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Ensign Thomas Savage is well known in Virginia History.

Arriving i

Jamestown in

1608

he was given

to Powhatan by

Captain

Christopher Newport as a hostage to

insure friendship

with the powerful

Powhatan.

John Smith

, present at the exchange,

tells us

Savage

was

thirteen

years of age.

In 1619

nsign

Savage

settled in Accomack as the first

white settler on

the Eastern Shore.

The Ensign

s said to

have

given us

the oldest continuing

family

name in

America.

Thomas Savage, "The Carpenter,"

prominent figure in Northampton and Accomack

Counties on

the

Eastern Shore of

Virginia

, first appears

, by name,

in the records in 1632

. He is known to

have

been a

builder of

watercraft

and homes, was

manufacturer of casks and barrels, and

at his death,

owned at

least two

roperties

totaling

750 acres

A skirmish with the Indians near Jamestown

The 1624/25 muster

(census) listed a 12 year old boy, identified

Thomas

Belson, a servant of Ensign Thomas. I believe this

boy

was Thomas

Savage

the Carpenter. While common thought

that Belson was a surname,

believe

that it was a family name

and was used to differentiate him from

his

father.

The reported

age of 12 is probably incorrect. Anyone who has

ever

examined

old census records knows they were notorious for having

gross

errors on

ages. Young Thomas would have been closer to 9 or 10.

Many of these old records were hand copied and re-copied

several times

and

as any researcher who has delved through old

census records knows;

there

were many, many, errors. (I have a

dozen different ages recorded for

great-grandfather, Nelson

Savage.) There may have been a

misunderstanding

on the part of

the census taker as regards the boy’s name

and his age.

Perhaps

the person giving the information named the boy's

mother when

answering;

xxxxxxx's son

. Perhaps the copyist had difficulty

with the name

when the muster taker's notes were transferred.

Like my own name, i

ay have been

a middle name to

differentiate him

from his father.

It would be like my father,

Russell,

telling the census taker

that I was Russell Blair.

Any number of reasons could account for

his boy

having been

listed as a

servant.

As mentioned above, the old records are rife

with errors.

Did the

census

taker mistake

for a servant

because he appeared

to be Native

American?

I have not been able to locate another person with the name,

Belson during

these early years of the colony.

Of the 51 Eastern Shore people appearing in the census of

1624/25, this

young boy is the only individual who is not

identified by either; “born in

Virginia” or by the giving of a date

of arrival and the name of the ship on

which he arrived.

Of those 51 people:

Forty-eight are identified by ship and date of arrival.

Two are identified as being “born in Virginia”.

Only one, the so-called, Thomas Belson, has no date of arrival,

ship name,

“born in Virginia” label.

To illustrate the above I include here an excerpt from the muster

listing

those

residents of the Eastern Shore. This is a copy from

page 11 of THE

EASTERN SHORE of VIRGINIA 1603-1964 by

Nora Miller Turman and

appears alphabetically instead of in the

original order. I have a complete

copy

of the actual 1624/25

muster, so I am certain of the accuracy of what I

include here.

William Andrews, age 25, in the Treasurer, 1617

John Askume, age 22, in the Charles, 1624

John Baker, age 20, in the Ann, 1623

Thomas Belson, age 12

William Bibble, age 22, in the Swan, 1620

James Blackborne, age 20, in the Sampson, 1619

Margaret Hodgskins, born in Virginia

Why was the “Belson” boy treated differently than the other fifty

residents?

Why was he the only one who had no information

given as to how or when

arrived in Virginia? Why is the listing

of this boy unique?

SAVAGE IS MY NAME

After spending many years tracing my line

Thomas

Savage

the Carpenter

, in

1995 I

published a

book

covering the thirteen

generations

from

he to

my grand-children.

After the

book

was

completed I

continued

the search

for the

antecedents

and

descendants of this

remarkable man. The

book is

entitled;

SAVAGE IS MY NAME

A History of Thirteen Generations of a

Savage Family in America

This book is available for sale.

is high

quality hardback, 308 pages, illustrated

and indexed.

