SAVAGE DNA PROJECT

I have had my DNA typed and posted on the
Savage DNA web site. If you are interested in
comparing your DNA to my own, click on the
link below.
Unfortunately there recently seems
to have been little effort to manage the site, but
a new administrator has been added, so
hopefully we'll see some improvement.
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    Ensign Thomas Savage is well known in Virginia History. Arriving in 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
    Ensign Savage settled in Accomack as the first white settler on the Eastern Shore. The Ensign is 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 a manufacturer of casks and barrels, and at his death, owned at
    least two properties totaling 750 acres.
A skirmish with the Indians near Jamestown

    The 1624/25 muster (census) listed a 12 year old boy, identified
    as Thomas Belson, a servant of Ensign Thomas. I believe this
    boy was Thomas Savage the Carpenter. While common thought
    is that Belson was a surname, I 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 my 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, it may 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 this boy having been
    listed as a servant. As mentioned above, the old records are rife
    with errors. Did the census taker mistaken him 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, or “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 he arrived in Virginia? Why is the listing
    of this boy unique?

                 SAVAGE IS MY NAME

    After spending many years tracing my line
    to 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. It is high
    quality hardback, 308 pages, illustrated
    and indexed.

    Price is $29.50 plus $4.50 for packaging
    and Media Rate shipping, total - $34.00.

    Mail check to:
    R. Blair Savage
    157 Shadowleaf Drive
    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 in Western
    Maryland. He was a friend and neighbor of Meshack Browning.
    Meshack was a famous pioneer hunter and outdoorsman. His
    flintlock rifle rests in the Smithsonian.
    In Meshack's book, Forty-four Years of The Life of A Hunter, a tome
    about his many exploits, he tells about he and Robinson being
    together in the War of 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 internet spiders.

    rbsavage1 followed by; @  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 several 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 of 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.
    A 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.
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Milton Jackson Savage
Russell Milton Savage
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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 Drive
    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. In 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
    just 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
                  
          My Personal Library Relating To Colonial Virginia
                 



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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
be returned within 30 days for a
refund of the purchase price if
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,
    or bed-mates. The Ensign 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 it
    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.
    I 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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