our Pilgrim fathers to share a plethora of such blessings with friend::, or kindred less highly favored?

Again, on the third day of November, Hi53, they indenture a son Benjamin to John Shaw arnl Alice his wife, he being •' 9 years old in March next ensuing." fn 1G55 he was grn.nted "one· share" of land for his children in the "1\fajor'::, purelmse." On the 2d of :March, Hi57, he ttnd hi::, wife again indenture Benjamin to Stephen Bryant, de::,crihing him tt8 "13 years oltl this prnsent month." He i::, to he "irn;tnwted in hushan1lry," and to receive £5 stg. at the end of his term.

That our immigrant ancestor was intrwsted with the 1im1mge­ment of very important affairs appears by the following ex­tract from the accounts found due by the colony in the report of Major Josias Winslow, Mr. Josias -Winslow, Sr., and Nathaniel Bacon.

1660. 13 June 'ro 'l'homas Sauory by the countreye's order More paiecl by him for charges of taking up, driucing,

grasiug of the countreye·s cattle for ho1·se hier att seuerall times for money paiml on account of trooping horses and seuerall other charges p'ticularly appeer­ing in his accounts .

* Etlcly ~•amily Genealogy, p. 102.

£14. 10. 0

£214. 13. 4

THOMAS SAVORY, THI~ PILGRIM. 21

Froin this it would appear that he was commissioned to buy horses for the use of the colonial troops in the Indian wars.

Again we find in these accounts: -

More to Thomas Sauory by the countres order £20. 00. 00

And again in 1661, 10th of ,June, appears among other items due by the colony: -

To Thomas Snvory yet unpaid . 5. 18. 1

Similar mentions of sums due him at various times occur. In 1Gfil, ,Jan. 4, Thomas Savory sells to Zachariah Eddy

a piece of land lying near vVhetc;tone's Vineyard in Major's purclutse, abounded on or near where Eddy lives.

On the 20th of Februai'y, 1662, Thomas Savory makes over to Samuel E,l,ly (who it will he seen was his brother-in-law) Ian<l commonly called anrl known as Point Puncate0set, lying over :ttt<l agaimit Po11d ]slancl, for and in lieu of it piece of land lidonging to Uie said Samnel Eddy, lying 11ear Four-mile Brook in the township of Plymouth, also a piece of upland lying and being near Fresh Lake.

On the 21st of February, 16133, ten acres of land were granted to Thomas Savory "at the foure mile brook lying next unto his other land there." By a record dated March 22, same year, "the several lots on Puncateeset Neck are described: 3rd lot is on the ,vest :=;ide of the South Point hounded on the south end with a walnut stake st.anding at the highway side betwixt 2nd

lot and this; at the North eml hutteth to the highway at the Cove as far as a white thorn bnsh; at tl,e east side bounded with the highway; at the vVest side with the sea and fogland beach." This record is nuder the names of Thomas Savory and Samnel Eddy. On the sixth day of March, 1665, we find another autograph signature as witness to an administration bond.*

• These signHture• nrc n little reducc,1.·

22 THI~ SAVEltY FAl\11LlES.

In May, same yeal', he liecame :mrety for the gooil lic1rnvior of John Barlow, who heiug eluu;ge1l with ,rn oft'eJH:e against good morals, protestml his innocence. ,July 10, Hili7, he sol,l to Zachariah Eddy thirty acres adjoining land on which the latter then lived at Mitkllelioro.

On the seventh 1lay of ,fnne, 1G70, with the w:nml strong and expressive adjectives uufortunatcly mmd hy onr stem ol1l fom­fathers to emplHttiize every adverse record, we fiiHl tlmt Tlwnnts Savory was dismissed from his office of 111Hler-nmrnlml for lack of vigilance in his care of pri:;oner:;, "espceially 1Jy lettiBg of one Joseph Turner,* committed to him ,ts his prisoner make his escape from him to the great offence ot the ( \nut arnl co11ut1y; the said Turner heing fou)l(l guilty of many aborni1ml1le erime:;, and had received his demerits had lie not 11uule 11ic1 escapu a:; aforesaid." But on a petition of tlie iBhabitanls for his ieiu statement, the comt, m; early as the 5th of the following· month, ,ya.s "persuatle<l to ,ulmit l1im to l1is plaee again," and he evideutly hel1l the office until his death. Finally, on the 7th of :i\Iarcl1, 1U7G, J1i:; wi<low .Aun prnvu;; ]ii:;

will, dated April 1, 1 H7 -!.

'l'he l:tst Will and 'l\istaincut of Tho111as Havory Hcuior. give 111y

soule to him that gave it aml lllY ho,ly to :t 1lcecnt l111rial. And next I give to Aune my dearly belove,l wife all that estate tlmL I have that is 1.0 ,my my house au<l lauds both uplawls aml meddows with all 111y moual,les iu the house and belonging to the house or all that appcares to he mine from any other thus I say a111I will au,l give to .\1111e 111y ,h•an•. wil\;, ~he,; to pay all my debts, and l 1lesire my th•are wife to consi,lcr n1y son .\.arou at.t her ueeease if she lrnve anylhing left, and the lleasons why I give all to my wife is because l have little lllY tlebts !>dug payed; I leave lier sole :u!111i11-istrator aml executor. 'l'110~1 AS ::,A \'OltY.

Witness. Hamuel Dunham. ,John Richard.

The inventory comprised, inter alia, "hu1d ,\t J mile Brnok, £12," "Bihle a.ml psalm book," and "other books"; "house

"''l1 urner wu.s probahly son of Uumphrey '.ru1·ncr, one of ihe Jounders ot'. the church in Scituutu, und hi8 "crimes" would in uur cye::3 prohalJ\y scmn u1.(n·e pecciulillos.

'l'HOJ\IAS HAVOltY, '1'111•: l'lLUltHI. 23

and land upland and meadow and -orchard and plough land, 9 acres at lu1,ml and 5 more lying at the fo;hing point, and 3 score acres lying at -± mile brook, and -± acres of meddow lying att the four mile brook."

Thus looms up through the vista of a quarter of n, millennium the venerable figure of our first American ancestor. It pro­jects from inchlent", most of them insignificant of themselves, hut ma.gnitied to ns hy the mists of time through which we would fain estiinate his character. As 11, youth, we see him ready to offer his life in the 1lisch:trge of a duty hid on him by his superior in civil authority. That he dishnrsed large sums of lllOJH\Y l'or the i111':t11t (:ommonwrntlth with fi<lPlity and honor, the pnl,lie -aecmmb,, and his pathetic testamentary alltrnion to his own sl(•11der JlH•n.ns, amply prove. No lernptalion to t11rn thi,; to his owH prnfit ever overeame him. The rceonls do not laek indication that he was not always in outward deportment a Puri tan "after the stmitest manner" of his sect. Of pnre motiveH :rnd strict prohity, his failings, like those of Gol<l­smith's conn try pa,1·Hm1, '-' leaned to virtne't; si!le." "\V c can imagi11e him exceptionally genial in nrnnners, and perhaps im pnulently trnstfnl of otlicrs hccanse strictly faithful an<l trne himself; while the family Bible and p&1.lm book, never wanting in his h01rnehol!l, attest his devotional feeling, aml that his waR

the language of ohl, "yet I will rej.oice in the Lor!l, I will joy in the God of my salvation." He was evidently better edu­cate<l than the nmss of his eontemporaries, and although not m11011g the leaders of tl1e colony, he wn,c; high up in their con­fidence arnl in the esteem of the people at large, and a conspic­uous fignre i11 soeial and ci vie affairs. Desccnde<l from a long· and honorable line of independent English yeomen, or small l:wded prnprietorH, he i11heritetl in ample men.sure thoHe mom splendid q11a.liLi1\s whicl, Lhe Norman rn.<'P gmfLrnl on Ll1e sl,tml_y tree of the .A11glo-S:txo11 clmrneter, a]l(l was a fair type of the (launt.lcss plnHters of British civilization in the New Worl1l, amidst gloom and terrors scarcely conceivaule by ns to whom

24 THE SAVERY l!'Al\llLmS.

they bequeathed snch a magnificent heritage. The precise date and exact place of his birth-like the fe,itures of his coun­tenance and his physical aspect- are lost forever in the shadows of the past; and the place of his sepulchre lms been forgotten by his posterity.

"No longer seek his merits to disclose, Nor 1h·aw his frailties from their dre:ul abode;

'!'here they alike in tre111hliug hope repose, -The bosom of his father and his Goll.".

It is to be regretted that we have 110 reliable reconls illustrat­ing the character of onr "Pilgrim mother," except the affec­tionate and devoted terms in which she is thrice mentioned in the short will of her husband, evidently his own composition, for its phraseology is not that of an official or prnfesHional scribe. There is nothing whatever to Hhow her pareutage, any clew to which evades research. In a deed date1l March 22, 1677-8, recorded Vol. IV., p. 311, o[ Plymouth re1;onls, Hhc conveys to Anthony and Aaron, her sous, the land at Four-mile Brook which "fell to my late husband Thomas Savory hy exchange with our brother-in-law Samuel Eddy." In which of several ways the affinity thns spoken of cousiste1l, we can only conjec­ture. Samuel Eddy, the prngenitor of a <listingnishcd .American family, was a son of the Rev. Willi,tm E1l<ly, A. 1\1., a 11ativt1 of Bristol an<l vicar of CmnLrnok, Kent, Eng-bml. (~ee Edll,Y Family, with Genealogy, hy IL H. Etl<ly, Boston, 1882.) He had a sister Anna, Lorn May, Hl03, hut the language, "our brother-in-law," was not exactly what wonl<l have been nsed hy her, and we cannot suppose her to have been the mother of the l\.fary born 1H54, awl we lmve reason to believe there were still younger chihlren of Thomas a,ml Anne Savory. She and Samuel Eddy's wife may have qeen sisters; hut the langn0,ge, although it would suit this, iH still better ,ulapted to the con­dition that Samuel Eddy married Thomas Savory's sister.* In this deed, also, we find the only reference to a son

"But we cannot find her 1,irth on the Hnuington recon!..

THOMAS SA VO ll.Y, Tfm PlLOltll\L 2:5

Anthony. '\Ve may conjecture that he and Aaron were younger sous who had remained under the pai-i,ntal roof after the others had left, or been otherwise provided for; and no doubt the deed was intended, as far as Aaron was concerned, as a fulfil­ment of the testamentary behest. The loss of some old book or books of town and church records deprives us of complete data of the births of Thomas Savory's children, - a matter in rei;peet to which llrn f-;avcry fomily in 1l1is, arnl, as will l1c seell in Ll1c Hcxl ge11cmLio11, ii:; exceptionally trnforttumte. Five 011ly are fo11wl recorded. 111 Vol. JV., p. F,(), 011 March 1, Hi<:i3-4, we fiml this: "Hicliard Willis and Joseph Savery fined 3• 4.i for breaking the peace towards each other." I suspect that this Joseph was still another son of Thomas. I therefore con­strnct the following list of l1is children : -

I. JoRcplt2 (?). No further trace of him appears.

II. Benjamin, h. ?ifarch, 1G4-l-5; no trace of him appears except the two apprenticeships already mentioned.

III. Thomas, h. l\larch 15, Hl47-8; we have seen that he was at the age or five appn,ntic<••l to Thomas Lcttice. It. appen.rR that later he was apprentiecd to, or in some way employed hy the worthy atul disting11iRhc1l Timothy Jlatherly, the founder of Scituate, who was so active and influential in the history of the infant colony; for he is remembered hy him in hiR will, dat('1J Dec. 20, HJG~, hy t.lt1\ he<pwst of 50s., '"to he payed wlwn his service is cxpiretl." lie was· killed in a battle with the Indians, 271 h l\Jarch, 16i6, while sen·­ing mulcr Ca.pt. Pierce, who was sent. with a company of fifty white men and twenty friendly lrnlians from Cape Co,!, to pursue the Indians to ll.hocle !Rl:uul. They crossed tlw riv,•r nt l'awf.11elwt, :1.1111 were R11n·on111lP<I :1111! <lef<>atetl. (S('e l>eanP·R "Jlislorr of Scit.uat<•," pp.121 and 122; when, will be found 1a letter from the Hev. Noah Newman of H.ehohoth, to the Rev .• John Cott.on, of Plymouth.) He sars that fifteen ont of the eight.cen men from Scituate in this expP<iitfon were slnin; thn major part of whom (among them "Thomas Savary'') he sayB were heads of families. De:ine says (p. 3:W), '' Thomas Savory had settled at Scituate in 1675. He was the son of Thomas of Sandwich. Ile hml lands iu the 2 mil<', but probably had no family." The '' 2 mile" was a strip of land

26 THI!: SAVl~ltY ~'AMlLIES.

adrletl to Scituate at the instance of Hatherly. lfo may have been spoken ~f as "heml of a family," although liviug, unmanied, with "·i1lowed mother and younger children.

IV. Moses, b .• fan. 22, 1640-50; \l. ,June H, 1G50. •~ V. Samuel, b. ,I une 4, 1(;51.

VI. ,Jon,tthau, h. March 4, 1652-3. In the original manuscript reconl r find the name tirst written "naui1•1l,·• which was erase,l aml "Jonathan" written a hove it. No further trace of him appears.

VII. Mary, h. April-, Hi54. YIU. Anthony, h. probably Hi55. Ricketson's "History of New Ile<l­

fonl,'' p. rl-17, places his '.name at the foot of a list of those who had taken the rnwman's oath :ts t'.it.i:r.ens of D:u-tmonth in :uul prnvious to th,i year 1U8!L I liiul no further trace of him, unless he is the one who, according to my more mature opinion, was a son of Samuel, and who marrie1l .l\Iarg:1ret Priee iu 170:J, when this /rnthony would be forty-eight years oltl.

IX. Aaron, h. vrobahly hefore 1'1fareh 22, lliiiH-7; for I presnll\e he was ol' ag<; wlwn lie :1111I ;\ 11tho11y rnc1•.in"l l.h1,ir d<•.t,d l'rom their mother. l<'rom the records of the laying- out or lands in th1, registry otliee at New Bedford, f tiwl him living 11t Dartuwut.h (he:ul of Acttslrnet !liver), in 1711. llis will was p1·ovetl .August, li17, mentioning only his wife lla11nah. lie probably left no ehi\1lrn11. ,\.t Dartmouth, Oct. 19, 17:!8, the intentions of m:trriage lwtweeu ,Tohn Perry of Sandwich, and Hannah Savery of D:u·tmouth, were entered by the town elerk, but no record of the marriage can be found. John Perry died 17:-l:l, leaving uo widow.

What became of t11e sons not t~ceonnte(l for above I cllnnot say, although I have ma<le diligent all(l persevel'ing efforts to ascertain. Samue1 alone remained and settletl in Plymouth County or left any is:me thn,t T can cli:-;t:over. Corn,i1lemble migration from tl1e Ohl Colony to New ,let"Bey took pl.we i11 Llmt gmiemtion lt!Hl Llw next, 1,s1w1•ially of t.!101-,u who favorrnl the doctrines of the " Friemh,," a1Hl fro111 New ,Jersey 111a11y

moved over0 to Pennsylvania; mul for some time I hoped thus to prove the ancestry of the eminent mi11ister. The pedigree of President Lincoln illustrates this migration, going hack through Pennsylvania to New Jersey, where his Qnllker ancestors were an offshoot from the Ohl Colony.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. 27

RECOND GENERATION.

2.

SA1rum} SA VERY ( 1'homa,f<1), born in or near Plymouth, ,June 4, Hi5l. Nn record of his nrnrriage or death is to he fo11n1l, and we are even left in ignornnce of his wife's Christin,n name. In 1G81, ,Jan. 30, he was gmnte<l twenty acres of land "hetween ,John's Pond and the Cedar Swamp," Swan­hol1l. Swauhold was i11 the present town of Carver, formerly Plympton. On Feh. G, 1701-2, the government decreed that every freeholder of six years' standing, who lrnd not received n.

grant of thirty acres of laml, should forthwith receive that (J_lrnntity. ,Tnly 20, l 7Hi, he snl<l 30 acres of land granted him hy Hw town of l'l_y111011tl1 on FPl,. !\ 1701-2, to Abiel Shmt­liffc for '""(k AK to l1iK cl1il{lren tlw n~1•onl:-; again fail ns.

A liont the mi{hllc of page fifty-two o[ the town rcconlK of Hochester, we find "Samuel Savory, ,Jr., born y• 1G th day of Novemher in the year Hi\l5.'' Then after the entry of .John HumJHtK'fl chil<lren (from HHl5 to 170H) there follows this: "The births of Samuel Snscry Sm1r\; children are as follows"; proceeding to mention ",Jnclee '' in 1G7D-80, rtll(l Srnmnna, 1GDO (ten yearn later), with the note, "his son's age may he seen n.hove." These entries were evidently all made at one time, and not earlier than 1715, and no doubt copied from fragmentary remains of nu older book. In Vol. J. of Plymouth town records, p. 112, the entry of the hirths of the children of Thomns~ Savery is headed thus : "Children of Thomas Savery. Born Oet. 3, 11181." ·whoever prompted this lucky addition to the name of the parent may lrnve heen conscious of the fact that l1is hirth was not dsewhere recorded. Thomas in 1699 (18 yearn old) was a member of the Sonth Militrtry Com­pany of Plyrnonth, which embrnce<l Rochester, where Srtmuel was settled. There was 110 other Savery than Samuel then i11 l'lymonth Co1111t,y who conltl have h~e11 this Thornas's father.

28 THE SAVERY l!'AMfLms.

Thomas handed down the 1mme Samuel to his prn,lerity, and his birth evidently fits the tirst vaea11t spaee after tlmt of Judith. The children of Samuel were therefore:

3 I. Anthony". II. Mary, b. Jan. 3, Hii8-9; m. li03, .James Bumpas.

III. Judith, b. Jan. 10, 1679-80. l read from the records that 5he m., by Samuel Prince, Esq., Feb. 27, 1719-20, Ebenezer Perry, but the correct date must be much earlier. In tho8e days early marriages were the almost uuiver8al rule; and the record,; show that there were born to "Ebenezer Perry and his wife ,Tndee," (1) Ebenezer', u. :\fay 21, 1718; (2) Mary, twin of Ebenezer; (3) lfauua.h, b. July G, 1722; and (4) Samuel Savery, l.J. Sept. l(J, 1724 (she being then 44). He was probably the same Ebenezer Perry who had first m. June 14, 1708, l\Iary Burgess, and ha,! ch.: l\forihah, b. Dec. 4, 1709; and Edmunrl, b. Mardi U, 1710-11.

i IV. Thomas, b. Oct. 3, lli8L V. Susanna, b. May 19, 1690; ill. April 3, 1728, Peter Oi;nau, a

Quaker. They had ch.: (1) Elizabeth•, b. l\farch 22, 1729; (2) Deborah, b. Feb. 2:-l, li:-l0-1; (3) Simon, b. Aug. 25, 1733.

VI. Samuel, b. Nov. 16, 16!J5. Was living, 1rn invalid, with Margaret Savery, widow of Anthony" in 1723, which adds more strength to my opinion that this Anthony was son, rather than brother, of Samuel', as he \Youltl be more likely to have a home with a brother's than with an uncle's widow. Mention is made of him as late as 1724. Never married.

'l'IIJRD GENERATION.

3.

ANTHONYa SAVEilY (Sarnuell, 'l'Jwma,/), was probably the eldest of the family. He manie<l Feb. 2, 1703, Margaret Price, and died Jan. 27, ·1711. '\Vith tantalizing iucompletness, the Rochester record says he was in "y" year of his age." His widow survived liim many year~. He owned land at Rochester, a piece adjoining which was "laid out" to his son Anthony, as mentione1l in Vol I., p. 413, old Proprietors' records.

THI~ OLD COLONY l''AJIHLY-. 29

CIIILJHtRN. -

I. Ruth3, b. July 28, 1704. She marrieu-. -Look. Her chil­dren, Margaret', who m. -- Wing, Alice Look, and Ruth Look, are mentioneu iu the will of her brother Anthony. A <lesceudant, Savery Look, m. Jemima Swift in li96, and had dau. ,Jemima.

ll. Joseph, b. April 5, li06; m. Oct. rn, 17:JG, Experim1ce Hiller, of a Quaker family living near the Dartmouth line. In l'i.tO, :u11l again _in li42, he waR finccl £4 for refusing to serve in the olliee o[ constable. I RHspcct I.hat he h:ul ernbr:tced the religious tenets of his wife, which, ·while they fully recogni:i:ctl the ohligations o[ civil authority, prescrihetl caution in the acceptance of such omces as re,1nirc,l the t.aki11g or a,lminiRtcring of onthfl, or the employment of arms. l find 110 t.race of any post.erity nor reconl of his dcat.11, and iu respect to him also it is quite lHObahle that he may have removed to more congenial religious s111To111ulings.

11 r. Anthony, b. Oct. 'U, l708; d . .fuly 31, 1788. He accumulated a good property, ancl lived and died at Rochester, leaving no issue, and prolmhly nnmarricd, mentioning in his will only his brother ,Josf'ph and his sisters' children, Mttrgarct Wing and Alice aml Ruth Look.

THOl\lAH~ SA VEiff (8amuel2, 1'ltoma.~1), bom (probably in

Rochester) Oct. 3, 1681 0. S; married Dec. 14, 1705, by Rev. Roland Cotton, Esther Saunderson or Saunders; the latter name being no doubt an abbreviation of th~ former, as we see the two forms often interchanged in the Old Colony records. She was, perhapR, danghter of lfemy, of Sarnlwich. \Ve have seen that he was living at Rochester at the age of eighteen, but removed to the "Agawam plantation," where in a deed dated March 6, 1727, from Micah Giblis, he is llescribed as of Plymouth, hus­bandman. Aga,vam was then a part of Plymouth ; hence the recording of hiR chil(lrc11'8 hirtlu, at Plymonth. He was quite C(l]l8picuons in the affairs of the infant pbntation, aiHl die(l tlwrn alio11t 17R1. I lis oltleRt Ron, Uriah, atlrninistered on his esbite, which Wl\8 i11ve11Lorictl at £1u2.

30 THE SAVERY FAl\ffLms.

C111 Ll>IU<:N.

I. }lary\ b. Jnue 21, 170G; m. lchabo1I Sampson, ,,,hose parents were Samuel Sampson and l\fr.rcy, daughter of Oh:uliah aud gra11d-daughte1· or S:uuuel Ed1ly.

1 A II. Uriah, b. April 30, 1708. 1 B III. 'l'ltomas, h. April 21i, 1710.

IV. Lydia, b. July 21, 1712; m. 'l'homas Hates, of the Agawam plantation. Ch.: (1) Sarah°, h. Dec. 6, 1737. (2) l\fercy, b. Nov. 13, 1730. (3) Lydia, b. Jan. rn, 1747. (-!) Patience, b. March 23, 175-!; m. May-!, 1771, ,John Carver. (5) }far­garet, b. May 8, 1756. (6) Samuel, b. Aug. 11, 1758.

V. Esther, b. April 2, 1715; m. 17a5, Lemuel Jackson, of Plymouth.

1 C VI. Samuel, b. Aug. 18, 1718. VII. Mellitable, b. April 15, 1721.

I will now subdivi1le the genealogy of the Ol<l Colony family, and treat of the descendants of the three sons of Thomas3 un<ler three heads, A, B, and C, respectively, with distinct sets of reference numhcn,.

i\l1ss LYDIA A. S,\\'.\I:Y.

THI~ ()l,J) COLONY J<'Ai\llLY. 31

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY.

SUBJHVISlON A.

FOURTII <mNEHATION.

1.

URIAH• SAVERY (Tlwm1is'\ Samu,el:, Thomas 1), was born

April 30, 1708; aml married Sept. 3, 1738, Deborah, daughter of Isaac Bumpas, or Dnmpns, of Uochester, Mass., afterwards of Lyme, Conn., by wife Mary, daughter of Ezra Perry, of Sandwich. She was born Aug. 31, 1712, and received into full' church membership Aug. 15, 1736. In the marriage record she is style<l " Mrs." ; hut it does not follow that she was a widow, for " Miss " wa.s in those days a.pplied only to young girls. \Vo111e11 of matme years a.ml respectable social rank were styled" l\frs." Those in humble life usually had no prefix given thern i11 such reeords. Similarly, in case of married people, "Goodman" and "Goodwife," as contrasted with the more dignified "lvlr." and "Mrs.," denoted an inferior social position. The father of Is:iac was John Bumpas, a large landed proprietor, son of Edward Bompasse, the first of his name in Ammfoa, who came over in the "Fortune," the first vessel that followed the ".Mayflower," iirriving Nov. 6, 1621, with Robert Cuslnnai,, noted in Pilgrim annals, anrl thirty-five more pas­sengers, to re-enforce the infant colony. This name, in defiance of euphony, has been shortened to Bump, in which form it has been adorned by the laurels of a distinguished law writer.* Rejecting the re]Jeated consonant and supel'fluous final e,

* The late Orlnntlo ~'. Bump, of the Bnlthnore Bar.

32 'l'HI~ SAVl~ltY FAl\111,ms.

peculiar to· the orthography of that age, from the name as it appears on the list of passengers by tlie "Fortune," we have "Bompas," a name well and honorably known in the legal annals of the present and past generations in England.* The Norman and French Bonpas, literally translated '' Goodstep," is au· aristocratic name in France. Doubtless it crossed the Channel with the Normans, and perhaps again with the Hugue­nots, although in their day the name was conspicuous in Brittany on the Catholic side. According to the author of "The Norman People," the form "Bmnpns" also exists as a distinct name in England, deri vetl from Boneboz in Normandy, a fief held of the Earls of 1\Iellent. Was appointed" Tything­man " inl 7 54 ; date of death not recorded.

CIIILDHEN.

2 I. 'l'homas•, b .. Aug. 20, 1739. II. Mercy, h .• July 2-1, li-11; proliably m. l\Iarch 1, 170:J, Zephaniah

'l'humas, of "lllilldlehoro. 3 nr. Isaac, h. Sept. 5, 17-1:1.

IV. Samuel, b. N"ov. 5, 17-10. No further trace of him appears. i V. Nathan, b. 17-18.

VI. Esther.

FIFTH GENERATION.

2.

THOl\IAS'5 SA v1mY ( U1·ialt\ Tlwmai, Sanmel2, Tlwrnas1), was

born probably at Wareham, Aug. 26, 1739; and married March 31, 1766, Elizabeth Randall, of Rochester. She died April, 1839.

f'llll.l>l!EN.

I. 1Iannah6, b .• June 27, 1707; 111. 1789, Benjamin Beusou. II. Elizabeth, h. June a, 1769.

III. :Mary, b. ,\pril 20, 1771; 111. ,fune 22, 17!H, Benj. Writington.

• Sergeant (at law) Ilompas was sal,I to have been the original ot Sergeant Buztu~ In Dickens's Pickwick trial. Dr. Bompas is the mlijsion:iry bishop of Selkirk, Cauatllan Northwest; an<l Bompas, Blschotf & Bompas is an eminent. firm of solicitors in London.

THE OLD COLO~Y FAMILY. SUI3D[VlS-(ON A. 33

IV. Mercy, b. Oct. 30, lii2. V. Ch:irity, b. March 28, 1775; <I. 1111111 •• rune lo, 186:i.

5 VI. 'l'homaR, h. Feh. 24, 1777. VII. Peleg, b. ,June 26, 1780; m .. June 30, 180i, Sally Caswell. Had

ch.: (1) Albert, b. 1808; d. unm. 1828. (2) Justina, who died, soon after marriage, childless.

3.

lsAAd SAVERY ( Uriah', 'l'homas\ 8amuel2, Tlwmas1), was

born Sept. 5, 17 43 ; married ,fan. 1, 1772, Deliverance Clifton. The Cliftous were alliell in some way to the Saverys from the first advent of the families to America. Savorie Clifton had a son Benjamin, born 1690. Benjamin lrnd sons, Timothy, born March 9, 1719, an<l Benjamin. Timothy marrierl Deliverance, and had children! (1) Dorothy, horn June 9, 1743; married Savery Hatheway. (2) Sarah, born Dec. 31, 1744. (3) Mary, born Oct. 30, 1746 ; married ,John Keen. ( 4) Lydia, horn March 16, 17 48, who married Ehen Holmes, whrn,e descendant, Hon. John Holmes, was a lawyer of distinction. (5) A1rna, born Feb. 3, 17fi0 ; married Eben Bowles. (6) Deliverance, horn Sept. 26, 17GB; manietl Isaac Savery. (7) Savery, horn l\forch 17, 1756. (8) Merilm.h, born Oct. 24, 1758; married ,Job Mendall. (H) Timothy, born March 17, 17f.ll. There wa:-i also a Savery Clifton born in 1713, and another in 1759, the latter a son of Benjamin. For an interesting account of English Cliftons, who went to Leyden with the Pilgrims, see Hunter's " Founders of New Plymouth." Many peculiar Christiitn names are so common to both families as to suggest a near kinship between these notable Pilgrims and the Old Colony Cliftons. A rigid Puritan in religion, Isaac Savery inherited the virtues of the Pilgrim fathers, without the faults, - al ways less conspicuous in them than in the first colonists of Massachusett'l Bay. He was a man of good education, extensive reading, and rleep thought, a correspondent of Hopkins, Bellamy, and other Puri­tan writers a11d divines. Ile held an evening school for the better education of his own large family, who all developed

34 THE SA VERY F AMn,rns.

into intelligent, respecteil, and useful members of society, under his judicious religions arnl intellectual training. He died July 23, 1825, and his wife l\farch 11, 1828.

6 i

8 0

10 11 ·~ 13 H

I. II.

nr.

lV.

v.

VI. VII.

vm. IX. X.

xr. XII.

CHll,IHtEN.

Deborah", b. Oct. 2, 1772. Timothy, b. Dec. 14, 1773. Sarah, b. Oct. 8, 1775; m. Feb. 19, 1795, Job Bourne Bumpus,

imd lived inNewYork State. Ch.: (1) Selah7 ; (2)Benjamiu; (3) Betsey.

Meribah, b. lfarch 24, 1778; m. :Nov. 17, 1799, Reuben Briggs. No descendants.

Deliverance, b. Feb. 20, 1780; m. Capt. Richard Gurney, and had son, Capt. Barnabas7 Gumey, whom. Mercy Hatheway.

Uriah, b. Dec. 24, 1781. Silvia, b. July 5, 1784. Isaac, b. May 10, 1786. Samuel, b. :May 15, 1788. Benjamin, b. April 25, 1790. Phineas, \}, ifopt. 2:l, 17H2. Ma1·y, b. May 11, 1795.

4.

N A'fHAN5 SA VJ<JHY ( Uriah\ 'l'lwrnaii', Samuel\ 'l'lwrna8 1),

was Lorn in Rochester in the yeitr 17 -!8, and named for his mother's brother, Nathan Bnmptts ; married, 1st, Elizabeth Nye, who is ::;aid to have hcen llescellde<l from a Percival family of rank in England ; she left an honorable memory affection­ately cherished by a respectable posterity: 2d, at Digby, Nova Scotia, by Rev. Edward Brndenell, rector, May 28, 1785, Deida­mia,* daughter of Jeremiah Sabin (fifth in descent from \Villiam1,

of Rehoboth, Mass., through Be11jami11\ ,Tererniah\ ,Jel'emiali➔). She is ::;aid to have been the first white child Lom in Sissilmo, now Weymouth, N. S. Her mother's name was Susanna I,eval­ley or Lavallee, whose paternal ancestors were either Hugue-

• The certltlcate of mal'rlage says," 'l'he l,,urna lJCing l!rst <lulr pullllshe<l according to an act or the 1>rovluce, ln thut cmm miule iuul vrovhlcd." At that. time, however, ma.r. riagc couhl ue solemulzed uy " llceuse" In the Eplacopal Church, and ln dlsaent.lng ~-hu1·cbes only were the three puhllcnt!ons reudere,1 ueccssnry hr statute.

THE OLD COLO.NY FA.l\lLlY. SUBDlVISlON A. 35

nots, directly from France, or from the Channel Islands, among the colonists who fomuletl Marblehead. He joined the Conti­nental Army ,tt the outl,reak of the Revolutionary War for a short term, and, it is said, W;ts with Gen. Ethan Allen when he surprised the fortress of Ticornleroga* and demanded its surrender with the grandiloquent, but, as some think, fabulous t formnla, "In the name of the Great ,Tehovah and of the Con­tinental Cougress." Bnt he refused to re-enli:,;t, imbibed partially, if not wholly, the <loctrineR and adopted many of the <lii-:ti11ctive pmctice8 of the Soeiety of Friemls, all(l at the close of the war came to Nova Scotia. Sic ,qenns amborum scindit RI' .~m111uine ah nno. He profosHe!l that the Declaration of lrtdepe1Hfo11ce lnul wrought a elm11ge i11 hix political view:,, and affilia.t.io11:-;; t.lmt he lmd 1'011ght "for· re!lrcss of gricva.111ies, hut not for imlepc11dc11ce," deda.ring that "ill(lep1!1Hle11ce," in the sernie of separation, was to him a" hatefnl wonl," and held that the Colonies in arnu.; 011ght to have ,tccepte<l the offer of recon­ciliation:j: made hy the government of the parent state, under the terms of whil'.h, f may n•nmrk, Brit.i:-;h 1\nwrica t.o-<lay c011t.i111ies to enjoy ll1c l,lessi11g-:,, o[ eu11sLitt1tio1ml liuerty, clothe<l in its an<'ient forms, :J,1)(1 sy111l>olize<l by the venerable flag of onr more remote a11eestors. Of course, while the i1rntitutions of my own eountry are as <lear to me, and I trust ever will be to my posterity, ,ts thn,e of my republican kinsmen are to them. J must not be 1rnderntnod as hinting an opi11ion, in such a work as this, as to whether these sentiment:,; were right or wrong. I llH'l'l'ly g-ivc Lhem as they wern hamled !lowll to me. It is pre­Sllllle!l that the national arnl per:,,01ml a1ri111ositieR of that day lmvP hcl'll lmrie!l i11 ohliYion. To our J\mpricm1 11eighbors

•Rev. E. E. Hale at hlcentenn!al celelJnttlon of Rochester, 18711. t •rhe following from the pen of 1Vllllnm Cleaves To<ltl, ~:s,1., A. M .• of Ni,w!Juryport. I

tiuotn from I.Im lllf-:t. nPul. Hcg., ,·01. XI .. , p. :uo10, uotc: u :\11 nmu~tng illu~t.rntlon of 011c of tht•:-tu pt•r~t~tcnt. :incl populnrly ,•,hcrir,1hecl flt-tion~ hnl'I reccutly coml! t.o the know}. ,,.ti:e or the writer. Ac•·ordlnl( to all histories of the llnitetl Stat.ea, m.hnn Allen ucmnntle,I from tlw Briti:-ih ,·omnuuulm· the SlltTt•ntlPr of 'l'iconderog-u in the ,mnw of the Grent .Jcho,·nh nrnl t.lH' Co11tlnentnl Con~l"f"'l.B. Prof. ,Jnme~ l>. B11tle1", of :ft.fnttison, \VI~ .• h:H~ informed me that hi:-1- g-rantl futhcr, 1:-:rnel IJarri~, wn~ present, :rntl hml often told him-that Ethau A lien's real langtrnge W:tE\, 1 Come out of here, you tl-d ol1l r:it.'"

! ,.\f"f.'- for the p:tdlicntio11 of A 111erif-a pn~~ed Ft.•h. 17. 177~.

36 'J'HIC SA VgRY FAl\llLtmS.

as the victors we look for magnanimous sympathy and respect in the enjoyment of our own independence and national rights as a part of the old empire and snhjeets of the ifag of 0111· own choice; thus reciprocating the sentiments which our govern­ment and people ever seek to manifest towttrds them, while eaeh of us "under his own vine and fig-tree " may be allowed to glory with an appreciable and mutually respected pride and in friendly and generous rivalry in the free institntious and national prosper­ity which all have alike inherited from their forefathers. In Nova Scotia he was faithful to the ifag nncler whose folds he finally sheltered himself, enjoying the favor and confidence of such pronounced Loyafo;ts as Gideon \Vhite of Shelburne, a descend­ant of Peregrine White of the "Mayflower," and Brig.­Gen. Ruggles of Sandwich, the latter of whom was at first stoutly opposed to the measures of the British ministry, hut being averse to the · dismemberment of the empire, finally espoused with zeal the cause of the Crown. Dietl in 1820 from erysipelas in the arm.

15 r. 1(1 ll. 17 Ill.

IV.

v.

VI.

18 vu. VIII.

IX. x.

XI.

19 XII. XIII.

C11u.n1mN.

Ily first wife:

Pntieuce", h. ofa1·ch 22, 177:1. Nathan, h .. rau . .!I, 17i-i. Mercy. Amelia, m. 1st, William Swift.; ch. (1) t-lamuel', (2) IUehard,

(3) George, (-!) Almira, (5) Marietta, (6) Betsey, (7) a daughter; m. 2d, --Drake of ~foldlehoro, Mass.

Aaron, died on a voyage from the South.

By second wife:

Sarah, b. 1\-fay 14, 1786; m. Charles 'L'hyhault, of Freneh extrac-tion.

Sabine, b. l\1arch 20, 1788. Lemuel, died in infancy. Esther, b. May 10, 1792; m. James Smith. Susannah Levalley, b. July 13, 1794; m. ,fames Brown. Deidamia, b. Oct. 17, 1796; m. 1st, George Worthylake; 2d,

Stanley Wright. Uriah, b. May 20, 1799. Deborah, b. Oct. 17, 1801; m. ,John Amlrews, b. at Plymouth

Dock, Devonshire, England.

THI~ OLD COLONY FAMLLY. HUBLHVISlON A. 37

XIV. OrrHla, b. Dec. 7, 1803; m. William Warner, a 0

native of Blythe, Northumberland, England. - Ch.: (1) William Charlton; (2) Robert Henry; (3) M:iry Anne, m. Charles Budd Dun­ham; (4) ,Joseph; (5) Charles Turner; (6) George; (7) ,Tames Leander; (8) Eliza H., m. Dan'l Messenger; (!l) Jesse; (10) William Wallace. She died February, 18i7. He, bom in 1800, d. Dee. 8, 1892.

XV. Lydia, b. April 15, 1806; m. Samuel Doty. 20 XVI. Nathan, b. June 18, 1809.

xvrr. l\fary Anne, h. nee. 13, 1813; m. Allen Chute. No children.

SIX'l'H GENERATlON.

5.

THOMAS6 SAV.ERY ( 'l.'lwmas", Uriah\ Thomas3, Samuel', Thoma.~1

), was horn Feb. 24, 1777; and married ,fan. 6, 1807, i\lary Ryder. She died Dec. 5, 1830.

CHILDREN.

21 I. Stiliman7, b. July 14, 1809. lI. Charity, b. Sept. 10, 1810; m. Elisha Nye.

22 Irr. Rufus, b. Dec. 2!l, 1812. IV. ~liza, b. Dt•c. 6, 1816; 111. 8clim llouney. V. Hannah, h. March 6, 1818; m. Charles G. Nye.

6.

DEBORAH6 SAVERY (Isaac\ Uriah\ Thomas3, 8amuel2, Thomas1

), was born Oct. 2, 1772; and married Lemuel Gurney. The Gurneys are of a characteristic sturdy New England stock, producing industrious and successful farmers and enterprising navigators. Most of them belong to the Society of Friends, and have a tradition that they are an offshoot of the English family of Norman descent of whom came Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, to be more particularly mentioned in connection with William Savery, the eminent minister.

Cnll,llHEN,

I. Hoxaua7, m. I•'reeman Cahoon; d. 1879. I I. Matilda, m. Ira Crapo; d.

38 THI~ SAVImY FAl\ULms.

UL Delia,.m. 1st, May 12, 1825, William Keys; 2d, .Jesse Maxim; d. Oct. 8, 1881, aged 74 years 9 months 29 days.

rv. Meribah, m. ,Tolin Pierce; d. Octoher, 1880.

7.

CAP'r. 'l'IMO'l'HY" SA vrnttY (l~aw:", Urilth\ Tlwrua::i', 8arn­uel1, Thomas1), wa:; born Dec. 14, 1773; married March 3, 1798, Elizabeth Swift. He was in early lifo a mariner, as were many of the New England Saverys of tlmt arnl the next generation, aiding in building np the maritime greatne:;s of their country, antl wi11ning il)(lepmHle11ee for them:;el ves hy enterpril:le .tll(l hardy determination. Al>andoning the :;ea, he engaged iu :;hip­bL1ilding at vVareharn, and in the nmnufacture of hollow ware ; was a selectman and memlJer of tlie :;chool hoanl of \Vareham 'many years; a man of :;terling integrity, deep religious :;enti­ment, and amiable disposition. Died Feh. 18, 184~.

f'IIILl>ltEN.

l. l~li:r.ahdh7, h. llee. 8, 180:l; 111. ,l111w :l-1, 18:ll, ,Joseph B. Leonard; ti. Oct. 23, same year.

IL Cyrus, h .. l\Lay 12, 180i'i; d. afar n, 1828. II L Sarah, h. March 20, 180\l; tl. Del'. 2!l, 1821. IV. Timothy, b. Aug. 25, 1811; 111. July :in, 18:l:l, i\fary Bliss;

and tl. at Columhia, Cal., F'Ph. (i, 185:l, leaving orn· tlanl-{ht.Pr, Mary 1':lizah(•lh, who 111. llowanl llou~la,-; FrnHt, a native of llordw,-;ter, N t,w BrnnHwiek, aml ti. in lllinoiK, lHfiii. Iii~ wi1low dit•tl at, NPw B,•,ll'onl, ~laK~.,

()et. jH, 18Sil, aµ;etl 72. V. Benjamin, h. ,fuly rn, 18m; tl. May 21i, 18-W, on boanl ~choo1rnr

"'l'alma," on passage from Cuba to Alexandria. VI. Corbin Barnes, tl. l\Iarch 21, 1808, agNl 8 months 23 days.

8.

CAPT. UtttAH6 8AVI~ltY (Isa1w\ Uriah\ Tlwrnas:J, Samuel\ Tlwma;s1

), was horn Dec. 2-:1:, 1781; ancl married Jane, daughter of Barnabas Ellis. Was selectman of Wareham many years.

CIIILl>llEN.

I. Barnabas Ellis7, b. July 2-!, 1807; d. young. II. Huth Ellis, h. 1Iay 24, 1808; m. Dec. 7, 1828, z, .. no Fuller.

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THE OLD COLONY :FAMU,Y. RlfBIHYlSION A. 39

m. IV. v.

VI. VIL

Vlll.

IX.

x.

Rohcrtson, h. Oct. 12, 1810; d~ )farch a, 1886. No children. Deborah, b. ,June 15, 1812; m. Oct. 4, 1829, James Bent; d. Isaac; b. May 29, 1814; no children; d. Uriah, b. ,Tune 21, 18l6. .Jane, b. Oct. 14, 18l!l; m. May rn, 18:16, Lewis Bent. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 28, 1821; m. 1st, April 11, 1840, Eben A.

Bishop, of Seekonk, R. I. ; 2d, Freeman King; 3d, -­Hitching. Lives at Providence, R. I.

Patience, b. Feb. 28, 1825; m. 1st, Howard Keith; 2d, Zaccheus Lambert, llriilgewater, Mass.

Maria, b. March l, 1827; m. ,John Hancock, Providence, R. I. Living at Hyannis, Mass.

SILVIA6 SAVERY (Isaac", Uriali4, Thomas3, Samuel:-, Thomas1),

was born ,Tuly 5, 1784 , and married Caleb King, who was born Nov. 6, 1779. He died Feb. 18, 1854; she, March 13, 1863.

CIIILl>ltEN.

l. Hannah 7, b. Dec. 24, 1809; m. June 12, 1828, Daniel Hall, deputy sheriff of Plymouth County, 40 years, Barnstable' County, 12 years, and Bristol County, !J years; resided at Marion, Mass. Ch.: (1) Charles8 , m. 1st,, IWzabeth Barstow; 2d, Betsey Jenny; :Jd, Henrietta lllenkinship; rnsif!Ps at. Marion, }fa.ss. (2) f;ylvanns, m. Annir1 Rllis, resides at Marion. (:J) .Julia, m. 1st, Fred. Little Helt I; 2d, Enoch Robinson; resides at East Taunton, Mass. ( 4) ,Tennison, m. 1st, Miss Spicer; 2d, Emma 'Wiggins, of California.

II. ,Tulia A., b. ,July 19, 1815; died young. III. -Delia, b. Dec. 24, 1817; m. Capt. David Lewis. Ch.:

(1) Hannah Elle.nS, m. Judah Hatheway, of Rochester; (2) David Swanson; m. Caroline -weld, of Rochester.

IV. A Ra, h. Nov. 2, 1818; cl. Feb. 2, 1836. V. Silvia A., h. Ike. fl, 1820; 111. IHt, Ca.pt. F.v:tnR Hatheway.

Ch.: (1) Anne Evans", m. Albert Dexter, of Matta­poisett; (2) Sarah E. C., resides at Mattapoisett; m. 2d, Nathan Mendall. Ch.: (:J) Nathan, resided at same place. Died April 12, 1871.

VI. Caleb, twin of Silvia, m. Anne I-fommond. Ch.: (1) Caleb8 ;

(2) Rohe rt, m. Rllen Wellman; (3) George, m. Harriet Rogm·s. l:cshle at ;\laldcn.

VIL Matilda, b. .Tuly 20; 1825; m. Oliver A. WaRhburu, Provi­(fonce, I:t.. r. Ch.: (1) BoReoe ::;ti~tRon", 111. MolliP Sayles; (2) Edgar Symonds; both live in Providence, R. I. Died October, l8i8.

40 THE SAVERY FAMIL£F,S.

10.

CAJ>T. IsAAC6 SAVI~ltY (.lsaad", Uriah4, 1'lwmas3, Samuel2, 11lwma1i), was horn Ma.y 10, 1786 ; mul marrie1l Temperance Cornish, descendant of the Comi8h and Ree<l families of Revolutionary fame. In 1837 he removed to Oneida County, N. Y. In 1857 he went West to spend his last years with his children, and died at Halfday, Lake County, Ill., aged 86 years 3 months and 18 Jays, Aug. 28, 1872. A daughter writes of him: "In his youth he was engaged in farming, teaching school in winter, but I think not in navigation until after his marriage. He was a great reader, and in those days had few equals in his part of the State. I never saw him angry, which few can say of a father. He always looked at the silver lining, however dark the cloud." His widow died Feb. 27, 1880.

The following notice is from a contemporary paper: -

"Mrs. Savery was horn at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Mass., Aug. 8, 1790; was married to ~h-. Isaac Savery, Jan. 1, 1809. The first twenty-eight years of her man-ietl life wen\ s1wnt in Roclwst,er, Mass., where all of her ehildren were born iu the same house. Mr. Ha very was :i sea captain, con­sequently was away from home most of the time; thus upon Mrs. S:tvcry tlevolved all the care and responsibility of rearing anti training theh- chil­dren. All, with the exception of ouc who tli\:d in chihlhootl, lived to grow up and become respcetahle members of society. Grnmlnui Savery, :is she wa>:1 familiarly c:llh\1I hy all who knew her, m:ule a profes!lion of religion in early life and united with the Presbyterian church, and putting her Christian principles into the training of her children, most, if not all of them, were foil to Christ, :uul are now members of some \Jranch of the Christian chureh. The writer became aequaiuted with her three years ago, and has ever since enjoyed :i call upon and a season of prayer with hm·. She was always cheerful antl happy, enjoying great love for the Bible and her Saviour, and looking forward with an anxious longing for the time to come when she should go to be with him forevermore; often saying after a sick spell that she thought her ,Tesus had come for her, but she should have to wait a little longer. But just as the sun was setting on that beautiful 27th of February, her daughter, Mrs. Rose, said to her, 'Mother, you are going home,' and the dying saint said, 'Glory to God,' and fell asleep in Jesus. Some years ago her son, who lives in Michigan, visited her and marked it text for her funeral sermon : ' Precious

THI~ OLD COIJONY l•'AJ\IlLY. RUBIHVIS!ON A. 41

in the sight of the Loni are the <leath of his saints.' 'Gr:m<lm:t in her humility felt that such a text would not be appropriate for her; but it was used wit.h the feeling that, ~he harl honored the name of saint."

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25 26 21 28 29 30 31

CHILDREN.

I. Hannah C. 7 , b. Sept. 24, 1809; m. Barnabas Ellis Swift; d.

II.

III. IV.

V. VI.

VII. vm.

IX. x.

XI. XII.

July, 1889; he d. August, 1890. Ch.: (1) Jacob8 ; (2) Bar­nabas E.; (3) H:umah E., d. young; ( 4) Rufus S.; (Ii) Hannah E.

Adelia, b .• June 2/i, 1811; m. Wilson Gurney, and cl. 1832, leaving one daughter, Adelia8, who m. l\Ir. Gault, a native of Canada.

Clarissa, b. Feb. 14, 1814. Samuel, b. Feb. 17, 1810; d. same day. George CorniRh, h. April 21, 1816. Temperance Cornish, h. Oct. 21, 1818. Eloh,a Matil<la, b. Nov. i, 1820. Rarnh Nelson, h. ,Jan. :JO, 1823. Lucinda ll., b. Dec. 12, 182/i. Isaac P., b. Oct. 28, 1827. Amanda W., b. Oct. 4, 1831. l\Iarietta E., b. Nov. 30, 1833; m. J. H. Talcott; lives in

Illinois. (See Talcott Genealogy.) He died Ang. 30, 18!l0. f'h.: (1) RigPI Drlano, b. ,T:tn. Hi, 1862.

11.

REV. SAllfUEL6 SA VERY (Isaa<f', Uriah4, Thomat/, Samu.el\ Thomas1), born May 15, 1788. Graduated at Brown Uni­versity, Providence, and entered the ministry of the Baptist church. Married (probably in 1816) Sally Woodworth of Stillwater, Saratoga County, N. Y. A man of talent and learning, his career was ctlt short by an early death. His wife, who resided with her son ,James, at Des Moines, Iowa,. died Jan. 14, 1860, aged 59 years.

CHILIJllEN,

f. Mary E.7, b. probnhly in 18i7; d. in infancy. 11. San ford R., h. 1818; m. aml <l. Ch.: One son, also cl.

III. Halford, h. about lRIU; 111. Rus:111 ThmRtou; ti. 1874. Three children, all <I.

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IV. George W., b. December, 1822; m.-l\Iury ,Jane Fredenburg. He d. at Des Moines, Iowa, ,January, 1887. Ch. : 'l'hree dead ; Carrie May8 , surviving, m. Edwin Hewit,of Denver, Col., Mid resides there.

32 V. ,fames C., b. Nov. 30, 1824. vr. Chester Tracey, h. Nov. 2-l, 182fi; 111 •• '\ug. 17, 1848, Nancy A.

Allen; tl. Nov.!), 1877. lla1l two daughters, one died at birth, and (2) EllaS, died Jan. 5, 1862. His widow was for many years the useful and respe'cted matron of the woman's hospital, cor. 1:-lth, Graml, and IUverHtreets, Detroit.

VII. A posthumous chihl, tl.

12.

BENJAMIN6 SAVEltY ( Isaac'\ Uriah\ Thomail, Samuell, Thomas1), was born April 25, 17\,lO, \Vas in his early cltiys a navi­gator, but for a time was a school teacher in New Jersey, where he married :Miss Lydia ·Whitlock, supposed to be from the family of Ilulstrode Whitlock, of Cromwell's day. In 1829 he removed to New Ym·k City, ,uHl wa:-; in the c111ploy of Peter Cooper, the world-renowned millionnaire philanthropist. They were intimate friends, and the families still cherish the mutual traditionary regard. Abandoning commercial pursuits, he bought a farm near the home of his ancestors in vVareham, after which he heeamc ,\ member of the Legi:ol,iture of his native State. "He was celebrated for his generous, open­hearted hospitality. No mic ,;ought hi,; help in vain or left hi,; door hungry. It may be :oaicl that he was too generous, almost impoverishing himself in the exul1erance of his kindly, unselfish

, nature. His kindred reverecl him, and a large circle of friencls lament his lo:os to this day." He died Aug. ,13, 1861; and his widow Ma.y 11, 18(lfi.

C!IIl.llRRN.

33 I. Adolphus7, h. Jan. 17, 18:!-!.

n. Nareissa, h. March 29, 1826; d. Aug. 1-!, 1850. Ill. ,John Whitlock, b. May 3, 1820. ,JOUN 1VIIITLOCI,:.7 tlAVARY

m. ,July 2, 1870, nessie Tyer, a native of London, Eng., eldest dau. of Henry 'L'. Tyer, late of .Andover, Mass., who was nephew and heir at law of Sir John Musgrove, formerly Lord Mayor of Lon1lon.

B!cN.JAi\llN SA \'E,H.\'.

'L'Irn OLD COLONY ~'AMLLY. SUHD1Vl810N A. 43

IV. Cyrus, h. April !l, 18:12; d. Sept-2!l, 18,16. V. Eliz:t Whitlock, h. ,July 18, 1834; d. Dec. 25, 1888.

VL Bet\jamiu, h. Oct. 1, 1837; d. in infancy. VI l. Lydia .Atldia, h. Dec. 8, 1841. Miss LYDIA A. SA v ARY

resides at E:i.st Wareham, Mass.

13,

DrnA. PnrNJ•,Asfl RAVI<mY (L~aai', Uriah4, 'l'lwmas~, Samuel}, 'l'l,11m11.~1 ), w:ti- horn ~epL 2l\, 17!)2; 11m1Tietl I fanrnth Cor­nish, who w:ts horn in 1788. He 1lied in 1872. She died .Inly 28, 1885. The following is from the Roman Citizen, Home, N. Y.: "Dea. Savery was horn in Rochester, Mass. He removed to the town of Annsville, N. Y., in 1817, and died 011 Lite farm where he lnul rei-i1lrnl for fifty year;;. The llecease<l was a respected member of the comnnmity in which he lived. 1n 183B he was chosen deacon of the First Bapti;;t Church at. A1111sville, the first deacon chosen by the society, and held the office for thirty years. He alw,tys snstainetl the character of au honei-t, npright Christian, and was respected and beloved by all who knew him. For several years he had been an invalid, and 1:111l11n:d lllll!'li i-nff1:ri11g·, wl,i,~Ii lw horn witl11111(, (!Olllplai11i11g-,

waiti11g for the time when Lhe great Ma8ter 8lionlil call him !tome to be at rcHt. Trnly a goocl rn:m lm;; gone to l1is reward." The following is from another local paper: -

" ]Hrs. H:mtmh Savery dietl at 7 A. M. Tuesday, in her ninety-second year. She w:tR among the oilier residents of Oneida County. She was born in l'lymonth, .Mass., Oct.. 2, 17!)a. Her family name was Cornish, and she c:1111e from go0tl "N°Pw F,nglaml Rtock, hcing onn of a familyof twclYe chil­tlri,11. In l~li, M,·. :1111! i\lrs. Sav1·ry emigr:ttPtl to the town ol' Annsville in this county, sett.ling al.Jont two miles north of the present village of Taberg. Thii< RPet.ion waR then acco1mtctl tlw far west., and an almoRt unbroken wilder­tll'RR prPscnte1I itsPII' t.o the young couple. They c:rnH! with an ox team, bringing all their goo1lR arnl chattelR in a covcretl wagon. Col. Hiehanl G. Ravery, their only child, was in his fifth year. They went resolutely to work to make for themselves a home, ~Lr. Savery clc:tring the forest and hnrning charcoal. Mr. all(! lll rs. 8:wery livr.tl on the homeRtc:ul until 1872, :i 1111 n•n.n~,l a 1:trgP rmnily. 'l'lu·.v wcrP among tlw P:trl.r members of tlw T:tht•1·g Bapt iRt Chnrd1.

":1\lrs. Sarnry was a very sociable and agreeable old lntly, and was always

44 THE SAV1<:;RY FAl\ULIES.

full of life; it wus a pleasure to talk with her. lier memory was bright: and clear, and her mind was stored with recollections of early life a111l times in Oneida County. Sl1e could tell many interesting anecdotefl of tht!· olden time that is beyond the memory of most people now living. She rl'­tained her natural hnoyaney to the last. Her sight am\ hearing were almost unimpaired up to the time of her 1leath. Hlw conlil re1ul without the nid of spectacles, awl coultl hear conversation carried on in au ordinary tone. Her life was an active one. She lived to see the wilderness blossom as the rose, and to see the march of civiliztition extend over the entire con­tinent."

3,l

35

r. II.

m. IV. v.

vr.

CHILl>ltEN,

Phineas7, b. 1811; d. young. Richard Gurney, b. Dec. 9, 1812. ~Cary, b. 1814; dead. Samuel, b. 1816; m. Sarah Peck. Henry, b. 1818. Ruby Ann, h. 1821; m. Sm1fonl 'l'. Samson, of ,vestou,.

N. Y., and d. 1~t An11 Arbor, .Mich., May rn, 1882. 'l'heir son HEN UY ,J •8 SAlll::i0N is an attorney and counsello1· at law in Chieago. ·

V 11. ( :Jifton, h. 18211; 111. llnniet l!hirke. Ch.: ( 1) Wdli11gtou8 ;

(:l) l\fatiltla; (3) Rose; (4) George. VIII. Uri,th, b. 1825; d. 1858, unm.

36 rx. Hosea C., b. March 23, 1827. S'i X. · Louisa, b. 1830.

XI. Emily, b. 1832; m. Denjmnin l\fattison; <l. Ch.: (1) Flo1·a8, m. -·- Hazelton; d.

XII. Sarah, b.1834;.m.,fasou Wade;d.

14.

MARY6 SAVERY (Isaae', Uriah\ Thomas3, 8arwuei1, 1'homas1),.

born May 11, 1795, who nuirriell, 1816, Jacob Swift, closes my record of the children of Isaac Savery and Deliverance Clifton, - WOl'thy offspring of worthy parellts.

CIIIl.lll(EN.

r. Charles H.7, b. Aug. 6, 1817; m. Hannah Smith; d. at l\Iartha"s. Vineyanl, l\farch 31, 1884.

[L Reuben Briggs, b. Aug. 2, 1810; m. Mary, daughter of Amo~ and Ruth (Clifton) Hadley; d.

Till<: 01,ll COIA>NY l ◄'Al\lU,\'. SUlllllVISION A. 45

111. M(•rihah Brigg~, t,win of H.cnhcn; 111. 1st,, ,John Washburn; 2d, Rev. George Cryer, a native of England; d. at Norwich, Co1111., Oct.. 2!i, 188/i.

IV. Pelham E., h. Uec. 18, 1822; m. Ly11\a Delano; d. at New Betlfon:, Mass., May !l, 1891.

V. Mary S., b. ,July 24, 1829; m. Seth Morse; resides in West \Yarelmm.

PATlENCJl:6 SAVEIW (Nathan", Uriah4, Thomarr1, Samue'll, 'l.'lwrnas1

), uom March 22, 1772; married Dec. 5, 1790, George Douglas, who was horn Aug. 26, 1762. She died Dec. 1, 1863.

38 I. Barnabas Nye', h. Nov. 11, li9l. 39 fl. Betsey, b. ,Tnly 14, 179i'i.

10.

NATHAN6 8Avg1tY (Nathan\ Uriah\ Tlwrnas\ Sarnnd1,

Tlwma-~1), wn.s hom .Tan. 21, 1774, and always lived in Massa­

<·hwwt.t~; 11mrrie<l Aug. ~H. 17\Hl, Elizabeth Oa111111011:-;; died Nov. 1, 1858. The following obituary no.tice I quote from a co11te111pomr,y imper: "FAT111m RA v1mv. - The following fine description of our good old townsman, late of Sippican, is from the pen of Mrn. Bruce: 'Died in Sippican, Nathan Savery, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He was a true and faithful Christian. Religion was his life. He was devoted to the chmch and her rites. \Vann arnl affectionate in his nature, and simple and unaffected in his manners, he was fervent in his zeal, gentle in his life, and devout in his piety. Having led a blameless life, he came to a peaceful and triumphant end. Thirty-six hours Lefore his death he was as well and cheerful as nsnal. No seated disea.-;e, hnt the general dissolution and decay of age took him away. Conscious of his end, he met death with great compo:,;nre, and like an infant to it.'l repose, he lay down to rest.' "

46

I. '10 IL 41 m. '12 IV.

V.

YI. Vil.

43 \'III.

THE SA VEltY l<'AMlLms .

. lie hath gone, the gr:11111 old soldier, With his Chl"istian armor on; I le hath borne the heat of battle, lie hath uow the vktory won.

The heavy cross loug- i,arrit!tl, He hath at lust laill llown, Only to take in place of it 'l'h(' Christian's golden crown.

No longer at the fireshle Shall we his welcome meet, No more his smile shall greet 11s Upon the busy street.

For he hath passed forever That dim• and shadowy bourne, Wheuce the traveller, ouce entering, Can never more return.

In you fair and peaceful city, Where love can ne·er grow tlim, Though he will not rctum to us, We all shall g-o to him.

CIIILllltEN.

Nathan 7, b. 1798; d. at Savannah, :\lay, 1822. Patience, h. June 12, 1803. Hiram Nye, h. Aug. 18, 1806. .\arou, twin of Hiram. Dennis N' ., b. Aug. 1, 1808; m. in 1831, lld:,cy Tabor, of

near New Bt~llfortl, anti livcll at Wheeling, \"a. ( 'h.: (1) J?cruautlo8 , ti.; (2) Maria; (B) ()corgc, ,I.; (4) J:uh.1·, ti.; (5) .Juliet; (6) William, (I.; (7) l,ucy; (8) Flora.

Hannah, b. ,Tau. 1, 1810; m. -- ('ushiug; d. Oct. 20, 1818. l~liza, h. 1\larch 14, 181 l ; 111. William ~pooner, resides at Fair­

haven. Ch.; (1) Susan•, h. Feb .. 22, 1835; m. William ~fayo. (2) Benjamin, h. Aug. :n, 1840; d. Oct,, 3, 1841. (3) Lucy iH ., h. Sept. 2.J, 1841; ll. .I 1111c 20, ISH4.

Hichanl, h .• Tuly 14, 18Ul.

17.

:\l E1uwn SA\' 1,1t Y ( 1Yatltan", Uri alt\ 'l.'ltoma1,\ Sarnuel2,

'l'lw11ui1,1), married Savery Bolles, llescended from a Savery of a

former genemti1111, through ;t female ancestor.

THE OLD COLONY FAl\llLY. HUBDlVISlON A. 47

( '1111.IJIIEN.

I. Leomu·d7, m. Lovicy Hatheway; diet! bef01•e 188:.!. I I. Sophia, m. Barnabas Green; died before 1882.

J II. Charltou, m. Sarnh Pope; died before 1882. IV. :Mercy.

V. Almira. VT. Delia, m. Stillman Savery7 (Thomas•, Thomasa, Uriah').

VII. Eliza, m. -- Drake. VIIL ,John, m. -- Ilm·g,.ss.

18.

SABINE6 SAVARY (Nathan\ Uriah\ Tlwma1P, Samuerz, 1'1wmas1), was born :i\farch 20, 1788, at St. Mary's Bay, now Plymtnn, in Dighy County, where he always resided; manied Nov. I fi, 18~1, ()Ii via, da11ghte1· ol' Samuel i\fo.rsliall, a Loyalist, who came from New York Lo Shcllnmte, itnd thence to Yar­mo11Ll1, N. S., where he wa,._ 01w of the lirst two el111rchwanle11s of Trinity Church, and was a prominent merchant, pioneer ship-owner, and public man, a member of the Provincial Parlia­mei1t from 1812 until his <leath at the age of 55; he was bmied April 3, 1813. I have an impression that he was a Southem Loyalist, who had taken refnge witl1 the army in New York, and was of the same Loyalist family as the late Jmlge :l\farshall, and I Ion .. J •• r. Marshall, of Gnysbornugh, N. S., but have no relia­ble dabt on which to base a positive opinion.* Hel' mother was Olivia, daughter of William lfaskell, .Jr., who with 'William, Sr., eame from Beverly, Ma;;s., among the early settlers of Yarmouth, ahont 17H7, all(l manied Ifamrnh, d,iughter of Ebe11eze1· I lealy, who ('.,tllle at the ;;ame LillJe from l'lymunth ur ;\farblehea<l.t Die<l ;\lay 1, 1878, age<l HO yearn and upward. The following is from a.11 ol1it1rnry notice : "The 1lecea;;ed in his early <lays was a ma11 of remarkable pl1ysical e11ergy and power of endurance. lie fille<l before the memory of adults of tlw prcs(:11(. gmiemt.ion a \0 011,;i<lem.hle space in tl1e commercial

• l hnve he:ml it stated that this family were II hrnnch of thnt from which Chief ,lu!--ti<'C Mnrshn.ll, the great A mcricn.n ju1·ist1 came.

t CnmplJell'a llistory of Yarmouth.

48 THR SAVRRY l•'Al\ULlES .

• arena of the county of Digby. His first business relations were with Eastport, Me., with which the western part of Nova Scotia then carried on an extensive trade, and where his name, highly respected, hm; doubtless long since been remembered a,Jl(l forgotten. fle was snbseqnently one of the pioneers of what is familiarly known as the' Boston trade,' which formerly, more than now, engrossed the commercial energies of the western counties. Morn recently he engaged iu shipbuild­ing, and his business relations were more with St. John, N. B. For many yem'8 he posscsse<l a great pm·,;011al in­fluence in l1is neighborhood and throughout a large portion -of his county, the spontaneons result of his then extensive business relations, and his recognized character for pmity of motive and sttict integrity. He died an affectionate awl devoted member of the Chnrch of England, of which he had been an adherent from early manhood."

Cllll.l>HEN.

44 I. l\'lary l~lizaheth7. II. Eliza Helen, 111. J:mws 1:. Garden, now postmaster at Gihsou,

N. B., whose father, George Frederic Stan· Garden, was for man.,· years serg<'aut-at-anns to tht• N cw Brnnswick LegiRlatnrn. lliH grantll'atl1t•r, William II. (lanleu, a natini of Ahenleeu, ca 1111, to N"ew Brnu8wielc, a Loyalist, from N1\\\' York. ('l1.: (1) ,\lfrrnl Willia111 ~avary8

, now, 18U:I, pursuing au art~ 1·011r"" at llw lJuivi,rHity ol' 'l'o­routo, and theology at \\"ycklift'e (Church of England) College in the same city.

45 JI[. Alfred William, h. Oct. 10, 18:ll. IV. Margaret ,lane, unm.

URIAH6 SAVlilff (Nathan", Uriah\ Thomas'\ Samuer-, Tlwmas1), was born May 20, 1799; married, 1823, Aley Eliza­beth W orthylake; died suddenly of congestion of the lungs April, 1881. A devout Christian and member of the Baptist Church for many years.

46 T. Ir.

m . lV. V.

VI.

VI I.

nu.

TII.I~ OLD COLONY FAi\llLY. SUBIHVISION A. 49

CHILDREN.

Deidamia7, b. Nov. 14, 1824. Charles Thomas, b. 1826; m .. Ellen Van Norden, of Yar-

mouth, N. S.; d .. about 1871. Nathan, b. 1828; drowrn~d fr'1m Schooner "Eagle" about 1851. . Jame", b. 1830; d. "i\fay, 1853. Aley Elizabeth, b. 1882; 111. ht, Charles Allen, of Yarmouth,

N. S.; 2d, Wm. ll. Long, of N. Andover, ::\fass. Now a widow in DanVPl'R, "i\fnRR.

Mary ,J:111P, h. 18:14; 111. April, 18fi5, Ueorge Pitman, of Ynr­mont.h; ll.

E,lwa.nl, h. 18-rn; 111. lRt, Efo:a, ,laug-ht-Pr of his uncle Nat.hnnn Savery, .fr.; RhP d; m. twice Riner.

Albert, b. 1842; m. ::\fary Eliza.heth ElliR, of Yarmouth, N. S.; 1lrow11P1l from Relrno11Pr "D. j\[. Smith,·• i\Cnrch 20, 18i8, in !'Pt.iii, l'nRRag·p 1·,;111i11g- l'ro111 St. ,John, N. B., to l'lym­tou, N. S.

20.

NATHAN6 SAVARY, the younger (Nathan\ Urilih4, Tlwrnas3,

Sarnuer-, Tlwma.s1), born ,June 18, 1809; married Phmbe Dun­bar; and died Nov. 3, 1891.

CIIILOl!EN.

[. Armanilla7, b. ,June 24, 1834; m. ,Jnmes Holmes. 4i II. ,John DPnn, h. April 22, 1836.

Ill. l\Car;· H:11111ah, h. Oct. 23, 1838; m .• John Wright. [V. William Henry, h. "i\Inreh li, 1841; m. Elizabeth Wagner. V. ::\loses ,vashington, b. Dec. 21, 1843; m. Emma "i\IcKay.

48 YL Joseph IT. V[[. George ~falcolm, m. Eliza Carty.

Y[(f. Uriah, d. aged 6. IX:. Elizn Tl!>l<'n, h. Nov. 22, 1850; m. E1lwn.r1F Savery, her cousin,

Ron of lfriah" ( Nat.Imn''); d. young. · X. ::iratha11 ThomaR, b. ;)£arch 24, 1854; m. Mund Snow. XL Phrnhe Frances, b. "Nov. 21, 1855; m. Wm. II. Chute.

XI r. ,James .\lfrcd, h .• J ime 5, 185!l; m. Hannah Uarslrnll.

SEVENTH GENERATION.

21.

STILL11IA~ 7 SAVERY ( Tlwma.s6, Tlwmas5

, U1·iah4, Thomas3,

Samuer-, Tlwmas1), was born ,July 14, 1809; and married Delia7,

50 THE SAVER\'. FAl\HLIES.

daughter of Savery Bolles and Mercy6 Savery, who was one of the daughtera of Nathan" a1Hl Elizabeth Nye. (See No. 17.)

I.

49 IL UL

IV.

v. VI.

ClllLlllU:N.

Polly Nye", b. March 10, 183:!; m.~ov.:!:!, 1853, Lynes Ity<lcr, of Hoelrnstcr; and has eh.: (l) ll:u111ah E."; (:!) Stilh11au Savery; (3) George E.; (-l) Frnuk E.

Hufns L., l>. ,Jan. :!!l, 18:l-l. John 'l'homas, b. Dccemhm·, 1835; m. 1\Tary E. GrP<mleaf, ol'

New lfampshirc; <I. at Stanit'onl Place, Boston, much lHmon•,l, .Tan. 11, 188:l.

Sophia., h. 1\lal'l·h fi, 18:18; 111. ~lard, :Ill, 18,,\l, < 'apl. .\rl h11r I la1111110111l; :11ul liaB eh.: (I) ,l<,1111h, C."; (:!) I >elia Boll,·~ (3) Arthur [I., who 111. 1\liuuie Ilamrnoml; (-l) Sophia Savery

,Josephine, b. 1\farch l:!, 183!); ti. ;\larch 30, 18311. Hannah, b. Fell. :!3, 18-l:!.

22.

RUFUS7 SA v1mY ( Thomali, 'l'lwmas", Urialt\ Tltorna1;\ 8armwl1,

Tlwmas1), was born Dec. 29, 1812; rmd manied Martha H. Gilibs, who was horn Nov. Hl, l81G.

C1111.1>ltEN,

I. Hnltlah LouisaS, b. Oct. 15, 18-!2; m. Dec. 26, 186:!, ELlwarLI D. Hewins; d.

II. Lucretia, h. Dee. 2:!, 18-l-l; m. Etlw. D. Hewins, after her sis­ter's death.

III. Edwanl Everett, h. Fch. 22, 18-17; d. age,! l yr. 11 mos. IV. Rolaml T., b .• \.pl'il D, 18-18; 111. l'lfary Hoyt, and has <lau.

,fcnnie", h. March, Hl71.

23.

UttLAll7 S,\ \'l,lt\' ( Urialt\ l~aae\ Uriah', 'l'lwurni1, Hamuel\ Tlwmms1), was born .Tmie 21, 181G ; nmrrie<l Eli,mbeth Paine, and lives in California.

CIIILDHEN,

I. Bnruahns Ellis8, b. Oct. 2:!, 18-!6. IlAHN'ABAS E.8 SAYERY m . • \ug. 29, ,880, Emma A. Drinkwater; resides at C:un1iello, Mass., and has ch.: (1) Jennie F.

II. Uriah, b. Dec. 25, 18-18. III. Jane Frances, b. ·Jan. :!G, 1850; ll. Nov. 12, 1865.

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24:.

CLARISSA7 SAVERY ( Isaac6, Isaac\ Uriah\ Tlwmas3, Sam~ef, ilwmas1), was born at Rochester, Feb. 14, 1814; married Dec. 2, 1832, Wilson Doty; and removed to Illinois.

CHILDREN.

I. Clara A. 8, b. l\lay 27, 18:!4, at Wareham,. nfaAs,; m. at 'l'aberg,

Otwiila ( '011nty, N. Y., ,John II. A lla11Ao11, a uative of Eng­land; a farmer living· at V1\rt1011, Ill.

II. Reuben Briggs, h. April :W, 18H6; tl. Feb. i, 18:!8. lIL. ,v. Warren, h. ,June Hi, JS:HJ, at Taberg, N. 1".; m. l\Ia.rch 5,

1862, at Vernon, Lake County, lll., Lilias bfason, and now residing at ,vinona; flour and grain merchant.

IV. Benjamin Savery, b. ,\ug. 2n, 1841, at Barriboo, Wis., where he now resi<les; flour ant! grain merchant.

V. Mnry J., b. Feb. lG, lS+J., at Taberg, N. Y.; d. Dec. 6, 1861. VI. Belle A., b. Aug. 2i, 18-16, at ·wareham; m. April 15, 1866, John

A. Corbin, a'farmer of Vernon, Ill., who was drowned with five others by the upsetting of a new ferry boat when attempt­ing to cross Fox Hiver, at Elgin, Ill. ":;\Ir. Corbin was a native of lllinois, having been hom at IIalftlay, April 2, 1844, and was only :!7 years old. He was a well-to-do farmer and an a.ct.iv1~ nrnl 11;;d11l cif,izen. His fl'ie111lA fittingly fol!l11tl the flag or the Union ahout his coflln, for when but .18 years of ·age he enliste1l aJH! served through the war, and was a strong :tn<I hravn soliliPr. ''

VII. Lottie L., h. at TaiJerg, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1850; m. George II. Foote, at Vemon, Lake County, Ill.

25.

GEORGE CoRNISH7 SAVERY ( L~aac6, Isaac5, Uriah\ Tlwmas3, SarniieV, 'l1lwmas1), was born April 21, 1816. A navigator with his father in his younger clays, but settled down to agricultural pursuits in 1854 in Oneida County, N. Y., and removed later to Dexter, Mich. ; a man of exemplary Christian char­acter and blameless life, respected and beloved by his kindred in an uncommon degree. He nrnnied Feb. 17, 183!), Rachel Porter, wl_10 was born Sept. 26, 1819, and died at Dexter, June 29, 188G.

52 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

CIIILDHEN.

I. _.\.nn ElizabethS, b. N"ov. !), L8-!0; d. young. 50 II. Stephen Porter, h. Dec. 11, 18H. 51 HT. Isaac Snnford, h. Dee. ll, 18-!3. 52 IV. lleurictta E., b. ,fan. 15, 18-!7. 53 V. lfoury 1:.., b. Oet. 2a, 18-18.

VI. Gustavus Adolphus, b. Nov. 15, 1S50, at Vienna, N. Y.; m. 1st, Sept. 15, 187-1,. :Hary S. Mason; 2d, Sept. 18, 188!), Nellie Robertson. Ch.: (l) :11Iamle", b. July 8, 1875; d. l\Iay 5, 1876.

26.

Tm.IPElU.~CE ConNrsR7 SAv1mY (lsaacU, lsaai.!', Uriah\ Thomas3, SamiieP., Thomas1 ), was born Oct. 21, 1818; ancl mar­ried April 16, 18-10, Samuel Mitchell, who died Nov. 12, 1873.

CHILDREN.

T. Mary KS, h. May 23, 18-11; m. April 2!J, 18G:l, Alexa111\er !Io­mau.

II. Adelia N., b. June 7, 1S-13; m. Sept. 2H, 18(15, Henry A. Mat!leso11.

III. Geneva P., b. June 23, 185:l; m. Dec. 11, 1872, Harvey S. Coon . . IV. Gesler F ., b. J nne 23, 1852; ll. 1''eb. 18, 1853.

V. George F., b. Ang. 28, 1855; m. Feb. 21, 1877, l\fary l\I. Rouse.

27.

ELOISA l\[ATILDA7 SAVEil¥ (l1wa.cfl, I~w11/', Urialt1, '1.'lio11wi, SamueP., Tlwmm}), was born at Hodiester, ~lass., Nov. 9, 1820; and married Dec. 1, 18-11, at Annsville, N. Y., Allen Thrasher, who ,vas born itt Thurlow, Upper Canada, Sept. 20, 1820, and died in Rantoul, Champagne County, Ill., Aug. 19, 1877. She lives at Hn.lfda.y, Ill.

C'!IILDUEN'.

I. A11~ulina8, h. at A1111sville, N. Y., Nov. 17, 18~2; 111. Kept. 14,

1858, ~farcus S. Gleason, in lfalfllay, m. II. ,Tohu G., b. at Annsville, .July 18, 18-1-1; <lie1\ in the service of

the Union, Dec. 11, 18G3, having served 1 year am!-! mouths. III. Louise A., b. at Wareham, )fass., Deu. 1 i, 18,W; m. Jan. 14,

1871, in Hantoul, Ill., to John C. Peplow. IV. Lillie A., b. May 1-!, 1860; m. Oct. 20, 1877, Charles Shore• in

Rantoul, Ill., where she died Feb. 20, 1880.

THF OLD COLO.NY FAMILY. SUBDIVISION A. 53

28.

SARAH NELSON7 SAVERY (Lsaac6, Isaac\ Uriah\ Thomalf\ 8amuel1, Tlwmas1), was bom ,Jan. 30, 1823 ; and maniecl March 30, 1843, James Honmn.

CUILDREN.

J. Davitl UriahS, b. July 24, 1844; m. Sept. 5, 1866, Sarah E. Cline.

II. llartlrn Adelia, b. Feb. 25, 1846; m. Nov. 25, 1865, Charles Jacob Miller, whoRe father was from Pennsylvania.

I II. Lucinda Hose, b. Sept. 27, 1848; 111. Feb. 10, 1861), Edwin Bridges.

IV. Alexander Henry, b. ,Tune 28, 1851; m. Aug. 16, _18i5, Jennie S. ,Tones.

V. Leonard Allen, b. Aug. 26, 1853; m. Nov. 27, 1877, Amos S. Rohb.

Yr. Sarah Elizabeth, h. April 24, 1856; d. April 27, 187-l. YH. lfary Amanda, b. Sept. 21, 1863; m. Nov. 23, 1881, George A.

Houghton. YUI. Jennie Delilnh, h. Jan. 30, 1865; d. Feb. 8, lSil.

29.

LucrnnA B.7 SA Yl~l:.Y (I.qrrncr., .Tuwrf', Uriah\ 7.'lwmas\ Sam­uet1, 'l'lwmas1), born Dec. 12, 1825; manied Sept. 4, 1847, P. T. Rose, livi11g in Jlli11ois. He <lictl March 2, 1877, agcrl 63 years 10 months and 16 days. Married, 2d, Nov. 24, 1886, Reuben Tuck, a native of Upwell, county of Norfolk, England.

CHILDREN.

I. lI. Jeanuette8, b. Jan. 2, 1852; m. Sept. 11, 1873, E. J. Locke. II. Calvin Il., h. Dec. 5, 1857; d. Feb. 18, 1858.

III. Ida C., b. J,tn. 20, 1851); d. Jan. 6, 1861. IV. Ellie J., b. Feb. 19, 1861; d. April 28, 1861.

V. E. Grant, b. July IS, 1863; m. VL Carrie C., b. March 5, 1866.

30.

ISAAC P.7 SAVEitY (Lsaa,}, Isaa<f', Uriah\ Tlwmas3, Samueil, 'Plwmas1), was born Oct. 28, 1827; married 1850, Marie Illakes­lie, living in Dexter, Mich.

54 THE SAVERY FAl\lILIES.

CHILDREN.

(Ilesitles three who dic1l yonug.)

L Libbie A.8, b. August, 18/ill. IL George S., b. September, 1870.

III. Mertie M., b. July, 187:i. IV. Ira A., b. January, 1877.

31.

Al\IANDA "\V .7 SA VERY ( Isaac6, Isaae5, Uriah\ Thomasa, 8am-1tela, 1'lwmas1), was Lom Oct. 4, 1831; and manied Fe L. 12, 1854, Jacob H. Sexton, who was born July 29, 1829.

CHILDREN.

I. William HenryS, b. Dee. 7, 185-i; m. JHarch 28, 1876, Anna L. Skinner.

II. Roscoe C., b. Oct. IO, 1858; LI. JHareh 29, 1862. III. Isaac Franklin, b. Feb. 10, 1862.

32.

JAl\IES 0.7 SAVERY (Sarmiel°, Isaad', Uriah\ Thomasa, Samuel2, Thomas1 ), was born Nov. 30, 1824; married .Tan. 20, 1852, Anne Nolnml, a native of Engfaml. Ile was among the first settlers of Des :Moines, Iowa, and largely interested in the bnilcling up of that city; was one of Llie fonrnlen, of the Ameri­can Emigration Company, which was instrumental in settling nearly a hundred thousand Scandinavian people in the "\Vestern States; is now (1892) engaged in banking and in ·western lands, as well as mining in Montana. Resides in New York City. His wife <lie<l in New York City, April 14, 1801. She was a woman of rare intellectual endowment and great learn­ing. Among the many eulogies written at her death, the fol­lowing was by one who ranks among the first as a scholar, lawyer, and judge, and who had known her many years :

"JHrs. Savery was a woman of wonderful capacity for acquiring knowl­edge, gifted with a marvellous memory and great mental activity, added to

THg OLD COLOXY FAi\llLY. SUBDIVISION A. 55

untiring ii11!11Rtry. Slw 11·aR a cloR<' RttHlPnt fnlln chiMhoo1l. She hecame a linguist, a lawyer, lecturer, a fine clasRical scholar, arnl enforced her ideas with a strong-, vig-orous pen awl hy elo1J1wnt speech from the public rostrum.

"She grnrluated with the highest honors at the Law School of the University of [owa, was admitted to the bat· and licensed to prnctise in the Supreme Courts; not .for the purpose - as she expressed it- of entering upon the practice of law, hut to furnish woman with an example and as evidence that t.he 1P:tl'l1Pd professions were open to her sex. She thPn turrw,I l11•r atti,ntion to trnvPl, :1111I tluri11g- her frP<Jlll'llt vi,;it.s to Europe she wasted little time at t.he g:ay capitals, hut sought out those historic grounds where she coultl stmly the buried past and the lives of those great actors who had 111:ulc a nation's history and left their names upon her monuments.

"She gathered in the classic t,reasures of Greece and Rome and studied Bible hil,tory through Egypt, PalcRtine to .Jerusalem, and heemne more familiar with it than moRt of the h,:trncd theologians. She seemed to me to ha vc n•atl all hiRtory, a 11 rP lig"ionR, arnl was one of the best Shakespearian scholars I ever saw, au um·easi111,r thinker and worker in a.uy field of knowl­edge. Hnvi11g: accnstonH'd lwrsclf to compact analogical reasoning, her convrrsa.tious more JH'arly resemhle(l prrparrtl tliscourses, wltidt if taken 1low11 at thP time wo11!1l lwve requirc,I no rnvision of itR rhetoric or gramnrnt.­ic:d construction. s\ml yet .. with such gifts as [ have but hrielly sketched, she seemed to have so little appreci:1ted her own powers of original tho11g-ht1 t.ha.t wlwn solicitP1l hy n. pnhlishcr aml hy her intimate friends to prPJ>:11'1' :1 ,..,\t. ol' ""~:I.I'". 11po11 dilli•n,111, l.ltP1111•.~ t.o wltklt ,..Jin had g-iv1•11 lt1·r principal thought, she wo111tl reply (as she once did to me), 'It is not more boolrn that JH\Oflln m•Pd, hut moni rpat!Prs for hooks alre:uly printe1l. Whatever I might have to say has already heen sail! iu hooks already made, am! has heen expresse(l in hettcr form than I can put it iu.'

'• Healizing the fact that her disrasc might terminate her life at any moment, she talked about death with the same freedom autl cheerfulness she would upon an anticipated journey to Europe or elsewhere.

"She was a Theosophist, a firm believer in reincarnation and immor­t.ality."

33.

ADOLPHUS7 SAVARY (Be11rjamin6, Isaac\ U,·iah\ Tlwmas3,

Sarnu.11/2, Tliomrr..~1), wa.'l horn ,Jan. 17, 1824; arnl was educated at public xehool No. 15, New York City, undel' the cclebmted teacher, \Villimn A. \Valkcr, in a cla:-.x which has furnished many eminent men ; entered the Sophomore class of the New

56 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

York University at the early age of fourteen; left before gradu­ating on account of the removal of his pal'ents from the city ; finished his studies as n, civil engineer in Boston with Samuel Nott and Francis Danicott; has followetl that profession all his life, anll has had charge of some importimt wmks in the United States; manied, 1st, April 13, 1853, Adeline Bui·gess, of --Ware­ham, who was in the eighth generation from Thomas Burgess, who came from England in 1630. (See Burgess Genealogy.) Her father was fast cousin of the late Bishop Bnrgess, of J\,faine; a woman of very superior in tellcct. She 1licd ,J nne 20, 1864. He married, 2d, May 18, 1867, Julia A. C. Bourne, eighth generation from Richard Bourne, . who settled in Sand­wich, 1632; lives at East \Vareham.

CIIILl>REN.