Price is $29.50 plus $

.50

for packaging

and

Media Rate

shipping, total

4.00

Mail check to

R. Blair Savage

157 Shadowleaf Dr

ive

Hendersonville, NC 28739

Robinson T.

Savage

and many

of his

descendants

are told

about in

Evelyn Guard

Olsen's

book,

Indian

Blood, a

brilliant

narrative

about life in

the

Blooming Rose

area of Garrett

County during the

1800's.

Stephen

Schlosnagle's

bicentennial

history of

Garrett

County

contains

numerous

references to

our

Savage

ancestors.

The book,

Garrett County

Graves would be

several pages

thinner

had

Robinson not

planted

his roots

where he did.

Robinson T.

Savage

was the

first school

teacher

Western

Maryland. He was

friend and

neighbor of

Meshack

Browning.

Meshack was a

famous pioneer

hunter

and

outdoorsman. His

flintlock rifle rests

the Smithsonian.

In Meshack's

book,

Forty-four

Years of

The Life

f A

Hunter,

tome

about his

many

exploits, he

tells

about

he and

Robinson

being

together in the War

1812. They

volunteered, were

appointed

sergeants

and

marched off to

Baltimore.

Thomas The Carpenter
had at least two sons;
Thomas and John.

A century after he was active on
the Eastern Shore,
Thomas The Carpenter was
referred to, in court records as;
Thomas Savage
The Elder.

The line from Thomas Savage the Carpenter to me is

as follows:

01. Thomas Savage1 ? - 1654-55

02. Thomas Savage2 1646 - 1721

03. Robinson Savage1 1699 - 1774

04. Robinson Savage2 ? - 1786

05.

Robinson T. Savage

abt 1769 - 1830's

06. Evan Savage 1797 - after 1849

07. Robert Savage 1819 - 1895

08. Nelson E. Savage abt 1838 - 1916

09. Milton Jackson Savage 1880 - 1960

10. Russell Milton Savage 1901 - 1986

11.

Russell Blair Savage

1934 – (

That's me!

)

Additions and corrections to the information

contained herein are welcome.

I may be contacted at:

R. Blair Savage

157 Shadowleaf Dr.

Hendersonville, NC 28739

Ph 828-808-3749

I may be contacted by email at the address

following.

This

address is broken into segments to

prevent copying by

nternet

spiders.

rbsavage1

followed by;

yahoo.com

This web site went on-line in

July of 2005.

I will continue to add any

information

that I

may find on

Thomas Savage the

Carpenter

and

Ensign Thomas Savage.

I also regularly add to the

everal

thousand

names on

the

Robinson T.

Savage

web site.

Thomas Savage

the Carpenter

had

many craftsmen

and

laborers

working

his shops and plantation.

Some

of them

were slaves,

some were indentured

servants

and

undoubtedly some were

freemen.

The aim of this site is to:

1. Make available information on the continuing effort to prove the

relationship of Thomas Savage the Carpenter, who first appears in

Colonial Virginia records in 1632, and Ensign Thomas Savage

who arrived in 1607/08 with the "First Supply" to Jamestown - and to

determine their family histories.

2. Provide assistance to those who believe they may be descended from

these two adventurers.

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A colonial

cooper

needed skills,

intelligence,

and

strength.

They

made

casks and containers

many

specific

sizes

which included the

barrel,

firkin,

kilderkin,

hogshead, butt,

tierce,

puncheon,

rundlet and pipe. They

also

made

pails,

churns,

tubs, and

dippers.

These were

made

of cedar

and

pine,

and were used to hold

goods

like

flour,

tobacco, and

water. Coopers

used broad

axes,

planes, drawknives,

and

other

tools to make

these

items.

carpenter

was perhaps the most

useful

colonial

tradesman. The

carpenter used many

different

tools,

including the saw, broad axe,

hammer,

awl,

mallet, plane,

scribe, drawknife,

gimlet, and froe.

Carpenters built with, oak, locust,

tulip,

poplar,

yellow

pine, cypress and

juniper.

By R. Blair Savage

Milton Jackson Savage

Russell Milton Savage

Last update on this page:
04-30-2012

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Robinson T. Savage,

early pioneer of Western

Maryland, present

day

Garrett

County

was my

great, great, great, great,

grand-father.

I have constructed a chart of

the descendants of

Robinson

T. Savage

which lists over

4000 individuals.

This chart may be accessed at

the link below

A great, great, grand-son of
Thomas Savage
was
Robinson T. Savage

Thomas Savage the Carpenter
built houses and boats.
A Shallop was typical of the kind
of boats built by his crew.

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Jamestown Plaque dedicated
to Ensign Thomas Savage

THOMAS SAVAGE GENTLEMAN AND ENSIGN
THE FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT ON THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA
HOSTAGE TO POWHATAN 1508, HIS LOYALTY AND
FEARLESSNESS ENDEARED HIM TO THE GREAT KING WHO TREATED HIM AS
HIS SON WHILE HE RENDERED INVALUABLE AID TO THE COLONY AS
INTERPRETER.
GREATLY LOVED BY DEBEDEAVON, THE LAUGHING KING OF THE
ACCAWMACKES.
HE WAS GIVEN A TRACT OF 9000 ACRES OF LAND
KNOWN AS SAVAGE'S NECK.
HE OBTAINED FOOD FOR THE STARVING COLONY AT JAMESTOWN THROUGH
HIS
FRIENDSHIP WITH THE KINDLY EASTERN SHORE INDIANS.
A RELATION OF HIS VOYAGES ON THE GREAT BAY IN SEARCH OF THE TRADE
FOR THE ENGLISH WAS READ BEFORE THE LONDON COMPANY AT A COURT
HELD JULY 19TH 1621.
JOHN PORY, SECRETARY OF THE COLONY SAYS, "HE WITH MUCH HONESTIE
AND GOOD SUCCESSES, SERVED THE PUBLIQUE WITHOUT ANY PUBLIQUE
RECOMPENSE, YET HAD AN ARROW SHOT THROUGH HIS BODY IN THEIR
SERVICE.

17th-century European engraving depicts Powhatan receiving Ralph Hamor,

secretary of the Virginia colony and interpreter Thomas Savage in 1614 at the

chief’s new capital of Matchcot on the Pamunkey River.

Hamor relates: I had Thomas Salvage with me, for my interpreter; with him

and two Salvages, for guides; I went from the Bermuda in the morning, and

came to Matchot the next night, where the King (Powhatan) lay upon the

River

of Pamaunke; his entertainment was strange to me, the boy (Thomas

Savage)

he knew well and told him; My child, I gave you leave, being my boy,

to goe see

your friends, and these foure yeares I have not seene you, nor

heard of my

owne man Namontack.

Ensign Thomas Savage was an "adopted

brother" to Pocahontas and lived in everyday

association with her for at least three years.

Theodore De Bry wood cut of Colonial artist John White's first-hand,
water color depiction of the Virginia/North Carolina Indian.

This European painting of the wedding of Pocohantas and John Rolfe
is said to include Ensign Thomas Savage

Who was the father of
Thomas Savage the
Carpenter?

This question is vigorously
explored in my book;

Savage Is My Name - Part
II

SAVAGE IS MY NAME - PART II
A Study of the Relationship of
Thomas Savage the Carpenter
&
Ensign Thomas Savage
of
Virginia's Eastern Shore
1607 - 1655

This follow-up to my original book,
SAVAGE IS MY NAME is also high quality
hardback, 130 pages, illustrated.

Price is $15.00 plus packaging and shipping:
First Class; $5.00 - Total - $20.00
Media Rate; $3.50 - Total - $18.50.