By tirst wife: I. ,valter Hnrgess", b. ,Jan. 28, 1855; m. Dec. 23, 188-1, Elleu

Frauet'R Jlo11r1w. Ch.: ( l) la lo~~a Hm1r1H•", h. Rt•pt.. 1:1, 1885; ti. Sept. rn, 1887. (2) ,July t, 1888, Warreu Hapgood. (3) Aug. 2-1, 18!l2, Emma ~Iahel.

II. ]Mith, b. June 8, 1856; tl. Ang. Hl, 1856. Ilf. Beatrice, h .• \ug. 21, 1851!; tl. (kt. 18, 1851!. IV. Philip A,lolphus, b. Sept. 2-1, 18U0; m. at 'l'al'oma, Wa~hiug­

ton Territory, ~fay 28, 18\l0, Xellie H. Perry. V. Richan\ .\1\riau, h .• \pril !l, 18<i--l; 1l. ,July, 18<l-L

By secoml wife: VI. ,Julia s\tldine, h. Aug. llO, 1868.

VIL Arthur Bourne, h. Jan. l-1, 1872. VIII. Benjamin Clifton, b. Dec. 20, 1873.

IX. William Cooper, b. July 7, 1875.

34.

CoL. RrcHARD GuRNEY7 SA VEltY ( Phineas'\ Isaac", Uriah4, Thomws3, Samuer-, Thomas1), was horn Dec. 9, 1812, and moved with his parents when five years of age to their new home in New York State. In 18-!0 he married Cor­nelia Delano, no douht a descendant of Philip de la Noye, who came over in the "Fortune "in November, 1621, and was, as his

A ;,nrn NoLANll,

WIFE OF ,JAMI<::-; C. SA\'J-:B.r.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. SUI.lDlVlSlrJN A, 57

name imports, of French or ,Valloon origin, a Protestant refugee with the Pilgrims at Leyden.* Having, in face of the great difficulties presented in what was then a new country, obtained a good education, part of it after he was of age, he became, while a young man, head master of the principal institution of learning in Rome, N. Y. He e[trly interested himself in the politics of the country, and, while CR,rrying on successfully a mercantile lnrnine8S in Rome, and accumulating a large property tl1ere, he was, in 1.848, appointed postmaster of the city, the first Hepttblican who lmd filled that oJTice. He is said to have held more public positions tlrnn any other lll[tll in the county of Oneida. Among others, he filled for about i<~ll y<'ars t.hosc ol' <fop11t,y and 1•.hil'f c111pe1·i11Lc1Hfo11L o( Lhe Eric Canal wit,h grnat vigor arnl ef'linicne_r, ca,l'l'yi11g 011 n.t tl1e same t.i111c a l'nrm i11 Blossrnlc. lie l1el1l the com111issio11 0£ colonel of the 46th Uegiment of New York State l\lilitia from 1856 until it WR,S disbanded in 1862. He was a most public-spirited man, of a genial disposition and generous instincts. His hospi­talities were unstinted, and his contributions to public charities and [.lie s11ppo1-t of the B:i.pList Chmel1, of wliil'li 1111 wafl a mem­ber, most liberal. His second wife was :i\frs. Patience Forward, of Blossvale, N. Y., where he lived after his health began to fail about eight years before his death, which occurred Feb. 1, 1892.

CHILDREN.

I. Phinen.s8, died in infancy. JI. Fre1IPric, m. TI:1rriPt lk1•rR, nml hnR ch.: (l) F:umy0 , ,I.; (2) Al­

lH'rt; (:J) l•'lor:1; (4) Willi:un, d.; (u) Conwlia; (ll) Everett.

3». H1rn1n:7 SAVlmY (Pl,.ineasr., baac\ Uriir!t4, 'l'lwma.s\ Smnue(l,

'l.'lwmas1), was born 1818; married l\fartha Rogers; was captain of a military company; died 1880.

•AI though the nnme ls spelt De In Noye In the list of the passengers hy tho" Fortune," there ts rcneon to suppo8e he ,vas the sun of ,Jenn nntl :Marie Dclannny, who was lmptlzc,1 In the Wnlloon churd1 nt Leyden In lliO:l. The Walloons hem· the snmc rncinl relntlonshlp to t.l,e ~'rench ns the Welsh 1\0 to the English. Both were sun·lvors of the originnl Celtic tribes who lnhnhltetl the Southwest of Europe, hut had to ylel<l to invasions of stronger tribes, Angles, ,Jute~, and Snxons in Englautl, and Frnnks in Gnul and 11 Gallia Uclgicn," now Ile1gium.

58 THJ<J SA VERY I!'Ai\rILIJ<JS.

CIIILDimN.

L EstherS, m. John ·Williams; cl. leaving four children. IL l\fary, m. --Adams.

III. Alice, tl. JV. Phineas. V. Sarnh, m. --Vroman.

VL Arabella, m. Charles Graves. VII. George II., cl.

HosEA C.7 SAVERY (Phineas", Iscuw\ Uriah\ Thomas~, Sam-1ul2, Tlwmas1), was liom March 23, 1827 ; married, 1st, Nn.ncy Hartwell ; 2d, Caroline Stanahil, of New York, and lives in Chicago, Ill.

CHILDREN.

By first wife: I. William A lonzo8 , m. and has one <laughter; resides (1892) Deans­

villc, Ouchla County, N. Y. By second wife:

II. Ifannnh S., h. May l, 1857; m. 1876, Gardner IL Grower. Ch.: (1) Benjamin, 1I.; (2) Walter; (3) ficllc; ( 4) Lena; (5) Hay­mond.

III. Roscoe Conkling, h. Oct. 30. 1858; m. March 20, 1878, Nettie Cooper. Ch.: (1) Walter A., b. Aug-. 27, 1881. H. C.8 SA­

VERY resides (1S92) in Wahash Avenue, Chicago. IV. Isabella II., h. Aug. Hi, 18Hl; m., 18S:l, ,John J. Kelly, member

of the Board of Exa111i11i11g Eugiuccrs, Chicago. Ch.: (I) William; (2) Walt1:r.

V. Richard Gurney, b. Nov. 3, 18G3; m. 1885, Lnm·a B., clan. of lion. Thomas .Allanson. ('h.: (1) Hut:h"; (2) 'l'homas All:m­so11. HICIIAIU) GUHNEY8 SAVElff is nu altoruc.v at law,

aml now holds the position of special agent of the Inte­rior Department, Genernl Land Oftice, Portland, Ore.

Vf. ,Josepl1i11e ;\[., h. Sept. 21, 1S!l4; m. 1886, George Zimmer. Ch.: (1) Wi\liam9 ; (2) Arthur; (3) Belle.

VIL NP!s011 II., h. Sept. 4, 18i2. Vlll. Joseph D., h. ~cpt. 21, 18i4. JOSEL'II D.8 SAYEltY rnsitlcs

(1S92) in Chicago. IX. ~fabel F., b. Sept. 12, 1877.

37.

LOUISA7 SA VERY ( Phinem,6, Isaae5, Uriah\ Thomas3, Samue"P,

Thomas1), was born 1830 ; married George H. Howland, and lives at Rome, N. Y.

nm OLD COLONY l<'Al\llLY. SUBDIVISION A. 59

CHILDREN.

I. Jsabel8, b. Sept. 18, 1851. IT. Willard G., b. Jan. 28, 1854.

III. Caroline, b. Dec. 26, 1856; d. Oct. 15, 1863. IV. Edward U., b. Sept. 12, 185S. V. Richard Gumey Savery, h. ,June IO, 1863; m. June 10, 1889, Mary,

dau. of William ,Johnston, of Wappinger's Falls, Dutchess County, N. Y. St.ate, of Scotch descent. Ch.: (1) Isabel9 , b. l\Ta.rch 2ii, 18!)1. l:!('IIAIW G. s.• llOWLANn is city editor of the Rome semi-w<'ckly Citizen.

VI. Clcsson B., h. Oct .. l!J, lSH7. ·

38.

BARNABAS Nn/ Doum,AR (Patience Savery6 and George .Douglas, Nr.itlwn\ Uriali4, 'l'lwinas\ Sarnuel'-, 'l'lwmas1

), married a Miss Swift, of Bourne, Maim.

ClllLDREN.

L Caroline S.8. h. Aug. 8, 1830. U. Phmhe, b. l\fay 18, 1832.

III. George, b. l\lay 20, 18:14: 1l. ,July 29, 1886. IV. l\Ioses S., b. l\[arch 21, 1887. V. 0Porg<', 1.wil1 of i\loR<'A.

VL Pamela C., h. ,July 1, .1840. VII. ,JamcA Oscar, h . .Aug. 12, 1843.

VIIL E1lwi11 D. L., h .. April 17, 184:i. IX. )Iary .A. I\ing, h. Dec. 26., 1847. X. Elizabeth F., h. :\Iareh 24, 1850.

:X.I. Charles A., b. Oct. 26, 185:J.

3H.

Bl•~Ti'mY7 Donrn,AR (I'ati,,,w(', 8a1Jer1l and G,!orge .Dou,glas, Nlltlwn", Uriah', 'l'lwnurn'\ Smnitl'l2, 'l'lwmas'), was born July 14, 17!)8; aiHl marrie<l Natlu\11iel King.

CIIILDREN.

I. Catherine Clark\ b. Aug. 27, 1S15. IT. Clrnrlcs Franklin, h. March 4, 1818.

11 I. Bct~F>Y ~[., h. Feh. !J, 18'.W; 111. ,John Ryder, of Rochester; d. IY. Patience :Maria, h. April 28, 1S22. Y. ~lary Ann, b. ,Jan. 21, 1824.·

VI. Nathaniel, h .• \pril n, 1829. VII. Lucy B., b .. Jan. 7, 1833.

60 THE SAVEHY FAMILIES

40.

P ATIENCE7 SAVERY ( Nathan6, Nathan', Uriali6, Thomas\ Samuel2

, Tltomas1), was born June 12, 1803; and manied Ben­

jamin Chamberlain; lived at Acushnet, arnl die1l Feh. 20, 1885.

CIIU.IlltEN.

I. Benjamin Allen81 h. Feb. 28, 1827. Hesidcs at Carver.

II. Patience Maria, h. July 8, 18:12; m. Dr. S. H. Gill'onl, Eas! Stoughton, Mass.; tlied leaving two chil1lren: (1) l:iarah; (2) Charles.

Hf. Sarah Caroline, h. Nov. 2, 18:l-l; 111. H:1111111;! 1'orie1·. IV. ,Tames Edwin, l.l. March G, 18:!7. t:1,sides at Acm;luwt. v. Nathan Savery, h. Dec. 23, 1845. Dr. NATHAN SAVEin:8

CIIAllIIIEHLAIN graduated JH. D. from the Ifa1·vard nfodicnl School in 18GG, and practised his profession in ~farlhorough, Mass.; m. Dec. 25, 1868, nliss A11tonia Harvey, of Boston. Ile d. Oct. ,n, 1884, of typhoid fever, at the early age of 38 years. Says a contemporary paper: "1\'heu the sad news circulated about town, a feeling of universal sorrow and sadness pervarled all class1,s, fo1• never has thcr1, died iu this town a man JHorc witlely known, respected, or beloverl, or one whose loss is morn sincerely rnourncd. He was so intimately counecte,l with such a large 1111111her of th1· social organizations in this aml other towns, in u1auy or which he held high oltice, and as a skilful physici:rn closely relate<l to uiany a home cire!e, whose conti1hi11ce, love, and respect he always n,ceived all([ rntaiued to ( he last-, that. hi~ death makes a vohl that ea1111ot IHi tillc,il." lie waA "au honorntl 11w111l)[JI' of t.lu; Massad111sl,l.tsl\fodit,a I Soci,,t,r, :-Hal.,· medical examiner for his district, awl surgeon of the Gt.Ii Regiment JH. V. M." From the same paper I extract the fol­lowing lines, "written by a friend":

"'l'O N. S. C.

"0 friend of many, col,! a11<I still in <11,ath, While others all il1y prais1is idl, a111I t.,riue With loving hands a wreath for that pale brow, 'l'hi!' simple tribute to thy name I hriug; Upon thy bier this flower in me111'ry cast. Lover of nature, when thou layest low, 'l'he sides were sat!, aml in the darksome night That saw thee die, all natm·e, weeping sore, Wove of her tears a mantle pure and white, And spread it o'er her breast to mourn thee, dead.

THE OT,D COLONY FAMII~Y. SUBlHVISION A. 61

Ah! never more thy smile will welcome hers, And nevermore unto our call of need Thy answering presence come with swift relief; For oft, beside our he<i of pain and woe, Thy form has stood, a star of hope and strength, And in thy look'. and voice, so pitying kind, We thought we read a heart like his of old, The Great Physician named, who walked on earth With healing steps among the sick and sad. 0 frit>ncl, so 1wcd<'d, hy whose cam we liv!~, · Yea, to whose !leath, p!•rchance, we owe om· life, \Vn 11rn11r11 thy loss; mul for sweet sympathy In pain or grid", :i11tl ld1ulliPAt, ludp :1.11!1 cheer, Thy <lehtors, we will give our tenderest thoughts To those, thy dearest ones, who miss thee most, Ami wa.it, in vain, for t.hy returning step, Whom ne\•r :1gai11 thy Io,·c and care sliall hlcss. With thmn we 11H111r11, yet know thou livest still [n many a grateful heart., that, like a harp Whose strings long tremble with a silenced tone, Will quiet memories kePp of one kind hand, 1\,l10se touch waltcd glad response in many sonls. Farewell! sweet peace and n·st from toil be thine. 1Vhy didst thou go? Thy voice r hear reply, As once r hrarcl, '"Tis rig-ht, we may not soc, Awl yet, hy law divinP, all, all is right.'''

Ile left ch. : Harry9 , 12, anrl Clara, 10 years of age.

41.

HIRAM NYE7 SAVE11Y (Natlianr,, Nathan\ Uriah\ Thomas\ Samuef, Thoma.~1

), was hom Ang. 18, 1806; and married Polly Vauglian.

CIIILDlmN.

I. Cor!IPlia\ 111. George Clark, Fairhaven, Mass. II. Betsey, m. Richart! Bolles, Pittsburgh, Va.

HI. Sarah, rn. Daniel Wing, Holyoke, Mass. IV. :Mary Elizabeth. )[iss nLrnY EuZAllETH8 SAv~:RY is teacher of

a ladies· school at North Adams, Mass.

42.

AARON7 SA \'ER. y (1Yathann, Nathan\ Uriah\ Thomas\ Samnef, Tlwmas1

), was twin brother of Hiram Nye ; married, 1st, Sept. 18, 1828, Eleanor Bisbee ; 2d, Phrnbe Burroughs; 3<l, Mary Peele

62 THE SAVEltY FAMILIES.

CIIILl.>UEN.

By first wife: !. Charles "\V.8, of New Bedford, the only living male descendant

of Nathan• in l\fassachusetts Leariug the family name. He m. 1st, Eliza A. Peckham; 2d, Dec. 20, 1883, Emma A. Macumber.

IL Marion, m. Freeman Munson; d. III. Nathan, d.

Ily thinl wife: IV. Eleanor, h. 1852; m. William Bateman, of Fairhav1'.11. V. Henrietta, b. 1855; m .• \.11d1·ew :::\hooks, of Fairhav1m.

VI. Hannah, li. 1856; m. Ilerb,wt Viuc1mt., of Fairhayu11. V ll. Mary l~li,mheth, h. 18li0; m. Frctl. Barrow:;.

43.

RICHARD7 SA VARY6 ( Nathanil, Nathan\ Uriah\ Thomas\

Samuef, Thomm;1), was bom July 14, 1813; married Jan. 24, 1834, Betsey Keene, of Fairhaven, 1\fa:;s.; and died July 7, 1865. "A scholar ancl :1 gentle11m11; at one time we:11Lhy; an inventor of polished Rrn,sia iron, a :;pring gate, a111l :t head­ing machine, awl a metlHid of 1111iLi11g lira:-;:-; a111l i1'011." llu lived in Pittsburgh, Penn. Hi:; widow died Aug. 7, 1891.

,'H

CIIILllltEN.

I. Maria E.8 , b. ,fan. 1, 1835; m. ,Joseph Salyards, who d. 1861; resitles at Lomoni, [owa. Ch.: (l) l:ichanl Savary9 • HPY.

RICUA.HD S.9 SALYAIWS, a rniui;;ter :uul e11itor, Ill. Zaitle V. Smith, who ,l. .ran. 8, Hl!J0. Ch.: (1) E1u111a i'llal'ie'", ,l.;

II.

III. IV.

v. vr.

Vll.

VIII. IX.

X.

(2) Zaitle .\.leen; (3) Joseph Ricltanl; ( 4) Hicluml Savary. Helen Marie, h. Feb. 2, 1837; m. Hcv. Thomas 11. Lloyd, or

Independence, Mo. Ch.: (1) Nellie l\1.9 Cecilia J ., b. Sept. 20, 1840. l\fary 1\L, b. March l 7, 18-!2; m. ·wm. IT .. O'Dwyer, formerly of

Canada; counsellor at law, Nmv York City. Jeannette Evelyn, Ji. 18-!5; ,l. 0 months old. A11toi1wtt", h. 18-IH; ,I. i11 i111'a11ey. ()Iara L., h. 1851; Ill, lHt, Philip L. Bre11m111; 2,1, Joh11 Frc11ch.

Resides in Boston, Mass. Hali three children, of whom Clam F.9 Brennan survives.

Richan! II. ll., h. Jan. 1, 1853; d. 1854. Jeannette, d. aged 3 years. Alma 0., b. 1858; m. William C. George, Pitt.sburgh, Penn. ; d.

leavingch.: (1) EdnaE.9 ; (2) RichardSavary;(3) AlmaO.; (4) Mercine 1\farie.

Tlrn OLD COLONY I•'Ai\lII,Y. SUBIJl \'lfHON A. 63

44,

MARY ELIZAilETH7 SA YARY ( Sabine6, Nathan5, Uriah4, Tlwmari3, Samuet:z, Tlwmas1), marrie<l Richard Pattison Mc­Givern, a native of Dunmanway, county Cork, Ireland, who died on the 31st May, 1892, aged 82. He was long a leading and highly respected merchant and citizen of St. ,John, N. B. His brother, Hev. ,John l\TcGivern, was for nrnny years the be­loved rector of St. George's, N. B.

CII!Ll>REN.

I. Mary Elizabeth8 , d. in early infancy. IT. Eliza Helen, m. Nov. JS, 1874, John Fletcher Taylor, of

Taylor Bros., prominent merchants and ship-owners of St.. ,John, a young !ally of Yery superior mental and moral qualities, whose early death on Aug. 7, 1876, left a great blank iu the family am! social circles of which she was a brilliant ornament. She held a special place in the heart of the compiler of this work. Ch.: (1) Frederic Richard", b. Sept. 11, 1875.

III. James Sabine, b. Dec. S, 1851; m. Maria, dau. of Rev. Wm. H. Snyder, rector of Mahone Bay, N. S., whose father was a T,oy:11iRt, fro111 New Yol'l,, of Genn:tn <•xt.mct:ion, nm\ mother a daughter of Col. T:tylor, a prominent Loyalist and member of the Nova Scotia Legislature. Her mother was a 1langhtcr of ,T:tmcR R. De Wolf, of Liverpool, N. S., :t

prominent memhcr of the same Legislature. Ch. surviving: (1) Nellie"; (2) Richard ,fames; (3) Annie l\[acLanchlau.

1Y. Annie Gertrude, m. Dec. 10, 1873, George Leatham ~IcKeun, u native of Armagh, Ireland, n lending merchnnt of St. ,John. Ch.: (1) :Mary Ethel°; (2) William Kirk Barton; (:!) Clcorgc Rolwrt.

\'. Jl.ichanl l'att.ison, h. Uec. ao, 1854; B. A., Universit.y of New Ilnms"·ick, barrister at law, and for several terms alder­man of the ~ity of St. John; m. Aug. 11, 18!Jl, Emma Louise, dau. of Chas. Taylor, of St. John, grnml-daughter of Morris, and great-grand-daughter of Col. Taylor, before mentioned. Ch.: (1) l\Iargaret Constance", b. Sept. 3, 18!)2.

YI. John Henry, b. June 3, 1857; l\I. D. of the University of New Yori,, in which city he practises his profession; m. Ida Tuttle )}Iacdonongh, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Ch.: (1) Edith l\Iirinm0 , b. Feb. 23, 1892.

VII. Clara Olive.

64 THE SA VERY FAMILIES.

45.

ALFRED \VILLIA:OI7 SA VARY ( Sabine6,Nathan5, Uriah4, Thomas3,

Sarnuel2, Tlwmas1), bom Oct. 10, 1831; graduated M. A., at King's College, ,vinclsor, N. S., the oldest university in Canada. Strnlietl ltLW and pmcti:::;rnl fonr yearn in St. John, N. B. Returned to Nova Scotia, and practised in Digby; was inspec­tor of schools for Digby County three years; member for the same county in the first and secontl Parliaments of the Dominion of Canada (1867 to 187-!); crnatc<l queen's connsel 1870, and was appoi11tc1l judge of the umvly esla.blixlic<l eo1111Ly eourt.x for the counties of Annapolis, Digby, and Yarmouth, Aug. 21, 1876. Married Feb. 20, 1877, Bes;;ie Crookshank, daughter of Henry P. Otty, of St. John, N. B., whose father, Allen Otty, a retired comnmncler in the Royal Navy, was born in the old Dani::,h town of \VhitlJ_r, in Yorlrnhire, Nov. 18, 1784. The name Otty is Scamlinavian, and with the birthplace,* fixes the descent of the family from the Danish invaders of Englaull. "Saxon, and Norman, and Dane are we." It is akin to the German Otto, Otho, etc., still ucied as a Christian name on the Continent, but rarely among English-speaking people not of German origin. Under the older forms, Ote, Otte, Otere, Alain Otere, the name is found in English record.,; from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, and Otere in the Domesda,y hook. Lower says that " \Valtei· [;'i tz Othei· [ whieh woultl uow be expressed"Walter, the son of Otty"J, the celebrated castel lan of 'Windsor, temp. ,vmiam I., the ancestor of the Fitzger­alds, Gemrds, ,vimbor, and other gren,t families, was the sou of Otherus, a great landowner under Edward the Confessor." Here we have the name Lati11ized, whence we have a retrausla­tion with the favorite English termination e or y (old English e, modern y). Ingram, in his translation of the Saxon Chronicle, says the name was bht-here, or Ocht-here, ·i. e·., " Terror of an army" ( old or ocht, a host, or army, and here, fear). "Fear

* Whitby, meaning "white town," was founcled by the Danes. The termination by, In Danish towns, Is equivalent to the ville In Norman, and ton In Saxon.

THI~ OLD COLONY FAMILY. StJBDlVlSWN A. 65

inspiring," "terrible in war," is Lite meaning usually assigned to i~ by writers on names. Her father's mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Crookshank and Elizn.beth Irons, son of George Crookshank, a1 Loyalist from New .Jersey, of Scotch birth. Her mother's name was Hetty, daughter of .John Howe, formerly Postmaster General of Nova Scotia and New Bruns­wick, and Hetty Haines, of Halifax, said to be of German descent. He was son of ,John Howe\ a Loyalist from Boston, and Martha, daughter of vVilliam Minns, who came to Boston, I believe, from Great Yarmouth, Englarnl, about 1738. Joseph I-Iowe6, the celebrated political leader and Canadian statesman, was son of ,John Howe" hy a second wife. They trace to an irn111igr:rnt aneL•-stor, Abraham Howe, o[ Hoxlmry, .Mass., sup­posecl to have heen bom at Hatfield, Broad Oak, Essex, Eng­la-11(1. through lasae'!, fsa:u.:'1, ,frn,eph1• The following is from the inscription on the moHument to her memory in the Church of England cemetery at Digby: "A woman of most amiable _ <lisposition and rare mental gifts; a daug.hter, wife, and mother of exqnisite tenderness of devotion; a Christian of unassuming· piety, wide eliariLy, and active l1euevole11ee. Born Nov. 2\l, 1851; died suddenly Oct. 8, 1887. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.'' The following obit­uary notice appeared in the Digby Courier: " The news of the sudden demise of Mrs. A. vV. Savary on Saturday morning last was received with feeling,; of the deepest sorrow by the many friends by whom she was loved and respected. She was a true lady, a fornl and devoted wife and mother, and full of kindly sympathy for others in their hour of sorrow and trouble, - a· sympn.tlty ,vhieh waR pmctieril, and often took a substantial form to those who,;e needs rendered such an expression necessary. This is the trnest charity ' which thinketh no evil,' and finds its fnlleRt expression in acts of lienevolence and words of kind­ness. At two o'clock on l\Ionday, the time appointed for the funeral, the shops in the town were closed, and from every flagstaff colors were hung at half mast. A large number of

66 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

persons, including many from "\Veymonth and other parts of the county, were present to show the last mark of respe~t to one so highly esteemed. Prayers were offered at the honse hy the Rev.· Dean Fillenl, of "\Veymonth,, and the Rev. R. Mc­Arthur, after which the remains were conveyed to Tri11ity Church, where, the usual services being held, the cortege pro­ceeded to the Episcopal cemetery. Here kindly hands had lined the grave with flowers and green moss, and all that was mortal was consigned to its last quiet resting place. As the solemn words, 'earth to earth, ashm; to ashes, dnst to dnst,' fell on the ears of the listeners, many a silent tear-drop bore mute testimony to the general sorrow. The ea1-th was replaced, the mourners sadly departed, and the autumn leaves dropped noise­lessly over the grave of a most estimable lady whose place in society will long remain unfilled."

He married, 2d, June 16, 1802, Eliza Theresa, daughter of the late Rev. Aln-almm Spurr an<l Catlwri11c (,fol1nsL011e) Ilt111L Rev. A. S. Hunt, Baptist clergyman and superintendent of education in Nova Scotia, was son of Elijah and grandson of Benjamin Hunt, who was a Loyalist colonel in the Revolution­ary War, of New York or New Jersey, and probably descendant of Thomas Hunt, who came. to \Vestchester County, N. Y., in the time of Cromwell.*

His mother was tt daughter of Ahrnham Spurr, of an old .A.n­napolis County family. Cathm-ine4 ,Johnstone was daughter of Dr. Lewis .Johnstone, physician, of "\Volfville, N. S., by his first wife, May Cunningham, of Jamaica, rmcl niece of Hon. James W. Johnstone, for twenty-five years leader of the Conservative party of Nova Scoti,L, a most eloquent orator arnl profon111l jurist. Lewis3 Johnstone was, through 'William Moreton2

Johnstone, grandson of Lewis1 Johnstone, of the family of the Johnstones, Earls of Annandale, with plausible claims to the title, now dormant, who served the British government in high

• See Hunt Genealogy, by Wyman. 'l'homnsl was supposed to Ile son of 'l'homns Sherilfof Shropshire, England, and a dcsceudnut of Richard of Shrewsbury.

THE OLD COLONY l<'Al\llLY, SUllDlVISION A. 67

offices in Georgia, and is said to have been the last Royal gov­ernor of that Province, and who married a Miss Peyton, of an old Georgia family. ..William Moreton2 Johnstone, a distin­guished Loyalist officer, married Elizabeth, who was daughter of John, and grand-daughter of Hev. Gustavus Philip Lighten­stone, a Protestant clergyman of Cronstadt, Russia, a descend­ant of Count LichtenRtein, an Austrian, mHl was also of some .Jcwit-d1 exLnwLion; lie1· motlier waH Catheri11e, d:inghter of Philip Delegal, a Frellch Protestant, also a high British official of that 1lay. l•:lizahcth ( Liglito1rntonc) ,Johnstone was a lady of strong chantcter and great talents and attainments, and her life, owing to the trn11hle1-1 of the timm,, wa8 one of peculiar and ronuwtie vioiHl:litmle~, rceonletl by her, wiL!t notes on event.~ of a more pnblic cluuaeter, in an interesting and valu­able manuscript never yet publil:lhed.

CIIILDll.EN,

By first wife: I. Thomas "\YilliamS, h. Jan. S, 1878.

II. Effie Howe, b. Feb. 4, 1870. HI. Tknry Phipps Ot.ty, h. 8(,pt .. 12, 1880. 1V. Johu Uowc, b. ,Jau. 28, 188:l.

(From O'Ilyr!lc'a "Naval Biography."]

"CAP'l'. ALLEN OTTY, R. N., CmmANDER, 1815,· F. P. 14, II. P. 30.

"Allen Otty entered the navy, 15th August, 1803, as A. B., on board the 'Helder' guard ship, in the river Humber, Capts. Edmund Hawkins and Benjamin "\Yalker. From April, 1806, until promoted to the rank of lieu­ten:mt, 14th April, 1810, lw serve,! chiefly in the capacity of master's mat.c, :i rating he attai1H•1I !Ith ~Iar, lSOfi, in the' Hau ,Josef' am! 'Ville tic Paris,' of 110 gnus, 'Caledonia,' 1:!0, :uHl '.Barflcnr,' US, flagships (on the Channel and Lisbon stationf') of Sir Charles Cotton, Lonls Gardiner and Garnhicr, a111I lion. Loni C:corg-<> Crawfnl'II Bcrldcy. llis Rl!Cl)(\Ctli11g ap­pointments were, to the 'Impetcrix,' 74, Capt. ,John Lawfonl; 'Phipps,' gun brig, Capt. Christopher Bell; and 'Goshawk,' sloop, Capt. Jas. Lilhume, Tlws . .Ball Clowes, :uul Hon. "\Vm .. John Napier; to the gun­boat service on the river St. Lawrence, am! to the 'Constance,' 18, and 'Minstrel,' 20, both commanded by Capt. Peter Fisher. 011 the night of 20th April, 181:l, we find him serving with boats of 'Goshawk,' and of a squadron under commaud of Capt. Thos. Usher, :mtl acquiring the greatest praise for his undaunted courage in a brilliant attack on the enemy's

68 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

privateers aml batteries in the Mule of l\Ia.bga, an enterprise which, though p:1rtially successful, termiuate(l in a loss to the British, ont of 14\J officers aml men, of fiftel>U (inchuling l'apt.. Lilburnc) ki!le(l, arnl fifty­three wounded. After having acted for a period as co111nuuuler of the 'Star' sloop in North .\.merica, Mr. Otty was eonfirme(l in his pt·eseut rank of conmi:uulcr, hy commission hearing date 1st July, 1815. During the two following years he appears to have had command of the 'Mon­ti·eal' and' Chai·well,' on the hikes of Canada."

"GEOHGE CROOKSHANK. [Compiled l>y II. P. 0T'l'\', ESQ.]

"Geo.1 Crook~hank, a native ol' tlui 01"k1u,y~, !'4col.la111l, left Orlrneys when ,t hoy am! ca111e to America. 'l'l1e next. we know o[ him was :1:1 Capt. George Crookshank, who sailetl out of New York through the war. Ile settled in Hed Hank, New Jersey; luul a family of five chihlren, three sons and two daughters; viz., George, Robert, awl ANDHEW, and Rachel and Catherine. He 1Jii,tl in St. ,Johu, :!0th ~farch, l7\l7. Ile must have left the Orkneys somcwhcrn ahout 1740.

"George~ Crook;,ha11k was iu his ~faj<,st.y'~ commissary; he was I kp11ty Commissary General in. Canada, aud afterwards a member or the Privy Council in lTpper Canatla. 011e 1la11ght(,1· surviveR hilu, Mrs. KtPplu,11 llewanl.

"Robt.2 Crookshank saile<l fol· some years as captain in the merchant service, then settled in St. John, and entered the mercautile business (a member of the firm of Crookshanl, & Johnston). He died 6th May, 1861; aged 91. Two sons, Andrew and Robert, and two daughters are still living.

"ANDREW2 CIWOKSIIANK, born in New ,Jersey, came to St .• John with the second lot of Loyalists. He m:wried Elizabeth Irons, a lady born in Elizabethtowu, New ,Jersey. He was a merchant in St. ,John; (lied 13th February, 1815, aged 40 years. His wife dietl .April 18, 1847, aged 87 years. '!'hey Juul two chiltlren, Rohert am! Elizabeth. Robert married Hannah Otty (sister of .Allen Otty), aml ELIZAllETH~ married Allen Otty, R.N.

"Rachel Crookshauk m:trried Dr. llfaca11ly, a professor in a university or college in Up1wr Canada.

"Callwrinu t '.rook~hank marrit•1I lion. l'd<,r Mctlill, or Can:ula, from whom McUill College, Montn,al, 11!,rive<l its name.

"As Colville is a family name, I mention here Capt. ,John Colville was an uncle of .\..NDREW ('HOOKSIIANK; he died in St. ,John, Nov. 17, 1808, aged 70 years.

"Cnpt. Allen Otty married Elizabeth Crookshank at York, Upper Canada, 8th August, 1818. He tliell at Darlings Island, King's County, N. B., 15th March, 1859, aged 74 ye:irs. His wife died same place, 7th August, 1852, aged 51 years."

Tim ()Lil COLONY FA~rrLY. Slllll>I VLSl.():N A. 69

[From Lawrence's "Footprints of St. ,John."]

"In early years Prince ·William Street was a fashionable street for resi1lences, and later for husiness, merdmnts residing over their stores. The oldest building in St. John is the Croolrnhank House in that street, erected by John Colville, one of the first merchants. He died there Nov. 17, 1808, aged 70 years."

4H.

lhmiAl\llA7 RAVJ-:1:.Y (UJ'l'.aliP, Nt,tlwn\ U1'iali4, Tlwrnm(\ Samuel:-, 'l'hmnas1), was horn Nov. 14, 1824; and married Feb. 17, 1846, ,Jolm Smith, a native of Hull, England; died May 26, 1884, an exemplary Christian parent and citizen.

CIIILDREN,

I. Charles8, b. ,Tune, 1847; 1l. 1848. 11. Uriah Savery, b. ,July 21, 1849; m. Oct. i, 18i9, Alma Alice

Lewis, of Weymouth, N. S. ; she d. He resilles in New York City.

III. William K., b. Nov. 8, 1851; m. Jan. 15, 18i5, ·Marie Sophronia Clevelaml, of Margardsville, N. S., of New England ex­trnction, a1Hl 1lo11ht.lcss of same family as President Cleve­land.

JV. Lizzie A., b. ,Tnly 8, 18ii:-l; m. ,Tune, 1880, n. Douglas Hardy, C: rnnvilh•, N. f-i.

V. Dehlmnia, I?. March 28, 18!'i!'i; m. l\Iay 28, 1877, Frank E. Thomas, of Hill fl rove, I>ighy County; now a widow residing with her son, C. ELDON" THOMAS, in New York City.

VI. John Havelock, h. :i\lareh 21, 1857; perished in shipwreck with his uncle, Albert Savery, l\Iarch 20, 1878. (See No. 19.)

VII. I~ua l\L, b. l\Iay 2G, 18iHJ; m. ,July 4, 18i8, Judson A. Tieed, of Hill Grove, Digby County. Besides at Waltham, l\fass.

VIIT. A1ln l\Iny, h. Ang. 1, 1861; m. Oct. 24, 1888, Herbert E. Wn rnPr, ~on o[ ( 'ha.rkR 'I'. \\':trncr7, who was son of William \VnrnPr am! Orrilla Savery6

• (See No. 4.) IX. Cassie B., h. ,June 10, l8GH. X. Hattie K., h. April 1, 1865; m. Nov. 28, 1888, Charles W. Rice,

of Waltham, l\IaRs. XI. Emma A., b. Sept. lG, lSGG.

47.

JonN DI~AN7 SAVARY ( Natlwn6 the younger, Nnthan", Uriah\ 'l'lwma8'\ Sa.muel2, Tlwmas1), was horn April 22, 1836; and

70 THE SAVERY FAl\fILIES.

marri~d, 1st, Feb: 14, 1856, Sttrah Jane Tibbitts; she died Dec. 15, 1878; 2d, April 28, 1881, Elizabeth Milner.

CHILDREN.

By first wife: I. SabinaJ.8, b. Nov.15, 1858.

II. William E., b. Dec. 25, 1860. III. Norman D., b. Feb. 4, 1862. IV. Miner II., b. May 7, 1864. V. Elmira E., b. Oct. 4, 1867.

VI. Sarah A., b. Oct. 23, 1809. VII. Illa }L, ii. s\.pril 26, 1Si4.

VIII. John A., b. ~fay 27, 18i7. By second wife:

IX. Phmbe A., b. Sept. 11, 18S3. X. Deidamia II., b. Aug._ 11, 1885.

XI. Lizzie I., b. June 7, 1A87. XII. Charles II. Spurgeon, b .. \.pril 11, 1889.

XIII. Carrie P., b. March 3, 18Hl.

48.

JOSEPH H.7 S,\VARY (Natlum6 tlte younger, Nathan\ Uriah\. Thomas\ Samuell, Tlwmas1

), married Lizzie, daughter of Joseph J. Raymond, of Beaver River Corner, Digby County, where he, resides.

CUILDUEN,

I. Annie", b. Aug. 13, 1878. II. Lita Vale, b. July 22, 1880.

III. George Murray, b. Dec. 1, l'l83. IV. Joseph Henry, b. Aug. 15, 1885.

EIGII'l'll GENEHA'l'CON.

4H.

RUFUS L.8_ SAVERY ( Stillman 7, · Thornas6, Tltornas5, Urialt4,. TJwrnai\ Samuel2

, 1'ltornas1), bom Jan. 29, 1834,; married

March 19, 1858, Harriet Hatheway, and resides at Marion,. Mass.

THI~ OLD COLONY FAl\[[LY, SUBDIVISION A. 71

C!IILI>l!EN.

I. Wnrd W.9, h. J\fay, 1860; grndnnted n. A., at Yale College,

188-t; a.nrl in 18!ll a law Rtrnlcut at Chicago, Ill. 11. ,John Thomas, b. October, 18Gl; <l. Sept. 20, 188:!.

HI. Herhert W., d. April 3, 1881. IV. Elmer E., b. ,Tul.v, 1SG4; d. Oct. 25, 1881. V. Esther L., b. November, 1872.

VL Charles L., b. Fcbrnary, 1880. vrr. H11F11R n., b. 1881. VII[. 1 I:trrit't.

50.

STEPHr;N PonTJm8 SAVERY ( Geor,qe C.7, L~rtac6, L~aac\ Uriah4,

1'lwmai, Smnuer-, 1'lwmrrn1), was hom Dee. 11, 1841; joined

tlie -1-t.h l\lichiga.11 Volunteers in 18Gl, a:1d served in the national forces, except for short intervals, when invalided, throughont the Civil \Var, interrupting for that patriotic pur­pose his studies rit the University at Ann Arbor; assisted Capt. DeGoyler in enlisting a company of light artiUery, known as Ba.lfo1y 2n, and :-omctinHis as DuCToyle1·\i lnitl.c!l'_y, in which he at first held Lite eon1mission of second lieutenant. He wits after­wanlR promoted to a captaincy, and December, 18G2, was place<l in comnmnd of Co. G, Second Regiment, Illinois Artillery; was in the Lat.tle of New Madrid (where his battery sunk the enemy's gunboat ":Mississippi"), and at that of Holly Springs, and in command at Davis's mill, where he signally defeated Gen. Vanlum, who attacked his position with an immensely superior force; was in command at Island No. 10, Mississippi River, and in several other important services; and, ranking as major under Gen. Hmlburt at l\Iemphis, Tenn., where he was organizing a home guard for the defence of thP, city, he died there of smallpox, June 25, 1864. "He lived and died a Christian soldier."

'' How RlC'rp t.hl' hrnv<' who sink to rC'st, By all their country's wishes blest.''

72 THE SAVERY FAlllILIES.

lfo married Feb. 3, 1863, Julia P. Foster, and had one child, born Nov. 25, 1863, and died Sept. 19, 1864.

51.

ISAAC SANl•'OIW8 SA v1rnY ( G,:m'!F 0.1, I15a11c6, .fow<f', Uriah\ Thomas3

, SamuelY, Tlwmas1), was born Dec. 11, 1843; married Sept. 3, 1868, Cornelia Rogers. Like his brother, Capt. Stephen Porter Savery, he served in the Michigan volunteer infantry during the entire Civil --war, and was wounded in the leg. He is a member of the G. A. R. Resides at Salem, Mich.

CHILDREN.

I. Effie ,J.9, h. Nov. 25, 18G9. II. Wirt Ira, b. Oct. 14, 187:l.

III. George P., b. Dec. 17, 1877; d. Aug. 2, 1878. IV. Vesta P., b. Nov. 9, 1879. V. Ray L., b. Jan. 9, 1883.

VI. Coda J., b. Feb. 19, 1887.

52.

HENRIETTA E.8 SA VERY ( George 0.1, Isaac°, Isaad', Uriah\ Thomas3, 8timuel2, Tlwmas1

), was born Jan. 15, 1847 ; and married Nov. 27, 1871, Geol'ge A. Smith.

CIIILl>l:IcN.

I. Uoyd De Witt•, h. Aug. 14, 187a. . II. Harry II., b. Feb. 2. 187G; d. in infancy,

III. Ford Savery, b. Nov. 23, 1877.

53.

HENRY R.8 SA VERY ( George 0.1, Isaac'\ Isaac°, Uriah\ Thomas3, SamuelY, Tltomas1

), was horn Oct. 23, 1848; married Jan. 14, 1880, Lida Van Houghten.

CHILDREN.

I. Ethel "il[.9, b. July 10, 1881. II. Rex 'l'., b. Aug. 20, 1883.

III. George Clyde, b. June 10, 1885. IV. Donna, b. Feb. lG, 1887.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. SUBDlVISlON A. 73

i,4,

CECILIA J.8 SAVARY (Richard!, Nathans, Nathan5, Uriah\ 'l_'lwrnas3, Smnuei'-, 'l_'lwmas1), was born Sept. 20, 1840; married Dr. Enoch Pearce, son of Enoch and Rachel (McKenzie) Pearce, who was born at "\Vestminster, near Baltimore, Md. ; a physician and surgeon of emin.ence, and writer on medical topics. He filled many important positions, military surgeon, examiner, etc., during the Civil \Var, a prominent member of the State ·Medical Society of Ohio, and chairman of the Com­mittee on the Incurable Insane, a member of the Ninth Inter­national Medical Congress at vV ashington, 1887, etc., etc. They reside at Steubenville, Ohio.

CHIT,l>REN.

I. George Grant", graduate of Steubenville High School, ant.I Duff's Commercial College, l'ittsburgh, Va.

I I. J essic Il. Ill. Frank Savary, a grn,lnatc with honors of Penusykania Medical

College, ant.I resident physician, Presbyterian Hospital there. IV. Olive B. V. Tienl:th. VI. J~uoch Stanton.

74 THE SAVERY FAl\CILIES.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY.

SURDIVISIO.N n.

FOURTH GENERATION.

1.

THOl\CAS4 SAVERY ( Thornas3, Sarnuel2, Tlwrnas1), was born

April 26, 1710; and married Priscilla, daughter of Ichabod Pad­dock, the ancestor of the North and South Carver branches. But few reliable traditions concerning him have come down to ns. It is sn.ill t.1iat he was canie<l away as tL pl'iso11er of wal'

to one of the French \Vest Indies, and kept there two years. There is sufficient to indicate that hewn,.., fairly prosperous, and respected in the community where he lived.

r. 2 lL

I I I. 3 IV.

V.

VI. 4 VII.

VHI. 5 IX.

C1111,mmN.

lfot;liia", h. Fdi. rn, 17:lfi-!i; 111. -- Hugers. 'l'humas, h .• July 1, 17:IU. l'rhwilla, h. l\lay 8, 17:1!1; 111. E,1ra llurhank. William, b. Aug. 12, 17.U. Esther, b. Jau. 7, 17-!6; m. 1st, John Allen; 2d, -William

Stephens. Ruth, b. ,June 8, 17-Hl~ tl. Sept. 14, 175-!. James, b. Dec. 13, 1752. Ruth, h. March 27, l 75fi; m. Dr. Coy. Lemuel, b. July 7, 1759.

FIFTH GENERATION.

2.

DEACON THOMAS5 SAVERY ('l'lwrnas\ Tlwrnas3, Sarnnel2, Thomas1), was born July 1, 1736; married, 1st, Zilpah Barrows;

THE OLD COLONY FAl\IILY. SUBDIVISION D. 75

2<l. Aug. 10, 17G3, Hannah Tien11ctt, of-1\fol<Uehoro; 3d, Mary Crocker; 4th, 1\fa.ry Shnrtliffe. A man well known, highly re­spected, and long remembered for his intelligence iwd shrewd­ness, genial disposition, and probity of character. Died March 13, 1822.

CHILDUEN.

By first wife: 6 I. Ma.ry6, h. Aug. 20, 1761.

II. Thomas, h. March 7, 1764; d. young 1 II[. Peleg, h. Marchi, 1764.

By second wife: IV. Zilpah, b. Aug.16, 1766; m. William Cushman; d. March 11,

1789. He d. nfarch 5, 184!), nged 85. 8 V. Men·.v, h .. rnne 26, 17fl8.

3.

\VrLLIAMr, SAvrnrtY ( 1'7wmas\ 1'7wrnaB\ Sa11wel'-, Tlwmas1),

horn Aug. 12, 1744; married Lydia, daughter of George Holmes. According to the trnditions handed down by the writer's grandfather, he was the favorite cousin and companion of the latter in their youth; of tall, s]ell(ler, ancl erect figure, lie met his clen,th at an early age by an accidental fall from a building. His widow married twice afterwards, an Atwood and a Clark.

CHILDREN.

r.. William6, b. Sept. 2, li6!J. 9 II. 'l'homaf!.

10 IIT. George IL rv. Sarnh. V. ,Joanna, or .Joey.

4.

JAMES" SAVERY ( Thomas\ Thomas3, Samuell, Thomas1), was

horn D<1c. !fl, 17r;2; 111anie<l ,T11110 18, 1774, Morey Bnrlmnk. Both die<l qnit.e young. They had Hix children, of whom I have the 1m1110H of fonr, the reHt prolmhly dying y01mg. I cannot give the order of birth of these ..

76

11 I. 12 IT.

UL IV.

THE SA VERY F Al\lILlES.

James•. Ruth, b. 1780. Priscilla, m. -- Greenle:tf, and went to Maine. Caroline, was probably the one who m: Seth Morton; lived to

the age of 06; had a son Seth, :mil daughters Caroline, Mercy, Betsey, Harriet, and tlll'tie others.·

5.

LE~IUl~L" SA Vl~ltY ( 'l'lwmml, 'l'lwnuii\ 8nm11el~, 'l'lw11w1;1),

was born July 7, 1759; manied (intentiou8 reconled June 18, 1785) Elizal,eLh "Dever8oll," ot· Davi<bon, wi<lO\v of George, who had been married to Elizabeth Stephenson, Jan. 4, l.777. She came from Canada with father, mother, and brother Jasper.

CHILDREN.

13 I. John", b. Oct. 24, 1786. II. Elizabeth, b. July 28, 1788; ui. Isaac Dunham, whose son, Rev.

Isaac7 Dunham, is a Trinitarian Congregational minister at l~ast Bridgewater, Mass.; waR scVt!rnl year~ diaplaiu to the Senate of l\Iassaclmsetts; a useful and respecteLl minister of the gospel.

III. vVillimn, b. Feb. 2, 1790; lllllll,; prohalJly d. at sea. 14 IV. Lemuel, b. Sept. 1, 1792.

V. Samuel, d. young.

SIX'l'll UI•:Nt.;HA'l'ION.

H.

MArtY6 SAVI~ltY ( 'l'ltomas5, Tlw-mws4, Thomari), eldest child of Dea. Thomas Ang. 20, 1761; and mal'ried Joh Cole.

CHII,DREN.

15 T. SamtwF, b. 1780.

'l'Jwmni1, Samuell, Savery, was born

IL Zilpah, b. ,June 2, 1783; 111. B:mrnlms Shurtlille, of Carver; d. l\Iay 25, 1871. Ch.: (1) William8 , b. July fl, 1806; d. March 9, 1853. (2) l\fary Savery, h. Dec. 18, 1808; m. Samson McFarlin; d. May 6, 18-HI. (3) ,narnalms, h. Aug. D, 1812; m. Desire Irish, of Bangor, 1\le.; d. Feb. tl, 184tl. (4) Lo­throp, b. May 31, 1814; m. Elizabeth Whitmore; d. March 4, 1879. (5) Zilpah Barrows, lJ. Sept. 17, 1823; m. Seneca R. Thomas.

THE OLD COLONY b'Ai\CILY. SUBDIVISiON Il. 77

111. Ruth, h. Sept. n, li8fl; m. Znhetlce Ch:uuller, of Carver; d. Ang. 2i,r,1834. Ile ti. April 6, 184fl, aged 63. Ch.: (1) ,Job Cole8 ,

h. Dec. rn, 1804; m. Nancy B. Sherman, of Plympton. (2) .)lary, h. April 25, U:06; m. Levi SlmrtliJfo, of Carver. (3) Carnli1w,h.Nov. Ia, 1807; m .. Toh:Horton,ofCarver; d. ,Jan. 5, 1857. (-I) I,m:w, h. Hcpt. 21, 180!); d. ,fan. 10, 182!. (5\ Hannah, h. Sept. 11, 1811; ti. Oct. 25, 1811. (6) Josiah, b. Sept. 12, 1812; ll. ,Jan. 25, 1825. (7) Ruth C., b. Oct. 10, 1814-; · m. 1\'m. F .• Jones, of Bnrnstablc. (8) Benjamin r. 'I'., h. Oct. :1, 181/l; d. April 2H, 1818. (!l) ;\forcy S., h. Oct. lH, 1818; m. Hmnm•l IUdgway, of Stoughton; d. ,fan. D, 18fi3. (10) ,\IIH'rt 1~., b. Dec. 21, 1820; m. 1st, Sarah W. Tol­man; 211, ;\La rt.ha H. FullPr. (11) Sarah B., b. Dec. 21, 1825; m. ;\[ilcs Pratt, o[ Can·er.

1 V. Hannah. m. Ezrn Thomas. Ch. : (1) Charlotte8 , b. October, 1812; m. l'hincns S. Burgess. (2) Ezrn, h. }lay, 181-1; m. Mary Briµ;µ;s. (;') Lucy, b. l>cc. Tn, 18 I fi. ( 4) Isaac S., h. 181 G; m. llnldah B1111kPr, of New Hampshire. (ii) Elizaheth, h. nla.r, 1817; 111. Wi11Rlow B11rµ;ess;d. DPcc111hPr, 18Hi. (6) Har­vey, h .. Julr 2, 182fi; m. Rhoda Morton, o[ .Martha's Vineyard.

Y. .Mnry, m. ,John Freeman. Ch.: (1) =',aucy Il.", m. Elkanah Shaw; (2) Amrn )l:trin, m. ,Jnmes B. Tilton; (3) Polly, rn. Elhtb Wood; (4) DP-hornh, rn. Hezekiah Cole.

VI. Mercy, h. 17!>4; 111 . .\lie:th J,eo1rnnl. Ch.: (I) 'l'heodorn8, h. Rept. 1-l, 1812; m. ,Tohu Vaug-lmn; d. .fa1rnary, 1880. (2) <lt•orµ;n S., h. l"Ph. 20, ISIH; 111. Lydia U:t11111um8. (3) Henry D., b . .April 6, 1826; m. Elizabeth Barrows; d. Rt1pt. 7, 18il.

VII. ,Joh, ti. young. 7.

PELEG6 SA VERY ( Tlwrnas\ Thomas\ Thomas3, Sa1nuel2, Tlwmas1), horn in Carver, J\fass., March 7, 1764 ; and married lfannah, daughter of ,foshna and Hmurnh Perkins, of :Middle­horo, l\la:-;:-;., wl11> wa:-; llol'll .J11l_y 2r,, 17(i:l; wa:-; an amii~hlc man, a good neighbor and citizen, honest and truthful. He rcare<l a large family in comfort and respectability, but never sought to acquire extended property or possessions. He was ft

natural sport'3man. His good-nature and aptness made " U1{cle Peleg," as he was familiarly cn1led, a great favorite with young as well as ol<l. A wit and a wag, he was rcmarlrnhly happy aiul quick at repartee. Ire died .July 14, 184!). His widow died April 9, 1853, aged 89.

78 THE SAVERY I!'AMILms.

CHILDREN.

16 I. 'l'homas7, b. Oct. 25, 1787. 17 IL John, b. Aug. 26, 1780. 18 HI. William, b. Nov. 2, 1701. 19 IV. Zilpah, h. Dec. 27, 17\la. 20 V. Mary, IJ. ,fan. 22, 1707. 21 VI. Hannah P., h. March 24, 170fl. 22 VIL Drusilla, IJ. Nov. 30, 1802. 23 VIII. Peleg Barrows, b. ,June 7, 1805.

R.

:MgncY 11 ~A \Tl~liY ( 'l'lwmai', 'L'lum1ai, 'l'lwnw1s\ 8am'1tef!,

Thoma,s1), was born June 2G, 17 (38; married Thomas Adams\ descended from Francis A<la,ms1, who was bom in Cheshire, Eng­land, A. D. 1677, and clie<l at Kingttton, Mas:;., April 16, 1758, through Thoma:;2, Joshua3 • He <lied Sept. 1, 1810. She afterwards urnniecl Dr. Gad Hitd1coek, of Hmrnon, antl <lied i\farch 19, 1838. The following obituary notice of her, from the -' Ohl Colony itcmori:tl," I eilc from the'' A<Lrnis ( le11rndugy ": "Died in Boston on the 19th i1mt., 1\In;, 1\Iercy Hitchcock, aged 69 years, widow 0£ the late Dr. Gael Hitchcock, 0£ H::mson, ]\-lass. During her last illness she evinced an extraordinary degree 0£ patience and resignation ; and such wati her con­fidence in G0<l, n.wl so bright were her hope:; of n. glorious immortality, that death was <li:;arme<l of its terrors; :uul :,;he wouhl excbim, 'Though I wrtlk tl1rnngh thu valley of thu shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for the Lord is my strength and my salvation.' For her children she ever manifested an unusrntlly strong and :;elf-tiacrilicing affectioli, whieh entwined around her the tenderest sensibilitim; of their hearts. In the lienuvolent opemtion:,; of the !lay :,;lw took the <kepu:;t iutm-est, an<l. the distressed and afflicted never appealed to her sympathy in vain."

CHILDREN.

I. A daughter7, b. at Plympton, Feb. 10, 1700; d. same duy. II. 'l'hom.as, b. Aug. 10, 179-!; d. Ang. 10, li05.

Ill. Thomas, b. Dec. 23, 17\J5; tl .• \.ug. 23, l70G. IV. John, b. Jan. 20, 1797; m. Nancy Prntt, of Carver.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. SUBDIVISION D, 79

She 1iied at Dedham. March, 1860-. He lived in Boston till 1811 and then remove1l to Carver and afterwards to Dedham. lie became a .Methodist and pro111ine11t temperance worker.

V. George. b. ,July 2r,, 1800; d •. Jan. 14, 1803. VI. Thomas, b. Aug-. 6, 1802: m. Eunice H. Bugbee, of Pomfret,

Vt.; lived at Carver and in 1826 at Plymouth; represented it in the State legislature 183:! and 183-J.. From 1833 to 1850 was proprietor of a hat store in Boston.

V 11. Mary, b. Novc111ber, 1805; 111. 1st, ,John Bc11t, of Middleboro; 211, Watson Gowan!, of Croydon, N. II. l"or the ch. of ,John, Thomas and Mary Adams, see Genealogy of the Adams family of Ki11gston, by the lute George Adams, of Boston, 18Gl.

24 Vlll. George, b. Jan. 10, 1807. IX. Ann .\-laria, b. Mareh 29, 180!.l; d. Oct. 10, 1810.

S),

T110~1As n SA v1mv ( JVilliarn\ 'l'lwmas4, 'l'lwmas~, Samuel2,

'l'hvma11 1), born l>dore 17G9; lllltl'l'ied 1st, prolmul_y July 23, 17\:l0, Al>igail Everson. She died about 1805. He manied 2d, Mareh 28, 1806, Joanna, dau. of Ezra Burbank, of Plymouth.

CHILDREN.

By first wife: I. Ly11i:1. llolincs7, h. Feb. !l, 17ll2; 111. Bartlet.t Faunce.

IL Sally, b. September, 1i!l4; m. 1st, Thomas Faunce; 2d, Seth Harlow, and had ch. by 1st marriage (1) Thomas", who had a son Thomas E.9 of Hyde Park; by 2d marriage (2) Seth; (3) Ezra; (4) t;arah; (5) Oliver, d. in infancy; (6) Oli-vl'r K.; (7) Priscilla; (8) Lydia A. (Mrs. Lydia A. H. Butler, of Dorchester. Mass.)

III. Abig11il T., b. Aug-., li!l6: m. Thomas Spinney, of Boston. IV. George, b. Dec. 2Cl, li!lS. lie was in the U. S. Navy, and

follow1~1l t.he ~ea 11111.il :thont 1840 when h1~ Rettled 1low11 to :igrin1lturnl pursuit,; in Howley, Mass., and d. there of con­sumpt-ion, 1840; unm. By second wife:

V. Sophia, h. ,Jan. 24, 1807; m. John A. Spinney. VI. Jonnna Holmes, b. Sept. 24, 1808; m. James Nichols.

VIL 'l'homns, h. Sept. 23, 1810; m. Fanny Smith; lived only one yPar afterwnrds, leavi11g 1 ch. which also 1l. llis willow 111.

Winsor Savery, son of Nehemiah of the Middleboro S11verys or Se\'eryR. (SPe No. iiO t-ievcry and SavPry family, p. 20:cl.)

VIII. Mary, b. ,\11g. 11, 1814; 111. 1st., lle11ry Dunstan; 211, John Alexander; :-ltl, Charles ;:;uule; 4th, Aaron Sa111p~on.

80 THE SA VEH.Y l!'AM LL ms.

26 IX. William S., b. Sept. 17, 1816. X. l'riscill:t Paddock, h. 18l!l; 111. William McDonald, of Pembroke.

26 XI. ,Joseph II., b. ,Ju111• 1/\, 1820. · XII. Phmhe S., b. Apr. 27, 1824; m. Francis Paulding.

10. G1w1urn H.6 SAVl~JtY ( William5, 'l'lwma13\ 'l'lwma13a, 8anmel~,

Tlwma,1 1), manied Nov. 4, 1804, Mary, daughter of Peter Lanman; aud died in South America.

CHILDR~:N.

I. Eliza 7, m. Nahum Johnson, of Bridgewater. II. Sully.

111. II inuu. IV. Mary N., 111. Solomon Hardy. V. George H., 111. Dorothy Gurney, of Abington, and had a

daughter. Mary Elizr,heth, m. St<>phen llolnws. Geo. II. Savery died at South Abington. Mass., in 1881, aged 64.

27 See page 87.

11. J AMES6 SAVERY ( Jarnes5, Thomas4, Thoma~3, 8arnu.eP.,

'l'ltoma111), 1111t1TiCLl Olivia Shurtliffe. "lie was a 11rn11 of feeble constitution, but by careful attention to the laws of health, preserved a fair degree of physical vigor. He was conscientious, and aimed at doing right, as far as he could see the right, both in public and private affairs. He early recog­nized the sinfulness of slavery, and w:ui the first in hii-; town to· vote tl1e abolition ticket. Then he stood alone, Intl the uext year he had the satisfaction of seeing- six vote wi 1.lt him." See also p. xvii of" Notes, Additions, and Correctious."

CIIILJ>HgN,

28 I. William 8hurtlifl'e7, h. Aug. a, 1801. I I. ::lusanna Lothrop, b. 1804; d. ,Jnn. :JO, 18(i9.

II 1. l\lary :,;IJaw, b. 1805; d. Ang. 9, IH:ll. IV. JameR, h. 1807; 111 .• Jan. 2-l, 18:i:l, Almira W. l'ushnum; 110 eh.

V. Tho111a~, h.1fl08; tl. Aug.17, 18:ll. 29 V [. Prii-ei I la, h. 18 I I.

VU. Benja111in, b. IS13; d. Aug. 4, 1837.

12. RUTH6 SAVImY (James°, Tltomas4, Tlwmas3, 8arnud2

Thomas1), was born in 1780; and married Levi Morse, of Middleboro, who was born 1777 aud died May 4, 1857; she died Jan. 3, 186-l.

THE OLD COLO~Y FAMLLY. SUBDI.VISION B. 81

CIIILDREN.

r. 1\I~rcy B. 7, b. Dec. 10, 1700; m-. 1822, Otis Cobb, of Carver; d. Dec. 31, 1840. Ch.: (1) Benjamin R.S, b. 1823, d. 1825; (2) Otis, b . .March, 1827; (3) .Mary B., b. Aug. 16, 1837.

30 II. Lrvi, b. Aug. 26, 1802. Ill. Hnnnnh, b. Feb. 1, 180i; m. Sept. 21, 1834, Ichabod Sampson;

d. Sept. 26, 1885. Ch.: (1) Huth Savery8, b. Aug, 17, 1835; (2) .Josephus, b. April 2!J, 1837; (3) Thomas W., b. 1\Iarch i, 1840.

IV. Rut.It R., h. Ang. IO, 180!>; Ill. ,\pl'il 10, 1831, Lewis JJollllcs, of Ply1Houth; 11. April 1, 1835. Ch.: (l) Isabella F.9, b. 1832, d. 18:15; (2) J,ewis .J., h. l\Iay 2i, 1834.

Y. ThnmaR, b. Aug. 2G, 1812; ti. Aug. 25, 18:18. vr. Eli~lm, b. SPpt. 12, 1816; m. ,\.pril 28. 1841, Rachel F. French.

\'11. Lnther, b. Feb. 2, 1820; 1l. Sept. 20, 1S24. VIH. Cephas, h. Jmw G, 182:l; m .• Juno 2, 1850, Susanna E. Bradford,

of l'l,vmpt.011. Ch.: (1) Ccph:tR", h. ,\pril a, 18fil; aml ot.hers_.

l:J. Jo HN6 SA VERY ( Lemuel\ Thomas\ Tlwmail, Samuel2,

Tlwmas1 ), was born Oct. 24, 1786 ; removed when young to Oxford, N. 11., where he married, 1810, Al>iah Butterfield; and died 1819. His widow survived him seven years.

Curr,mmN.

31 I. ,John Stephenson', b. An~. 8, 1812. II. William, b. Sept. 3, 1814; d. ,June 4, 1840, in New York; un­

married. III. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 23, 1815; m. in New York, April 18, 1848,

E. ·w. Bradley, who died .i\farch 6, 1868; and has son, GEORGE W.8 , b. Sept. 20, 1840, living at Greenfield Hill, Conn.

IV. George 1V., b .. Aug. 20, 1818; removed young t.o Chicago, where he mmTic1l, aml hail three children, whose names aml records I have been unable t.o obtain.

14. LEJ11UEL6 SA VERY ( Lemuel\ Tliomas4, Tlwmas3

, Samuel:Z, Tlwmas1), was born Sept. 1, 1792; married Oct. 9, 1816, Rizpah, <la.nghter of Eleazer Thomas, of Michlleboro, whose mother was l{izpah Bryant; aml die<l at Plymouth, ,Tune 23, 1834. She was born Sept. 3, 1797, and died at :i\Jidtlleboro, Nov. 25, 1882, aged 85.

82 THI~ SAVEIW 1''Al\f1Ul~S.

CIULDltEN.

l. Emily 1Yilliams7, b. Feb. 13, 1819; m. 1st, Hev. -- Walker; 2d, Silas Dean, of l\Iiddlehoro.

II. William Thomas, b. Dec. 2-i, 1820; m. Dec. 12, 1842, Silvia C. Alexander.

III. Elizabeth Stephenson, b. Oct. 30, 1822; intentions of marriage recorded Nov. 13, 18-i0, to Henry S. Hyder.

32 IV. Samuel Munson or Marston, b. Nov. 7, 1825. V. Cordelia Bartlett, b. Feb. 29, 1828; 111. Robert Cole, of Middle­

boro. VI. Ann l\Iaria, b. June 12, 183-i; d. Sept. 14, 1836.

SEVENTH GENEIU'l'ION.

15.

SAMUEL COLE7 ( Mary Savery6 and Job Cole, Tlwmas5,

Thomas\ Thomars3, SamueP, Tlwmas1), was born 17 80 ; married

Sally Morton, of Plymouth; and died April 1, 18-!3. She died Oct. 23, 1855.

CIIIl.llllEN.

I. l\fory8 , b. Nov. 30, 1803; m. Winslow Wright, of Plymouth. II. · Sarah, b. Aug. -i, 1806; m. Ephraim Paty, of Plymouth, who (I.

in California. HI. Samuel, b. Sept. 25, 1808; m. 1st, Hannah Burgess, of Plymouth;

2d, Jane Morton. IV. Job 'l'., b. Jan. 24, 18ll; m. 1st, IIamrnh Frye; 2d, Lucy Frye;

both of Andover. V. Esther S., b. April 23, 1813; m. William Beekman; d. June 28,

l8fHl. VI. }fartha l\I., b. l\Iarch 14, 1816; m. Charles 'l'. Holmes, of Plym­

outh; d. Oct. 25, 18-i-i. VII. Deborah B., b. May 3, 1819; d. April 30, 1837.

VIII. Caroline E., b. Sept. 1, 1822; d. Sept. 12, 1842. IX. Jane R., b. Feb. 19, 1825; d. Sept. 28, 1827.

16.

HoN. TH01\1AS7 SAVERY (Peleg6, Tltomas5, Thomas\ Thomas3, SamueP, Tlwmas1), was born Oct. 25, 1787; married Betsey Shaw. He was a selectman of "\Vareham in 1820 ; elected a

Tlrn OLD COLONY FAl\£fLY. SUHlJlVlSION 13. 83

()Ounty commissioner, May 12, 1835 ;_ a member for vVareham in the :Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1840; and was a member of the Executive Council of the State under Governor Clifford in 1853, and under Governor vVashburne in 1854. He filled these high public positions with ability and honor, and <lied May 15, 1873. His widow died Jan. 29, 1885, aged 94 years 8 months 18 days.

Clll LIJltEN

33 r. ,TohnS, b. Nov. 3, 1815. rr. Thonrns, b. April 8, 1819; d. Sept. 23, 1820.

III. Elizabeth Shaw, b. ,fan. 26, 1828; d. Oct. 28, 1828.

17.

JOHN7 SAVERY (Pele_g6, 'l.1homas5, Thomas4, Thornai3, Sam­itel1, Tlwma.~1), was born in Carver, Aug. 26, 1789; married Polly Atwood. The Atwoods were among the earliest comers and first settlers of Plymouth. I quote from the "History of American Manufactures," published in 1867: "John Savery, the founder of the Phmnix \Yorks in ,Jersey City, together with his son vVilliam, a man omi11011tly qualirie,l by natural endow­ments for success in business pursuits, united in 1838 and estahlishecl the works in ,Terney City. Mr. Savery was a pioneer in developing American manufactures. He served an appren­ticeship at the trade of a moulder. He made cannon balls in the vVar of 1812. In fact, he was the first who succeeded in making a perfect cannon ball at the foundry where he learnt his tnule. He made balls which were used by the· U. S. frigate 'Constitution ' in her memorable engagement with the · Guerriere.' His first partnership was with Hon. Benjamin Ellis at the extensive works in Carver, next at Albany, N. Y., last at ,Jersey City, N. J.'' Although he neither sought nor coveted office, yet he was early appointed selectman, and twice elected to the State Legislature. He could be elected from his town when no other man of the 1Vhig party could. He died Avril 17, 1853; his widow, April 23, 1883, aged 90.

84 THE SA VERY FAMILIES.

CUILDUEN.

3,i I. William", b. Oct. 26, 1815. 35 If. Polly, h. April 18, 1818. 36 III. Hannah Perkins, b. Nov. 13, 1820. 37 IV. Waitstill Atwood, b. Nov. 25, 1822.

V. John, b. Sept. 30, 1825; ll. December, 1826.

18.

WrLLIA1117 SAVERY (Peleg6, Thomas5, Thoma1_;4, Tlwmas3,

SamueP., Thomas1), was born at Carver, l\Inss., Nov. 2, 1791; and married Oct. 5, 1817, Abigail Fearing. After an appren­ticeship a::; shipping clerk in the otlice of his hrother-i11-ln,w, Benjamin Ellis, Esq., of Carver, he entered into a copartnership with his b1'.other Thomas in an extensive hollow-ware business at ,vareham, operating a foundry for the manufacture of such wares at Agawam. Later he became engaged extensively in shipping, owning property in many vessels. After n, prosper­ous and honorable mercantile career, he retired from business, and was for twenty-five yearn a <lirnctor of tl1e vViLl'Cltam N.ttio11al Bank, and filled with honor various other positions of impor­tance in fiscal rmd social affairs. He died Ang. 31, 1881 ; his wife had died July 9, 1873, aged 77 years 8 months 26 days.

I. II.

III.

IV.

v.

VI.

38 VII. VIII.

CIIILDHEN.

William Curtis", b. Nov. 30, 1818; ll. ,Tau. 22, 1822. Abigail Fearing, b. ,Tan. 10, 1821; ll. Feb. 16, 183-!. Mary Ellis, b. April 3, 182;J; m. 1st, Jul_v 30, 18-!3, Joseph

Bartlett, of Witrelrnm; 2d, Gad lfohinsou, of Bridgewater; d. Sept. 27, 188!l.

'l'irzah 'L'obey, b. Aug. 30, 1825; m. Aug. 7, 1852, Sturgis Chad­dock, of Boston.

Hannah Perkins, b. Oct. 31, 1827; m. }larch 22, 1850, ,John ll. Hohinson, of l?:thnouth.

Barllct,t l\lurtlock, II. ~larch J, 18:10. IIAlffl.f,:TT ~1. 8 SA\'EHY i:< a prominent merchant of New York City.

William, b. Dec. 11, 1832. Abby Caroline, b. Sept. 14, 1836; unm.

19.

ZILPAH7 SAVEltY (Peleg\ Thomasfi, Tlwmas4, Tlw11rnsa,

Samitel2, Tlwmas1), was born Dec. 27, 1793; aml nrnrried Wil­liam Murdock.

THI~ OLD COLONY .l!'Al\lILY. SUllDlVISLON D. 85

CHILDREN.

I. AbigailS, b. May 3, 1818; m. Rufus C. Freeman; d. Oct. 5, 1864. If. William, b. Sept. 6, 1820; m. Fanny Maria Evans, of Baltimore.

20.

J\V ... RY7 SAVERY (Peleg6, Tlwmai', Thomas4, Tlwmatr1, Sam­uel2, Thomas1), was bom ,Tan. 22, 1797; married Feb. 14, 181R. Be11ja111i11 Elli:,;, of Cal'ver; and died ]\fay 30, 187H.

CIIILI>REN.

I. Louisa Jane8, b. April 13, 1810; m. Joseph Prntt. TI. Matthias, b. May 29, 1825; m. Sallie Forsyth, of Albany; tl.

Nov. 21, 187fl. Ch.: (1) Helena•, rn. ,John Stewart Elliot, of New York; (2) Marie Louise, 111. Thomas Gaff, of Cin­cinnati, Ohio.

21.

HANNAH P.i SAVERY (Pele:l, Thomas5, Thomas4, Tlwmas\ 8am'llel2, Tliomas1), was bol'n March 24, 1799; and married Bartlett Bent ; <lie<l 1890.

CHILDREN.

I. A11111im', h. Aug-. 1, 182ri; 111. l\lr. l'e:i.cock, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 11. Bartlett, h. Sept. 11, 182!); m. Sarah Peacock.

III. 'l'ltom:tR S:tvcry, h. Sept. 12, 18a3; m. l\lary Peacock.

DnuSILLA7 SAVERY (Peleg6, Thomai', Thomas4, Thomas\ Samuel2, Tlwmas1), was born Nov. 30, 1802; and married Gamaliel Fuller.

CHILDREN.

I. ,John SaYery8 , b. ,July 11, 1828; m. Susan Cobb. II. Drusilla, b. Feb. 22, 1841; m. John S. Carter.

23 ....

HoN. PELEG BARRows7 SAVERY ( Peleg6, Tlwmas5, Thomas\ Tlwmas3, Samne[l, Thomas1

), was born in Carver, ,June 7, 1805; n11<l nrnrrie<l l\fay 22, 1834, ,Julia Eliza. daughter of the late Charles and Lydia ( Heno) Conklin, of All.may, N. Y., a cousin of

86 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

the late distinguishe<l senator, Roscoe Conklin. As iron manu­facturer and dealer in iron ware, he was a member of the firm of Savery, Shaw & Co., of Albany, N. Y., and of Savery & Co. in Philadelphia, which he established in 1838. He was a gen­tleman of kin<lly and amiable, conrteons and genial disposition, possessing in a remarkable degree the elements of large personal popularity, making friends everywhere. Like his father, he was an excellent sportsman, and devoted much of his leisure to his favorite amusement. He was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania. Died Sept. 15, 1863.

Cmr.nmrn.

I. Julia AntoinetteS, b. Aug. 22, 1836; d. Feb. 18, 1837. 39 II. Charles Conklin, b. Jan. 2, 1838. 40 III. William Henry, b. Aug. 10, 1847.

IV. Mary Ellis, h. Dec. 7, 185/i; tl. Feh. 4, 187(). V. Alanson Spenser, d. young.

This closes the rccortl of the ehihlren of Peleg Srwery, of Carver, all of whom filled honorable and prominent positions in society, in commerce, and in politics.

24.

GEORGE7 ADAl\IS ( JJ:lercy SaveryG and Thomas Adams, Tlwmws", Tlwmas4, Tlwma8\ Sa11nteT1, Tlwma1s1), was horn in Boston, Jan. 10, 1807; married Hannah S. Harlow, of Plym­outh. Was the author of the "Genealogy of the Descendants of Francis Adams," his ancestor, who came to New England in 1692, and to whose labors I am also indebted, mainly, for a record of the descernlants of Dea. Tliom;u.;f• Savery, arnl of tl1e hitths and marriages of the deacon's brothers aml sister8, all of which I have here incorporate1l. He left Bo8ton in 1811, n,ll(l lived in Carver and neighboring towns till 1823, and in 1835 re­moved to Boston. In 18--16 he began the publication of the "Boston Directory," and suhseqnently tlirectorie8 of other cities and towns in New England and elsewhere. The firm of

THE OLD COLONY F A~IILY. SUBDIVISION B. 87

Adams, Sampson & Co., of which he was the founder, was widely known as the largest publishing house for that class of books in the country. Died in Newton, Oct. 4, 1865.

CHILDREN.

I. George W.8, b. Aug.10.1830; m. M11ry A. Holland. IL Hannah, b. July 27, 1832; m. Dr. Edward A. Spooner, of Plym­

outh, now in Philadelphia. III. Sarah S., b. Oct. 17, 18-lO; d. March 12, 1842. IV. Theodore Parker, b. July 24, 1846; m. Aug. 11, 1869, Ellen 13.

Cushman, of Plymouth. 'l'HEOIJORE P.8 AUAMS, teacher of a preparntory school and mueh devoted to genealogical research, resides in Boston, Mass.

25.

WILLIAM S.7 SAVERY (Thomas6, William5, Thomas\ Thomas3,

Samuell-, Thomas1), was born Sept. 17, 1811::i; and married May 14, 1837, Ruth Arrn Barrett.

CHILDREN.

I. Augusta S.8, b. Feb. 22, 1838; m. 1855, Lorenzo F. Simmons. ll. George, lives at Rockland.

Ill. Emeline P., b. 1850; 111. ,June 30, 1872, Russell T. Bartlett; aml probably others.

26.

JOSEPH B.7 SAVERY ( Thomas6, William6, 'l'lwrnas4, Thomas8,

8amuel2, Thomas1), was born .June 15, 1820; married Mary Ann, daughter of George Thra.-;her. Resides at Savery'::1 Pond, near Plymouth, Mass., a locality known by that name for genera­tions.

CHILDREN.

41 1. 'fhomas G.8, b. Sept. 19, 1843.

27.

GEORGE; SAVORY, born 1798. His mother's maiden name wM Desire Sturgis, and he married Catherine Baxter, of Hyannis, who died April 20, 1848. His descendants claim for him a descent in the seventh ge11erntio11 from Thomas1, of Plymouth, but it cannot be regularly established.

88 THE SAVERY FAMIL£ES.

CHILDREN.

I. Samadrus•, b. 1829; 111. Lydia C. ~turgis; d. Dec.12, 1889. Ch.: (1) Mary C. 9, b. 1856; m. Jan. 9, 1876, Eugene Crowell. (2) Ida, h. 1859; m. 1878. Edgar Evans. (3) Frederic A., b. 1861; m. Augusta Jones. ( 4) Eugene II., b. 1863; m. Lois Newco111b. (5) Alonzo C., h. 1865; m. Mym Edson. (6) Bes­sie, b. 1867; m. ,John Williams. (7) Lily C., b.1869; m. Charles Fuller. (8) George IL, b. 1871. (fl) Chester, b. 1874. (10) Bertie, b. 1877. (11) Alice, b. 1880.

II. Sarah P .• m. 1841, Frnderic Ames, of Cotuit; d. February, 1888. No children.

28. WILLIAM S.7 SAVERY (James6, Jarnes6, 'l'lwma1i, Tlwrnas3,

Samuel2, Tlwmas1), bom Aug. 23, 1801; married, 1st, S11sa11 Shurtliffe; 2d, Joanna Waterman. Was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives one term, and a justice of the peace many years. Resided at North Carver, Mass.; died Dec. 23, 1870.

CHJI.DREN. lly first wife:

I. Mary 'I'.", b. June 24, 183:!; 111. Lewi~ Sherrett, of Tri111sl1aw Park, Blackburn, Eng-. Ch.: (1) William L.9, b. in Carver. Sept. 9, 1859; (2) Susan, b. Aug. 7, 1864; d. Oct. 15, 186!1. W11.LIA1\f L. SH~;mmTT wns n young man of fine intellect and gn•at industry. He held a po~ition iu the l'en~io11 Depart• ment at Washington five years, and while there qualilfod him­self for the prnfe1,sion of the law at Georgetown U niversit_v, and wns admitted to the Washington Bar iu 1889; and also, during this time, Rtudled medicine and surgery at £Toward University, Washington, where he graduated M.ll., 1890. Was Deputy Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and high up in Masonry. He died of consumption in Florida, 1890. Mrs. Sherrntt diet! suddenly of paralysis, July 31, 1892. See portrait, page 04.

II. Anl!eline A., b. Sept. 30, 18:J:!; d. Feb. :l7, 1840. I I I. William S., b. April 24, 1835; went to sea, l'atc· uulrnowu. IV. Francis A., b. October, 1836; d. March Hi, 1840. V. llenjamin Harrison, b. April 9; 1841; 111. 1-Jattie L. Holmes, of

Plymouth, where he resides. Ch.: (1) Harrison Ste1jhen, b. May 3. 1872. (2) Lewis Winslow, b. Aug. 17, 1874; d. Jan. 20, 187/i. (3) Aurii-sa Wm., b. ,Tune 21, 1876; (4) Wolcott Smith, b. March i, 18i8. BEN.I. II." SAVEil\', who d. Dec. Hi, 1892, serv1•d honornhly during the war, in the 38th Massachusetts Regiment.

Tl(I<; 01,l> UOLONY FA~lll,\'". KUBl)l\.1SI0'.'1 II. 8!)

PitISUILLA7 SAVERY ( Jamel\ ,li,ime.~\ Tliomas4, Tlwmas-1,

Samnct1, 1'1wmas1), married ,fames Sullivan Holmes, and now

resides at Lawrence, Mass.

I. ,Tames AriRtideR'. I I. 'l'ho111n,1 SaV!\ry.

111. Olivia 8hurtli!l<•.

ClllLl>HEN.

30.

LEYI7 MonsE ( Rutli Saveri and Levi 1Worse, Jr.imes", Tltomas\ 'L'lwmas'\ Samuell,. 'l'lwmas1), was born Aug. 26, 1802; marrie<l 1\Iarch, 1834, Sally Tinkham, who was born i\farclt 13, 180fi.

Cl!ILDltEN.

I. Wilson81 h. Feb. 1. 1825; nL and had three children, of whom

one, Elisha, is living (in 18Si). II. Ezra, h. ,Tuly Ji, 18:li; m. and has five children, all living in 1887.

111. Emily, h. F'cb. Ii, 18cm; m. -- Baxter; four chi!tlreu. I\'. :-iarnh, b .. Jan. JO, )8.fl; d. Oct. 4, 18fi8. \'. Harrison, b. Nov. i, 1842; 111., four children. IIAmnsoN8 i\lonsr,;

is a Jpading- citizen of Brockton, l\las;i., of which city he has ht•eu co1111cil11m11 and altlcnnan.

YI. llradfonl, IJ. i\l:ty 4, 1848; 111. ,June 22, 1871, Ella A., tlaught,er of Gilrn:tn l'. awl ,fane 1V. (Pratt.) Keith, of North i\I.iddle­horo. Ch.: (1) Huth", h. Ang. 1, d. Aug. 5, 1S78. BHAl>­

FOHD" ;\[01ts1,: was captain of Co. I, 1st Reg., M. V. iH. Infantry, four years. Removed to California, anti engagetl i11 frnit· rnising. City marnhal alHI tax collector, Hiversid,·, Cal.

31.

,foHN STEVENSON7 SAVERY (Jolin6, Lernuel", Tliomas\

Tlwma.s3, Sanmel2, Thoma.s1), was born probably at Oxford or Lyme, N. IL, Ang. 8, 1812; and with his brother a!lll sister, vVilliam and Elizabeth, removed young to New York City, where he 111:uTie<l Lytlia Dare, _who died 1\Iay 13, 18G8. He was proprietor of a hotel and restaurant in New York, but

90 THE SAVERY FAl\IILIES.

resided with his family more than thirty years in I3l'Ooklyn. He became celebrated and popular as an anti-slavery and tem­perance orator, a fellow-worker in the cause of negro emancipa­tion with the illnstrions vVilliam Lloycl Garrison. He readily undertook the circulation of Garrison's newspaper, the Liberator,

when to do so involved great personal danger. His death, ,Tan. 17, 1882, was extensively noticed in the American and

· Canadian press.

CUILI>HEN.

I. Harriet l\f.S, b. Oct.. 20, 1838; m. 1858, Henry C. Bonnell, who died leaving her aml one son, A. H .9 Bonnell, b. Oct. 21, 1859.

II. John S., b. Dec. 21, 1842. III. Elizabeth, b. l\farch 15, 1846; m. 1866, Albert O. Stebbins; living

at Worcester, N. Y. ·

32.

SAl\l lJI~I. 1\L\.W-lTUN7 ~AVl!Jlt Y ( Lemuel,;, Lemuel'', 'l'lt0m1t1, 1,

Thorna1s3, Sarnuel:1, Thornas1), was born Nov. 7, 1825. Inten­tions of nmrriage published April 18, 1847, to Nancy Ripley, daughter of Capt. Ansel Bartlett, of Plymouth. He died Jan. 16, 1862, of dislocation of the spine and consequent paralysis, caused by being thrown from a carriage. The Plym­outh Rock newspaper of Jan. 23, 1862, notices his death in two articles, speaking of him as a well and favorably known and enterprising business man. The widow is still (1887) living at Boston.

CIIILDREN.

I. \V illia111 Ife11ry8, h. Oct. n, 18.t ! ; 111 .. \ pril IO, 1Si4, Catherine .\g­oes, daughter of James 'l'urley, of Portland, Me., where he reside~. Ch.: (1) William Peters", b. ,Tune 26, 1875; (2) Wal­ter ,fames, b. July 1, 1880; (:!) Charles l<'oster, b. April 28, 1888.

II. James C., b. Nov. 14, 1851. Was a soldier in the U. S. Army, a1HI was ldlle,I at Dlack Hills, 18i5.

II r. Samuel l\Iarston, b. Jau.·1, 1862; m., lives in Virginia.

I

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. SUBDIVISION Il. 91

ElG IITH GENEHA'l'ION.

33.

,JOHN~ SAVERY (Tlwmas1, Pelel, Thomas", Thomas\ Tlwmas-1, 8amuel1, Thomas1

), was born Nov. 3, 1815; married, 1st, July 13, 1850, Elizabeth Ogle; 2d, Aug. 6, 1859, Martha Adele Winslow, of Philadelphia. She died Dec. 5, 1892. Has rep­resented vVareham in the Massachusetts Hoiise of Rep~esenta­tives. Was for some time a member of the firm of Savery & Co., Philadelphia (see Peleg B.7, No. 23). During the war he rendered valuable service to the national cause, actively assisting in the organization of volunteer refreshment saloons in Phila­rlelphia., through which ciLy all the W eRtern regiments wern obliged to pass on their way to Washington. Lives at East vVareham.

CIIILDitEN.

By second wife: I. John :;l[nximilian9 , b. in Philadelphia, ,Tuly 26, 1864.

34.

Wrr,LIAM8 SAVERY (John7, Peleg6, Tlwma.r\ Thomas\ Thoma.r3, 8amuel1, Tlwmas1), was born Oct. 26, 1815, and mar­ried Mary Page Van Schaack, of Albany, N. Y., daughter of Ste­phen and Harriet (Dunnell) Van Schaack. Resides at his seat, Leyden Cottage, South Carver, Mass., where he has always lived, except for ahont twenty years that he spent in New York and ,Jersey City. I-fas always been engaged in the business of iron manufacture, and in partnership with his father in ,Jersey City (see John7, No. 17), and the head and manager of the re­spected and well-known firm of John Savery's Sons, New York City. Although never amhitiom1 for political ollice, he lmR ~erved as a memLer of the State Legisln,ture, and in minor public pm1itin11s. A man of great !mt 111ia~Rtm1i11g and modest gener­osity, ever re:uly to asRist the poor and the oppresse(l, his name

·92 THE SAYEltY FAl\IlLIES.

is mentioned with deep affection among his kindred,. and esteem and respect by all who know him, far a1id wide.

CIIILUtrnN.