When ordered together the price for
both books is $41.00 plus $5.00 for packaging
and Media Rate shipping; total - $46.00

Mail check to

R. Blair Savage

157 Shadowleaf Dr

ive

Hendersonville, NC 28739

Caution:

If you are new to genealogy research, you need to be aware that there is an

extreme amount of rubbish

information posted on the Internet. Before using any information

found on-line one should make sure it is documented.

my own searching, of this most

valuable medium, I have found scores of

postings

relating to the lives of Ensign

Thomas

Savage and Thomas Savage the Carpenter which are highly questionable and many that are

ust plain wrong

. I

have found no person, or source, on the Internet or anywhere else, who

cites an actual record which

identifies the parents

of Ensign Thomas Savage, or the location

in England from where he came. If anyone has such

hard evidence I would

sincerely

appreciate your sharing it with those of us who have spent many years in search of it.

The purpose for including this listing is to provide help, when possible, to other researchers.
If you would like me to look for a specific name or passage that you have reason to believe
may be in one of these publications, I would be happy to do so. Please do not ask me to search
the entire library. Email me your request at the address included further down this page.

       For those who check this list regularly, recent additions will be added in red.
1.           A Genealogical History of The Savage Family In Ulster – George Francis Savage-Armstrong
2.           A Land As God Made It: Jamestown & The Birth Of America - James Horn
3.           A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia ---- by Ralph Hamor the Younger, Late Secretarie -- 1615
4.           A True Relation of The State of Virginia Left by Sir Thomas Dale Knight in May Last 1616 – John Rolfe
5.           Abstracts of Wills, Adm. Of Northampton Co. VA. 1632-1802 - James Handley Marshall
6.           Accomack Co. VA. Court Order Abstracts Vol. 1-10: 1663-1710 - JoAnn Riley McKey (On CD)
7.           Accomack Tithables 1663 – 1695 - Stratton Nottingham
8.           Adventures of Purse and Person, 1607-1624/5, Vol. IV, R-Z - John F. Dorman
9.           Adventures of Purse and Person, Va. 1607-1624/5, Vol. I, A-F - John F. Dorman
10.         America’s First Family, The Savages of Virginia – Burghard
11.         Anne Orthwoods’s Bastard – John Pagan
12.         Before and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans         - Rountree & Turner
13.         Between Two Worlds - Story of Pocahontas mirrored by that of a young Englishman, Hostage to her Father – Clausen
14.         Captain John Smith – Writings with Other Narratives – Ed. James Horn
15.         County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton 1640-1645 - Susie Ames
16.         Directories of Accomack & Northampton Landowners - 1815 - Roger G. Ward
17.         Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623 – 1666 – George Cabell Greer
18.         Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland - Rountree & Davidson
19.         English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records – Louis des Cognets, Jr.
20.         First People: The Early Indians of Virginia - Egloff & Woodward
21.         Formation of A Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore 1615-1655 - James R. Perry
22.         Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina – Wm. K. Byrd
23.         Jamestown, the Buried Truth - Kelso
24.         Jamestowne Ancestors 1607-1699 - Davis
25.         Life of the Powhatan (Native Nations of North America)         - Sjonger & Kalman
26.         Loose Papers and Sundry Court Cases 1628 – 1731         - Jean Mihalyka
27.         Lost Virginia Records, English Duplicates of – Louis des Cognets, Jr.
28.         Marriages, Northampton County, Virginia 1660-1854 - Jean Mihalyka
29.         Mother Earth – Land Grants in Virginia - W. Stitt Robinson, Jr.
30.         Narratives Of Early Virginia – Editor J. F. Jameson
31.         Northampton Co. Va. Record Book, Ord, Deeds, Wills, 1654-55 - Mackey & Groves
32.         One Among the Indians - Martha Bennett Stiles
33.         Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough - Rountree
34.         Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia - Helen C. Rountree
35.         Powhatan’s Mantle - Wood, Waselkov, Hatley
36.         Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in Virginia 1607-09 - Susie Ames
37.         Records of the Va. Co. of London, Court Book, Vol. 1, 1619-22 - Susan M. Kingsbury
38.         Savage Is My Name – Part II – R. Blair Savage
39.         Savage Is My Name - R. Blair Savage
40.         Savage Kingdom – The True Story of Jamestown – Benjamin Wooley
41.         Shawnee Heritage I - Don Greene
42.         Shawnee Heritage II - Don Greene
43.         Studies of the Virginia Eastern Shore in the 17th century - Susie M. Ames
44.         The Ancient And Noble Family Of The Savages Of The Ards – George Francis Savage-Armstrong
45.         The British Empire - Jane Samson (on order)
46.         The Common Law of Colonial America - Nelson
47.         The Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1603-1964 - Nora Miller Turman
48.         The European And The Indian – James Axtell
49.         The First Colonists – Documents on the Planting of The First English Settlements in North America – David and Alison Quinn
50.         The Genesis of the United States: The Movement in England 1605-1616, Resulted in the Plantation of North America - Brown
51.         The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia - William Strachey
52.         The Jamestown Adventure: Accts of the Va. Colony, 1605-1614 - Ed Southern
53.         The Jamestown Colony – Cornerstones of Freedom – Sakurai
54.         The Jamestown Project - Karen Kupperma
55.         The Peopling of British North America - Bernard Bailyn
56.         The Powhatan Indians of Virginia - Helen C. Rountree
57.         The Records of the Va. Co. of London, Vol. 1,2,3,4 (CD) - Susan M. Kingsbury
58.         The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History - Custalow & Daniel
59.         Tom Savage - A Story of Colonial Virginia - John Logan (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
60.         Virginia – The First Seventeen Years - Charles E. Hatch, Jr.
61.         Virginia ‘Publick’ Claims, Accomack & Northampton, 1780-83 -- Abercrombie & Slatten
62.         Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania – Boyd Crumrine
63.         Virginia Immigrants And Adventurers 1607 – 1635 - Martha W. McCartney
64.         Virginia’s Eastern Shore - Ralph T. Whitelaw
65.         We Are The Savages - J.C. Savage
66.         Who’s Saying What in Jamestown, Thomas Savage - Jean Fritz
67.         Wills And Adms of Accomack Co. Va. 1663 – 1800 - Stratton Nottingham
68.         Ye Kingdom Of Accawmacke - Jennings Cropper Wise