42 I. William Egbert", b. Sept. 23, 18-11. II. Mary Page, b. Sept. !J, 1864; m. May 15, 188!!, Josiah Jowett.

III. Hal'riett D., b. Nov. 5, 1858 .

. 35.

POLLY8 SAVERY (Joltn1, Pelefl, Tltomai', Thomas\ '1.'lwmai\ .Samuel1, 'l'lwma1;1), was born April 18, 1818; and marriml Alexander Law.

CHILDREN.

I. Emma W.", b. March 10, 184u; m. C. II. Dennett, and has two children.

3(;.

HANNAH PE!lKINS8 SA YlmY ( John1, Pele,r/1, Tlwmrrn", 'l'ltom<i84, 'l'ltomail, Samuel!, 'L1lwmci,/), was born Nov. 13, 1820; married Samuel A. Shurtliff.

CIIILDREN.

f. Abhy l◄'.", h. Nov. 28, 1843; 111. ,v. C. Ircl:uul; 11ochi11ln,n. II. Charlm; .\., h. i\larch 7, 18-18; d. ,June 28, 18:i,t.

Ill. Auna L., b. ilfarch 2!J, 1851. IV. Hannah S., h. Aug. 11, 1855; m. Albert Partrhlge; one chiltl,

Marion Louise'°. V. Graee A., b. ,Tun. 17, 1858; m. Harry Hutchinson; one child,

Ruth Allerton•0 •

37.

WATTSTILL ATWOOD8 SAVERY (John7, Pele,r/, Tlwma,r\ 'l'lwma1;4, Tlwmail, Samuel1, 'l'lwmas1), was born Nov. 25, 1822; married George P. Bowers; and died ,Tan 13, 1866.

CHILDREN.

I. Polly Savery•, b. Feb. 8, 1848; m. Felice Cammilli, of Rome, Italy.

II. Nancy C., b. May 4, 1853.

THE OLD COLONY FAi\lILY, SUBDIYJSIO:N Il. 93,:

:38.

WILLIAM8 SAVERY ( William7, Peleg6, Thomas\ Thomas4,. Thomas-\ Sarnuel:2, Tlwmas1), was born Dec. 11, 1832 ; married· Dec. 25, 1876, Ella Jane Bassett. Resides at Wareham.

CHILDIU<:N.

I. Sadie Louise9, b. June 9, 1870. Ir. Wale lo Bartlet.t, h. Dec. :m, 1888; cl. .fan. 18, 1888.

CHARLES. CoNKLIN8 SAVERY (Peleg B.7, Peleg6, Tlwmasr,,. Tlwmas4, Thoma.~\ Sanmell, 'f_'lwma1i), was born ,Jan. 2, 1838; :rnd was a member of the firm of Savery & Co., Philadelphia. Ire manied ,Jan. 1, 18G2, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Purves, who was born in Scotland, hut brought up in New Hampshire, and whose wife, married in 1837, was Sarah A. Likens, boru in Pennsylvania, and died Dec. 19, 1890, aged 73, leaving him surviving. Charles C. Savery died ,June 18, 1880. The following is from an ohitnary notice: "Qniet, re­tired, truly kind to every one," his was "a generous heart to• sympathize with all with whom he came in contact; just in all his ways, true to the right under all circumstances, he so bore himself to his fellow-men that none can rise up to say aught against him."

CHILJHmN.

I. ( lharlPR Pe)Pg:9, h. ,fan. rn, ISGH. II. LcwiA Alexander, h. Oct. 15, 1864; d. when21 months oltl ..

llf. Fanny Mary, b. Oct. 25, 1866; cl. when 7 weeks old. IV. Alexaruler Purves, h. Fe!). 7, 1.870; d. when 22 months oltl. V. Sarah Lydia, b .. June 22, 1874.

40.

Wu,LTA!ll 111~N1tY8 SAVERY (Peleg B.7, Pelet/, 1'hommf', Tlwmri.~\ 'f_'hom.as\ SamneV, 1'lwmas1), was born Aug. 10, 1847; and married Sept. 4, 1871, Rosey, daughter of the late (mari-

94 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

time) Capt. James and Catharine (Maglellon) Taylor, of whom Bayard Taylor makes mention in his travels through the Holy Land, in 1851, being his guest at Smyrna, hut not of ki11. She was born April 21, 1843. On becoming of age he was admitted member of the firm of Savery & Co., and continued so till it ceased to exist, in 1876. Resides in Philadelphia.

CHILDREN.

I. William Heury Aloysius•, b. :May 31, 1872; d. May 17, 1875. II. Francis Nelijon, b. Jan. 16, 187-!.

HI. William Aloysius, h. Fell. 17, 1871i. IV. ,James Taylor, b. Sept. 5, 1870. V. Charles Conklin, b. Oct. 15, 1881.

41.

THOMASG.8 SAVERY (Joseph B.7, Thomas\ 1Villiam•, Tlwmws4, Thomai1, Samue'l1, Thomas1), was born Sept. 19, 1843 ; and mar­ried July 2, 1871, Laura A. Pierce.

CHILDREN.

I. 'l'homas F., b. July 27, 1873. II. Eddie C., b. Feb. 26, 1876.

III. Florence E., b. Sept. 13, 1882.

NINTH GENEIL\.'l'ION.

42.

WrLLIM,l EGnERT9 SA VERY ( 1Villiam8, Joltn7, Peleg\ 1'lwmas\ Thomas\ Thomas3, Samuell, 'l'homas1), was born Sept. 23, 1841; married Jnne, 1870, Sarah Louise, daughter of Dr. William Belcher, of Sing Sing, N. Y. Succee<l.iug his father, he now carries on the business of the old firm of John Savery's Sons in Jersey City and New York.

CUILDHEN.

I. Annie B. 10, b. Jun. 21, 1878. II. Ethel, b. Feb. 27, 1882.

THE OLD UOLONY l''Al\lILY. SUBDlVLSfON C. 95

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY.

8UBIHVf8rnN C.

FOURTH GENEIUTION:

1.

SAnlUEL4 SA -VERY ( Thom.as-\ Samne·1;i, Thomas'), was horn proLably at the Agawrtm Plantation, Aug. 18, 1718; married by Hev. Roland Cotton, Dec. 25, 1739, Elizabeth Bumpas, probaLly sister of Dehorah, wife of his brother Uriah. He was a man of ability and influence, a leading spirit in the affairs of his town and of Ware ham, after it was set off, for more than forty years, during most of which period he was selectman, chairman of all important committees, engaged the schoolmas­ter, a)l(l managed the settlement of the ministers.* Ile was appointed a coroner, ,July 1, 1769; was one of the "Committee of Correspondence and Safety" during the Revolutionary War ; and held a captain's commission in the Continental Army. "It is said that he recei vecl some votes for the office of governor, although not regularly nominated as a candidate." His wife died in 1787, aged 69. He married, 2d (intentions published Sept. 11, 1788), Lois Sturtevant, of Halifax, Mass., and .died iu 1812, in his 94th year, attaining a greater age than any other male descendant of our common ancestor.

* For interesting references to him ancl other Saverys of the period, as well as other ,·alnable information, the.reader Is referred to a book entltle,l "Colonial Times on Buz­znrtl's B1ty," by William R. Bliss, J~s11.: publishe,1 by Houghton, l\Jllllin & Co., Boston anti New York. I quote the following from an article by Mr. Bliss in the Plymouth Free P1·ess, November, 188(): "The Rev. Ebenezer Burgess snitl in a sermon, prenchetl some t.hlrty yPnrs :tgo, that he remcmhere,1 the congregntlon in the old historic meeting-house :it Wnreham before It was torn tlown; he remembered lllnckle rending olf the hymns in Scottish style, Fearing In the g1tllery tending the choir with a loud voice, Snvery with white locks bending over his stalf, Nye with powdered wig like an English judge," etc.

96 THE SA VERY l!'AllULIES.

CHILDREN,

By fit-st wife : I. l\Iehitabie•, b. Jau. 29, 17-H; m .. \.pril 21, 1767, Ebenezer Clarke.

II. Lydia, b. April 15, 1744; m. ,June 4, 1772, David Swift. III. Benjamin, b. l\Ia1·ch 26, 1746; d. July 28, 1754.

2 IV. Samuel, b. Feb. 14, 1747. V. Elizabeth, b. Dec.31, 1750; m. !::lept.11, 1784, Jeremiah Bumpus.

VI. Benjamin, b. Jan. 29, 1755. 3 VII. Phineas, b . .April 8, 1757.

VIII. Mary, b. Jan. 30, 1760; d. May 14, 1816. IX. Abigail, b. }!arch 18, 1764; m. probably Sept. 11, 1784, Lot

Uumpas.

FIFTH GENERATION.

SAJ\1UEL5 SAVERY (Samuel\ Thomas3, Samueil, 'l.'homas1),

was born Feb. 14, 1747; married Dec. 13, 1770, Ruth Gibbs, who, described as the wife of "Capt. S:unucl Sn.very," dic<l April 24, 1817, aged 65 years 2 months and 23 clays. On ,June 24, 1814, he was sergeant of tt detachment (loiug dnty as guard in the town and harbor of W[treham. Died Nov. 28, 1836, attaining within four years the age of his father. It is said that his tombstone in the old cemetery at Rochester has

. the following quaint, old-fashioned epitaph :

I. II.

lfl. IV. v.

VI. VIL

4 VIII. IX. x.

" Samuel Savery's work is clone, '.rhe sands from out his glass have run; Of children ten he lost but one, ,vho drowned was, his youngest son."

CHILDREN,

Lucy", b. July 29, 1772; m. May 5, 1811, ,Joseph Miller. Esther, b. Aug. Cl, 1774; m. Nov. rn, 1800, ,Josiah Ellis. 'l'empenrnce, b. July O, 1776; m. Nov. 11!, 1794, Pelham Gibbs. Huth, b. Oct. 2, 1778; m. Oet. 21, 1802, L1:wis J~llis. Alotlwa, b. l\larch rn, 1781; m. 1st May 15, 180H, Prince Dexter;

2d, his brother. Polly, b. July 11, 1783; m. Feb. 23, 1804, John Bourne. Lucinda, b. May 11, 1787; m. 1st, March 15, 1812, Joseph Lam-

bert; 2d, -- White. Samuel, b. Sept. 15, 1780. Nabby, b. July 24, 1702; m. Capt. Freeman Gibbs. William, b. Oct. 18, 1706; drowned in Weweantie River,

Wareham.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. SUBDIVISION C, 97

3. LIEUT. PHINEAS5 SAVERY ( Samuel\ Thomas3, SamuetJ,

Tlwmas1), an officer in the Revolutionary army, was born April

8, 1757; married, 1st, Mercy, who died Nov. 3, 1793, in her 38th year; 2d, Jan. 15, 1797, Hannah Swift. She died Aug. 21, 1847. He died Oct. 1, 1837.

CHILDREN,

Ily sccontl wife: I. Mercy6, b. March 10, 1708; m. Samuel Hatch, and had two

daughters, Hope 'rohcy and Elizabeth; both <l. 5 Ir. Phineas, I,. April Ii, 1800. 6 III. Lemuel, b Jan. 28, 1802.

•IV. Benjamin, b. Aug. 10, 1802; d. Aug. 10, 1804. V. Cyrus, I,. June 2, 1803; d. aged 4 years.

SIXTH GENEHA'l'ION.

4.

SAMUEL6 SAVERY ( Samuel5, Samuel\ Thomar,3, Samuel:-, Tlwmas1), was born Sept. 15, 1789; married March 15, 1812, Rebecca Swift, who died June 1, 1867; died Feb. 2, 1859.

I.

II.

'1 III. lV.

v.

8 VI. VII.

VIII.

IX.

CHILJ)ltEN.

Esther7, b. Dec. 5, 1813; m. 1st, Dec. 5, 1832; Capt. Willis Churbuck; 2d, William Ilenson; d. at E. Wareham, Oct. 22, 188i.

Iletsey, b. 1814; m. Feb. 23, 1834, Capt. Thomas Churbuck; d. 1835.

William, b. April 27, 1817. Charlotte, b. July 8, 1810; m. 1st, Jan. 29, 1840, Capt. Elisha

Besse; 2d, George Griffith; d. 1870. Hnlh, h. Fch. n, 1821; m. 1st, Dec. 4, 1842, Andrew Long;

2d, George Bent; 3d, Benjamin Iugnlls. Resides at East ·wareham.

Levi, b. ,Tune lH, 182H. Lemuel Frederic, b. 1829; m. Caroline Raymond. Ch. :

(1) Frank; (2) Victoria; both dead. Martha, h. June 2, 1833; m. April H, 1850, William P. Gibbs;

d. at East ,vareham, J',lass., Feb. 20, 1881. Mary, twin of J\Iartha; m. Nov. 28, 1852, John Eldridge. Lives

at East Wareham.

98 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

5.

DR. PHINEAS6 SAVERY (Pltinealf\ Samuel\ Tlwmai", Smnuef!, Tlwmas1), was born April 15, 1800; graduated M. D. at the Medical School of Harvard University; married, 1st, Jan. 21, 1825, Hope Tobey, who died Feb. 18, 1825; 2d, May 2H, 1829, Nancy, daughter of John and Ann Messenger; she died Sept. 4, 1830; 3d, Aug. 5, 1833, Sarah Bailey, who died Aug. 26, 1878. He resided at Attleboro, Mass., where he enjoyed a high repute and successful practice as a physician. Died May 19, 1853.

CHILDREN.

By second wife: 9 I. Phineas 1\Iessinger7 , b. July 30, 1830.

By third wife: II. Abraham Bailey, b. 1\Iay 12, 1834; d. 1\Iay 22, 1834.

II L Hope Tobey, b. June 25, 1835; 111. Dec. 31, 1856, William Water­man; d. Oct. 31, 1868. Ch.: (1) Grace Savery8 , b. Nov. 5, 1857; tl. ,Tune 7, 1868. (2) William Atwood, b. Aug. 29, 18GO; tl. Oct. 22, 1861. (a) Lizzhi Ann Baihiy, h. F1lh. ·.W, 1863; d. Aug. 20, 1864.

IV. Abraham Bailey, b. 11Iay 23, 1837; d. Dec. 16, 1863. V. Cyrus Benjamin, b. April 17, 1830; d. Sept. 17, 1861.

10 VI. Job Briggs, b. ,Jan. 24, 1841. VII. Nancy Messinger, b. Nov. 30, 1842; m. Nov. 22, 1865, Alvin F.

Gibbs, who was town clerk of Wareham, and d. 1883. Ch.: (1) Abraham Bailey, h. 1\Iareh :JG, 18G8; she afterwards m. Watson Ryder; and d. April D, 1892.

VIII. Sarah Ann Bailey, b. 1\Iay 11, 1847; d. Dee. 23, 1848. IX. Henry Oliver, b. May 5, 1850.

o. LKMUJ~Lr; SA Vt•:ltY ( l'ltinea.~", Saumel\ 'l'lwrnmi, Samuel1,

'l'lwrn1ts1), a farmer at Warelm111, li. ,Jan. 28, 1802; marl'icd, 1st,

~cpt. -!, 18~/i, ~eli11a fcibb,,, who (lied l\la_y, lHtiH, agc(l ti:\; :!d, Dec. 10, 187-!, Mrs. Margaret 1L Gorham (maiden name Nich­ols), of Halifax, N. S. He died April 9, 1890.

C111LJ>HEN.

By first wife: I. :Mary Aune', b. ~ept. ll, 1S26.

THE 01,D COLO~Y I<'Al\LILY, SUIIDIVlSlON C, 99

II. llannn.h Swift, h. Nov. :JO, 1828-; 111. ~ov. 10, 18,10, Harvey Crocker, of Barnstable.

II I. Lemuel, b. May 2, 1831; m. 1st, ,July 22, 18M, Helen 'l'homas; 2d, Nellie Nichols. Jfo d. Feb. 7, 1881, leaving daughter, Helen8 •

IV. Selina, b. ,June 18, 18:13; m. Nov. IO, 1853, Levi Renuells; living at Hyde Park, Mass. Ch.: (1) Edgar A.8, m. Cassie Walker; (2) Cora A.

V. ~~lizabeth S., b. Oct. 1, 1835; m. 1st,, Aug. 15, 1854, Sylvanus H11ow. Ch.: (1) I•'retforic"; (2) Rsf.lwr A1111: 111. 2d, Watson Hyder. Ch.: (3) William W., b. ,Ju11e, 18i6. She died, and Watson Ryder m. 2d, ,June 18, 1885, Nancy l\Iessinger, widow of Alvin Gihbs, and 1laughter of Dr. Phineas Savery.

VI. Roxana G., b. Feb. 24, 1838; m. Samuel Hennells; d. VII. Phineas, b. June 1, 1840; m. Elizabeth Hyler.

VIII. Mercy D., h. Aug. 2:J, 1842; m. ,June 25, 186,, Henry Curtis. Ch.: (1) llarryg; (2) Florence. Resides at Troy, N. Y.

SEVENTH GENERA'l'ION.

7.

vVILLIAl\ri SAVERY ( 8amuel6, Samuel", .8amuel4, Tlwmas3,

Sarnuel1, 1.'lwrnas1), was born April 27, 1817; and married November, 1842, l\fa,ry Anne Besse. Lives at East "\-Varehain. She died Oct. 27, 1873, agecl 50 years 10 months 6 days.

CHILDREN.

I. Abbie Adelia8, b. Sept. 14, 1843; m. Oct. 22, 1863, Alexander Swift. Resides at Nashua, N. II.

II. RPhecca A., b. 8Ppt. R, 184/i; 111. March 1, 1870, Frank Memlall, of Marion, Mass.

Ill. Mary Frances, b. ,July 10, 1847; m. July 29, 1865, Benj. Bourne, ·East Wareham.

IV. Seth Besse, b. l\[ay 4, 1850; lives at Astoria on Pacific coast. V. Levi Augustus, b. October, 1852; d. Oct.ober, 1854.

VI. Winifred :Maria, b. Jan. 22, 1855; m. Warren Howe, Nashua, N. II.

VII. I~velyn Augusta, b. ,Tuly 9, 1858. Lives at. l\Iarion, Mass., un­married.

V 111. Bet$ey Swift, b. l\larch 3, 1861. Lives at Nashua, N. II. IX. Wilhelmina Isabel, b. l\larch 1, 1867; d. l\larch 20, 1868.

100 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

8.

LEVI7 SAVERY ( Samuel'\ Samuel", Samuel\ Tlwmaif\ Samuell, Thomas1 ), was born June 13, 1823; married, 1st, Jan.10, 1850, Mary E. Burgess, who d. Jan. 10, 1873 ; 2d, Mrs. Caroline Bumpus. Lives at Sagamore, formerly called West Sandwicli, Mass.'

CHILDREN.

By first wife : 11. I. Betsey E.8, b. Nov. 9, 1850.

II. l\fa1·y Estelle, b. Aug. 13, 1854; 111. Dec. 30, 1881, Obed Delano Clifton, of Marion. Ch.: (1) Viola A.9, b. Aug. 6, 1888; (2) Helen, b. Feb. 6, 1890. ·

III. Jacob Burgess, b. Aug. 12, 1858; m. Sept. 27, 1888, Amy A. Hammond.

IV. Lizzie Linwood, b. Jan. 9, 1861. V. Louisa Lincoln, twin of Lizzie.

VI. William Grant, b. April 27, 1865; cl. ,Jan. 16, 186H. VII. Martha l\faria, b. July 27, 1861); cl. Aug. l!l, 1SH1l.

9.

PHINEAS MESSINGER7 SAVERY ( Pliineasii, Phineas\ Samuel\ Tlwma1i, Samuell, Tlwmas1), counsellor and attorney-at-law, was born at Attleboro, Mass., where his father then resided, July 30, 1830; and l'narried Nov. 29, 1853, at Lihel'ty, Cln.y County, Missouri, Amanda Gertrude, daughter of Hon. Henry F. Mitchell; commenced the practice of his profession in Liberty in 1858, and was successful in it until the breaking out of the Civil vVar; was a major of cavalry in the Confed­erate Army, an<l provost-nmrslml general of tlie tmns­Mississippi Department, C. S. A., for one year, and was after­wards in the field either in line or on staff duty until surrender; was one year, 1867, assistant clerk to the House of Represent­atives of the State; has been twenty years continuously a com­missioner of the Unite<l States for thaL State. In the Orn.11d Army of the United Confederate Veterans he has servetl 011

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. SUBDIVISION C, 101

the staff of the major general commanding Mississippi Divis­ion, as inspector general, with the rank of colonel. His :Masonic record is long and very honorable. Now lives at Tupelo, Miss.

CHILDREN, . I. Charles Virgil", b. Sept. 9, 1854; m. Sept. 9, 1884, in Madison­

ville, l{y., Hattie Ford. Ch.: (1) Earl Ford", b. Feb. 7, 1886; d. Oct. 24, 18!)1. (2) Fatie May, b. Nov. 10, 1888.

11. Mary A. Fidelia, b. Dec. 28, 1856; d. ,Tune 7, 1892. III. .James Mitchell, b. ,Jan. 13, 1859; d. unm. Oct. 25, 1884. IV. Finney Messinger, b. Aug. 18, 1861; m. Nov. 13, 1889, Lucy

)Iartin. Ch.: (1) Charles Hoy•, b. Aug. 24, 1890.

10.

,Jon B1t1GGS7 SAv1~1w (Pltinemi, Pliineirn", Samuel\ Tlwmai, R11mu~l:1, 'l'lwnurn1), half br<,ther of the preceding, was born .Jan. 24, 1841; and married Nov. 16, 1869, Isadora E. Briggs. ,v as a highly respected citizen, and held the office of town clerk of Attleboro fourteen years, as well as "other positions of honor and trust." Died Oct. 3, 1886.

Cmr.1>1mN.

I. William Briggs•, b. Sept. 26, 1875. II. Sarah Adelaide, b. Dec. 1, 1878.

Ill. Job Luther, b. Oct. !l, 1880.

l~IGHTH GENERATION.

11.

B1~Tsrny E.R SA n:nv (.Levi7, Saimwl6, Smnuel5, Samuel\

1'lwmas3, Sanmel:1, '1.'lwma.s1), was born Nov. 9, 1850; and married Oct. 28, 1873, Seth A. Cobb, of Marion.

CHILDREN.

I. Celia A.9, h. Feh. 27, 1875. II. George E., h . .Tuly 27, 1876; d. Sept.. 13, same year.

III. :Mary II., h. Dec. 25, 1877; d. Jan. 27, 1S84. IV. Augustus A., h. nee. 8, 1870. V. Seth A., b. April 15, 1882.

VI. Levi S., b .. Jan. 22, 1889.

102 THE SAYgJty I<'Al\IILrns.

THE ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY.

ROBEI-:T SAVORY OF NEWBURY

ANI) UIS

DESCEND.\.N"TS.

1.

RonrmT SAVOHY.

The Thomas Savery who came in the'' i'lfary and .John," I have, as already noticed, traced from Ipswich to Newport, R. I., and there lost him. The ship anived May 1, 1634, over a year after the first mention of the first Thomas at Plymouth. She hacl also among her passeugers 0110 ,,v1 LLIAM SA VIWY."' In tlwspri11g of 1635 a band of twenty-three persons moved over from Ipswich and laid the venerable foundation.:, of old Newbury, now New­bury, "\Vest Newbury, and Newburyport. The Rev. Thomas Parker removed from Ipswich in orrler to retain his connection with some of hi8 attached friends from "'iltshire, arnl again many vViltt>hire people who luul come with him to Ipswich fol­lowed him to Newlmry. I fill(l many •William Saverys 011 tlw records of Hanington, Wiltshire, near the early home of this celebrated Puritan divine, but none whom I can positively identify as the disciple who followeil l1im to America. ,vhether William, with a young son Ro1Jert, was among' these early removal:; to Newbury, or wlwtl1er l{obert's was a <listi11d migration from England, there is nothing on the records to show, but there is reason to believe that in either case Robert was born in England, for on Dec. 8, 1656, he marriell Mary, who had been the widow of "\Villiam l\fitchell since July 16, 1654; allll if he was then as old as twenty-two years and eight months, his

* So spelled in a copy of the list of passengers.

THE gssgx COUNTY FAl\ULY. 103

birth would antedate the arrival of the-" Mary and John.'; He handed down the name William, as we presume, by the usual rule of alternation in those days, from father to the eldest son, as this son did, in his turn, naming his own eldest son Robert; and there is no doubt that Robert was the son of William, although we find no certain trace of any brothers or sisters. There was, however, an Anne Savory who married J olm Hardy, July 8, 1701, who may have been a brother's daughter. Mary S., who died Dec.13, 1704, was his widow. From Newbury he re­moved among the first settlers to Bradford, where land taken up by him is still held by some of his descendants. He died corning home from Canada in 1690. I presume he was serving in that formidable hut unsuccessful expedition against Quebec, pro­jected by Governor "Winthrop, and commanded by Sir William Phipps and Major ·walley. If so, he could not have been over sixty years of age, - an additional proof that he was of tender years at the time of the arrival of the "Mary and John."

CHILDRgN.

r. 8amh2, b. Nov. 12, 1Gfi8. ~ II. Wllli:1111, h. Hept. Hi, wrrn.

III. Samuel, b. March 8, 1662. 'We find uo further trace of him, but I suspect that he married and was the father of a Ben­jamin Savory, who" owned the covenant" at Bradford, Dec. 25, 1709, m. Lydia Parker, DE'.c. 8, li15, and d. Sept. 28, 1747, having had children: (1) :Martha<, b. l\Iarch 4, 1717-18; (2) Benjamin, b. Nov. 26, 1721. I have found no posterity of this Benjamin•.

IV. Rebecca, b. Jan. 20, 1663; m. Hobert l\follican, Dec. 15, 168,. V. Hobert, h. Aug. 8, IGGG; d. April O, 1685.

SECOND GENERATION.

2.

WILLIAM2 SAVORY (Robert1), was born Sept. 15, 1659; administered de boni.~ non on his father's estate after his mother's death, and carried on the farm ten years after he became of age; married Hannah--, and with his two

104 THE SA VERY FAMILIES.

sons, Robert and Thomas, was among- the founders of the church at Groveland, formerly East Bmclfonl, in 1727. Hannah was admitted to full church memben;hip Feb. 18~ 1727-8.

CIIII.DUEN.

I. Hannah3, b. Jan. 25, 1691. 3 II. Robert, b. June 10, 1694. i III. Samuel, b. Oct. 6, 1696. 5 IV. Thomas, b. Jan. 23, 1701-2.

V. Mary, b, Sept. 1, 1704; m. July 31, 1722, John Rawlins, oi­Rollins.

'l'IIIRD GENERA'fION.

3.

ROBERT SAVORY (1Villiarn2, Robert1), born ,June 10, 1694; married Jan. 10, 1717-18, Elizabeth Anderton, of Newbury, who dietl Sept. 14, 1720; 2d, Rebecca, daughter of Aquila Chase.

CHILDREN.

By first wife: I. Elizabeh•, b. Sept. 4, 1720; m. - Sayer, or Sayler.

Ily secOI}d wife: 6 II. Chase, b. Oct. 5, 1723.

III. Hannah, twin sister of Chase. They seem to have been bap­tized next day, and she probably died soon, as her name does not appear on the town records.

IV. Ann, b. Dec. 5, 1729. V. Abigail, b. Aprill, 1731; m. April 25, 1753, Abraham Bm·bank.

4.

SAMUEL3 SAVORY ( William2, Robert1), was born Oct. 6, 1696 ; and married July 24, 1724, Abigail Ordway; he died in 1729. His widow administered on his estate; and Nathaniel Ordway was appointed guardian to the children, July 7, 1729.

CHILDREN.

I. Abigail•, b. Jan. 2, 1725-6. II. Samuel, b. Nov. 20, 1727.

THE ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY. 105

u. THOMAS3 SAVORY ( lVilliam2, Robert1), was born Jan. 23,

1701-2; married Mercy Adams, of Ipswich (intentions pub­lished at Ipswich, Aug. 10, 1723). His will, a very elaborate and interesting document, disclosing great care and circumspec­tion, and illustrating the domestic and social habits of well-to-do New-Englanders of that day, was dated Jan. 28, 1751, and proved April 23, 17 53. His son ,John, made sole executor, being under age, administration durante minoritate, with will annexed, was granted to his widow, who was also appointed guardian of children, William and Betty, then under fourteen years of_age. She died Nov. 10, 1785.

CHILDREN.

l. Hmmah4 , b. Sept. rn, 1724; m. Nov. 26, 1744, Eh.lad Hardy. II. .llforcy, h. Oct. 2:J, 1728; m. Dec. 20, 1748, ,Tohn Burbank.

III. :Mary, b. Nov.!), 17:J0; m. ,Jan. 24, 174!), Samuel Palmer, ,Jr. IV. William, b. Dec. rn, 17:!4; probably d. young. (See VIII.)

'l V. John, h. !fay 21, 17:JG. VJ. Samuel, b. Jan. 30, 1737-38. VII. Betty, b. ,July 11, 1740; m. Dec. 31, 1761, Solomon Tenny.

8 VITI. William, b. Dec. G, 174:J.

FOURTH GENEH.ATION . •

6.

CnASE4 SAVORY (Robert\ Willia;i2, Robert1), was born Oct.

5, 1723; and married, 1st, April 13, 17 4 7, Priscilla Hardy; 2d, June 2, 1779, Hannah Burbank.

CIIILJ>HEN. By first wif.l: • .

1. Abigail\ b . .Nov. 7, 1748; m. Sept. 8, 1768, Nathaniel Walling­ford. Descendants live in East Bradford, now Groveland, Mass.

O II. Samuel, b. March 15, 1749-50. 10 III. Daniel, b. Dec. 11, 1751.

IV. Hannah, b. ,Tan. 7, 175-1; m . .Tune 11, 17iG, according to town records, Parker Smith; church records, Plummer Smith;"" lived in West Xewhnry.

*i, e., If they have been correctly trnnscri\Jed for me. Parker is pro\Ja\Jly correct.

106

v.

11 VI. 12 vu.

VIIL IX.

x.

XI.

THE SAVERY FAJ\HLIES.

Robert, b. Dec. 11 1757; " probably-died in the army," _but the death of a Robert, who may be this man, is recorded at Amesbury, April 6, 17\l\l.

Jonathan, b. Sept. 7 (01· 22), 175!J. Benjamin, b. Oct. 2, 1762. JWpludet, b. Feb. HJ, 1765; 111. Lucy l'erldnH; no cl1ihlrn11. Rebecca, b. Nov. 22, 1767; m.Dec. 5, 1797, Abel Saunders;

d. Jan. 5, 1838. Susanna, b. July 17, 1772; m. Dec. 15, 1793, David Foote.

By second wife: Mary, b. June 27, 1780; m. Samuel Adams, of whom she was

the second wife.

7.

CAPT. JOHN4 SAVORY ('l'hornars3, 1Villiarn2, Robert1), was born May 21, 1736 ; and married Sept. 11, 17 55, Sarah, daughter of Edward and Mary (Spofford) Wood. It was probably she who died a widow June -!, 1823.

CIIILOlU:N.

13 I. 'l'homas6, b. Feb. 16, 1756. H II. John, b. Nov. 18, 1757.

8.

WILLIAM4 SAVORY ( Tltomari, 1Villiarn2, Robert1), was Lorn Dec. 6, 17 43 ; and married l\fary -- ; died .T uly 22, 1800; ,and his widow Dec." 24, 1814.

15

Cu11.1>1mN.

I. Ehe11eze1"', b. ~fay 2, 17G5. II. Moses, b. Oct. 5, 1766; m. June 15, 1791, Susannah (or Sukey)

Dutch. ,vas a merchant of Newburyport, where his estate was administered by his widow, ,fuly 8, 180:l; had one son, Moses•, b. Sept. 30, 1702. I think this son afterwards lived

III. IV. V.

VI. VII.

VIII. IX. X.

XI.

in Bangor, Me. Mary, b. June 19, 1768; m. Aug. 2, 1788, Noyes Jacques. Sarah, b. Jan. 9, 1770; d. Oct. 8, 1790. William, b. Feb. 15, 1772; d. ,July, 177-i. Betsey, b. ,June 2-1, 177-i; m. May 5, li!J4, Samuel Balch. Hannah, b. March 24, 1777; m. Feb. 3, 1801, Wadleigh :N"oyeR. William (twin of Hannah), d. April 12, same year. Priscilla, b. Jan. 4, 1781; m. April 15, 1802, Retire Parker. 'l'homas, twin of Priscilla. Anna, b. ,July 23, 1782; d. Nov. i, 1783.

THE ESRRX COUNTY FAMILY.

FIFTH GENERATIO-J.~.

9.

107

8AMUEL5 SAVORY ( Glwse4, Robert}, William\ Robert1), was born March 15, 17 49-50 ; and married at Amesbury (intentions published, Feb. 10, 1776) 11frs. Elizabeth Sargent, who may not have been a widow, as the prefix" Mrs." was used to denote a woman of mature years, when the father held a position of rank or superior social standing, "Miss " being until more recently confined to girls under twelve years old. She. was born

· April 18, 1757. He removed to and resided in Derry, N. H., whence some of his descendants removed to \Varner, N. H. He died Sept. 9, 1821, being- killed hy a tornado which demol­ished his lmildi11gH. IliH widow 1lied l\farclt 20, 184 7. So for as I have been able to gather, he had

CIIIL1>IrnN.·

16 I. Robert". 1'i II. John. 18 III. Daniel, b. March 24, li89.

IV. Rebecca, m. Obadiah Fifield. Ch.: (1) Frankliu1 ; m. l\lary Jt'riRlH~t•. (2) Fr:1.nciR, m. Lucy - , aml had t.wn clti11lrP11. (3) Albert. (4) Harriet. (6) Emily, m. Edwin Stone. (6) Warren. (7) Sarah.

10.

DANIEL" SAVORY ( Cliase4, Robert\ William2, Robert1), was born Dec. 11, 1751; and married (intentions published at Amesbury Sept. 9, 1775) "Mrs." Sarah Colby; both described ai,; of A111cHb11ry. Ile livctl in varionR places, a11tl hatl, I am informed, twelve children bom in Amesbury, of which the fol­lowing are reconled :

Curr,mrnN.

I. Daniel", b. Feb. 17, liii; intentions of marriage published at Amesbury to LoiR Gnrnlwin, of same place.

IL He.ujamin, b. June 18, 177!l; d. April 5, li99. Ill. IWzabeth, b. Aprfl 15, li81. IV. William, b. ,July 2i, li83; d. April i, 17!)9. V. Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1785.

108 TffE SAVERY FAMILIES.

VI. Aaron, b. Oct. 23, 1787. VII. Hannah, b. June 25, 1790.

VIII. Chase, b. Oct. 4, 1794. IX. Judith Tucker, b. Sept. 19, 1797. X. Priscilla, b. March 19, 1800.

11.

DEA.' J ONATHAN5 SAVORY ( Ohase4, Robert3, William2, Robert1),

was born Sept. 7 (or 22 *), 1759; married, 1st, March, 1783, Hannah Tenny; 2d, 1Betsey Kimball; resided in Derry, N. H.; died Feb .. 25, 1841.

Cil!LDltEN.

By first wife: 19 l. 'fhomas6, b. Oct. 6, 1783.

II. Priscilla, b. April 8, 1785; m. Abraham Burbank, and had two daughters: (l) Hannah 7, m. Warren Coffin, and had five children; (2) Haniet, m. David Coffin, and had four chil­dren. A descendant of one of these is a lawyer of st:uuling in Boston.

Ill. Hannah, h. April 1-!, 1788; (I. unm. IV. lletsey, b. ~<\.pril 2S, 17U0; 1l. Aug. 2U, 1790. V. Jonathan, b. March 6, 1793; d. ,June 17, 1705.

VI. Betsey, b. May 24, 1795; d. 1818, unm.

12.

BENJAl\IIN5 SAVORY ( Oltase4, Robert\ William\ Robert'), was Lorn Oct. 2, 1762; and manied, 1st, Aug. 26, 1789, Judith Burbank, who was born July 28, 1767, and died July 10, 1830; 2d, April 5, 1836, Widow Mary Tenny, who died Aug. 3, 1852. He died in Georgetown, Mass., March 26, 1856.

C1111,rnmN.

By first wife: I. Mercy", !J. l\lay 6, 1790; m. Dec. 25, 1811, Moses W. Thurlow.

Ch.: (1) l'atienee W.7, h. ,June 17, 1812; d. ,June 7, 1856. (2) 'l'ristram C. W., b. Sept. 8, 1813; tl. Oct. 26, 1830. (3) Judith S., b. July 8, 1822.

IL Judith, b. l\fay 30, 1792; m. Jan. 23, 1816, her third cousin, ,John Stickney. Ch.: (1) l\foses7 , b. May 17, 1810; (2) Abel, b. F'eb. ll, 1825; (3) Betsey, b. Nov. 22, 1830; d.

20 III. Nathaniel, b. July 31, 1794.

* Recor,led twice. Perhaps 22<1 was date of baptism.

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21 IV. John Burbank, b. Jan. 6, 1797. V. Eleazer, b. Sept. 11, 1799; m. March 7, 184.'3, Abigail P. Law­

rence; d.; no children. VI. Hobert, b. Feb. 1, 1802; resided at Ifaverhill; m. Catharine

Spofford. Ch.: (1) George Robert 7, b. May 23, 1832; d. (2) Lucy.

22 VII. Benjamin, b. Nov. 1, 1804.

13.

MA.TOR THOMAS" SAVORY ( Jolin4, Tliorna!f\ Williarn2, Rob­ert'), was born Feb. l(i, 1756; and married, 1st, June 18, 1778, Bethiah Carleton; 2d, Aug.18, 1785, Polly Rollins (or Rawlins). He was a man of superior ability and of much influence, and a prominent member of the Massachusetts House of Representa­tives. He died May 23, 1829.

I. II.

23 Ill. 24 IV.

V.

25 VJ. VII.

CHILDREN.

Bethiah6, b. Feb. 27, 1787; d. Oct. 1, 1790. Polly, b. March 9, 1789; d. ,Jan. 21, 1800. Dethiah, b. Feb. 24, 1791. George, b. Jan. 30, 1793. Sophia, h. April 28, 1795; m. Sept. 21, 183G, ,John Pearson, of

:N' ewburyport. ,Joseph, b. April 2!l, 1797. Martha, b. Oct. 26, li!l!); m. Jan. 14, 1823, Francis Wingate, of

Hallowell, Me.

14.

,JoHN" SAVORY (,fohn4, 11hornas\ 1Villiarn2, Robert1), was horn Nov. 18, 1757; and married December, 1779, Polly Baco11.

CHILDREN,

I. Abigail", b. Dec. 27, 1781. II. William, b. Aug. 11, 1783.

[£I. Snrah, b. March 21, 1785. IV. John, h. Oct. 22, 1788; m. ,July 30, 1810, Huthy Goodrich, of

Newbury. V. ,Tosiah, b. ,July 11, 1792.

\' I. Hannah, h. ,July 31, 1705; m. Oct. 22, 1815, Ebenezer Hale (probably).

110 Tm•; SAVERY l!'Al\IILIES.

15.

THOMAS" SAVORY ( William4, Tliomat, William\ Robert1), was born Jan. 4, 1781, twin of Priscilla; and married Oct. 10, 1804, Deborah Perley; died probably July 23, 1838.

I. II. m. IV. V.

VI. VII.

VIII.

rx. x.

XI.

'!6 XU.

CHrLDREN.

Moses•, b. Aug. 10, 1805. Betsey, b. July 27, 1806. Lucy Perley, b. June 6, 1808. Thomas, b. May 11, 1810; probably died Joung. Mary Stevens, b. l\fay ao, 1811. Dolly Wood, b. Nov. 12, 181:l. Priscilla Parker, b. Feb. 13, 1816; d. Sept. 17, 1816. 'fhomas William, b. Sept. 11, 1817; m. and had children: Carrie

P.7, whom. Feb. 6, 1857, Herbert E. Walker. Priscilla Parker, b. March 20, 1820. MosesPutnam, b. Aug. 30, 1822. Hannah Dalton, b. M:u·ch 19, 1825. In Groveland towu records

is recorded a marriage Oct. 11, 1855, of Hannah H., daugh-­ter of Thomas and Dehorah Sr.vory, to Samuel Balch.

Charles Pntuam, b. l'rluy 20, 1828.

SlXTH GENERATION.

16.

RoBERT6 SAVORY ( Samuel6, Ohase\ Robert!", William2

, Rob­ert1), married Abigail Hardy.

CHILDREN.

I. Samuel'. II. Jesse.

III. Levi. IV. George. V. Isaac.

VI. William. VII. Lydia, m. Samuel Chase. Ch.: (1) Louis N.; (il) Emmeline,

m. -- Ludlam.

17.

JOHN6 SAVORY ( Samuel5, C'ltase4, Robert3, William\ Rob­ert1), married Sarah Straw.

THE RS8l~X COUNTY FA.l\IILY. 111

CH!LIJHF.N. _

27 l. Hiram. 28 Jr. M osrs.

III. Sarah, m. Warren Danton. Ch.: (1) Sarah; (2) Jessie;: (3) Emily.

IV. Betsey, d. unm. 29 V. John.

18.

DANrnL" SAVOltY (Srimu<'l\ GltaRe4, Robert\ William2, Rob-­ert1), was born March 24, 1789; married April 8, 1813, Mary Straw; died 1853.

CHILDREN.

Besides four who died young.

30 I. Cyrus Pettee', b. ,July 24, 1824. JI. Pluma, b. October, 1826; m. Horace Stanley.

31 Ill. Lucy, b. ,Jan. 24, 1830.

19.

THOMAS6 SAVORY ( Jonathan\ Oliase4, Robert\ William2,. Robert1), was born Oct. 6, 1783; married Grisel Holmes; died Dee. 1G, 18H7.

CIIILDREN.

I. Elizabeth 7, b. May !I, 1810; rn. Oct. ll, 1835, Isaac Dow; no­children.

32 11. ,Jonathan, b. May 7, 1812. 33 Ill. Caroline, b. ~larch 14, 1821.

20.

NATHANIEL6 SAVORY (BenJ°amin\ Cliase4, Robertf3, William2,

Robert1), was born ,July 31, 1794, and early entered on a life of maritime adventure. In 1830, in company with four other white men and a party of natives, he fitted out at Oahu, one of the Sandwich Islands, sailed to and made a settlement on Peel Island, one of the Bonin falands, in the North Pacific. These islands ha<l been discovered an<l taken possession of by the English; but as they were originally peopled by Japanese.

112 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

Japan has been of late years permitted_ to resume her ancient sovereignty over them. The following account of the coloniza­tion of the islands by Savory and his associates is from " Cham­bers' Encyclopredia": "In 1830, Peel Island, the centre of the group, was settled, in connection with the whaling business, by a motley colony, - an Englishman, an Italian, a Dane, two Americans, and fifteen Sandwich-Islanders (five men and teri women), under the auspices of a 'union jack.'"

The following was written by a member of Commodore Perry's eventful expedition to Japan in 1853, in Harper's llfaga­zine for March, 1856 :* "In 1830 a colony of Americans and Europeans came to Peel Island from the Sandwich Islands, having in their train several native, male and female, Kanakas. This is the nucleus of a population which amounted only to thirty-one all told on the visit of Commodore Perry. One Nathaniel Savory, a New England Yankee, is looked up to as a sort of patriarch of the people, and he manage:,; to :-irn;tain himself with the proper degree of <liguity. This man has mar­ried a native of Guam, the widow of one of the first settlers, and what with an increasing family of young Savorys, the cul­tivation of a patch of alluvial land, bounded in front towards the bay by a coral reef, and in the rear by a wooded gorge, which stretches between two hills which rise from the interior, and the proverbial ingenuity of his countrymen in making the best of the accidental circumstances of life, seems to be in a highly prosperous condition. Savory contrives to raise such abundant harvests of sweet potatoes, maize, onions, pine­apples, bananas, and watermelons that he not only has enough for himself and family, but a surplus to spare for the whalern who frequent the Bonins for supplies. Whatever may be the theoretical views of Savory upon the a:11-absorbing question of the Maine law, he evidently practically disapproves of it, for he has construct~d a still an<l is famous for making the best rum in all the Bonins. He has a pretty enough cottage with neat

• Sec also Com. Perry's report or his expellltlon, ln any large public library.

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enclosures, and a garden, watered by a beautiful stream which flows coolly through the tropical vegetation that fills in the valleys beyond." From a declaration signed by him, dated March 20, 1862, published in the Georgetown, Mass., Advocate, Oct. 23, 1880, and said to be "elegantly" constructed and written; it appears that in 1824 * he was elected governor of the island for two years, which period he served, and was elected for three years more. The Japanese authorities, after their arrival, treated him "with respect and much friendship." He sold a portion of his estate on the island to the United States govern­ment for a coaling and watering station for whaling and other vessels in the Pacific Ocean. His wife was thirty-four years old in 1862. He died about 1877 or 1878.

CUII,DREN.

I. Agnes Burbank', b. Feb. 14, 1853. IL Horace Perry, b. April 3, 1855.

II I. Helen Jane, b. Feb. 28, 185i. IV. Robert Nathaniel, b. March 1S, 1860. V. E~t.lwr 'l'hnrbon, h. March 20, 1862.

All(\ pcrhapR othl'rR.

21.

JOHN BURBANK6 SAVORY (Benjamin5, Oliase4, Robert3, Wil­liam2, Robert1 ), was born Jan. 6, 1797 ; and married May 30, 1819, Rachel Johnson, daughter of Solomon Hale, who was born in Bradford, Mass., Jan. 11, 1798, and died March 28, 1880; lived in Howley, now Georgetown, Mass.; died 1865.

CHILDREN.

I. Wicom Hale', b. June 16, 1820; resided at Haverhill; d. Jan. 15, 1S90.

II. Sophila, b. July 10, 1823; m. Amos Spofford; d. January, 1880. lfl. l\fartha Lorinda, b. l\foy Hi, 1830; d. Aug. 28, 1832. IV. Benjamin Little, b. Feb. 27, 1832; resides in New York. V. Raclwl ,Tohnson, h. l\Iarch 6, 1837.

• But 1824 Is evidently a typogrnphkal error in the Adt1ocate, for he Orst went to the Island In 1830.

114 THE SAVERY FAMILIES.

22.

BENJAMIN6 SAVORY ( BenJ°amin~, Ohase\ Robert3, William2, Robert1), was born Nov. 1, 1804; and married Feb. 13, 1831, Mary Shaw Stone, of Salem, Mass.

CHILDREN,

H I. Benjamin', b. Aug. 23, 1832. IT. Tris tram 'l'hurlow, b. Sept. 19, 1834; m. March 7, 1873, Har­

riet F. Price. TRISTRUI 'l'. 7 SAVORY is the proprietor Savory & Co.'s express.

III. Mary 'l'horndike, b. May 12, 1837; d. Dec. 4, 1888; m. Wm. F. Lefavour; both d. leaving two children.

IV. Nathaniel, b. March 1, 1839; d. Aug. 11, 1857.

23.

BETHIAH6 SAVARY (Thomat, Joltn4, Tlwmail, William2, Robert1), was born Feb. 24, 1791; and married Capt. David Walker, who servc,l his country as a lieutenant in the WM of 1812. He was Lorn Jan. 27, 1792, and died Feb. 20, 1829. She died Jan. 12, 1883, aged 92. "She was left a widow in early life with three small children to •care for, and nobly did she do her duty. Through her long life she was ever faithful to the higlw::;t all(l tmest. Alway::; eheel'fnl, amiable, 1t11d kind to all, quiet and unobtrusive in her manner, ::;he was a close ohserver, and her peI"ceptive poweI"::; weJ'e n1111swtlly keen. Until within about a year, when failing health imi)aired her faculties, she was interested in all the events transpiring around her. She was in every sense a tme gentlewoman of the olden time."

Cnn.DimN.

I. George Savary7, b. Feb. 3, 1821; d. at Newburyport, Jan. 22, 1891.

II. l\Iary Jane, b. Oct. 11, 1823; d. July 2, 1865. III. Wilfoun R., b. Oct. 15, 1827; )VILLIA~( H. 7 )VALKEJt was the last

cashier of the lllerrimack Couut_y Bank in Conco1·d, N. II.; m. Sept. :lO, 1866, E111eli11e B. Defriez, of Nantucket, Mass. Ch.: (1) Isahelle8, b. ,Tune 11, 1868; m. Sept. 7, 1887, W. J. l\I. Gates, and has daughter, Vivian_ Walker•, b. llfay 13, 18!l0.

THE ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY, 115

24.

HoN. GEORGE6 SAVARY (Tliomas5, John\ Thomas'\ William\ Robert1), was born Jan. 30, 1793; and married Louisa, _daugh­ter of Benjamin Balch. He was in the sixth generation from John Balch, who it is supposed came to America with Gorges in 1623, through Benjamin2, Freeborn3, William\ William5•

(See "Boston Historical and Genealogical Register," Vol. IX., p. 233.) Like the Saverys, the Balches were clearly an English family of ancient Norman extraction, but dating in England further back, for the name is in the illustrious "Roll of Battle Abbey," the list of the principal chiefs and knights who fought for vVilliam at Hastings, deposited by him in the Abbey which he built on the field of his immortal victory. In business Mr. Savary was engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, on a very extended scale. After filling many minor positions, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa­tives fonr terms, from Bradford East Parish, and thence was elected to the State Senate in 1843, and was the candidate of his party for the office of lieutenant-governor. The following obituary is from a contemporary paper: -

" The death of Mr. Savary will be felt as a public loss. Though not a great talker, he was a man of marked ability, possessed an influence of very considemble extent, and had mingled quite largely in public affairs. He had been several times State senator, and was supported by the Democratic party, to which he had always adhered, as it~ candidate for Presidential elector, for lieutenant-governor, etc. At home, in the midst of his family and his neighbors, the life of Mr. Savary was very beautiful. He was never known to exhibit any asperity; was always kind, considerate, and ready to help, and few men have ever been more endeared to those with whom Lltey came in daily contact. lnjury and insult he put aside in a quiet all(l m1moverl way quite peculiitr to himself, and, if :dlowe1l Lo, Hoon HtdTerc(l Lite umLLeL· to fall from his mind. It is the unanimous testimony of those who knew him 1)est that

116 THI<} SAVErtY FA.l\IILIES.

they have nevei- seen his equal in this respect. In times of pecuniary distress he made it a point to give employment to poor and suffering persons ; and in respect to all his more immediate relations, it is not eulogy hut simple statement of fact to say that he may be proposed as a model. Of late he has taken great interest in the Independent Church in Grove­land; and he is remembered with especial gratitude and affec­tion by the members of the society."

Also the following: "In the sudden death of this active and enterprising citizen, not only his family, hut our town and the whole community have suffered an irreparable loss. A feeling of sadness, not confined to any sect or party, has pervaded the town from the moment it was known that he was seriously ill. Every person in active life in this community for nearly forty years has known and appreciated the business talents, the open-hearted liberality, and the social qualities of GEORGE SAVARY, and his demise has left a void in society which it will take long years to fill. In all' the relations of life and lmsiness he was always the able and efficient friend, or the fair and hon­orable opponent." And the following: "As a politician he was a firm and consistent Democrat, freely allowing to all an honest difference of opinion." The church of which he was a member adopted, on the occasion of his death, resolutions of more thai1 ordinary feeling a11tl power. Ile die1l Mareh 28, 1854, and his widow, June 1, 1887, aged 84 years 11 months. Of her a contemporary paper said : "During his [Rev. David Wasson's] ministry in Groveland, he gave a great impetus to progressive thought, and Mr. Savary and his wife were among his loyal supporters. Her heart was large, her hospitality abounding. The doors of her home were not more widely open than was her heart to invite to the comfort and cheer of her roof-tree. Beauty of presence and a remarkable amiability of spirit made her at once the centre of attraction. These quali­ties, united with strong and earnest convictions, and youthful spirit, preserved her from the common infirmities of age, and to

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the very last made her the bright part{cular star of her house­hold." From another obituary notice : "Mrs. Savary was in many respects a remarkable woman. Exceedingly easy and affable in her manner, she was an ornament to society. She had a happy disposition, took a cheerful view of life, and in a remarkable degree looked on the bright side. She kept up her interest in all that was taking place about her. She enjoyed the society of young people, and enLered into their pleasures with a sympathy which made her a delightful companion. She bore her years as ft light weight, and her erect form and fair face gave little indication that more than fourscore summers had passed over her head. To the very last day of her life her mental powers were undimmed. To her children and friends she has been a great comfort and joy to her very last day. Her long life-work has been well done, and now she is gathered like a sheaf of corn fully ripe. Her death was like the going down of the sun in a clear sky. Though her children will mourn with deep grief her going home, yet they must feel comforted that she had been spared so long, aud her life so full of peace aml happiness. Through the com­ing years the memory of her will be to her children as strains of remembered music, always bringing much of joy and comfort."

CHILDREN.

I. Martha Wingate', b. May 10, 1823; m. Eldred S. Parker. 35 1 L George 'l'homas, b .• July 28, 1826.

36

nr. Frank, b. Sept. 5, 182!1. FRANK' SAVARY m. ,June 14, 1861, .R8t.hPr A. Barnar1l, of Worct\Rt,f'r. Ch.: (1) Caroli11P A.8, b . . Jan. 24, lSG-1; in lS!lJ-;l a pupil of the artiRt ,Jacoh Wagul'r, in Ilostou; N°'··, lSV:J, iu Paris as au art student. (2)

IV. v.

VI. VIL

VIII. IX.

l\fartlm P., b. Nov. 4, 1865; resides in Worcester, Mass. Clara Louisa, b. July 9, 1831; d. Dec. 21, 1831. Mary Rollins, b. April 15, 1833; d. Dec. 21, 1833. William Henry, b. April 18, 1835. Lucy A., h. ,July 8, 1836; d. infant. Clara Louisa, b. Dec. 24, 1837; unm. Benjamin Balch, b. April 17, 1840. BEN,JAmN B.7 SAVARY m.

Oct. 30, 1873, Abby Dorr, of l\Iedford. Ch.: (1) Nellie Louise", b. Dec. 27, 1880; resides in :Medford, J\Iass.

118 THE SA VERY F Al\IILIES.

25.

JosEPH6 SAVARY ( Thomasa, John\ Thomaff3, William2, Rob­ert1), was born April 28, 1797; married (intentions published Sept. 30, 1820) Jane F., daughter of Dudley Griffin, of Gloucester; died Nov. 3, 1858, "rL gentleman whose high standard of moral integrity and pleasing social deportment secured the esteem of a large circle of friends."

CHILDREN.

37 I. Charles Griffin1, b. Nov. 27, 1821. 38 IL John Har:uleu, b. May 22, 1825. 39 HI. Joseph Augustus, b. Nov. 22, 1829.

IV. Eben Rollins, b. Nov. 22, 1832; unm. (0 V. Henry Solon, b. Nov. 1, 1638.

20.

CHARLES PuTNAMi; SAVARY ( 1'lwmas5, 1Villiam4, 1'/wmas", William2, llubert1), wa.:1 Lorn l\foy ~0, 18~8; and 11m1Tic1l OcL.

25, 1849, Sarah H. Balch.

CHJi,DREN.

I. William PerleyS, b. April 10, 1852; m. Aug. 3, 1879, Alice ~I. Richardson.

II. Elizabeth B., b. May 27, 185!J; cl. April 8, 1863. III. Annie W., b. July 25, 1866.

SEVENTH GENERA'l'JON.

27.

HIRAM7 SAVORY ( John6, Samuel", Chase\ Robert\ William2,

Robert1), ·married Belinda Ryan.

CIIILDUEN.

I. Mary8, d. young. II. Daniel, living at Waltham, Mass.

28.

MOSES7 SAVOltY (Jolm6, Samuel\ Chase\ Robert3

, 1Villiam2,

Robert1), married Almira Brown, of Sutton, N. H.

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I. Charle~,d.young. 1 I. Veronn, b. :l\lnrch, 1845.

III. Everett c., b. June 3, 1847. EVERETT C.8 SAVORY m. 1st, Dec. 20, 18G7, Susie ::\I. Matthews; 2d, Nov. 26, 1885, Vir­ginia Payne; no children; resides at Chattanooga, Tenn.

29.

JOHN; SAVORY (Jolin6, Samuel\ Gliase4, Robert\ William2,

Robert1), married Nancy J. Manning. CHILDREN,

I. Luella8, m. John Clement. lI. Warren, m. Nellie Page.

III. Fred, m. Emma. Dow. TV. Eugene. V. Harland. The last two in 1887 living with their father in

Boston.

30.

CYRUS PETTEE7 SAVORY (IJaniel6, Samuel\ Chase\ Robert\ Williarn2, Robert1), was born ,July 24, 1824; married June 6, 1850, Helen Solena Harriman, a sister of Brig.-Gen. Walter Harriman, who, after service in the great Civil War, became governor of New ·1 la.rnpi-diire.

CHILDREN.

I. Frank D.8 , d. young. II. Josephine Augusta, b. June I, 1852; m. Frank L. Lamb. Ch.:

(1) Fred W.", b.1875; (2) Silvia, b. 1882; (3) Walter, b. 1886. 41 III. George Washington, b. l\Iarch 29, 1856. 42 IV. ·waiter Harriman, b. ,June 15, 1866.

31.

Lucyi SAVOltY (Dmiiel\ Sarnuel5, O!tase4, Rober&, William2,

Robert1), born Jan. 24, 1830; married Sept. 22, 1850, William Montgomery.

CHILDREN.

Besides two who died young. I. Albert8 , b: Aug. 11, 1851; m. Susie Russell. Ch.: (1) Ida

Louisa. II. ,Jerome, b. Sept. 12, 18iH; m. Liza J. Dunbar.

III. Scott, b. Nov.17, 18nG; nnm. n·. Guy, b. Feb. 28, 1860; m. Nellie :Martin.

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3 0 .... CoL. JONATHAN7 SAVORY (Thomas6, Jonathan5, Chase\

Robert\ JVilliam2, llobert1), of Londo11deny, N. II., was born

May 7, 1812; and married March 20, 18313, Abigail S. Coffin; died Feb. 2, 1881. The following obituary notice is from a contemporary paper: "Col. Jonathan Savory was a native of Londonderry, and a man well known in that part of the State. He has represented the town in the Legislatm:e, and was for· several years on the board of selectmen, and often a school committee man. For many years he taught school in the town.· He was a farmer, and did much to promote that industry. He was recognized by all as a man of high character and ability. He was formerly a colonel of militia, and was a person of fine physique and nuu·ked presence in any assembly where he ap­peared. He leaves a widow with no children. He had accu­mulated ·a large property by his industry and excellent jlfdg­ment."

33.

CAROLINE7 SAVORY ( Thomas6, Jonathan5, Chase\ Roberti,

1Villiam2, Jlobert1), was bom March 14, 1821'; married May 7,

1846, Benjamin McAllister.

CUII,DREN.

I. 'l'homas Savory", l>, July 10, 1847; d. ~fay 3, 1880. He gradu­atet.l M. D. at Ilowdoiu College iu 1872, aud was a success­ful physiciau at Amesl>ury, Mass.

II. George, b. Aug. 4, 1850. III. Charles, b. Nov. 10, 1852.

34.

BENJAMIN7 SAVORY (Benjamin6, Benjamin", Ohase\ Robert:3, William2, Robert1), was born Aug. 23, 1832; married Oct. 29, 1857, Hannah B. Peele; died Aug. 16, 1862.

CHILDREN.

I. NathauielS, l>. Aug. :n, 1858; m. Ella L. Watson, Aug. 7, 1880. Ch.: (1) Beujamin 'l'.

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II. Henry P., b. May 15, 1860. HENitY P.8 SAVORY m. Feb. 5, 1885, Adelle L. Houstoi1, of Newton Highlands, Mass. Ch.: (1) Robert IIenryO, b. March 26, 1886; (2) Helen Louisa, b. March 23, 1889.

I II. Benjamin 'I'., d. at age of seven months.

35.

GEORGE THOMAS7 SA VARY ( George6, Tliomas5, Jolin\ Tliomas3,

William2, Robert1

), was born July 28, 1826; and married, 1st, Feb. 9, 1851, Margaret C. Tappan; 2d, May 18, 1861, Jennie Goodale ; deceased.

CHILDREN.

By first wife: I. Margaret•, b. April 3, 1860; died in infancy.

By second wife: II. Anna Louisa, b. l\lay 10, 1863; mun.

Ill. George, b. July 7, 1865; m. May 24, 1891, Henrietta L. John­son, of Boston. REY. GEORGE8 SA v ARY was ordained a deacon of the Tieforme<l Episcopal Church, in Boston, in 1891; a student in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Epis­copal Church, at Philadelphia in 1892-93; unanimously cnlled to the pastorate of Emmanuel Heformed Episcopal Church of Ncw:irk, N. ,I., l•'eh. 2ii, 18!>3; to he ortlainctl a. presbyte1· in June, 1893, at Philatlelphia.

36.

REV. vVlLLIAM H.7 SAVARY ( George6, Tliomas.S, Jolin4, Tliomas3

, William2; Robert1), was born at Savaryville, East Bradford, Mass., on the same land taken up by his ancestor, Robert, seven generations back, April 18, 1835 ; graduated at Yale College in the class of 1857 ; married Oct. 21, 1862, Amm E., ouly daughter of Rev. Geo. vV. Hosmer, D. D., one of the pioneer Unitarian ministers of the United States, an<l among the most distinguished for his learning, eloquence, and piety, at one time president of Antioch College, Ohio, who died at Mr. Savary's resideuce at Canton, Mass., July 5, 1881. Her mother was Hannah, daughter of the Rev. James Kendall, D. D., of Plymouth, Mass. Her brother, Prof. James K. Hosmer, of Washington University, Mo., has won abiding fame in the field

122 THE SA VERY 1''AMILIES.

of letters. Mr. Savary gathered and- organized in 18Gfi the First Unitarian Chmch of Ellsworth, .i\'Ie., all(l has heen the respected aJl(l popuhtr pastor of churches at Ellsworth, Me., and Canton, Mass., and now (1891) of Unity Church, South Boston ; \\,n able preacher and lecturer and Ol'ganizer of Christian missionary work.

CHILDREN.

I.· Edward Hosme1.s, b. July 22, 1861, in Buffalo, N. Y. EDWAIU>

lfnsmm SA v Alff grad11atc1l at Boston Latin School, 1884; graduated at Harvard University in the class of 1888; law student at Harvard, 1888-90; admitted to Boston, Suffolk County, Bar in December, 1890. Is practising law in Boston.

II. Sara Kendall, b. July 21, 18(i7, at Ellsworth, Me.; graduated Canton, l\Iass., High School, 1885; Channey Hall School, Boston, 1889. Kindergarten teacher. ·

37.

CHARLES Gm1rn1N7 SAVARY (Joseph'\ 1'lwmas", Juhn\ Thomai", William2, Robert1), was born Nov. 27, 1821; married Nov. 30, 1841, Martha E. Griffith, of East Bradford; a prom­inent citizen of Groveland. In 18G2 he was appointed United States assistant internal revenue collector, which he held until the autumn of 1880, when he resigned it on account of ill health, and died of apoplexy, March 20, 1881.

CHILDREN.

I. EdwardS, b. Feb. 20, 1843; m. Feb. 18, 1868; d. in California. If. Martha J., b. Au~. 21, 1844; m. Aarnn Parker, of Groveland.

III. Warren, b. Oct. 16, 1849; d. Oct. 2, 1851.

:18.

JOHN HARADEN7 SA v ARY ( Joseph6, Thomai', John4, Thomas3, 1Villiam2, Robert1), was born May 22, 1825; married Dec. 27, 1854, Maria A. Tyler, of Groveland; deceased.

CHILDREN_.

I. George8, b. March 7, 1855; d. Sept. 21, 1855. ll. Harry, b. Dec. 12, 1856; unm.

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39.

JOSEPH AUGUSTUS7 SAVARY (Joseph6, Thomas5, John\ Thoma#, William2, Robert1), was born Nov. 22, 1829 ; and mar­ried Nov. 29, 1855, Caroline D. Jamieson; died Sept. 11, 1877, in the same house in which he was born, at Savaryville, Grove­land, the mansion house of the family for generations. HoN. GEORGE SAVARY huilt the mansion house nearly opposite on anccstml In.Bil in 182H-2"1. Ohituary notice: "]\fr. Savary was widely known, was a genial, large-hearted man and benutiful singer. Ile was formerly leader of Savary's Harmonics, com­posed of Henry S., E. Rollins, J. Augustus Savary, and vVilliam A. Renton. The popularity of the quartet was unbounded. They sang everywhere in thiH section, and were everywhere greeted by enthusiastic audiences. Their voices blended in perfect harmony, and their efforts delighted everybody. Their programmes always included some of 'ye ancient' music, which was magnificently rendered, the effect being enhanced by the old-fashioned costumes they wore."

f'.ll!LllltRN.

1. J~ldrcd P. 8, b. Ang. IO, 1856; m. in Ifaverhill, l\I:tss. JI. Willard A., b. July 23, 1857; d. Aug. 4, 1878.

HI. l\Iary S., b. July 2ii, 18iii; m. Nov. 20, 1882, Arthur .E. Abbott. IV. Carrie, b. March 28, 1861; tl. in infancy.

V. Sarah .J., b. May 1, 1864; m. Dec. 31, 1881, J. Everett Wood.

40.

HENRY SoLON7 SAVARY (Jo.~eph6, Thoina8\ John4, Thomas-\ William2, Robert'), was horn Nov. 1, 1838 ; manie<l, 1st, 1\fary Jane Colby, October, 1861, died Oct. 10, 1871; 2d, Sept. 27, 1873, Olive A. Beane.

CHILDREN.

By first wife : I. RebeccnS, b. Jan. 12, 1863; d. Oct. 11, 1864.

U. Ruth E., b. July 5, 1807. By second wife:

111. ,Jeuuie :Marion, h. l\Iay 8, 1875.

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EIGH'fH GENERATION.

41.

REV. GEORGE W .8 SAVORY ( Cyru8 P.1, Daniel6, Samuel\ Ohase4, Robed\ William2, Robert1), born March 29, 1856 ; edu­cated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Kendall Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and Hartford Theological School ; married March 24, 1884, Ida, daughter of Nathan P. Gilmore, adopted daughter of one of his mother's brothers; ordained Congrega­tional (Trinitarian) minister, April 19, 1885, and has been pas­tor of churches at ,varner, Enfield, and Stratham. Removing to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1888, he afterwards embraced the doc­trines taught by Emmanuel Swedenborg, and now ministers to a congregation of that faith; an eloquent preacher and lecturer.

CIULDllEN.

I. Gustine Harrimau9, b. Feb. 13, 1885. II. Soleua, l>. Feb. 20, 1887.

42.

WALTER HARRIMAN8 SAVORY ( Oyrtts P.1, Daniel6, Samitel5,

l"hase4, Robert3, 1Villiam2, Robert1), was born June 15, 1866 ; and married Sept. 1, 1886, Minnie A. Duffie. Was city editor of the Meriden, Conn., Daily Republican, and in 1891 editor of the Staten IBlander, and vice-president of the Staten Island (New York) Press Club.

CHILDREN.

I. Ethel Minnie9, b. June 30, 1887.

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THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FAMILY.

RICHARD SAVORY, OJ<' PoRTSl\IOUTH, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Early genealogical investigatorn in America used to be every­where met by the tradition that the family inquired after sprang from "three brothers," who had come over together, until the phrase, rarely, if ever, verified, became a, byword and jest. Just as common was the positive assertion and belief that it was the great-,qrandfatlier who came. Oral traditions of any reliability very seldom imleetl, if they do ever, extend back beyond one's grandfather. In many a case a man of fair intel­ligence, in sending me his family record, after giving a· clear account of his faU1cr\-1, an<l 0110 pcrliaps a liWc misLy of his grandfather's family, has added with the utmost a.'lstuance, "my great-gmrnlfather came from England," which I have read while I had before me a record proving the birth of that great­grandfather's grandfather, and perhaps a still remoter ancestor, in New England. Similarly all trace of the county or parish from which the immigrant ancestor came faded out of the mem­ory and knowledge of his posterity :.fter the second generation. But in this instance a careful inquiry, involving much corre­spondence, convinces me that the tradition ttmong the elders of the present generation, that the great-grandfather was the immigrant, is sound; and that while no three brothers of our name came together to America, there were three distinct migra­tions from the same parent family, the branch which I now <leal with comi11g to New TTa.mpsl1irc a little before the middle of the last centnry. If there really is anytbi11g in physical type

126 THE SA VERY FAMILIES.

and facial expression to indicate relationship, it certainly exists in the characteristics common to the three New England fami_ lies of the name, especially common to those who derive from Essex County and New Hampshire, there being branches of the Plymouth family which present marked exceptions.* I found a faint tradition that the name of the great-grandfather and supposed immigrant was Robert, and I have found one of that name who fills the necessary conditions. Robert Savory, place of birth and death unknown, married at Portsmouth, N. H., April 17, 1748, Mary Pitman, but no further trace of him appears. I have no doubt there must be further records of him somewhere, but we cannot conjecture where to look for them. He was very likely the father of RICHARD, and perhaps other children.

SECOND GENimA'l'ION.

l.

RrcHARD2 SAVORY (Robert1 ?), date of birth unknown. At Portsmouth, March, 17£19, by Rev. Samuel Haven, D. D., he married Abigail Hodgden, in the record described as of Roches­ter, N. H., hut her descendants say of Farmington, whither he soon removed with most of his children, for this was a second marriage. One tradition gives his first wife's name as Barker, but another, apparently more reliable, names her Emily Mil­ler, and says further that she was born at Gravely Ridge, Portsmouth, and that her father once owned a "handsome estate" in England, which, descending to the eldest son, passed out of the family. The <lates of his birth, firnt mar­riage, and death have elwled aJl my rm;earehes.

* See note to page 15. In conscqucnee of this resemhlance, I long cherished the Idea of ilelng able to trace Dr. Charles A. S11,·ory's ,Jcscent from the Oltl Colony rather than the Essex branch. He and the Uev. W. IL Savary an,I myself met together about 1881, at Lowell Ialanll, in Salem IIu.rbor, ench a memher of one of the three" learncrt profes­sions,'' not ahun,lnntly represented in tho family, antl each, aM it turns out, descended from a dUferout immigru.nt ancc:dtol', I rcmcmhcr tho Doctor, who was n. mun of com­manding stature, jocosely remarking ns we went in to tllnner, "We Savorys have the satisfaction of being able to put our hats where noho,ly else can reach them."

i I. 3 II. 4 III.

IV. .'j V . 6 VI.

Vil.

VIII. IX.

X. xr.

XII. Xlll. XIV.

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FAMILY.

CHILDREN.

By fh-st wife: Mary Roberts3 •

Richard; b. about 1781. Robert. William, lived in Hopkinton, N. H. Charles. Thomas Collins; b. about 1 i!)O. Ann, d. mun. at Charlestown.

By second wife: Emma.

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Betsey, 111. -- Goodwin, of Rollinsford, N. II., and had seven children, of whom three were living in 1885.

Henry, no children. George P., m., and had dght children, of whom Charles F."

Savory, living at .Amesbury, Mass., i~ one; died November, 1882; his wife in August, 1879.

N at.haniel, became deranged, and rl. unm. Lydia, d. young. Amy, d. young.

THIRD GENERATION.

2.

MAltY HoHEltTS~ SA voLtY (Bicliard:-,probably llobert1), married Robert Menclum, or Mendom, of Portsmouth, N. H. A modern branch of the family spell the name Mendon, which I suspect was really the original name.

CHILDREN.

Besides, perhaps, others. I. i\lary Roberts", who m. September, 1831, William Hamilton

Wnlkcr; livctl at Leicester, N. II., and d. Dec. 21, 1889. She had ch.: (1) Col. Sumuel5 Walker, who d. in Denver, Col., from the effect of a bullet lodged in his body at the battle of Fredel'icksburg, years before. (2) l\Iary Lavinia, who m. ,John Francis Annable. (3) Charlotte Theresa, living at Leicester.

Non~. -The following is from Ra\em Register of ,Jan. 12, 1882: -GOLDEN WEUIJINGS. - We nllmled a few days ngo to the· golden wed­

tling of Mr. and i\Ct·s. ,John Annable, of Beverly, and to the fact that their son, l\lr. ,John F. c\nnahlc, ronncrly of Beverly, hnt now o. prominent dealer in coffee :it Hogtou, hatl :i short time before bl:'en present at the goltlen wedtling of the parent.s of his wife. Mr. ,John Annable was :i nativ.-

128 'l'HE SA VlmY l<'Allf[Lms.

of Manchester, :md fifty years ago m:irricd Miss Hannah Hill Savory, of Salem, the daughter of Hohert Savory, of the firm of Rohert & IUclmrd Savory, coopers, well known in :::.ale111 seventy years :igo. l\lr. ,John 1~. Annable married l\Iiss )fary L. Walker, the daughter of Mr. William IT. ,valker, formerly of Portsmouth, N. II., hut now of Leicester, Mass., whose wife was l\liss Mnry Robertfl Mendum, nnd they celebrnted the fiftiet.h anniversnry of their marriage last September. The mothe1· of Miss Mary R. 1\Iendum (now l\frs. Wm. II. Walker) was the ·daughter of .Mrs. l\Iary Savory l\Iendum, who was the sister of Mr. Robert Savory, the maternal grandfather of 1\Ir. ,John F. Annable. It thus appears that both Mr. and Mrs. ;rolm P. Annable can trace their ancestry direct to the same honored Salem family, although neither was aware of the relationship until quite recently. It is a striking fact that each should have had the good for­tune to witness the golden wedding of the parents of both, the notable events occurring within a few weeks of each other.

3.

RICHAllD3 SAVORY ( Richard2, probal,ly Robert1), was born at Portsmouth or Seabrook, about 1781, and after his father's Hecoml mtu'J'iage, tuul whih: hoLh worn yd yo1111g, wo11L wiLlt hiH brother Robert to Salem, where they learned and engaged in the business of coopers, in which for many years they were somewhat renowned, Richard at one time running three facto­ries, and acquiring considerable estate; he married at Salem, Sept. 11, 180~, Betsey Lewis; was one of the fouwlers of the Universalist Church at Salem; died Feb. 12, 1841, an1l his. widow Sept. 2, 1861, aged 75 years 9 months.

CHILDREN.

r. Emily Lewis", b. 1804; m. Jan. 7, 1830, Phineas B. Weston;. and d. Aug. 3, 187-L Ch.: (1) Emily•; (2) Alice.

II. Mary, b. 1806; m. ,Jan. 24, 1828, Joseph Ifardy l\Iillet, of Salem. III. Augustus, b. 1808; m. ,June 14, 1829, Eliza Varney; d. Feb. 27,

1838. Ch. : George A.5, living in ~Iiuneapolis. 7 IV. George, b. 1810.

V. Elizabeth L., b. 1813; m. Oct. 16, 1843, Benj. Webb; d. Nov. 1,. · 1860. Ne, children.

VL Caroline, b. 1816; m. June 21, 1846, ,John ,T. Scobie; (I. Dec. ll,. 1840. No children living.

VII. Sarah Ann, b. 1818; m. Oct. 8, 1839, Charles·A. Smith, of Bos. ton; d. Oct. 28, 186-L Ch.: Arabella 'l'.5 -

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VIII. Harriet Ellen, b. 1820; m. Nov. 10, 1840, Henry P. Upton; d. Aug. 29, 1877. Ch. living: (1) Elizabeth Lewis•; (2) Georgiamt Theresa.

lX. Riehanl F., b. 1823; m. Sept. 30, 1847, Elizabeth M. Lopez; rl. at sea, Sept. 12, 18ii1. Ch.: J~. w.•, m. to .Joseph McKay; livi,s in St.. Pan!, ~linn.

X. Theresa :Maria, b. 182/i; m. Oct. 17, 1847, Daniel R. Bowker. Ch.: (1) Richard Rogers•; (2) Carrie F.

XT. "\Villinm ThomaR, h. 1827; m. Laura, rhmghter of Robert De­land :ind ~l:iry \VPlt-ome. Ch.: Lanrn LowiR''.

4. RoHI~ltT:1 SA vonY _ (Riclianl2, probably Robert1), married at

Beverly, by Rev. Mr. Abbott, Nov. 30, 1808, Jane Hill, daugh­ter of ,fames and Elizabeth Hill, natives of Ireland. She was born a,(; Beverly, Nov. 1 G, 178G; d. Fnh. 23, 1840. He removed t,o Beverly an<l 1licd Ll1crc, aL wltaL daLe I <lo not k11ow.

C1111.rnrnN.

I. ,James<, d. unm. norn at lleverly.

IL Isabella, d. 11nm. UI. Hannah Hill, m. 1832, ,Tohn Annable; living at Beverly.

u .. CnAm,gs~ SAVORY (Richnrd2,_probably Robert'), date of birth

nnlmown. He married Nancy Vickery, and died young, in Bos­ton. His widow, although in delicate physical health, supported herself, by her energy ancl decision of character, respectably to the time of her decease. She died of consumption.

CHILDREN. I. ,Jane4 •

8 II. Charles August, b. Dec. 25, 1813.

o. THOMAS COLLINS~ SA VOltY (Richard2, probably Robert1), mar­

ried Nm1cy Smith; rlic<l l\farch 11, 1825. His widow married Sluulrnch Dixon, and lmtl four children; died Aug. 4, 1843.

CHILDREN.

D I. Thom:tR CollinR', h .• l1111t~ 11, 1818. 10 11. lli\'h:tnl, h. Ht•pt.. 2, 18 l!l; ti. about 186[).

III. Willi:tm Henry, h. ,J111w 5, 1821; tn. Oct. 16, 18-i!l, Catherine ,\n11•1ia L11c:1s, of Plymouth. Ch.: (1) William 11.5, l>. l\fay 12, l8ii2; lives at Chelsea, Mass.

IV. Benjamin, b. April 11, 1823; d. Oct. 18, 1825.

130 TH~ SAVEltY ]'Al\lILIES.

FOURTH GENERATION.

7.

G1w1tG1~4 SAV(WY (BielumP, .Uieluml!, pl'ubalil!J .Uubert1), was born in 1810; m. Dec.- 12, 1839, l\fary Allen Wellman; was president of the New York and La Plata, Steampship Company, and of the People's Gas Light Company, of Albany; died Jan. 6, 1875.

T. Augustus 'l'.' Ir. George A.

CHILIJREN.

8.

DR. CHARLES AUGUST4 SAVORY ( Charlelf\ Richard2, probably Robert1), was born Dec. 25, 1813; was a yonng child when his father died and was taken by his 1111de Richarrl to Hopkinton, N. H., and there ·pln.ced with ;\fr . .Tol111 Kimball, with whom he remaine<l several .)'l:ai·s, au<l prupan:<l hinisd[ [01· the ,woea(,ion of a teacher; was postmaster an<l inspector of se11ools of Hop­kinton. He gn,lhrnted at Dartmouth l\fodieal Sehool in 1835, receiving the honomry degtee of A. M. from D,trtmonth Col­lege in 1852, was appointed Professor of Mirlwifery in Philadel­phia College of 1\'lellicine, hut soon .~fLerw,mb rnsignCll, and entemd on a general pmetice, awl was for many ymtrs one of the lc:uling au<l most respeet.e<l :ulll alile pmeLitioners ill Low­ell, Mass., both in medicine and smgery, making a specialty of diseases of the eye. His repntation was not merely local, hut he was well k1wwn tts :L le,uling meml>er ol' his prnfo8-sion thro11g-lt0nt the State. He was :L l:onst:rnt Ktrnlent, fot1r iillle8 j1111r11u_ying t.o 1,:11ropu t.11 add lo Iii:-; s!rn:k or lrnowl­edge. He was one of the ;tir8t in Mas::mclrnsetts to recognize the importance of antisepties in snrgery, and kept himself abreast of modem 8Cientifie thonght8 and di::lcovery in the practice of his prnfession. "Dr. Savory was a fine representa.tive of the old-school family physician, a man whose very presence in the sick-room was a help and stimulant to the patient. Of

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a kindly 11at11n:, seH-rdi:mL an(l carnfnl, he was peculiarly fitted hy 1mtnrc for the great profession he adopted and in which he attained s1rch markc(l 1rncecss. llc will l,e missed and monrned by many, but by none more than the many families in which he was the helper and consoler in times of trouhle and illness. A devout clnuclnmm, the singular circumstance will not escape notice tlmt l1is hirth arnl clrntth wern npon clayR that are promi-1w11i, i11 I.lie l'roLc:i-d.a11L Episcopal ( '.l111rcli <:al<:11dal'-Cl1risL1rn1.H Day aml Ca11(Uemas Day." Ire marric,l .May!), 1838, l\fary Stark, <lat1gl1tcr of Dr. ,James Stark, aJHl clescc11<lant of a dis­tinguished officer in the Revolution. He died Feb. 2, 1892, leaving one child, the wife of Solon vV. Stevens, Esq.

o. THOMAS CoLLrNS4 SAvon.Y (Tlwmas Oollins3, Ricliard2,

probably Robert1), was born in Boston, ,June 11, 1818, and at the death of his father i11 1825, became a member of the family of his uncle Richard; manied l\Iiss Berkely, whose parents came to America from Antrim, Ireland. Her mother's maiden name wa.'4 .Tohm;l,011, co111wd.<:<l wil.11 ll1c ,lol111sto11H of Bclia;;t. De­veloping a natural taste for art, he declined to embrace the lmsi11es8 of his uncles, a1Hl remove<l to Bot-ton, where he has long been well known as a banner aud ornamental painter.

CHILDREN.

I. Thomas C.·', h. ,Tan. 25, 1840; d. Oct. 31. 18iD. If. A1111c L., h. Dee. 28, 1842; m. Byron W. Nichols, of New

H:1w11, Conn., who cl. in 1884. Ch.: (1) Byron W.6, b. 18i3;

(2) Mary Cl1rist.iiw, h. lHin. Ill. ('hriRt.ine W., h.Aug.17, 1843. IV. Eugene F., b. J\farch lG, 18-18; d. ,Tune 28, 1862. V. Jda Berkelcy, b. Dec. 23, 18ii0; a lady of great histrionic talent,

a111l ot.lH•r accomplishnwnts, natural rrml :1c11nire1l; married Hr. L. Jlopkimi Keep, of Brooklyu, N. ¥. • ·

VI. W:ilter 8cott, h. Sept. 26, 1853. ,YALTEH SCOTT;; SAVOlt\" fol­lows the profession of a fleeor:ttive painter; rn. Ang. 2, 1880, J\fay J\Irrml Gove, of Troy, N. II. Ch.: (l) Norma Berkely", b. Sept. 20, 1881; d. Sept. H, 18!)0. (2) Thomas Charles, h. J\Iay 12, 1883.

VJI. ,Joseph V., b. ,fan. 8, 1856.

132 THE SAVERY l?AMILIES.

10.

RWHAirn4 SA VOit\" ( Tlwmas Oollin8'', Ricl111rd2, 1wobal,ly Robe1·t1), was horn Sept. 2, 181!); a1Hl married Ang. 2ti, 1848, Cornelia C. Durell, of Boston; died Aug. 2, 18u0.

CHILDREN.

I. Gcorg\i E.•, b. Nov. 18, 184-L Gimucrn E. SAVORY m. F'eb. D, 1802, Helen E. Pease, 01' Nashua, N. II.; is property elerk for the Police Department at No. 7 Pemberton Square, Boston.

II. A (laughter, h. Nov. 11, 18-17; 11., age(! four years. 11 I. Ell:t F., b. April 2, 1851; 1111111.

THE NAi\lE IN llAltllADUEK. 133

THE NAME IN BARBA DOES.

Tm..: name appears early and con:-;picnonsly in Barbadoes, where in 167-! ,John Savery was fined 870 ponnds of sugar," for not sending arms to the troops." In 1678 he was fined for "11.ot appearing in the troop or sending men to serve in arms." About the same time ,T eremiah an<l. Elizabeth Savery were pnniHhc<l for similar tlitirnganl of requirements repugnant to the consciences of the Friends.* In a record of masters, mistresses, etc., in St. Andrew's Parish, Darbadoes, June· 3, 1680, is ",John Savery, G3 acres of land, no servants, no ne­groes." The ahove is from printed books, but a reference to the few pa.I'i:-dt aml other rcconls of Llw islall(l which have sur­vived the ravages of time, insects, and hurricanes, discloses a 111111wro11:-; a11d liiglil,r l'<\Kjlt\da,hlo family Llwl'e a.L a. st.ill en,rlier date. All l lmYc gleane<l from thmie sources will he found in A ppenllix A. It will tliel'C he seen that the name \Villiam, a favorite name among the Philadelphia Saver.rs, appeared as early as 1665, and continued in the family throughout; that the name Samuel, also quite common, evidently occurred, as it dicl in eacli of the early New England families, in the second gen­eration; that in 16133 and 1668, .John Savery was a prominent attorney, beillg in the latter year appoiutell returning oJlicer for the parish of St. Lucia's in the general election a.bout to be held; antl that an ANTHONY SAVORY dietl ,fan. 24, 1682.

vVhether the lawyer was identical with the John SavQry, "planter," who, Dec. 7, 1644 (only nineteen years after the fast settlement), c011veyed to Henry l\liller ancl others lan<l which he ha.cl "lately purchased of Lewis Evans," or

* Bci-tRc's u Sufferings of QuakcrR." 1 Tn lU:>8 nrn.ny l!"'rlcnd~ tlc1l from persecution in Bat·h:uloca to ,Jamaica, where they were kindly received by Gen. D'Oyley.

134 THE SAVERY l<'Ai\lILTES.

-with the Friernl who was fine(l in Hi7 4 an(l lfl78, or if not, whether either a)l(l whieh of them was the same .To,m R.\ YIWY

who was hiptize1l at Ifa1111i11gto11 in l(;()(i, [ callllllt say: \mt prohahly he was the one me11tionc1l i11 the list of" mas(P1-x," de., of Hi80, for St. 1\nlhew's, St. Luey's, a111l St. Peter's were co11-tiguons parishes in the northem part of tho islarnl. Eliza­beth Srwery, his widow, a lady of consi<lerahle prnperty, by her will, dated Ang. ti, HHl3, leaves a bequest to the "poor amo11g Friends," mentions a son .John, as a y01mg man witl1011t chil­dm11, .tll(l tL ym111g gra1ulso11, ,Jol1n, son ol' a soil Sa11ll1el, Uien in Jamaica. This grandson is pmlm\Jly the same who married April 20, 1718, at St. ,fames', 1\fary Stanley, the pair bei1ig de­scribed as ,, Loth of ys paris\1." It was not, however, until March, 1735, that we find John, son of John and Mary Savory, baptized, and on 1\Iay 24 of the same year, all together, "vVILLIAM, son, and Elizabeth, Margaret, Polly, and Smmnna, danghten; of Jolin alHl 1\la.ry ~avmy," were baptized. Tl1e ages of these children m1u;t have ranged from fiftee11 or sixteen years to infancy, arnl William may well have heen horn in 1721 or 1722, the delay in briuging them to the baptismal font of the English Church heing prohahly 1lue to the doctl'i1ml pmclivities of the nmle parent. 1\gain, March !l, l7BH--l-0, Thomas a1Hl ,Joh11, sons of ,John all(l 1\fary, were haptize<l, showing tlmt tlie lirxt Jolin had died ymmg. Tims, \Villiam may, ,is lie gl'ew to 111aLl1riLy, have returned to the religious faith and ordinances to which some of his ancestors and doubtless many of his collateral relatives were attaelw1l, arnl rnmovell to l'hiladelpltia aml ,Lllie<l himself to his co-religionists there without taking with him any certifi­cate of regular membership among Friernls. 1£ so, he awl his descendants are the subjects of the next two articles; but I only advance this as a plausible conjectme. The registers of only three out of the eleven parishes into which the island was divided have escaped extinction, and the records of the Society of Friends, who were a nu111e1·mm holly in Barhiuloes, I have been unable to find after exhanstive inquiries, generously

THE NAME IN BAllBADOES. 135

as::;istetl uy several correspomlents. The Societies were found almost disorganized when ,fames Cresson a minister 0£ Phila­<lclphin, made them a religio11s visit in 17.'l--!, antl no trace of their reconls can he fmmd among the valuable archives pre­served by the English Society at Devonshire House, London, where I have searched rts a last resource. They are no doubt inet.ricva1>1y lost. The nallle Anthony, so cornlllon in the Will,-;l1il'e a)l(l Ul<l Colo11:Y fo,11;ily, but 110L foun<l a111011g Uw Savcrys of Devonshire, in which county the surname auonnds, seems to me very irnlicativc of a cognate origin for the planters in l\fassachusetts and Barbmloes. For Anthony, a peculiarly honored Roman Catholic name, being that of the fonrnler of monasticism, waH very ram i11(lec<l at tlmt (lay among Prot<,~­tant.R, es11Ccia.lly P11rita.11R, arnl was soon (lroppe<l rtlike hy tl1u l'mi(a.11H of Nmv E11gla11d a11<l Ilic <i11alwrH o[ llarhulocs. A familiar and common Christian name freqnent in two families would prove nothing, but a rare and unusual one would strongly suggest kinship. The first families who migrated to Barhadoes were "chiefly fmm Kent, aml the sonthern and west­ern 1•ot111Lies.'' •~ which, o[ course, i11clmleH ,Vi]tt;hire.

*Schomburg-h's" History of Ilnrhmloce."

136 '!.'HI~ SAVlmY l!'Al\ULtu;S.

THE PHILADELPHIA F.AMILY.

1.

WILLIAM SAv1mY, Sn.

Tim first mention of the 1mmc 011 Ll1e ret:onls of the Society of Friends, in Philadelphia, or any reconl of the city, is the man-iage of"'Nilliam Savery, April 19, 17 46, to l\Iary, d::mghter of Reese Peters. fo the record of his death, May 27, 17 87, his age is given as 65. Therefore he must have been born between May 27, 1721, and May 27, 1722. His wife was born 1722, and died July 27, 1804. I have been unable to fix with certainty his birthplace, or to trace the rehtiouship (if any) between him and the other lianches of the American family. There is nothing to show that he was not de­scended (perhaps through New Jersey) from one of the miss­ing sons of Thomas the Pilgrim, whom I cannot trace after their birth at Plymouth. The Fricrnh; in Rulirulnes, as wc have seen, were sorely vexed, and early in the last century many of them sought a more co11g·c11i:Ll home i11 the City of Peace and "brotherly love." At the outset of my investiga­tions as to the origin of the Philadelphirdamily, I found among its living members a tradition, not · very much trnstecl, tlmt their male ancestor's name was Solomm1, who, with his son William, came to tlmt city- from one of the \Vest 1 ndia Islands, in company with Solomon Cresson, one of their ancestors in a maternal line, but no record exists to prove the fact, while the names of most of the arrivals from Barbadoes at that time are preserved and known. Still, the frequency of the name in Barbadoes, and especially its connection with the Friends, gives a prima facie color of prob-

TIU<; J'll LLAl>gLl'HIA J<'AJ\llLY. 137

ability to this tradition of his origii1, although there may lmve been confusion as to his Christian 11ame and other details. His son, the eminent minister, in the journal of his religious visit :to England, first speaks, under date Sept. 4, 1796, of ",Joseph Savory, of London," who was evi­dently a prominent and active, and apparently a wealthy mem­ber of the English Society. This Joseph was an ancestor of the hit.e Lonl Mayor of Lo11(lon, a.Jl!l in the London Dircdory of 1801 is mentioned as cutler and silversmith at 10 the Poultry, perhaps the pio11eel' in the grand firm or sueeession of firms who have carried on the business of silversmiths, goldsmiths, and lmll ion <lealers at Corn hill to thiH (ln.y. He was son of J\losrn, awl llm;ler Savory, born at Wamlsworth, Surrey, May 8, 17 45, his father bciug described as" of vVandsworth, fisherman," awl prol>.ibly being the same Moses who was son of Thomas and Mary Savory, born at ,v andsworth, May 28, 1712. Joseph Savory married July 31, 1776, Anna, daughter of J rn,eph and J uclith Bellamy, "late of Framingham, Suffolk," anrl h:t(l a <laughter Ifoster, horn May 31, 1777, the subject o[ Clmrles L:1mb's poem, and a d:wghLcr A111m, born Oct. 16, 1788. The ininister, in connection with his crossing to Ireland, April, 17!)8, speaks of being accompanied by A. Savory, and of his "cousin," A. Savory, landing with him at Holyhead on his return. A letter to his wife at this time proves that the "A." meant Anna Savory, from whom he conveys to his wife a kindly greeting, as he does in a110L!Hit· leLlt•1· a similal' mes:-;ag-u from ,Joseph a11<l ] rester Sn,vo1·y,

the latter perhaps the mother of Joseph. But as to whether Amm was U1e wife or daughter, we can merely conjecture that the latter, being then only twenty years of age, would be less likely to go with him to Ireland than the matron of mature years. In her journal, elate Oct. 6, 1780, Elizabeth Fry (then Gurney) speaks with concern of her sister Catherine wishing her to discontinue her correspondence with Anna Savory, and her own inclination to comply with the advice. The younger

138 THE SAVIW\." J<'Al\lILrns.

Anna would be a, little older tlrnn she, and was probably the correspondent alluded to, and it may have been the tlaughter, and not the wife of Joseph, who, inspiretl early with religious zeal, was the companion of the minister oi1 this visit. ..Which­ever it was, the fact of his calling her his cousin impressell me with the idea tlmt she must have heeu it llescernlant of n,11 nncle or great-uncle of his own, but nothing appears in the reconls of the Society to prove it. I lrnd llifliculty in getting over the notion that one so precise and staitl as the minister, or any typical member of his religious fraternity in that day, wonl<l apply the term" cousin"* to another unless he knew of some snch relationship by blood or marriage. But in his frequent refer­ences to the husband or father he never gives him any other title than that of his "friend," m· " beloved friend"; and Dr. William Savery, his grand-nephew, whose opinion in snch a matter is entitlecl to more weight than mine, tl1inks slie must have l,ueu 11wrely" one of ,L 111111i\1ui- of Llull, 11ti11u: wl10 live1l i11

London at the time, and who seem to have united in acts of kindness and attention to him, either on account of a known or supposed relationship, or from sympathy with his gospel labors, or both," an opinion which is confirmed by the fact that there is nowhere in his journal or correspondence (at least such por­tions as have come down to us) any reference to a visit to his father's early home in Englawl, or to any r(:llatives whom he met there, some of whom he wonl<l surely speak of as snch. Dr. Savery is inclined also to the belief that the first ·William was an Englishman, coming to Philadelphia probably direct from London, without bringing with him any cre<lentin1s or "certilieate of memliership" among Frien<ls, whidt ho is i11rmme1l was not uncommon in the early history of the Soeiety, rmd may have been repeated at as late a time as his arrival. But :Mr. Isaac

- Sharpe, the able and courteous secreta,ry of the present London Society at Devonshire House, and custodian of all the English

*'Vho knows but that this was a pt·inter's error, for" compn./1 companion; a common sort of abbreviation In those days? The lllS. is supposed to be no longer in existence.

Till~ l'IIILAIJELl'JIL\ 1-'Ai\LILY. 13!)

recot'lls of the Friends pre:;erved there, assures me that his name does not appear anywhere on thoRe reconlR, and he infers concltrnively tliat he w:1,s born either" ont of the Society or out of the King<lom." I have concluded, after weighing the whole citse carefully, that he was a native of Barbadoes, descended not unlikely from the John who was fined as a Quaker in 167 4 arnl 1678, or from some other one of tl1ose who brought to Bar­b:uloes the WiltHhire, Old Colony, and Essex County names, Anthony, \Villiam, and Samuel Savery. And the naming of his children, Elizabeth, Thonm8, and ,John, in the same order as that of the brothers and sisters of the same name of the ·William who waR baptized in Barbacloes in 17BS, seems to me more than a coincidence. It points strongly to thei<lentity of that ,Villiam o[ Barhttloes with the \Villiam of this article. By occn-1.mtion, "chair-maker," he held for Reveml yeam the position of assessor in some of the central wards of the city of Philadelphia, having been appointed thereto, Aug. 20, 1754. His certificate of this appointment was signe<l hy Benjamin .Franklin and several ot.her prnmin<•nt 111<'11 of tlH' city. It iH 1111w in the poRReRRion of Uie I li:;torieal S()(:idy of l'e1111sylvania. lie :dso Hcrvetl Llw city as age11t and collector of taxes for the guar<lia11s of the poor, etc., in 17G7 ; and <liRbursetl the moneys appropriated for the ex­penses of the almshouse, as· appears by his records in manu­script, still in the family.

I. r r.

',! II I. IV. V.

vr. Vil.

VIII. IX. X.

XI.

CHILDREN.

Elizabeth', horn May 30, 1747; d. young. Wll,LIA)I, h. ,J11l_1· H, 17/\0, the cmi11P11t, 111ini8ter. (See his

biography, next, nrticlc.)

'l'ho111a8, b. Oct. 13, 1 i51. ,Jos!'ph, h. Feb. 14, li5:J; d. Feb. Hl, li5i. J\lary, b. ,Jan. 2i, li55; <l. 8f'pt. fl, 1ii5. Elizahcth, h. Dec. 24, l i5G. ,hlRrph, h. March 18, 1759; d. Aug. 16, liiO. ,John, h. Nov. :!1, 1iG0; <l. f\ept,. 5, liGI. ,\1111, h. DPc. 21, 17G2. 11 .. 11j:1mi11, h. ,Jan. 2i, 17H!i; tl. Jlfay 4, 17Gn. l:aclwl, twin of Benja111iu; ti. ,\11g. 2!J, liGG. Bc~id<•R William am! 'l'h0111a$, Elizalwth n111l Ann survived their

fatl1<•r, a11d an· 1111•11tio11••tl in tllt'ir hrothPr Willia111'R will.

140 THE SA YEltY l!'Al\([LIJ<'.S.

SECOND GENElL\_'l'lbN. 0 .....

T11mu::;2 :-iAYl~ltY ( 1Villiam1), was.born Oct. 1H, 17fi1; nml'­

rie1l Nov. :H, 17\ll, Heheeea S1:at.Lergoo1l, (la11ghte1· o[ ,Jolin ,wd Elizabeth ( Heml) Seattergoorl, whu was horn ,I 11ly 2fl, 1770, and died Aug. 25, 1855 ; was by occupation a " carpenter and builder," an elder of Arch Street Meeting, Philrulelp11ia, in the Society of Friends; was an active and useful memlier of the Volunteer Fire Department, hel011ging to the Harmony Fil-e Engi

1ne Company; was a member of the migi11al Anti-slavery

Society of Peunsylvrmin, (fonmlecl hy Franklin, Rush, etc.), aml much interested in the cause uf the oppressed Afri­citns, bnth hornl ,md free; was also au active memlJCl' of the Humane Society of Phi1ade1p11ia, for the relief ancl restomtion of pers011s apparm1 tly 1hnwnecl, de.; was a lltc!lll,er oft.he So(:ieLy for the Promotion of First-Day or Sn)l(la_y Sd1oob in Pliila(1e1-p11ia, of wlii(·.li 1110 e111i1w11L l\isl1op Wl1ih: was prl'sid1:11(.; was a constant :wd valuable working member of the Commit­tee of Sn.fety (appointe<l at a town meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, held Sept. 14, 1703 ), to t.tke dmrge of tl1e hos­pital at Bnsh Hill, ,tncl attcrnl to the nee(ls of tho:-,e suffering from the prnvailing epi(lemie ol: y111\ow fuvcr, whidt was at; that time very wi1lespread mtcl fatal.

This committee re)l(lc1·rnl mosL cl'licie11t _sm·vil:e 1l1ll'i11g I.he whole period of the epidemic, aml fonr of its members fell victims to the dread disease in the midst of their labors. After disbanding (l\Iarch 8, 1704), the smviving members were publicly thanked for their unselfish rlevntion to the en.use of fmf­fering lnurnmity, at a town mcetiug 11d(l 1\larch lfi, 17\H, pre­sided over by the governor of the State, Hon. Thomas 1\foKe:m.

CIIILDHEN.

3 I. "\Villiam", b. ,Tan. !l, 1708. 4 II. l\lary, h. ~\_ng. 16, 1800. 5 HI. Thoma~, h. Sept. 1!1, 180:t

lV. Elizabeth, b. June 1, 180G; <l. May 25, 18!l0. V. Sarah, h. 1810; 1l. Jan. 2-t, 1SB2.

THF. PHILADELPHIA J<'A~llLY.

'I'll II: I> <ll<:N li:B .\Tl-ON.

3.

141

,v11,LIAM" SA vim Y ( 1'lwma.~2, Willimn1), was born .fan. 9, 1798; manied Dec. 11, 1828, Elizabeth II. Cresi,on, who was born Dec. Hi, 1808, and died Dec. 20, l8Gl. He <lied Aug. 17, 1858.

CITILDREK.

6 I. Thonrng'_, b. Dec. 20, 1821J. 1 II. ,John C., h. Dec. 5, 18HO. 8 111. William, h. Oct. 20, 18'12. !) IV. RchPcca W., h. Oct. lll, 18:-m.

V. Elizabeth, b. July 5, 18:l!l; 1l. lGth same month.

4.

MARYa SAVEHY ( 1'lw1111rn2, JVilliam1

), w:\.-; horn Aug. 16, 1.800; antl nmrrie!l Fcl>. ] 2, 1822, Thonms F. Scattergood, who wa .. -, l,orn Sept. :W, 17\JG, and !lied March lG, 1871,. She died ,Jan. 7, 1.8(i!J.

CHILDREN.

I. lfohPcca S.', b. Aug. t, 18:!:l; d. Nov. 28, 18,ll. I I. Savery, b. M.arch 12, 1827; d. ,Jan. 6, 1828.

HL Thomas S., h. April 22, 18HO; d. Dec. 26, 1834. I\". Sarah:-< .. h .. \pril :li, 1~:w.

10 \'. Tho11ms I ◄'., h. March Iii, 1840.

u. THOMAS" SA VEltY ( 1'1wma.s2, 1Villitim1), was bom Sept.

19, 1802; married, 1st, Sept. 2, 182-1, Rebecca vV. Cresson, who was born Sept. 18, 1803, and clietl, leaving no chilllren, Jan. 4, 1825 ; 2d, Nov. 13, 183-!, I-fannah H. Webb, who was born Nov.19, 1810, a111l 1lie1l Aug. fi, 1800. He 1lied March 18, 1860.

t1 I. 12 J[. 13 Ill. H TV.

\'. \'I.

VII.

15 Vlll.

CIIILDHEN.

ny sccoml wife: Ht!'phen W.', h. Aug. 2i, 18Hii. ThomasH., h. ::\lay. 31, 18'17. Sarah, b. April rn, 1831J. °R(!wanl, h. Ike. G, 1841. Willi:rn1 If., h. 1\pril n, !RH; d. ,Tuly 1:1, 18M. Mary W., h .. July li, 18-ln; 111. Nov. 14, 1872, Eli Sharples, of

NPW ,Jcr~i,y; :uul 1I. Nov. 27, 1874, kn.ving 110 chiltlrcn. Chal'I('~, h. ,Jan. H, 184!!; d. March 8, l8:i4. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 1, 1852.

142 THE SAVElff l!'Xl\IILIES.

FOURTH GENEHA'l'ION.

(j,

TI-Wi\-IAS' SA YI~ltY ( 1Villimn\ 'l'lwmm2, 1Villiam1), was liorn Dec. 20, 1829; was a farmer living for many yc,trs in Pe11m;­L11ry 'fow11ship, ClwsLer Con11ty, J>e1111., leavi11g tliel'e alio11!, l88i for \Vinona, Columbiana County, Ohio, where he diecl unnrnrried Sept. 12, 1889. At his former home he held the station of elder, and was also the clerk of "Kennett Monthly Meeting of Friends" ( Ortho(lox).

7.

JonN C.4 SAvgrry ( 1Villiarn3, Tltornar/, 1Villiarn1), was horn Dec. 5, 1830 ; wn'.'s a druggist and chemist, graduate of the Philadelphia College of Phammcy, and pursued that business for many years. He died unm,1,rried at Winona, Ohio, Aug. 1, 1888, whilst on a visit to his brother Thomas, who was then ill. Neither he nm- his father ever hel<l a,ny pnhlic office; lmt both were in their day nsefnl memhen, of the Vohrnteer Fire Department of Philadelphia.

8.

\VILLIAl\14 SAVERY ( 1Villiam\ Tlwnms2, 1Villiam1), wns horn Oct. 20, 1832; grallnated at tl1e l'hil.\llelphia College of Pl1ar­macy, 1854; was resident apotlwe.u-y anll mcllil:al regi:,;lrar at tl1c Friu11tb' Ax_ylnrn for (lie J11:,;.111l1, 18ti0; g-rallnaled al. the Univernity of Pennsylvania in meLlical da:;s of 18131; re,;i­dent physician in the ,vill's Hospital for tl1e Eye, 18Hl and 18G2; rnHilk11t pl1yHil:ia11 arnl Hlll'g'l'(>lt i11 tl1e l'e1111:,;yl ya11i,L Hospital, l'hiladclphia, April, l8ti2, to October, 18G3; volnn­teer snrgP011 i11 tl1c ll11ilcd St.ale:,; 11(1:,;pila.1 a!, Frndm·i(sbln1rg, Va.; physieian to tl1e Wi1meliago trilie of I]l(li.tns in Ne­hraslrn, under appointment of Prn::;ident Grant ("l'eace l'oliey"), 1870-71; was attending physician to the Ilnspital of the Good Shepherd, near Phihuldphia, for ::;everal yearn, from 1874-80. l\farried Sept. 15, 1870, HeLecca Hutton, daugh­ter of Joel ,V. and Ann Hutton, who was liom Fell. 18, 18-!7.

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CJHLDREN.

I. Alhert II.5, b .• Tune 27, 1871. H. A<ltliROII II., b. O<~t. 20, 18i2.

Ill. Elizabeth II., h .. Jau. B, 18iii. IV. Anne, b. Oct. 4, 1879.

9.

RmmccA ,V.4 SAvmn-- ( William\ Tlwrnas2, Willia.rn1), was 1,nrn Oct. 1D, 18Hli; rtll(l 111a1Tie<l Oet. 10, 18G5, A1l<liso11 Hut­

ton, architect, of Philadelphia, who was bom Jan. 28, 1834.

C!IILlll:EN.

I. Mary llutton5 , b. Sept. 11, 18G9.

JO.

THOJ\fAS F.4 ScATTimGorm, ,Tit. (M~m·y3 Savery and Thomas F. Scatte1:'}ood, 'l'liomas2, 1Villiam.1 ), was boq1 March 15, 1840 ; and nmrriecl Oct. 13, 18G9, Sarah Armitt \Voodwanl.

CIJILDlmN.

I. William Savery", b. Aug. 24, 1871. II. 'l'ho111:1R \raltPr, h. ,J111w 20, 1R7-L

Ill. Herbert ,\rmitt, h. ,Jan. ll, l88l.

11.

STEPHEN ,V.4 SAVERY ( 1'lwmas3, Tlwrnas2, 1Vi"lliam1), was

born Aug. 27, 1835; and married Oct. 15, 1873, Susanna Forsyth.

( '1111,l>BEN.

I. Susanna', b. Sept. 14, 1874; d. Sept. 25, 1874. IL EliznlH!th, b. :i\Iarch 27, 1876. If[. ('har)P~ ff., h. Nm·. Hi, ]8·i8. IV. llannah, b. ,Jnn. 8, 1882. V. :i\Iarian F., h. :i\[ay 10, 1884.

VI. ""alter II., b. Oct .. 8, 18(10.

12.

THOllIAS II.4 SA VEttY ( 'l'lwmw?, Tlwmas2, TVilliam1), was born

May 31, 1837; and manied June 15, 1864, Sarah Pim, who

1-!-± THE SAVmtY FAMILIES.

was horn Sept, 20, 1837. Resides at- \Vilmington, Del., :incl

holds, among others, the following positions: President of the "Harper's Ferry Paper Co.," and of the "Shenandoah Pulp Co.," vice-president of the" General Steamship Co." (navigating the Orinoco River), vice-presi<lent of the "Pusey & ,Tones Co.," capital $750,000, builders of iron vessels, steam engines, etc.; the "Wilmington Savings Fund Society," and "City Electric Co.," all of which are successful institutions, arnl director of the "York Haven Paper Co.," York I-faven, Pa., anrl the " Denver S nl phi te Co.," Deu ver, Col.

en I LI) lrnN.

I. William 11.\ i1. Oet. 2~, lSGii. l I. llelen, b. ~ept. 5, lSGU.

III. Thomas IL, c. May 31, 1871. IV. Florence, b. ,July ,'l, 1874; rl. .Tune 25, 1876. V. Auuc Pim,. h. Nov. :!O, 187H.

1a. SA1:.ur1 SAVIW.Y ('l'lw11ws\ 'L'lwma:s\ 1Villiam1), was liorn

April 13, 1839; and married Dec. 17, 1868, George B. Mellor.

CmumEN.

I. . 'l'lHimas•, h. Oct. 10, 1860. II. Elizabeth, b. nfay 10, 1871.

III. Ilauuah, b. Dec. 20, 1872. IV. George, b. Nov. 13, 1877.

1-1-.

EDWAim4 SAVERY (Tlwrnas3, Tlwmas2, 1Villiarn1), was born Dec. 6, 1841; and married Dec. 13, 1873, Hannah Hughes.

CIIJLl>BEN.

I. Charles•, h. Oct. la, 187-1; d. March 11, 1875. II. Mary JI., 11. Dec. 5, 1875.

HI. Edwarll W., b. March 2G, 1880. IV. Rebecca L., b .• Tan. -!, 1885.

15.

ELIZABETH4 SAVERY ( Tltomas3, Tltomas2, 1Villiam1), was born Nov. 1, 1852; and marrieJ Oct. 7, 1880, Thomas B. Taylor, of West Chester, Pa.

Tllg l'HILADl%l'HIA .FAMILY.

CII IL DirnN.

I. Emma Harvey", b. June 20, 1882. 11. • Fr:11wiR l:ichardR, h. TlPc. 31, 1884.

II[. Sarah Savery, b. Sept. 2, 1886; d. Sept. 23, 1886. IV. Ralph Savery, b. March 6, 1888.

145

146 THE SAVEitY FAMILIES.

,vILLIAM SA VERY.

WrLLIA1I SAVERY was born in the city of Philadelphia in the year 17 50 ; recei vecl an education in the principles of the Christian religiou as professed by the Society of l◄'ricll(l,;, allll

was placed with a Friend in the country to learn the business of a tanner. Returning to the city at the expiration of his apprenticeship, he for a time mingled with gay and thoughtless companions, and led a life of ease, comfort, and pleasure, which he afterwards pathetically described as a revolt from the paths of purity and peace. Activity of spirits, loose discourse, rwd 110isy 111i1'Ll1 wern ol'l,ell niHot'l.etl Lo aH a rnc,ius of tlrnw11i11g [,\it,

serious retlcctiorn, that sometimes intruued themselves upon him. Social in his disposition and genial in his habits, he was no stranger to the tavern au<l other places of public diversion; and, having a sense of humor and fonllness for the lmli­crons, he indulged a lmbit which in his ,ifter years he nrnch deplored, of relating mirth-provoking tales, strained beyoud the striet truth for the sake of embellishment and zest. He was evidently hy nature reverential, and extremely conscientious; penitence followecl more it11d more on the unsanctifiecl enjoy­ments of snch a life as he was lea<ling, and nights of sorrow often succeeded days of careless pleasure, and he was sometimes favored to sec in part the beauty of holiness, lrn(, fearful, if he shoul<l turn hi8 back upon the worhl, of incurring the scorn of its votarie8. After many spititual baptisms, in re8ponse to hi8 ardent struggles to obtain the favor of God, at length, in 1778, while :ittending a meeting "after an interment" in lVfarion, he expericnccll a, tlecpcr allll more tlcuitl(:ll all(l ,ihilli11g rdigions impression thn.n ever before. Ile nmrrietl in th.tt ye.it· his wife,

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WILLIA!\[ SAVEltY. 147

S:tmh Evans,'~ <la11glttcrof Pen11ell l~vans, of Berks County, Penn­sylvania, and settled himself in business in the city. He had at this time l>ccn e:tr11estly employed i11 hri11gi11g himself to a hetter and more circumspect life, exercising extreme caution in his daily comluct, and strict justice in his dmtlings with his fellow-men. He cornlenme<l as a delusion any idea tliat he might have onee cherishe1l, tlrnt he ever conhl by his own exer­t.io11i-; have n•:l('.l1nd "tliaL p11riLy wliiuli all tl1c vcs1-:ols o[ (.lie

Lord's house must come to, heing under the law which cannot make the comers therennto perfect; not havillg pa8sed under the flaming sword, nor felt the dity of the Lord to he come, which burns as an oven." For a 1,eriod "his merit was gall and wmmwo(Hl," :tll(l his "<hi11k w:ts of the !Jitter watern of l\Iam "; times of "spiritual baptism" followed more frecpwntly, until after rn:my J>r:1,}'CJ"S ancl tear:; a111l ;;trnggles, he was enahled to cry rtlowl, "Oh, now 1 know tltat my He1leemer liveth!" and felt ••an i11expressihle Hweetness in l>ei11g f:woretl with snch rtn evide11ce of the go()(lness and mercy of God"; and his belowid wife, wl10 had shared with him in his atlliction, was mac le a par­lakc:r wil.11 lii111 i11 hiH cxt:e<idi11g grnaL joy. I lc11cdortli l1is motto was, " \Vlrnt slutll I render to the Lord for all his mer­cieH '?" In this spirit lie entered on that career of tireless Chris­tfan htbors aml acts of beneficence and mercy, which only ter­minated with his life, and which, with his winning eloquence, mt<l the loveliness of his elmmetcr, have made his name rt "Hwcet Httvor" among the Society of Frien<lH to this day.

111 the _r(•:i.1· 177D he aeeo11lpa11ic<l a Friend Oil a vixit to meeting;; of Friell<ls in Virginia and Carolinrt, arnl it seems to have been about this time tlrnt lie was constmincd. to speak a few wonls ocea:;ionally in the solemn assembly. He waH 111ttch Lllll'.rcs:,;cd at Heeing a Friernl, who Juul l,ecn clrnfted to Rerve in the army of the Hevolntion, pnnislwcl with forty lashes for refusing to serve, and he eommemls the exemption

• A ftcr his den th she 111:11Ticd Thomae Norton, of l'hiladelphin.

1-!8 THE SAVERY l?AJ:IIILIES.

claimed for the Friends by a Major lfoberts, who urge(l thn,t they ought not to suffer, hecansc they luul horne tlieir tes­timony against war from the lmgi1rni1tg, iuHl 1110reover were compellml to pay threefold mm·e tlmn tlwir slmro ol: tll() t.ixes.

The repugnance of the Quaken, to Lear arms was often mis­taken for loyi1lty to the Empire, :trnl the circumstance related will show how hanl it was for any one to maintain a uentml attitrnle between the contending parties in tlt0se uulmppy (lays. There were some nobthle Friends among the Loyalists who settled in Nova Scoti:t itL Uie peace, 8l1owing that Lhey, a.s well a.s other (1enominations, were divided in opinion as to the merits of the war.* In 1781 he was acknowledge(l a minister, and in 1785, with the concmrence of the monthly meeting, he visited the yearly meetings of New Y mk and Hho11e falall(l, a]l(l other meetings in the Slate of New YOl'k n,11(1 in New E11gla.rn1. I have llOt met wilh any acl:01mt ul' a visiL by lii111 l11 l'ly111011Ll1 (\n11dy, l,111, ii. 111ay IH, ll1al.

the occurrence so often of the profm;sion of Quaker principles among the 8averys of the Olil Colo11y is in part 11ue to tl1c influence of his preaching. It is worthy of remark that so many of the name willely snnclere(l, and connected hy no known kinship, have at 1liffere11t peri011s been conspieuous amoug the Friends. One is 11isposell to attrilmte it to a peculiar psychical n,n<l mental clmmctcristie, i11heritel1 lhro11gh the cc11turics from the common stock of the pa.rent tree, wherever its scions h:we heen planted; n. nn.turnl and tramnnitted tendency to the sub­jective n.lHl ::;piritual in religion - the inner ::;en::;e a::; oppo::;ell to tlie ontwa.rcl form - a tendency which 01ily h:ul free ::;cope for its l1evelopmm1t in the great religion::; 11pl1eaval con::;equcnL on U1c Reformhtion, and which probably led the family early to em­brace Protestanti,;m, and canietl many of them soon over to the congenial fellowship of the FrieiH1s, a.s evinced alike in Bar11n-

*'rhe father of llcuja1ui11 ,ve~t, n. cdehrat.e1l pniutcr, wn.i:; a Quaker Loyalii;t, and ::;.o ,-..·ere the n1wcstors of the lt"itzrandol1,hs a11tl \\'at-rlu1 . .(tuns of J)iglJy null Annapolis Counties, N. S.

"'ILLL\M RA\'EI:Y. 149

does, in Philadelphia, in New E11gfaml, m London, and in Cork.*

ln 17!ll lie visited Ul1arlesto11 and other citie8 of the Southern States, where his fhst contact with slavery, so abhorrent to the cardinal principles of his people, touched his sympathetic and ten_ller 1mture most profou]l(lly. At T. Lewis's, :t11out fifty­four miles from Charleston, he h:ul the satisfaction of meeting a lalllllonl, wlto, he wrote, had freecl ten 11egroes, several of whom cost fifty guineas apiece, he and his "·ife being united in this, and s:tying they never had peace till it w:ts <lone; whether the act was in any degree the result of his own intercm;sion, he does not tell ns; lmt if so, l1is modest silence was cptite char­adcrist.ic. Seeing hdween thirty ancl forty 1iegrncs, some of tltem l:tme :t1Hl decrepit, tmvelli11g to J\shley bridge to be sold Joi· what !hey "·onlcl fotl'.11, he l111t8 apostrophizes: "Certa.iilly there is a righteous and omniscient ,Judge who commiserates the pno1· arnl opprcssell, a.1l(l t:tkcs cog11iz:rnee of the act.ions of the hard-hearted and merciless oppressors, and by terrible things in rigl1trnns11css will soo11cr or ht.Pr plcn.11 tl1c cause of tl1c allti('kd ··; a prl:111011itio11 o[ t.l1e hotTOl'H of the Civil W,tl' whi('lt, scvc11t,r yearH laLel', shook the falJric of tl1e Hepnhlic from tunct to fotuHla~ion sLouc, all(l llclngcd the land wiLh blood.

Near Savannah he lodged at the house 0£ one Blunt, who ordered hiH llegro hoy to be "flogged" because in going for his cows he had, through wen,riness, fallen asleep. Inquirillg what this meant, Blnnt told him it was the custom to cut the slave's htck wiLh a l:tsh until it w:ts mw, and then to salt it. lncredu­lous at this, he was informed by the landlord, "with nrnny curses on the hlacks," that it was true. Ile remarks in his journal that the lilesHi11g which this inlnunan peFson craved be­fore his meat mnst have been as abhorrent to the Divine Being as his c11rst:H. The next, 11101·11i11g, hearing cricH .for mercy, lie sought their source, aml fonml the poor hoy tiecl np and receiv-

* I :1111 informed lhl't;e was a l•'rientl of note in Cork, 1inme,t J):111icl 8:ivory, l'arly in the l:t!-it ccnhtrJ~, whose letter~ to a prominent <'.ittzPn or Philrnlelphin nre in the library of the l'enns1·ll•nnla lllsioi'i<-al Socict)",

150 THE SAV-EltY l<'AMILrns.

ing his castigation, already terribly lacerated. between the victim and hi:-.; scomger, he ordered hm111<l, ,t rcqiwxt wl1ich was prnrnp(.1y 1:0111plie1l

Stepping in the hoy 1111-

wiLh ; al'!c1· which he rdmke1l the larnllonl 1111spari11gly, so ,1.11g1iri11g Lin: l>y­:-.;tamlcn; LhaL 011c of llwm :mgge:-.;tc1l Llmt he :-.;ltoul1l be "poppc1l off"; and he left the phtce with his companions in anxiou:-.; dread of being followe1l and attacked. Dming his jonmcy that <lay he was <lepre:-.;sed hy "heavine:-.;s and sad reflections," and in the bitterne:-.;:-.; of his soul exclai11ie<l, "Oh, Chri8tiai1ity allll human­ity, how are ye <fo,graeed ! w11ere will all tl1is ellll '!" I le visited Nort11 Carnlina the mime year, and in 170~ went to Vir­inia, and dnring these rmd all his other tmn:-.; felt more anrl more the comfort aml aid of the divine help and the rt8Slll'anee of alnmdant :-.;nccess in hi:-.; labors, as he :-.;owe1l the sec1l of the gos pd, leaving the great lfnsl>amlman to reap the final harvest of son ls.

Fmm the hngin11i11g of !lie coln11iz,ttio11 of Pm111sylv,tnia \1y the follower:-.; of l'e11u, the aborigi11,1l tribes uuLieetl a11ll wme touched by their pacific principle:-.;, and the ju:-.;tice ,1,nd equity of their condnct towanls them mHl e:tclt other, allll their savn.gc natures were :-.;oftened into n, disposition of kiml11e8S mHl amity towanls tltexc llffWComm·:-;. Tl1is, i11 turn, met wi Lit appre1'.iation a11d LtsLing gralilll(le on their p,trL t11w:ml8 Lite I 1tdia11:-;, w l1ose trne i11tere:-.;ts they ever faitl1f11lly strnve to p1·omute; al\(1 "\Villimn Savery was the otigiwttor of ,t special moveme11t in the Society for the relief of the almrigines in Penn:,;ylvania and New York, who :-.;nffere11 from the e11ci·mtcltme11t of the whites upon their lamk Ju the 11egotiatio11 of treaties between the government a11d the savage trilie:-.;, the latter generally de:-.iire<l the presence of Frieml:-.; as all visors, n,1111 a8 a grntmntcc that some measure of justice woul<l lm muted to them hy their more powerfnl arnl mentally el1nippe1l :mt:tgnnists; while, on the other lmllll, the government was 011ly too ghd on critical occasiom; to have the benefit of ahlu ,ul(l i11flne11tial Frien<ls as mclliatot·:-.; anil auxiliaries; and \Villiam Savery was m1ga.gell on two very import.mt mi:,;:,ions of thi:-; 1mtmc. In Dccemher, ·

WILLIAl\1 SAVEil\'.. 151

1792, the societies at Philadelphia aLlLfressed an urgent memo­rial to Presi<lent vVashington on the duty of taking prompt and just measures to terminate the Indian wars by which the border land of vVe:-Jtern civilization was then being desolated ; and as a conference with a view to a treaty of peace was about to be held at Sandnsky, now in Ohio, he\ with ,John Parish, ,Jacob Limlley, and funr others, were, with vVa.shington's express Ra11eLio11, <lesp,tLdie<l Lo Lho scene, hmring a lengthy a11<l touch­ing :ulchess, invoking tlie Lies of hereditm·y ,unity, and the pri11eiplcs o[ brntlterly love on beh:tH of Lhe ol>ject of tl1eir mis­sion. He arnl Lindley and two others having first cliscnssecl the matter with Presi<lent \V a.shington, they set ont in 1\-fay, 17!1:l, on ,1, jnmney wl1ich prnvecl Lo lm one o[ extreme peril nrnl ltanhdiip; llcver 11eglccti11g, however, to minister to the rnligions eclilieaLion of all whom tl1ey met with 011 tl1e way, aR well rts to the ol'llcers rrml men of the United States Army, under Oen. Lincoln, wlio:-;c cmnp:tninns they more immedi­ately were, and who welcomed their kindly aml pious offices with rc:-;pect a.ml appreciation. Crossing the border, they were equally well rcccivetl by tlte ollicers (trnl ganisons at British posts, and secured passes from Governor Simcoe to go on to Detroit l>y the first king's vessel from Fort Erie. He found the land between Fort Erie and Niagara "generally rich" and fast beiug settled hy people mostly from the Unitetl States, and a greater unmber of members of the Society of :Friends than he expected. Among the nmnerons religions meetings helcl by him and his companions in this tour was the iirst Friends' m~cting ever helcl in Detroit. At Detroit the appearance of tlw sav:igcs cbncing their war dance in more revolting and horrid pa.int and dress (or rather undress) than he had ever yet seen, aml clamoring for fire water, elicited the reflection: "SmTcl\vl'11l i111leed it iH that snch is the <lepnwity o[ many nncler the clignilirnl name of Christians, whose conduct towards t.l1cs(: pour <:n•;\.l.m•c:-; 011ghl, to lt:tvo l>ec11 111a.1·ke<1 with a p,tcilk desire of i11:-;piring them wilh the mild all(l blessed doctrines of

152 THE SA YmtY l,'Al\IILms.

the gospel, thn,t they are, alas, taking delight in encomaging them to this exercise, mHl stimn1ating- them with potations of :,tl'o11g- liq1101' 1111Lil they bee0111e l'm11Lie." lie expressct- l1is convidion that m1wh might be <lo11e with those poor people hy pe1·:·Hi.tsio11, a11<l ki1Hlli11ess a11<l limiest de.ding, a1Hl huL \'Cl'} little Ly compnlsion. or lmrsh and repellent measures ; a poliey which we in Canalh have teste<l :m<l fonrnl to he :;mm<l and satisfactory, :wd which, i[ it luul ,tl w:ty:; hee11 lllll'Slte<l liy ihc government of the United States arnl it:; oftkial::;, might have spared 1\frs. Helen Hnnt .fadrnon tl1e ocea:-;ion of lwr sn,d ,U11l thrilling reconl of "A Century of Dishonor." But of late yen.rs a more humane arnl distinctively Christian treatment has lJeen accorde<l to the Ill(lian wanl:; of the nation, whid1 has had rt reflex beneficial effect in many way::;.*

llefeuing to the liarl>arities of 11\(liaH warfare a]l(l the honors of war in general, he exclaims: "Oh, ye professors of the benign and heaveHly <loetrine:; of the gospel, il1at b1'eail1cs 11ol11i11g l>llt peace anll good-will to men, how will ye a1ip<,ar in the ,twfnl day of retrilmtion, wl1en yonl' 1li vine ~fa:;ter :;lutll come l.o judge the worl<l in righteousness, if any of yon lmve been pro­moters of the great <lesoln,tion, wrctche1lness, and misery whi<:11 1rntrk tl1e footsteps of war! " I lcrn he relates Lhat an ol<l In<lian, who h,,<l visite<l Lltc place ::;011w time previously, hcing aslrn<l al>o11't the region fa1ther wcsL, l'cl'errc<l w his sollt--, wl10 had travelled much, as an authority for its enormou:; extent and other marvellous features; n,ml being pres:;ed as to whether his sons did not tell lies, "Lie:; ! " sttilt he, in amazement, "why, they have never yet seen a Emopean ! " \Vhile here, he ascertai11llll that fnrn were lmrno·ht from · J'CO'inus fart11er

b b

to the northwest than he ever imagined, and observes very impressively that a vast country remained yet unsettled in the British tenitories, including immense tracts 0£ mot:1t excellent land, which might in time lJecome an " extensive empire" ; a prediction which the closing yem·s of another centnry are seeing

* Among the ollicers with Gen. Grnnt at the surrcn,lcr of Gen. Lee was a fnll­bloodc1l In,lian, Col. (nftcrwnnls Gen.) my S. Parke,·, a rncrn\Jc,· of Umnt's s(.alt'.

\\'lLLLUI SA\'I•:llY. 153

rapidly fulfilled. His lmmhle rntmesa1rn, and probably remote kinsman, tlie compiler of this sketch, three quarters of a cen­tury after this prediction was uttered, had the honor of contrib­uting it mile towal'(l,; ib; fnlfilnwnt hy actively :mpporting in a United British American Parliament measures to subject this remote and still undeveloped region to the electric touch of Brifoih civilization, to K11pply its howling wastes and clctmlate

prairies witl1 ('l1riHLia11 lwnu·H, ::1ul to span it wiLlt a railmty

which is tl1e grrwclest national highway, allll in many respects tlic greatest product of engineering skill in the world; a work which realizes rtS ·nothing else can do the dream of Columbus, n.ffol'(ling as it. <loe:--: the slwrtC'st ro11tc from E1trope to the re­mote En.st l,y a wm,twanl journey. \Ve arn <levcloping this "exfo11si vc e111 pirn," 11ot i II a. s1 ,iri t of hostility to onr neighhorR on the southern Hide of Lite hon1ulary, but of ge11ernus rivalry with them in the arts of peace :tll(l tlie morn.I arnl material progress of mankind. Let the Arnericau people pray for om· success, as we rejoiee in theirs.

Retnming to Sa1Hlnsk,r, the Keene of the negotiations, pro­pusn.l:,; were made a11d eo11si<lere1l on bolh si<les, and a serious obstacle wits presented 11,r the demand of the Indians that the whites 8honld relinquish all tl1eir settlements west of the Ohio and the Americans haviug answered this, it was suggested that the Friends shouhl accompany the cl1iefs to the gmncl council, where the answer ·was to be considered, and ""\Villiam Sa very was "resigne<l to go"; hnt 011 forU1cr deliberation the adventure was dce111ed too haz:mlo11s. f-;0011 aftenvanb l1e was prostrnte<l wiLl1 a severe attack of fever and el1ills, indnced by the climate and Pxpos11rc, wl1ieh nearly prnYe<l fatal. The main ohject of the mission failed; no treaty of peace was reached, and he and his party retumed hy a ronte dow11 the Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers to l\lontreal, thence aem:-;:-; New York Stn,te to Albany, 1low11 to New York City, and thence home, where he arrived in

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towards them by the Shawnee, '\Vyarnlott, and Delaware tribes, some of whom lmtl tmvellecl :,ix:ty mile8 to see the 1lescendnnts of the men whose jnst mHl honomhlc treatment of their fore­fathers was still .hehl in gmtefnl remcmhmnce, - a sc11timm1t which we are not in the habit of ascribing to the siwn,ge miml ; and yet simibr instances are not W[tnting, when an historian panse8 to llo some little justice to a people who lmve luul 110

chroniclers of their own, but whose ulmmeters It.we alw,Lys been paintetl hy thei1· enemies. Tfannay, i11 his histmy t>f 1\1'.allia, relate;; that after Lheir miptqrn of Ymk, Me., i11 1 li\l~, l.11uy allowed several agell women and :L nnmlmr of ehil1lreu to retire to the garri;;onecl towns to rewanl the English for :,;paring the lives of the wives of two sagamores, their chihlren, and two or three old squaws, by Capt. Chmch, at Pejeliseot a yeai· a1.Hl a half before, ,illhmtgh Chnn:h ma:-;sai:re1l aU the rest of l lie women arnl chilclren in col<l liloncl. A }'l[n,:,gn,clrnsetts officer, in one of the lnllian wars, reports lmvi11g made priso11er nf a squaw, n,Jl(l after getting valuable i11fnrmation from her, onler­ing her to ue tmn to pieces 1,y llngs, ,md that she was '' ;;oe dealt withal." * Although their methO(b of warfare, like those of all uncivilize<l and nnchristi,m races, were dl'Ca<lfully crnel, they were alive to sentiment:-; of lu11wr allll gml.it111le, while their white enemies, onr cmumn11 fornfather;;, ri vitllecl them in the forncil,y of Ll1cir ropl'i:-;a.b, a111l \\'1i1·0 too nia11y 1.o IH'l\.tk

faith with them in peace or war. Ag.tin i11 17D-l-, at the request of the 11\(liam;, an<l -with the

cordial ,wq11iesee11cc of the gove1·11111e11t., the S01:it:Ly e1J11dnde1l to ;;e11d it 11elegalion to assist Col. I'idrnri11g, as A mcrican cnm­missio11cr, in 11cgoti:iting ,t trrnity wiU1 the Six: N:Ltion In<li:ms at Canandaigua in the State of New York, mul \Villiarn Savery,

*Thus Capt. l\!oaclcy reµorts in his letter to the g-ovc1·no1· u1Hlcr date IIat!iel,l, ltith October, 16751 mentioning the sentence nnli its cxccuLiou tn a pot1t~<•.ript ns H it were a mnttcr of course, antl without any hint that the ,vuman hacl been guilty of any offence tu justify such a cruel retl'ihution. See Boston u llisturical null Licnealogical ltegister," Vol. XXXYll., p. 180. ,vhcn J{iug Philip'~ \Var l>1·ok.e out, the "prnyiug lndians," at3 those conve1·tcll to Chl'istia.nity were callcll, were arrc::itetl, chainml two and two, aud tOrn from their homes, from a. mere suspicion that they might join the euemy, to the horror and ,Usmay of the Eliots and 'fuppcrs who ha,l prenche<l the Cross among them.

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with Dn.vill Baeo11, ,John Pn.rrish tmd James Emlen, volunteerell for tlte service, leaving Phihulelphia, Sept. 15, 179-1:. Again he suffered mneh from the lrn,nlships awl privations of the journey, but his zeal and detenni1rntio11 overcame all diflieulties. They ministeretl n.s they went nnremittiugly in public n.n<l pri­vn,te, n,nd joined Col. Pickering in time to take pn,rt in n,ll the 11Pgnt iatirn1s.

Near U1i8 place lie met some followern u[ .Jemima Wilki11so11, who wa;; hre1l a Qnaker, n.1Hl who having when a young woman revive,l after ap1iare11tl,y dying from a, fever, declared t1mt she lmtl 1,een raisetl from ,leath to life, preten,letl to wOl'k rnirneles, :tlHl fomHled a sect (now extinct) which lmilt 11p in Yates C\nrnty, New YOl'k, a towu called Jerusalem. Among her fol­lowers was one .Judge Potter, wltn entertained vVillimn Savery and his companious hospitably, all(l from "·hom he was glad to len,rn thn,t he hall seen his error, and left the sect. He sought ttnd obtained an interview with ,Jemima, herself, find­ing in her household tt consumptive mnn who lmd brought in so 11111d1 of l1is propert.,r t.h:d, liis f:unil/ was left 1lestit11te, 11pon which he exclni111s, "Oli,' wretdie,l infat11aLio11 ! that can break the mm1t solemn tics of God :iml nature, n,nd yet flatter its votaries that they rire the favorites of heaven." At one religious meeting there were present a, good nrnny Indim1s who luvl receive,l some instrnctions in C11ristianity from missio1rnries, and desired to open the worship liy singing some psn,lms n,11d hymns, a wish tlmt he 1leernC1l it tvlvisaHe Ull(ler the cireum­stmiees lo :ic1:e,le to, on which lte renmrketl tlmt the melmly and soft11ess of their Yoiees in the frnlitw langun,ge, a11fl the sweet­ness mHl harmony that attewlell it, exceeded hy far n,11ythi11g of tlte kin<l he h,ul ever hear,1 among- white people, a)l(l that there in the woods Llte salisf:wtion of hearing- these poor 1111tntored

people sing, with every appearnnee o[ <leYot.ion, Llieir Maker's pmi~e, nrnl tl1e serimrn a.thmtion to the word delivered to them, eo11spired Lo make it :L most solemn nweting, long to be remem­bered by him. Bnt his impression was that the gren,t body of

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the Oneidas ha<l receive<l the religion of Christ in \V,)l'(l only bnt not in power. I will here <ligress to oh-,crve that the hoqnois or Five Nations, cm1sisting of tl1e Mo11awks, llie Ouei<las, the Onandagoes, the Cayngas, arnl the Senecas, were re-c11Eorced in 1715 l>y the Tttse:troms, :t kimlred tribe, who lnul been i,;epa­mted from them by the ehancei,; of war, lrnt heiug <lriYen out of their homes in North Carolina, sought a1Hl ohtaine<l a confe(l­emcy with the hoqnois; arnl in 178-!, mainly through the intervention of a chic( .Joseph Hmllllt (Tlmycittlenega ), sup­porte<l hy Oovl'l'lllll' · l lal<li1uand, tl1mm o[ t lie Six NaLiom; wlio had esponsml the British eani,;e dnring the Hevolntion songht and obtained :t grant of the llistrict 011 the (harnl River (now in the county of Brandt, Ontario), which they lmve ever since occupied in peace and prm,perity, intennpte<l only hy the "\Var of 1812. Tlie British general, Sir \Vm. ,lolt11sou, al'lcr the death of his wife, esponse<l l\fary Brnn<lt, ,Joseph's sister, a11<l she lime him i,;eveml d1il<lre11. Abll11L Jive 01- six years ago Chief John Hemy Martin .folmson, a !lesccn(l­ant of Sir "\Villiam, • and a son of Chief ,Tolin Smoke Johnson, died on this reservation, leaving a very honontlJle memory. The community has pro<lncml citizeni,; who lmve won fair distinction in every walk of life. Several Christian ministers, awl one eminent <loetor arnl social reformer, and more than one promiuent all(l we:tlthy 11m11ufaet11rcr of p11re aboriginal bloo<l, lmve issued from it, living contradictions to the trite saying accepted by so nut11y ;1,s true, tlutt there is "no good Indin,11 lntt :t (lead Irnli:rn." 1\Hss E. 1',rnline ,fol1m;o11, two of whose poetical composiLiom; are comprise(l in the "So11gs of IIH: (lruaL l>11111i11io11," edil-t~tl by ~Ir.\\'. ll. Ligldall, M. i\., of Montreal, allll by an emiue11 t critic prnHn1111ced the grea,t­ei,;t living poetess, ii,; a, daughter ol' tl1e late lie:ul ehiel', G, :M. H. Johnson. Her mother was a daughter of l\fr. Henry Howells, of Bristol, Englaml, a kinsman of Mr. V{. D. Howells, the novelii,;t. One of her l)l'(itheri,; ii,; eashier of the New York Life Ai,;surance Company, in the Dominfon of Cnnrula, and

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a11olher hol(b · a mc1T:t11tile l'osilio11 111 Ilamillo11. The Six Nations settled on Gran<l River were computed in 1785- to 1111rnlie1· aho11L live l11111dl'l'(l soul;;. They w<1re re-enforced by some of their kin from the Unite,l Sbtte;;, and now number about four thmrnarnl. They e11joy the Dominion fmnchise, are ministered to hy a Clmrch of England clergyman, and cer­l:iinly show no prospect of !icing "civilized off tl1e face of the t-arLh," 11or do their fairer co1111iluxio11c1l fcllow-snhjccts evince any de:,;ire to submit them to tlmt etherenJiziug process, the fate of so m:tny of their brethren on the southem side of the border.

The Friends were as before hearers of credentials from the Soeiety, in the shape of :t fratemal and affectionate address to the Jndim1s, and immc<liately after their a.nival Col. Piek­cri11g ealle(l on them :t1Hl took \Villin.in Savery mid David Baeon will1 liim lo the camp of the O11cidas; co11fcrence after co11fere11ce, c01rncil after council, was held; the Indian chiefs visiting- the Friends in their tent to lliscnss with them every important commlmica,tion. On Tuesday, Oct. 21, a more forma.l <'on fernnce than any precetling one took place, at which 1 lol. l'iiolw1·i11g i1d.rrnliw11d l1i111;;1dl' as ;;ole <'.1111111iisHio11er 011 lll'lml f nl' t.he ( f11i(ed ~(:\,((';;, H.tl(I tlieit' frie11ds the <iuakcrH, who, lie t.old tl1e111, lnul 1:0111e al Uicir re<111cst; a11(l the :ul(lress from the Society at Pliiladelphia was reml to them, and interpreted by Jolin Pa.rrish. On one occasion some Indian women re1piested aml \Yerc granted leave to speak through one of the chiefs as theit· orator, and said tlrnt the white people had been t.lie ea.use of all the l1ulia11;;' distresses; that the whites had presse1l all(l sqneeze(l them together nntil it gitye them great pain at their hearts; a1ul that the whites ought to give them l,aek the lamls they hatl btken from them; tlrnt a white woman the day hefore (,Jemima 1.Vilkinson, who hatl foisted herself 111'011 (.li1• 1·.111111(·il, aga.in:-;L Col. l'i1·lwri11g\.; wish) liad tol<l the l11dia11i-; lo rq1e11t, a1ul ilicy now iu tum callc1l on the white pl'11pk lo n'pe11l, l'or they hail a.H 11rneh lll'C(l a:,; the [ll(li:1.11s, ri.rnl that tliey should wrong the l11dia11s no more. At auotlier con-

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ference the lndin,ns said that when the wl1ite people came to the country and had no land to subsist 011, they had given them land out of compassion; tl1at aftenv:ml they wern ealle<l 011 for more, and gave it for the sake of peaee, until war n,rose between them arnl their great ki11g across the ocean, which iuvol \'etl the Indians in troubles not of their own making, hut the fanlt of the whites. About the 25th, a man named ,Johnson, no don ht a descendant of Sir \Villiam hy his l\foliawk wife, arnl thus a nephew of Bmwlt, all(l an aucestor of the poetess, came with a message from Brall(lt, the l\Tohawk cl1ief, to those of tlH! Rix: Nations who were there assemlJled, aml acting, as "\Villiam Savery says in his journal, as a " British interpreter.'' On observing Col. Pickering's displea:mre at his presence, one of the chiefs expressed snrprise that since the peace with the British nation tlie Americans arnl the British coultl not Lear to sit side by side in :my tre,ity with the Iutlimrn. Col. Picker­ing, however, deno1111ee<l .fol1m,n11 as :t BriLish :.;py, arnl his presence there as a frm;l1 prnof of " British insolence," a1al he was compelled to leave, ttfter which the chief declared that what tl1ey h:ul bee11 told at a prcvions tre:ity, ihat llie treaty between Great Britain and America had been agreed on in the presence of the nreat Spirit arnl llll(lcl' his i11H11c1iee, a11tl that it was a "good peace," must be false; t,l1at they !tall req11esle<l ,Johnson to l>c prese11t, arnl i11 co11se11ti11g to liis 1lopart11rn mnst insist on provisions being supplied him for his jonmey.

At a graml conucil on the 28th, ,Villiam Savery rn,ul Col. Pickering's commission, and the American proposals were folly opened up. On the 31st, several chiefs waited on the Frieucls in their tent a11d prese11ted to them a11 ad<hess, in whieh the

· following passage occuned: "Yon all k11ow the proposals that have been made Ly the commissioner a11d the offers made liy 11s to him. ,v e are all now in the presence of the Great Spirit, and we place more coutidence in yon than i11 a11y other people. As you express your desire for peace, we now <lesire your help and assistauce; we hope yon will 11ot deceive 11s, for if you

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shou11l do so we shall 110 more place any confitlence m man­kind." It is no wonder that \Villimn Savery and his compan­ions were 1lecply twlChcd l,y ,melt an appeal from those sim­ple children of the forest, and found it :t "delicate and weighty matter" to answer some of their re<1uests. It is quite evident that without their aid, no treaty could have been accomplished. ·when at length articles were agreed on, and were finally sub­mitted to the assembled chiefs, ·William Savery was rerp1ired by them to l1old in his hand :t duplicate, and follow it while the commissioner reacl aloml, so tktt he could assure them it was a verbatim copy. Even after Lltis tl1ey pressed him and his com­panions fol' au assurance that they had not been duped, or rn1[airly dcalL witl1. '\Vlwu Llie al'Lielcs wcl'c at l<'11gth signed, the chiefs again visited 1.hem, awl in an earnest and pathetic acldl'ess besougl1t them also to sign the tren,ty, as a guarantee of its fairness and gornl faith, and Col. Pickering was very desirous that they shoul<l do so ; but in the words of their report to the Society, " as the articles confirmed the right of the United States to large tracts of land which had been ob­Lai lll'<l h_y eonq11e:--L, wilho11(; lllaking wlia.t Fric111lR deemed :tn adequate and just cornpemmtion for it, they could not consent to the re<ptest:-- so fre1pte11Lly m:ulc to sign the treaty." As hefore, he reached home much Lroken in health by the hard­ships of the journey; nevertheless, after a short rest, he set out to attend the yeitrly meeting in Virginia, and some of the meetings composing it, holding meetings for worship and exhor­tation, conti1111nlly, going :t.Jl(l rl't,nrning.

In the yeitr 17\l(i he felt eonstraineu Ly the monitions of the Spirit to emhal'k for Europe, le:tving on 1\fay 18, in company with "severa.l ministers," viz., Samuel Emlen, Deborah D:uhy. Rebecca Yonng, Sarah Talbot, mid Pltrnbe Speakman. He rcadu~d Lin\rpool 011 Sn111la,r, ,111110 1!1, 17Dfi, and i11111wdiafoly prn1'.t'e1letl to hohl mccli11gs in llmt ciLy, in J\.lanehester, and in Lornlon, :t,IJ(l jll'IH'.t\l'e1l from il1e American rni11i1,ter a pass to the Continent. I fern he speaks of parting from l1iti "friends,

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Joseph Savory and family, of London." - Reaching Oldenbmg, Germany, on the 7th of Augnst, they were very eomteom,ly receivc<l hy the :,;ceretary of tlie govemor, Pri11ce Etienne. Everywhere he sought ont ":,;epitmti:,;t" :,;ocietie:; aud i:;olated commm1itiex of religimrn people, grnpi11g- aftur xpiritiml t.rn(.]1:,;, and yearning after religion:; light ami1bt smromHlings of indif­ference or formali:,;m, and con:,;ole<l n,rnl ministore<l to, com­forted aml ail vi:;e<l them, as their xeveral ciremm,tiwee:; re­quired or permitted; and if I ha(l :,;pace it wonl(l lJe interesti11g to speak of tl1e different notid)lu 1·t:ligio11:,; elmradcrn wliolll he encountered.

At Altona he preacherl in German for the first time, all(l interpreted an English address hy one of his companions. The objective point of this pn,rt of the journey was Pyrmont, where there had long exi:;tml a hirge l)()<ly of Frie1Hb. Here lie stayed :;orne time, :,;trengthening the Society, all(l healing its divisions. Here itl:;o he notes tlie rn111·mm·x ol' x11rprix(i hy l.lw people at seeillg him and hi:; eom1ni11iom; keep their hats 011 in the presence of tlte governor, who had invite<l them to an interview, and received them with great conrte:;y. At Drun:;­wick he sought an interview with the dnke, the father of "Brnnswick's fated chieftain,"* liimxelf a great geneml, who was kille!l at Anen;fatlt in 180!i. lfe failed to Jill(l him at home, lmt was gr:wiously liste11e<l lll by Ll1e <luchess, to whom he delivered Penn':; "No Cross, no Crown," and she thanked him for the book and his exhortation. At I-Ielmste[ul he waited on the learne(l Profes:,;or Bcirnix, all(l gave l1im Barclay':,; "Apology," and l)eing informed l,y l1im iliat. tl1ere were uo separati;:;ts in the tow1i, movc(l 011, linlli11g more kitl(lre(l xpirits in l\fagdeburg, but on the way towanls Berlin experienced the mortification of having some of the books they had left at l\fag<lelmrg returne(l, the <lonee not being satisfied with the rejection of the sacmme11ts, an(l eertain other doctrines taught in them. At Berlin he stayed some time, and met many sym-

* Byron's "Childc Ilaruhl," Canto iii.,,·. 2.'{.

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pathizers, among whom were some men of note, especially a 1\Iajor l\farconnay, who had served under the king with distinc­tion, but, impressed by religious considerations, had resigned his offices, and was living a retired life. This gentleman attended one of his meetings, and afterwards called on him and his companions with the gratifying information that he had through them found the truth that he was so long seeking fut· umler ma11y profoHHor:-;, aml that he helieved they had heen sent there in the will of God, for the benefit and blessing of himself and others. He failed, however, to get an audience of the king, which distressed him much; and a letter afterwards received from Major Marconnay, informing him that he had secured an audience for him for the day after he had left, intensified his regret that he had left so soon.

After further travels and labors and meetings in Germany, he passed on to Holland, and held meetings in various parts of that country, and then proceeded to France. At Paris, while getting their passes indorsed Ly the proper official, they were ordered to take off their hats ; hut on its being explained that they lmtl "religious scruples" against such an act of obeisance to a mere fellow-man, this refusal to do so was excused. Here he and his friends had a discussion with Tom Paine, the infidel author of "The Age of Reason." He says that Paris "contains almost everything to gi·atify the eyes of the curious, the desires of the voluptuous, the talents of the learned, and the dissipa­tion of the gay and fashionable world; but has little to satisfy the soul longing after celestial riches." After travelling through the South of France with many interesting vicissitudes and incidents, he returned to Paris, and on the way to Dun­kirk was hospitably entertained by one Christopher Potter, who lived on part of the estate formerly owned by the Prince de Conde. He now computed the number of miles he had trav­elled in France at fourteen hundred.

On the lHth May, 1707, he landed at Gravesend, and renewed his labors in the South and \\rest of England, crossing over to

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the Channel Islands; returning, he visited Liverpool, Chester, Y ol'k, and the Isle of Man, where he was treatell with special respect arnl hospitality by the liente1mut-governor of the island, aiul thence resumed his travels on the mainbnd, and in Scotland, holding large and, as a rule, satisfactory meetings everywhere. Thence he went to lreland, and after diligent and interesting labor in the "Island of the Saints," he crossed over to Wales. At Bath he sought and obtained an interview with the celebrated Hannah More, and was introduced by her to William vVilherforce. Arriving at Loudon, he was affection­'ately received by his "beloved friends, J. Savory and others," and proceeded to Norwich, where his visit was one of the most important and eventful of his life, for it was on that occasion that he made the acquaintance of the Gurneys, the family of which Elizabeth, (tfterwards l\Irs. Elizaheth Fry, the renowned prison phibnthropist, was (t member. Not one word does he say in his journal of hi1:1 iuteremtrse with this family, 1w llouht all unconscious, or, at least, utterly without prescience of the far-reaching results of an influence which gave its bent to the career of one of the most remarkable English women of modern times. On the other hand, a11 her biogmphers, especially her daughter, .Mrs. Cresswell, place the figure of "\Villiam Savery conspicuously in the foreground of the grand and interesting picture of her life. He alludes to Norwich aml the Friends there, under <late Feb. 4, 1798, as follows: "Attended their meeting; there were about two hundred under our name; very few middle-aged or young persons who had a consistent appearance in their dress; indeed, I thought it the gayest meeting of Friends I ever sat in, and was grieved to see it. I expected to pass the meeting in silent suffering, but (tt length believed it most for my peace to express a little, and through gracious condescension was favored to relieve my mind, and many were tendered. Had fl, meeting in the evening in a large meeting-honse in another part of the town. Tliereseems to lie liut few upright standard liearers left among the members in this place,

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yet they are not entirely removed. Attended the public meet­ing, rmd the house, though very large, could not contain the people by several hundreds ; but considering their crowded situation, many being obliged to stand, they soon became settled, and through mercy it proved a remarkably open, satisfactory meet­ing, ending in prayers and praise to the author of every bless­ing. The marks of wealth and grandeur are too obvious in several families of Friends in this place, which made me sorrowful, yet saw but little opening to relieve my mind; several of the youuger branches, though they are enabled by divine grace to see what the truth leads to, yet it is uncertain ,vhether, with all the alluring things of this world around them, they will choose the simple safe path of self-denial." Like the Saverys, the Gurneys were of Norman extraction, the name being derived from Gonmay de Brai, in Normandy, the Norman lords of which held fiefs in England as early as the days of William Rufus. The Norwich branch lived at Earlham, a family seat, and were high up among the locril gentry, and although pro­foRRing the p1·i11ciples of the Friencls, like a larger proportion to-day, they did not strictly live up to the n,ustere rules of the Society, conforming more to the fashions of the world, and par­taking more of its enjoyments and mingling more in its gayeties than was then deemed consistent with their profession. By the death of her mother, Elizabeth and her six sisters were left under the care of their father, whose occupations, public and private, were engrossing. Bnt the elder ones were judicious and discreet, although not devout, according to the standard of the Friends, and all were rich in talent, lively and original, possessing a peculiar freshness of character with singular purity of purpose and warmth of affection. " For a time," says her daughter, "they were permitted to stumble on the dark moun­tains, seeking reHt arnl fincling 11011e. To tho gayeties of the world as we understand them, they were hut little disposed.'' .Mr. Gurney kul 110 objection to music, althongh neither music uor dancing was allo,ved Ly the Friends, yet they were gifted

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with music, and under the influence of natural hilarity, they often danced together. The thrilling pathos of their native warblings, especially the duets of R;;chel and Elizabeth, was long remembered. In all the1:;e enjoyments no one entered with more zest than Elizabeth. ~he WH8 ali::io ,u1 exl:elleut llon,e­woman, and rode fearlessly. But during all these days she was evidently struggling after more spiritual light awl a higher spiritual life, occasionally trouhleu Ly a ternlency to scepticism, or wavering in response to t11e attrnctions of fashionable life, for whieh her lively dispo1:;ition ttll(l great pel'sonal dmrms awl accorp.plishments so eminently fitted her.

At an age when a graver form of rebuke might have.repelled her, a gentleman of high principle formed a strong and ardent friendship for her -and her sisters, and discussed the grand truths of Christianity with them in the most judicious manner, never, although a Roman Catholic, touching on any contro­verted topic. Another Christian cons1Jler awl gnide appenre<l later in the person of ~forianne Galton, afterwards Mrs. Schimmelpenninck. * And there were other associates from whom all the sisters derived more or less benefit. In January, 1797, she writes in her journal: "My mind is in so dark a state that I see everything through fL l>lack medium." In April she writes: "vVhy do I so much wish for the Prince to come? [H. R. H. \Villiam Frederic, afterwanlH Duke of Gloucester, then quartered with his regiment at Norwich.] Pride, alas, is the cause. 29th, I met the Prince ; it showed me the folly of the worl<l; my miml feelH very flat after the storm of pleawre." I now quote from her biographer her own account of the meet­ing, the description of which in Savery's journal I have given above: "It was on the 4th of February, 1798, that "William Savery, an American Friend, who had come to England on a religious visit (as it is termed in the language of Friends), in the course of his travels arrived at Norwich. He apperLrs to have been sound in the Christian faith, and to have laid due

• Authoress of" Select Memoirs of Port Royal," etc.

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stress on the great doctrines of the atonement. He was a strict Friend, earnest in urging a faithful obedience to the immediate gnitlings of the spirit of God, yet careful lest from any want of watchfulness and humility the youthful mind should be led into error." Elizabeth's sister Richenda thus describes this eventful day : " On that day we seven sisters sat as usual in a row, under the gallery, at meeting. I sat by Betsey; ·William Savery was there ; we liked to have yearly meeting Friends to preach - it was a little change. Betsey was generally rather rextlesx at meeting, and on this day I remember her very smart boots were a great amusement to me ; they were purple, laced with scarlet. At last ·william Savery Legan to preaelt. Hi::; voice itml 1mumer were arresting, and we all liked the sountl: her attention became fixed, at last I saw her begin to weep, and she Lecame a good deal agitated. As soon as meeting was over, I have a remembrance of her making her way to the men's side of the meeting, and having found my father she begged him if she might dine with ·William Savery at the Grove ( the residence of her uncle, Joseph Gurney), to which he soon e0Hse11Letl, Llio11gh mLhet· s11rpl'i:-;ed hy the re~ quest; we went home as usual, and, for a wonder, we wished to go again in the afternoon. I have not the same clear remem~ brance of this meeting, but the next scene· that has fastened itself on my memory is our return home in the carriage. Betsey sat in the middle, and astonished us all by the feeling she showetl. She wept most of the way home. The next morni11g, \Villimn Savery came to break.fa.st, and preached to our dear sister after breakfast, prophesying of the high and im­portant calling she wonld he led into. What she went through in her own mind, I cannot say, but the results were most pow­erful and most evident. From that day her love of pleasure and of the world ,-yas gone." The impi'ession on Elizabeth's mind her own journal portrays : -

" SUNDAY, Feb. 4, liUS.-'l'his morning I went to meeting, though but poorly, because I wished to hear an American Friend, riamed ·wmiam Sa-

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very. Much passed there of a very interesting-nature. I have had a faint light spread over my mind; at least, I believe it is something of that kind, owing to having been much with and lrnviug hear1l much excellence from one who appears to me to be a true Chl'istian. It has caused me to feel a little religion. lly imagination has been worked upon, and I fear that all I have felt will go oft'. I fear it uow, though at first l was t'rightene1l that a plain Quaker should have made so deep an impression upon me; but how truly prejudiced in me to think that because good came from :i Quaker, I shouhl be led away by enthusiasm aud folly. But J hope I am now free from such fears. I wish the state of enthusiasm I am uow in may last, for to-day I have felt that thei·e is a Gotl. I have been devotional, and my mind has beeu led away from the follies that it is mostly wr:1ppP1l up in. "\VP had much serious eonversation; in shot·t, what he :,aitl awl what I folt was lilrn a refreshing shower, falling upon earth that has been dried up for ages.

"SUNDAY, 11.- rt is verydift'ereut to this !lay week (a day uever to he for­gotten while memory lasts) .... 'l'o-tlay I have felt all my old irreligious feelings. My object shall be to search, try to tlo right, and if I am mis­taken, it is not my fault, but the state I am now in makes it difficult to act. "\Vliat little religion 1 have felt has heen owing to my giving away quietly awl humbly to my feelings: hut the more l reason upou it, the more T get into a lllbyrinth of nuccrtninty, and my min1l is ~o much i11eli11e1l to hol.h se1,pl.iciHlll awl m1t,h11siasm, that ii' I arg11P an1I 1l011ht, I shall h1, a total sceptic; if, 011 the contrary, l give way to it, a111I, as it were, wait for religion, I may be led away. Ilttt I hope that will not he the case; at all events, religion, true and uncorrupted, is of n.ll comforts the g..-eatest; it is the first stimulus to virtue; it is a support umler every attliction. I am sure it is better to be so in au enthusiastic way than not to be so at all, for it is a delighful enthusiasm." ·

Immediately after this, with the consent of her father, she visited London, that she might become acquainted for herself with those amusements and fascinations that the world offers to its votaries, that she might have the opportunity of "trying all things, and choosing that which seemed to he good." Thirty years afterwards, in Jnly, 1828, i:;he thns writes of this cventfnl pcri()(l of her life: -

" Here ended this important and interesting visit to London, where I learned much and had much to digest. I saw and entered various scenes of gayety, many of our first public pl:tces, attended. balls and other places of amusement. I saw many interesting clmracters in the world; some of considernlJle eminence in that day. I was also cast among a great variety of })ersons of different de8cri1itio11s. 1 h:ul the high aLlvautage of attelllling several most interesting meetings of William Savery, and having at times

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his co111pa11y awl. that of ::i ft•.w ot.hnr J.i'ricmls. It was like the easUng die in my life; however, I believe it was in the ordering of Providence for me, am\ that the leRsons then lP::irne1l arc to this day valuahlc to me."

Then follows in detail an account of her spiritual experi­ences and convictions as to religion and the world, derived from '\Villiam Savery's preaching and ten.ching.

The following letter she received immediately on her arrival l10111e:-

WILLIA.M S,\.VEltY TO ELIZABETH GURNEY.

13TU FOURTH MoN'rII, 1798. DEAR FIUEND:

As T left thee unwell, and without having it in my power to take thee affoctio11at.ely hy t.he lmrnl, as [ wa.;, 11111ch inclined to tlo, it g:we me great pleasure to receiyc thy kind letter, which ln-ings no complaint of thy present want of hen.1th; for I as~11rP thee, T feel intereste,l in thy welfare and h:1ppi11P.SS t'Yery ,my. l\ly :1.t.l.:tt'hnw11t has not bt.•Pn more eonlial or agrne­ahle to any young Friend i11 Eugla.ntl, aml my heart leapetl with joy to find thou art willing to aclmO\Yledge a state of hunger am! thirst after righteous­ness, ,vhich, if thou cherish and 1lwell in, thou never need to doubt, my dear friend, wUI eventually he crowned with the enjoyment of the heavenly promise, " thon shalt he filled.'' Thou art favonred with amiable am! h,•11p1•ole11t, 1li.~p0Rit i1111s, wllich I hop,, t,IHlll ha Rt wiRcl.r tld.t'r111i11P1l shall not be cl'lipR.,,l hy a conformity to the god of this worl1I, uor enslaved hy its nttlinwnts a111l maxims, it-fl philosophy am! v:tin •leceit, lrnt rather with a holy 111:1g11:1.11i111it,y, rega.rdlPRR of th,1 worltl'.~ dreatl I:iugh, thou wilt resolve to implore the Omnipotent ha!Hl that formed thee for Glory, Immortality, and Eternal Life, to finish the glorious work he has begun, by creating thee anew in Chri,t .Jesus unto every good word and work; bringing thee u111ler the 1lo111i11io11 of Ilis own power a.ml spirit, the fruit of which is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, gootlness, faith, l1Jel'k11t'8S, h'lllPl'l':tlH'l'.

1 know, my 1lcar, thou hast :uul wilt have many te111ptatio11s to combat with; thou will doubtless he frequently importuned to continue with thy gay nequaintanees, in pursuit of that unsubstantial and false glare of happiness which the world, in too bewitching and deceitful colors, holds out to the poor, young, unwary traveller, which, if he he ensnared with, most certainly ends in bliu1ling the intellectual eye from disecming the 1111eo11ta111i11ate,l sn11rc,1 of sonl-folt pleasure, rt>sulti11g from a lmmhle heart at pe:tce with its God, its neighbor, and itself. Thou nskest my advice, my dear friend, and without any premeditation when I sat down, I fill(l. r have been attempting it; !mt, it is very evitleut thou art under the especial care of an infinitely better instructor, who has already uttered His

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soft and heavenly voice, to teach thee that the first step toward religion is trne humility; because in that state only we can feel the need we have of an arm strouger than human to lean 11po11, to IP:ul us out, of awl kePp us from polluting things, which hinder our access to, aml conthlcnee iu that boundless source of purity, love, and mercy; who amidst all the vicissi­tudes of time, is disposed to be our iuvincible Shepherd, Guardian, a!Hl Friend, in whom we may trust, and never be afraid; but this blessed confidence is not, cannot be enjoyed by the gay, the giddy, proud, or abandoned votaries of this world.

It is the peculiar privilege of those who are sincerely endeavoring to wash their hands in i.nnocency, that they may compass the alt:tr of Go<l availingly. I have experienced what it is to be under the imperious and slavish dominion of my own uncontrolled passions; a1Hl I know that such a state is abundantly mixed with the wormwood and the gall, and I have been, through adorable me1·cy, convinced there is an infinitely more happy oue to be attained, even in this life; an enjoyment, under the per­fect law of liberty, of that serene state of mind wherein there is no condemnation, as Paul speaks, the law of the spirit of life in Christ ,Jesus, sdting the soul fwe from the law of sin a1ul ,lcat.h. r ,lo uot pret.1\ntl, 111y (lear frien(l 1 to boast myself :u, having attaiued such au uninterrupted state, yet the transient foretaste wliich we paitake of, in proportion to our ohe<li<Hwt: to rnvrn1lt:tl tlut.y, iH 1,uongh t.o iuHpire t.111: HOil] ol' t'Vt·ry ( :hri,t i:111 soldier so to run, through God's merey aud grace, that we may ohtaiu the full and complete enjoyment of it. '.rhere are many formal professors of religion, who think to obtain peace with G0tl by a critical exactness, a111l even rigid austerity in outward observances, and outside formalities, as well as many who from eonstitution or hal.Jit are always exhibiting the dark antl gloo111y siile of religion, not having, in my humble opinion, th<'ir min(lS su11iciently expanded by just coueeptious of the adorable love autl mercy of God; and both of these spread a discouraging report of the good land, or of the way which our I feaveuly Father has appointed for ns to obtain possession of it. I speak only my own experience, clear Elizabeth, when I say, that whenever I h:we found Illy way more than 11sually strewn with thorns, I have generally discovere<l, on a deep scrutiny of my heart, it has been the fruit of some 9pen or secret departure from the paths of obedience ant! virtue, so that I am confinnetl it is iu our own ways we arc corrected; but the ways of the Lord are ways of pleasantness, autl all his paths are peace. I know very well that the most virtuous, being children of frail humanity, and this worl<l not <lesigned to be the place of their undisturbed rest, but a school of discipliuc, to prepare them for a better, are subject to atflictions as well as others; still there is this difter­ence in the midst of them all, that while the votary of this world is overwhelmed with murmuring antl repiuiug, antl agitated with sorrow which worketh lleath un<ler the atttictivc dispensation, that all more or less, in the wis(lom of Providence for our good, must. pass through iu this life, yet the humble Christians, believing that even a111ictions from His

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sovereign hands are mercies in disguise, aml - that all th_ings shall work eventually for good to them that love and fear Him, are strengthened,. through the Lonl's love an1l mercy t,o say, "'l'hc cup that my Heavenly Father hath blesse1l, shall l not drink it?" for our light a11lictiou, which is, but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, hut at, the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen :ire eternal. On the other hatul, the temporal enjoyments of this life being sanctified to us by the han1l that gave them, a.ml t.he worltl 11se1l without ahnsing it., the 1w,1ee, com fort, an1I r:ttfonal enjoyment of t.lwm is douhly taste,! hy the religions and grntdnl soul. .My 1lear chihl, my heart, is full towards thee. I have written a great deal more thn.u I expccte1I; but [ fain wouhl take thee hy the hand, if I were quali-­fied so to do, and ascend, as our Heavenly Father mn.y enable ns, together, step by stl'p, np that ladder which reaches from earth to He:tven; but a laR ! my \\'P:1.knesR is s11ch I ea.u only reco111nH•111l hot.It myself and thee to that goo!I han,l that is ahle t.o 110 more abundantly for us than we can. ('it.her nsk or thiuk; atul hi,l t,hl'e for the pn\Rent, in much Christian affection,. f:trl\WPII.

WILLlAl\1 SAVERY.

On 7th December, 1798,she mentions in her diary a letter an-· nouncing the arrival of lier "dear friend \Villiam Savery" in America.

From Norwich he passed on from place to place, and again, visiting London, he on the 10th of March had an important interview with the king and royal family. This he secured through the intercession of Benjamin \Vest, the celebrated painter, who, born of Quaker parents in Pennsylvania, was then in the zenith of his fame, having six years before succeeded Sir· ,Joshua Reynolds as president of the Royal Academy, and (ledine<l the honor of lmigltthoml. The qneen, he says, ordered a page to conduct him into one of the apartments, whence, in about five minutes, he was ushered into the drawing-room. where the king, queen, and three of the princesses, and Prince Ernest Augustus met his party "with pleasant countenances."· The prince, bci11g informed of his late visit to the Continent, asked him many questions, giving him an opportunity of descanting feelingly 011 the horrors and miseries of war, and its. antagonism to the spirit of the Christian religion, the queen.

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and the· princesses giving an emphatic assent to his views. These illustrious ladies were especially pleased with the inter­view, the queen giving him the nrtmes and ages of her children, and sending for the PrinceHs Amelia, " a tall girl of fourteen," who was unwell, to come in. The king askc<l him about the situation of affairs between France and America, and on being told that he seldom meddled with politics, said, "No, no, I understand, but as a people you can never form so natural an attachment with any country as with England; we are united by religion, relatio11:,;ltip, commcrt:e, di8posiLion, etc." l le replied that he valued the connection, and hoped the family compact would never be broken; and the queen, catching part of the conversation, desired him to repeat it; was much pleased with the idea, and spoke of it to her daughters with satisfac­tion. And yet, alas! the family compact was broken only fom­teen years afterwards. '\Vho was to blame for that fratricidal War of 1812 '? The emphati11 rrn1l elo1p1ent protest a.gai nst it hy the people of New England, which we still remember with deep gratitude, confirms us in our opinion that it was not altogether the fault of our government; and it is significant that not one of President J\fodisoi1's grounds for the declaration -of war was so much as even mentioned in the treaty of peace. Should it ever unfortunately occur that the family compact is broken again, we in Ca11a1fa arc determinccl that it slmll he hy no fault of ours, unless to cling tenaciously to our ·own little patrimony, in the spirit of the race from which we all come, is to be deemed a fault. \\Then in the treaty of 1783, Lol'll Shel­burne, in spite of the pre8sure of France, America's ally, to the contrary, "ellllowed" * the migi11al States wilh the mag11ilicent extension of boundaries they pleaded for west of the Ohio, and on the north and south, he said he yielded for the sake of rJcon­,ciliation. " Reconciliation," replied Franklin, "that is a sweet word.'' And yet, alas! · it often seems in these later years that the reconciliation has not yet come. I know that in the matters

*The very language used by Hon. John Jay, an American statesman and diplomat, ,descendant of one of the American plenipotentiaries,

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which have recently been subjects of controversy, the Canadian government has carefully striven to keep well within the lines of existing treaties and recognized intemational law, and to assert undoubted rights with forbearance and moderation. I£ an impression to the contrary prevails in the United States, it is because their people only hear one side of the story. Let me implore those who conduct the American press, and on whom so grave :t rc:-;porn,ihility dcvolV!~H in a11y Httelt e:tHn, to ,lcal more justly, nay liberally, with us in this respect, that our case may he hcanl and jtHlged of by the gre:tt hmly of the intelligent Ameri­can public, to whose judgment, as to the decisions of the great jurists who adom the courts of the United States, we do not shrink from appealing. I luunbly hope, in these days of "retaliation" and threatened non-intercourse, my kinsfolk arnl namesakes will pardon this digression in the interest<; of peace, and I will hasten to resume the subject of this eminent apostle of peace, who bore and honored our common name. He told the king and queen that he desired to embrace the good everywhere as brethren, H)l(ler whatever modification of out­ward profm;sion; a11<l the (ptecn replied, "A good Christian must do so." After a "free conversation" he could scarcely part from them without tears, and vVest lieanl the king say to his consort, " Charlotte, how satisfactory this has been."

Continuing his travels in England, he soon after this began to seek for a ship in which to take passage for home, and met with many llisnppointments delaying his departure from time to time. 8corni11g idleness, he availed himself of l.hc time at his tlisposal to cross over to Ireland again, mentioni11g Anna Sa­vory as going and returning with him. On May 18, 1799, he refers to Thomas Scattergood, of Philadelphia, a distinguished Friend, appearing in prayer at one of his meetings.

On ,Time 27 he arnl his companions visited \Villiam \Vilber­force, and laid before him the distressed state of the people of Ireland; and the free expression of their sentiment<; seemed to give much satisfaction to the great English abolitionist. On

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the first day of August he succeeded in -finding an eligible ship to carry him to America.

On his passage ont he received from a passing vessel infor­mation of the prevalence of yellow fever in his native city, and writes in his journal: "0 Philadelphia, Philadelphia! thou whom the Lord has known al1(l favmed al>ove all the cities I have ever seen, is there not a cause why thou shouldst so re­peatedly be made to read the roll written within and without, with mourning, lamentation, and woe ? Doubtless there is, or thy God wonlcl still have preserved the walls of salvation around thee, and thy gates would have resounded with anthems of praise."

He arrived at New York on the 18th of October, and soon joined his wife and household, who had removed a few miles from the city to escape the mvageH of Ll1e fever. Owiug to fail­ing health he travelled but little after this, except to atternl the yearly meeti11g of New Ymk iu 1800, a1Hl of lblt.i111orn of 1801, but continued diligent in his ministrations to the full ex­tent of his remaining strength ; dropsical symptoms at length supervened, and in March, 1804, he was confined to his house, awaiting his last summons with Christian humility, considering himself, notwithstanding all his labors, rm unprofitable servant, "having nothing to depend on but the mercy of God through his Savionr, Christ." He died on the 19th of June, 180-!,* and the pure "white flower of a blameless life," transplanted to the immortal shores, blooms in the sunlight of God's countenance for­ever~ore.