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Correction to SAVAGE IS MY NAME - PART II.

Nancy Garrett, descendant of Ensign Thomas Savage and very knowledgeable Eastern Shore Genealogist questioned my statement on page 24 that
males aged 14 or more could serve on juries. A thorough review of my resources indicates that Nancy is correct. At fourteen a child could act as a
witness, but the age of majority, twenty-one, was necessary to serve on the jury.

Books in as-new condition may
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you are not completely satisfied.

Not that anyone gives a hoot, but a few years ago I
had a computer crash and my counter was wiped
out. The correct current number is about 34050.
RBS 3-19-2012

Hits

The Savages intermarried with the Friends, Fikes,
Casteels and many other pioneer families of Garrett
County, Maryland; Preston County, West Virginia to
the west and Fayette County, Pennsylvania to the
north.

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For those who

regularly

follow this

page, I will

continue to

update it as I

find new

information.

For

those

who visit here

for

the

first time, the

documentation of this

search is available in

the

two books

featured

below.

Henry Spelman and Robert Poole were two Englishmen who

were also

hostaged to the Powhatan Indians and later became

interpreters the

same

as Ensign Thomas Savage. They were

contemporaries of the

Ensign and

the three knew each other well.

According to the source cited below,

He (Spelman) was

survived by

his

Patawomeck spouse "Martha Fox," a child

named Clement

Spelman,

his father Sir Henry Spelman, his

brothers Thomas

Spelman of

Kecoughtan, Virginia, John

Spelman, and Francis

Spelman of Truro,

Cornwall, England.

[The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Virginia

Historical Society, Contributor Philip

Alexander Bruce,

William Glover Stanard, Published 1893, Virginia Historical

Society” p. 17]

Robert Poole's spouse was unknown, but the wife of his son,

William

John Poole, was an unnamed American Indian woman.