In person \Villiain Savery was about five feet nine or ten inches in height, was of a tirm make, :uitl for 011e inelinetl to corpulency, had a good fignre. His features were comely, and

* His brother, Thomas Savery, thus writes in his journal, umlcr <late ,June 19, 1804: "18th. Went a-riding with brother William about three or four miles, !Jut he very low; taken with a chill In afternoon, and " feve,· suc,·.eetle,l which continue,! till mi•l­nlght on the 18th; and the 19th about 6 o'clock A. ~1.. he tenninate,J his short !Jut useful life ln the 54.tll year or lii8 age, much l:.uuc11tc1l hy hi:H·ou1u.wtton8 :nul uumcrou::i fl'ict1tl8, In yen.rs pai:;t he sought {lili~cntly the juBt 1mau':t path, which wat1 1:3hown him aiu.l tu which he was mostly enabled to wiilk. He was " love,· of mercy and true charity, an<l walked humbly to the eiul of bis days, which terminute,J In a hel'omlng resignation to his Heuvenly lllaster'a will, lu whosu favor he ,llc<I peacefully, without much pain or body, an<I is no doubt entered Into that rest where all sighing anti sorrow is at an ernl."

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although his complexion was not fair, it was goo<l an<l healthy. The expression of his face was usually placid; and when he was sitting in silence or in the Hocial circle, it was dignified and sedate. But when in conversation, his countenance would often brighten up, and a smile the most benignant and attrac­tive would play over it. 0£ the exte.nt of his early general eclucation we know but little. It is clear that he was fairly proficient in German, and had a good knowledge of French, in which he .could converse, hut not very freely. His written sen­tences are always grammatically correct, and often classically elegant, and his diction flowing and graceful, betokening literary taste, and no little culture ; and we can appreciate while we cannot descriue the magical charm and versatility of address that enabled him to deliver his divine message with equal acceptance in the cottages of the poor and in the palaces of kings, in the refinell society of the gentry of Norwich and among the savages of the desert.

PART II.

THE SEVERY FAMILY AND SAVERYS OF THE RA1'lE ORIGIN.

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THE SEVERY FAMILY AND SAVERYSOF THE SA.ME ORIGIN.

THE first American progenitor of this family I have found at Marblehead, which although not organized until about 1635, had been settled about 162U by immigrants from the islan<ls of ,Jersey arnl GncmHl\)', commonly calle<l the Cha11nel Islands, off the coast of Fmnce, the ouly possessions of the Dukes of Nqnnnmly which are now subject to the English Crown. In the Civil \Var between Charles I. and his Parliament, ,Jersey wa.<; EpiHcopalian and Loyalist, and Guernsey Parliamentarian aml Pnritn.11. There i:,; a family of Sivret or Syvret in boLh islands, from one of which I suspect the branch now treated of <'.amc; tlw wuiw fir::-;t appnaring 011 the ree01"1h, of 1\farhlehcn.<l and adjacent towns. ia the form Sevrit. The coat-of-arms of the Syvrets of .fersey, as given in Burke's "General Armory," is "Sable a lion mm pant argent." The name under the form Sin-et exists to-day among the Acadian French of New Urumnvick. Many of the old Norman-French names of the early settlers of Marhlehead have been superseded in later genemtions hy names of English sound, or translations, s0me of the latter not by auy meaus literal; autl the change in this name, as in many others, arose from the n,ttempt by school teachers, town clerks, and pastors of churches to spell phonetically in English a peculi,u French name.* An Englishman, unversed in the French laugnage, hearing a French-speaking man pro-1101111cc the ua111c "Si Vl'ct, '' and tlesiri11g to write it down, would

1<S111ilP:-1, in hi:--\ work on tin• llt1_!!11c11ot.~, g-ivl'~ It (0 t11·iow-1 lni-;ln.n('l' of thiH trnn~ition of nn111t~~- '1'1tl' 11n11w of the l1'n•1u·h Prof(':-:tnnt. nm·t•HforH of .Jml~u Hn.yky of tho \Vrn-Jt.~ min~ter, Lonclon, County Court wn8 lk Bultll'Ux, frum whkh it came to Bnylcy through nine c·hangfJA.

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be almost sure to write it Scivery (Sciv-ery) or Severy. Either of these two combinations of letters would, to an Englishman, convey very ne,irly, antl with about equal effod, the name as it wonl(l he prtmmmce<l hy a .Frenehma11. Al-:l thmm acqnai11le<l wilh the French laugnagc know, the letter I

at the end of a worcl is not sounded as it is in English. It merely gives a little shade of <liffere11'h to ·the son]J(l of the c

preceding it. The .Freneh termination et would be as nearly as possible pronounced as elt would he by ,Ul Englishman ; but a purely English rnune · never ends with snch a comhination as eh.* .For these reasons the name came to he written Severy or Scivery, the latter on the church, the former on the town records, while it was often also spelt Sevrit and Severit, from a lingering knowledge that the t, althongh silent, rea11y belonged there. Once the form Sevet·y ·Jiec'.,llllC est.ahlishe<l. town historians an(l registrars everywhere mistook the name for a corruption of the more familiar Savm·y, a11tl t,hns witlenell and perpetuated the divergence from the origi1ml, making " con­fusion worse confounded," aml sad work indeed for genealogists and searchers of titles. At Marblehead ancl \Venham we find the rnmrn connected contemporaneously with the Christian names Thomas, Andrew, Peter, ,fames, aJ](l .fohn; aml soon afterwards we meet at l\farbleheatl, Clement, Gregory, a1Hl

Philip, redolent of the Channel Islands all(l France; and the more Puritan and biblically associated names ,Jona.than, David, Solomon, still common in the family, appeared simultaneously in branches widely separated for genemtious. Among the soldiers in King Philip's \Var were IM ward and ,John Severy, of 1\farhleheacl, aml others of the 1mme, .tll(l the fami1y con­tributed a remarkable number to all the wars in which the colonies and United States were engaged. 1\'farblehead is said to have contained six hundred widows at the close of the Revo­lutionary "\Var, and five hundred of her citizerrn were prisoners

• I think, however, that in modern l<'rencll usnµ-e it Is gradually becoming fashionable to give the final letter I a more <li;tiuct soun1I. It is so, at least, in Canada.

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of war in England at the close of the \Yar of 1812. The estate of Peter Sevore, or Sevoree, who died, it would seem, at l\farblehea<l, was administered by his brother Thomas, May 14, 1685, and that of Andrew by his wife l\fary, l\Iay 21, 1715. I think the same Peter was of vVenham, in 1684, foi· I find there recorded: "Mary, daughter to Peter and Mary Severy, born Hi. 1. 168--L" Bnt the Mary Sevrit whrn,e "intent of manig" to Jonatlmu Monlton, "both of \Venham," was published May Bl, 1713, a1Hl "cerLificatu givun" .f tute 18, was probably daughter of the firnt ,John. It would seem likely that Andrew, who by wife Mary had a child born to him in 1683, and Thomas, who hy wife Elizabeth ha<l apparently five children Lorn before lli!)!), were, with l'eter, brothers of the first John of vVenham. The early settlers of l\Iarblehe:ul gave great con-­ce{·u to the General Court by their lack of devotion to the church and its rules, and I believe organized no church whatever until after those of Ipswich and \V enham were organized; but the town had Episcopal missio1mries, from a very early date.

1.

,JOHN1 SEVlUT, SEVERlT, or SEVERY, must have been born between Nov. 8, 1644, a)l(l the sn:me date in 1645, for, according to vVenlmm records, ",John Severi died Nov. 8, 1742, in the ninety-eighth year of his age." "Good wife Severit" had died .March, 1737. The earliest mention of his name is on the Pro­bate records of Essex County, where it appears that, in 1680, ,John Severy f•.hargc<l the estate o( .John Ilarris, of l\farhlehca<l, for "providing his coflin antl digging the grave." Accortliug to the new " History of Essex County,"* snb cap. vVenham, he removed to vVeuham in 1GH5, his name in connection with his settlement there' being spelt Severett. Here also, as at Marblehead, the reco]'(hi show that he was employed from the first in connection with the last rites to the <lead, and is thus more cleruly identified. Besides prolxtbly others, he had the following

* Edited by D. Hamilton Ihm!, 1888.

THE SEVEUY AND SAVERY FAMILY.

CllILDREN.

2 I. ,John', b. probably bt>fore 1683. 3 II. Joseph, b. "May 4, 16\l0.

III. Mnry (probably), whom. ,Jonathau Moulton. IV. J:,mes, ",Teams Sevrit, son of John Sevrit, by :Mary his wife

died 1722-:i." His estate was administered by Jonathan Moulton, and balance given to his father, showing he was over twenty-one and unmarried.

SECOND G.ENEHA'fION.

0, ... JoHN2 SEVERIT, JR. ( John1

), carefully styled ,Junior on the Wenham records, born no doubt at Marblehead before 1683, date unknown, the immediate progenitor of the Middleboro Srwerys; marrie<l l\fartha, clanghter of Thorna,s Parlow, of Midclleboro, who under the name 1fartlm Severy, on the Probate recor(ls, Plymouth, wits ,l1111c 11, 1727, alloUrnl 01w

tl1ird of the estate of her father. Her death, at the age of eighty-five, Dec. 19, 1768, is recorded at Wenham.

CHILDREN.

I. John", b. :March 29, 1706; d. :l\fay 7, 1706. 4 II. John, b. Aug. 13, 1707. 5 III. 'l'homas.

IV. Elizabeth. Perhaps other daughters.

3.

JosEI'H2 SEVElUT or SEVERY (John1), wru; born May 4, 1690, before his father's removal from 1\Ja,rblehead to \Venham. His i11tc11t of marriage, IIJHler ihe 11a111e ",loimph Savcrit., of \Ve11-ham," to Mary Crocker, of Topsfield, was reconlctl July 13, 1712. She died March 8, 1712-13; and on Sept. 13, 1713, we find again an "intent of marrig" between "Joseph Saverit, of Wenham, and Sarah Stockwell, of Ipswich," not "Joseph Severy, of Ipswich, and Sarnh Stockwell, of Rehoboth," as Tracy, doubtless relying on tradition, gives it in his "History

THI~ Sl~VR!tY AND SAVl~I:Y l<'AMILY. 181

of Sutton." In IpRwich he was publisT1ed as ,Joseph "Sea very.'' His wife is said to have been a sister of the five brothers Stock­well, of Rehoboth, who removed thence to Sutton, Oxford County, among the earliest settlers. Before moving to Sutton he lived in Ips,vich or Rehoboth, perhaps consecutively in both places, and settled in Sutton, with four children alreacli born to him, ahout 1728. The farm he first owned there he Hold, aud honght 01ie a little uorth from it, which remained in the family one lnrnclred anct forty years or upwards. His descemlants now are most widely scattered all over the Union, and the progressive variations in the spelling of their names render them most difficult to tmce. He died Nov. 14, 17Gl, agetl, according to the family record from which I compute the day of his birth, 71 year,; (J months 10 flays; and his widow, April 4, 1770, age1l 81 years G months and 2G days.

6 l. II.

II I. I\'.

'l v. 8 VT.

9 VIL VIII.

C!IILllREN.

,loseph", b .. Jnne 26, lil4. Sarah, b. Dec. 17, 1715; m. :March 5, 1741, James How; re-

moved t.o "\Varwick, arnl rl. there F11hrnary, 1801 . • roh11, h. 111:ty ,t, 17:W; 11. l\l:1y 11, li2\I. i\lary, h. ,Ian. 20, li:l4-r,; ti. i\lay o, 17:!!I. John, h. Ft•h. 21\, li2\1-:l(). Benjamin, h. ,Tune 21, li:11. Jacob, b. May 8, Ji:J.,. Thomas, b .. July 13, 17Bi; 1l. in the French W:tl', Sept. 4, 175fl.

The will of a Thomas Severy, of Sutton, wns proved 1759.

TltlIW GENEIL\TION.

4.

,JoH:-,~ SJ<JVERIT or S1wEnT (John2, John1 ). At Wenham, ".fohn son of ,John ReYertt ,fr. by l\fortha his wife was hom Au. the 13, 1707 ''; married .Tuly 17, 1729, by Rev. Peter Tlmelwr, at i\fid<l!Phom, l\fary, <laughter of ,Jonathan Tl11111rn.K, wh11KL\ molher'K 11rni1le11 11arne was SLewart. Jle proh­a.l,ly Hettle<l ott his mot.lier'K ic;ltare of the Parlow estate. He 11w11tio11ed in l1iH \\"ill 011\y his \\"ifc l\Lary anll his daughter Ly1lia Tinklmm, allll Nehemiah ftml D:tniel, sons of his deceased

182 THE SEVERY AND SAVERY FAMILY.

son John. His gravestone in the Mi1hllehoro cemetery sa.ys he died June, 1778, in his seventy-second year. \Ve wonl<l say he was in his seveuty-tirst yea!'. llis ,mrvivors may have co11-founded the year of his liirth with that of the ,John who 1lie1l in infancy. lfis·wi1low !lie!l July ~O, 1778, aged 71 ymtl's. Ou the Plymouth County Records of Deeds his name, I think, is most frequently spelt Severit.

r. 11.

10 III. IV. V.

VI. VIL vm.

C1111.1m1c:..

1\fartha', h. ,Juuc :lll, 17:ll; <I. lwfore 17-t:l. i\lary, b. 173:l; ll .. May 18, 171.H; u11111., a~ appears from the in-

scription in thcol!l cemetery, i'llhldleboro. Birth not recorded. John, b. Sept. 6, 1735. Perez, b. J nne 10, 1737. Nehemiah;b. Jan. 2-!, 17-!0. l\fartha, b. April 1, ~ 7-!3. ,Joanna, h. Sept. 1--1, 17-15. Lydia, b. Feb. 27, 17-!i; m. -- 'l'iukh:un.

Tao11us:i S1wmtY (Jvlm2, Jolm 1), nmnied Mary \Villimm;, in 1738. In a, deed, Dec. 29,1741, recorded Book 37,p.71, Plymouth Reconls, he couveys a ninth share of the ln,ml derived from his "honore!l granrlfo,ther Thoma,s Parlow." He lionght land at Hebron, Conn., 1753, n,n1l removed there with his family. His wife was "dismissed" in 17 58 to the church at An1lover, then forming one society ,vith lleln·o11. Died :tt Hebru11, 17(i1.

I. II.

III. 1t IV.

v. YT.

VII. VIII.

IX. x.

Martha', b. 1738. Lucia, 11. 17-!0.

CllILUltEN.

Solomon, _b. 17-12; d. Dee. 1-!, 17-!7. Joseph, h. Sept. 11, 17-14. Harnh, b. Hept. 12, 17-lu. Solomon, b. April 22, 17-!H; lived at Hel.Jrou; d. about 187-1; aml

estate divicle1l among three daughters: Sally, whom. a~arou Bills; Clarissa, who rn. Simon Honse; anll Betsey SAVORY.

Thomas, b. April G, 1751. Mary, b. nfay 1-!, 1753. John, b. Oct.-!, 175G; 1I. 180!. No trace of posterity. Hiram, b. ,Jan. 25, 1701.

183

(j,

JosEPH3 SEVERY, ,JR. (Joseph2, Jolzn1), w;s born June 26, 1714; and nrnrriecl Susmma Stockwell, who died ,fan. 14, 1762, in her fifty-third year. He settled in that part of Sutton which is now l\'lillbmy, and died Jan. 14, 1800.

CIIILDREN.

r. i\fory', h. Dec. 5, 1 i:ln; cl. April 15, 1758. II. 811sau11a., h. Aug-. 22, 17:li.

III. llannah, b. April 2B, 17-10; d. i\fay 11, 1740. IV. Hannah, IJ. Fch. 3, lUI.

12 Y. ,JosPph, b .• Jan rn, 1744. VL Eunice, b. Oct. 23, l'i-ti; 111. ,June 11, 1772, Samuel :Merriman.

13 VTr. Davicl, b. 1\farch 11, li50. t4- V.ll I. .To1rnlhan, h. Fl,h. HJ, 1754.

7.

Jo.1-rn'1 SEYlmY( Joscph2, John1), was bom Feb. 25, 1730. He lived at \Varel, afterwards Aul.mm, Mass., and then at Lan­caster, where he <liecl. He married March 8, 1750, Hannah, daughter of Edwanl Holman. Dietl May 28, 1812.

C'II I LI> llEN.

I. :-4arah', b. ,Jan. 2ii, liii0-1. 15 II. ,John, b. Aug. 25, 1752.

lll. Hannah, h. l\Iny 13, 17n:I; cl. Roon. IV. ll:111nah, b. ;\fay 13, 1754. V. l:ebecca, b. Nov. 25, ]i55.

\'I. J~clwarcl, h. F<>h. 2n, 1757; acciclentally shot himself ,fan. 4, 1700. Hi YIL 'l'homns, b. Nov. 4, li5!l.

VII[. Solomon, h. Ang. S, 17Hl. IX. Lucy, IJ. Oct. 2, liG5.

X. ,ludith, b. Aug. 1:1, lin8. XJ. ,Josl111a, h. i\la.y S, 1771.

8.

B1rn.TAi\lLN~ SEvmw (,li_1seph2, Jolin1), born at Sutton on the o lcl homestead of the Severys, ,T nne 21, 1731 ; married April 6, 17fili, ·widow Elizalietlt TTanvon<l. He <lied in the French vVar, Ang.17, 17G8; nrnl acl111i11ixt.ra.tinn wns grante<l to his widow

the same year. CHILDREN.

ti I. Reul.Jen', ti. about 1757.

184 THE SEVERY AND SA vr~nY F.\.l\HLY.

o. JAcon3 SEvg1tY ( Joseplt2, John1), was horn at Sutton, l\fay

8, 1735; manied Apl'il 1, 175G, Aliigitil, dangliter of ,Jrn;eplt Rhodes, of l\farhleheall, who was born .March 23, 1733, anrl died July 9, 1815. He live1l on the farm which his father bought at Sutton; 1li1l consi1lerahle hnsiness in the settlcme11t of estate::; and town affairs; was collector of taxes a long time, acti ye in getting up recruits in the Revolutionary ,var, arnl in provilling for their families. I compnte the date of liirth of lib wife and s\iveml ot.lwn, uf t.lni family frnrn llH~ir ages a\. d1·all1 as n·1·onl<·d hy him with great precision in the family Bible; extracts hav­ing heen ohtaine(l for my pnrpose hy ,Tames B. Severy, Esq., of Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Col. He died March 23, 1826, aged nearty 91.

I. H.

III.

IV.

18 V. 19 VI.

Yll. 20 vm. 21 IX. 22 X. 23 XI.

x,r.

( '1111.PHEN.

l\lary', !J. F1!!J, 6, 1757; 1I. without issue .\ugust, 1854. ,fncoh, h. Nov. 17, 17f>8; 11. Oct.. 1, 1780, ii, 1l1e l:1:vol11liona1·y

War. Ruth, h. Aug. HI, li60; m. lfeury King. Ch.: (l) Henry;

(2) Asenath. Died at Dixnchl, Me., April 10, 1858. Sarah, b. ,June 28, 1762; 111. Phiueas Goodnough; LI. at N ewtou,

near Boston, aged 85, leaving two sous, Jacob and Phineas. ,Joseph Hho1les, l). i1:1rcll ~5, 1761. Moody, b. Oct. 22, 17(i5. 'l'homas, b. ,July 21, 1767; d. Nov. 24, 17D3. ,\sa, b. April ~:I, 176!). Aaron, b. Aug. 8, 1771. Archibald, h. June 22, 1773. Samnel, h. March 17, 1775. Lytlia, h. ,July ll, 1777; 1!. Dl'c. :.!·I, 17H:.!.

l•'Olll:'1'11 (Jl<:NIW.\'l'JON.

10.

JOHN4 SEVEitY (Jolm3, Jolin2, John1 ), was liom Sept. G, 1735; and married in 17G-! (intentions published April 21 ), Thankfnl Cobb, by Rev. S. Conant, and <lie(l at 1\fol11leboro in the lifetime of his father, ,July 17, 1770. llis wi1low, Oct. 20, 1774, married David Bates.

'L'lll~ s1~v1,;1ty ANO SAVEitY FAl\llLY. 185

CIIIL!lltEN.

21 I. Daniel•, b. liG~. 2!i II. Nehemi:ih, h. I iGIJ.

11.

,TosEPH4 SEVERY or SAVOltY (Tlwmcrn\ John2• John1), was horn Sept. 11, 17 44; lived in Tolland, Conn. His posterity lmv11 gonurnlly xpclL i,hcil' n:1,11wx Srwo1-y.

CIIILHltEN.

2li f. lr:t', h. Aug. 7, 1776. 11. Backus, who is sahl to hnve been a leather dca.ler, and died ou a

second visit to Spain, about 1804.

12.

,ToSEPH4 SEVERY ( Josepli\ Joseph2, John1), was born Jan. 13, 17 44, probably at Sutton; married Rebecca--, and had:

C'lIILDl{lsN,

21 L .Toscph Enwrson", h. March ll, 1767, who was an only son, and probably only child.

13.

I> Av t11 1 8 I•:\' 1,;1n: (-lo.~eph\ ,/oxcph\ ,/vim'), wax l,or11 1\larch ll, 1750, at Snttcm; removed to Warwick, :tllll thence to No1·Lhli1\ld. In Lim "llixlot'_),' ol' NorUiliuld" hix 11a11w ix givon Daniel, hut the reconlx of vVarwick and Northfield have it clearly David and fully identify him. From those recmds and the history, we find that he first marrie~l Silvia--, who died Nov. 1, 178H ; a]l(l that .fnne 18, 1787, he married, second, at Not·tltlield, L_plia Barber, of \V11rwiek, mul donhtless had otl1er posterity -whom I am unable to trace. His first three chihlren were horn at \Varwick.

( '1111,l>HlcN.

B.v fi1·At wifo: I. :Mary'', h. Aug-. 27, liii.

II. Sn1<111111a, h. i\lny :J:l, 17RO. 111. SilYi:1, h. Oet .. i, I iR:cl. I\'. Lydia, h. i\lay :JO, lit-{~. V. Sally, h. Oct. :li, li::lli.

186 THE SEVERY AND SAVERY FAMILY.

14.

,TONA'l'HA~• SEVERY ( Jo:seplt'3, Jo.seph2 Jolrn 1), was horn Feb. lli, 175-:1:, pmlmbly at Sutton; removed to ,varwick, all(l settktl there, and no doubt served in the Revolutionary vVar, and was a pensioner; lmt llie tm1lition amo11g his tleseemlanis at ::,e,u·H­port, Me., that he was killed in the war is erroneous, for his death is recorded at vVarwick under date Aug. 23, 1810, and his age stated at 63 ; but either the ,tge or the year of 1leath is an error in the record, which mnst refer to this Jonathan, for there \vas then no other man of the 11a.mo at \Vanviek or Sut­ton. The \Varwick reconls of this period, -perlmps tmuscri p­tions of the original, are notably imperfect and ermneous. The births of his children I take from tradition, or compute from their ages as stated in the records of their deaths. Of any chrngh­ten; I know nothing.

Cmr.111rnN.

28 I. ,Jouat.han'', \;. Nov. 4, 1780. II. Elisha, b. 1783; d. March 6, 18-!3, "aged 60."

29 III. David, b. Aug. l or !l, 1785. IV. .Toseph, b. late in 1786 or early in 1787; "d.. :March 12, 1810,

aged 2-!." 30 V. Ephraim, b. June 26, 17fl5.

15.

,JoHN' SEVERY (John3, Jo/jepl/, Jolm1), was born Aug. 25, 1752, and married Dec. 8, 1778, Ply.ebe Kendall. He was a Revolutionary pensioner, lived a't Lancaster,. Mass., and died Sept. 10, 183-:1:, ·• aged 82," at the house of \Vinclsor Brainard.

C1111.1mEN.

L Etlw:mP, b. Ang. 26, 1780, and perhaps others. On Nov. 28, 181:l, ,vimlsor Brainanl was married to ;)fi,is Phrobe Severy, at Lancaster, perhaps tl:rnghter of this ,John•.

16.

THOMAS' S1w1,:1tY (Juhn\ Joseplt2, Jultn1), was horn Nov. 4,

1758; and married J\fay 26, 1780, Lucretia. Kendall; settled first

Tl[l,; SEVEltY ANI> SAVl,ltY FAMILY. 187

at Aulmrn, :iHa .. 5s.; removed to Venunnt, and died May 23, 18-17. His wife <lied Septemlier, 1840, in her seventy-sixth year.

l'IIILI>III•:;,;.

L ,Judith", b. Nov. 5, 1781. IL Lucretia, b. SepJ. ;;, 1783.

UL Phrnbe, b. Nov. 14, 1786. 31 IV. lial'vey, b. Ang. 7, 1789. :12 V. William, h. ~lal'l'h 3, 180:l.

17.

REUDEN4 SEVERY (BenJmnin\ Joseph2, Jolm1), was born at Sutton, ahont 17 £57. In 1771 his nude ,facol, ,vas itppointed his guardian. \Vhen of age he removed to Hardwick, and thence to Uxhri<lge, i\Iass. He nrnnie<l Lncy--.

CIIILIIHEN,

3:J 1. J\Iarshali', b, March 13, 177[). 3,l IL Ilemmn or Heman, b. ,June 22, 1782.

Ill. HoRamrn, b. ,fan. 17, 1784. IV. J,;Ji;m.l"•t.11, h. ,r111,r 18, 1787. V. U<•Ol'/ . .\·c ('anoll, t,. May 27, 17!10. lnt.eut.ions or marriage

between< :eorgc Sev11ry antl J\Iiss Chloe Wootl were published at, lfxhridl,rP, April 21, 1S11.

18.

JOSEl'H RHODES' SEVERY (Jacob\ Josepli2, Jolin1), was born

:l\Ia.rch 25, 17G4; all(l manied E1111icc Fitts, of Oxfonl, Dec. 24, 1789. She is saicl to have had some of the blood of the aborigines in her veins, and to have been a woman of large physique and fabulous strength. He clied in Douglas, Mass., aged 85. Both were much respected citizens.

CIIILl>HEN.

r. Benjamin', h. ,Jan. 28, 17!ll; ti. 18~4; 110 eh. 11. Amo~, h. Sqit. 2, 17!l2; 111. hiB cousin ~\.bigail, tlau. of J\~oody

(st•c No. I!t); ti. Oct. 10, 18:li.

Ill. Jwlah, h. Jan. lG, 17\l-i; 111. Hul1lah-(lritli11. ('h.: (1) ltoxanna•, 111. -- An\l"y. (2) GPnrg-iana, 111. .\very, a hrotlwr. (:!) lliautha, m. !:1\org1i llimer (:I l'h.). Cl) E1l\\'ar1I, 111. Harah ,Tilson (2 ch.). It was pin-haps thi~ ,liulah, who with ,lohn H., ahont. 1822, :ll,i•onliug to Mis:, 111:u·lmian',; "llistory of Sus11111'11auua Couut.y, 1'1mu.,·1 settle,! at ,lack son, in that county, giving the name Savory's Corners to a locality now called Lake View. Prohably his descendants now all spell their names Savory.

IV. Clarissa, h. Nov. 17, 17\15; m. _\hraham 'l'omtelotte. Ch.: (1) Amos; (2) Stephen.

V. L~·1lia, h. May 20, 1797; m. 11£. Cutting; 2 ch., ti.; she d. 18:'iG. VI. Cynthia, h. ,rufy !l, 17\J!l.

VIL Libra, h. Feb. 17, 1803; m. Sarah Warren. Ch.: (1) Mary; (2) Abigail. He d. Sept. 26, 18H8.

VIII. Di:rntha, h. May 12, 1805; d. Dec. 3, 1S06.

10.

Mof>DY4 SEVEHY (J11col1\ Joseph\ Julm1), wa .. -; hom Oct. 22, 17(35; marrie<l Oet. 2, lHm, ,I n1lith, <laughter of Solmnnn Ifol­man, of Petlm,ham; live<l a1Hl <li1·d 011 till\ "ltl ho11w:-;l(\,Hl ,ti,

Sutton. She died Dee. 28, 18--l:0, age<l 7li yettri; ti mLmLhi; and 2 days; and he, Dec. 24, 18-!8.

35 r. l I.

III.

IY. V.

VI.

VIL

CIIIl.llltEN.

,facob", h. Feb. 3, 1795. Ahigail, h. Sept. 12, 17!lG; m. ,Tune J, 1S:l7, Amos Severy; lived

at lllillbnry; no issue. ,vmanl, h. Feb. 16, 17!)8; m. TI!to1la lfowett, of Sutton. Ch.:

Harriet lllaria", b. Jnne 8, 1S:lii; (:.l) Freeman; (:!) .-\1le!i11e; (-i) Willanl; he,!. ,July 1:'i, lSiiii.

:Moo,ly, h. ,Tamrnry 18, 1800; ,l. 8ept. 12, 1S03. Sally, h. Xov. 22, 1801; m. Hie! Day, April 18, 18-i-i; d. Fch. 10,

1872. )Iooily Holman, b. July H, 1sm; m. April 2:'i, 18-!3, Clrnrlotte

For hush, of IV cshona; ,l. }[arch :li, 1874; no issue. Solomon, h. Feb. 12, 1805. So1.0110N5 SEVERY, la~t survivor of

the family at Sutton, who m. Sept. 2S, 1S30, )lary 8. Knapp, and hall ch.: (1) Francis 8olomou6 , h. Jan. 3, 18461 ti. Ang. 1-i, 18-!6, is now also" gathered to his fathers." He d. 111:trch 21, 1886. His widow 1l. ll£arch 21, 1S\J0.

20.

AsA4 SgvmtY (Jiwolil, Jus,·pl,\ Ji,7rn1), was l1or11 at Sutton, April 23, 17fi!); rnarrie<l, 1st, ;\fay \\ 1801, rTm1rnth W;tlker,

189

of Wilton, l\Ie., who tlietl Sept. 6, 1820, aged 48 years 11 months and 2-! days; 2d, Oct. 8, 1821, Me hi table Fitts, of Mass., and settled in Dixfield, Oxford County, :I\Ie., as did also his three brothers next named; die<l Oct. 21, 1859.

CHILDREN.

By first wife : I. Ahigail5, b. ,Tan. !l, 1802; m. March 27, 1823, ,Joshua Bln.kf', who

d. Ang. 12, 18fl7. lfad one ch.: Hannah 8.6, h. April 2, 1824; m .• fan. 13, 18-tfi, CharleR Marston, who d. ,Jan. 2,J, 18G3. She lives at Fannington, ~IP.

II. Asa, b. March 2, 1804; d .. July 20, 1810. III. Moody, b. Dec. 23, 1806; d. ,Jan. 13, 1813.

36 IV. William, b. April 20, 1800. V. IIannalt, h. Aug. 22, 181•1; m .. John IL Wnit; livt•R at. ('1111to11,

~Ie. Ch. (1) llannah Ahigail6, h. March :lii, 1848; d. ,Jan. 2G, 18/i,l. Br 8('C0111l wifo:

VI. Harriet, b. July 18, 182B; m. Amos II. lllake; d. ,Jan. 10, 18-1!); no ch.

VII. Asa, cl. Dec. 2G, 182-t; d. April 5, 18-!ii.

21.

AAIWN4 S1w1m.Y (Ja!'oli\ Jo.~epl12, Joltn1), was born at Sutton, according to the record nuule by his father in the family Bible, Ang. 8. 1771, lmt ebewhere Rtftted, apparently with authority, Aug. 10, 1770. He married, 1st, Phmhe Tucker, of Hebron, who died Oct. 5, 1815, aged 36 ; 2d, Hannah Morse, of Dixfield, who died Dec. 7, 18G2, aged 66. He died Oct. 16, 1860. The following is from the Oxford, Me., IJemocJ'at:

" I II l7tl2, taking all he pnRR<>SRPd on hiR hack, he penetratml the wil,lerness of Maine, to establish for himself his future home, and finally selected an elevated, IJC'antiful, :tlHl fprtile Rpot, in what is uow Dixfield, then an nn­broken fore8t. Only one pioneer had preceded him, ,yho had just commence,\ a clearing in another part of the township. Entirely alone, in the solitude of the forest, he packed his provisions aml necessaries of life, and conveyed them, hy a spot.te<l line, from Canton Point, a. dist:rnce of ten miles, to his contemplated !tom('. For thn·c 11igl1ts a mossy Jog was his only pillow, aml the leafy wilclerm~ss am\ the starry heavens his only covering. Soon t.h,• lo:s-eahi11, n•a.r,·11 hy hiR own 1111ai1k,I arm, nllimlt•<I him a co111fortahle shdter, and tlti8, in tinH·, gave place, to a suhst:mtial hrick mansion, while by the same strong arm t.hose dark fore8ts lmve been trnnsformed into one

190 THE SEVERY AND SAYI~HY l<'Al\IILY.

of the ·110st extensive a1Hl productive farms iii our county. He resided on the same spot he first selecte,l till his death, a period of sixty-eight y1iars.

"For more than twenty-five years 111, honorably fillc,I r<>SIHHlsil,I<' ollkc,:1 i11 the towu of llixtld,l, aml (.hrnughout. hhl protr:wt.l'd lif,· he 1•11jopitl tl1t• conlideucc and respect ol' all who knew him. For mauy years lwfore his tlt•at.h he was a lt•atliug· uw111lu,r ol' t lw Frn<'will Ila pt isl ( 'hun·h, allll a11 earnest allll ,levote,I Christian. llis house allll his heart were always OJ)\'11

to the attlictetl and unfortunate, antl every Christian grace and manly virtue was practically illustrate,l 1iy his ,laily life. Notwithstauding his great age, he retained full possession of all his faculties to the hist, awl died as he had livetl, in the blessed hope of immortality."

CllILl>HEN. By tirst wife.

31 I. Aaron5 , b.March 6, 1801.

88 39 40

41

42

IL Phmhe, b. Dec. 5, 180:{; 111. November, 18:21, Nathan Holt.

III. lV. V.

VI.

VIL vm.

IX. x.

XI.

Ch.: (1) Harriet Ann", h. 'i\lareh 17, 1827; d. Oct. 5, 1815. (2) Phrebe, b. ,Jau. :lG, 1829; 111. Nov.17, 1853, Jesse Blanch­anl. (3) Lucy Isahella, b. May 3, 1830; 111. March 14, 18G8, Harrison Lake. ( 1) Ahiel, h. Nov. !J, 1832; d. Dec. 3, 18-W. (5) Aaron Severy, b. Ang. rn, 1S36; m. March 2S, 1867, Lucetta Smith. (G) Farriugtou, h. ;)fay 28, 1815; d. Fi,b. 2, ll:l4ti. She d. Nov. rn, 1884.

Charlotte, b. April 23, 1805. Polly, b. May 3, 1807. Silas, h. Nov. 23, 1808. Hufus, h. Sept. 20, 1810; m. 1st, Mary Jackson, who d. Dec.

ll, l8G3; 2d, Mrs. Emeline B. Kendall, who d. :March 2, 187G; he 11. ,Tuly 28, 1800.

Alden, h. Oct. 31, 181:l; ,l. J'll:trch G, 1814. John T., h. Aug. 28, 1814.

By secoud wife. Charles, h. ,Tau 13, 1818; d: March 11, 1834. Clarinda P., b. June 11, 18:W. Alden B., u. Dec. 3, 1823; m. Rosella Richmond; d. April 17, 1888.

'l'wo childreu; d. -13 XII. Cyrus M., u. Oct. 2S, 1831.

ARCHIIULD~ S1<:v1mY ( Jacub\ Joseplt2, Jolm1), was Lorn at Sut­ton, June 22, 1773; married Feh. 17, 1805, Olive Holman, of Petersham, who was bom Nov. 11, 178-!; settled in Dixfield, Me. Died Feb.-!, 1856; she llietl July 9, 1882.

Cllll.DltEN,

I. '\VillanP, b. Dec. 5, 1805; m. 1st, Sarah Reed; 2d, Joanna Hiscock. Ch.: (I) Eheu0 ; (2) Leonanl. Died July 2, 1870.

II. l\Ioses Holman, b. ,huw :n, 1807; ti. ,Tau. 8, 1810.

III. IV. V.

VI.

VIL VIII.

TX. H X. 45 XI.

XII. XIIT. XIV.

THE SEVEitY AND SA vmn: J<Al\llLY.

Jones, b. Nov. 11, 1808; d. Dee. 20,~1808. Sallie, b. Nov. 1, 180!); d. Jan. 21, 1840. Betsey, h. Feb. 15, 1812.

191

Annn., h. Jan. 4, 1815; 111. Daniel StimRon, of Weston, Mass. Ch.: (1) Daniel ll[uuroe; (2) lllarshall Oliver; (3) Susan Annn, m. and lives in Auburndale, :Mass.

,roe!, b. Aug. l!l, 1817; d. lHarch 12, 18-tl. Daniel, b. Oct. 10, 181!l; d. Nov. 16, 188(). Ifarrison, h. April O, 1R21 ; d. Aug. G, 1821. l\losm;, h. April 1(), rn2:1. Solomon, h .. Jan. 3, ]82fi. Warren, ·11. lllarch :1, l827. l\[:tt.ilda, b. April 17, 182\J; llllln.

Lucinda, h. Nov. 24, 1831; m. ,Tuly D, 1854, Henry P. Newton, of Boston, :Mass., who was h. Nov. 14, 1829, and d. Oct. 2n, lRSH. Ch.: (1) Lilla Eva", h. Sept .. !l, 18,in; ti. (kt .. ~, 1Rfill. (2) Olive l\L., b. ,Jan. 30, 1860; 111. and lives in llulfalo, N. Y. (3) Lneia Viola, h. Frb. IS, 1R62; 11. ,Ta.11. 20, 1863. (4) George II., h. Aug. (i, ti. Ang. 30, 1807.

23.

SAl\IUEL4 SEVERY (.facob3, Jose ph2, John1), was born :March 17, 1775; and married Mercy Tucker, of Dixfield.

CIIILHREN.

I. Lydia5 •

II. Phcebe, m. -- Cook, aml settled in Norridgewock, Me. III. Jonas, m. Rebecca Green, of ·wnton. Ch.: (1) Zilpha;

(2) Asa. IV. Galen, m. l\Iarr UrPPn, of ·wmon, settled in Dixfield. Ch.:

(1) l\Iary; (2) .\nrnnda; (3) Belle; (4) Alonzo; (5) Nathan; (G) Laman.

V. Ilnth. VI. Sl11~phenl; nnlll.

Yll. Naollli, m. R:111Ro111 Grnen, of Wilton, settled at Carthage, Me. Ch.: (1) Amnmla".

\'Ill. Ama111la, 111. He,·. llavi,I Allen; .~ettlP•I at Wilt.on. Ch.: (I) l\Jary8 ; (2) ·Mercy.

FIFTH GENElUTIO~.

24.

DANIEL·" SAVERY (,John\ ,John\ John2, Jolin1), of Middle­boro, was horn 111 1764; and married April 22, 1794,

THE SEVERY AND SAVEltY FAMILY.

Huldah Soule. He was a man of fine - physique and presence, of pungent and ready wit, and prominent in chmch and civic affairs in the community whe_re he lived. Died Sept. 21, 1836; hi8 widow, Oct. 17, 1853, aged 78 years 6 month8.

CIIILDHEN.

I. John", b. May 28, 1795; u. June 5, 1796. 46 II. Daniel, h. Jan. 22, 1797.

Ill. liultlah, b. Sept. -!, 17!l8, IV. William Soule, b. April 1-i, 1800; lost at sea iu 18:H. V. Ly1lia, h. I >mi. 25, 1801.

47 VI. Peregrine White, b. Oct. 6, 1803. VII. Sarah Briggs, b. Aug. 18, 1805.

VIII. Betsey, b. July H, 1812. IX. George Simmons, b. Sept. 21, 1816; m. Nov. 27, 18-!7, Rhoda .J.

Chm·ehill; no ch.; d. And I believe two otherR.

25.

Ng~mMrAllr, SAVlmY (John\ Jolw:1, John\ Jolm1), hom iu)

1767, being 78 years old when he died, Jan. 20, 1846. He married, 1st, Dec. 14, 1793, Sarn,h Comi1:;h; and 2d, April 5, 1806, Deborn,h Swift; and lived in the north part of the town of Plymouth. She died Jan. 10, 1847, aged 75 years.

48 r. 49 II. 50 HI.

IV. V.

VI.

VIL VIII.

IX. X.

XI.

OUILllBEN.

Ry first wife: 'L'homas", b. 1>1ie. 2-!, l7DG. Nehemiah, b. May 11, 17\!7. Windsor, b. Sept. 10, 1801. Betsey. Mary. Sally.

By seeond wife : Conleli:L. Louisa, m. David H. Holmes; eleven ch. Deborah. :Merey. A son.

2H.

IRA" SAVORY ( Juseplt\ 'L' lwrnas3, Jolin2, John1), wm; born m Tolland County, Conn., Aug. 7, 1776 ; married in 1802, at

103

Hebron, Conn., Lovina or Lavinia Richatdson. He had removed to Onornlago Connty, N. Y., previous to his marriage, and re­mained there till 1818, when he removed to Steuben County, with his wife and family. He died Feb. 8, 1842 ; and his widow Sept. 30, 1864, aged 83.

r. 11.

51 II r. /i2 IV.

V. VI.

VII. n1r.

53 rx. x:.

,'i-l XI. XH.

Cmr,I>HEN.

Willard", ,t. at Bnflhlo, 1mm.

William, tl. a chilli. Walter C., !). ,July IS, 1808. W:i.1T1m W., b. 1812. Willis .J., !). about 181G. Harriet, m. Thomas Quigley; d. Dec. 20, 18-Hi; Imel six ch. lVilliam, m. Lucy Holmes; d. Dec. 24, 1850; hncl fou1· ch. J\l:try ,\.1111, h. ,Tmrn a, 181 i; 111. Asaph Cole; lives at Havana.

Ifa1l ch. : (1) Melina 7, b. ,Tune 2, 1836; (2) Harlem, b. Nov. 7, 18::li; (3) [ra, b. J\farch 28, 183!).

Wilbur W. FidPlia, m. John 1V. Cuffman; she cl. Dec. 23, 18-!1; uo ch. 1Yashington P., b. ,Jnn. 6, 1822. Willard, m. J\Ielissa E. Daily: no ch.

,IOREPII .E~ml:RON" s,~\'Ell\." (.To.~epli\ Joscplt3, JoRepli2, Joltn1),

wtLs i1om i\Iarclt 11, 17ti7 ; manied Miriam Stone; lived in Auburn, and died in 182!); his widow in 1846, in the eighty­fifth year of her age.

C'IIILDREN.

JONATHAN·' SEVERY or SAVERY (Jonatlian4, Josepli3, Josepli2, Jolin1), was born Nov. 4, 1780, and removed from vVarwick, i.\Iass., to Prospect, now Searsport, :i\Ie., about 1800 ; 11,nd died there, Feb. 15, 1863. He married, about 1808, ·widow ;\fary Piper ( maiden name Towle), of Searsport, who was born at Laconia, N. H., April 15, 1781, and died Jan. 22, 1854.

194 THE SEVERY AND SX\TEllY FAMILY.

Cm Ll>U EN.

I. llfari:16 , b. ,Tuly 28, 181-i; m. Dec. 7 or 18, 1835, Capt. Elisha Lamphier; anti 11. April G, 1888.

II. Sarah A., b. l'ilarl'h 12, 1810 or 1821; m. 1848, John Towle. 56 III. Jonathan llf., b. Oct. 7, 1S2-i.

DAVLDfi StWElt\'. or S.A.vg1:Y (Jonatlian\ Jo8epl?, Joseph2,

John1), was born at ,varwick, Mass., Ang. 1 or 0, 1785, and moved to Barre, Vt.; married, 1st, 1\Iary or Polly Smith, who died Ang. 18, 18--!3, aged fiO; 2<1, Zilpah Caswell, of :i\I:tine; 3d, Widow Asenatlt Claflin, maiden name Pratt, of Pbintield, Vt. He died Aug. 29, 1871, aged, as copied from his tomb­stone, 86 years and 28 days.

57

58

59

Crn L D 1rnN.

Hy first wife: I. D:whl6, baptized, according to the imperfect records of War­

II. III. IV. v.

VI. VIL

VlJI. IX. X.

XI. XII.

XIII.

wick, llfard1 15, 1815, "on aceount ,)f Mr. ,fohus who hatl adop11,.l hil11," but n.ecortling Io l lw 1;i1l ry in I he family llihl1• he was born Nov. 2, 1815. llas sou WILLIAM l'. 7 SAVOlff,

living at I\Ianchester, Va. Mary. m. 1:-aiah Kilgore; lives in ltHlependence, Kan. Jonathan, b. Feb 18, 1818. Samud, d. young. William, d. young. Joseph, d. young. Oliver A., h. 182-!. Sarah, d. Lorinda, d. George W., b. Aug. 5, 1880.

By second wife: Franklin C., b. Aug. 2-!, 1840; d. Fell. 20, 1862. J effersou 'l'., h. in Barre, Feb. 1 G, 1852; m. Jau. 7, 1873, Angie

--, am! h:ul ch.: (1) Alice l\f. 1 , h. Nov. 12, 1878; (2) Flor­ence L., b. ,June 21, 1887.

Jackson T., twin of Jefferson T.; d. Feb. 29, 1862.

30.

EPHRAIM5 SEVEnY or SAVERY (Jonathan\ Joseph3, Joseph\ John1

), was born June 213. 1705; an<l married .Jan. 10, 1824, Mary Ellis. He served in the War of 1812; was brought

195

up at "\Vanvick, l\Iass. ; moved, about 1820, to Vermont, and settled at Clarendon Spri11gs ahont 1835. His wife died Nov. 2H, 1872; and lie Oct. 11, 187 4.

I. II.

III. IV.

60 V. VI.

61 VII. 62 VIII.

IX.

x.

CHILDREN·.

Nancy L.6, b. Oct. 18, 1824; d. l\larch 25, 1890; 11nm. Mary E., b. Nov. 9, 1825; mun. Harriet U., b. ,Tune 18, 1827; m. Lyman Taylor. Lu~r A., h. ,Tnnc S, 1R28; m. 1st, .Jnnc 12, 18ii:J, Charles Ellis;

2<1, Luci:in Win81ow. Aaron A., b. ,June 2, 1820. Sarah .T., h. Aug. 31, 1831; m. 1869, ,John Kershaw. 1Villimn Jonathan, b. Sept. 4, 1833. George W., b. May 24, 1835. John II., b. April rn, 1837; killed at Yorktown, Va., iu the

Civil War, April 18, 1862. Martha E., b. ,Tune 20, 18-H; m. Aug. 4, l8i3, Charles E. Jen­

niugs. Ch.: (I) Frank B. 7 , b. Aug. 8, 1874. Hlte d . .)larch 31, 1885.

31.

HARVEY" SKVELtY (1'lwmas4, ,.folm3, Joseplt2, Jolm1), was born Aug. 7, 1789; and married Lydia ·Whitney, of \Vestmim;ter, :i11d dind April 1 ~, JH78. f;li1! di Pd <kt. 12, 1871.

I. (13 II.

Ill.

1v:

v. VI.

64 VII. Vlif.

IX. x.

('JIILDHEN.

Ph,t'lu!", h. Feh. Ii, 1810; 111. 184!!, Lyman Cotton. ,J.,hi<'l, h. Aug. Ii, 1811. Betsy, b. Dec. 22, 181:J; m. "larch 18, l::l3i, George Raymond;

fl. "lny L 1887. Has sou C. S. Haymond at Omaha, Neb. Kellllall, b. Feb. li, 1816; m. Phrebe Graves; left sou Walter7

Ji1·iug at ffarren, Vt., perhaps others. AlYira. Ct>lirnla, b. ,June 4, 1~20; m. Leonard PPrcival. William. b . .May 1, 1822. l\Iary, b. July 24, 1824; m. Orrell Towne,June 26, 1845. Diana, b. Nov. 12, 18:!6; m. Charles Frilley. Amos, b. June 18, 18:W; m. DPc. 2:!, 1861, Lucy E. Howard.

Ch.: (1) Eugcn<' W. 7, h. Dee. 31, 18H2; ,l. young. (:!) Laura K .. r., h. Sept .. :in, 1865; rn. ,Joseph St. ,John. (3) Carrie II., h. ,lune 1:1, lSiO.

32.

'\VILLIAl\l" SEVEttY or SAVERY (Thomas\ ,.folm\ Josepli2, Joltn1), was born l\Tarch 3, 1802; married Polly Tuttle, who

196 THE SEVERY AND SAVERY FA1\11LY.

died Aug. 18, 1858, in the fifty-eighth year of her age. He died Dec. 13, 1864.

Cllll.l>ltEN.

I. Eliza Aun6, b. Dec. 1, 1823; m. Peter J.M. Powell; (\. Oct. :!:I, 1881. .

II. Charlotte, b. Sept. 30, 18:.!6; m. Joel Newtou. 65 III. William Franklin, b. Nov. I:!, 1834.

33.

1\1ARSHALL5 SEVERY ( Reuben\ Berijamin3, Joseph2, John1),

. was born at Uxbridge, :Mass., :March 13, 1779 ; settled at \Vel­lington and died there. He married Chloe --.

CHILDREN.

I. Elias•, b. Aug. 4, 1803; only child; m. and had children, some b. in Union, Conn., some in Chaplin: (1) Eunice Emeline7, b. May 24, 1825; m. -- Studley, of Warren, 1l[ass. (2) Wil­li:un Clark, b. l\Carch :!ii, 18:W; (l. Mardi 11, 18,10. (11) Mar­tlm A., b. July 10, 184li; m. -- Southworth. (4) l~lvira. (/\) llt•nry, a promisiug young 111:111 who (\. ju,;t aft,•r completing his prep:lratiou for Uw ministry. Elvirn7 m. Freeman Severy, son of Levi•, below. Elias finally re­moved to Warren, Mass.

34.

HER1\IAN5 or HEMA:N SEVERY ( Reuben\ BenJ'amin3, Joseplt2, John1), was born at Uxbridge, l\lass., June 22, 1782; and removecl to Union, Conn., where he died. He mitrried Je­mima --. I am not sure whether Hennan or Heman ww; the name, nor as to the tfate of his lleath.

CIIILDUEN,

I. Levi", b. March 15, 1804. By wife Sophia h:ul eh.: (1) 1Iar­riet7, b. March 25, 1829; (2) Betsy, m. -- Shehlon; (3) Freeman, m. F,Jvirn7, 1laughtcr of l~Jia~" SlWl!ry, ahoy(!; (4) i\IimnLla; (5) George.

66 II. Elijah, b. March 17, 1806. III. Lucy, b. July 12, 1808; m. Mr. Corbin, and lives with son

Windsor7 Corbin at Dudley, i\Iass. A daughter, i\Irs. Silvia7

JHarsh, lives at Webster, i\fass. IV. Harriet, b. Jan. 17, 1810; ll. in infancy. V. Hcuhcn, b. March 5, 1S1:!.

VI. Fanny, b .. Oct. 13, 1816; d. iu infancy.

THE SEVERY AND SAVEltY FAilllLY. 197

au. ,Lwon• Srnvmw (JJfoody\ Jacob\ Joseph2, .John1), was born Feb.

3, 1795, at SnLton; and nrnrried, 1st, ,fan. 25, 1819, Rebecca Stevens, of Charlton, Mass.; and, like his uncles Aaron, Asa, Archibald, and Samuel, settled in Dixfield, Me.; she died Feb. 11, 1832; and he married, 2d, Oct. 28, 1832, Mary vValker. of Milton, Me. He die<l at Mt. Vemon, Me., Ang. 15, 1877.

CHILDREN. By first wife:

61 I. Dexter6 , b. March 2, 18:W. 11. Satirn, b. ,Jnne JG, 1822; m. Henry ;r. Dakin, of ,Jay, Me.; set­

tled in Millbury, :i\Iass.; d. April 2i, lSil; no children. HI. Hiram, b. Aug. Iii, 18:W; m. ,Jane E. Wallnce, of Illinois; no

dlildn·n; lives at i\urorn, Ill. IV. ,John :lloody, h. Nov. 4, 1S2ll; m. Sarnh Hnbhanl, of Dixfield;

sd.t.lPd in Illinois; one ehiltl, Frances K'; lives at Sand­wich, Ill. Hy sccoml wife:

V. Charh•s IIanison, b. Feb. 16, 1s:is; d. ,Jan. 25, 1S30. VI. Charles Henry, l.,. May 26, 18-!0; m. Dec. 25, 1862, Anna C.

:lllorse, of Dixfield; settled in Mt. Vernon, :Ille. Ch.: (1) Fred. W.7, h. Fch. G, 186-!; (2) Lena W., h. Dec. 12, 18Gi; (:I) Morri~ 11.

VIL Frances lielcua, h. Jan. 6, U\-!2; 111. Valorous White, of ,Jay, Me. VT![. :illarshall Harrison, h. Oct. lG, 1845; m. Oct. 5, 1868, CI:mt A.

East.man, of Danforth, Ill.; settled in Gilmau, Jll. Ch.: (1) Cora Belle', IJ. Sept. 7, 186ll.

3H.

vVILLIAl\I" SEVERY (Asa\ Jacob3, Joseph2, John1), was born at Dixfield, Me., April 20, 1809; married Jnne 25, 1834, Hester Ann Blake, 0£ Phillips, :Me., who was born Oct. 5, 1868. Removed to Farmi11gton in 1863. She died Sept. 22, 1881; he died Feb. 24, 1873.

CIIILDltJ<:N.

68 I. ,Tames 13.6, h. June 2!l, 1840.

37.

AAIWN" Sgv1mY ( Aaron\ Jacob\ Joseplt2, Jolm1), was born at Dixfield, :.Me., .March 6, 1801; married, 1st, at Dixfield, April

Hl8

27, 1823, Hannah Eustis, who wn,s bom at Chelsea, :i\Iass., March 14, 1802, ttllll died l\Lm:h 30, 18;13; 2d, at ·Wilton, Oct: 16, 1883, ,Auna Colburn, who was born at Tamworth, N. H., l\fay 27, 1811, mid diml at Dixllel1l, Feh. 18, 1885; he died Dec. 30, 1863.

CHILDUE~.

fly first wife: I. Leonora", b. ,Jan. !l, 18:l4; tl. o[ay 5, 1844,

II. .Minerva, h .• \pril :l:f, 18:l5. BL Orlando, h .. \pril li, 18:l7. lV. Tiyron, b. April :l\J, Hl,!O; d. ,July :l-i, 18,lO. V. olary, b. Nov. 5, 1831.

By seeontl wife; VI. Wallace F., h. Nov. Hi, 1s:rn.

VIL Ransom, h .. \ng. :10, lSili; ti. at ~trntfonl, ~- II., .\pril :l-1, 18.i5.

VIII. Charle~.\., h. Aug. 2!l, 18:l\1. IX. William IL IL, b. Feb. :lii, 18-il. X. Leonora, h. Sept. Hl, 18-lil; Ill. in Boston, au,1 ,I. fkc .. 1, 18i(l. XL Clareuce II., h. ,July n, JS.Iii; 111. ,Jau11ary, !Slii, al <'arllwge,

Me., .Jfalrnla Tueker. XII. Lucy . .\., h. ,Tnly 27, 18-18; m. St>pt. 7, lS!i-i, John Casey; cl •

. \ug. S, 187-1.

a8. CHARLO'l'TI•;'' SEVEltY (Aal"un\ Ji.1cul?, JoNepl/, John1

), was born at Dixllel1l, Aptil 23, 1805; awl nmnie1l ,Jan. 2, 1827, Rev. Waldron :\'forse, Jr.; and 1lie1l l\Iay 5, 18~l~. He was born ,fan. 27, 18013; die1l .fau. 18, 1878.

C'll l I.I> HEN.

I. Hoxaua•, h. ,June 1, 181S; 111. D:rni<•l S:llford; ti. ,Tune 4, 18HO. II. Luey .\nu, h .. \ug. 11, 18:!ll; 1I. )fay In, 18·1\l.

Ill. Miria111, h. :\lay Hi, 18:ll; 111. Uilh1·rt AIIP11, ;\liltou, :\l,i. IV. 1la1111ah, h. :\larch :lH, 18,l:I; 111. Ira. I:u~~dl, of L1mi~lo11, :\fo. V. :::iilas Curtis, h. Jifarch ao, rn:15; m. ht, c\hhie Maxwell;

2tl, .Tuly Casey. Is postmaster :lt South Carthage. VI. Lorena, b. ,Jun. 10, 1837; 111. -- Dwinall.

VIL Philona, b. ,Tan. 27, 1803; m. -- Potter; d. Jan. 21, 1864. VIII. Ahbie C., ll. April 14, 1848. Was for several years one of the

supet"iutentling school committee of Cnrthage, ~le.

30.

POLLY" SEVERY ( Aaron\ Ji.wob3, Joseph\ John1), was born

199

May 3, 1807 ; and married i\Iarch 31, 1837, Herman Holt; and died Dec. l!l, 1887. He (lied Aug. 10, 18G8. They were among the fonnders of the Frnewill Baptist church, at \Veld, Me., where they resided.

CHILDREN.

I. Hannah E.6, h. J\farch 20, 1S3\J; d. Nov. 1-l, 1S6-!.

If. Annie D., h. Oct. G, 184:l. A}!Nm D. 6 m. Oct. rn, 1S68, l<'IUNK P. BAKEH. Ch.: (1) Frank IL', b. Dec. -l, 1869. (2) Fred IL, b. ,Jan. 2, 18'i3; d. Sept. 2, 1S73.

40.

SILM,5 SKVERY ( Aaron\ .facob3, Josepli2, -Tolm1 ), ,vas born at Dixfield, Nov. 23, 1808; married, 1st, ,June l..J., 1832, Lucinda l\l. Walkl'r, of Wilto11, l\k, wl111 di('d Nov. 1-1, rn::!i; 2d,

April n, 18:Vi. Betsy P. nnnlcl, nf the i-itme place, who tliecl I kt:. 7, 18Gli: :ld, :\ 11g-. 1 :2, 18/i7, Cl:tm llolt, wl111 smvi vml l1im t.ill Dee. 12, l88H. Ile died ,tt l\Ionson, i\Iass., ,June 2G, 1885.

CUTLUltEN.

By first wire: I. J\Ielissa", b. April 28, 1s:34; m. fat, J\Iarch 21, 18ii2, George C:or-

11011 B,vrnn ,\11:1111~, who 11. Oct. 27, lS!lii. Ch.: (1) Edg:tr Silas', h .. June 11, !Si\-(; d. Fch. 1, 1S5ii; (2) Walter Scott, b. ,\pril :lii, 1S55; (3) ltl:t .Jessie, b. Feb. 7, 18ii7; (4) Lester \\"i11fi<'l1l, h. Sq,t .. 2ii, JSiiO; (!'i) Xt'llit! A1l1•str., h. Sept. 8, IS!il; all m. :lntl, March :n, lSiO, Harvey Kenney; 110

eh. Hy second "·ifo:

IL Benjamin F'ranklin, b. April lii, IS,rn; m. :;,.;rov. 6, 1860, Fauny E. Cros~. Ch.: (1) George Lester', h. May 5. 1862; (2) J\Iary B<'lsy, h. Nov. 2H, 18Hi; (:!) .Tame~ Enoch, h. ,Jan. 8, 1885.

Ill. (,t'org-1• ~l<'llin, h. ,lmw :l:l, 18,(:l; m. Ol't,. 24, 18(ili, J\lart.lrn _j\[.

l't•:ts<'. Ch.: (l) William Goultl7, h. J\Lay 27, 18G7; (:l) Edith 1.<lnise, h. March :11, lSGll; (3) Frank Etlwin, b. Dre. ii, 18il; (4) .\rt.hur ;\lelli11, h. ,July IJ, ISiS. Ile resides at J\Ionson, J\Cass.

IV. Elizaheth Ann, h. Oct. 14. 184fl; tl. Sept. 15, 1S7 4. V. ,Jnlia <ln11ld, h. l><'c. 18, 1818; 111. Oct. :in. 1880, Willi:11n ·wallace

Ulcason. Ch.: (1) Frank llnhhanl', h. Dec. 2S, 1881; rc­sidP.s at Chcyr11nc, N". Y. By third wife:

vr. Everett Holt, h. June !), .1S5D. EvEHETT II." :'lEVElff resides :t!Hl carries on lnrnincss at Lynn, j\foss.

YU. Clara TIP lie, b. Oct. lfl, lSG.t; d. Oct. 21, 18S6.

200 THE SEVERY AND SAVEltY FA:\lILY.

41.

JOHN T.0 SEVERY (Aaron\ Jacob\ Joseplt2, Julw 1), was born at Dixfield, l\Ie., Aug. 28, 181.J.; married Mary P. Gould, of Wilton, Me. Lived at Dixfield, but died in Springfield, l\fass., Dec. 5, 1887. She died in Dixfield in 18G5. He held many offices in Dixfield, selectman, deputy sheriff of Oxford and Franklin Counties, etc.

CHILlllUcN.

I. Emery F.6, b. December, 18-!3; now living in Boston; m. and has one llau.

ll. James E., h. May 15, 18-!5. ;JA:11 ES E.6 :-:\EVEltY m. DcePmher, 1870, Mary L. Newman, of Bangor, Me•. Resilles at :::Jpring­fieltl, Jl,fass. No ch.

III. Helen J., b. Dec. 25, 18-!7; m. Isaac Hancock; lives in Ilostou. Ch. : Two sons.

IV. Lucy A. A., b. 18Hl; m. W. IL Boulter; lives iu West Buxton. Me. Ch.: 'l'wo sons anti one ll:rnghter living.

V. John E., b. June, 1852. Besides t.wo d:wghters who d. young.

42.

CLARINDA P.6 SEVEltY (Aaron\ Jacol,", JuMepl1\ ,John1), wa:;

born June 14, 1820; and married Aug. 13, 1840, Frederic P. Butterfield, of Wilton, Me. She died l\fay 26, 1892.

ClllLilHEN.

I. Celestia L.6, h. Sept. :l, 18-!l; d. ,\pril 10, 18GB. IL Clara H., h. ,July 25, 18~5; ll. 8epr. 22, 18-18.

Ill. l•'rmlcrk ll., h. ,July :!fi, 18:iO; 111. ,July -1, 187-1, Na11u:t M. Holli11s, of IIopkintou, N. II.; is st1per\'isor of music in the public schools, New Bellfonl, :Mass. Ch.: (1) Walter IL', l>. lll,c. H, 18i5; (:!) Ucorge, h. Nov. S, 188H.

lV. Gilleou l'., b. Nov. 2!), 1852; Ill. Nov. :!G, 187-i, 1\lahd ,J. Smith, of lJixfiehl, Me., a11d is postums1l>r of Dixfield. ( lh.: (1) Celestia l\1.7, h. June 2, 1875. (:!) Clmrh~H A., h. Auµ;. 21, 187G. (-,) Lillian, h. Fell. 8, 1880. (-!) Ethel, I.>. Dec. :-l, 1881. (6) Fred, l>. Feb. 16, 1885; d. Jl,fay 20, 1885.

V. Clara E., b. Jan. 16, 1866. VI. Edith A., b. NoY. 29, 1860._

43.

CYRUS l\I.5 SEVERY (Aaron-I, Jacoli1, Joseplt2, Jolm 1), was

born at Dixfield, Oct. 28, 1831 ; mruTied Feb. 22, 1857, Delona

THE SEVElff AND SAVEltY l<'AllllLY . 201

.Eastman, of Canton, Me., who <lie<l Oct. lU, 1878; he settle<l iu Danforth, Ill., and removed afterwanls to Glenacla, Ore., where, I believe, he now lives, the lrtst surviving son of Aaron Severy, Sr., of Dixfield. His wife diecl Oct. Hl, 1878.

CHILDREN.

I. Ernest6 , b. Nov. 2!l, 185!l. EnNEST SEYEHY is au attorney and conn~cllor-at-la.w in C'hiengo.

I I. Walt,er, h. Ang. 18, !SHI; d. 1\lay .i, tSfl:i. If l. LPtt.ic Butterfield, h. Feh. I 0, 18G;3. I\'. Drew, h . .'utg. lG. lSHS. V. Delo1ia, h. Sept. 2a, 187a.

44.

J\losEs" Srnvmn:- (An?ltibald', ,facob\ ,Toseph2, ,Iolm'), was'born April 10, 1823; manietl ~farg:Lret ,J. Baxter, of Boston, Mass., mHl lives in Stockton, Cal. Heal-estate agent.

Cllll.lH!EN.

Ile~ides seYeral deceased. I. Fred ,\Jbert6 •

rr. Fra.nk WnrrPn. Jll. Annie L. IV. Will.

45.

SoLOllION5 SEVERY (Arcliiba!d\ Jacob3, Josepli2, Jolin1

), was born Jan. 3, 1825; 111. Oct. HJ, 1850, C~rrie P. Babb. Now liv­ing at Boston, Mass.

Cm1.1rn~:N.

1. Eimer A.6 , t,. April 10, 185:J; tl. Feb. 14, l8i2. IL Clarence E., b. Oct. U, 185:cl; d. Nov. 2i, 18Gi.

III. Jlenrr F., h. April :m, 18,iii; 11. Sept. 6, 18ii8. IV. Leon!<'., h. Marchi, 18ll0; m. Feb. 2:!, 1888, Georgie Auuie Hix­

son, of Bost.on. Ch.: (1) Vera", b. Dec. 10, 1889; d. same day. (2) Leila Perrin, b. March 14, 1891.

V. Lillian v., h .• Jnlr 11, lSGI. VI. 1\lelvin L., b. Aug. 5, 186:l; m. November, 188-!, :Mina Howard.

Ch.: (1) Enitl ;\la_r7 , h. ,Tuly G, 188i; (2) a son, b. 1\larch 12, 1800.

202

SIXTH GE~EIL\TIO:N".

4H.

DA~rnL" SAVEltY ( Da-niel", John\ Joltn3, Julm2, Jolm1), of

Mi(ldle1Joro, wns hom Jrm. 22, 17\17; manie\l, ht, Sept. 1 !1, 182-!, Elizabeth Vaughan, who llie(l Nov. 13, 1825 ; 2<1, Ja,n. 9, 1832, Lydia Morton. He died Feb. 2, 18G!:l,

C!IIL!>HE:"\.

By first wit'e: I. l•:liz:il11>1h', h .• 1111,1' H, IS:!ii.

J:y ,;i,coml wifo: I I. Pri:;cilla 11orton, h. DPc. -1, 1sa:1; ,l. Dec. :.!H, l:<:l;!.

(IL Daniel )lorton, h. ~lay Hi, IS:H1. DANIEL Mo1:TON' ::iA\'EltY

rn. Dt>c. 30, lSH0, Hosdta Y. Wood, oI .N"ew Bedford, Mass.; now lives in Xell' York City. No ch.

47.

P1,;1:1,:t:1t1NI•: \VJIITE': S.\\'EI:\' (f>,r11il'I\ ,John', ,Jolm\ .lo/111\

,7u7rn1), was born ( )d. fl, 1 KO;\ ; marrie(l i\Ltry I hew ( 'ol,h, 1langltter of Ebe11ezer Cubh; li ve\l 011 tho old "'Siwery farm·• at Michlleborn ; and tlied ,fan. 8, 1881. She (lied Oct. 28, 1881, aged 7ti year::; and 11 months.

ClllLDHEN.

L )fary Drew', h. Jnly 7, 18:1/i; 111. Sept. 3, 1871, Nathan B. :\laxim. Ch,: (1) Ernest D.8

; d. in iufaucy. (2) Pllwhe .\., h. :N"ov, 10, 18iii.

[[. Plw·he .\nu, h. Oet. 10, 1R:l7; (1. 1111m. Aug. :!S, 1870. III. Lu titer Wright, b. llec. ,n, 18:1\l; m. SPpt. 28, 1881, :\lice

I. C'hurehill, 1laughter of ,James aml Reheeca Churchill, of Carver; d. Oct. 25, 188G.

69 IV. ~\ll>ert 'L'., h.1Iarch 16, 184:l.

-l-8.

T11o~L\:-\i; :-i.\ \'El:\" (_.i.Yelw111ialt", ,lului', ,John\ ,John\ ,lulw}), wits born Dec. 2-!, 1796; married April 22, 1821, Penelope, clanghter of John Swift. He died 1856; she died March 28, 1876, age1l 75.

C1111,n1tE~.

I. Everett Williams', b. April U, 18:l:l; uum. 70 II Alhert Allen, b. July :JS, 18:l-1.

THF. SEVEllY AND SAVEi:¥ l<'A~IIL\.

Ill. llarriPt Uichmo111l, h. An_g. 28, 18:10; 111. -- llowl:md. I\'. Eliza. ,Ta111•, h. DPe. 2H, 18:lii.

40.

203

Nm-rn~IIAH6 SAVEilY (Nehemiah", Jolin\ ,fohn\ Jolml, John1),

was born :May 11, 1797; married Oct. 20, 18-!1, Phcebe C., (langltter of ·William Stephen,;, who clied May 30, 1876, agecl !ill _yc•a1·:,; 2 1111111!!1:,; 2H clap. llc(liccl 1\fo,r 22, 1R77.

('1111,l>HEN.

I. NclH'llli:th Lewis7, h. ,July 1i, 1842; m. Vm:. 2i'i, lSGi, Wdthea

E. Cohh; one Ron, Cha.rleR Lcwis7, h. Oct. li'i, lSUS. II. Sarah C., h. Oct. 24, 18-tH; 111. Dec. 10, 1Si4, Etlw .• r. Thompson.

11 !. l~sthcr S., h. 1847; m. May l, l8il, ,\lex. ,T. Bartl..tt. IV. lrPnr !•'., h. ,Inly 4, 1R4S; 111. ;\larch 8, ]Sn!), William F. l'cterRon.

V. "\:1ry ~-, h. ,July 8, 18:i0; ti. Nov. Hi, 18iiH. VI. ,John, h. Nov. 8, 18ii2; cl. Feh. 7, 18:i:l.

VII. ,James J•;., h. May M, lHii-1. VIII. E11wlim', b. Ang. 2!1, 18iiii; ti. ,Inly 14, same yP:ll".

50.

\VINSOn" SAVE!tY (iYelwmiah\ John\ ,Tolin\ Jolm2, Jolm 1),

was born Sept. 10, 1801; nmrrie<l Ang. 29, 183G, Fannie G., wiclow of Tli0111:1:-;i Savnry (Thoma;;", \Vil liam\ Thoma,.;4,

Thoma:,;\ SamncF, Thoma:,;1), maiden JUtlllC Smith ; died April, 187 4.

C'IIILIJIU:N.

I. Win8or Tho111as7, h. Feb. 2, 184ii; 111. March 8, 186!J, Almir[I. F. Cobh. Has one ~on, Hohert WilulRor8 , h. ,June 10, lSil.

I I. Sarah Cor11ish, b. ,\pril l!l, 1848; 111. Novemher, 18611, Elisha 'l'. Nelson, ancl hncl one ehilll, ]~lisha T.\ h. Dec. 30, 18GU; cl. ,Tan. 1, ISiO. Shed. ,,fay 14, 18i1.

51.

\VALTim C.6 SAYOnY (Ira\ ,foseph4, 'l'lwma8\ John2, John1),

\\'as horn ,July 18, 1808, in ilfarcellm;, Onombga County, New Ymk; marrie<l Minerva. Baker, of l\lill Creek, Tioga County, l'enn., wl1owas horn Oct. 3, 1818. Now living at Beaver Dam, Sclinyler Co1111ty, N. Y.

CIIILl>l!.EN.

l. Susan7, b. at Port Creek, ('hemung County, New York. II. George.

204 THE SEVERY AND SA YETIY F.\_l\[[LY.

II l. Ira, b. Aug. 24, 184:J, at flornhy, 1-:ltcuhcu ( '01111ty, :-few York; m. Jan. 1, 18(Hl, Cynthia A. Sickles, of Ornngc, Schuyh.·r Conut.y.

IV. Emma. V. Annie.

r.2. ·vVARREN W.6 SAVORY (INi'>, Joseplt\ Tlwmmi, ,[olm2, .Tohnt),

was born in 1812; and married ahont 18-!3, l\Iiss Fidelia Perego. Lived for a while in Elgin, in 188!) in Joliet, Ill.,aml now, I think, in :Missouri.

CIIILl>BEN.

I. Mary E.7, b. about 18-!5; m. George C. Grant. IL Hattie C., b. al)out 18-!6; m. ,Tohu flonlrnrn.

III. Willard W. IV. Walter .M., h. about 1854. V. Lulu ll., b. about 186-!.

,vrLBU!t ,v_r; Sxvo1tY ( T/'{(", ,lii.~1'J'li\ 1'lwmax\ .Tolt11~, ,Tt,l1n1'\,

was bum at Catlin, SLeul,e11 Cou11Ly, New Ymk; manied, 1st, Rachel Baker, who died July 1-!, 185~; he married, 2d, Ang. 10, 1858, Delphene Laurette, who was horn Ang. 10, 1840, daughter of HeueF Cogswell and Eliza l\Iead, clescernled from John1 Cogswell, the ancestor of t11e <listingnished family of Cogswell of tlie UHited States a]l(l Nov,t Seotia, thrnugh Wil­liam\ \Villiam3, EdwarrP, Smnnel5, E<lwnrcl';. (Ree Cogswe11 Genealogy.)

CHILl>BEN.

I. Fidelia 7, b. Nov. 11, 18-11; d. ;\larch 11, 1851. II. Frank, b. June 1, 18--!3; d. :Ofarch 21, 1860, from a disease con­

tracted in the army, having l.Jecn with Geu. Sherman in his great march through ( h:orgia.

HI. Charles, h. ,Jan. 21, 18-!li. IV. 1\Iary Ann, b. Nov. 21, 18-!8.

V. Cornelia, b. Aug. 20, 1851; m. ,fames Whitford. Ch.: (1) Dil­lie; (2) Celia.

54.

,VASHINGTON P.0 SAVOltY (li-a", Josep!t\ Tlwmai\ John\ John1

), was born in the town of Camelin, .Jan. G, 1822; married

THE SE\·l~U.Y A~D SA VlmY .l<'A:lllLY. 205

18-!3, Sarah Caffnrnn, of . Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, who was hom Ang. 15, 1818, and lives at Kenchtll Sta­tion, Chennrng County, New York.

CJIILDREN.

I. Francis A. 7, h. April G, 184i; m. A. C. Place. Ch.: (1) Blanche nL 8 , b. ,July 25, lSil.

II. l\Iarvin L., h .• \pril 30, 18i'i0; m. Feb. 18, 1882, Lillian B. Little­hale. Ch.: (l) Etl\\'i11 Victor.

III. Adrn O., b. Au~. 19, 18i'i4; 111. 1870, B. F. i\Ie1ul, a native of Port Dover, :\'orfolk County, C:mada \Yest. Ch.: (1) Myrtie Belle, h. ,July 15, 1871; tl. Oct. 11, lSil. (2) William A., h. Feb. !J, 18,3; (:!) :;\fary E., b .. July 8, lSi'G; (4) Frank, b. A.pril O, 18i8; (5) Alpha D., b. Nov. II, 1880, at BuJfalo.

IV. lloRPaltha D., h. ,Jan. 2, 185G*; m. 18il, William II. Christian, who w:t.R horn in 18-1S. Ch.: (I) Lnwt~ll V.•, h. Oct. 3, 18iB; (2) i\[a1Ule R., h. l•'ch. B, l8iii; (:!) Grace l\L, b. ,Jan. n. 1878; (I) Lillia.11 B., h. ,Jn11n :!2, 1881. -

uu. STEPHE~'1 SA v ARY ( Jo,3epli Emer8on5, Jo8epli\ Jo,3eph:\ Jo8eph2,

-Tolm1), was born Ang. 30, 1791; and married (intentions pub­

li:-d1etl Oet. f>, 181tl) Dnpli11e lbll,\\'hnwasl,om .June 23, 1800. By the advice of his preceptor in the Lancaster Academy, where he was edi1eatell, he was led to change the spelling of the nn,me to Savary. He died ,July 29, 1868; and his widow followed him July 30, 1883. The sketch of the life, times, and elmmcter of this lady by her son John is a, most interesting paper, and deserves perpetual preservation by her descend­a.11t8. She was of the "l>cst Lype" o( the New gnglttnd matron of n, past generation, belo11gi11g to "that great army of brave and silent workers who made the New Engln.11d of to-day."

CHILIJHEN'.

r. Nancy 7, b. ,Tune 16, 1817; m. S. Baker; had three sons, of whom t.wo survive: ll,•nry5 :tllll (Jporge.

II. Loni~a, b. )I.arch 2i, 18~0; 111. Jan. 1, 184-t, George Darling. Ch.: (1) .Jacoh W.", h. Oct. S, 18-14; 11.; (2) E11~cnc, h. March :m, 18 ir.. (:I) ,Jcrnnw A., b. J)[ay 2-t, 18-1S. (4) Huth :\[., h. F'Ph. :!tl, 1Si'i0; 11. 1870.

* There ts some unccrtninty about this clnte.

206 THE SIWl~ItY AN!> SAVEltY J<'Al\HLY.

III. 'i\Hriam Stone, b. April Vi, 182:-!; m. Novemher, 1812, Sanfor,l _.\.. Inman, of Bunillville, TL L; d. Jan. 7, 185!!.

71 IV. Stephen Augustus, h. Oct, 1!l, 1825. V. .I os1,ph 1•:merson, h. A pri I 17, 1827. .Jos1s1·11 E. 7 SA v Atn m.

October, 1882, Lytlia,J., 1la11. of ,Jonathan Hoss, ol' Ellington, N. II., widow ol' Benjamin 1-il illings; has live,! in 1 'almyra, N. \"., an1l a loug time iu Calil'omia at the time of th1, gold­mining pioneers; now and for some time in Boston in railroad business. No chiltlren.

72 VI. .John, b. Nov. 4, 1832.

r,o. JONATHAN J\L6 SAVOltY (Jonathan", Jonatlwn4, Jo1Sepk1,

Joseph\ John1), was horn Oct. 7, 182-l:; married Oct. 25, 185-!, Olivia Sleeper. Lived at Se,trsport, Me., where he died, highly respected, Oct. 25, 1~91, "after ,t long and lingering illness."

C1111,1>1rnN.

r. l\Iary G.7, b. Sept. rn, 1855. IT. Freil. i\I ., h. 1"1,h. 7, 1857; m. 01,t. :!ii, 1~7!l, Etta l'ip1n·.

II I. l~tlwin L., h. D~c. 10, !Sul; 111. D.,i.;. Iii, ISiU, Caddie l\lason. Ch.: (1) ]ifondeR.8 , h. ,Tau. 14, 1885; (:!) Hervey lI., h. March 28, 1889.

IV. Janes, b. March 15, 1863; m. i:lept. l!0, 1885, Elden Harriman. Ch.: (l) Oliviti8

, b. Oct. :lO, 1887.

57. ,ToNATIL\.N~ SA\rolt\' (JJ11uid'"', ,fonat11a1t\ Jo1,epk', Jo1Scph\

John1), was horn Feb. 18, 1818; and 1-i'tanied at Westfield, Mass., Dec. 31, 1848, 1\fo,s Alme1la C. Morrison. Hesi,lm; at Colon, Mich.

CII!LDIUcN.

I. Itl:l S.7, h. April 12, 1850; d,-185:!. [I. Belle J ., h. ,July 7, 185:l.

III. David W., b. Feh. 7, 1854. DAVID W. 7 SAVOlff married Miss Frank Sprague, of Cedar Springs, Mich., and has ch.: (1) Vertie hl.8

; (2) ,Tohu O.; (3) Jennie C.; (-!) Leona. IV. Charles P., b. Nov. 24, 1867.*

V. Flom l'II., b. Feb. 8, 1870.* ·

•There may be an error In these dates; 1857 and 1860 seem more prolJa',le.

207

u8. OLIVElt A.6 SAVORY ( David\ Jonathan\ ,foseph\ Josepl,.2,

John 1), horn in 1824, lives at Manchester, Chesterfield County,

V n. , n.ml has CIIILIJ!tEN.

I. Orvis W.1, b. Sept. 4, 18,'il. II. Edgar A., b. Dec. 15, 18ii3.

III. Rarnh L., h. FPh. i'i, 185G. JV. l(!a IL, h .. \ug. rn, 1S58; d. IJPc. 17, 18HJ. V. Winfiehl C., h. ,Jul_v 25, lS(ll; (I. l>Pc. n, JRG\l.

YI. l\lary Frances, h. April 3, 18G4. YI!. W:dtcr Lee, h. llcc. 1:J, 181\li.

VIII. Nolan C., h. l\farch 18, 1867. IX. Etlwl F., h. No,·. 1:.l, 1872.

rm. G1,;01wr. ,v.n RA Yott¥ (.Da1•id\ ,Jona.tlwn1, .To.~cpli\ ,Ju.~eph2,

,Iohn1), was born Aug. 5, 1839; and married Flora Blanche, of

Barre, Vt., and lives at "\Yilliamstown, Vt.

C'IIILllREN.

I. Leslie G. 7 , b. Aug. 12, 18GH. fl. Willie L., h. l\lar 12, 1872; d. Sept. 16, 187G.

LIL Mabel T., b. Nov. 4, 187H. lY. l\lary H., b. llfay 15, l!-ti!l. V. Yeruon B., b. Sqlt. 17, 188:l.

HO.

AARON A.6 SA v1mY ( Ephrrrim\ Jonathan4, ,Ioseph\ Joseph2, Jolm1), was born ,hme 2, 182U. Lived at Clarendon Springs, Vt.., Lill 1 Rfi!I, wlte11 hP 1·n1110,·t'<l Lo Topt>lrn, Kansas, hut re­turned to Vermont. l\farrietl April 14, l8Gl, Almira P. Cheney. He served in the 11th Vermont Volunteers during the Civil "\Var, and was lionomhly discharged Aug. 25, 1865. Then settled first at Rutlanll, then moved to Danby, and finally t.o Prod.or, Yt., wliere he <lie<l nfarelt 10, 18H2. His wife die<l at Danby, July 13, 188U.

CIIILl>HEN.

I. Helen C. 7, h. Aug. rn, lSHH; <L S1>pte111her, lSHi.

208 THE SI~VEl{Y AND SA VE!ff F,L\lILY.

II. Frnuk!in )._,, b. July 11, 1868. FHANKLI~ A.7 SAVERY resides and carries on business at Centre Rutland, Vt.; m. May l!J, 1891, Harriet M. Gt'e.

Ill. J\fartlm _.\.., b. Sept. 25, 1871.

01.

,VILLIA:\I JoNATHAN 6 SA VEltY (Ephraim'\ Jonathan\ Jo­seph3, Joseplt2

, John1), was bom Sept. 4, 1833; and married

Sept. 22, 1859, :Margaret A. Harrison. Resides at Cuttings­ville, Vt.

ClllLl>IIJ<:N.

I. Nancy E. 1, !), ,June 28, 18Gl; m. April 2-!, 1877, Levi .J. Taylor. II. Jeuuie B., b. March ll, 18G3; m. 2.fay 30, 1887, Winslow R.

Eddy. III. Lillie ~I., b. Aug. 18, 1865; d. April -t, 1866 .. IV. Belle C., b. Feb. 25, 1867. V. William II., b. April 18, 18GD.

VI. Martha L., b. Oct. 1, 1871. VII. Emma C., b. June 30, 187:J.

VII£. Rcrtlm n., b, July 7, 1877; 11. ,Tau. 31, 187!>. IX. Harrison B., u. Aug. -t, 1883.

GEORGE vV.6 SAVERY (Ephraim5, Jonathan\ Joseph3, Joseph2,

John1), was born :May 24, 1835; and married Nov. 26, 1860, Diana L. Pratt. Resides at Wallingford, Vt.

Cm Ll>HEN.

I. .Mary M.7, h. ~ov. lll, l81il; 111. 1\Iay 12, 188B, 8herilla11 !<:. Cong don. Ch.: (1) Harold W.8, b. Oct. 21, 1889.

II. John II., b; Sept. l, 18G3; rn. Aug. 26, 1882, Emma L. Patterson. Ch.: (l) George 11.8, h. ,July 12, 188G. ,TOIIN II.7 SA v 1-:itY

resides at Cambri1lgc, N. Y. III. HerbcrtG., b. July 2:i, l8G5. IIi,::mmwr G. 7 SAVERY reshles at

Wa llingfonl. IV. Luella L., IJ • .Aug. Ii, 18G7; u. Dee. 21, 1870.

(>3.

JEHIEL6 SEVERY (HarveyF', Tlwmas\ John3, Joseph2, John1),

was born Aug. 17, 1811 ; married 1853, Eliza. Field; and dierl April 23, 1870.

TIJI~ HIWI~RY ANII SAVrnttY FAMILY. 209

CIIILDln'.N.

I. Frank B. 7, b. Nov. 8, 1854. II. Magg-ie E., b. June 6, 1856.

II l. Martha N., b. Aug. 14, 1858; d .. Jan. 26, 1862.

04.

\VILLIAM6 SEVERY or SAVERY (Harvey\ Thomas", John3,

.To,qr,111,,2, .Tokn1 ), wa.o; horn May 1, 1822; n,ll(l nrnrriecl ,fan. 24, 18-1-7, Eliza Wetmore.

CIIILDllEN.

J. Ol"J'el7, h. April 3, 1848; m. 1st, Oct. 21, 1860, Ly<lia Shedd, who d. ,Tmrn, 1881. Ch.: (1) Emma 0.8, b. April 15, 1876: m. :!ti, Ang. :JO, 1881, l<la )l. Churchill. Ch.: (2) Walter, b. (kt. 1, 1882; (:I) 1/alph, h. ;\ray 2, 188G.

11. LPslie, b. ,Jan. 10, 18150; m. March 11, 1874, Olive Gilbert. Ch.: (1) Myrtle\ h. Ang. 1fi, 18ii; ,(2) Harold, h. March 6, 1885;

Ill. Maria, h. Ang. 26, 1851; 111. Hept .. 2!), 186!), N. S. Capen. IV. George, b. Nov. 26, 185:J; m. Dec. 24, 18iG, Agg-ie Baker. Ch.:

(1) Lewis W.S, h. Dec. 22, 1877; (2) Bessie F., b. June a, 1881; (3) Elva G., b. ~fay 4, 1885; (4) Hazel, b. Aug.

V. \'I.

VII. v1rr.

IX.

4, 1888 . • Tos<'ph, b. Aug. 26, JR5ii. Illa, h. ,Inly 21, l~i,i; 111. Hq,t. 17, 18ill, Fnnl CapPn. ,Judson, h .. J:in. l5, !Holl; 111. Jnu. r., 1885, Linnie Wheeler. Evn, h. olay rn, 18<l1; 111. May 30, 187!l, Herbert Baker. Addi<•, h .. Ja.11. fi, rnr.:1; 111. Nov. :W, 1888, Tho111as W. Woo<!.

X. Harry, h. ,Jan. 28, 18G4; ti. Sept. 18, 1SU5. xr. William, b. Dec. 4, JS(lfl.

XII. Bertha, b. Ang. :l, 1Si0; 111. Nov. 28, 1888, Lewis 1\Iason.

VVILLfAi\l FnANKLlN,; SAVE!tY ( 1Villiam5, Thomas4, John3,

,lim·pli2, .Tolm1 ), was 11nm Nov. 12, 1834; nrnrried Sept. 8, 1853, Fm111y R. Kingsley; died Nov. Hl, 188D.

Cllll.l>H.EN.

I. Ernest A. 7, b. Dec. 26, 1854; .m. Dec. 2!), 1880, Com M. Thomas, who <I. Dec. 14, l88(i. Ch.: (1) Fred. 6, b. Aug. 2, 1884; d. Dt!e. 13. 1886: m. 2d, Hattie l\L Sawyer.

II. FlorPnee E., lJ .• June l!J, 1857; m. Fnmk II. Welch.

210 THE SEVERY AND SAVERY FAMILY.

III. Charles E., b. May H, 1861. CHARLES E.7 SAVERY m. April 14, 1887, J<~dith M. Parker. Resides aud carries on mercantile business iu Brandon, Vt.

IV. Chet K., b. Juue 28, 186!l; m. May 12, 1891, Mary J. Parker. Ch.: (1) Marjorie A.\ b. March 27, 1892.

00.

ELIJAH6 SEVERY (Herman• or Heman, Reitbe.n4, Ben}amin3 ,

Joseph2, Jolm1), was born Mai-ch 17, 1806 ; was a farmer; mar­ried Polly Lilley; died at Union, Conn., 1875.

CHILDREN.

I. Fidelia7, b. Dec. 4, 1829; living in Union, Conn. II. Fanny, b. Dec. 25, 1831; d. Feb. IO, 1878.

III. Lncy, b. Dec. 29, 1835; d. in the West, leaving family. IV. Polly, b. July 5, 1839; m. and d. at Brimfield, leaving three

daughters. V. Elisha, b. Sept. 15, 1842; lives at ,vaterbury, Conn.; 111. iu

1863, Emily Snow, who was b. at West Woodstock. Ch.: (1) l~rnciit EliHhaS, h. at. Lcha1w11, Co1111., 1870. (2) Clan,ucc J,ucius, b. at Waterbury, Couu., 188:!. EHNJ,,:,T E1.1,:;11A"

SEVEHY, Ph. B., graduated at Yale University, 1800, and is now Professo1· of Modern Languages at Pennington Semi­nary, Pennington, N. J.

67.

DEXTER6 SEVERY ( Jacob°, Moody\ Jacob3, Joseph2, John1 ),

was born March 2, 1820, at East Dixfield, Me., and removed to Illinois, and now lives at Leland, La Salle County, in that State, engaged with his two sons in the business of stock­raising on an extensive scale ; the farm heing at Victor, De Ka.lb County. He married Sept. 14, 1848, Snsan C. Hanson, who was Lom Nov. 5, 1821, at lhmstead, L. C.

CHILDREN.

I. Amos Henry7 , b. Oct. 7, 1851; m. and has one son, Frank Dexter8 , IJ. ]\fay, 1878.

IL Charles Allen, b. ~fay 29, 1856; m. and has three ch.: (1) Edua M.8 ; (2) n~ssie M.; (3) F1irn.

THE SEVERY AND SAVERY FAMILY, 211.

68.

,TAMES B.6 SEVJ<JRY ( lVilliani\ Asa\ ,Iacob3, ,Toseph2, ,Tohn1), was bom at Dixfield, ,Tune 29, 1840; graduated M. D.; married June 28, 1866, Emma A. Bass, of Boston, ]Wass. She died June 21, 1892. Abandoning the medical profession, he removed, in 1882, to Colorado Springs, Col., and now resides there, holding the office of judge of the county court of El Paso County.

CJJILDREN.

I. Lena P. 7, h. Nov. 24, 186i; d. ,fan. 2, 1868.

II. ,John William, b. ,July -t, 18il; d. March 26, 1874. III. Emma Genevieve, b. Aug. l, 1873.

SIWENTII GENEHA'l'lON.

no. ALBERT T.7 SAVERY (Pere11rine W:6, .Daniel\ John\ Johna,

Jolin2, John1), of Middleboro, Mass., was born March 16, 1842 ; married Feb. 22, 18ti5, l\faria S., daughter of ,fames and Rebecca "\Vaterman, who was bom Dec. 19, 1844. An active a.1ul p11hli.c-Rpiritml citizen, iR ri j11stiee of the peace, ancl has been dmir111a11 of the 1-mlectmen aml assessorn of Middleboro, and a member of the l\fasirn,chusetts House of Representatives.

CIIlLDRl,N,

I. Trueman C.", b. Dec. 24, 1865, 11. Horace II., b. July 2, l86i; d. Sept. 7, 1868.

III. Charles A., b. Nov. 28, 1868; 111. April 30, 1881, at Boston, Nina J. Falline.

70.

ALBERT ALLEN7 SAVERY ( Tlwmas6, Nehemiah\ John\ Johna, John2, Jolin1), was born July 28, 1824; married by Rev. Dr. Putnam, ,Jan. 2G, 184G, Elizabeth, daughter of ,fames and Eliz­abeth (l'homw-;) Slrnrtliffe, both of Citrver, l\fasH.

CIIIJ,IIRJo:N.

I. Chesler Forrest", h. Sept. D, 184S; m. Nov. 21i, lSi5, by Rev. Geo. G. Fairbanks, miaE. F. Snow, of Canton, Mass., daugh-

212 '£HE S1£VERY AND SAVERY l!'A:MILY.

tcr of Russell and .\.melia .Hw-ootl Snow, whose mother's maiden name was Amelia Atwoo1l Briggs, aaul who weni horn, the l'ormer in Hharon, ! Ill\ latter in Berkeley, Mas~. cm.;sT1m P. HAV•:1tY liws at 'l'a11uto11, .Mass.

IL ]~lizabdh A., h. March 10, 185a. Lil. Agnes T., h. !\lay :IO, 185G; m. May 26, 1875, l~lhriilgc Hollo­

way, son of Benjamin and Harriet (Cole) llolloway, or Jl.lid­dleboro, aml had ch.: -(1) Lillie ·nernard9, b. Dec. 2R, 1875; (2) Eva Agnes, b. Feb. 18, 18i7; (3) Wenuell Elbridge, b. }lay 20, 18i8; nll b. in Middleboro.

IV. Laurn s\.nn, b. July 13, 1862.

71.

STgJ>Hl~N AUGUS'rus7 SAVAltY (8tephen", Joseph Emerson", Joseph\ Joseph'\ Joseph\ Jokn1), w,u, born Oct. lH, 1825; mar­rieJ, ht, Mary EJ.cly; 2d, Georgie Case. He resides in vVest Millbury, Ma88.

0Ull,l)REN.

I. W eudell H., b. 1870,

72.

Jo1rn7 SAVAitY (Steplwn\ ,fo.~eph Rm..;r1;on'1, Ji1seplil, .foxeph\ Joseph2, John1), was horn in A nlmrn, ,v orcester County, 1\fa:,8., Nov. 4, 1832; attended 1liHttict school an<l worked on a farm till the age of Heventcen; enternll vVillittill8 College 18f>1, gmduatcd 18:'>5; gradnr1,ted from I larvar<l Divinity School, r1,1Hl licensed to preach as a Unitarian minister in antumn of 1860. War breaking out soon after his ordination, he joined the national army as a p1·ivate with the promise of a chaplaincy; served under Gen. Banks in New Orleans in 1862 and 1863, and was connected with the Sanitary CommiHHion at the cloHe of the war; returning home, engaged for a while in the work of the ministry, but at length abandoned it, and has since been employed as an aHsistant in the library of Congress. Is a writer of felicity and power both in proHe and poetry, author of a memorial ode to President Garfiehl, etc.

(In 188/.)

THUS do I lay a reverent wreath upon the graves of my ances­tors, and across those graves stretch forth a fraternal hand from under the folds of the British flag towards my kindred in the United States. Never, I pray, may a more hostile inessage cross our international boundary than that which I now send to you, or than those with which yon have welcomed and cheered my efforts to elucidate our family history. Although we live nnder different governments, a mutual respect for each other's predilections and preferences ought surely to prevail among both peoples, so that the separation may be artificial only, whilo a 1111iou o[ hoart a11<l se11ti111ent is c11ltivate1l a11,l perpetuated. vVe have everything in common that is worthy of l,ei11g prize<l as a natioual heritage, - a common origin, the same high civilization, the same pure faith, and although under dif­ferent forms, the same freedom. Let no thought be entertained of a political change that will tencl to further disintegrate the world-wide family from which we all spring, and which, if united iu fric11<lly tics, rn11st be the 1lorni1m11t agent in preserving the peace and civilization of the world. It is a truism that the great founders and masters of our science and literature are yours as well as ours by right of a common inheritance ; and the venerable poet through whom New Engln,nd vied with Old England in the grandeur of her song, and excelled her in the poetry of the affections, and whose statue has an honored place in the rnemo1-ial hall of England's worthy dead, is onrs as well as yours by virtue of the common language in which he clothed the sublime conceptions of his genius.

" Peace, and uo longer from its brazen portals The blast of war's great orgau shakes the skies;

Bnt, hcantiful as Rongs of the immortals, 'l'he holy nwlo,lit•s of love :1ris,1."

APPENDIXES.

APPENDIX A.

EXTRACTS FROM RECORDS.

(Drrtcs modernized :ind years nrlnptcd to old anrl new style.)

From pariRh regiRterR of Tfanningtnn, vViltRl1ire:

1572.

Jr;i:1--1. liii-L 157G.

1577.

1578. Hi83. 1585.

1586-7. Hi!Hl-i.

15!li-8. 1508.

1601-2. 1603-4.

1604-5. 160ii-6. lGOll. 1613.

Hul)('rt Savory wns hmictl 25th ,July. \'ir::{il Savory w:1~ ehri~t!•111•1l lhf' !lth Oct.ohf'r. l:ichanl Savor.,· was christ.e1w1l 18th of 11larch. Thonms Savory (rcmai111ler illegible). Eliznheth Savorr was christened 2:i,1 11fay ( OJ" 8th). Eli:.mheth Savo1·y wns hnl'ied 11th Decemher (ol' :llst 11fay). Thonms Savory was hurie,! 7th November. Thomas Savory and l\fary l\Iarshe were mnrrie,l the 28th No-

vcmlwr. Ales Savory was christened ith SPptember. John Stwol'y was huricd 7th November. William Sa,·ory was christened 28th November. Hohert Savory nnd Margaret Savory were christened on the

16th Decemher (or November). Hohert Savory was buried 23d December. 11fargaJ"et Savory wns buried 27th December. ,nmnm Savory was huried 2d January. 'l'IIOMAS SAVOltY mu! :Marie Woo,lrorke wel'C married the 2Gth

.January. ,John Savory wns bured 13th Februarr. Ho111mT ::iAVORY buried 1st l\lay. HOIIEltT SAVORY christened 1-1-th l\f:ty. TIIOlllAS SAVORY, the younger, baptized 4th l\Iarch. Thomas Savory haptizell 8th Fehrnary. (Thomas Savory, Sr.,

William Batson, .Jr., godfathers.) Thomas S1ivory buried 17th February. ANTIIONrn SA VOIUI~ baptized 20th ,January. JonN SAVORY hapt.izetl. No d1tte. William Savorey bnried 26th July.

218

16Ui.

HilG-17.

1620.

1621. 1627.

10:10.

1636. 1637.

1644. 1645.

164(). 1650.

1654.

1659.

APPENDIX. A.

William Savorie was buried 24th April. Humphrey Savery buried 13th ,July. Richard Savory and Agnes l\Iorrett were married the 13th

February. Humphrey, son of Robert Savory and Jiiary his wife, baptized

5th ( or 10th) .January. Thomas Savory and Sybell Gerriug (or Genind) were married

4th l\Iay. Robert Marsh and Joan Savery were married 23d ,July. Mary, daughter of Hobert Savory and Susanna his wife, was

baptized 1st August. Hohcrt, son of Robert Savory aiul Rusauna his wife, bapti:w1l

1st August. Francis Simons and l\Iary Savery were married. Elizabeth, the daughter of ,John Savery and Joane his wife,

baptized 17th December. Thomas Savery was chnrch-wanlen int.his year. Humphrey Savery buried 18th ,January. Elizabeth, daughter of 'l'homas Savery a1ul Elizahcth hi~ wife

was baptized 14th ,June. 'l'homns, son of Thomas Savery :UHi Elizabeth, baptized. Elizabeth, wife of 'l'homas i::!avary, was burietl. Richard, sou of Richard Savary :nul Dorothy, baptized 23d

September. Robert, sou of Richard Savory and Dorothy, baptized 15th

January. James, son of Richard Savory and Dorothy, baptized 5th No­

vember.

The vicar, Rev. Dr. Smeaton, to who~e genial courtesy I am much indebtetl, writes me that hesides the above, "the register is fnll of them," as godfathers, godmothers, clrnrch-wanlens, etc.; and that the neighboring parish of BLUNSDON always had a great many of the name.

From registers of Lambourne, Berkshire, thirteen miles south­west from Hannington :

1608. John Sauorie, of Up. Lamborne, buried 18th April. 1609. Williii Sauorie, Up. Lamborne, buried 18th August.

['l'wenty-eight died of plague.] 1614. John Sauory, of Upper Lamborne, buried Hth May. 1616. Mary Sauory, widow, buried 11th December.

1656.

1657.

1663.

1668.

1650. l(jfi4.

16ii6-i.

1680. 1708.

Al'l'ENDIX A. 219

Mary, the daughter of Peter and -;Joan Sauery, of Up. Lam­borne, baptized 29th November.

·wm., the son of Peeter and ,Joan Savery, Upl., christened 13th December.

Jeane, the daughter of Peter and Joane Savery, of Up. Lam­borne, baptized 3d July.

Joan, the daughter of Peter and Joan Savery, baptized 10th December.

Francis Stiff and Alice Saverye married 20th April. l'cctcr Savery :mjl .roan Vir,e were 111arrie1I after three times

pnblication, 20th August. Mary, the daughter of L'ceter Savory, of Up. Lamborne, buried

11th J:mu:1ry. ,Joane, the wife of Peter Sanerey, 19th July. Elizabeth, y• daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Savery, bnp­

t.izPd :!8th Fd1ruary.

From registers of Broad Chalke County, ·wilts: MAHUIAGES.

May 1, 1605. William Savery and Annie Randall. Jan. 25, 1612-13. Clement White and Annie Savery.

UAl'TISMS,

Aug. 11, rnor.. Sible, 1la11ghtc1· of William Savery.

UUlt!AI.S.

Feb. 24, 1615-16. Sible Savery, daughter of William.

Registers of Clyffe Pypard, county of Wilts, about eight miles from Hannington:

JGliza.het.11, the daughter of Thomas Savory and Alice his wife, was bap­tized the twenty-seventh day of December, 16811.

Oct. 25, Hl8a. Baptized Mary, danghter of Thomas and Alice Savory.

NOTE. - I hnve been unable to get anything from the registers ef the nenrest parishes to Hnnnlngton, - Bluns<lon, Hlghworth, Stanton, Stratton, Marston, Crlcklade, etc., -In the llret-name<I of which Snverys have been very numerous from time immemorial In many cases there are no records extant of so enrly a date. In others I fnlle<I to get reply to my Inquiries.

From probate registers, original spelling preserved : 50 Letoin. "Robert Savorie, of Hanington, Wilts, husbandman. To the reparation of the church at Sarum, /12.

220 APPENDIX A.

'l'o the parish church of Hanington, / 12. To the poor of Hanington, 12 bushels of harlcy. 'l'o my three brothers, Uichal'd, THOllAS, allll .\NTIIONIE, -101 each. 'l'o Margaret Savery a cow; also one other cow instead of the heifer

which Alce, my mother, did bequeath her. 'l'o Agnes Pecock, lO/. 'l'o 'l'homas Poole, Ricluird Uichins, William Adams, and Hielrnnl the

Shepperd, ill! each. 'l'o 'l'HOl\lAS SA YORY MY SON all my free lands. Residue to Thonms my sou and Joan my wife, they to he executors. William Harper and Walter Becket to be overseers. Siµ;ned X nmrk of Hobert. tfavcry. vVitnesses, Walter llarpcr, Hobert :1.larshe. Proved 17th May, 15\18, by ,Joan Savery, the relict.

99 Rwld. 20th .Tune, Hllii. "llumphrie Savorie, of lfanniugtou, Wilts, husbandman."

'l'hon,as Savorie, my eldest sou, and Richard Savorie, my youngest son, to he executors.

Thomas Willie and Alice Willie aml l~lizahcth Willie, his ,laughter3. Richard 1'fatthcw, of Sarney,* Gloucestershire, and hisehil,lreu, I:ielrnnl,

Johan, aml Margerie. Thomas :Mounke, William Frie, Elizabeth Charter. Agnes )faker- Agnes Savorie of Lushall. John Savorie of Farrington, CathPrine Saverie, an<! Catherine Savorie, her

sister (probably sister-in-law). Thomas Plumer and Richard Matthews, overseers. ·witnesses, \Villiam ,Jones, clerk, ,John Plumer, Richard Mathews,

'l'ho1nas Plumer. Proved 27th November, 1615, by Richard Savorie.

25 Fenne1·. 1st l\fay, 1610," Robert Severy, of Wotton Courtney, Somer-setRhh-e, yeoman.''

To be buried at Wotton Courtney. 'l'o William Severy, my son, £BO. 'l'o Robert Severy, my sou, £50, 'l'o Christian ~every, my ,!aught.er, £50. ,Joluwc, my servant. ( !hi hi mu u11d1H' agt:. Johane, my wife-she great with child-same to have £20. William Leigh, John Geiles, Heury Boole, to be overseers. Signed X the mark of J-!obei;t Severy. Proved 7th March, 1611, by Joan Severy, the widow.

The name here, I have no doubt, means Savery. Somerset lies between "\Vilts and Devon.

*i.e., Cerney.

A l'l'l~N IJlX A. 221

Between 1593 and 1u60, I cannot -give the several dates, administrations were granted on the estates of

.John S:tV,!ry, o[ Upl:unho11rnP, Bcl'k8hire. H.ichnnl Savel'y, of Aston l(eene, Wilts. Christopher Satfary, Iluckliuton, parish of Keevil, Wilts, 1636-i.

It has been suggested by some that Saffer_y and Savary were orignally the same name. Sa.frei I have found in the" Hurnhed Bolls," hn(, a.111 1111:i.l,ln Lo j11<lg·e wlidlu•t' it, waH a <:01T11ptio11 of tfavary and Savery, or an i11depemle11t name.

AllrnIUCAN HECOHDS .

.From town records of Newport, Rhode Island: -1,43. William Savery married Eliz:iheth .\shhrook.

I cmmot c011jecture who this ,Villi.am was

BARBADOES RECORDS.

DEEDS.

ith December, 1644, John Savery, planter, to Henry .Miller and others (mentioned p. 13:J).

This John wits no doubt an immigrant ancestor, perhaps the one baptized at Jfannington in 1606, coming over in company \viLh a hroLlicr A11t.J1011y, also hapt,i:wd there 16th of .J:mnary, 1H04-fi, and dying in lli82, as appears below. (See "additions a.ml conectio1rn," 1.intc.)

FlW.l\I PAHISH REGISTJms.

Parish of St.. Philip: 1Gll5, Nov. · 5.

Pari~h of St .• Joseph: li:W, April 8.

li22-3, ~larch 11. 1i23, Dec. 2i. li2i, .April 6.

1 i3:.!-3, March 11. li:-15-G, ~larch -.

li:lii-H, .May 2.t.

BAPTISMS.

'WILLIAM SAVERY, son of WILLIAM SAVERY.

.John 8avery (parents not mentioned). Samuel 8avery (parents not mentioned). A daughtPr of Samuel Savery. Francis Savery and ,John Savery, sons of Samuel

S,wPry . . To8Pph, son of Sanmel n.nd Ann Savery. ,John,son of,Tol111 :itHI Mary Savory. (This John

prohahly diet! soon. See baptism of another .John below.)

All t.ogetlwr: Wt LLIAM (son), anti Elizal>,,th, .l\l:i.rgaret, l'olly, and Susa1111a, daughters of John :11111 .lllary Savory.

222 APPENDIX A.

1739-40, March 9. Thomas and John, suns of John and Mary Savory. N. B. -'!'he names which I have italicized are reproduced in the family

of the first William Savery, of Phila1lclphia, and in the same order. (Sec page 139.)

Pal'ish of St. ,John: 1661-2, Feb. 10.

Parish of St. Philip: 1684--5, March 1.

Parish of ~t. ,James: 1718, April 20.

Parish of St. Michael:

Eliz. Savary tu ) .. ltJx. ~IcCo!liu.

Eliza. Savary to 'l'homas Hill.

JOHN SAVORY to Mary Stanley' " both of ys parish, by License."

BUIUALS,

1676, Sept. 22. Eliza Savery. 1682-'l, Jan. 2-1. ANTHONY SA VERY.

1691, July 5. Edwa1·d Save1-y, from Captain .... 1698, Feb. 8. Bowles Savery, mariner.

P:wish of St. ,roseph: 1723-J, ,Jan. 4. Samuel Savory.

(,;xECllTIVg ('OIINl:11. l\lJNll'l'ES,

"At a meeting of his Excellency :uul Councell, ye 4th Aug. 1668. 'John Savery li~sqre, Attorney to George Booth to reverse a judgment obteyued agst his AttomO!' by Thomas Booth at the Court held for ye Precincts of St. Peters, All Sts., and St. Lucy's in September, 1663,' was mulcted in 250 lbs. sugar, costs."

"Atta meeting of ye Depty Governm· and Counce! the 19th of Aug. 1669 Ordered ... that writs do forthwith issue directed to the gentlemen hereafter wl'itten requiring them to sm11011 the ffreeholilers," etc., "to choose .two sulticient, lliscrnate aud able ffreeholders for each l'i~h as Assembly men," etc. Eleven names, one for each parish, among them John Savory for St. Lucyes.

PUOUATE RECOIWS.

Digest of the will of Elizabeth Savery: "In the Feare of Go,!, I, Elizabeth tlavery, of the Island of Barb:uloes,

widow relict of John Savery formerly of the parish called St. Lucies iu the aforesaid lslaud, deceased." ... 'l'estatrix bequeaths to son, Smnuel Savery, "now in the Ishuul of ,Jamaica" awl to his heirs certain negroes am! "two of the largest fine cotton hammocks.'' To her daughter," Mary Collyns, the wife of Fm11cis Collyns of Pennsylvania," all her wearing apparel, linen a1ul woollen, "to he 8Cllt tu lier hy Ulll ilr8t oppurtuuity to Pennsylvania." 'i'o her grandson, John Gosling all moneys dne testatrix

APl'J~NDlX A. 223

hy the said Mary Collyns (hiR mother), and _,Tohn OoRling, his deceased father. 'l'o daughter, )fary Collyus, and grand-daughter, Sarah Savery, wlmtever "new linning stutfo am\ crape" the testatrix dies possessed of "in the house not, m:ule up·· to he divided equally. 'l'o gran(\-daughter, Sarah Savery, £10 to be paid out of produce of testatrix's 18\ acres of land lying in the parish of St. Lucies. To her gi-and.~on, John Savery, and his issue (when he shall attain 21 years), 15! acres of land" lately recovered" by the testatrix in St. Lucies, but should he die without issue, this land to go to Samuel Savery's eldest son,* and to (testatrix's so,i) ,John Savery·s (•h!Pst chil<l, "if IH' ever hath any," t to he equally divitlcd between them. If her son, .Tohn Savery, has 110 issue lw is still to enjoy the benefit of one half the laud during his lifetime ( i. e., of eonrse, if grandson, ,John Savery, died without issue). To her live gramlchildren (whose father's name is not men­tioned, probably SanrnPl), ,Josiah, Venuor, Sarnnel, Maryau, and Elizabeth Savery, testatrix leaves £5 each, with benefit of survivorship. To grand­son .Testaht ( ?) Savery, "all the dower 1111nrny due her from au estate that was formerly her husb:uurs,,. awl which w:ts secured to her by au indent­ure of annuity of £100 per ann. To her son, ,John Savery, she bequeaths :i" grP:tt hihle a.ml stnmlanl, a silver tankard, a desk, upper hed and bed­stead am\ eurtains," with half of the bed liuen, and au" upper great table.·• To graud-danght,ir Samh Savery she heq11tiaths "ye lower hed &; betl­ste:ul" with the other half of the bet! linen: anti all the rest of the "house­hold stuflc" is to he equally divitletl hetween her sou, ,John Savery, and gntwl-daughter, Sarah Savery. To her son, .John Savery, all the money in the homm nt. lwr deepase" arter funeral charges am\ the nurse are paid."

'J'o 1.lw "l'tH>lt AMON<l J<"11t1-:Nllil" t.111~ RIIIII of C:I. AppoilllR HOh(~rt, Gibbs, .John Chase, ,Jr., ::md her son ,John Savery, executors.

Will 1\ate,l Gth August, ln!:>3. Signed Elb:abet,h Savery (L. S.). Witnesses, John Went, Robt. Scott, Beuja. Biddle. Proved 31st August, 16!:>3. 1716. Deposition.of 1\Iary Savery as to the last wishes of Thomas Beard

when in his l:tst moments. Feh. 2. Will of Mary Savery of St. Peter's Parish. Mentions her son,

.Tohn Hnreh (probably hy n. former huRhn.ml), nud her daughters, Aun

* From tlliB it would appear that t,he gran1lso11 John waR the eldest son then living, possibly the only son of ',nmuel, then In .Jnmnlcn. Prolmhly Samuel nn,l ,John were her only son~. tf there were others they mu~t have pre1leconse1l her1 or they woultl have hcen n1ent.ione1l. The inference ts \'Cry ~trong that. there never were hut t.wo who sutvived her, or who attained maturity. The wortls, 11 now in .Jn.nu1kn.," would imply only n temporary sojourn t.here. Pruhauly he was the one who was hurled .Jan. 4, 17:!:l--l-, nnd the grnntlson, Samuel, the one ,vhosc children were baptized from 1722 to 17:12.

t This woul<I seem to imply tiiat ,John was unmarried, or at ull events st.\11 childless, nlthough hcing nanu.1d cxc1~utor, he waR, no ,loubt, of ngr.

t l't·ohahly clcrlc:tl c,-.-,,., for ,Jo,hth, the el,lest of the llvc grnrnlchlhlrcn an,! prnhnhly eldest ~on of Samuel.

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Clari{, wife of ,John Clark, and grand-laughters, _\.1rn and E liz:theth Clarke, and grand-daughter, Eliz. Ball, daughtei· of .Tolin Ball.

180,i, April 23. Letters testamentary grnnte1! to w~1. SAY Im¥ to estate of ,TOIIN SAYER¥, deceased.

I suspect that this vVilliam was own cnnsin of the minister, for [ take the testator, Joh11, to lie the son of John autl l\Iary Stanley who was baptized March 9, 1740, John's older brother William being, as I think, ,villiam Siivery, Sr., of Phila­delphia, the minister's father.

1815, Ang. 2S. Letters testamentary, granted to ?ilargaret ,Jane Savery to estate of ,John Alexallller Savery, ,h•ceasell.

RECORDS RELATING TO THE SEVERY AND SA VERY li'_.AMfLY.

For the benefit of those who may wish to follow down the main collateml brrmches of the Sivrets or Severys, descendants of the two snpposc1l to he hrotlwn; of tlie .fol111 who re111ovc11 lo Wenham, I here give the following from the church records of Marhlehead:

Admitted to the church, 1G!l9, Dec. 10, Eliz. Scivory.

IlAl'TIS~IS.

Dec. 24, lG!l!l. lWr.. Scivory.*

'i'l101uas, ·i , Elb:alrnth Ueh_orah, Child mu of l•:liz. 81,;ivury. Deliverance, Elenor,

,Jnue 22, 1701. J\fary, of Elizabeth Scivory. Nov. 9, 1707. Samuel, of Thomas Scivery. J\fay 31, 172-i. .Arnlrew, infant of .\udrcw and :Mary Scivery. ,July 28, 1728. Mary, infant of Auilrcw :tllll Mary 8civery. Sept. 2, l 75!l. Peter, infaut of Clement and Hannah Sci very. J\farch 27. 1763. Clement, infant of Clement aml Hannah 8civcry. Oct. l!l, 1766. ,John and Ilenjamiu, of Clement and Hannah Scivery. Sept. 10, 1769. Hannah. of Clement and Hannah Scivery. D;:c. !l, 1782, Clement, of Clement and Sarah Scivery. ,June -!, 1707. Hannah, of Clement awl. Sarah Sciyery.

* Probably wife of 'l'homns. -A. W. S.

May 18, 1800. Dec. 11, 1808. Oct. 29, 1820. l\lay 2, 1830. Oct. 6, 1832. Oct. 6, 1832. April 12, 1835. Ang. 2, 1835. Aug. 6, 18:17. Aug. 13, 183fi.

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Johh Walpee, of Clement and Sarah Scivery. Francis Doliber, of Clement, ,Tr., and Martha Scivery. Sarah Free to, of Peter and Sally Sci very. Benjamin, of Benjamin and Rehecea Scivery. Joseph Franklin, of ,Joseph aml Mary Scivery. William Green, of .Joseph and l\lary Sci very. Elizabeth Devereux, of Joseph and Mary Scivery. Rebecca ,Tane, of Benjamin and Rebecca Scivery. Elias White, of .Joseph a111l Mary Scivery. ,John lI:unmoml, of Benjamin, 1lt\l'casc1l, and Behccca

Seivcry.

Admitted to covenant May 11, 1718, Phehe Scivery. (The name does not occur in a list of the church members written ,July 18, 1716, which only includes those in full communion, as distinct from those "admitted to covenant.'')

"MAltlt!Atms.

l\1arch 2, 17l!J. Henry Darling, ,Tr., Mary Scivcry, both of l\farhlehe:ul. Oct. :n, li2l. .Tohn Pickett, l•]liz. Scivcry, hoth of l\larhlt\lu,ad. Oct. a, 172:1. Andrew Seivcry, Mary Pittman, hoth of l\Iarblchcad. Feb. 10, 17:12. ,John Scivery, Eliz. Fabius, both of Marblehead. Aug. 1, 1758. Clement Scivery, Hannah Dodd, hoth of afarblehea1I. Jan. 4, 1787. Clement Severy, Sarah Freeto, both of Marblehead. Feb. 22, 1798. ,Joseph Scivery, Sarah Rradslmw, both of Marblehead. Sept. 4, 1808. Clement Scivery, ,Tr., l\[artlm Doliber, hot.h of JHarble-

July 13, 18li. Jan. 25, 1821.

July 12, 1827.

Jan. 20, 1829.

hPad. Peter Scivery, Sally Russell, both of l\larhlehead. William D. Hammond, Sarah Sci very, both of Marble­

head. Benjamin Scivery, Rebecca Hammond, both of lHarble­

hea1l. Joseph Scivery, l\fary D. ,vhite, hoth of l\farhlehead.

The following I extract from the town records, which also co11t:iin many entries which T have given from the church, dif­fering only in the S]Jelling of the name. The gradual change in the spelling to Savery and Savory will be noted:

Feb. April Jan. An". ,, Oct. Feb.

15, 1683. 2, 1685. 4, 1693. 4, 16!lii.

27, 16!.li. 16, 169!).

BIRTHS.

Martha, daughter of Andrew and Mary Severy. l\iary, tlanghter of Antlrew and Mary. Daniel, son of Andrew and l\iary. Andrew, son of ArHlrew and Mary. Gregory and Phebe, twins of Andrew and l\iary. Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew and l\Cary.

226

Aug. April Dec. June April

Feb.

May June Feb.

,Jan .. Feb. Oct. Feb. Dec. Oct.

31, 1704. 16, 1707. 14, 1705. 3, 1704.

14, 1707.

3, 1708.

3, 1708. 3, 1708. 1, 1719.

31, 1721. 7, 1721.

21, 1721. 10, 1732. H, 1758.

6, 1725.

1\-larch 30, 1775. .Tune 12, mn.

1804. 1804.

,fan. 21, 1836.

April 3, 1851.

March 17, 1858.

,Tune ll, 185fl. Dee. 13, 1860. ,Tan. 7, 1861. Jan. 24, 1867.

,July 17, 1867.

April 17, 1Si7.

l\iay 14, 1877.

Nov. 23, 1878.

APPENDIX A.

--, 1laughter of Andrew am\ Mary. --, daughter of Andrew and l\Iary. Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth. l\lary, <laughter of Thomas and l~lizabeth. Samuel, son of 'l'homas and Elizabeth.

MAIUtlAGI<:S.

John Roundy, Elizabeth Savory, by Rev. Samuel Cheever.

William Colfree, Mary Severy, by Rev. Samuel Cheever. John Savery, Hannah Groe, by Rev. Samuel Cheever. Hichard Gross, Susanna Severy, by Hev. Edw. Hol-

yoke. ,John r~1lwanls, l\Iary Savory, by Hev. E1lw. UolyokP. Stephen Hilton, Hannah Severy, by Rev. Edw. Holyoke. ,John Savery, Abigail Doti. ,John Severy, Elizabeth Fabius, by Rev. l\lr. Barna1·d. John Weber, Jllary Severy, by Hev. S. Bradstreet. Gregory Savory, Mary Allen, by Rev. l\fr. White, of

Gloucester. William Hines, Sarah Severy, by H.ev. fsaac Story . l\richael Corbett, Hauuah H1,vcry, liy Hcv. I~. lluhhanl. John T. L'rel.Jle, lfannah Severy, by Hev. :::lamuel Dana. Nathaniel Preble, Jr., Elizabeth Severy, by Rev. Sam-

uel Dau:1. Peter Savory, Mary Symonds, by Geo. Pickering 0lark,

Methodist Church. Joseph F. Savory, Hannah Tucker, by Rev. Samuel

D:1na. Benjamin Savory, l\Iargaret Phalen, by E. A. Law-

rence. ,Joseph :::lavory, Sarah A. Bassett, IJy Uev. B. it. Allen. John H. Savory, :Uary W. Tucker, by Rev. B. R. Allen. Benjamin Savory, Mary E. Smith, by Rev. F. Holmes. William Savory, Sarah J. Wanington; * Rev. B. Othe-

rnau. Benjamin 'l'. Savory, Elizabeth II. 'l'ucker, by Rev.

G. W. Patch. William L. Uoumlcy, Mary S. Savory, by Rev J. II.

Williams. Edgnr llI Savory, Aun 111. O'Sullivan, by H.ev. D. S.

Healey. Beujamiu Savory, Sarah E. Harrington, by Rev. John

II. Williams.

* She was of Dlguy, N. s., where she aud her husband lived some years, and then removed 10 California.

Sept. 24, 1807. Feb. 23, 1S08. Oct. 10, 1S28. Sept. 23, 1881. nee. 20, 1833. . July ii, 1s:u. ,Jan. 24, lH,;r;. Feb. 18, 1~87. Jct•h. 2i, 1840 . :March 26, 18-11. Feb. 27, 1841. April 22, 1S48. • Ian. r.,UWi. ,July 25, lS-lG. ,Ian. 2\/, 1S49. ,Jau. :1, 18(;1. Jan. 4, 1869.

~lay 30, 1S71. Feb. 6, 1875. May 16, 1876. l◄'Ph. l<i, 1882.

APPENDIX A,

D~~ATIIS.

(None ret•orded prior to 1800.)

S:irah, daughter of Peter Severy. A son of Clement Severy. A child of Beuj:imin Savory. A chiltl of .John Severy. A child of 0Tol111 Severy, 3 ye:irs of age. In Sa!Pm, Rarah le. Rcvcry, :tge 14 y<>ars . Chiltl of .lohn Hcvery, l y<~ar 2 mont.hs. nenjamin S,wery, :l5 year~ 3 months. . Joseph Severy, 7:1 years :J months. ,John Severy. Son of ,John Seve1·y, 1 ye:tr G months. Hebecca, daughter of Rcbiicca Severy, 8 years. Bc1\j:u11i11, ~011 of Peter :iml l\l:try Severy, 4c years . Chiltl of Petet· :ind l\fary Severy. Sarah Severy, 80 years 11 mouths. Mary Savory, 50 years 1 111011th 28 days.

227

Mary E., wife of Bel\jamin S:ivory, 33 years 2 months 22 days.

Sarah (Bussell) Savory, widow, 80 yeai·s 7 months. ,TosephSavury, il years 3 months 1 day. Mary n. (White) Savory, 70 yenrs 7 months 28 days. ,IOAt'ph Savory (hor11 in Spain), 82 years.

The following is from the records of the Protestant Episco­pal Church of Marblehead :

Nov. 16, 1729.

Sept. 12, 1731. St•pt. rn, 11:11. Sept. 2, 1733.

Oct. 7, 1753. Oct. 13, 1756. Nov. 5, 1758.

June 26, 1768. Aug. 26, 1770.

Oct. 27, 1782.

BAI'TISMS,

Philip, William, Thomas, sons of Samuel and Mary Severey.

Elizah<>th, of Samuel Severey. l\Iiclw.ul, of -- Sevcrny. Mary D., of Samuel and Mary Severey. All of above by Rev. George Pigot. Sarah, of Thomas and Samh Severy. Tl10maR, o.f Thomas and Sarah Severy. Sarnh, of Thomas and Sarah Severy. Above hy Rev. Peter Bowers. l\l:iry, of Peter and Mary Sevory. Sarnh Elizabeth, of Peter and Mary Seavery. Above by Rev. ,T. W. Weeks, probably. Child, of Peter and Mary Severy. Uy Rev. l\Ir. Fisher.

228

,Jan. 21, 1728. Feb. 8, 1767.

Feb. 15, 17G7. Dec. 4, 1768.

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MARRIAGES,

Samuel Severy and Mary Andrews, by J:ev. (Jeo. Pigot. Elizabeth Seavery aud Johu Caswell, by Rev. ,T. '\Y.

Weeks. Peter Sea very arnl l\fa1-y Tucker, by Rev. ,T. W. Weeks. Sarah Sevei·y aud John Ilermou, by Hev. J. W. Weeks.

BUJUALS.

Sept. 9, 1732. Thomas Severy, by Rev. Geo. Pigot.

The town records of Gloucester contain the following: Gregory Savery, of Marblehead, and Mary Allen, married Oct. 6, li25.

Their children: Mary, born Aug. 11, 1726; Phmbe, born l\Iay 17, 1729; Martha, born June 8, 1731; Peter, bom March 7, 1734; Daniel, b. Sept. 3, 1742.

Peter Savery and Ann Glover, married June 2, 1755. Peter Savery, of Boston, and l\Iiss llfary Worley, married Nov. 27, 1806.

On the town records of Allllovcr is the following: June 4, 1750. Mary, daughter of William and Lytlia Savory. Feh. 10, 17H0. ,Tt,1111y, tlnught:ur ol' Willl:t111 and Lytliu Savory. Cms111· Freeman and Jenuy ::favory, of Andover, married ,fune 12, 1782.

On the town records of Oxford, Mass., I find the following of the family of William Severy, evidently 0ne of the numer­ous descendants of Joseph, of Sutton, whom I have been un­able to trace :

Freeman Severy, sou of William aud Ruth, was horu Nov. 25, 1827. Adeline Severy, daughtei· of William aml Huth, born March 17, 1829. Willard Willis, sou of William awl Ruth, born Jau. 2, 1833.

From Joseph Severy, of Sutton, is also descended LUTHER SEVERY, a prominent citizen of Kansas, residing at Emporia ; but I di1l not succeed in getting the i11formation to euahle me to trace his lineag·e, and include him in the ge11ealogy.

APPENDIX B.

THOMAS SAVERY. -HIS FIRE ·ENGINE.

FROM THE "LIVES OF IlOL'l'ON AND WATT." BY SAMUEL

Sl'\IILES, AUTHOR OF "8ELF-IIELP," "INDUSTRIAL

BIOGRAPHY,'' ETC., REPUBLISHED IN THIS

VOLUalE BY SPECIAL PER.MISSION OF TIIF, AlTTHOR.

Tm" itttcmpti, hit,ltcrto nuule to invent a working steam engine had not been attended with much success. The most that could be said of them was, that, by demonstrating the impmcticable, they were gradually leading other experimenters in the <lirection of the practicable. Although the progress seemed but slow, the amount of net result was by no means incomiderable. Men were becoming better acquainted with the elastic force of steam. The vacuum produced by its con­densation in a closed vessel, and the consequent atmospheric pressure, had been illustrated by repeated exP.eriments; and many separate and minor inventions, which afterwards proved of great value, had been made, such as the four-way cock, the sitfety valve, allll the piston moving in a <'ylinder. The prin­ciple of a trne steam engine had not only been demonstrated, but most of the separate parts of such an engine had been con­trived by various inventors. It seemed as if all that was now wanting ~vas a genius of more than ordinary power to combine them in a complete and effective whole.

To Thomas S:wery is usually accorded the merit of having constructed the first actual working steam engine. Little is known of his early history; and various surmises have been

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formed as to his origin and calling. Some writers have described him as the captain of a tin mine; others as a naval captain; while a third says he was an inunigrant Frenchman.* vVe are, however, enabled to state, from infornu1,tion commnni­cated by his descewfants, that he was the scion of a well-known Devonshire family. John Savery, of Halberton, or Harberton, afterwards of Gr(lat Totness, was a gentleman of considerable property in the reign of Henry VIII. In the sixteenth cen­tury the Saverys became connected hy marriage with the Servingtons of Tavistock, another ol<l county family, 011e of whom served as sheriff in the reign of Edward III. In 1588, Christopher Savery, the head of the family, resided in Totness Castle, of which he was the owner; and for a period of nearly forty years the town was represented in Parliament by members of the Savery family. Sir Charles t served as sheriff of Devon in 1619. Though the Saverys took the side of Parliament in resisting the despotic power assumed by Charles I., tliey never­theless held a moderate course, for we find Col. Siwery, in 1643, attaching his name to the famons "round robin," pre­sented to Parliament. Richard Savery, the youngest son of the colonel, was father of Thomas Savery, the inventor of the "tire engine." Other members of the Savery fomil_y, besides Thomas, were distinguished for their prosecution of physical science. Thus we fill(l from the famil_y MSS., Sel'vington Siwer_y cor­responding with Dr. Jurin, secretary to the Royal Soeiety, respecting an improvement which he hail ma<le in the lmrome­ter, and communicating the rnsnlt:,; of some nin,gnetic experi­ments of a novel kind, which' he had recently performed.:j:

* Ilurn':t '4 History or ~\)reign .Protestant H.cfug-ee8." t No doubt this is a mistake for" Christoµher." He was an active Parliamentarian,

and it was his sou and heir Christopher who was a colonel ln the Parliumeut,u·y Army, as authentic pe<llgrees in my hands, through the courtesy of the present heatl of the family, John 'l'homus Savery, Esq., of Ivybri<lge, l\Io,thury, De\'on, show. - A. W. 8.

tln a letter datetl Shilet.on, Aug.9,1727,he writes: "'l'he lute 1'Ir. 'l'homas Sa,~e1y, inventor of the engines for rowing anll ruii::ing wuter lJy tire, was, I l.,elieve, well knuwn to several of the Royal Society, pcrhap•to the president; hut, us I am a perfect stranger, do acqu11l11t you that hl• fathe1· was youngest I.Jrothct· to my gran,lfather. Tho late Ser­vington Savery, l\L D., Qf Marlborough, was one uf my family, viz., a brother of my deceased father."

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Thomas Savery was born at Shilston, near Modbury, in Devon, about the year 1650. Nothing is known of his early life beyond that he was educated to the profession of a military engineer, and in course of time duly reached the rank of Trench-master. The corps of engineers was not, however, regarded as an essential part of the military force until the year 17 87, when the officers ranked with those of the Royal Artil­lery. The pnrsuit of his profession, as well as his natural dis­position, led Savery to the study of mechanics, and he became well accomplished in the physical knowledge of his time. He occupiell much of his spare time in mechanical experiments and in projecting and executing contrivances of various sorts. One of his e:trl_y works was a clock, still preserved in the family,* which until lately kept very good time; and when last repaired by a watchmaker of Modbnry was pronounced to be a piece of very good work, of a peculiar construction, dis­playing much ingenuity.

Another of Savery's early contrivances was a machine for polishing plate glass, for which he obtained a patent. He was occupie<l about the same time with an iqvention for rowing ships in calms by the mechanical apparatus subsequently de­scribed in his treatise entitled "Navigation Improved." He there relates how it troubled his thoughts and racked his brains to fill(l out this invention, which he accomplished after many experiments conducted "with great charge." He nat­urally set much value on the product of so much study and labor: an<l lie· was pmportionately vexed on Hn<ling that others reganled it with indifference. He professetl to have had "promises of a great reward from the court if the thing would answer the end for which he proposed it" ; but instead of a reward, Savery received only contumely and scorn. He attrib­uted his want of success to the ill-humor of the then surveyor of the navy, who reported against his engine, because, said he,

• It I~ now In the possession of Capt. Lowe, of the 'fwent.y .sixth Regiment, whose gr:ind-aunt wn~ a Miss S,wery, of Shilston.

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"it's the nature of some men to decry all inventions that are not the product of their own brains." He only asked for a fair trial of his paddle-boat, believing in its efficiency and utility ; declaring that it was not his "fondness for his own bratt that made him think so," but the favorable opinions of several very judicious persons in town, that encouraged him to urge his invention for public adoption. .

The invention in question consisted of a boat mounted with two paddle-wheels, one on each side, worked by a capstan placed in the centre of the vessel. Savery says he was led to make the invention through the difficulty which had been experienced in getting ships in motion so as to place them alongside of the enemy in sea-fights, especially during calm weather. He thought that if our fighting ships could be made to move independent of the will(ls, we sho11l1l· therel,y pos;,es;, an advantage of essential consequence to the public service. "The gentlemm1," ;,aid he, "tlmt were on the Brest expedition with my Lord Caermarthen, must know how useful this engine would have been; for had they had them there on board each ship, they might have moved themselves where they had pleased." He also urged the usefulness of the eng_ine for packet-boats, bomb-vessels, and sloops, and especially for use in sea-fights, in bringing off disabled ships. vVhen he had com­pleted his invention, he took steps to bring it under the notice Mr. Secretary Trenchard. The plan was shown to the king, who thought highly of it, and referred Savery to the Admiralty. When he went there he was told that he should have gone to the Navy Board. At the Navy Board he was told that certain objections to the adoption of his scheme had alrea,dy been sent to the Admiralty.

Savery, having ascertained that the surveyor was himself the author of the objections, proceeded to discuss the matter with him. But the surveyor was not a man to be argued out of his views by an inventor; and he shut up Savery with the remark, "What have interloping people, that ha,ve no concern with us,

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to do to pretend to contrive or invent things for us?" Savery was highly indignant at the official snub, and published the conversation in his treatise. "Though one has found out," said he, "an improvement as great to shipping as turning to windward or the Compass, unless you can sit round the Green Table in crutched Friars, your invention is damned, of court.e" ; and the testy inventor concluded: ." All I have now to add is, that whoever is angry with the Truth for appearing in mean language may as well be angry with an honest man for his plain habit; for, indeed, it is as common for Lyes and Nonsense to be disguised by a jingle of words as for a Blockhead to be hid by abundance of Peruke.""'

Notwithstanding his rebuff by the na,7 surveyor, Savery proceeded to fit up a small yacht with his engine, and tried an experiment with it on the Thames, in sight of many thousands of spectators. The experiment was, in his opinion, entirely successful. "All people," said Savery, "seemed to like the demonstration of the use of my engine, the public newspapers speaking very largely of it,, yet all to no pmpose." Savery had :tlre:uly cxpc11ilc1l £200 in his cxpcrimc11t..,; 011 the p:tlhllc boat, and was not disposed to go any further, now that government had decided not to take up the invention. Indeed, its practical utility was doubtful. The power of the wind was, after all,

. better than hand labor for working large ships ; and it con­tinued to maintain its superiority until the steam engine was brought to perfection.

It is cnrious that it shoultl not have occnrre<l to Savery, who invented both a paddle-wheel boat and a steam engine, to com­bine the two in one machine; but he was probably sick of the former invention which had given him so much vexation and annoyance, and gave it up in disgust, leaving it to Papin, who saw both his inventions at work, to hit upon the grand idea of

*" Nnvlgntlon Improved; or the nrt of rowing ships of nil mt.es In ,•alms, with II more easy, swift nn<I steady motion thnn onrs can. Also a description of the engine that per­forms it, nod the author's answer to all Jllr. Drummer's objections that have been made. agnlnst It. Ily Thomas Savory, Gent." London, 1698.

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combining the two in a steam vessel, - the only machine capable of effectually and satisfactorily rowing ships in a calm, or against win<l and tide.

It is probable that Savery was led to enter upon his next and most important invention by the circumstance of his having been brought up in the neighborhood of the mining districts, and being well aware of the great difficulty experienced by the miners in keeping their pits clear of water, to enable them to proceed with their underground operations. The early tin min­ing of Cornwall was for the most part what was called "stream work," being confined mainly to washing and collecting the diluvial deposits of the ore. Mines usually grew out of these stream works ; the ground was laid open at the back of the lodes, and the ore was dug out as from a quarry. Some of these ol<l openings, calle<l " cotnns," are still to be met with in different parts of Cornwall. The miners clicl not venture much helow the surface, for ·fear of the waler, liy whid1 they were constantly liable to be drowned out. But as the upper strata became exhausted, they were tempted to go deeper in search of the richer ores. Shafts were sunk to the lodes, and they were followed underground. Then it was that the di!Hculty of water had to he enconntered and overcome; for nnlesH it could be got rid of, the deeper ores of Corn wall were as ;;o m nch buried treasure. \Vhen the mines were of no great depth it WlLS pos­sible to bale out the water by hand buckets; hut this expedient was soon exhausted, and the power of horses was then em­ployed to draw the buckets. ·where the lodes ran along a hillside, it was possible, by driving an aclit from a lower point, to let off the water by natural drainage. But this was not often found practicable, and in most cases it had to he raisell directly from the shafts by artificial 1nethods. As the quantity in­creased, a whim or gin moving on a perpendicular axis was employed to draw the water. An improvement on this was the rack and chain pump, consisting of m1 endless iron chain mounted with knobs of cloth, stiffened with lea,ther, inclosed in

SAVlmY's STEAM ENGINE. 235

a wooden pump of from six to eight inches bore, the lower part of which rested in the well of the mine. The chain was turned round by a wheel two or three feet in diameter, usually worked by men, and the knohs with which it was mounted brought up a stream of water according to the dimensions of the pump. Another method, considered the most effectual of all, was known as "the water wheel and bobs," consisting of a powerful pump, or series of pumps, worked by a water wheel. But al­though there is no want of water underground in Cornwall, and no want of rain above. ground, there are few or no great water-courses capable of driving machinery; besides, as the mines are for the most part 8ituate<l on high gronnd, it will he obvious that water power was available to 011ly a very limited extent for this pmpose.

1 t is also worthy of notice that the early mining of Com wall was carried on hy men of snmll capital, principally by working­men, who were nnable to expend any large amount of money in forming artificial reservoirs, or in erecting the powerful pumping machinery necessary for keeping the deeper mines

clear of water. The Comish miners, like the Whiisbtble oyster dredgers, worked upon the principle of co-operation. This doc­trine, now taught as a modern one, was practised by them almost time out of mind. The owner of the land gave the use of his land, the adventurers gave their money, and the miners their labor; all sharing in the proceeds according to ancient custom. For the use of his land, and for the ore taken from the 111i11e, the lonl usnally took a sixth part; but in considera­tion of draining the mine, and in order to encourage the adven­tnre he was often content with ttn eighth, or it might he only a tenth part of the produce. The miners, on their part, agreed to divide in the proportions in which they took part in the work. Their slmres of the om mi8e1l were mcasnred h_y b:trrowR, a11<l

pareelhid into l1eaps; "n,11<1 it iR surprising," says Borlase, "to see how rea1ly and exact the reckoners are in dividing, though oftentimes they can neither write nor read. The parcels being

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laid forth, lots are cast, and then everi parcel has a distinct mark laid on it with one, two, or three stones, and sometimes a bit of stick or turf stuck up in the middle or side of the pile ; and when these marks are laid on, the parcels may continue there half a year or more unmolested."*

These were, however, the early and primitive clays of mining, when the operations were carried on comparatively near the surface, and the capital invested in pumping machinery was comparatively small in amount. As the miners wcut <leeper and deeper into the ground, and the richer lo<les were stniek and followed,· the character of mining became considerably changed. Larger capitals were required to sink the shnJts and keep them clear of water until the ore was reached; and ,t new class of men, outside the mining districts, was induced to ven­ture their money in the mines ,ts a speculation. Yet the sys­tem above described, though greatly modified hy altered cir­cumstances, continues to this day; nrnl the miniug of Cornwall continues to be carried on mainly upon the co-operative or joint­stock system.

When the surface lodes became exhausted, the necessity of employing some more efficient method of pumping the water became more ancl more urgent. In one pit after another the miners were being clrowne<l out, and the operations of an impor­tant branch of national industry were in danger of lieiug brought to a complete standstill. It was under these circum­stances that Capt. Savery tumerl his attention to the contriv­ance of a more powerful engine for the raising of water; au<l after various experiments, he became persuaded that the most effective agency fo1· the purpose was the power of t:i!.eam. It is very probn,ble that he was aware of the attempts that had been previously made in the same direction, and he may have gathered many useful and suggestive hints from the l\farquis of Worcester's "Century"; but as that hook contained no plans ~r precise definitions of the methods by which the Marqnis had

• Borlase's "Natural History or Cornwall.''

SAVImY's STrnAM ENOlNI~. 237

accomplished his objects, it could have helped him but little towards the contrivance of a practicable working engine.*

How Savery was led to the study of the power of steam has been differently stated. Desaguliers says his own account was this: that having drunk a flask of Florence at a tavern, and thrown the empty flask on the fire, he called for a basin of water to wash his hands, and perceiving that the little wine le[t i11 the Jlmik luul ehanged to steam, lie took the veHRel hy the ueck and plnngetl its mouth into the water in the basin, when, the steam being eondensed, the water was immediately

. driven up into the flask by the pressure of the atmosphere. Dmm.guliers clishelieved this account, but admits that Savery 11m1le 11m11y experiments upon tl1e powers of steam, and event­ually succeeded in making several engines "which raised water very well." Switzer, who was on intimate terms with Savery,

. gives another account. He says the first hint from which he took the engine was from a tobacco pipe, which he immersed in water to wash or cool it, when he discovered by the rarefaction

. of the air in the tube, by the heat or steam, and the gravitation or press11re of the exterior itir on th_e eondensation of the latter, that the water was made to spring through the tube of the pipe in a most surprising manner; t and that this phenomenon in­duced him to search for the rationale, and to prosecute a series

. of experiments which issued in the invention of his fire engine. However Savery may have obtained his first ideit of the

. expansion and condensation of steam, and of atmospheric pres­

. sure, it is certain that the subject occupied his attention for many years. He had the usual difficulties to encounter in

. dealing with a wholly new and untried power, in contriving the

• The absur,l story Is told by Dr. Desagullers (" Experimental Phllosophv," II., 4H5) , that Savery, hnvlng read the Marquis's book," was the lltst to put In practice the rnlslng of water by fire, which he proposed for the drnlnlng of mines"; nnd having copied the Marquis's enp;lne, "the better to concenl the matter, bought up all the JllarfJuls of Worces. ter's books that he could purchase in Pater Noster Row and elsewhere and burned 'em In the presence of the gentleman, his friend, who told me this." It need scarcely he said

. that it wna very unlikely thnt Savery should have attempted thus to conceul an Invention recorde,I in u printed book, which had been in circulation for more than forty years.

t Switzer, "System of Hy,lrostntlcks and Hydruullcks," London, 17t9.

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novel mechanism through which it was to work, an"d of getting his contrivances executed by the hands of mechanics necessarily unaccustomed to such kind of work. "Though I was oblige!l," he says, " to encounter the oddest and almost insuperable diffi­culties, I spttred neither time, pains, nor money till .I had abso­lutely conquered them."

Having sufficiently matured his design, he had a model of his new "fire engine," as he_ termed it, made for exhibition before the king at Hampton Comtin 1698. William III., who wrn; himself of tL rnedmnieal t11r11, was higl1ly ple.18C1l with the ingenuity displayed in Savery's engine, as wen as with its efficient action, and he permitted the inventor to dedicate to him "The Miner's Friend," containing the first ·published description of his invention. The king also promoted Savery's application for a patent, which was seemed in Jnly, 1698,* ,tll(l an Act confirming it was passed in the following year.

Savery's next step was to bring hi:,; i11 ve11tion uwlc1· the notfoe of the Royal Society, whose opinion on all matter:,; of scie11ce was listened to with profound respect. He accordingly ex­hibited his model at a meeting held on the Hth of June, 1699, and it is recorded in the minutes of that date that "nfr. Savery entertained the Society with showing his engine to raise water by the force of fire. He was thanked for :,;howing the experi­ment, which succeeded according to expectation, and wa:,; approved of." The inventor presented the Society with a draw­ing of his engine, accompanied by a description which was printed in the "Transactions." t

Savery next endeavored to bring his invention into practical m;e, hnt this was a matter of nnwh grnatc1· !litlieulty. So many schemes with a like object had been brought out and •failed,

• The patent is <luted ~5Lh of July, l!iOS, und is entitled "A grant to Thomas Su very, Gen ti., of the sole exercise of a new invencion for 1•aising of water and occasioning mocion to all sort of mill works, by the impellant force of fire, which will be of great use for draining mines, serving towns with water, aud for tile working of uli sorts of mills, when they have not the benetlt of water nor coustaut winds; to holu for H year•; with usual clauses."

t" Pl1llosophlcal Transactions," No. 2,~2. Welu's Royal Society, I., 3.'i7.

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that the mining interest came to regard new projects with increasing snsp1c10n. To persuade them that he was no mere projector, but the inventor of a practicable working engine, Savery wrote and published his "Miner's Friend." "I am not very fond," he there said, "of lying under the scandal of a bare projector, and therefore present you here with a draught of my machine, and lay before you the uses of it, and leave it to your co11Hillerntio11 wheLlier iL lm worLh your while to make use of it or no."

Inventors before Savery's time were wont to make a great mystery of their inventions; but he proclaimed that there was no mystery whatever about his machine, and he believe<l that the more clearly it was nnderstoo<l, the better it would be appreciated. He acknowledged that there had been many pre­tendel'S to new inventions of the same sort, who had excited hopes which had never been fulfilled; but this invention which he had made was a thing the uses of which were capable of actual demonstration. He urged that the old methods of rais­ing water could not be carried further; and that an entirely new power was needed to enable the miner to prosecute his underground labors. "I fear," said he, "that whoevei· by the old causes of motion pretends to improvemen,ts within the la,;t century does betray his knowledge ~nd judgment. For more than a hundred years since, men and horses would raise by engines then made as much water as they have ever done since, or I believe ever will, or, according to the law of nature, ever can do; and, though m,r thong hts have heen lo11g 9 employed about water works, I should never have pretended to any in­vention of that kind, had I not happily found out this new, but yet a much stronger and cheaper force or cause of motion than any before made use of." He proceeded to show how easy it was to work his engine, boys of thirteen or fourteen years being able to attend and work it to perfection_ after a few days' teaching, and how he had at length, after great difficulty, instructed handicraft artificers to construct the engine according

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to his design, so that after much experience, :mid he, "they are become such masters of the thing that they oblige themselves to deliver what engines they make ex,ictly tight and fit for ser­vice, and as such I dare warrant them to anybody that has occa­sion for them."* Savery's eugine, as described by himself, cori­sisted of a series of boilers, condensing vessels, and tubes. Its principal features were two large cylindrical vess~ls, which were alternately filled with steam from an adjoining boiler, and with cold water from the well or mine out of which the water had to be rni:sed. \Vhen either of tl1c hollow ve:s,wls was filled with steam, and then suddenly cooled by a dash of cold water, a vacuum was thereby created, and, the vessel being clo:sed at the top and open at the bottom, the water was at once forced up into it from the well by the pressure of the atmosphere. The steam being then let into the vessel from the top, pre:ssed upon the surface of the water, and forced it out at the bottom by another pipe (its rntum into the well being prnvenl.e<l hy a clack), and so up the perpendicular pipe which opened into the outer air. The second vessel being treated in the same manner, the same result followed; and· thus, by altemate filling and forcing, a continuous stream of water was poured out from the upper opening. The whole of the labor required to work the engine was capable of b~ing performed by a single man, or even by a boy, after very little teaching.

Although Savery's plans and description of the arrangement and working of his engines are clear and explicit, he does not give any information as to their proportions, beyond stating that an engine employed in raising a column of water three and a half inches in diameter, :sixty feet high, require:,; a Ji.repl:u:e twenty inches deep. Speakiug of their performances he says: "I have known in Cornwall a work with three lifts of about eighteen feet each, lift and carry a 3½-inch bore, that cost 42s.

*" The Miner's Friend, or an engine to raise Water by ];'Ire, described, and of the manner of Uxlng It In Mines, with an account of the several uses It is applicable unto; andun answer to tht1 several olljectlons made against It. By Tho. Savery, t.eut." Lon­don, 1702.

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a (fay (reckoning 24 a (fay) for labor, besides the wear and tear of engines, each pnmp having fonr men working eight hours at 11d. a 11i:in, and l.lic men ol>liwi<l lo rest :Lt least a third part of that, time." He pointed ont that at least one-third part of the then cost of raising water might be saved by the adoption of his invention, which on many mines would amount to "a brave estate" in the conrse of a year. In estimating the power of his engine, Savery was accm,tome~l to compare it with the qnantity of work that horses could perform, and hence he introduced the term "horse-power," which is still in use.

Although, in the treatise refene<l to, Savery describes an engine with two, furnace,;, the (hawing which he presented to the Hoyal Society sliownd only one; and it appears that in m10ther of his <le,;ig11R he showe(l only one cylindrical vessel instead of two. In onler to exhibit the working of his engine on it larger smile tlmn in the model, he proceeded to erect one in a potter's house at Lambeth, where, Switzer says, though it was a ::mmll engine, the water struck up the tiles and forced its way t.hrongh the roof in a ma1111er that rmrprised all the specta­t.ors. Swit.;w1· 111(•nl-io11s ot.lu•1· cngi11es u1·pe[.e1l aft,ue Savery's dcsigm, for the miHi11g of water at Cmrnlen House and Sion I low;e, wlii(~lt proved cttiite :,;11ccessful. The former, he says, was the plainest and best proportioned engine he had seen ; it had only a single condensing vessel; and "though but a small one in comparison with many others of the kind that are made for coal works, it is sufficient for any reasonable family, and ot.hcr uses req 11ircd for it in watering mithlli11g gardens."* Four receivers full of water, or equal to fifty-two gallons, were raised every minute, or 3,110 gallons in the hour; whilst, in the case of the htrger engines with double receivers, 6,240 gal­lons an hour might easily be mi:,;ecl. The cost of the smaller engine was about fifty ponncls, and the consumption of coal about a bushel in the twenty-four hours, supposing it was kept constantly at work during that time.

*Switzer," lntro,luctlon to a Uencrnl Sptem of llyllrostnticks nnd Hydraullcks," 237.

242 APPENDIX ll.

·The uses to which Save1-y propose<l to n.pply his engine were various. One was to pump water into a reservoir, from which, by falling on a water wheel, it might produce ,t eontinnous rotary motion ; another was to raise water in to cisterns for the supply of gentlemen's houses, all(l for nse in fountains, and as an extinguisher in case of fire ; ,t thil'd was to raise water for the supply of towns; and a fomth to drain fern; and marsh lan<ls. But the most impo,tant, in the inventor':-; estimation, was its employment in clearing drowned mi11es and coal-pits of water. Ile showed how watc1· mig11t he raisc<1 from deep mines hy using several engines, placed at different depths, one over the other. Thus by three lifts, each of 80 feet, water might be raised from a mine about 240 foet, then consi<lered a very great depth. From Savery's own aceonnts, it is evident that several of his engines were erectecl in Cornwn.11; ,mrl it is sai,1 that the first was tried ,tt Hnel Vor, or "The Gren.t \Vork in nreago," lt few milrn; f rn1u I IPb!.otHl, Llw11 1:011si,l,:n\<l j,\i(' rid1ps(, tin mine in the county. The e11gine was found to be ,m im­provement on the methods formerly employed for llraining the mine, and sent the miners to considerably greater depths. But the great pressnre of steam required to foree up a high colunrn of water was such as to :;train to the ntmo:;t the imperfect boil­ers and receiver:; of those early days; nrnl the frequent explosions which attended its nse eventua.lly lcrl to its rliscou­tinuance in favor of the superior engine of Newcomen, which was shortly after invented.

Savery also endeavored to introclnee hi:; engine in the coal­mining di:;tricts, but without :mccess, and for the same reason. The demand for coal iu connection with the iron nmnnfactnre having greatly increased in the connty of Stafford, and the coal which lay nearest the surface having been for the most part "won," the mining ,interest became very desirous of obtaining some more efficient means of clearing the pits of water, in order to send the miner:; deeper into the grournl. vVindlass and buckets, wind-mill:;, horse-gins, rack-anrl-elmin pnmps, adits,

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and all sorts of contrivances had been - tried, and the limit of their powers had been reached. The pits were fast becoming drowned out, and the iron uui:,;ters began to fear lest their manu­facture should become lost through want of fuel. Under these circumstances they were ready to hail the. invention of Capt. Savery, which promised to relieve them of their difficulty. He was accorclingly invited to erect one of hi:,; engines over a coal mine at the Broad waters, near "\-V mlnesbury. The influx of water, however, proved too much for the engine; the springs were so many and so strong, lhat all the means which Savery could employ failed to clear the mine of water. To increase the forcing power he increased the presRmc of steam; but neither boiler nor receiver coultl emltrrc it, an<l Lite i:;team "tore the engine to piouc:,,; so that,, after urneh time, labor, and ex­pense, Mr. Savery gave up the undertaking, and the engine was laid aside as useless." *

He was no more successful with the engine which he erected at York buildings to pump water from the Thames for the supply nf the westem parts of London. Bradley says that to increase its power he tloubled every part, but "it was liable to so many dis­orders, if a single mistake happened in the working of it, that at length it was looke<l upon as a useless piece of work, and re­jected."t Saver.r's later engines thus lost him much of the credit which he had gained b,r those of an earlier and simpler construction. It became clear that their application was very limited. They involve1l mnch waste of foel, through the condensation of the ho[; Hk:mt [ll'l1HHing upon 1.lic H11rfa1~e o( the col<l wat.er, prcvions to the expulsion of the latter from the vessel; and eventually their use ,vas confined to the pnmping of water for fountains and the supply of gentlemen'B houses, and in some cases to the raising of water for the purpose of working an overshot water wheel. Various attempts were made to improve the engine by Bradley, hr Papin, hy Desagnliern, and others; bnt no great

•Dr.Wilkes lu Shaw's "!History of Stalfonlshire." t Bradley," Dtsconrse~ on ~~arth antl \Vater, etc.," "rcstmln~ter, 1727.

244: APPE-:SIHX Tl.

advance was made in its constmction and method of working until it was taken in hand' by Newcomeu and Calley, whose conjoint invention marks an important epoch in the history of the steam engine.

Not much is known of the bter years of Savery's life. \Ve find him a captain of military engineers in 1702 ;* and in 1705, with the view of advaneing knowledge in his special branch of military science, he ga,ve to the world a translation, in folio, of Cohorn's celehrate<l work on fortific::ition. Tl1e book was 1lc1licttte<l to Priuce Geol'ge, o[ De11m,u·k, lo who111 he was indebted, in the same year, for his a.ppointment to the office of treasurer of the Hm;pital for Sick and ,Vouncled Seamen. Various letters and documents are still to be found in the Transport Office, Somerset House, addressed to him in that capacity.t In 1714 he was fmther irnleht-ed to Prince GeOl'ge for the appointment of snrveyor to the water works at Hampton Oonrt; l>11t lw di<l 1wt live to 011,ioy it, as liu <lie<l in t.lw com:-;e of the following year. He is said to have accumulated consid­erable property, which he bequeathed to his wife, together with all interest in his inventions. His will was executed on the day of his death, the 15th of :May, 1715, and was proved four days after in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. He there described himself as" of the pnrish of Sa,int Mm·garet, at \Vest­minster, Esquire." His widow her::;elf died befol'e all his effects were administered. There was a considerable amount of un­claimed stock which the Savery family were prevented from claiming, as it had passed to the widow ; and it has since been transferred to the credit of the national debt.

*Wo nro informctl hy QuartcrumHtcr Conolly, It. I~., who luu~ given mueh aLtcutiou to the early history of the Royal Engineers, that the book of Warrants and Appointments anno 1712, No. 172½ in the Towm· Uccord-room 1 contains the following rncmoranc.hnn iu pencil on the insicle cover: [Thomas] 't Savery, eugincer, omcer, 1702-14.11

t A pamphlet published in 1712, entitled "An Impartial Enquiry into the Management of the War in S1,uin," contains the following reference to Su very: "Sums allowed by Parliament for carrying on the wa1· in Spain . , . for the year 1710. To Thomas Savery, Esq.: for Thomas Cale, surgeon, for care of d,sahlecl soldiers, £306. 6. 4,"

APPENDIX C.

EXTHACTS FHOM RECORDS RELATING TO THE FAMILY OF SAVEHY OF J>EVONRTHJm.

(Original Spelllng Preserve,!.)

FROM Ps\RISII REGlSTEHS OF DF,VONSJIIRE.

Fno~r Totnes Parish Hcgister:

BAl'TIS~IS.

1565. April 8. Allyn, son of St.even Savery. 1566. Nov. 22. Christopher, son of Mr. Christopher Savery. 1567. April 10. Elizabeth, daughter of Steven Savery. 1568. Dec. 18. Parthesia., ,lnnght.er of Christopher Savery. 1568-!}. ,Ja.n. 28. lnysnk<', Ron of StPphcn Savery. 15i0. April 15. StcvPn, son of Steven Savery. Hi7l. Sq1t. 11. Sn.rn1wl, son of Crystov,•r Savery. l!i7:!. ,July 2:;. lUch:ml, sou of Stcvcn Savery. 1572-3. • Tan. 11. nfargrPtt, ,laughter of ll[r. Chrystover Savery . l:i'i4. I )PC, rn. f'hr.vst.ovcr, ROH o[ i\fr. Chrystov<)r Savery, nlayor. ]!i75. Oct:. 2-!. Marg:m:t,, daughl,:r ol' St.cvPn Savery. 1577. • \pril 4. Y\relthyn, tlanghtcr of Steven Savery . lii77. . Tnnc 6. Frydswide, daughter of Chryst.over Savery . 1578-!). Fch. 3. Chrystovcr :uul Tymol:he, sons of Mr. Christ.over

SavPry. lii'i!l-80. Feh. 1~. Gyll,:s, son of ,Tohn Sn.very. 1581. M:1,v ,I. .Johnn, d:u1ght.P.r of ,John S:tv<'r.v. 1ii81. Sept.. l:!. Urysscll, ,laughter o[ i\lr. Steven Savery. 1585. A.ug·. 26. nfary, daughtPr of Richard Savery. 1585. ,Tune 20. i\[argaret, ,laughter of Christover Sa.very. lfi88. Oct. 2. .rone, rlaughter of Christover Savery, ,Junior. 15!):!. Feb. 16. Christ.over, sou of Christovcr Savery, Junior, theu

i\Caior. 1504-5. Jan. 6. Leouarcl and i\[ary, son and daughter of Mr. Chris

Savery. Ui!Jii. nrnr 23. Elizahcth, daughter of Mr. Chris Savery. ]6!)(j, July 17. l'es.v ( ?), tl:rnghtcr of i\fr. Chris Savery. 1506. Nov. 2:J. Xtoplwr, sou of Samuel Savery.

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1508. May 21. ---, sou of Xtoplwr Savery. 1600. Nov. 4. Samuel, son of Xtopher Savery. 1605-G. Jan. 0. Margaret, llaughter of ,folm Savery. 1000-7. . Jau. a . Xtopheri' sou of ,Joh11 Savery.

Il!JHIALS. 1508. ,June 2. Christopher, son of Chri;;tophcr Savery. 1571-2. I!'eb. 7. Ml'. Hieluml Savery. 1578. July 20. l\lr. Allyu Savery. 1584. April (i. Mystress Ione Savery. 1584. ,June rn. foue, daughter of ,John Savery. 1586. .\.pril 1. Richard Save1·y. 1585. July 0. "i\largarct, llanghter of C'ristover Savery. 1589-90. Feb. 27. Mr. Nydwlas Savery. 1590. Nov. 20. Elizebeth, daughter o.l' .John Savery. 1592-3. Feb. 20. Mr. Christopher Savery. 1594-5. Jan. 8. Lenard an<l Mary, son and danghter of Mr.

Savery. 1600-HiOO. 1\far. 10. Samnd Savery. 1602. ,July a. John, son of 'l'lumias Havc,ry. 1G02. Dec. 21. lilt-. Hicharcl ::-lharryu U Savery). lGOli-7. ,fan. 21>. Xtoplwr, sou ot' ,10l111 Havc,ry. 1007. Nov. 21i. l\lrs. ,Joan Savmy, widow. f607-8. Jan. 4. William Savery. 1613. June 24. "i\Irs. Fridiswide Savery. 1G2-l. Dec. 1. Mrs. Joan Savery, widow. 1632. July 2u. Samuel, son of 1\Ir. Hkharcl Savery. 1634. Dec. 14. Mary, daughter of 1\frs. Grace Saffery. 16Bll. . \.pril 18. Joan, daughter of lilt·. Hieli:inl i:lavery . 1054. "i\Iay 10. Joau, daughter of 1\Ir. Hichanl Savery. 1666. ,June 13. l\Irs. S11sa1111a Savery, widow. 1711. July 31. Sarnh, wife of Mr. ,villiam Savery.

?\fAl:IUA«:E8. 1574-5. .Tau. 23. 'L'homas Every* autl ,Johan Savery. 1576-7. li'e!J. 10. Tryst.ram llfaynanl an<l Aunys Savery. 1581-2. ,Jan. 22. William Duckc aml ,Tohau Savery. 1584. Sept. 7. Hichard Lye arnl Catharen Savery. 159-i. • rune, 28 . Hiclrnrcl Lucey aml Auuys Savery.

From U gborongh Parish Register:

1677. 1679. 1()88-0. 1605.

Oct. :May :\forch • \pril

4. 13.

5 . 8.

BUHIALS. Cathren, daughter of Steven Savery, Esq. Elizabeth, wife of Xtopher Savery, Gent. Scrviugtou Savery, !~sq. Thomas Savery, Ueut.

* Probably A vm·y, also a •·ommon l>evonsbirc nnmc.

Chris

HliH.

1GB3. 168i!-L Hi86. lG!\2.

169:l--4. 1694-5.

l<eh.

A.ug. ,Jan. Oct. April

l~XT!l.ACTS FHOill lmCORDS. 247

~LAHltlA(:ES. -

rn. Walt.er Shntc, ministPr of (Corn wood?), and Eliz­abnth, (laughter of Xtoplrnr Savery, of Shilston in i\Co(llmr.v, rnsq.

28. Carew Savery, Gent, nud .\lice Hfoh. B. Cha' Vincent, Gent,, and Mrs. i\[a.ry Savery. 8. Hich•1 Savery, Gent, and Grace Rirh. ti. Sm·vington SaYcry of Shilston, Esq., and Elimbeth

Hale. 2. l:ich<i Savery, Gent, n111l (N--1 't) Prideaux. 1. i\Ir. Nicholas Croker aml Mrs. Philippa Savery.

From Staverton Pari:;h H.egi:;ter: ;\[A ltltIAGE.

1655.

li5i\. 1777. lii9.

Oct. i\. Richan! Savery, of Owlacomhe, in Jfattery, Gent, anti MrR. Mary Gould, gentlewoman, daughter ol' i\frs. ,Julia. Goul(l, of Staverton, widow.

Dec. BO. May !l. Mar. 10.

BITIUA L~.

Grace Savery. 'l'hom~s Savery. Elizn.lwth Sn.very.

From Ashburton Pari;;h RegiRter:

MA1tlt!AUE,

17:lS. i\lay 28. }Ir. Hichard Savery n.ml Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer.

From lleavitree PariRh Register:

i'lfAHitIAGES.

1658. Nov. 14. Ur .. John Furse and nlrs. Phillip Sn.very. 1664. }fay l!l. William Savarye and Ellinor ARhley.

From ·west Alvington Parish Register:

~[Alll!IA<H;.

164<1-7. Feb. 11. NidiolaR Savery, Gent., mul Susanna Holditch.

BAPTISMS.

1627. ,July H. Snrah, daughter of Xt.opher Savery, Gent. lli29-30. Feh. 21. Thomas, s011 of Xtopher Savery. rn:n. .Ma_v 8. Mary, 11:i.nµ;htPr of Xtopher Sav<,ry, Esq . 1li48. ,\pril 2. ,Toan, <l:wght.c,1· of Nichola8 8avPry, Gent.

l.◄'rnm I pplnprn1 l 'arisli HegiHtry: No cnt.rie~ of Savery.

248 APPENIHX C.

From Ashlmrton Parish Registry: 13Al'TI:,M:,,

1677. nee. 28. ,Johu, sou of William S:Ln•ry, fkut. 1736. Nov. 5. Richard, son of l\lr, Hid1". 1730. April 17. Richard, ROil of Mr. 1:ich•l.

From Marldon Parish Register :

1643-4.

1.643.

BAPTISUS.

l\far. 10. Xtopher, soil of Master Serviugton S:wery.

l\lAHHIAl,E.

April 10. Mr. Servingtou Savery 1m1I Ul's. KathPriuc Lus­eomh.

From Brixhnm Pari:,h Regi:,ter: 13.-\l'Tl~)I.

1605. Sept. 2:l. Steyen, son of _\.\lyn S,wery awl Catlwrinc.

nlAHBIAGE.

1614. Nov. 10. Stephen Bol'radg'I! a1ul Alice S:LVt!ry.

From St. Kmyan:-;, Exeter, Parisl1 Tiegish•r:

1588. 1502. 1597.

1692.

1615-IG.

1620.

Hl22.

1624-5.

1625.

1629.

1665-6.

1668.

B,\l'Tl:rn:;.

Dec. 30. Eliza!Jeth, daug-hter of Giles Savery. Sept. 3. Eleanor, tfaughter of Giles Savery. Aug. 17. Grace, ,laughter of Giles SaYcry.

BIJHIAI..

Oct. rn. ]Hr. Nicholas Sa,·er.1·.

l\LU:HL\.GE LICEXSES _\.'I' EXETETI.

June

Dec.

Feh.

J June

June

Jan.

,July

21. William l\fart iu, ol' 'l'ot111•~, awl I >orot hi" Savery, ol' Cornwoo1I.

7. John Savory, of U:1ttery, Gent, all(l Thomasine Comyn, of Bishop's 'l'eig·ntou.

l!l. Arthur Rupert, Gent, of South Brnut, alHI ,Joan Savery, of llattery.

3. Rich" Savory, of Yealmhrillg'l', anti .Tauc Pol­Jexfon, of the sa11w.

1. G;corge Cat.ling, of Stoke Clirnslantl, allll .\.g-ncs Savory, of Quiltriock, Gent.

2!J. Christopher Irish, of 'l'ot11es, awl :)forgarM, Savory, of the smne.

2fi. Tiiehanl S1n-ery anti Katherine llillcrsdon, of 'l'owey, Cornwall.

27. Nicliolas SanH'Y, of Exctl'r, merchant, awl Dor_ othy \\. olial'Olt.

Circa

Circa

BXTltAUTS FIWM RECOIWS. 249

l\IARHIAGES.

1550. -- Savery, of Totnes, manied Alice, daughter William Anrnlas, an!l widow of Dowse, of Totues. [Harl. MSS. 5185, fo. 22.J

Hi();l. ,Toho Arsccott, of Egg Buckland, married :Marie, daugh­ter of Christopher Savery of Totues. She remarried Anthony nionk, Sept. 13, 1568, at Ashwater. [Harl. MSS. 1162.]

Circa 1660. Arthur AyRhdonl mu! ,Tone, !la11ghter of Serving-ton Savery, were married. Colby's ViRit: Ucvou, UiCIJ; Exeter, 188J.

<.'ire:t 1540.

.ruly 21, 1653.

.1111,v rn, rnmi.

Philippa, daughter oE Philip l>enuis, of P:ulsto"·, mar­ried Ilichanl S:tv!'l'y. She was widow of Fmucis Courtenay, of Penkivell ('Yestcrton, Devon).

William P'lamank, of Boscame, manie1l l\Iary, 11:wghtcr or ( :1t1'iRtoph.-r SavPry, ol' HhilRt.011, at Hhilst.011. !l.PgiRterP,l at Coll. of Anus. [Flamauk pedigree.]

William Haverr awl Bl'iolg(•t, dangl1tcr of ,Joh11 Eliot, or Ht. UenmwR, WPre manie,l at St. Uernmus. [Parish register.]

The following inquisiones post mortem are in the Public Record office:

IM. Savcr,r, D,won 18-20 Efo:t.h. l?,l. San~rr, l)pvon, 20 JWzth. Rd. 8:1vcr,r, Hl ,James I. Christopher Sa\·ory, Es,1., 1 Charles I. H.oy:i.list Composition papers (time of Commonwealth), .Margaret Savery, Cn.rew Savery, CarySavPrr, .John Savery. ln 2 ,James I., Tho. Savny and Riclmrd Savery both received pardons by Letters P:ttent.

Exeter District Prnhate Register: I. PmNCil'AL HIWISTHY, i. ,,., the llishop's.

From 1592 to 1653, no Savery fonml. II. 'J'OTNl•:S H1,:msTIIY.

1.. Dri(r,11,a;; r/1' .l'ly111pton, wltit,lt i11dn<lus, £nta aUa., Corn­wood. No will or ittlministration of Savery from 1600 to 1625 inclnsive.

ii. Deanery (?f 1'otne.~, which includes Totnes and Rattery, r.tc., from 157fi to Hi25. No Savery will, but the following a.clministratiom; occnr:

UhriRtopher S:tV(•ry, of Tot.ton, i.e., 'l'ot1ws, 15!)1. 8amm•l Sa,·ery, of Totton, i. e., Tot1wR, 150U. 'l'homasiue Savery, of Dartmouth, 1G01. Christopher S:1very, of Totton, 1G01l. ,John SavC'ry, of Dartmouth, rn1:-J.

2/50 APPI~NDIX C.

The papers relating to the administratim~t of Christopher Savery, 1603, show that tlrn grant was made to his brother, Timothy Savery. It is therefore to be inferrrecl thn,t he died ummtrried, or at least a widower without issne.

PREROO.\'l'IVE COUR'l' OF CAN'l'ERRUHY.

( INDEX 0~' WILLS SI~ARCHED FROM 158:{ TO Hi25.)

S Watson. .Joanne Savery, widow. 'l'o Xtofcr, son of Stev1•11 Savery1,, a gowu fae1,<1 with

.~atin, ete. 'L'o Elizahdh Blachel,•r, wifo ol' William Blacheli,r. H Xt.ofcr die under 21, then to Allan, sou of sai,l

Steven. 'L'o seven of sai1l Steven's daughters now living, £7

amongst them. 'l'o my mahl 'L'homazine Smithe, at 1liseretion of over-

seers until she is 21. To g-mldaughter Mary llrokinge, 20/. To the poor people of the lUagtlalen, 20/. 'l'o my late husbarnl's Histm·s, 20/. 'L'o every one of my godclli!Liren in the town of 'l'ut­

tem,s, 1/. 'l'o the reparation oi' 'L'ottcucs d1urch, 20/, "so that t.lie

parishioners let me 1.Je buried in that plaec of the church where ,Toan S:lvory, wife of Christopher Savory, was buried."

'l'o Christopher Savory a111l I fenry Gihlon, -10/. They to Ju, overseers.

('ou,-;iu Chri:-;toplwr yo11111,!<'r Savory a111l 111y cou~in Biclmnl C.rihell to he ex.,cutorn. Willing that tlwy two see the last will of my first husband Alcxamler Odian performe,I. ])at.e,J 2Jth May, 1581. Signed, ,Toan Saverie.

'l'o Agnes Savery, ,laughter of sai,l Steven, a gown. 'l'o Elizaheth, 1la11gltter of sai,I Steven, a gown. 'L'o the vicar ol' 'L'oU1,1ws, :JO/.

Witnessed hy the executors. 'l'o Elizal.Jeth Forwoo1l, servant to my said sister Joan,

20/. My maicl, 'l'homazine Smith. To Thomas Hine, 20/. Proved 22d l\[ay, 158-!.

32 Harrington. 4 l\Iarch, 1501. Christopher Savory, of 'l'otnes, Devon, the elder marchaunte.

EXTRACTS FltOl\[ HECOHDS. 251

'l'o be buried in hollie r:u~the. To the vicar of 'l'otncs, 10/.