Rev. Stephen E. Harris, The Surry County, Virginia,

Historical Society and Museums.

As explained at length in my book, SAVAGE IS MY

NAME - PART

II, it

was routinely common for traders

and other white men important

to the

American and

Canadian Indians to be given young native girls as

wives,

bed-mates. The

nsign was a trader - and interpreters

were

certainly

important to the Indians. If Spelman and

Poole's son took

Indian wives, it

certainly would make

sense for the Ensign to do the

same.

SAVAGE IS MY NAME - PART II, contains substantial

evidence to support the theory that

Thomas Savage the

Carpenter was the son of

Ensign Thomas

Savage

and a

Native

American

girl

As I uncover additional

information,

while

continuing the search for

solid

proof,

I will report

here.

There is good documentation

that an Ann/Hannah was a

wife of

Ensign

Thomas Savage and that they had at least

one child, John.

believe that

Ann/Hannah was the Ensign's second wife,

the step-

mother of the "Belson"

boy who was actually

Thomas Savage the

Carpenter, the son of the Ensign

and

a native girl.

Captain John Smith

Pocahontas

Chief Powhatan

A Shallop
Shallops of the time were described as;
"of twenty-six feet by the keel with masts, oars and
yards".
"of four tons".
"a sloop rigged craft of about twelve tons". (Capt. John
Smith's shallop with which he explored the bay area)

"Tons" refers to the weight of water displaced by the
craft, not the weight of the craft itself.

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A quote from the pen of J.C. Wise:
"These old carpenters and
ship-builders seem to have been
constantly occupied and
prosperous".

New-found information on colonial intermarriage
between the English and the Powhatans

>reported by a source that "some of the people who have gone there, think now some of them should marry the women of the savages of
that country; and he tells me that there are already 40 or 50 thus married." Also reported that the other Englishmen, after being put
among them, have become savages themselves while the women, whom they took out, also have gone among the savages where they
have been received & treated well. A minister who admonished them was "seriously wounded in many places" because "he reprehended
them."
Brown 1964:572 [Vol. 2589, folio 61] Letter from the Marquess of Flores to Philip III, King of Spain. 8-1-1612

>In a survey of New World colonization associated with his grant in Newfoundland, Sir William Alexander cites the marriage of Rolfe
and Pocahontas as evidence of the value of intermarriage, "for it is the onely course that uniting minds, free from jealousies, can first
make strangers confide in a new friendship, which by communicating their bloud with mutuall assurance is left hereditary to their
posteritie."
An Encouragement to Colonies. Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, London, 1624.

>Until at least 1618, and possibly until as late as the Indian strike on English settlements in 1622, Powhatan and his successor, brother
Opechancanough, still held out some hope of dealing with the English intruders through intermarriage and diplomacy.
Women in Early Jamestown Kathleen M. Brown, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

>"A Justification for Planting Virginia" reveals the propaganda campaign of The Virginia Company to counteract these negative reports:
"Some forme of writinge in way of Justification of our plantation might be conceived, and pass [...] into many hands." A number of
these pamphlets were written by Anglican ministers, such as William Symonds and Alexander Whitaker, William Crashaw, Robert Gray,
and R Copeland (Pennington 189-92). These works provided an optimistic view of the native population's readiness to serve as labourers
and willingness to convert to Christianity. The Company's strategy was to convert the popular image of the American native as barbarous
threat to that of helpmate; the Amerindians would be represented as a people who would gladly trade corn for trinkets, convert easily,
were sexually available, and were unlikely to act violently against the colonists. The image of the submissive, attractive, and marriageable
aboriginal transformed the stereotype of the "savage" native, which had the desirable effect of spurring interest and investment in the
colony by defusing a major obstacle to settlement.
Strange wives: Pocahontas in early modern colonial advertisement. Publication by Mosaic (Winnipeg) - David Stymeist 9-1-2002

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