'l'o the poor in the Jllnwdlin house of Tot.Jws, 20/. To the almshouse of Totnes, 20/. To the poor of TotnPs, 20/. 'l'o the reparation of 'l'otues church, 10/.

Towards the bringing in of the water into the conduit of the town of Totnes.

To my d:u1ghtPr FritlcRwed11 SavPriP, £6. 13.4. 'l'o i'lOll K:11n11PI :4nv(~l'iP,, £20. To son 'l'imot,hic Savet·ie. £:JO. To son Rich:ird'R thn•e 1la11ghter~, .ro:me S., Frides­

we1le S., aiul l\larie S., £5. To Christopher Jlfaynanle. 40/. To Tristram \Veekes, ,John ,vcekes, am! Steven "\Veeks,

sons of Steven ,veekC's, 40/. 'l'o Christopher Dnckl', Fri<ieswt:1lp Ducke :ind Marie

Ducke, ,Joan Ducke, Elizabeth Ducke and Philip Dueke, children of ,vmiam Dnclw, 40/ each.

To Frideswede Lee, Wilmott Lee, Katherine Lee, chil-dren of Richard Lee, 401.

To my daughter s\1111 ·weekes, 40/. To my 11:rnghter .roan Duckc, 40/. To my daughter Kat.Jteriue Lee, 40/. To my daughter Mary Cammc, 401. 'l'o my d:111gl1tPr T'Prtozpy Kl•11,reot.t, .JO/. My daughkr-i11-law .Joa11e S:weriP. 1\[at.thewe C:mmw, .John Kenycott, servant .Tuliau Jl[arti11,

i<erva11t, ho.1· Chri~toplwr Jloss. l\Iy wifr Frit!Pswitle to be executrix. William Dneke aml Richard Lee to be overseers.

Signet! - By me, Xrofer Savery, the elder. "'itnc~setl hy IIenrr Gil1lon, Gabriell Kcnycott., Rich­

an! l\Inrtin, ,vmiam Gil1!011.

The seco1Hl part of tl,e will contains the disposition of the testator's real property, and bears tlie same date, 4th March, 1591.

To Fri1les1YidP, my wife, my mansion house in Great TotnPs, where l now 1hrnll. .\lso ]awls in North Forde in the parish of Dartington; also lands in Bridgetown Pomay; renrnimler to Samtwl, my son, and the heirs of his !Jolly; remainder to Timothy, my son.

To saitl Samuel, my son, my nrnnor of II00tl ~lichael; also lands iu l\In.rley, alias l\farleighe, in Rattrry, Devon, and all lauds in Rat.tery; remainder to Tim-

252

90 Watson.

APPl~NDIX C.

othy Savery. Aft,~I" death of my wif,•, Fri<leswidP, lands iu Rritlgutown, to Timothy; al,m the 111essuagt! called Yellow! in HaUery; lan,ls in B11ckl'ast.Jeig-h, ribbcomhc iu .\_shpl'ington.

If Saurnel :uul 'l'imolhy die without lll'irs, tl1e11 t·o n1y daughter, Agnes Weekes, wife ol' Ht11v1•11 Wet!l,,•s.

Daughter Katherilw Lee, wife of Rieltanl L,•,,. Daughter Joan Duck, wil'e of William Duck. Daughtc1· 11Ial'y Ca11111w, wifo of J\fottlww Canrnte. Daughter Pretezry Kcnuyeot.t, wife of .fohn Kenny.:;ott. Daughter Fridcswiile awl tlwir heirs; n•111airnl1•r to my

right heirs. Signed "by me, Christopl1er Savi,ry, the elder.''

Proved 21st ~\_pril, 15H2, for Fri<leswiilc Savery, the relid. 10th August, 1617. Ifolcn Sawryi•, of St. 'L'olHes,

Oxon, widow. 'l'o Richard Stevens, :WI. 'l'o Richard Radley, :WI. 'l'o Etlwiml Mapley, 20/. 'L'o 111y sister Mat.lwwe, £ii. 'l'o my Rister Alim,, Ci. 'l'o Illy sbler Oorol llie Sa \'Cl',\'", (5, 'L'o my sister 1\Iary Saverye, £5. Tfosidue amongst my sisters. Wituesse,l hy Editl1 H1chanlson allll MargPrye Sn1ylh1•, Proved 29th October, ltil 7.

,JOHN TtrOaL\S SAVEltY, EsQ., of "tl1e Cottage," Ivyhri<lge, 1\fodlmry, Devonshire, Lorn Nov. G, 1814, is thirteenth in <lcsce11t from ,John, of Halherton in 1;')01, throngh Chri:-;top]1er" (Mayol' of Totness), Stephen", Sit· Christopher', Col. Cl1ri:-;topher\ Serving-ton,; (whm;e Lrother Hieluml was father of the inventor), Christopher7, Servi11gton' (l\L A., all(l F. R. S., inveHtot· of the artificial magnet), Chri8topher", John'", Chl'istopher11 (third son, the elder two being .fol111", tl1e heil', nll(l 8erviHgto11 1

' ), John Servington 1

" •• Joh11" nrnniell, Jir:-;t, Samh Butler Clark of Exeter; second, Mary, daughter of :Math. Towgood, of London, banker. By the first maniage he hall two (langliters; hy the second, nine sons and seven clanghters. The sons were ( 1) .Tohn Servington1

";

(2) William; (B) Servi11gton; (4) Christopher; (G) Towgood; (G) Henry; (7) Fretlerie; (8) .Arthur; (D) Chades. Fretlcrie and Charles were living in 1882.

INDEXES.

INDEX

TO CHRISTIA.i~ NAMES OF SAVERYS (S.A \'ORY .AND SAVARY), COVEIUNG PAGES 12 TO 17:3.

J'A(lB

Aaron, 24, 2.5, 26, 36, 46, 61, 108 A bble Adella 99 A hby Caroline 84 A hi p:n 11 • !Ml, I0-1, !Of>, 1011

Arthur Houl"ne August.a S •. August.us A IIJ(IISl:t R.

A hip::,11 1rcnri11g . 84 A ugnatus 'I'. A hi1rnll •r. 7H A urissa William . A brnham Balley . !l8 A,l<lison II.. 143 llnmnbna F,Jlls A,lcll:t 41 Bartil'tt l\lunlock

l,AGI~

56 Charles L. 87 Charles Peleg .

128 Charles l'ut,nam 1111 Clrnl'les Ruy mo Charles 'l'ho111ns . &~ Chnrles Virgil.

Chnrles W. as, r,o Charlotte .

84 Chase Adolphus 42, 55 Beatrice . 56 Chester Ap:nes Burbnnk A Janson Spenser Alhert. Albert II. Alcxn11,ler Purves 1\ Icy l•:llzn.heth A lfrcd William

113 Benjamin, 20, 25, 34, 38, 42, 4.3, Chester Tracy . 86 80, 9(), 97, l03, !OH, 107, Christine w·.

33, 49, 57 108, lO!l, IH, 120, 120, 139 Clnra L. 143 Notes and corre<'tiona to 113 Clnrn Louisa 93 flc11jnm1t1 llnlch . I Ii Clnl'l.ssa 4H llc11j11111l11 Clifton r,o Clifton

48, H4 Benjamin Harrison 88 Codn J. A lice 58, 88 Bc11j1t111ln Little 11.3 Corbin Bnmes Almn 0. 62 llenjnmln 'l'. 120,121 Cor<lclla . Alonzo C. 8l' Bertie . 88 Corilella Bartlett Alothea 96 Bessie . 86 Cornelia A mnnda W. 41, 54 Ilcthinh 74, 10n, 114 Cyrus Amelia 36 Uetsy,61,07, 106,108, UO, 111,127 Cyrus Ilenjamin . Amy 127 Iletsy E. . 100, 101 Cyrus Pet.tee Angeline A. 88 Betsy Swift. 99

l'Ao~;

il 93

110, IIH 1111

~H

101 r.2, 14:i

104, 105, 108 SH a

1:n !l2

117 41, 51

,14

72 38

57 . 38, 4;J, 97

08 111, 11!1

Ann 22, 104, 127, 13!1 lletty 105 Daniel, 26, 105, 107, Ul, 118, 14!t """" mlzahut.11 r.2 l)Pitomh • . 3-t, an, 37, :m An11 Murin 8\l C11rnl1110 7H, 111, 120, lt8 IJehlnmln . 36, 49,611 Anna 100, J:l7, 171 Caroline A. . 117 Dei<lamla II. 70 Amm Louisa 121 Carrie . 123 Delia 38, 3!l Anne . 19, 22, 103, lOi, 11!7, 143 Carrie l\Iay . 42 Deliverance 34 Anne J,. 131 Carrie I'. . 70, 110 Dennis N. 4U Anne Pim 144 Cecilla ,J. 62, 73 Dolly Wood 110 Annie . 70 Charity 33, 37 Donna 72 Annie Jl. . !14 Clrnrles . 119, 127, 12!1, 141, 144 Drusilla 78, R5 Annie W. 118 Clmrlos Aug-ust 12!1, mo Anthony, 12 t.o 18, 26, 28, 29, Charles Conklin 86, ll3, 94 E. \V.

An t.olnette Arabella Armanllla

133, 139. Charles F. 127 Ellen RolllM 62 Charles ~'oster 58 Charles GrilHn 49 Charles H. Spllrgeon

90 Ebenezer . 118, 122 Ell,lle C.

70 Edith

12!) 118 10,;

94 116

25fi INDEX.

PAG"E l'AGE Edward . 49, 122, 141, 144 ~'rands Nelson \14 Hester.

117 lliram.

PAGE 137

80, 111, 118 46, 61

98 113

Edward Everett . 50 J<'rnnk . Edward Hosmer . 122 ~'rank D. 1111 llirum Nye Edward w.. 144 ~'red lHl !lope Tobey Ellie Howe Etl\e J. Eldred P. Eleanor Eleazer Eliphalet. Elisha, Eliza Eliza Uelcn Eliza Whitlock

67 J<'re,leric 57 Horace Perry 88 Hosea C.

llul<luh Louisa 72 J<'rcderic A.

123 44, 58

50 17 li2 George, 44, 46, 79, 87, 109, llO, Humphrey

JO!)

106 115, 121, 122, 128, 130

George (Rev.) 121 lalossa nourne 56 HI George A. 128, 130 Ida 88

37, 46, 80 48, 49

4:1

Ueorge Cly<lll . 72 1,\a Ilerkely 131 Ueorge Comish 41, 51 ltla ill. 70 UCol'g'O 11~. la2 Ira A. !'"14

Elizabeth, a2, 38, au, 7H, 81, \K), uo, 10-1, 107, 111,13:1, 134,

139,110,141, H:I, 144

(~eorgo ll. fi~, 7f>, t-ill 1 :,;s l1:1an1·, :it, 3:l, :H, :m, 40, H, 110 Ucorgc blnlculrn. 4H l~mte P. .n, f1a George Murray -;o ba.ac Sn.ui'orll . 52, 72

Eli,alleth n. 118 l~eotge P. i2, 127 r::iu.bclln, 12!..I, ~otes 1 eh'., to ll:1 Ellwbeth II. 143 Ueorge S. M lsalllllla II. . 5~

George rl'homns 117, 121 EUznllct!J. L. Elizalleth S. Elizabeth Shaw Eliinhetl1 Stoplumson Ella.

128 9!)

83 George ,v. 42, 81, 87 J acoh Unrg-ess 100 (iem g0 ,v (Ucv.) 12¼ ,Jaine~ 411, 74, 75, 71i, 80, 12!1

82 Ucorge \\'ashlngton IHI ,James .\Hrc,1 , !H Gustavus A<lolphns 52 ,James c. 42, 54, UO

Eth, I<'. Gustine Harrinmn 124 ,James Mitchell 101

lt~llucr E.. 71 ,la111mi 1Puylo1· Elmira E. 70 Hannah, ~6, 321 a7, 4U, fiO, 6~, ,Jane Eloisa Matilda 41, 5~ ~l, 104, 105, 106, 108, 10\1, 143 ,Jane !<'ranees Emeline P. . 87 Hannah C. 4l ,Jeannette Emily . 44 Hannah Dalton . • 110 ,Jeunnette Evelyn Emily Lewis 128 Hannah Ilill 12\l ,Jennie Emily Williams 82 Hannah I'. 78, 85 ,Jennie F. Ennna. 127 Hannnh Perkins . 84, 0-l .Tennie Marion Emma l\Iabcl f>!i llunuah S. 58 ,Jeremiah E~thor, 30, :n, 3U, 5S, 74, UG, ffi Hannah Swift . 90 ,Jcs~e EsU,c,· L. 71 Ilnrlaml ll\l ,Joann" R•thcr 'l'hurl,on Ethel Ethel M ..

113 llarr!et \14 llanict D.

71 ,Joanna Holmes !12 ,Joh Brigg~ .

129 .Jou Lnther.

Hl :m, ltO

50 62 U2 50 50

123 1:m llll 75 7\l Uti

101 Ethel lllinnie Engene

72 Harriet lillen 124 Ilunict llf. HO John, 18, 76, 78, 81, 83, 84, 91,

}~ugeue lt. Eugene II. Evelyn Augusta . Everett Everett C.

Fanny. Fanny Mary Fernando Finney Messinger Flora Flo1·cnce. Florence E.. Francis A.

1 I\) Harrison Stephen 131 llan-y. 88 Helen . 9\1 Helen ,lanll . 57 llelen Louisii

l!U llclcu MILric Henrietta

8~ 10,i, l0(l, 107, 10\), no, 11 I, lt2 11\J, 1:1:1, 1:1,1, 1:m U4 ,John A. 70 113 ,John Burl.Jank 121 ,John C. li2 ,John (Cupt.) 62 John Dllall

52, 72 John Ham,len

10\l, 113 111,142

llK; 49, 6\1

57 Henrietta E. IJ6 Henry . . 44, 57,127 Jolin Howe .

118,122 67 91 00

46 Henry Oliver Heury P. 101

46, 57 144

Henry Phipps Otty . Henry lt.

94 Henry Solon 88 Herbert W ..

98 ,John Maximilian 121 .John S. 67 John Stephenson

5-l, 72 .John 'rhouuts 81, 89, 00

50, 71 42 118. 123 ,John Whitlock

71 Jonathan, 26, 106, 108, 111

CHRlSTIA.1'f NAMES OF SAVEltYS. 257

PAGE !',WE

Jonnthnn (Col.) . . . . 120 ~Inrlon Jonnthnn (Dencon) . 108 ::lhtrth11, .To~eph, '..!a, ·.?n, 10H, 118, l:li, 13H Mnrthn ,J. .J oscph Augustus 118, 12:l Mnrthn Lorlm.la .

62 Nellie Louise • 97, 103, 109 Nelson tr. . .

122 Normn llerkcly 113 Norman D.

PAGE

117 58

131 70

.Joseph n. 70, ~7 )[urthn M&ria. . 100

,Joseph D. 58 Martha P. . . . 117 Otrilht .Joseph I I. 4!l, ill Joseph Henry . iO ,Joseph V. . . 131 ,Josephine fill

\1!1

M,11-tha Wingate . ll7 l\1 n ry, 18, 21-;, 2B, 30, 32, at, 44, 5~,

75, 76, iA, 7!l, ~ii, flfl, fli, IOH, 101, 10~, 106, IJB, l~~. 139, 140

~lnry A. Fitleltn. . IOI ,J o:,.cphi nc A ugn:-i.tn ,Josephine M. ,Josinh .

,18 i\lary Anne. 37, HS

,Ju,lce .. . ,Judith .. . .Tu,llth Tucker • Julia Adeline . • Julia Antoinette. .Jnllct . ,Justina . .

I.Atttra Lewis

10n Mnry C. . . . . 88 27 Mnry K . . . . 41

28, 10~ Mnry Elb•;n.heth,38,48, 61, r,z, 63 108 Mnry Ellis . . 84, SH

06 ::\lnry Estelle . 100 8fl . u;

33

121)

~lnry Frances . ~lm·y II .. lllary H:ttmnh . ~lnry ,Tnne Mnry 111. •

fi9 HI

4!1 4!1 n-2

Lemuel, 80, i-l, 70, 81, 97, HS, 9!l.

Mnry N. ~lary !'age

80 92

Lemuel Frederic Levi Le,! Augustus . Levi S.

117 n;, 100, no

m 101

lllnry Roberts . 127 lllnry Rollins 117 Mary S. . so, 12:1 )lnry Stevens 110

PaUenf'.e 36, :m, 45, 4n, no Peleg . . • 33, 75, ii, 86 Peleg Barrows . . . 78, P5 l'hillµ A,lolphus ;i{i

Phineas,· 34, 44, 57, ,58, nn, Hi,

l'hlnc:is (Dcncon) l'hincns (Or.) . Phineas (Lieut.) . Phlnc:i.s Messinger l'hmbe A .

nn 43 98

98, 100 i0

Phmbc ~•ranees 49 l'hn,be 8. 79 Pluma. . Ill Polly . . . 84, 92, 96, 10\l, 131 l'olly Nye . • . . • . 50 Priscilla . 74, 76, 80, 89, 106, 108 Priscilla l'nddock i9 Priscilla Parker . II0

llnchcl 139 Mary T. 88 Lewis A lcxn.mlor H3 Hachel ,Johnson 113 Mary Thnn111lko 114 LM1·ls Winslow RR Hny L. 72 M:iry W .. HI Lihhlc A. frl l!.ch,•c,cn, . . 103, 100, 107, lt:l Matlldn . 3i, 44 Lily u. 8~ Rebccc" A.. m,

Lltn \"nle 70 Maude fi~ Rehcccit L. . . • 1-14 r.11.1.lc 1. . iO lllchlt.nhlc :m, !Hl Hl'lu·,·,·.n w. 141, 143 Lizzie Linwood 100 l\lercy, 32, 33, 30, 40, 75, i8, 07, Hex '11. 72 Loutsn 44, 58 , 105, 108 Richard, 16, 46, 62, 125,126,127, Louisa Lincoln . 100 ~otes and corrections to 7fi 128, 12!!, 132 Lucinda . . nr; Mercy B. ~1 Rlchnrd Adrinn . 5G Lucirnla B. . . !l, :i3 ~lcrcy ll. on Richard .I<'. • • • • • • 129 Lucretia .50 :\lerihnh • H4, 3d Richard Gurney . . 44, 56, 58 Lucy . . 4£;, \16, 109, 111, 119 J\lcrt.lc llf. M (Sec nlso "Notes nnd Cor-LtH'Y A. . 117 llllni,r 11. 70 1·ccttonA.") Lucy Perley . . . . . 1111 ~loses, . 26, 100,110,111, 11~, Rlcluird .IL ll.. . . . . 62 Luella . . . . . . . 1m 137 Robert, 16, 19, 102, 103, 104, 106, Lydln, . . 30, 37, 00, 110, 127 J\loees Putnnm . . 110 107, 109, 110, 126, 12i, 128, Lycli:t 1\<leli't . 43 llloses Wnsltlngton. 4!1 12!! Ly,lin Holmes in

::\label F .... l\largnret 1\Inrgarct Jane Maria .. Marla F: .•• I\lur\nn 11

\ •

Mnricttn K.

Nnbhy . . . . . fili 58 Narn·y Messinger !18

28, 121, la4 ~arcissn . . . . ,12 48 ~athan, 32, 34, 36, 37, 45, 4H, 411,

39, 46 50, 62 02 "Sntlrnn Thomas . . 4!1

U:l Nnthnnh-1, 1118, 111, 11:1, 114, 41 120, 127

Hobert Henry . 121 Hol.Jert Nnthanlcl 113 Robertson 39 Holnnd T. 50 Hoscoe Conkling 58 Rose 44 RoxanaG. on lluhy 4fl ltuby Ann 44

258 INDEX.

PAG~; PAGE PAGE

Rufus • 37, 50 Stopheu Portor 52, 71 ,valtcr Jlarrimnn 119, 12-l Rufus IL 71 Stephen W. . . 141, u:1 ,valter ,Jnmes . !JO Rufus L .. 50, 70 8tillmuu . . . . 37, 4!l Walter Scutt . . . . lal ltuth 29, 58, 74, 70, 80, ll6, U7 Susanna . 27, 28, 106, 1'14, H3 W1u-1l W. 71 Ruth E. 123 Susanna L. . . • 80 (Sec also "!,otos 11ml Vor-Ruth Ellis 38 Susaun1i Levalley 30 rectlous.") Ruth S. 81 \Vn.rren . . . . 110, 12-.!

Temperance • . 90 Warren Hapgood /i6 Sabina J. 70 'l'emperance Comish 41, 52 Wellington . . . 41 Sabine 36, 47 Theres!\ Maria . 129 Wicom Hale . . 113 Sadie Louisa 113 Thomas, 12 to 26, 27, 28, 20, 30, Wilhelmina Isabel . 9!l Salford 41 32, 33, 37, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, Willard A. . . . , 123 Sally 79, 80 81, 82, 83, 102, 1041 105, ,villinm, rn, 14, 17, 46, 57, i4, Samndn1s 88 100,108, lOH, 1101 111, 1:J4, 7,5, 'j(j, 78, :::I, t,;4, !ll, Samuel, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 34, 41, 13!1, 140, l,U, 142,172 93, 9H, U7, ~m, 102, 103,

44, 76, 95, 00, 97, 103, 104, Thomas, Jr. l!l 105, 106, 107, 16!l, 110, 105, 107, no, 139 'l'homas (Deacon) 74, 86 127, 133, 134, 136, 139,

Samuel, Jr. . . 27 Thomas (Hou.) . 82 UO, 141, U2, 146-173 Samuel (Capt.) . . . . !lG Thomas (Major) 10\l William, Sr. . . . . 13fi-139 Samuel (Rev.) 41 Thomas Allanson 58 William (Dr.) . . ms, 142

Samuel Marston, or l\lunsou, 'l'homas C. • • • 131 William Alonzo . 58 82, !10 'l'homas Charles . 1:n William A Joysins 04

8aufonl S. . . . . . . 41 'l'honms Collins . 127, HH, 131 William Briggs IOI Saruh, 34, 30, 38, 44, 581 61, 75, 'rhomas 1',. 04 ,vnnam Cooper 56

103, 106, 107, I0!l, 111, 140, 'l'homus G . . . • . 87, !14 William Curtia 84

8arah A. Sarah Adelaide

·sarahAnu • Sarah .• <\ llll Balley Sarah J. Snra Kendall Sarah Lydia Saruh Nolsou Sarah l'. Selina. Seth A. Seth llesse Silvia Solena Sophia Sophlla

HI, l.J.I 'l'ho11111d 11. • • • J.l I, 1-1:1, IH \\'illh"u I•:. . . ,o 70

101 128 U8

123 12:!

113 41, r,3

88 99

101 !l<J

34, 39 124

50, 79, 109 113

Thomas Wllllum . . 67, 110 William lsghcrt !~!, !14 Timothy . • . . 34, 38 William Grant . 100 'l'lrza Tobey • . 84 Wllliam H. 121, 120, HI, 1H Tristmm 'rilUrlow . · 114 William IL (Rev.) . . . 121

Uriah, 29, 30, 31, 34, 36, 38, 39, 44, 48, 49, 50

Y&·ona . 11!1

Wllllam Henry, 49, 86, 90, na, 117, 12!l

Wllliam Henry Aloysius, 94 ,v111111 m l'crley • . . . us William l'eters . . . . 90

Vesta P. , 72 ,villian1 S. . . . 79, 80, 87, 88

Waltatlll Atwood Waldo Bartlett Walter A ... Walter Burgess Walter H. ..

84, U-J

!13 58 56

143

Willl,un 'l'homns Wiuifl-ctl Maria Wirt Ira . ,v olcott Smith

Zllpah.

. 82, 12n 99 72 88

75, 78, 8!

INDEX

TO CHHISTIAN NAl\IES OF SEVERYS AND SA VERYS OF THE SA1'IE ORIGIN (SEVlUT OH. SEV.ERIT, SAVORY, SAVARY),

covrmr:'m PA HT lI., PAGES 177 TO 212.

l'AUE PAGE PAGf] .Aaron 184, 189, 190, 197 Charles 190, 204 Ellns 196 An.ron A. 195, 207 Charles A. 198, 211 Elljah. 196, 210 Abigail 187, 188, 189 Charles ,\ lien 210 Elit-:hn. 186, 210 A,hlie. 209 Chnrles F,. 210 Eliza ,\nn Infl A,lellnc 1~'4 Chnrlcs llanlson 197 l.;ifza .Jane 203 ,\,lral>. 20:i Chnrlcs Henry 197 Elizaheth • 180, 187, 202 ,\g-neR T .. 212 Chnr1cs Lc,viR 203 Ellzahcth A. 212 .\llll'rt A lien .202,211 Chnrlcs l'. 200 lcllz:thcth Ann l!J!I ,\lhert T .. • 202,211 Chnrlottc 1!10, IM, 198 !,Iva G. 209 Altlen 190 Chester .Forrest • 211, 212 Elvirn. 196 Alden B .. mo Chet IC 210 Elmer A. Wl .\lice M. 194 Clara Belle . 199 Emeline 203 Alonzo mi Clarence E .. 201 Emery F. 200 Alvira. l!J5 Clarence II. . ms Emma. 204 Amanda. Wl Cln re nee Lucius . 210 EmmaC. 208 . \mo~ 1~7, 188, lH,'l Clarh11 la l' .. mo, 200 }~mmn Genevieve 211 ,\mos Henry 210 Clari88a 182, 188 Emma 0. 209 ..-\ndre,v liS, lift Clement 178 Enid l\Iay 201 Annn. tnl Cora Belle 197 Ephraim. 186, 194 .-\nnie 204 Cordelia . 192 Ernest 201 .Annie L .. 201 Cornelia 204 Ernest A. 20!) Archlhnld .184, 190 Cynthia 188 Ernest Elisha . 210 Arthur :llellln. UJU Cyrus "1 .. 100, 2ro Esther 8. 203 Asa. 184, 188, 189, l!)l Ethel F. 207

Daniel. . 181, 185, 191, 192, 202 Eugene ,v . . 195 Bnckns lM Daniel Morton 202 Eunice 183 lklle Inl T>nvl,! . . 178, 18a, l8!i, 186, 1H4 .fl~nnicc Emeline . ]!)fl

Belle C. 20:-1 lln\'1,1 W. 201; T~vn.. 200 Belle ,T. 206 Deborah 102 Everett Holt 190 Benjamin 181, 1£3, 187 Delona 201 Everett Williams 202 Benjamin Franklin . ]!)9 Dexter 197, 210 Bertl,a 20\l Iliana 195 Fanny. 190,210 Bertha B. 208 Dlnntha 188 Fern 210 Bessie F .. 209 Drew 201 Fltlelia 193, 204, 210 Bessie M. 210 Flora iii.. 206 Betsy . 182, 1n1, rn2, ]115, IOH Ellen mo l:i"Jorcncc E. 200 llir<lic, notes and corrections Edg-ar i\. 207 Florence L. rn.t

to 210 E•llth Louise 199 FrnnccH .1\ • . 20!i Byron . 1!18 E,lnn ;\I. 210 (Seo "Notes antl Corrcc-

Edw:11'(\ 178, 183, 186, 188 ttons.") Carrie IL. 1!15 Edwin l,. 20G Fran<'es K l!l7 Celinda 1!15 E,!win Ylctor . 20i'i Frances Helena 197

260 INDEX.

PAGE PAGE PAGE Francia Solomon 188 ,Jacob 181, 184., 187, 188, Wi Lillie M .. 208 · Frank. 20-i James. li8, 180 Lorinda 194 Frank B .• 209 James B. 19i, 211 Louisa 192, 205 !<'rank Dexter . 210 James E. 200, 203 Lucia 182 Frank Edwin . lHH James Enoch lHH Lucinda l!ll l<'muk \V11rren 201 Jane S. 20(i l,ucrctia . 187 l<'rnnklln A. 208 (See "Notes and Corrcc. Lucy . 183, 19ti, 210 1''ranklln (J,. 19,l t!ons.") Lucy A, . 195, 1~8. 200 !<'red 209 J elferson T. 19-i Luella L. 208 Fred Albert 201 Jehle! . 195, 208 Lulu B, 204 Fred M. 206 Jennie B. 208 Luther Wrj~ht 202 !<'red W. 1U7 Jennie C. 20H Lydia, 181, 182, 184, 185, 188, Freeman. 188, 196 ,Joanna 182 WI, 192

,Tool llll Galen. 191 Johu, 178, lW, 180, 181,182, 1~3, Mabel •r. 207 George 1e1, 100, 208, 209 184, 186, Ht'.! 1 203, 200, 212 l\lag·gie E. 209 George Carroll 187 John E. 200 ~!aria lW, 209 George H. 208 ,John II. 195, 208 Marjorie A. 210 George Lester mo John llfoody 107 Maralrnll ISi, 106 George ll:[ellln 199 John 0. 206 l\J arshall Harrison . 1!17 George Simmons 1!12 John T. mo, 200 Martha 1;,2 George W. 194, 195, 207, 208 ,John William 211 Murtha A. 196, 208 Georgiana ms Jonathan, 178, 183, 186, 1U3, Martha E. 1B5 Gregory lj8 194-, :!OH Jllartha L. 208

Jonathan lll. 1114, 2nu Martha N . 20\1 1111111111h . 18:1, l~ll .lonntt IHI ~l11rvl11 L. -.!O;'l

llurol,l ~OU .Tones Hll l\Jary, 17U, 180, 181, 18'":!, 183, Harriet . 180, 1!13, 1!16 .Joseph, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 1s-!, 185, 188, un, Ht:!, 1u4, Harriet Maria 188 186, 1U4, 20H 105, 198 Harriet· Richmond 203 Joseph Emerson, 185, 193, 206 l\lary Ann 193,204 Harriet U. UJ5 ,Joseph Rhodes 184, 187 Mary n. 207 Hanlson. l\Jl ,Joshun. 183 lllary Betsy Ul9 Harrison B. 20d ,Judah. 188 lllary Drew 202 Harry. 20tl ,Jmllth 183, l8j l\lary E. . 195, 204 Harvey lSi, l!J5 Judson 20~ l\lary !<'ranees . 20j Hattie C. 204 Julia Gonld H/9 Mary G. 206 Hazel 20U l\lary l\l .. 208 Helen O. 20; Kendall 105 Jllury S. 20:1 Helen J. 200 Jllatilda 191 Heman 187, lfJ(j La.man 191 Jllaude E. 206 Henry. 106 Laura Ann. 212 Melissa mu Henry F. 201 Laura Ii: .• J. 195 Jllelvln L. 201 IIerl>ert G. 208 Lella Perrin 201 lllercy. 102 Berman lSi, l!J6 Lena P. ' 211 Miuena. ms Hervey H. 206 Lena)\' .. IU7 l\llran<la . 196 Ilirum 182, lUj Lcou IP. 201 llllrlnm /Stone . 206 Horace H. 211 Leona. 206 i\loody 184, 187, 188, 189 Hnldah 102 Leonard . 190 Moody Holman 188

Leonora . 198 l\Iorris II. 19i I<la 201> Leslie. 20H oloses . 191, 201 Ida B. 207 Lester G. 20i Jlloses Holman 190 1,111 s. 206 Ldtle Butterfield 21)1 l\lyrt.le 209 Ira 185, lll2, 204 Levi Hl6 Irene F. 203 Lewis W. 200 Nancy. 205

Lil>ra 188 Nancy E. 208 Jackson T. 194 Lillian V. 201 Nancy L. 195

CHRISTIAN NAMES OF SEVEHYS AND SAVERYS. 261

PAGE PAGE PAGE Nnomi. 191 Sally 182, 185, 188, 192 Walter . 195, 201, 209 Nathan 191 Samuel . 184, 191, 194 Walter C . 193,203 Nehemiah, 181,182,185,192, 20a Sarah 181, 182, 183, 184, 104 Walter Lee 207 Nehemiah Lewis 203 Sarah A .. 194 Walter M. 204 Nolan c .. 20; Sarah Briggs 192 Warren Wl

Oliver"\. 194, 20i SarahC. 203 Warren W .. 193, 204

Orlando 198 Sarah Cornish . 203 Washington P. 193,204

Orrell . 209 Sarah J. W5 Wendell S. 212

Orvis W. 20i Sarah L .. 20i WllhurW. 193, 204 Satlra . 197 Will 201

l'crcgri110 White 192,202 Shepherd 1!11 Willar<l . 1ss, 100, 1na Perez 182 Silas 190,199 Wlllartl W .. 204 Peter li8, lifl Silvia 185 William, 18,, 180, 193, 194, l!J5, Philip. li8 Solomon, li8, 182, W8, 188, 101, 197,209 Phn•he . 186, 187, 190, 101, l!l5 201 William Clarke mo l'h(c!Je .<\nu 202 Stephen 193, 205 William Frnnklln 196,209 Polly . 190, 198, 210 Stephen Augustus 206, 212 William Gould 199 Prisc!lla llforton • 202 Susnn 203 William II .. 208

Ralph. 209 Suennna 183, lSli William II. IJ. 198

Ransom 198 William Jonathan 195,208

Rebecca 183 Thomas, li8, 1 ifl, 180, 181, 182, WllllamP. 194

Rcuhen . 183, !Si, 196 183, 184, 186, 192, 202 William Soul~ . 192

Trueman C. 211 Willie L. 207 Rol,ert Winsor 203 Willis .r. . 193 Rosanna. 187 Yera 201 WlnfleldC .. 207 Roxana 1~8 Vernon B. 20i Winsor 192,203 Rufus 190

Ruth 184, 191 Vertie ~f. 206 Winsor Thomas 203

Sallie 191 Wallace F. 198 Zilpah, or Zllpha 191

INDEX

TO SURNAMES OF PERSONS CONNECTED TI¥ MARRIAGE, IN­CLUDING DESCENDANTS OF DAUGHTEHS. COVERING

PA.HT I. AXD TI., PAGES 12 TO 212.

l'AGE PAGE PAGE Abbott n3 Big-bee ;n Cammllll 92 A<lnms, 58, 78, 86, 87,105,106, um Bllls 1.-.:2 Capen . ':.?09 Alex:uuler ;n, ~:! Hishce. Hl Carleton 109 A Hanson,

" ;',l, r►h Bishop :m Ca rtcr. 85 Allen . 42, 49, 74, l!ll, lHS lllnkc 189, l!l7 Carty 4!1 Ames &, ntnkeslle. 53 Carver 30 A111lcrt011 104 Bl:rnchar,I mo Case 212 Ant{l'CWEI. 3H lllnn!'hC 207 Casey 108 Annahle . 127, 125, 1t9 lllcn kinship 39 Cnswell . 3~. 194 Atwood 83 nnss 38 Chm.ldock 84

Xott!S ancl correct.Ions to i6 Bolles . 4fi 1 50, Hl ChamberJnln 60 A,·cry. 18S Bompns, or Bompasse, 31, 32 Chnn,ller 77

Bonham 204 Chase 104, 110 Babh ~01 Bonnell 90 Cheney 207 Hn,•on 111!1 no111wy :1; Chrlallun 20~ Balley. HS Boulter 2011 Churhuck 97 Buker . . 199, 20:-J, 204, 20:i, 20B Bourne 5H, no, 09 Churchill, . 192, 202, 209 Balch 106,110, n:,, 11s JlC)WCt'S n2 Notes ancl corrections to 'j(l Barber 1~5 Bowker 129 Chute ~7, 49 Barker 120 nowles :l3 Claflin 194 Ilnrunrd 1!7 Br,ulfor<l 81 Clarke 44, 61, 96 Barrett Si nrudley 81 Clement 119 Bnrrows G2, 74, 77 Brainerd 186 Cleveland 89 Barstowe an Ilrennnn 62 Clifton . 33, 44,100 Bartlett 84, a;, oo, 203 Brl<lges 53 Cline 53 nnss 211 Brigham, Notes, etc., to 7fi Cohh • 81, 85, 101, 184, 202, 20:1 niu•~et !l:J Briggs ~4. 77,101,212 Gollin JO~, 120 Bateman U2 Brown 36, 118 Cogswell. 204 Jlates . :io, 1~4 Bryant 81 Colburn 198 Jlnxter . 87, ~fl, 201 B11mp 31 Colby 107, 123 Henne. 1!3 Bllmpas or Bumpus, 28, 31, W.l, Cole , 76, 77, 82, 193, 212 • Beekman 82 34, 95, 96, 100 Colvllle 68 Beers 57 Bunker 77 Congdon. 208 Belcher P4 Burbank, 74, 75, 79, 104,105,108 Conklln 85 Ilcllmny tr; Burgess, 28, 47, 00, 77, 82, 100 Cook 191 llcnnctt ji) Burroughs 61 Coon 52 Benson :t.!, n; Hutterllcld . 81, 200 Cooper 58 Bent. . :m, ;n, tta, ,ui Corbin . M, 100 llerkclcy l:ll Cntimnn 205 Cornl8h . 40, 43, 192 Hesse r,;, mt Cahoon 37 Cotton. 195

264 INDEX.

PAGE :r,.AHE l'AGE Coy. 74 Evans . . 85, 88, lH Hale 109, JUI Crapo . 37 Everson 70 Hall . Sfl, 205 Cresson Hl .l<'nlllno 211

llnmmond • 30, 50, lllO Crocker 76, 90, 180

Faunce 'in llnucock . . 39, too Crookshank 65, 68, 69 .!<'earing 84

Hanson 210 Cross 109

l!'lcltl 208 Har<ly 00, 80, 103, 10/\, 110

Crowell 81:l .l<"ltleld. Harlow 81> Cryer 45 107 Harriman 119, 201> Culfman 193

Fitts 187, 189 llan·lsou . 208 Foote . 51, 100 Cunningham 66 Hartwell 58 Curtis . 99

Forbush 18~ Harvey 60 Ford 101 Cushing 46 Forsyth . 85, H3 Harwood 183

Cushman 75, so, 87 Haskell 47 li,orward . 57 Cutting 188 Hatch 07 Fostur. 72 Hatheway 33, 31, 39, 47, 70 1'"redenburgh 42 Dalley. 193 Freem1m. Hazelton 44 Dakin. 197 77, 8/\ Healy . 47 French 62, 81 Damon 111 Heward 68 Dare 89

Frllley 195 Hewett 188 Darling 205

Frisbee 107 llewina 50 Davidson 76

Frost 38 Hewlt. 42 Day 188

1"'rye 82 Iliana . Notes, etc., to 65 Dean 82

],'uller. . 38, 77, 85, 88 IIIII. 12H Defrlez lU Gaff 85 Hiller . 29 Deland 129 Gammons 45, 77 Hlme1·. lSS Delano 45, 57 Uanlon 48 lllscock 1!10 De la Noye. 56 Gates 114 llltchr.ock 78 Delegal 67 Gault 41 Hitching. 39 Dennett 92 Gee. 208 Hixson 201 Deverson 76 George 02 IIo<lgden. 120 Dewolf 63 Gibbs . • 60, 96, 97, 98, 99 Hollan<! S7 Dexter 39, 96 Gllfonl 60 Holloway ~l:! Dixon. 129 Gilbert 209 Ilolmau • 183, 188, lUO Dorr 117 GillllQl'C 124 llolmes, 33, 49, 75, SO, 81, s~, 88, Doty 37, 51 Gleason . 52, 199 80,111, Hr2, 193 Notes, etc., to ·rn Douglas 45 Goodale 121 Holt 190, 199 Dow 111, 119 Goodnough. 184 Homan 52, 53 Drake. 36, 47 Goodrich 109 llu~mcr HI Drinkwater 50 Goodwin. 107, 127 Houghton 53 Duffie·. 12-l Gordon 79

House. 182 Dunbar • 49, 119 Gorham 98 Houston . 121 Dunham. 37, 76 Gould 199, 200 How 181 Dunnell Ul Gove 131 Howard 195, 201 Dunstan. 79 Grant . 204 Howe 65, 99 Durell 182 Graves . 58, 1!!5 Howland . 68, 203 Dutch . 100 Green. • 47, Hll

lloyt 50 Dwinall 198 Greenleaf, 50 Notee, etc., to 76 llubbard 10;

GrilHn. 118, 188 Hughes 144 Eastman. 197, 201 Grltllth • 97, 122

Hmit 66 EdUy, 20, 21, 22, 24:, 30, 208, 212 Grower 58

Hutchinson 92 Edson. 88 Gurney . 34, 37, n, 80

Hutton 142, 143 Eldridge. 97 Hyler 99 Elliott 85 Ha,Uey 44 Ellis, 88, 39, 49, 85, 96, 194, 195, Haines or Illans . 65 Ingalls 97 Eustis. 198 See notes and co1-rect1ons. Inman. 206

SURNAMES OF PERSONS CONNECTED BY MARRIAGE. 265

PA.G1~ PAGE PAGE Ireland 92 Macumber 62 Ogle 91 Irish 76 Mnglellon 9~ Oman 28 Irons 65, 68 Manning. 119 Ordway 104

Marsh. . 18, 196 Otty . 6-!, 67, 68 ,Jnckson . 30, 190 l\larshall. 47, 49 .Jacques 106 Marston 189 Paddock. 74 .Jamieson 123 Martin 101, 119 Page ll!l Jennings 195 Mason • 51, 52, 206, 209 Paine 50 Jenny. 39 Matheson 52 Palmer 105 Jllson 188 Matthews 119 Parker , 103, 106, 117, 122, 210 ,Johnson . ~o, 121 1\lnttlson. 44 l'nrlow 180, 182 ,Johnston • 59, 1:n lllaxlm , 38, 202 Partridge 112 ,Tohnstone 67 lllaxwell. 1?8 Patterson 208 ,Jones . 53, 77, s~ 1\lnyo 46 Pnty 82 ,Jowett 92 ]\lflznro, Notes, etc., to 113 Paulding j!)

Keen 33 JIIcA111ster 120 Payne. 119

J{eene . 62 il£cFarlln 76 l'encock 85

Keep 1:ll lllcGlll f,8 J•carcc 73 llli-.Ulvcrn 6:l Pl'nl'ROII JO!l l\elth :m, SU McKay . 41l, 129 !'ease 132, 199 Ii:elley. 58 111cKcan 63 Peck 44, 01 Kcn,lnll 121, 186, 190 lllcKcnzle 73 Peckham. (i2 Kenney l!lll 1\lcnd 204, 20/i Peele 120 l(crshaw. ln5

I,eys 38 lllellor. 144 Peplow 52

Kilgore 194 l\Iendall 33, 39, 99 Percival . 34, 195

Ji:imball 108 111 enrlon, or l\Iendnm, 127, 128 Perego 204

King . 39, 59, 184 1\Icrrimnn 183 Perkins . 77, 106

Ii:ingsley. 209 :Olessenger 37, 98 Perley. 110

Knnpp 188 Messinger !JS Perry . 26, 28, 31, 56 l\Jlller 53, 96, l21l Peters. 1:m

Lake 190 l\Jlllet. 128 Peterson. 203

Lamb ll9 l\Jllner 70 Peyton 67

Lambert . 39, 116 Mitchell 52,100, 102 Pierce. 38, 94

Lamphier 194 llfontgomery Im !'Im. 143

Lanman so Morrison 200 Pl1,er 193, 2!'6

TJnw fl2 llforse . 45, 80, 8!!, 181!, In7, 198 Pitman . 49, 126

Lnwrence 1011 Morton 76, 77, 82, 202, 1-'lnce 205

Lefarnur 114 Notes and corrections to 76 Pope 47

Leonard . 38, 77 Moulton 179, 180 Porter. ·51, 60

Le,·alley . 34 l\Jullicnn . 103 Potter . 198

Lewis. . 39, 69, 128 llfnnson 62 l'owcll 100

I ,lghtonsto110 07 ~l11r1lo!'lc. ~, I'rnlt • 77, 7R, 85, 811, 104, 208

l,llley. 210 Musgrove 42 Price • 26, 28, 114

Llttlelleld 39 Purves 03

Littlehale 205 Nelson 203

Lloyd . 62 Newcomb 88 Quigley 103

Locke. 53 Newman. 200

Long 49, 97 Ne,.,ton 191, 196 Ramsden. 18

Look 29 Nichols 98, 99, 131 Randall 32

Lopoz . 121) Noln.nd 54 Rawlins 104, 10!!

Lucas . 129 Norton 147 Raymond 70, 97, 195 Ludlam 110 Noyes . 106 Reed . 69, 190

Nye. 34, 37, 50 Rennells. 99 l\Incaulay GS Reno 85 l\Iacdonongh H3 O'Dwyer 62 Rhodes 184

266 INDEX.

Rice PAUE

69 118, UIB

l!l\,

77 53

Richardson . Richmond Ridgway. Robb .. l{ohbins, Robertson Robinson

Notes, etc., to 7G 52

. . . 39, S-l . 30, 57, 72, 7-1

10-l, 109, 200 _ 53

.. 206 52

110, ms , . llS

37, 50, 59, 82, us, uu

Uogora Rollins Rose Ross Rouse . Russell Uyuu . Ryder·.

Sabin . Salford Salyards . Sampson. Samson . Sargent . Saunders Saunderson

3-l ms 62

. 30, 79, 61 H

. . 107

. 29, 106 20

Soule Southworth Spicer . Spinner Spotfonl Spooner Spraizuo Spurr . Stanahil Stanley Stark Stebbins Stephens. Stevena Stownrt Stickney Stillings Stimson St. ,John Stockwell Stone Straw Stu1lley Sturgis Sturtevant

!'AUE

. 79, 192 HlH

3(1

iH lO!i, 100, 11:l

!6, 87 20()

66 ' /i8

111, 13-l 131

HO • 74, 20:l Jal, l!li

l~I ]OS

206 191 195

180, 183 11-l, 193 JI0,]11

1!16 88 95

l'.\GE

Tyler I:!~

Upton 12n

Vnn Houghton 72 Ynu N"or1lcn 49 Vuu Scluuu~k !JI Varney 128 Vaughan. 61, 77, 202 Vickery lW Yinccnt U2 Vroman 58

Wade . \V1q,{IICI' W Walt l~\I

Walker, 82, 110, 114, 127, 12B, 188, ID7, l!H)

,vauace l!J7 Wnllingforcl 105 \Varner 37, 119 ,varren 18S Wnshbum 39, ~5 \VatCl'Hl:lll B8, ~JS, :!I I ,vntson 120 Wclih 128, 1-11

Savory (lntormnrrl111<cij), 47, 49, 50, HU, !l'J, 203

Swlrt, 2H, :HJ, us, ·Jl, H, !'H), !IH, 97, H9, JU'.?, 20~

Welch . ~0!)

"'elcome 12H 209 10-l Tabor . 10-l Talcott 3U Tappan

46 41

Weld ,vellmnn. ,veston

39 . 39, 130

12S 121 Xotcs anti con-cctions to 51

Sawyer Sayer . Sayler. Sayles . Scattergood Scollle ...

HO, 141 Taylor 63, 94, 144, 195, 208 ,v etmorc . . 20!1 128

Severy (intermarriages), 7U, Tenny. Thomas, 32, 60,

Sexton Sharples Shaw Shedd . Sheldon Sherman. Sherrett Shooks Shore

187, 188, 1H6 54 Thompson

Thrasher 1-ll 77, 82

200 196

77 88 62 02

'l'hnrlow . Thurston. Thybanlt Tibbitts . Tilton .. 'l'inkham. Tobey ..

ShurtllJfo, 75, 7H, 77,80,~8, 1r..?,:!l l 'l'olmnu . Sickle~ 204 Tourtelotte . Simmons. ti7 'rowlc . Skinner . 5-l Towne Sleeper 206 Tnck S111ith1 36, 44, 62, 69, 72, 7P, 105, •rucker

1281 l2U, 1901 194, 200, 203 Turley Snow . . 49, 9!1, 210, 211 Tuttle Suyuer . . . . . . . 63 Tyer

105, 10S Wheeler . 209 7G, 77, 81, 99, White . . 96, H17

181, 20!l, 211 Whitfortl 204 . 203 Whitlock 42 52, 87 \Vhitmorc 76

108 Whitney . 1U5 41 Wiggins . 39 36 Williams . . 58, 88, 182 70 Wing . . . . 20, til 77 Notes nud corrcction:::1 to 12H

SO, 181, 182 WinJ<ato . . . . . . . 109 !IS Winslow . . . . . . m, 1!15 77

lBS I Ba, 10-l

195 53

. 18H, lHl, HIS 90

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\Vood, 77, 1001 l:.!3, 187, 20:!, '.!OH \\'oodrorkc tu, 171 lH Woodw:ml . . 14:1 Wo01lworth. Worthy lake Wright Wrltington

41 Hli, 4S

36, 4111 82 32

42 Zimmer . 5S

NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND CORRECTIONS.

N. B.-Some of the following matter Is merely correction ot errnta; some I did not receive until after the book wns In press, and some, I regret to say,-that relating; to ,fames Savery (No. 4, Olil Colony l<'am!ly fl) nn,t his descendnnts,-waa communi­cated to me years ago In letters which got mialald In the mass of my correspon<lrnce urnl were only ,llscovort•d within n f(!\'\.' weeks.

Pages 2, 6, and 7. The form "Saverick" occurs as late as ,Jan. 31, 1607-8, on the Court Rolls of Mi<l<llesex Quarter Sessions.

Page 9. It is, however, likely that the Devonshire family l1a1l a good standing in that cou11ty long before the time of John Savery, of Halbert011; for as early as A. D. l ·!00, John Savery received the t,011s11re (turumrat11,.~ e.~t), i.e., was admitted to holy orders at an ordination held by Stafford, Bishop of Exeter, at Totnes. In 1535 a11d 1.5o!:i a so11 of John of Halber­ton was mayor of Totnes, and the family possessed Totnes Castle until 1591. Notwithstanding the statement of Risdon in hiH "S111·vny of Devon," (,hat this fa!llily "came originally out of Brittany." it is possible that they are <lescende<l from a Savery of Wiltshire, through a brn11ch extendi11g first into Soni­ersetshire, which lies between Wilts and Devon, and which gave a scholar of the name to Wi11chester School in 1433, as mentioned ou page 7.

Pages 11 and 137. Charles Lamb was born Feb. 10, 1775, and Hester Savory. May 31, 1777. She married July 1, 1802, Charles Dudley, merchant, of Chester Place, Lambeth, at Peter's Court, St. Martin's Lane, and dietl as Hester Dudley, Feb. 9, 1803, and was interred at Bunhill Field, the 13th of the same month. In March, 1803, Lamb wrote to his friend Manning, then in Paris:

" l)gAH MANNING, -1 seml you some verse~ I have made on the death of a young Quaker you may have hcarri me speak of as being in love with for some time while I lived at Pc11to11ville, though I had never spoken to her in my lifo. :-\lw died about a 111011th since."

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xiv NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND CORRECTIONS.

In the notes to Canon Ainger's edition of "Lamb's Letters," Canon Ainger sn.ys :

"Miss Emma Savory, of Blackheath, a niece of Hester Savory, has -supplied me with a few biographical details: 'She, ( II ester) was the eltlest sister of my father, A. B. Savory, and lived with hilu and his sisters, Anua and Martha, at Pentonville. She nuu-ried Charles Stoke Dudley, arnl died eight mouths aft.er her marriage, of fever. l possess a miuiature portrait of he1· which [ gn•at.ly value. My mother used to say that her beauty con­sisted more in expression than in regularity of features."

Canon Ainger adds that he had seen the 1iol"tmit, and after the lyric it was anything hut disappointing, showing :t bright­eyed gypsy face, such as we know so well from the canvas of Reynolds.

A. B. (full name Adey Bellamy) Savory was long the head of the great firm of goldsmiths at Corn hill. It is said that Lamb had a fellow-clerk with him in the India uHice uamed Savory.

Pages 11 ancl fi7. Tho Wc1lloorn;, like t.l1e \Velsh, ai-e rnli1:H of the ol'igi11ul Celtic race. But the war waged by the Saxon invaders in South Britain was more one of extermination than that which resulted from the Teutonic invasions of Gaul. Hence the Celtic blood prevails much more in France than in England.

Pages 16, 17, and 19. A difficulty in identifying this Thomas and Anth~ny with these two (supposed) grandsons of Robert aud ,Joan Savery requires notice. The first recorded birth of a child to Thomas of Plymouth was in March, 1644-5, when the two Thomases, born at I-fannington, would be forty­two and forty years old respectively. Early marriages wern the rule in those days. I have been unable to get anything from most of the vViltHhire aud neighbori11g records. Thonrns and Anthony, mentioned in Robert's will in 1598, were probably younger brothers, there bei11g one older than they, Richard; trnd it may be that a Thomas and an Anthony descended from one of these brother.:J, and, inheriting their rntmeH, came to Ply m­onth, while the Anthony who was baptized .Jan. 20, 1605-6, was tl1c same who died in Barbadoes, Ju.u. 24, 1682-3. But Thourns

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of Plymouth must have been horn at the latest as early as lliHi, or he wonl<l not have been old enough to serve in llowlall(l's expedition against Hocking. Here 1 may observe the name of the parish is now always spelt Hannington.

Page 32, lines 12 and 13. The tithingman was an officer appointed to see to the proper observance of the laws, especially thrn,e relating to the Sabbath, public won;hip, etc., a,ml to warn aml report delinq nents; and was so called from one who in old Saxon times had the oversight of the conduct of ten families; - n,n old name applied to a new otlice.

Pages 41 and 51. Date of birth of Clarissa Savery should prolmhly be Feh. 24 instead of 1-L

Page Gl. 1\1ltl Lo line 1--l: Bt>u,iamin S. Doty; 111. Aug. 2, 18H, at Barrnboo, Wi~., Auna ,veston.

Abo a11<l to chihlrcn nf Clarissrt Savery rt]l(l ,vilson Doty: VII l. Dora .\., h. ,fuue Hl, 1S5,i; ,I. in infancy.

Page SS. ,v1tile the work was going thrnugh the press I was lleeply grieved to hear of the death of Richard Gurney Savery, the yonnger, which occurred early in December, 1892. A 1:11111l•111porn.1·y 1mpe1· sn._ys ol' him:

''Ile wa~ horn in TahPrg anti e1lueatrnl at Whitestown Seminary. Iu 188,l he entered the ollice of W. K Scripture, of Rome, and began the study of htw. In 188ii he went with neorgc R. Cornish, now of Rome, to neatriee, N ch., arnl ope1H•<l a law ollice. ~{r. Savery wns rulmittt\d to the har ,Yhilc therP. After remaining there ahont two years, he returnml to Oneidit County arnl opened nn 011:iee in Taherg. Some two years ago he was ap• pointed a C"nitetl States govrrnment land agent. His he:ttlquarters have hPPII at Portland, Ore., hut he has tmvelled extensively through Cali­fornia, New :\lexieo, Ct.ah, :11111 other parts of the West and Southwest .. Not long ago he mts promoted to chief inspector of land agents for the ~ectiou of which Portland is the he:ulquarters. He was a Yery genial man, anti had many friends who will be Rurprise1l an,l pained at the news of his ,leath."

Pn.ge 62, line 15. The small figure 6 over the surname is a

misprint. Line 24, for Lomoni read Lamoni. Page !\5, line 7. Probably for IIaine.~ ren,d ]Iian.~. Sister

Charlotte I liam1 m. 1822 ,Joseph Fellows, Ammpolis Co., N. S. !'age G!), lines 17 to 19. Rev. Aaron Cleveland, great-great-

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grandfather of President Grover Cleveland, was from 17 50 to 1754 pastor of Mather's Congregational, now St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church, at lfalifax, N. S. Two nf his lirothen, also came to the Province ahont that time, Samuel arnl .Josiah, of whom Samuel wa:,; treaeherorn,ly kille<l liy tlie lmliaus. From these two brothers the Clevelands of Nova Scotia descended.

Page 0

70. According to the English law of primogenitme, Rufus L. Savery is the representative of the family. For in­stance: If the first Thomas, the immigrant, l1n<l home an hereclibtry tit.le, Hnfns L. wonl<l now lie lmari11g it, alHl l1is eldest son, '\Varel '\;V., would be the heir apparent.

Pages 7 4, 7 5, No. 2. l\fary Shmtl iffe, fomth wife of Deacon Thomas Savery, was prohahly widow of Fra11eis Slimtlilfo, :md mother of Olivia, wife of ,fames Savery, No. 11. • Pages 75, 7G, No. 4. James Savery, wlio married l\fen;y, daughter of Timothy Burbank, was probably that son of Tlimnas and Priscilla who was killetl hy foiling from a lmildi11g, instead of '\Villiam as stated. Tlrn,t he so met his death is a clear tradition among his descendants. The following is a cor­rected record of his children:

[. Mercy", h. l'iiG; 111. l'i!l'i, Sotlt l\fortou, sevt•utlt iu d,is(•1•ut fro111 Clcoq.1·,i l\IorHrn, who, a HH!HIIH•r ol' llw l'ilgTi111 :-iol'il'l,l' at Leyden, was latrn· tlil'ir agent in Lo1ulo11, awl, comiug to l'ly111011th in tltc "A11u," iu lll:l:c!, wa~ fatlll'r of Nathauil•I l\Iortou, long the hrilliaut 8L'crctary of the colony. Tlw descent was through Ephraim2 (second son of George), Ephraim", John\ ,Josiah5, Seth0 • Ch.: (1) Seth7 , h. 1797; (:!) Mercy, b. 1800, 111. Antipas 13righam; (3) William, b. 1802; (--!) ,Tames, h. 180li, m. l'amelia D. l:nhhi11H; (5) Betscr, b. 1808; (6) llarriet, b. 1S11, 111. William Atwood; (7) Ue11rr, b. 1815; (8) Caroline, b. 1S1S, m. Hichanl W. Holmes. She died aged 96, the instance of greatest longevity that I have found in the Old Colony Family.

11 II. James, b. August, 1777. Ill. Priscilla, twin of Jnmes; m. Perez Clrnrchill, and lived in Paris,

Oxfo1·tl County, Me. No children. 12 IV. Ruth, b. 1780.

V. l\fory, m. Stephen Greenleaf, nnd lived in Norway, Oxford, County, l\Ie.

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Page 80, No. 11. ,Tames Savery. Hesides what I have given, it should Jrnye been noted that he was born late in August, 1777; his wife was probably daughter of Francis Shurtliffe, of Carver, by wife Mary, daughter of Natlrnni-el Shaw; was a man of marked originality and independence of character, and was deemed eccentric in his ideas and habits, in many of which he waR merely al1ca1l of hiR time, for they are now popular aml fashionable. The church allll eo111mu11it,r were scrmdalized by his wearing a full long heanl, a 1>ractice previously unknown in the colony, antl rcpugna11t to Puritan notionf::, and he was subjected to some persecution by his persistence in the habit. !Ie tlic<l in 1880, in hiR eigltt.y-thirtl year. The following iR a correcte<l record of 1,iR cl1ildren: 2S I. William Slmrtlifli•', h. Ang. :J, 1801.

11. Susannah Lothrop, b. 1804; ti. ,fan. 20, 18G!l. I II. l\Iary Shaw, b. 1805; ll. Aug. !.l, 1821. IV. J:rnu,s, b.180i; m. ,fan. 24, 1833, Almira W. Cushman; no eh. V. Thomas, h. 1808; ti. Aug. 17, 1831.

29 VI. Priscilla. h. 1 S 11. VII. Reujamiu, h. 1S13: ti, Ang. 4, 1837.

Page 88, No. 28. William Shurtliffe Savery. Of him it should have been added that he was at first a farmer at East 1\liddleboro, arnl afterwards a general merchant at North Carver, doing a l:irge business for that clay. Although mostly self-edn­citted, his lrnmdetlge ,vas extensive, and he was a man of "mre and excellent qualities" of mind and heart. His first wife died Sept. 6, 1843 ; married, Recond, in the spring of 1845. He was elected about this time to the State House of Hepresentatives, heing for many :rears an active ,vhig in politics.

Page SH, No. 29. Priscilla Savery. Insert year of birth, 1811. Pages 111, 112, 113, No. 20. Governor Nathaniel Savory

married, in 1850, ·widow Maria Mazaro; and died April 10, 1874. Sl1e <lie(l Feb. l, 1800. Besides the cl1ildren mentio11ed in the text he had :

YI. Benjamin, b .• Tune 24, 1865. vrr. Isabella, b. ,June 11, lSiO.

All the children, except Agnes, are living on their father's domain, Peel I~lnud.

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Page 89, line 1-1-: Birth of Wilson 111orse; for 1825 re:Hl 18:i:i.

Page 129. La,nrn, Lewis, daughtel' of ,villiam Thomas" Savory and Laura, Deland, married Frank •L. \Ving, of Brook­lyn, N. Y., and has children: (1) IUelmnl Del.t111F; (2) Helen; (3) Dorothy.

Pages 133, 13-!. The most importn,nt information from Dar­badoes reached me after the Genealogy was in press. I have no doubt that John, the attomey, and his wife Elimheth, after­war1ls the testatrix:, whose will is in the itppernlix:, were the members of the Society of Friends, John aml Elizabeth Sa­very, who were fined, the former in 1(37-! and 1G78. He may have embraceil the cloctrines of the Friewls after he became an attomey, for the practice of the law was not n, favorite pursuit with the early Friencls, although in recent times the ::iec11lar avocation and religions profession have been jointly ho1101·e1l in the pel'son of Sir Ed w:ml Fry, late Lonl ,J nstice of the ( 'onrt

of Appeal in England. .John, gmntor in the 1leed of Hi-!-!, was very likely the father of the attorney.

Page 1-!8, note; line three from the bottom; for" a celebmte<l painter," read "the celebrated painter." To these nmues nmy be added the notable ones of Ahrahan1 Carlyle and ,John Uoherts, Quakers, who were executed in Philadelphi:i. in 1778 for their assistance to the Hoyal cause.

Page 161 fifteenth line from the bottom, for "this refn::ial" read "their refusal."

Page 181. l\Iy authority for the statement tl1at Jm;eph Severy lived for a time in Ipswich or Rehoboth is Tracey'ti "History of Sutton." It may he an enOl'.

Page 185. Nehemiah, son of John Severy, was born in 1767, not 17G9. (See page 192.)

Same page. Joseph Severy; or Savory, of Tolland, Conn., probably maniecl Sn.rah --.

Page 193. l\Iary Ann, daughter of Irn, Savory, married Asahel Cole. For Melina, name of her eldest daughter, read

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l\Ielissa. l\Ielissa Cole married -- Bennett, Harlem married Helen Leonard, Im married :Mary Hernlricks.

Same page, third line from bottom. Jonathan Savery mar­ried at Belfast, 1Ie., Polly Piper, both of Prospect, .Tune 12, 1812.

Page 194, lines 1 antl 3. The alternative dates were sup­plie,l me l,y different informants. I ,lo not know which are the correct 1htm.;.

J>age 205, line f>. For "Fmncis A.," reall "Frances A." Page 20G, line 21. For ".fanes" ( daughter of ,Jonathan M.

Savory), read ",Jane S." Page 210. After fifth line ruld to the chihlren of Willii.un

Franklin Savery and Fanny IL, his wife, whose full Christian name wa.s Fanny Rosaline :

V. Birdie, h. Nov. :.H, 1873; tl. June, 1874.

Page 211, ninth line from the bottom. Ma,rriage of Charles A., sou of Albert T. Savery, should be 1891, not 1881.

Page 221, A ppemlix A, a<hl from Probate records of Berk­sliirn, wl1iclt joins \Vilb;liire on tho east:

B1m1<SJIIJ:1,; AHCIIDEACONHY. - Will of William Savery, of North llink­~"Y, ith Octoher, 15(il. Bo<ly to ht: hurietl in Hink~ey Clmrchy:ml. Wife Margaret to he execntrix. ~fentions ~ons "'illiam aml Thom:ts, and son­in-law :\lark. .\l~o daughters Elizabeth, .\gnes, amDiargaret, :tml b1·other Harry Savery. Proved ~ovemher, 1/i{)l.

Will of William :-4avery, of Staufonl-in-the-Yalc, County Berkshire, l111shn.11!lmn11, -H.h ?lla,v, 15i~. Body to be buried in Stanford Chmchynrd; <l:111g-ht<•r Winliltll'~ :11111 ~011-i11-law llolloll'll.,Y; l\'if'e l•:ll11or ~ole nxccntrix. l'rtJ\'c<I !Bth .\pril, lui-L F. -/.0.l. .

\\'ill of Henry Savori<>, of Goosey, County Berkshire, 2!lth September, 1592; gentleman. Botly to be huricll in the Parish Churchyard of Stanford; sous ,Tohn, Henry, and Thomas, nntl deceased wife :Margaret, also the children of ,John and Thomas ffaverie. Executors, Thomas Saverie and Thomas Ste:ule, of .\hiug!lon. Proved 20th }[arch, 15!l5. I. 266.

\rill of ,Tohn Saverie the !.'Ider, of Upper Lmnhournc, County Berk­shire, hushandmau. 2d April, 1608. Botly to be buried in Clrnrchyal"II nt L:11nho11rne. B<>q11enths nil his property in l.Tpper Lambourne to ll'ife ~[aria for life, slw sole executrix. Sons William aml .Tohn and ll:t11ghter J.;Jizaheth. Prove,! Oct. 7, lGOS. K • .JDO.

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Feb. 15, 1611-12. A commission issued- to Henry Kempster, of Appleton, a creditor, to administer the goods of Thomas Savery, of Deuch­worth, deccasctl. Adm. 81, ii.

Page 224. John Savery, the te:;tator of Barhacloes, 180n, had (n,:; appear:; hy hi:; will) :;011:; ,lol111 mal \\'illiam, all(l llangh­ter Mary, who marriecl Thomas; and gmnd:;ons John Alex­ander Savery and George Sandel'S Savery. Jane was the name of the wife of his son John. The only Saverys in Barbadoes now are colored people, descended from slaves of former Saverys.

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SAVERY AND _SEVERY

GENE.ALOGY (SAVORY AND SAVARY)

A SUPl'LRMENT TO TUE OENEALOGICAL AND IlIOGRAPIIICAL RRCORD

PUBLISHED IN 1803, COMPRISING FAMILIES OMITTED IN

THAT WORK, AND OTIItm NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND

CORRECTIONS j BEING A CONTINUATION 0~'

THE NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND COR-

RECTTONR IN Tim OHfGINAL

WOHK FROM PAGE XX

BY THE AUTHOR

A. W. SAVARY, M.A. ANNAPOLIS HO\'AL, N. S.

BOSTON

IDlir 1ll'nrt Ifill Jrraa SAMUF.L USHER

176-18! HIGil STREET

1005

FINAL NOTE.

SA VERY, etc. Anno 6 Imzabeth, A.D. 1564, Robert Saverye conveyed to John Plummer for £40 "messuage and land with common pasture for 16 cows or calves, 4 horses and 80 sheep, in Hanyngdon." This may be the Robert who died 1598, leaving the will which gave me such important clues (sec Appendix A, pp. 217, 219, 220), or the one who died 1572. If the latter, he was not unlikely the father of the testator, and immediate com­mon ancestor of the New England and Barbadoes immigrants. It will be noticed that I suggest the possibility of ,John Savery of Westbury,· A.D. 1250, being the ancestor of both Lhe Devonshire and North Wilts families. It is not probable that he was the progenitor of both. ·westbury is consi<lcrably southwest from Hannington and the othe: parishes where the name so abounded at the period of the emigration, and near the border of Somerset­shire, which lies between Wilts and Devon. I have found that the arms assigned by Burke to Savory (No. 3, on page 9 of the fin;t e<lition of this work), "Paly of six argent ancl vert, a chief :-mhlc," wiLh the crest. there described, am! Lhc motto "110sec t.cip::;um," arc borne by a Glouccstcn,hirc family who have long had a scat at Circnccstcr, near the north boundary of Wiltshire, ancl not more than a dozen miles from Hannington. It is, perhaps, significant in this connection that our Plymouth immigrant Thomas, in all his autographs extant, spelled his name Savory, as did the descendants of Robert of Newbury. It seems most likely that our family is cognate with this one, and these must have been the arms borne by .John Savery, armiger, mentioned on page 7 of this supplement, sub anno 1545, as a deceased land owner in North Wilts.

In speculating on the origin of the "New Hampshire Family," probably issuing from the marriage of Robert Savory and Mary

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immigrants to New England, -Thomas and Anthony of Plym­outh, and William and Thomas of Essex County, - and probably also of the Anthony and John of Barbadoes. A Thomas Savory, son of Thomas and Alice, was baptized at Preshute, Wilts, July 11, 1613. The parish register of Welford, Berkshire, con­tains an entry of the baptism of Eleanora, daughter of Robert Savery, July 10, 1597, and the marriage of Richard Cooper to Helline Savery, Jan. 24, 1622. The oldest parish records of Aldborough, seven miles from Marlborough, Wilts, are said to abound with the names Thomas and Anthony Savery, but unfortunately they do not date back further than 1637. An Anthony Savery was a pro:minent resident of Aldborough in 1705.

2. The "New Hampshire Family," so-called by me only because I find the first certain trace of them in that State, although the branches of the "Essex County Family," scttkd in New Hampshire, out-number them there, I no longer assign to a distinct and later migration, directly from Wiltshire to that State, as suggested on page 125. I now think it more likely that these Savorys also are descended from the William who came in the "Mary and John," through some son or grandson who removed up the Merrimac River at a very early date. Robert of Newbury may not have been William's only son, although it seems unaccountable that if he had others we can find no trace of them. But it is clear that Robert had a son Samuel, born 1662, of whose descendants we have found no certain trace. The mystery of the line of this family back of Richard (page 126) I have no doubt lies hidden in some town, church, or probate rec­ords in New Hampshire, if we only knew where! This Richard, I find, died March 13, 1824, but I do not know his age at death. A possible solution of the difficulty would be that Robert's' son Samuel2 was the father of Benjamin3 (mentioned on page 103), who married Lydia Parker Dec. 8, 1715, and that this Benjamin3, besides Martha4, b. March 4, 1717-18, and Benjamin\ born Nov. 26, 1721, had another son Robert4, born about 1723, who

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was identical with the Robert who married Mary Pitman at Portsmouth, N. I-I., April 17, 1748 (page 126), and that this Robert4 was, as assumed by me as probable, the father of the Richard5, with whom I commence the genealogy as Richard2

on page 126. 3. The more I study the subject, the more I am convinced of

the possibility that the Saverys of Devonshire were an offshoot from the Wiltshire family, and this without derogating from the old tradition that they " came originally out of Brittany "; and that John Savary of Westbury, Wilts, in the middle of the 13th century, was the common ancestor of all of the name in the west and southwest, of England, his descendants spreading east­wardly into Berkshire, and southerly into Somerset and Devon. That he was the earliest progenitor of the Wiltshire family who bore the name as a surname, and therefore the common ancestor of the American and Wiltshire Saverys, is by no means an extrav­agant conjecture. On the contrary, it is very likely. He or his father rnay have been from Brittany. The name of John Savery of West.bury, vViltR, occurR very often in the records of that period, brought to light in those two publications so interesting to antiquarians, the Wiltshire ArchrEological and Natural History Magazine and the Wiltshire Notes and Queries. In the abstracts of the Inquisitiones post mortem, issued with the former in June, 1902, I find the name, as I do in the Noles and Queries, in various forms of spelling. Concerning the estate of James Husey, 34 Henry III., A.D. 1250, we find JonN SAVERY, a juror, the first occurrence of the narne as a family narne in Engl1:sh records; concerning the estate of Walter de Pavely,* July 3, 40 Henry III., A.D. 1256, we find John Savari, a juror; concerning the estate of Thomas Danesey, t Jan. 8, 1265, John Saveri a juror, in the Enquiry. In the" Testa de Neville" or "Book of Fees," about A.D. 1254, under the form Sawary, the same man and S:waric de Dulton and Clarice his wife arc mentioned as land-

* /nq. 1'· ,n,, Part l., pp, G antl 18. t Id., pap;e 42.

6 INTRODUCTION TO SUPPLEl\fEN'f.

holders in Dutton and Bratton.* In the inquisition as to the estate of Richard de Anesye, A.D. 1250, I find .John Saver and Saver de Dulton,t whom I take to be the same as Savery and Saveric; about 1254, Saveric de Sches' ,+ the latter an abbrevia­tion, probably for Sherston (anciently Secorstan and Cherston), is named as one of those who should pay the stipend of the Chaplain of Stoke. In a Curia Regis (King's Court) roll, A.D. 1265 § we find John Severy and others, successful defend­ants in a claim by a widow for dower in lands held by him in Westbury. In a charter of King Henry III., A.D. 1266,11 .John Savary, with Savaric de Dulton and Clarice his wife, is men­tioned as tenant of a Serjanty of Dulton and Bratton, for which they were to pay ten marks yearly. In the charter of Geoffrey, A.D. 1246, to John, son of Roscelin de Bratton occurs the following: "To all the men of Westbury, as well French as English." ,r It would be interesting to know whether the Hundred or Town of Westbury at that date contained a colony of natives of Normandy or Brittany, or whether the designation " French " was then applied to descendants of the 1

Normans who came with William the Conqueror, or followed in such numbers in the century succeeding the conquest.

* Wilts Notes and Queries, Vol. II., pp. 317, 360. t lnq. p. m., Part I., p. 11. tWilts Notes and Queries, Vol. II., p. 358. Whether tho sons of those Savories were

known by that name as a surname or by the name of a place of residence, or by other names given to them, which finally crystallized into family names I cannot conjecture. They may even have been called by the trades they adopted, as Smith, Taylor, Shepherd, and the like. These records of the thirteenth century are very interesting as showing the initial development of surnames as we now use them, and the names ace a strange mixture of English, French, and Latin. Robert de Aula would be our Robert Hall, and <le Aqua is the forerunner of Waters. Sometimes the same man is called in one record by his trade, as Richard le Tailleur (Richard the tailor, Richard Taylor), the other by a place name, as Richard de Wilton. Savary or Savaric, Bishop of Bath, was of the Bohun family. He had an elder brother Franco de Bahun, who held the estates of Savaric Fitz Savaric, an uncle. Their father was Geldwin, and their grandfather Savaric Fitz Chana, who had married a daughter of Richard de Merv, who was son of Humphrey de Bahun, A.D. 1066, and was first Lord of Midhurst in Sussex, temp. Henry I. Savaric Fitz Chana's father was Ralph, who married Chana, daughter of Geldwin of Saumur. Jocelyn <le Bohun, Bishop of Sarum, 1142, and Richard de Bahun, Bishop of the Norman ·cotentin, 1151-1174, were uncles of Bishop Savary. From Bohun come the modern names Bown and Bowen.

§ Wilts Notes and Queries, Vol. III., p. 249. II Id., Vol. II., p. 360. ,r Id., Vol. II., p. 278 and Vol. III., p. 184.

INTRODUCTION TO SUPPLEMEN'l'. 7

Coming down to a much later date,- Anno 3, Henry VIII., A.D. 1545, in a calendar of II Feet of Fines "* for Wiltshire, we find Thomas Horton and Thomas Bamfyld, Arm., and Eleanor his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of John Sav­ery, Arm., assure messuages and lands in Cricklade, Chelworth, antl Clalfield, and advowson of the free chapel of St. Blaise in Chalfield, for £300. "Armiger" here, of course, implies that this John Savery was entitled to and bore a coat of arms. The Serv­ington family, in earlier times spelt Cervynton, with which the Saverys of Devonshire intermarried, was probably of a Wiltshire ongm. The Wilts N ates and Queries, Vol. I., p. 393, gives wills of two of them in 1486 and 1510, but when Stephen Savery, son of John of Halberton, married one of the coheiresses t of John Serv­ington, temp. Henry VIII., they were both of Devonshire. Descendants, however, removed to Wiltshire, for we find Serv­ington Savery, father and son, at Marlborough in 1705 and 1713.

To come over to this side of the Atlantic: Notwithstanding the expense which I incurred in advertising and my enormous cor­respondence, there were some branches, especially of the Essex County Family in New Hampshire, which I failed to find, and who never heard of my work during the twelve years I was engaged in it prior to its publication in 1893. For instance: I have the children of Samuel5 Savory, son of the first Chase Savory (Chase4, Robert3, William2, Robert1

), but without dates, ancl some of their descendants quite imperfectly, and I have the children of his brother Daniel with dates, but none of their marriages or children. Had it been my good fortune before 1893 to have known my esteemed correspondent, Mrs. Anna M. Riley of Claremont, N. H., with whom I chanced to get into communication about four years ago, the genealogy of this

*" Feet of Fines," or II Finis," or .. Final Concords." Theseweremethodsfortheassut'­ing the transfer of lands and tenements from one party to another. Wilts Notes and Queries, V~l. IfI., p. 256.

t A man's heir-at-law was his eldest son. If he had no son his daughters inherited in equal ~hares.

8 INTRODUCTION TO SUPPLEMENT.

important line might have been made as full and accurate as any in the book. As it is, it must appear among the further notes, additions, and corrections to follow.

I have also to correct a very serious error in the Severy­Savery family at page 185. On information received from a descendant of Ira Savory, I stated that Backus5 Savory, the brother of lra5 (Joseph4, Thomas3, John2, John1

), was reported to have died on a visit to Spain. This is entirely wrong: I find that his name was William Backus, and that his father removed to Marietta, N. Y., from which place William Backus went to New Orleans by sea at the age of about eighteen, and going up the Mississippi, settled on Bayou Plaquemine, La., where or near which reside his numerous and respectable de­scendants, whom I will give in their proper order.

In the Barbadoes records, Appendix A, burials" 1691, July 4, Edward Savery" should be Edward Severy. See N. E. Hist. Genl. Register, Vol. XLIX., p. 387. In his will he mentions his brother Andrew Severy in Marblehead.

In the churchyard of St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Perth Amboy, N. J., is a stone with this inscription dated 1753: "Here lyes ye body of D. Savery wife of Peter Savery aged 59 years." It has been shown that Peter was a common name among the early Severys of Marblehead, but it is impossible to conjecture who this Peter was; perhaps of Dutch origin. From the probate records of Middlesex County, Mass., and the town records of Lincoln, I learn that Timothy Savory died at Lincoln, Feb. 28, 1818, leaving a wife. Mary and two children, Henry and Mary, the latter under age. Peter Underwood administered on his estate, and charged for going to Fort Warren to see Henry, from which it would seem probable the latter had some connec­tion with the army. I cannot trace this Timothy. He may be from the Marblehead family. I have also learned of a Savery family at Talladega, Ala. Joseph N. Savery removed from Indiana to that place long before the Civil War, and died many years ago, leaving three children, one of whom, Joseph

INTIWDUCTION TO SUPPLEMENT. 9

,a., still lives there. Taul. 1\1., a brother of Joseph N., recently died in Portland, Ore.; John A., another brother, died in California; and two other brothers, Greene W. and Seaborn F., probably remained in Indiana. I have failed to find by correspondence with Joseph G.' any traces of their origin. One is disposed to dream that they may be descendants ,of Joseph Savery awl Experience Hiller, mentioned on page 29.

FINAL NOTE.

SA VERY, etc. Anno 6 Imzabeth, A.D. 1564, Robert Saverye conveyed to John Plummer for £40 "messuage and land with common pasture for 16 cows or calves, 4 horses and 80 sheep, in Hanyngdon." This may be the Robert who died 1598, leaving the will which gave me such important clues (sec Appendix A, pp. 217, 219, 220), or the one who died 1572. If the latter, he was not unlikely the father of the testator, and immediate com­mon ancestor of the New England and Barbadoes immigrants. It will be noticed that I suggest the possibility of ,John Savery of Westbury,· A.D. 1250, being the ancestor of both Lhe Devonshire and North Wilts families. It is not probable that he was the progenitor of both. ·westbury is consi<lcrably southwest from Hannington and the othe: parishes where the name so abounded at the period of the emigration, and near the border of Somerset­shire, which lies between Wilts and Devon. I have found that the arms assigned by Burke to Savory (No. 3, on page 9 of the fin;t e<lition of this work), "Paly of six argent ancl vert, a chief :-mhlc," wiLh the crest. there described, am! Lhc motto "110sec t.cip::;um," arc borne by a Glouccstcn,hirc family who have long had a scat at Circnccstcr, near the north boundary of Wiltshire, ancl not more than a dozen miles from Hannington. It is, perhaps, significant in this connection that our Plymouth immigrant Thomas, in all his autographs extant, spelled his name Savory, as did the descendants of Robert of Newbury. It seems most likely that our family is cognate with this one, and these must have been the arms borne by .John Savery, armiger, mentioned on page 7 of this supplement, sub anno 1545, as a deceased land owner in North Wilts.

In speculating on the origin of the "New Hampshire Family," probably issuing from the marriage of Robert Savory and Mary

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!On. FIN A.L NO'rE.

Pitman at Pol'tsmouth in 1748, and thci1:- possible descent from the Benjamin who marrictl Lydia Parker (page Hl:l), it mmit !lot

he forgotten that this Benjamin rnay be n, son of tlmt lknjarni11, son of Thomas of Plymouth, whom we lose sight of aftm· his second apprenticeship. (Pages 20 and 25, first edition.) The relationship of the two families in that generation must have been clo8e enough to involve a rnutual recognition and acquaintance, anrl Benjamin, after he grew up, may have sett.led among his kinsfolk in Essex County. We can treat this problem only by s1u-rn1ses.

I find that the name Savory is now common in the English county of Norfolk, in which we found a Savery at Norwich in 1660 (page 12, first edition), and that there was a family of landed proprietors in Essex in the fourteenth century, probably entitled to the al'ms, No. 2 on page 0, first edition .

.. SYVRE'r, SEVERY, SA VERY, etc. Abo11t the year 18:10 Georgt' Syvret, of the island of .Jersey, settled in northern New Bruns­wick, and the name by which his descendants are now known is Sievry, developing as an anglified name on nearly the same line that it·followed in New England. All those of whom I treat in Part II are certainly entitled to the cont of arms given oppositt, page 177. It is a coincidence which 1 cannot account for Umt. these were also the arms of Oliver Cromwell.

ERRA'l'A.

Page 4, lines 0 and 12, for "Aklborough" read "Aldbournc." Page 6, note, line 12 from the bottom, for " the other " read

" in another." Page 7, line l, for" anno 3" read" anno 36.'' Page 7, line 4, for "coheirs" read "coheiresses." Page 7, line 12, for " son " read " grandson."

SUPPLEMENT

TO

SA VERY AND SEVERY GENEALOGY.

CONT.AINING FURTHER NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND CORRECTIONS TO THE ORIGINAL WORK.

PART I.

T H E SA V ER Y FAM I L I ES. (SAVORY AND SAVARY.)

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY.

Pages 27, 28, 29. Conclusive proof has at length been found that Thomas Savery, born Oct. 3, 1681, was son of SamueP (Thoma:/). In a work entitled, "Soldiers in King Philip's War," by George Madison Bodge, page 440, the following entry is quoted under date 1733: "Thomas Savery of Plymouth, for his father Samuel," a grant of land No. 7 in Narragansett Town­ship, now Gorham, Me. In 1675, when the soldiers were mus­tered to· march against the Narragansett fort, a proclamation was made to them that if they took the fort they should have a grant of land besides their pay. In 1685, a petition was sent to the General Court for the land, and it was assigned, but not individunlly. fo 1727, a petition for parLition am! allotment was made. At this date probably no other son of Samuel was living, and six years afterwards, 1733, when t.he allotment was made, Thomas himself had died, of which the authorities may not have been aware. His son Uriah administered on his estate, May 21, 1731. His daughter who married Ichabod Sampson was probably Mercy, not Mary.

Page 2!J, Family 3, II., Joseph Savery. We fin<l in a record of selection and allotment of lands in Rochester, Dec. 3, 1795, Joseph Savery's " pitch," and that he rene,ved his " pitch " Dec. 31, 1795. The Joseph in the text would then be 89 years and 10 months old. The Joseph who thus " pitched " upon u piece of land may have been a son, who afterwards removed from the colony. See Introduction, pages 8 and 9, for mention of an Indiana-Alabama family which I have rccrnt.ly discovered. Rochester was set off from Barnstable to Plymouth County, -7V. 19, 1707.

14 SAVERY AND SEYFrnY GENEALOGY.

Page 31. Deborah Bumpus, or Bump, wife of Uriah Savery, died Feb. 16, 1792, aged nearly 79,having been born Aug. 31, 1713. Deborah Bumpus, w\fe of Uriah Savery, and her posterity (including myself), can claim descent from Elder William Brew­ster of the "Mayflower" in the following line, which I was enabled to trace by the aid of a Perry lineage by George Adelbert Perry of New York in Vol. XI., American Ancestry, pp. 148-50, and have since verified by other records. Elder William1

Brewster had daughter Patience2, who married, Aug. 5, 1624, Thomas Prence, afterward governor of the colony. Thomas and Patience (Brewster) Prence had daughter Rebecca3, married Edmund Freeman, Jr. Edmund and Rebecca (Prence) Free­man had daughter Rebecca4 married Ezra2 Perry, Jr. Ezra and Rebecca (Freeman) Perry had daughter Mary5, marri<•d Isaac Bumpus; and Deborah@ (Bumpus) Savery, in a deed to her son Nathan, my grandfather, dated Dec. 24, 1779, an(l recorded in Vol. LX. of Plymouth records, page 60, speaks of her" mother, Mary Bump wife to Isaac Bump and daughter of Ezra Perry of Sandwich.'/,-. Now Ezra Perry, Sen., of Sandwich married, Feb. 12, Q_7~l; Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess, ana in his will mentions all his children, among whom there was no Mary. His eldest son, Ezra2, born Feb. 11, 1652, who married Rebecca, daughter of Edward Freeman, Jr., had a daughter Mary whom he mentions in his will, born Dec. 21, 1675, and who was evidently the wife of Isaac Bumpus, and aged about 38 when her daughter Deborah, wife of Uriah3

Savery, was born. The real name of Minnie Warren, the little wife of little " Tom Thumb," was Minnie Bump or Bumpus, but she assumed the name of Warren at the time of her intro­duction to the public, that being her mother's maiden name. Her father lived at Micldleboro.

Page 32. Elizabeth Savery, probably the daughter of Thomas Savery and Elizabeth Randall, died Nov. 24, 178- (last figure _uncertain), said in the record to be aged 16, "of a hectical com­plaint."

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. 15

Page 34. The line of de~cent I have given of Deidamia Sabin, second wife of Nathan5 Savery, is wrong. Jcremiah4 Sabin, born Feb. 17, 1717 (Jeremiah3, Benjamin2, William1

), was not the Jeremiah who c"ame to Nova Scotia, for he removed from Pom­fret, Conn., to Pawlings, Dutchess Co., N. Y., where he married and had children. I am unable to place the Jeremiah who married Susanna Le Valley. He came to Yarmouth County_ about 1762, and thence moved to the mouth of Sissiboo River with wife and older children about 1765, and later removed with his eldest son, Jeremiah, to Wilmot, Annapolis County, where he died soon afterward. very aged.

Page 36, Family No. 4.

VI. Sarah", eldest daughter of Nathan• and Deidamia (Sabin) Savery, married Charles Thybault, more correctly Thibault, " of French extraction." He was an Acadian, and, I have been told, was born in New Englund during the exile, and was an elderly widower and she young at the time of their marriage. They had sons Charles, Sabin, Benjamin, and Frederic, the latter of whom probably left no posterity. The descendants of the first three, and also some of his descendants by first wife, arc now known hy the name of Tibbitt and Tibbitts, a name which writers on English surnames derive in England from the same French or old Norman name Thibault, the French form of the Gothic Theobald, meaning " Gift of God," Theo­dore being a more purely Greek form of the same name. A daughter Susan married Oliver Comeau, and a daughter Dei­damia married Archange (Archangel) Comeau, of respectable Acadian origin, of both of whom probably all the descendants are in the United States, many in or near Gloucester, Mass. The youngest daughter, Sarah M., married, as his second wife, ,Villiam Pitman, of a good Yarmouth family, descended from an immigrant ancestor to l\fa.rblehead, and their descendants are numerous and respectable.

IX. Esther, who married .James Smith, a Loyalist or son of a Loyalist,, settled in Digby County, had a large family, whom in the nbsence of town and church records and want of care to pre­serve family records, and the children having all died before the hook was commenced and t.hcir children scattered, I was unable to truce. A son, Isaiah, lived at ·weymouth, and a -daughter Debornh married Valentine Monroe, grandson of Col. Henry Monroe, l\l. T'. P. of Annapolis County, and left

16 SA VERY AND SEVERY GENEALOGY.

one son, a Baptist clcrgymi:n, and sons Isaiah and others living at Milford and Lake Monroe, Annapolis County.

X. Susat11111 Le Valley married James Brown, altio, no doubt, ~011 of a ])ighy Loyalist. For the reasons just mentioned I was unahle to give list of her children. There was u sou Nathan and a son Major Andre; a daughter, married Fleet; sou, married Tibbitt, a descendant of Sarah (No. VI.); and probably others.

XI. Deidamia married first, George 1,V orthylake; second, Stanley Wright. I find a George Worthylake, keeper of the lighthouse in Boston harbor, died A.D. 1718,* perhaps an ancestor of this family. By first husband she had two sons, Uriah, married a Keen, and George, married Elizabeth Tibbitts, daughter of SaLiu, and several daughters.

XIII. Deborah, who married John Andrews, had sons, \Villiam, George, and John, all men of large build,- the latter, who is living, is six feet six inches in height,- aml several daughters.

XV. Lydia, married Samuel Doty, had several daughters: (1) Esther, married Asa Porter 2d, no children; (2) Mary Aun, married Daniel ·wetmore, master shipwright, and removed to Con­necticut; (3) Hepzibah, married James Murray; (4) Eleanor, marriP.d Tunis T,mnill,rt.son; (ii) Lydia, married William Mnrray.t

Page 42, fourth line from bottom. Elizabeth Tyer, whose father was Henry T.

" Bessie Tyer " should be Henry George Tyer,. not

Page 43. My esteemed kinswoman arnl coadjutrix, LYDIA A. SAVARY, married, March 2, 1898, LAFAYE'l"l'E ALLEN. He died July 12, 1002, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.

Page 47. Samuel Marshall, father of Olivia, wife of Sabine Savary. I was wrong in my conjecture that Samuel Marshall was of the same family as the illustrious American jurist, or related to the Guysborough, N. S., Loyalist family of note. All the American genealogies of Marshall in print or in manuscript have been searched, with the result of excluding him. But I find among the Loyalist papers copied for the New York Public Library, Vol IV., pp. 122, 123, the claim for compensation for losses of one Samuel Marshall of North Carolina who testifies, Feb. 27, 1783, that he went from London thirty years previously

* New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXXIX., p. 290. t Thia may not he in correct order of age.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY. 17

and lived at Wilmington, N. C.; came to London in 1775 and stayed until 1778, when he went to New York, and thence to see his family at Wilmington under a flag of truce, and on his return voyage was taken prisoner, and sent to Salem. Was exchanged and sent to England, 1779. Returned to see his family, who he heard were in great distress; he reached his plantation in the middle of May, "three years ago" (probably 1780), via Holland and St. Eustatius; the American authorities offered him any commission in their army, but he refused it, and afterwards joined Lord Cornwallis, and raised a company of Loyal militia; was obliged to flee to Charlestown, and came to England November, 1781, leaving wife and seven children in America. His house at Wilmington was pulled down by the King's troops, and he valued his land confiscated at £1,500 and' other property £500. He states his age then as 51, so that he was born in 1731 or before Feb. 27, 1732. Allowed £100 per annum. In Vol. XLVII., pp. 426 to 442, of the same papers, on Nov. 9, 1785, he made a more extensive claim which seems to diff cr in some points from the earlier one. He here fixes the date of his removal to America at the year 1768. Perhaps the earlier visit referred to in the first deposition was of a transient character. He says he was residing at Cape Fear when the troubles com­menced; repeats the account of his capture, relates second capture, and that he was retaken by a Jamaica man; he refers to his pension of £100, etc. I believe Samuel Marshall of Yar­mouth waR hiR elcleRt son, probably born in England about 1757 or before April 3, 1758. Being a young man of 25 at the close of the war, he probably had served in his father's company and was among the refugees from the Southern Colonies at, New York, and, being of an enterprising disposition, preferred to remain in this rising province rather than rejoin his father in England. It does hOt seem probable that the elder Samuel returned to America, although in his first claim he expresses his willingness to go to Nova Scotia or any part of America, provided he is enabled to take his family with him.

18 SAVERY AND SEVERY GENEALOGY.

Page 53, Family No. 28. James Homan, to whom Sarah Nelson Savery was married, was born at Thurlow, Upper Canada, Dec. 18, 1822, and died in 1893 at Nunda, Ill. Their son, (I.) David Uriah, married Mary E. Cline, not Sarah E., as stated; their son (V.) Leonard Allen married Anna F. Robb. "Amos S." was a printer's error overlooked in proofreading. Their daughter, (VII.) Mary Amanda, died Sept. 27, 1892.

Page 62, Family No. 43. For typographical errors see page xv. One of Richard Savary's principal inventions was the celebrated "cold rolled shafting," which, he neglecting by -other pressing business to patent it, was patented by others, though in the litigation he was declared to be the original owner. He lost through "failing to give it to the public." It is a :;;pecialty of the " American Iron Works," one of the largest firms in the country. He was the first presiding elder of the "Church of Latter Day Saints" in Pittsburg, Va., in the days of the murdered Joseph Smith, 1843-44. His brother Dennis (page 46) was a member of the High Council of the same St31-ke.*

IV. William N. O'Dwyer of New York died 1901. VII. Clara L., now Mrs. Clara L. French, lives at Roxbury, Mass.

Her daughter, Clara F.•, married Pearce Robinson, Manchester, N.H.

VIII. Richard H. B. died 1877, not 1854 as stated. X. Name of daughter of Alma 0. should be Marcine Marie, not

Mercine M.

Rev. RICHARD SAVARY SALYARDS is a minister of the "Re­organized Church of •Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints " and editor of the Saints' Herald, their newspaper organ. This body believes in the Book of Mormon, but utterly repudiates polyg­amy, declaring, and I think proving, that Joseph Smith, the prophet and founder of Mormonism, never advocated or tolerated it, and that the pretended revelation authorizing polgyamy attributed to him was a forgery. Joseph Smith, eldest son of the Prophet, is the President of this body which has had its head-

*"Stake" was tbe designation of a local organized body of" Latter Day Suints."

ELIZA T1-n:1rnsA IT UN'r,

\\' I l•'B OJ•' 'I'll J,) A \J'l'IIOH.

'l'Ill•J OLD COLONY FAMILY. 19

quarters at Lamoni, Iowa, since l881, arnl is entirely <lissociate<l from the Mormons of Utah. The courts have llecided that as n corpomtiou they are the real legal succrn,sors of the church founded by the first Joseph Smith, as they themselves claim to be its lineal successors in doctrine and discipline. Zaidee V. Smith, first wife of Mr. Salyards, was the third daughter of Joseph Smith the younger. Her mother was Emeline Griswold, daughter of Elias an<l Lucinda Griswol<l. She was born at Nauvoo, Ill., April 12, 1863; married June 19, 1883; lliell Jan. 8, 18\H, not 1890 as stated. She was a woman of much nath:e refinement, an<l highly esteeme<l wherever known. At their marriage they lived in Pittsburg, and after two removals he ::;eUled, in 1888, in Lamoni in onler to assume editorial work. on the Ilcrald, becoming, in 1900, chief editor, and sccrctn,ry to President Smith. Ile is also secretary to the church and ha:,, bPen mayor of Lamoni, Olll' of the trustees of Graceland College, and is now one of the school board and of the Standanl High Council of the Church. He u~arried, 2d, June 27, 1895, Christi­mia, daughter of Charles and Catherine U. Steadman of Lamoni.

Page li5. I atll i11debLc\l to Hou. Uauiel Waite Howe, genealogist of the Howe family, for a correction in the lineage of the Howes of Nova Scotia an<l New Brunswick, which I copiecl from the Report of the " Howe Family Gathering," 1871, anJ was the one until lately generally received. The true line is Abraham1, lsracl2, John3, Joseph4, John" the Loyalist.

Page GG. Lieut.-Col. Benjamin Hunt, in his claim for com­pensaLion for losses as a Loyalist, says that he was formerly of West Chester, N. Y., was a native of East Chester and son of Mose::; Hunt, and that he luul been firmly attached to the Loyal cause from the beginning. Therefore the author of Wyman's '' Hunt Genealogy '' errs on p~ges 16!) and 170 in confounding him with another Benjamin Hunt, who was an ollicer in the Conti­nent.al Army. He was from Thmrnts1 of Stamfonl, Conn., and Hy(• and \V(•s(. Chester, N. Y ., t.lirou~h Thon1:u,2 of West, Farms, N. Y., ,Josiah:i, ,Josiah\ l\fo::;es". Thomas1 was a Churchman

20 SAVEHY AND SBVmtY GENl~AL0GY.

and Royalist. On this and the following page for " William Moreton Johnstone" read "William Martin Johnstone."

Page 68. Hon. George2 Crookshank, son of Capt. George', was born in New York, 1763, and died July 3, 1859. He rernovcd from St. John to Toronto where he was a member of Ll1c legisla­tive Council, etc. Robert3 (Robert2, George1

), mentioned on twentieth line from the bottom, should be Robert W. Crookshank, long manager of the Government Savings Bank in St. John, N. B. Rachel Crookshank was second wife of Dr. James Macaulay.*

Pages 49 and 70, Family No. 20. Descendants of NA'l'HAN 6

SAVARY the younger (Nathan5, Uriah4, Thomas3, Samuel2, Thomas 1

) and Phccbe Dunbar.

I.

IV.

47A V. VII.

X.

XI.

Armanilla married, first,, James Holmes; ~eeornl (l!JOO), .Johnston Hall, auJ lives in Hanford, Kiugs County, California. Ch. by first husband: (1) Lizzie8, married Golden; (2) Abl,ie, mm-rim I l(mnpt.un; (:1) Addie, uiarrk•d I )e111111i11g,;, I lath, 1\1.,., (4) James; (5) David, living in Marblehead; (u) Peleg, died.

William Henry, who married Elizabeth Wagoner, has children now surviving: (1) William 13.8; (2) Sanford; (3) Augu:;t.a; (4) Alvie; (5) Lennie; (6) Belle; (7) Ida; (8) Nathan.

l\fo::;es \Va:;hington, born Dec. 21, 18·13. George Malcolm, married Eliza Carty. Ch.: (I) Clifford;

(2) Lizzie, married Grnnt; (3) Carrie; (4) Jerrcid; (5) George; (6) Carfield; (7) .John; all but the last born in Nova Scotia. Lives at Bell Rock, Malden, Ma,;,;.

Nathan Thomas married Maud Snow, of Smith's Cove, Digby County. Both died in less than two years after umrriage. No children.

1>J1<cbe frances, born Nov. 21, 181>5; married, Nov. 21, 1870, William Henry Chute. 8ee Chute Genealogy, pa~e 127, where her name is state,! to be F:mny l,;abd. Ch.: (1) Fanny Ellen8, born Dec. rn, 1871; married, Jan. 11, lo!l:!, George M. Morse; (2) Minnie Ada, born Nov. 12, 1873; (3) Ira l\Ioody, born .Jan. 17, 1876; (4) Lizzie May, born .Jan. 10, 1878; (5) Charles Dunham, born April 7, 1880, died March 12,

*Avery peculiar thin and fiat gold charrn, larger in circumference than a t cn-tlollar gold piece, re::iemLling an A::siatic coin, u.ppurently an heirloom, wa~ given by Ha.chel orCaUicriue Crookshank to her niece Elizabeth (Crookshank) Otty on her marriage, and L,y her to her daughte1·-i11-law Hetty (llowe) Otty, nnd by the latter to her gmu<lson John Howe Savary, who bears the name of her father an<l brother, an<.l wear::i it in memoriam.

THE OLD COLONY FAMILY, 21

1882; (6) William Maxwell, born Dec. 22, 1881; (7) James Kinsman, born Sept. 13, 1884; (8) Rupert Dyer, born June 28, 1887; (9) Vernie Florence, born June 28, 1887.

47A.

MosEs WASHINGTON7 SAVARY (Nathan6 the younger, Nathan5, Uriah4, Thomas3, Samttel2, Thomas1

), the fifth child and third son of Nathan Savary the younger, was born Dec. 21, 1843, married Emma McKay of Tiverton, Digby County, N. S., and lives now at Beverly, Mass.

CHILDREN.

I. Nom Marintha8, b. Oct. 13, 18(15; m. 1886, William Smith, iron

founder, Salem, Mass.; d. April 30, 1890. Ch.: (1) Grace Mary 8.

II. Em1na Beatrice Albina, b. January, 1868; m. 1885, Frank Percy,of Bltth, :rifo. Ch.: (1) Leroy Cummings9•

III. Angus Irving, b. April 7, 1870; m. 1896, Carrie Wilcorne, of Ipswich. Ch.: Hazel8

• Is a druggist at Ipswich, Mass. IV. John -Williams, b. March 1, 1874; m. 1894, Gertrude Haskins; a

grocer in Salem; d. Feb. 11, 1898. Ch.: (1) Ernest E. 9; (2) Edith Ruth.

V. Ann Isabel Maude, b. March 20, 1876; m. 1894, George E. Whitney, of East Boston, Mass.

VI. James Moses, b. Oct. 28, 1878; lives in Boston. VII. Budford Wallace, b. Sept. 1, 1880; lives in Lynn, Mass.

VIII. Alfred Henry, b. April, 1882. In telephone business, Bath, Me. IX. Herbert, b. Dec. 23, 1884; d. April 7, 1900.

Page 70. Joseph H.7 (Family No. 48) and Lizzie (Raymond) Savary had also child.

V. John Duer, horn June 28, 189l. Since 1803 his wire and u second wife and thre~ of his five children have died.

Page 76. Elizabeth (Davidson) Savery died Aug. 1, 1821, aged, it is recorded, 72.

Pages 91 and 92, Family No. 34. _ The late WILLIAM SAVERY, of South Carver, through Joshua Perkins, the father of his grand­mother, Hannah Perkins who married Peleg Savery, page 77, was a descendant of three ancestors who came over in the" Mayflower," Miles Standish, John Alden, and George Soule. Alexn.nrler,

22 SAVERY AND SEVERY GENEALOGY.

son of Miles Standish, married Sarah, daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, and had daughter Sarah who married Benjamin, son of John and grandson of George Soule; Benja­min and Sarah (Standish) Soule had daughter Hannah, born 1696, who married George Sampson. George and Hannah (Soule) Sampson had daughter Hannah, born 1730, who mar­ried Joshua Perkins, and Joshua and Hannah (Sampson) Per­kins were the parents of Hannah, wife of Peleg Savery. See Winsor's History of Duxbury, pages 320 and 321, and Davis' "Landmarks of Plymouth, Appendix."

Page 95. Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel• Savery, was not, as suggested, sister of Deborah, the wife of his brother Uriah, but a daughter of Benjamin and Susannah Bumpus. Benjamin was probably a cousin of Isaac Bumpus, the father of Mary. She was born April 10, 1719, and died Dec. G, 1787. Samuel'::; :::iecornl wife was Lois Foster who first married Dr. Josiah4 Sturtevant (Josiah3,Sarrmel2,Sarnuel1), who was born Sept. 4, 17~0, and being driven from Halifax for his loyalty, died in Boston while serving as a surgeon in the British Army, April, 1775. After she hall again become a widow she lived at Woodstock, and Windsor, Vt., with her daughter, Mrs. Hannah (Sturtevant) Perkins. The following is the inscription on her tombstone at Windsor, Vt.: "Widow Lois Savery died Feb. 20, 1815 a. 79 years. Formerly the widow of Doct. Josiah Sturtevant, Halifax, County of Plymouth, Massachusetts." She was Dr. Sturtevant's second wife and was a daughter of Thomas and Lois (Fuller) Foster.

Page 97. Betsy, daughter of Samuel Savery and Rebecca Swift, died Feb. 19, 1855, not 1835. Their third son and seventh child should be Samuel Frederic not Lemuel Frederic.

Page 98, fifth line. For "John and Ann Messenger" read " Jonathan and Ann Messenger."

Page 99, Family No. 6. Children of Lemuel Savery and Selina Gibbs.

THE ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY.

IV. Selina married, I am told, Levi Runnells, not Rennells. VI. Roxana married Samuel Reynolds, not Rennells.

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Same page, Family No. 7. Child of William Savery and Mary Anne Besse.

V. Levi Augustus, died Feb. 19, 1855.

Page 101, sixth line. For "Hattie,". read Hallie.

THE ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY.

Pages 102-3. Sarah Savory was married in Newbury, March 27, 1662, to "Matthew Mooer the Scot." She was probably a sister of Robert Savory of Newbury, and daughter of William of the" Mary and John." It will have been noticed that Robert named his eldest daughter Sarah. Possibly she was Robert's mother, widow of William. · The maiden name of Robert Savory's wife, widow of William Mitchell, was Mary Sawyer.

Pages 104-6. Moses Noyes, born May 13, 1715, died 1792, married Jan. 5, 1758, Abigail Savory, who administered on his estate. She may have been that daughter of Samuel Savory and Abigail Ordway, mentioned on page 104, in which case she would have been 33 years old and her husband 43, or she may have been a widow Savory, and in either case her husband was perhaps a widower.

Page 106, Family No. 8. William Savory's wife was Mary Gage. Hannah, their daughter, who married Wadleigh Noyes, died about 1807. He married, 2d, 1810, Nancy Boardman, and died about 1815, after which Eben Savory, their uncle, was appointed guardian of his first three children, aged 13, 11, and 9.

MosEs5 SAVORY married Susanna, Dutch, and died, 1803, in the West Indies, and his widow when she administered was appointed guardian of his son Moses, then aged 9 years

24 SAVERY AND SEVERY GENEALOGY.

(nearly). This son, Moses6, whose wife Betsy's family name I have not discovered, lived at Kennebunk, Me., and died in Bangor, Sept. 13, 1860, aged 74, having had two sons, Charles and George, and one daughter who married and lived in California. George died many years ago, probably without issue. CHARLES7 SAVARY had a distinguished career in com­merce and finance. For many years he was with the firm of Lockwood & Co., in New York, and became a partner, and a member of the stock exchange. He was called the " Mathe­matician of Wall Street." At one time he was worth $300,000. He claimed to have inaugurated " Black Friday," a memorable day in the annals of New York finance, and in one hour lost $100,000, and" before the panic was over he was out $250,000." He died April 17, 1889, at the Windsor Hotel, Bangor, Me., in which city during his residence there every one conceded his strict integrity and recognized him as an authority on all matters pertaining to stock business. He left an estate of about $20,000.

Page 107. SAMUEL5 SAVORY (Chase4, Robert3, William2,

Robert1) removed to Derry, N. I-I., and thence to Warner. He

settled first at the Quimby or Jacob Chase place, within the limits of Salisbury, then moved into the Gore. Kearsarge Gore is a part of the town of Warner, running up to ]\fount Kearsarge, where in 1814 he was a voter, with his sons Robert, John, and Daniel. He was living with his son Daniel at the time of the tornado, Sept. 9, 1821, and it was Daniel's house that was destroyed. The approach of the tornado was heralded by a fearful rumbling in the heavens. He hastened upstairs to close the windows, and the women started to his assistance, when the house whirled and instantly rose above their heads, while what was left behind, timbers, bricks, etc., almost literally buried six of the family in the ruins. The body of the aged man was found at a distance of six rods from the house, where he had been dashed against a stone and instantly killed. His wife was severely injured. Mrs. Daniel Savory was fearfully bruised on the head, arms, and breast, and an infant, Emily B., which she

THI~ ESSEX COUNTY FAMILY. 25

held in her arms, was killed. The house of Robert Savory, his son, stood very near this place, and that also was utterly demolished. Mrs. Robert Savory and her children, six in num.;. her (see page 110) were buried together under the bricks and rubbish; some of them were severely injured, but none killed. Not only the houses, but the barns and outbuildings of the two Savory places, were wholly cleaned out. Literally, not one stone was left upon another.* There were twenty-four hives of bees at the Robert Savory place, perhaps the property of both families .. The ground was sweetened with honey for half a mile, but no sign of hive or bee was ever seen again. Not an apple or forest tree in the path of the tornado was left standing, and the ground was strewn with broken furniture, and the legs, wings, and heads of fowls. The Savorys and Abner Watkins had captured a bear and chained him to the sill of Robert Savory's barn. Although the barn was destroyed to its founda­tion, the sill, being a cross sill, and bedded into the ground, remained in its place and the bear was unhurt. Samuel had a daughter Lydia, who married a Hardy, not mentioned in the list of his children on page 107.

Pages 107-8. DANIEL5 SAVORY (Chase', Robert9, William2, Robert'). The following is a fuller record of the family of Daniel Savory and Sarah Colby:

18.l I. Daniel", b. Feb. 17, 1777. II. Benjamin, b. June 18, 1779; d. April 5, 1799, of scarlet fever.

III. Elizabeth, b. April 16, 1781; d. unm. IV. William, b. July 27, 1783; d. April 7, 1799, of scarlet fever. V. Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1785; rn. a Stevens and lived in Gilmanton,

N.H. VI. Aaron, b. Oct. 23, 1787; d. unm.

VII. Hannah, b. June 25, 1790; m. Moses Bly. Ch.: Probably two sons and three daughters, of whom I have been unable to get full record. Of the <lm1s., l\,fargarct7 m. Israel Dodge of New­bury, N. JI.; Mary 111. a Morse of same place, and Betsy m.

* H<•c Pcrfo.y's u Historic St.or ms of New England"; lln.nimn.n's O History of Warner, N. H. "; Vol. I., Collections New Hampshire Historical Society; the" Granite Monthly" and Hayward's "Gazetteer of New Englnnd."

26 SAV1':RY AND SEVJ:RY GENEALOGY.

her cousin William Perkins. Of the sons one was probably Nath~n B.

VIII. Robert, b. Sept. 18, 1792; d. April 61 1799, of scarlet fever. 18B IX. Chase, b. Oct. 4, 1794.

X. Judith Tucker, b. Sept. 10, 1797; m. Joseph Smith. Ch.: (1) Sarah Ami7, m. 1st, Sept. 10, 1836, David H. Hilliard; 2d, Dec. 15, 1855, Caleb PC'ole. (2) Mary, m. 1st, Reice; 2d, David Hardy. (3) Ruhamah, m. 1st, Nathan Severance; 2d, Horace Webster; shed. Sept. 2, 1896, aged 73. (4) Harriet, m.Samuel G. Straw and d. Feb. 6, 1897, aged 67 years 5 months 15 days. (5) Hannah, m. Nathan Parker. (6) Obadiah, m. (7) Rufus, m. three times. (8) Chase, 11nm. (9) Frank, m. (10) Helen Philena, b. Aug. 3, 1840; m. March 19, 1860, Joseph L. Lam­berton who d. May 3, 1901, aged 71. (They had ch.: (1) David8

1

b. April 20, 1861. (2) John, b. Aug. 2, 1863; d. Nov. 61 1876.) XI. Priscilla, b. March 19, 1800; d. March 18, 1888; m.1817, Edward

Dodge Perkins, who d. March 19, 1874, aged 93. Ch.: (1) Wil­liam 7, b. Feb. 13, 1818; m. 1st, Almira Morse; 2d, his cousin, Betsy l3ly; 3d, Abigail Jones. (2) Daniel Savory, b. Sept. 20, 1819. (3) Hannah, b: Oct. 13, 1822; d. July 20, 1823. (4) Oliver, b. Nov. 1, 1825; m. 1873, Eliza Olive Moulton. (5) Benjamin, b. June 11, 1828; d. Jan. 17, 1878 *; m. June 1.J., 1871, Eliza Ann Messer (had one ch., Lillian Belle8, b. March 23, 1877, who m. Alberton Bagley, and d. May 21, 1902, leaving a ch. five days old t). (6) Sarah Ann, b. April 81 1834; d. Feb. 3, 1836. (7) Edward Dodge, b. Nov. 22, 1838; m. Ella Jane Williams.

XII. Mary C., b. Sept. 9, 1802; m. Francis Pressey; no ch.

18A.

DANIEL SAVORY6 (Daniel5, Chase4, Robert3, William2, Robert1)

was born Feb. 17, 1777, came from Amesbury, Mass., to Sutton and settled in the southwest part of the town, near Newbury, where he lived until his death at an advanced age. " He was possessed of many excellent qualities, industry, honesty, sobriety, and was much esteemed." Besides his family, who were all girls, he brought up an orphan boy, Reuel Noyes, who after­wards became a school teacher and Unitarian minister. He married Lois Goodwin of Amesbury and had children:

* His widow married Jonathan Merrill, of Grantham,. N. H. t It is to the deceased lady's kind courtesy I owe this record.

THE ESSEX COUNTY I<'Al\llLY. 27

I. Lois7, b. before 1802; d. same year. II. Lois, b. April 1, 1802; d. April 24, 1895; m. Feb. 3 (or 5), 1825,

Na than Burpee, who d. May 30, 1887, aged 86. Ch.: (1) Emily8, b. Oct. 10, 1825; d. March 26, 1826. (2} Sally S., b. Aug. 7, 1827; d: March 5, 1883. (3) Hannah S., b. July 23, 1829; m. Sept. 25, 1849, Thomas W. Nelson, and d. April 24, 1851. (4) Almira, b. Nov. 5, 1831; m. Orrin Humphrey, and had ch.: (1) George•. (5) Orson, b. March 19, 1834; m. 1st, Mary Ann Pritchard; 2d, Alma Sanborn; 3cl, Jennie Thomas. (6) Nahum, b. Feb. lf3, 18:17; cl. Oct. 31, 1861. (7) Orra, b. Aug. 20, 1839; m. Abbie Gee, and had ch.: (1) Charles•, (2) George, (3) Walter, ( 4) Frank. (8) Thomas, b. Nov. 12, 1842 or 1843; m. Nov. 24, 1869, Hattie A. Buck, who was b. Dec. 17, 1845.

III. Sally, b. Aug. 14, 1804; d. Nov. 22, 1897; m. James Russell, who was born Oct. 16, 1800. I have not been able to get the record of their children. He cl. Nov. 14, 1870.

IV. Hannah, b. Dec. 18, 1806 or 1807; d. July, 1898; m. May 15, 1832, Harris Burpee, who was b. Aug. 8, 1808, and cl. May 3, 1885, brother of Nathan. One ch.: Frank8, b. July 21, 1833; cl. Oct. 16, 1864; m. Nov. 7, 1856, Lydia, dau. of Col. Page, and had ch.: (1) Willis P.9, b. May 30, 1858; d. Oct. 11, 1864, of diphtheria, five days before death of his father of same disease.

V. Rhoda H., b. Dec. 14, 1810; d. April 5, 1892; m. Dec. 24, 1829, John Nelson (b. May 5, 1804; d. Aug. 8, 188.5). Ch.: (1) Lois8 Savory, b. April 8, 1833; m. Sept. 20, 1852, David M. Fisher. (2) John, b. March 18, 1835; m. August, 1859, Fannie J. Gregg, and d. June 24, 1882. (3) Lydia Ann, b. June 4, 1837; d. Feb. 4, 1856. (4) Hannah Burpee, b. Nov. 29, 1840; m. Sept. 1, 1867, George 0. Rowe; d. Oct. 9, 1896. (5) Harris Burpee, b. Jan. 19, 1843; m. Nov. 22, 1868, Clara D. Sargent. (6) Joseph, b. March 15, 1845; d. Nov. 5, 1866. (7) George Frederic, b. March 27, 1848; d. Aug. 13, 1868. (8) Mary Savory, b. Dec. 8, 1851; m. Aug. 20, 1873, Edmund H. Sargent.

VI. Mnry C., b. July 14, 1813; d. Feb. 2, 1817. VII. Mary C., b. Nov. 28, 1818; d. March 6, 1839; m. Samuel Simons.

Ch.: (1) Mary8, adopted by her Aunt Hannah (Savory) Burpee. In the" History of Sutton" it is stated that James l\fadison Nelson m. Sarah A., dau. of Moses and Mary (Savory) Simons.

18B.

CHASE6 SAVORY (Daniel5, Chase4, Robert3, William2, Robert1)

was born Oct. 4, 1794, and married, 1st, Sept. 17, 1817, Alice, ninth of the fourteen children of Deacon Joseph and Margaret

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(Gunnison) Chandler, who was born Aug. 20, 1790, and died March 20, 1839; 2d, Dolly Young. He died Oct. 17, 1881.

m

18D

CHILDREN.

By first wife: I. Sally Smith7, b. Oct. 25, 1818; m. Dec. 31, 1845,John Russell,his

2d w. Ch,: (1) John E.8, b. March 4, 1846; m. Nov. 5, 1871, Helen M., dau. of Nathaniel and Hannah (Collins) Merrill of Ackworth. (2) Jennie P., b. April 1, 1848; m. June 17, 1869,

II. III.·

IV. V.

VI.

Engene T. Barker. Daniel Chandler, h. March 1-1, 1820. Nathaniel Chandler, b. Feb. 21, 1822; d. Aug. 25, 1895; m. Speda

S. Griffin, b. March 30, 1822. No ch. He was born, lived and died on the old" Chandler homestead," Newbury, N. H.

Samuel Chandler, b. July 23, 1824. Joseph Chase, b. March 7, 1831; m. twice; no ch. Mary P., b. Nov. 13, 1833; d. Sept. 29, 1840.

SEVENTH GENEHATION.

18C.

DANIEL CHANDLER7 SAVORY (Chase6, Daniel5, Chase4, Robert3,

William2, Robert1) was born March 14, 1820, and married Sept.

12, 1844, Eliza Cutts, who was born Jan. 2, 1826. He died Dec. 19, 1893. I have no particulars of his individual career or -0haracter to record. They had

CHILDREN.

I. Olive Jane8, b. May 5, 1846; m. Jan. 25, 1866, Zenas Chase How­land, who was b. Feb. 22, 1844. Ch.: (1) Harrison Lincoln9

, b. Nov. 20, 1866; m. Dec. 14, 1888, Etta M. Cole; ch.: (1) Walter Foss10, b. Dec. 31, 1S00; (2) Jcnn·ic l•'ranciesc, b. Sept. 22, 18!)2.

II. Mary Alice, b. Oct. 22, 1851; m. March 15, 1868, Cyrus S. Thom­son, who was b. Dec. 22, 1832. Ch.: (1) Orvis Daniel9

, b. April 29, 1868; m. June 16, 1889, Addie May Gould (b. May 6, 1871), and had ch.: (1) Lela Alice10, b. A.ug. 27, 1890. (2) Minnie Eliza, b. Sept. 4, 1878; m. April 9, 1896, George Henry Hamilton (b. June 30, 1877), and had ch. Chestella Leavitt1°, b. April 13, 1897.

THE 1'.:S81•1X COUNTY FAMILY, 29

18D.

SAMUEL CnANDLER7 SAVORY (Chase°, Daniel\ Chase', Robert8, William2, Rob<.,>rl1) was born July 23 or 24, 1824, in the town of Fishersfiel<l, now Newbury, Merrimack County, N. H. He married Feb. 4, 1852, Martha Melissa Drown, who was born July 24, 1826. All his family live at Alstead, N. II.

Cl!tLl)](l~N.

I. James Eugene•, b. Dec. 6, 1858; <l. July 13, 18GIJ. II. George L., b. Dec. 25, 18G0; 111. June 25, 1888, Ella J. Trow, b.

March 27, 185'1; she <lie<l Oct. 2G, 181.J0. One ch., Carl IJ .•, b. Sept. 23, 181.J0.

III. Emily Diautlm, b. Nov. !l, 18G5; 111. March 22, 1893, James S. Prouty, who was b. Jan. 27, 185G.*

Page 110, Family No. 15. THOMAS SAVORY5•

The following will correct aml render moi·e complete the record of the family of THOMAS" SAVORY and Deborah Perley.

II. Bctsey8, b. July 27, 180G; m. Burton E. Merrill; d. June 20, 1851.J. Ilf. Lucy Perley, h . .June ii, 1808; m. Frederic .T. Coffin; d. Nov. 14,

187•1. Ch.: (I) Lucy 7, <l. young; (2} Lucy Adelaide, Ill.

Ben,imnin F. l't!ttch, mu! had ch.: (1) Mabel Adclaide8, b. H,·pt. •I, 1872; (2) /,w:y Aforti:n, h . .Tune 2U, 187G, d. 1877; (3) Frederic Coffin, b. Oct. 17, 1880; (4) Loui.se, b. Aug. 2, 1884.

V. Mary Stevens, b. May 13, 1811; m. April 22, 1836, Charles HoYey; d. April 23, 18(H. (Ch.): (1) Charles Frederic7, b. April 5, 1837, d. Jan. 25, 1861; (2) Henry Lyman, b. Nov. 22, 1840, d. Sept. 4, 1841; (3) Edward Francis, b. Feb. 15, 1846, 111. Sophia Ba11k1-1; (-1) George Havary, h. Dec. 12, 18-1!}, 111. .Tune 2:1, 18!J0, Mary A. Morse. GgottGJtl SAVARY llovBY resides at Urovc-1:tnd, Mass.

VI. Dolly Wood, b. Nov. 12, 1813; m. Thomas Greenough; d. Aug. 11, 1889.

VIII. Thomas William, b. Sept. 11, 1817; m. Martha Severance, and <l. June, 1894. Ch.: (1) Caroline Pcrlcy7

, b. Dec. 24, 1847; rn. Feb. 5, 1867, Herbert E. Wales, and had ch.: (1) Herl•ert Ilarlan8, b. May 18, 1869, d. July, 1870; (2) Warren Howard,

* Fc,r mm;t of t.hc mn.ttcr conccrnitJg (.ho descendants of Daniel Savory a.nd Su.rah Colhy. I am in<lebte<l to the kindness of Mrs. Arma llf. Hiley, of Claremont, N. H., who ia <laughter of Nutluiniel, sixth of the fourteen children of Denoon ,Joseph an<l Margaret (Gunnison) Chandler.

30 SAVEUY AND SEVERY Gl~NhlALOGY.

b. March 6, 1870, <l. July, 1872; (:.!) lforris Nuycnc, b. Juu. 10, 1882.

IX. Priscilla Parker, b. Mareh 20, 1820; 111. lL II. Page; <l. Hcpl. 28, 1877.

XL Hannah Holton, b. l\forch tu, 1825; m. Hamuel Balch; d. Nov. 23, 1860.

Family No. 16. RoDEil'l'6 SAVORY (Samuel5, Chase\ Rubert3, William2, Robert1

), date of birth and death not known. His wife, according to his granddaughter, Mrs. Lu<llam, wtu, Abigail Watkins, instead of Hardy. She died Aug. 31, 1857. None of his children except Lydia, who married Samuel Chase, ldl children. ·

III. Levi7, born 1808, married Welthea Bailey, who was born 1811 and died 1880.

IV. George, married Sophronia Downer. She was Lorn in Thetford, Vt., and <lied Nov. 30, 1002, at Warner.

Family No. 17. .Jmrn° SAVO!lY was born at Amesbury, Ma:,;s., Aug. 30, 1785, awl died at Warner, N. lI., fan. 11, l8fi!i. lie married Sarah Straw, March 12, 1807; a more correct, record of his children would be:

27 I. Hiram Welch7, b. Oct. 31, 1808. 28 II. Mo,;es Long, b. Murch 20, 1813.

III. Betsey Straw, b. Murch 12, 1818; d. Feb. -!, 18·1G, Ulllll.

IV. Sarah, b. April HJ, 1819; m. Jun. 16, 18-1-!, Warren Damon of Salem, Mass. Ch.: (1) Samuel He1-IHJrt8

1 u. Jan. 8, 18-17; ,I. Sept. 18, 184.8. (2) Sarnh Frances, u. Feb. '27, 18,J\l; 111. Feb. 24, 1875, Edward Walter Johnson; he <l. July 5, 1881. (3) Emily Letitia, b. Dec. 8, 1853. (-!) Jessie Fremont, b. Jun. 30, 1857; m. Alfred H. Whitely.

29 V. John, b. Oct, 16, 182-!.

Page 111, Family No. 18. DANrnr.0 SAVORY, who married Mary Straw, died Sept. 30, 1853, and his widow died May l, 1864, aged 77.

Page 118, Family No. 26. The following is a more correct record of the family of CHARLES Pu•rNAM6 SAVORY and Sarah Balch:

I. William Perley7, b. April 10, 185'!.; 111. Aug. a, 187U, Alice· M. Richardson, and ha<l ch.: (1) Charles Pemberton", b. April 2U,

FHIDD w. LAMB.

THE ESSEX C0UN'l'Y FAMILY 31

1880; (2) Wilfred Henry, b. May 7, 1882; (3) Sarah Alice, b. i'\fay 6, 1885, m. Aug. 31, 1904, William Henrv Woods.

IL Elizabeth Balch, b. May 27, 1859; d . .\.pril 8, 1863. III. Annie Wentworth, b. July 25, 1866.

Page 118, Family No. 27. HIRAM7 SAVORY should be HIRAM WELCH7 SAVORY. He had no son Daniel, but a son DAVID MARK8 SAVORY, born May 12, 1848, who was of Somersworth, N. II., February, 1898, and died Dec. 1, 1901. He married Katherine Peck of Waltham, June 30, 1885, and had one child, Robert Lockwood°, born Jan. 17, 1892. The widow and son live at Waltham.

Family No. 28. MosES7 SAVORY should be MosES LoNa7

fsAVORY. Page 119. Family No. 29. A fuller record of JoHN7 SAVORY,

brother of Hiram Welch and Moses Long. He was born at Sutton, N. H., Oct. 16, 1824, and died at Somerville, Mass., Nov. 26, 1893. He married Nancy J. Manning, June 19, 1853, and had children:

I. Luelln. Jnnc8, h . .Tnnc 28, 1854; m. Nov. 3, 187fi, Lut,hcr,T. Clement,. Ch.: (1) George Morris0, b. Jan. 18, 1877; m. Nov. 22, 1899, Ida May Webb and have ch.: (1) Ella May10, b. June 17, 1901. (2) Murray L., b. May 1, 1886. (3) Willard T., b. Aug. 28, 1887.

II. Warren Fremont, b. April 13, 1858; m. 1st, Nellie Page; 2d, Annie Crozen.

III. Fred Henry, b. Dec. 29, 1859; m. Emily Goodhue Dow and have ch.: (1) Fred Arthur0

, b. Feb. 28, 1884, and (2) Miriam Emily, b. Oct. 5, 1891.

IV. Eugene Boswell, b. Feb. 24, 1868; m. Louise Bridges. V. Haviland John, b. Aug. 9, 1871.

Family No. 30. CYRUS PETTEE7 SAVORY. His birth was, ac­cording to Mr. Lamb, June 21, not June 24, 1824; and Fred W., son of (II.) Josephine Augusta Savory and Frank L. Lamb, was born Jan. 22, 1876, not 1875 as stated; and their daughter, Sylvia Lee, was born Feb. 4, 1883.

I am indebted for many of the preceding details to Mr. Fred W. Lamb's "Genealogical Sketch of some of the De­scendants of Robert Savory of Newbury."

32 SAVERY AND S1..:VERY GENEALOGY.

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FAMILY.

Page 126. I repeat what I said in the introduction to this supplement, that my more matured opinion now is that I was wrong in calling the family treated of in pages 125 to 132 the "New Hampshire Family" as distinguished from the "Essex County Family," of which the immigrant ancestor settled in Essex County. I have come to the conclusion that it is much more probable that instead of another immigrant ancestor com­ing to New Hampshire, the family are part of the Essex County family, and descended from Robert of Newbury, or some other as yet undiscovereu son of William, of the "Mary and John." A copious correspondence with town clerks and registrars of probate, with advertising in New Hampshire newspapers, has not yet enabled me to find any other trace of the Robert Savory who at Portsmouth, April 17, 1748, married Mary Pitman; yet I feel satisfied that his parentage and family record could be found by personal investigation somewhere in that state. I still think that Richard2 (page 126) was his son, because I cannot account for him in any other way, and in one line I found a dis­tinct tradition that the first Richard's father was Robert. This Richard's second wife, Abigail Hodgden, was daughter of Alexan­der Hodgden, and according to McDuff's History of Rochester, N. H., was baptized Sept. 24, 1764. I remarked that the dates of his birth, first marriage, and death had eluded my researches, but I find he died March 13, 1824, at what age does not appear. I could hardly have imagined a family so ignorant of their ancestry, origin, and family history as this. None of its contem­porary members, except the late Dr. Savory of Lowell, Thomas Collins Savory of Boston, and Capt. William T. Savory of Salem, afterwards of Brooklyn, N. Y., took more than a passing interest in my work, and in some important points my informants

THE NEW HAJ\IPSHIUE FAMILY. 33

differed widely in the information tJ}ey gave me. In the family record, I have placed Richard3 as the eldest son of Richard2, but the firm at Salem is called, in the newspaper article quoted on pages 127, 128, "Robert & Richard Savory," implying that Robert was the senior, which fact, in view of the prevalence in those days of the custom of giving the eldest son the name of his· paternal grandfather, as in the case of Robert of Newbury of the Essex family, might slightly tend to strengthen my presumption that Richnrd was a son of Robert. His eldest daughter was certainly Mary Roberts. On page 103 we find III. Samuel, second son of Robert1 of Newbury, but no trace of his children. He mny have been the paternal grandfather of the Robert Savory who married Mary Pitmari, April 17, 1748, and the latter may at the same time have been another son of Benjamin Savory who married Lydia Parker, and is mentioned as probable son of this Samuel2. If this conjecture be true, and I think it more than.plausible, the descent of GEORGE E. SAVORY, page 132, the last of this family mentioned in the book, woukl be Robert', Samncl2, Bcnjmnin or an unknown one\ Robert\ Richard", Thomas Collins0

, Richard7, George E.8, and so. all through the so-called New Ifampshire family, the line of my late friend D~·. Charles A. Savory of Lowell being Robert1, Samuel2, Benjamin or an unknown one3, Robert\ Richard5, Charles6, Charles A.1

Line 6, page 127. "IV. William, lived in Hopkinton, N. H." He died Mnrch 11, 1826. Searches hn,ve been made there in vain for a record of his posterity. But from a Manchester, N. H., newspaper I learn that Augustus G. Savory, a native of Hopkinton, but who had lived many years in Manchester, died in that city in 1900, aged within a day of 7 4, leaving widow Mary B. and four children, Charles M., Mary Ames of Boston, Moses of Manchester, and Etta of Brattle­boro, Vt. A letter to the widow asking for genealogical infor­mation elicited no reply. No better treatment was accorded letters to other survivors in Manchester.

34 SAVERY AND SEVERY GENEALOGY.

Line 25, et seq. Other children of Mary Roberts Savory and Robert Mendum were Adeline, Maria, Caroline, Theresa, and Granville Augustus.

Page 128. The following is an extract from an obituary notice of Richard3 Savory, of Salem, furnished by his son William T. too late for insertion in the first edition:

" The social and moral virtues of the deceased, as a member of the com­munity, as a husband, as a parent, as a friend and neighbor, were well known to alt who knew him. General opinion ascribes to him uprightness, truth, and integrity. By his death the Universalist Society have lost a worthy and devout fellow worshipper. Through a protracted consumptive disease, he preserved great patience, and as he Yiewed life wasting and death approaching, he manifested a growing interest and enjoyment in the faith of the all-suffi­cient Savior in whom God has given life immortal for the dying family of man. In this faith he cheerfully gave up his family to the care of Him who is the unchangeable fric111t or all, and while he wm; clrn;ing his eyes to nit the i'amiliar scenes of earth, this faith was to his mind the perfect law of liberty."

Page 129, Family 3, No. XI. WILLIAM T. SAVOilY, who has died since the publication of the first edition, had a very remark­able and brilliant career as a navigator.

Line 17, et seq. Two children of RoBERT3 SAVORY and Jane Hill are omitted, John and Elizabeth, the latter living and unmarried in 1893.

THE PHILADELPHIA FAMILY.

Pages 136-139. Without expressing any want of confidence in the accuracy of my conjectures concerning the identity and the parentage of William Savery, Sen., of Philadelphia, I will here add the following information lately obtained through the kindness of GilhCl't Cope, Esq., of Westchester, Pa.:

"Penelope Savery, the daughter of William and Penelope Savory, was born the 28th day of the 3d month in ye year 1700.

THE PHILADELPHIA FAMILY. 35

"William Savery, the son of William and Penelope Savory, wa.9 borne ye 10th day of the 5t,h month Ano. 1702.

"Elizabeth Savery, the daughter of William and Penelope Savory, was borne the 2d day of the second month Ann. Dom. 1706." (This is from the records of Cecil Monthly Meeting, Maryland.)

Now tlw William Savery whose birth is thus recorded could scarcely have been the father of William, Sen., of Philadelphia, for he wonlcl be only about 20 years old when the latter was born. But probably these people also wcr0 of the Barbadocs stock. In the colonial records of Pennsylvania, IV., 247, we fincl t,hc "examination of Robm-t Savory of Bcdnall Green, Gar­dc)ncr, married, age<l about 40 years, taken before Clement Plum­Rkacl ancl Thomas Lawrence, Esq., two members of the Council for the Province and .Justices of the Peace for the city aml county of Phila<lclphia, at Philadelphia, the 16th day of .January, 1737-8 on the oath of the sai<l Robert Savory." This was a charge against one William Bodin who was a fellow passenger wiLh Ravory from l1:11gl:wd, and who in E11gl:uul Imel prnc11rc~d an introduction to Savory and got from him an introduction to :m ,mgmvcr, falsely representing that he was commissioned by the government of Pennsylvania to secure plates for the printing of paper money. Savory got some of the bills, and on his arrival in Philadelphia delivered them to the provincial authorities ancl exposed the plot. It docs not appear that Robert Savory brought hiR family with him, and my researches in England disproves the possibility of William, Sen., being his son if Robert was a Quaker. It is considered very remarkable that the usual practice of naming the parentage of the husbancl as well as of the wife in the records of Quaker marriages was cle­<leparte, l from in the case of William Savery and Mary Peters; but thr. fact that there was no Savery witnesR to the marriagr. would imply t,lmt t.lwr<' wa.-: 110 oLlu~r Rn.very of t.lw same rcligiorni fait.h ilwn in t,lw cit,y.

36 SAVJmY AND SF.VBUY GT•JNTMLOGY.

Page 144. Children of SAHAII SAVERY and George B. Mellor. The middle names arc omitted. The list should rc:id:

I. Thomas Savery. II. Hannah Savery.

III. George Brown.

Pages 14G-l n. · I fed disposed to express my snrpriRc that V{illiam Savery, the distinguished minister, is not mentioned in any dictionary or encyclopedia of American biography. He was a very able and remarkable man, of unique character and gifts, and the services he rendered his country in the nego­tiation of the treaties with the Indian tribes related in this memoir were signal arnl lasting. It will have been noticed that Elizabdh Fry attributed to tlw influence of his character awl teaching the conversion that ddcnnincd lwr owu famous career. Slw fills a conspicuous pince in biogrnphical compila­tio11::;, in which 110 plac<i i::; fo111ul for hilll who:,;1! genius sha1H!d and directed hers, and whose life and labors were so eventful and extraordinary.

A DEVONSHIRE SAVERY IN AMERICA.

Doctor and Major Jmrn E. SAVERY of Cato, N. Y., i8 a great­grnndRon of Willimn Savery of the diRtinguiRhed DevmrnhirP family rnfmTr\d to at length on pngn !) of t.hc origina.l voh1111c. This William was master and part owner of a ship in the l~aR! India trade and was prospering. · About 120 years ago on returning from a voyage his ship was c1narnntinecl off Dart­mouth, England. Perceiving that a great storm was imminent, he aRlrnd pt\l'llliHsio11 to bring hiH Hhip inHidc tlw harlior for Hal'dy, hut ollicial delay and circumlocut.ion prevented, and when Liu~ storm cleared away it was found that tlrn ship had been lost with

A DEVONSHIRE SA VEHY IN AMlmICA. 37

all on board. He left a widow and two sons, WILLIAM and John, with sufficient means for their support. John afterwards went to sea, and his fate is unknown. William, when of age, married and settled on " Combe " farm in Devonshire. He had two sons, John and WILLIAM, and four daughters. William, the younger of the two, migrated to America in 1830, with his wife and one daughter. They became the parents of six children in n.11, two sons, William 11. and ,Torm E._ and four daughters. William H. died in 1847, the father in 1871; the latter's widow in 1878. John E. Savery was born July 23, 1835; he read law one year after he attained the age of 17, and then studied dentistry and medicine, and after he attained the age of 21 years com­menced the practice of his profession, and afterwards married Miss Laura E. Wallis. In 1861, he enlisted and went to the front as captain of G Company, 75th Regiment, New York Volunteers, and served two years in active field duty. During this time he was so severely wounded as to be unfit for active service, and in consequence was assigned to staff duty with General Banks at his headquarters in New Orleans, and re­mained in that capacity until the close of the war, having attained the rank of major. Then he returned home and resumed his practice as a physician, surgeon, and dentist. In 1866 and 1867 he was "supervisor" of his town, an important local office, in the county of Cayuga, state of New York, being the chief town and ward officer, as the Board of Supervisors meet annually, with locn,l legislative power, settles all claims against the county and questions aff ccting the relations with each other of the different towns and wards, equalizing assess­ment, valuation, etc.; in 1868 he was elected high sheriff of his county, and served three years; in 1888 and 1889 he was a member of the state legislature of New York and in 1891 and till 1895 was deputy United States internal revenue collector. Mr. Savery has an only child, a daughter, who married Stephen E. Rogers, nncl has one daughter, Maverette Savery Rogers.

PART II.

THE SEVERY-SAVERY FAMILY. (SAVORY AND SAVARY.)

THE SEVERY-SAVEitY FAMILY. 41

THE SEVERY-SAVERY FAMILY. (SAVORY AND SAVARY.)

Page 182, Family No. 5. TnoMAS3 SEVERY.

VI. Solomon, b. April 22, 17'10; <l. 1814, not 1874. (A typographical error.)

IX. John, b. Oct. 4, 1756; d. 1804. Tradition in his brother Hiram's family says that. he served in the ReYolution and was one of General ·washington's bodyguard.*

ll,\ X. Hiram, b. Jan. 25, 1761.

11A.

HIRAM4 SEVERY or SAVERY (Thomas3, John2, John 1) was born Jan. 5, 1761, married, and had

CHILDREN.

11B I. Hiram5•

11C II. Harvey, b. Jan. 19, 17!J5.

un. HmAM5 SAVERY (Hiram4, Thomas3, John2, John 1

), date of birth unknown, married and had

CHILDREN.

I. Mary Ann,6 m. (1) Harvey Balmer, (2) a Mr. Bishop; had dau.7 who. m. a Mr. Hart, and had two children now surviving, Emanuel B.8 Hart, of Chicago, and 11'frs. L. Yaughan, of Philadelphia.

JI. llonu·c Lnl"n_vct.l,P", h. (kt. IR, 182-1; settled in Rockfol'(I, Ill.; m., Feb. 6, 1851, Louisa Abigail Sibley, and cl. Sept. 9, 1900. Shed. Sept. 14, 1887. Ch.: (1) Mary Emma7, b. Dec. 11, 1855;· 111. James E. Tobin, who has died. (2) Josephine Marie, b. Jan. 12, 1858; m. Myron Bnmer.

III. Hiram, of whom I have no further record.

11c. HARVEY5 SAVERY (Hiram4, Thomas3

, John2, John1) was born

Jan. l!J, 1795, and married Nancy N. Messenger, who was born

* Tb.is and tb.e following fragmentary record of tb.e descendants of Hiram Savery reacb.ed me wb.ile this supplement was going tb.rougb. tb.e press.

42 THE SEVERY-SAVERY FAMILY.

Oct. 5, 1810, and died Nov. 17, 1895. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, and died Dec. 22, 1863.

CHILDREN.

I. Robert M.6, b. Feb. 22, 1843; m. and has ch.: (1) William H.7, b. Feb. 7, 1864; m. Kate E. Ferry. Ch.: one son and four daughters. (2) James R., b. May 15, 1866; m., June 7, 1894, l\[ary G. Freeman, and has ch. (1) Elizabeth Freeman8, b. Sept. 21, 1904. (3) Sarah L., b. April 17, 1875. JAMESR. SAVERY resides at Pittsfield, Mass.

II. Harvey B., b. March 5, 1850.

Pages 183-185. In the Kidder pedigree appears the marriage of Jonathan• Kidder, born March 10, 1770 (David4, Richard3, Ephraim2, James1

) to Polly Savery of Ward, April 12, 1795. They settled at Wendell, where she died, 1811. There is no doubt she was a Severy. Jolm3 Severy (page 183) lived at Ward, but I fin(l no Polly or Mary among his children. It seems probable that she was Mary5, the eldest child of David 8every, born Aug. 27, 1777, meutionml on page 185, fifth line from the bottom. They had one child, Jonathan6 Kidder, born at Wendell, March 18, 1796; married Dec. 18, 1819, Nancy Lewis, and had five children.

Page 185. JosEPH4 SEVERY or SAVORY (Thomas3, John2,

John1), son of that Thomas who first broke away from the

Severy-Savery home at Midclleboro, Plymouth County, by moving to Hebron, Conn., in 1753; married Ruth Backus, by tradition an English woman, but more likely of American birth, for there is a large American family of that name descended from William Backus, who came from England in the ship " Rain­bow," Captain Haskins, master, tlll(l scttle!l in Norwich, Conn., in 1637. A Backus genealogy of 37u pages was published in 1889. I have heard of no errors in my record of the descend­ants of his son Ira, but I am sadly conscious of many omis­sions which I am still unable to supply. In respect to the fate of his son William Backus• Savory (appearing only as Backus in my record of his family), I was led into a very serious error by an ill-informed correspornlent, a descendant of Ira. . William

THE SEVERY-SAVERY FAMILY. 43

Backus Savory was not a leather dealer, and did not die on a second or any other visit to Spain, nor did he ever visit Spain at all. Joseph4 Savory removed (according to tradition from Boston) to Marietta, N. Y., with his wife and two sons, Ira and William Backus; the latter being the younger. By the record of Ira, pages 192-193, it will be seen that although the latter married in his native place in Connecticut in 1802, yet he had removed to New York State previous to his marriage, and continued to live there.

26A.

WILLIAM BAcKus5 SAVORY (Joseph\ Thomas3, John2, John1)

was born in 1777 at Tolland, Conn., or perhaps in Boston, and was apprenticetl to learn the trade of a wheelwright, but at the age of 18, he with a companion left home for the South, working his way as a cabin hoy on [), ship and landed at New Orleans. He visited his home later, allll on his return to the South made New Orleans his destination. From that city he crossed the Mississippi, working in the interior of the· parishes, putting up cotton-gin mills. In 1814 he married Marguerite, a daughter of Antoine Sons, who was a. cavalry man in Napoleon Bona­parte's army, and had come over to America while very young, with Lafayette, to serve in the Revolutionary War.* In what capacity he served is not known, but tradition says, afterwards while serving in Napoleon Bonaparte's armies, he was decorated by that great general with the Cross of the Legion of Honor for some signal act of valor. Coming again to America, he (Sons) lived first in Philadelphia and afterwards in Louisiana where he bou~ht a sugar plantation, eight or ten miles above Plaquemine, and died aged 95. His wife was a Miss Seiglar, of German extrac­tion; but whether he married her in Europe or America my informant cannot say.t William Backus Savory settled in Plaquemine, where he bought an<l owned a saw mill on the Missis-

* This i11rormn.lion i:-i from 11. ~t.rtlmucni, by the (ln.u~ht(~r 0£ ,villin.m Brwku1-1 nn<l l\1ar­J!Ut~rit.c (Son!-!) Savory.

t Probably of Pcnn:-:ylvaniu. Uct·nurn Rtock.

44 THE SEVERY-SAVERY FAMILY.

sippi River. From there, after some years, he removed to Bayou Plaquemine, three miles from the town. He owned a number of steamboats. During the remainder of his tbys he lived the life of a country gentleman. He invented the cane-carrier, before which all sugar mills were fed by hand, and, although it has been much improved, the cane-carrier is still made on the principle of his invention.

" His word was as good as his bond, he lived a Christian life, his door was ever open to hospitality, his time and money were always ready to help the poor and needy, and his wife was as one with him in his kind deeds." He died in 1861, aged 84. His widow died in 1874, aged 82.

CHILD[n,JN,

I. Ira Joseph6, b. Aug. 3, 1815; d. 1889; never married.

II. William John, b. Oct. 3, 1817; d. 1864; m. Mary Webster; no ch. III. Edmond, b. Oct. 19, 1819; d. young. IV. Leonard .Jacob, b. Dec. 10, 1821; d. young. V. Elias Francis, b. May 1!}, 1824; d. 1870. He married Margaret

O'Neill and had a dau. Margaret married Edgar H. Hebert. Other ch. d. young.

VI. Samuel Allen, b. Feb. 182G; d. 185-1, mun. VII. Elizabeth E., b. Feb. 4, 1828; 111. April 4, 1850, Belfort Marion­

neam.:. Ch.: (1) Laura, m. Emile S. Petit; (2) Lavinia, d.; (3) Adonia; (4) Kate; (5) Huth; (G) Edwin, m. Agnes Templet; (7) Marcellite; (8) Joseph Belfort, m. Alice Billings; (9) May, <I.

VIII. Cornelius Samuel, b. Feb. 21, 1830; d. young. IX. Edward D., b. May 19, 183-1; d. 18G2; m. Jo::;ephino Peters; no ch.

Page 188, Family No. 19: 35A.

WILLARD6 SEVERY (111oody4, Jacob3, Joseph2, John1) was born

Feb. 16, 1708, and died July 15, 1855. He married Rhoda Hewitt, of Sutton, and had children:

I. Harriet Maria•, b. Juno 8, 1825; d. II. Freeman, b. Nov. 25, 1827; m .. Dec. 24, 1864, Diana Shumway, of

North Oxford, Mass.; no ch. III. Adeline, b. March 17, 1829; m. 1st, 1847, Elbridge Barton, who

d. 1850; 2d, 1857, Anthony W. Poucher. Ch.: John W. 7, Li.

1862; d. in early infancy.

THE SEVFJRY-SAVFJRY FAMJLY. 45

IV. Willard Wal bee, h. Jan. 2, 1833, at North Oxford, Mn.qs_; m. May 14, 18!\2, l\lary A. GrcarRon, of Rt. George, N. ll. Ch.: (1) Albert Freeman, h. March 20, l80•i, itt Rocky Lake, N. S.; d .. July 7, 1875, at WPRtboro, MaR>1.; (2) Nellie !\fay, b. Dec. 27, 1807; m. Oct,. 22, 18!l0, Rev. EnwIN NoAH lfAnny of NclRon, N. II., now (l!l(H) pn.c;tor of Hdhnny Congregational Church, Quincy, MnRR. Ch.: (l) Nonh I'hi/li'.p.s7

, h. Nov. 28, 1892, nt South Boston, MaRR.; (2) Frrmno.n Sm•t'r]I, h. Oct.. 28, 18!M, at Ilollis;ton, Mn..c;s., d. IJP<'. I!\, rnn 1; (:!) Mfrio.m, h. llP<'. •1, l8!l8, nt Quincy, MaRR.; (•I) Christinr. Ne/lit, b. Aug. 2G, 1!)02, nt Quincy, Mn.c;s.

Pages 1!)2 and 202. Thomas", son of Nehemiah5, was born Dec. 24, 1795, not. 17!lri.

Page H)5, Family No. 31. Further descendants of lIARVEY5

R1svgny and Lydia Whit,ncy:

6:1,\ IV. llatvPy K<,mlall", b. li'<•b. 17, 181(i; called" Kendall" in the original hook.

H3A.

I-Lrnv1w KENDALL11 SrsvERY (Harney\ Thomas4, John\ Joseph2, .John1

) was born Feb. 17, 181G, or according to a later informant, Feb. 12, 1817, and married Phoebe M. Graves, who died Oct. 9, 1877. He died Sept.. 21, 18!)1. Some of hiR descendants give his :-H~<Joml 11:t11H• as " KirullP," but•[ here follow t.he form first. given to me.

Crm,nnF.N. 0:111 I. Walt~,r .J..7, h. M:trch ;~ (or ,1), 1830.

JI. Lavette C., b. June 10, 13,12; d. May 20, 1850. III. Strnan N., b. Sept. 21, 1843; m. (1), Sept.17, 18Gfi, Hirn W. York;

(2) .Jan. 14, 1883, Daniel W. Burnham. No ch. IV. .J11li11R E., h. Nov. 20, 18H; d. in the army, Feb. 20, 1802. V. Willanl W., h. Dm·. CT, 18-l!l; d. Dec. 3, 18!l7; m., Mny CT, 1870,

Lillian H. Van Dcmu,n, of Wn.r-rcn, Vt.. Uh.: (1) La11m M.', h. Nov. 1:1, l8n; m. Hcpt,. 21, l8!H, Georgi, F. Umnp, of St .. Paul, am\ hnd ch.: (1) Hlnndie0, b .. June 12, 18!lfi; d . .June fi, 18!l8; (2) George, h. Feb. 22, 18!J7; (3) Fra.nklin, b. Sept. 20, 18!J!l; (4) Glady.•, b. l!J02. (2) Mildred F., b. May l!J, 188,5,

. m .. June 7, l!l02, Richard P. NicholR, of Roxbury, Vt., and haR .son°, h. Feb. 8, l!J0/5.

VI. Lnvctt.c M., h. !\fay 2CT, 18.54; d. April 2:3, 1883; m. Aug. 21, 18H, (lporl!:e Haymond, who d. Oct,. 18, 1883, from the nccidcntal tfo<l'lmrgi, of n gun. Uh.: (1) Bessie Harriet', h. April 2, 1876; m., March 17, 18!JG, Hobert McCnig, and hnR ch.: (1) Esther l,m•rttr", h. Nov. 21, 1807; (2) Mildred Uuth, b. Oct. 20, 1901.

46 THE SEVERY-SAVERY FAMILY.

VII. John n., b. June 5, 18ii7; m., Nov. 10, 1888, Rena Thompson, of Webster, S. D., Ch.: (1) Elfie Lavette•, b. Jan. 3, 1892; (2) Camille Doris, b. April 25, 1901. Jo1rn B. SF.VF.11Y resi(les at Webster, S. D.

VIII. Ella M., b. Oct. 9, 1859; d. March Hi, 18G3.

H3B.

WALTEll .J. SEVIcHY7 (Harvey K. 0, Han!mJ5, 'J'homas4, .Tohn3,

Joseph2, John1) was born March 3 (or 4), 183fl, an<l nmrricxl, Oct..:~,

1864, Elvirn M. Stearns, of Lincoln, Vt. She <lied Dec. 11, Hl03. He was a soldier in Co. K, 2d Vermont rcKimcnt;, in the Anny of the Potomac under General MeCldla11.

CmLDREN,

I. Julian A.8, h. Feb. 21, 18(i9; m., Sept. 1, 1901, Fannie M. Stearns, of Chelsea, Vt. Ch.: (1) Willard Warren•, h. May 2G, 1903. JULIAN A. SEVERY resides in w·ancn, Vt.

JI. Clam E., b. Aug. 5, 1870.

Om1'UAnrns.

Although it was no part of my plan to record the subse­quent fate of any whose nnmes appear in the first edition, I insert the following by specinJ request:

Mrs. Mary Fayette Talcott (p. ll, where slw is called }larictta E.) d. July l!l, 1899.

Seigel Debno Talcott (p. -11) (I. Oct. 29, 1 !)03. Wilson Doty (p. 51) d . .fan. 2G, 18!ll. Mrs. Clarissa Doty (p .. 51) d. Dec. 21, 189,1.

And the follO\-ving:

Arthur Hm11·1w8 :'lavary, HOii of .\dolpl111s7 (p. /i(i); 111., Ocl-. 27, 1!10:l, Corn Maria, dau. of :-lila,; llid,ch, !!:~,,., or l laLchvilh·.

B,,njamin Clifl.on8 Hnvary, son ol' Adolphw<7 (H:u111, pttµ;<,); 111.,

Aug. '27, l!lO:l, llarrinl. L. VoKn. Uh.: (I) llla11ch(, Clifl.011•; b. 190-l.

\'Villiam Cooper• Savary, youngest son of Adolphus7 (sam(, page); m., Jan. 12, 1898, Jennie Eliza VoRe. Ch.: (1) ltobert Wil­li:un•, b. October, 1808; (2) Julia Marcia: (:~) ERthcr, b. on .Easter 8unday, l!l0-1, lived only six weeks.

Jennie E. and Harriet L. (Vo,;e) :-,avary are grnnddaugh(;,rs hy a scc01ul wife of Wilson Gurney, whose first wifo wm< Adelia Savery. See p. 41 of original book.

]n ~emottam

Three estecrnet! zenlous fellow-workers nnli syrnpntbl1.crs

GEORGE C. SAVERY, OF DEXTER, Mrcn. Died October 27, 1898.

,vrLLIAM SAVERY, OF SOUTII CARVER, MASS. · The llrst of my Arnerlcnn kinsmen with whom I corresponde,I on the

subject of genealogy.

Died June 22, 1899.

Judge JAMES B. SEVERY, OF COLORADO SPRINGS, CoL. Died 1llarch 5, 1901.

Soc pngce 51, Ul, nnd 211.

I will also venture to preserve and perpetuate by adding to this supplement some verses by my daughter, EFFIE HowE SA v ARY, who died April 28, 1896, after evincing, at a very early age, remarkable gifts in the art of painting as well as poetry.

And now, my kinsmen and friends, I bid you a final farewell. "My theme

Has died into an echo; it is fit The spell should break of this protracted di·eam, -The torch should be extinguished which hath lit JJ[y midnight lamp; and what is writ is wi·it. Wo-zrld it were worthier."

'APPENDIX.

·VERSES

BY EFFIE H. SAVARY.

In publiahing theae veraes I do not wish to be understood aa claiming for them any literary merit. My object is to perpetuate in my family the name and memory of the writer, who was a very young girl when she wrote them.

AT NIGHT.

The day is done; the human striving over, And all humanity now seeks.repose;

The night is come, and kindly darkness covers This world of human care and human woes.

Like some poor prisoner who forgets his bondage, When darkness hides from him each cruel chain,

The soul a moment now forgets the body That binds it to this world of human pain.

Oh, may the darkness of our lives hide from us All that would keep our souls from things above,

But may pure hopes of heaven ever cheer us, Like bright stars shining from the home of love.

We need no lamp; the holy stars less brightly · · Would shine through the unhallowed lights of earth; Even as holy words lose half their beauty,

Falling on hearts made light by worldly mirth.

While shines the sky more radiant each moment, The heautieR of the world grow dull and gmy;

So when we taste the soul's far higher pleasure, The charms of worldly pleasures pass away.

Oh, that our paths like midnight, dark and silent, Were free from sights and sounds of worldly strife;

That we might hear the Voice of Love that speaketh In all the winds of fate that move our life.

And as a star in heaven led the wise men Unto the manger of the Child adored, -

So holy love would g1;1ide us ever onward Into the very presf'nce of tlie Lord.

50 APPENDIX.

SHE IS GONE.

Written on the occasion of the first visit from home of her stepmother, to whom she was devotedly attached.

She has gone, when all things lovely disappear In the sad, sad autumn of the year; As the perfumed flow'rs are gone And the birds no longer stay, So the sweetness and the music Of om: lives have passed away:

She is gone.

Little do we care how cold the winds may blow, Sitting in the hearth-fire's cheery glow: 'Tis as if that fire were gone, On the cheerless winter day, For the brightness and the warmth Of our home has passed away:

She is gone.

She is gone! With her the darkest day was bright; In her presence, darkness changed to lil!:ht.

But, ll8 if in sympathy With us now does Nature groan; Like bright hopes the leaves are falling, While the mournful winds low moan,

She is gone.

Extract from the diary of Judge Sewall of Massachusetts, in a biographi­cal skcteh of his son, llcv. Jollcph Sewall, in tho Bmiton "Hbtoric1d 1~11d Genealogical Register," for January, 1892. He was born August, 1688:

"16!>2. November 0: Joseph threw a knop of Brass and hil his Sister Bott_v "on the forhead, so as to make it bleed and swell; upon which and for his " playing at Prayer-time, and eating when Return Thanks, I whipped him " pretty smartly. When I first went in (called by his grandmother) he sought "to shadow and hide himself from me behind the head of the cradle: " which gave me the sorrowful remembrance of Adam's carriage." When Tread this aloud Miss Effie Savary, then a child, immediately wrote ns follows:

Oh, Joseph is my little boy, He's not quite three feet tall;

How proud I was of him, alas! Pride comes before a fall.

To-day he played while prayers were said, And ate while saying grace,

And after dinner went.and struck Our Betty in the face.

APPENDIX.

Poor Betty's face began to bleed, And Betty, loud she cried.

When I went in to punish Joe, He sought, for fear, to hide.

Of Adam's carriage then I thought, And sad was I to see

The nature of his forefather, In him, so strong to be.

Just now - but stop, I'll say no more, But wait another time,

When Joseph is a better boy, To speak of him in rhyme.

A FRAGMENT.

There is sadness in these gorgeous leaves, They fall so fast;

And bitter mem'ries in these perfumed flowers, Of dear lives past;

And all the joys of earth are touched with pain, -They cannot last.

For as the dew-drop, when its beams are brightest Melts in the sun;

As daylight ever glows in greatest glory When day is done;

So do we know when earthly joys are fairest, Its hours have run.

But I have plucked from life's rough road a flower Whose sweetness lasts.

ON THE APPROACH OF DEATH.

I must write one little word to leave Behind me when I go;

For I see the veil 'twixt heaven and earth Swing slowly to and fro;

And the time when the veil shall part for me, I cannot know.

Then let me write when yet I can, My God, a word for Thee;

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52 APPENDIX.

A word that in some other soul Shall live eternally.

And point some weary one to Him Who comforts me.

I see the veil 'twixt life and death Swing slowly to and fro,

And I know full well that at any time, It may open for me to go.

But I'm sure that my best, long-trusted friend, He who knows me best of all,

Will welcome me Home when 'tis time to go, Beyond Death's solemn call.

But, oh, my friends, when I leave you here, If I could but be sure

That you all would follow me, that I Had only gone before!

Dear girls, the friends of school-girl days, And my brothers, the love of my heart;

Draw near to me all and promise me That we shall not be long apart.

For death may come to us any time, We cannot dare delay,

But come to our Saviour now; dear friends, Oh, come and be safe to-day.

The following lines were written while in extreme physical weakness and in the almost immediate prospect of death:

Let me go, for the day breaketh, And' the night of pain is o'er;

Le~ me go, for the light is shining­Shining on the golden shore.

Let me go, for o'er the river, Seel the bright and morning star

Lighteth up the path to heaven, Brightly beaming from afar.

Let me go, for the day breaketh, And the shadows flee away;

Oh! I fain would see the glory Of our God's eternal day.

INDEXES

IN DEX

TO CHRISTIAN NAMES OF 8AV!i:HYS AND SEY1!RYS (SAVRRY AND SAVARY), COVElllNG KUl'PLEl\lENT l1AGES ,13 Ttf 48 .\Nil "N<>'l'l<'.S, .\Dl>lTl<>N:-4 A'lD COltH.lGC'l'!ONKl' 1N OIUG­I.N.\I, VOLlTME, I'.\(;),;:,.: XIII TO XIX.

PAGE PAGl-J PAGE Auron 25 Clara B. 46 Freel Henry . 31 Ahhmil 2:i C1artt l,. 18 Freeman 44 A,lclia. ·Iii (~lari:-i),,:.n xv, ,j(\

Adclitoe 44 ClifTor,l 20 Ucorgc. 20,24, 30 .\11,crl. 1"rccm:m ,t:J C<,rnclin~ }4:unuct ,14 (icor,zc C. •17 Alhcrt T .. xix CyruF' Pct let:! :n Ucorµ;c E. 33 Al[re,l Henry 21 George L. 2!J Alvie 20 Daniel 24,25, 26,30 George l\lulcohn 20 Augut; Irving 21 Daniel Chandler . 28 Ann Isabell Maude. 21 Dadd 42 Hannah 23,25,27 An11ie \Vent.worth 31 Dad,! Mark 31 Hannah Hulton 30 Anthony xiv Deborah I Hi Harriet, Maria . 44 Armn.nilla 20 I>ci(lttmia 11) Harvey 41,45 Art hnr Bourne 4H Dcn11i:-:.. 18 lfttrvey B. 42 Augu:-tta. 20 DollyW00!I 29 llarvey Kendall . •15 Au~u:--t.u~ G. :l:l Hrtvilmul John 31

11117,e\ 21 l•:hc11 2:1

Herbert 21 l.lcllc 20 Edit.h Huth 21 llenjumin xvii,25.33 Herbert Harlan .29

Etlrnond 44 Bcnjutuin Cliflun 4fi E<lwar,I I>.

Hiram 41 44

Horace LnfayeUe 41 Bc:-isic Harriet 45 Effie Howe 47, 49 l.lctsey 20 Effie Lavette

Ilimm Welch 30,31 4fl

llcl.scy SI.raw an l•:Hn~ Frnnd~ 44 llolsy 22 E1i7.tlhcth, xdii. l-t, 21, 2r,, :l4, Ida 20 Hil'clic xix. :ir, lrn -12 Bia 11chc Cli flun ,tr, J•;li,,tthet.h Balch . al Jrn. .J,,1-1c1,h ,t,1

Bmlfonl Walbce 21 Eliztthct h 11:. . . 44 Isabell" xvii

Elizahct.h F'rccmrtn 42 Camille Duris 4li EllaM. 40 ,JameH xvi.xvii Carfiel,1 20 Emily B. 24 .fames 13. 47 Carl II. 20 Emily Diu.ntha 29 ,Ju.me~ Eugene 29 C"roline Perley 29 En1ma. Beatrice Albina . 21 ,James Musefl 21 Carrie 20 Erne~t F.. 21 .James IL 42 Clrn.rlc:-:: 24 E~t.her .15,46 ,Jane S .. xix Charles A, xix, :l3 Etta. 33 Jerrcid. 2ll Charles M. 33 l~u~cnc Uo:-:1wcll 31 John, xviii, 20, 24, 30, 31, 3•1, Charlm; Pen1bcrlon 30 41, 42 Charles Putnam 3U Frunccs A. xix John B. 4G Chase .26,27 Fred Arthur 31 John Duer 21

56 INDEX,

PAUB PAGE PAUE

,John E. 36, 37 Mary Steven• 20 8anmol Chandler :!8,20 John Huwe 2011 Mel'Cy xvi, 13 Sa1nucl Frederic . 2:!

John Williams 21 Mildred F. 45 Sanford 20 Jonathan xix Miriam Emily . 31 Sarah 15, 23, 25, 30, :m Jo,;eph . xviii, 13, 42, 43 Muses 23, 24, 33 Saruh Alice . 31 Joseph Chase 28 l\tot:;e~ Lung 30,31 Sarah L. -12 Jo,;eph H. 21 MotieS W ashingtuu . W,21 Sarah N clsun 18 Ju:;ephine Augusta , 31 Selina 2:i .Jrnmphine Maria . 41 Nut.Jiau 1-1, 15,20 S1.l01nu11 ·11 .I u<lilh Tucker :m Nathan Thotuas . :m 8u:-sun N. -15 Julia Murcia 4u Nathaniel Chandler 28 8mm.nna Lothrop xvii .Julian A. .j(j Nehemiah xviii, 45 Susanna Le Valley lli ,Julius E. 45 Nellie May -15

Nor~L .Mariuthu. 21 'l'homa.s, xiv, xvii, la, 2(1, ·11, Kendall ur Kindle 45 45

Olive Jane 28 'l'hom.a!'i Cullin::; a2 Luw·u Lewi:::i xviii Thomas William 20 LauraM .. 45 Pelel!; 21, 22

Lavette C. 45 Pcuclope . 34 Uriah 13, 14, :.?~ Lavette M. 45 Phccbc Francct-1 20

l,crnucl 22 !'oily H W11llcr.J. .-lfi,.I(; Lcuuio . 20 Prhscillu xvi, xvii, :m \Va.ITCH Frcmoul :JI Lconar<l J ucob 44 Pri::;cilla Parker 30 \Varrcn llowanl :!U Levi. :10 Wilfrrnl l lcury :H Levi Augu::;lms 2:i Hlwda II. :!7 Willanl H Liziic 20 Hichard 18, 32, a3, :i4. \Villani W. .J.5 Lois 27 llichard U urney , xv Willard Wallace 45 Lucy Perley 29 Hichanl H. 13. 18 Willunl Wanen -tu Luella Jane . 31 lluhcrt, 23, 24, :!5, 20, 30, 31, William (of South Carver), Lydia 10, 25 32, :ia, a4, as 21, 47 Lydia A. 10 Hubert Lockwood a1 William, :!3, :!5, 33, 3-1, 35, :.Ill,

llubcrt hi. 4~ ;J7 Margaret 44 llohcrt William -l(i William II. 20 M,uy xvi, 13, 4:! Hoxanu. 2:1 William Backus -12, ·13 Mary Alice 28 llufus L. xvi \Villimn Cooper 40 Mary Ames ;l:J llulh xvi William Frnukliu xix Mary Ann xviii, -11 William 11. 4~ Mary C. :!6,27 Sabine 10 William lleury 20 Mary gmma 41 Sally 27 ,villia.nl John H M:uy Fayclt.c ·Hi tlally Smilh 28 \Villiam Perley :Ill Maryl'. 28 :::;uu1ucl la, 22, 2,1, 3:J William tlhuri.lilic xvii Mary Shaw. xvii tlamucl Alle11 H William'!'. ; 32,:H

INDEX

TO f:ilTRNAl\lES Olr PEHKON~ CONNECTED UY l\IARRIAGE

l'ACIN l'Alll•; PAOfl

Alden 21 Clc,·clatul . xvi Urccnough 29 Allen 16 Cline 18 Gregg 27 Ame!-' !33 Coffin 29 Griffin 28 • Arnlrew!-l w Colby 2.5 Uriswol1l 19 Atwootl xii Cole xviii. xix, 28 Uunnison 28

Collin!:t 28 Uurney 46

lJackue 42 Coope_r. .4

lJap.lcy 2u Crt><>k:..hank 20 Ilnll 20 Bailey 30 Cn,zcn. 31 }[n.tnilt.<m 28

Balch .29, 30 Cushman. xvii I-lump 4.5 Ilalmer 41 Cutia 28 Hanly 2.5, 2ti, 4.5 llamficltl 7 11:trt 41,43

Ilanks 29 Dan1011 :io HaHkin!:' 21 Ilarker . 28 DavidHun 21 Batch 4(;

Barton 44 Deland xviii Hebert 44 lld[n1·t. ·14 l>cnnning:.. 20 1Icn<lrick~ xix Bennett . xix llotlp.e 25 llcwiU 44 Bc:..~c 2:i lloly . xv, W, 1ti llia11~ xv

BilliHJ.tH ·H Dow. :11 !!ill :1-1 Bi~hop ·11 l)owncr ;30 llillnr II lJly 2.5, 26 llmllcy xiii, xiv Hilliard 2(;

Boanlman 23 Dutch 23 Hotlgdcn 32

Brewster 14 Holmet-: xvi, 20

Bridges :n Homan 18 llrigham xvi Ferry 42 Horton 7 Bl'own rn, 29 Fi:-.her 27 Hovey 29

Bnmer ·11 Fleet lll Howe HI Buck 27 l1'11:-tlcr 22 Jlo\\·larnl 28

Uump 14 Frccnm.n 14,42 Humphrey 27 llu1npu~ 14,22 French 18 Hunt 19 llurlmnk xvi Fuller 22

Burger-.s 14 ,Johru;on 30, llurnham 45 Oap-;c 23 Johnstone 2lJ Burpee 27 Gee 27 JoneE= 26

Gibbs 22 Cn.rty 20 Gul,len 20 Keen l(j

Cervyntun 7 Gm,dwin 2(; Kempton 20 Chn.ndler . 28 Gould 28 Kitldct· 42 <'hasc :m Ura.nt 20 Churchill xvi~ xvii (lra.\"CH 45 Lamb 31 Chut-e 20 Greenleaf xvi I,nrnbcrton 26 Clement, 31 Urca.r:-:on 45 I.J:tmbcrl.i-.(m l(j

58 INDEX.

PA(u.: l'..\.11~ PA.Gl!j

Leonard xix l'cLern 35,44 :.-:!t:.u1Jbh '21, 22 LevuJley 15 Polit 44 Slcu.Jn1au 10 Lewis xviii Piper xix Stearm; 46 Ludlam 30 Pitman 5, 15, 3'> -, 33 Steven~ 25

Poole 26 Straw 26,30

Mucaulay 20 Porter 16 Sturtevant 22 Manning 31 Poucher H Swift 22

Marionneaux H Pre~~ey 2G lltur•hall lli, 17 Prence H Talcott .J(j

J\lu,aru xvii l'ritehurd 27 Templet H

McCaig 45 Prouty 20 'l'hihuull 15

J\lcKuy :n Thuma:; '27

Mellor 36 llu1ulull H 'l'l101n1>s11t1 .l(j

J\lcudum 34 Uu.ytnuud 21, -15 'l'hout~u11 28

Merrill 28, 29 Heice 26 TihbiU or Tibbitts . 15, Ill

MeHsenger 22,41 lleynulds 23 TvUin 41

Mes•er . 26 Uichu.rd:;uu 30,31 Trow :!9

.\litchell 23 Hohl> 18 Tyer .. Hi

.Monroe 15 Robbins xvi J\loocr (01· Moure) 23 llohimmu 18 Yau Dcu::ioU 45

Morgun 3n Hoger~ :17 Vu.uµ;hu.11 -II

M01·•0, xviii, :m, is, 20, '29 llowc 27 V,1:-se -Iii

Murtuu xvi Jtunnclls 2:l Moullou 20 llusscll Waw1Hcr 2ll

'27, :.!8 MuJlius :.?2 Wales :!H

Murray 16 Wallis 37 Sabin 15 Warren 14 Salyarda 18, 10 Wutkirn~ 30

Nelson . 27 Sampson. 13, 22 Webb :H Nichols 45 Sauburn 27 Weu•ter 26,-H Noyes 23 Sargent 27 We~ton xv

Sawyer 23 Wetmore. 1(j

O'Dwyer 18 Seiglur . -13 Whitely 30 O'Neill. 44 Servington 7 Whitney .21,45 Ordwuy 23 Scvcru.nco 2c;,20 Wilcomc 21

Shaw xvii Williams ~m Page . 21. 30, :n Shmnway 4-1 Wing xviii Purker . 4,26,33 Shurtliffc xvi Woudrorke 3 Peach 29 Sibley 41 Woods. 31 Peck 31 Sin1ous 27 Wortl,ylakc Ill Percy 21 Smith 15, 18, l!J, 21, 20 Wright. 1H Pcrkiu1::1 21,26 Snow 2U Perley 2!l Som:). 43 Yorke 45 Perry 1-1 Soule. :.n' 2:? Yuuug 28

The connection of the Plymouth, New England and Barba­does Saverys is as yet undetermined, although the Christian name Anthony common to both families, and in North Wilts whence the Plymouth family came is not without significance. The author of the Savery Genealogy has recently noticed in a copy of the "Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum," the marriage Dec. 10 (21st new style), 1630, of Anthony Savery of Highworth, baker, 24, and Mary Shepperd, spinster, 22. This he believes to be the same Anthony who was born in the adjacent Parish of Hannington, January 20, 1605-6 ( See Savery Genealogy, Appendix A, p. 217), and the one who appears on the first list of Freeman of Plymouth in 1633, and therefore not the one who went to Barbadoes, as suggested on p. 3 of the ·'Supplement.'' His inference is that the Mary Savery who married Joseph Ramsden at Plymouth in 1661 was his widow, this Mary Shepperd. He therefore reverses his opinion that Thomas was the older of the two who came to Plymouth. Thomas was evidently not married and perhaps was not of age in 1633.