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Personal data Thomas Savage 

• He was born in the year 1594 in Cheshire, England, UK.

  ca. 1595 - Thomas Savage is born in England.

  • January 2, 1608 - Thomas Savage, a young laborer, arrives in Virginia aboard the John and Francis.
  • 1610 - Thomas Savage travels to Jamestown and does not return to Tsenacomoco.
  • May 1614 - Thomas Savage accompanies Ralph Hamor to Werowocomoco to try to arrange a marriage between Powhatan's youngest daughter and Sir Thomas Dale. Powhatan greets Savage warmly.
  • 1619–1620 - Governor George Yeardley sends Thomas Savage on a trading mission, not realizing that Savage is in the employ of Captain John Martin of Martin's Brandon.
  • 1621 - Esmy Shichans, the so-called Laughing King of the Eastern Shore, gives Thomas Savage a large tract of land measuring some 9,000 acres.
  • ca. 1623 - Thomas Savage marries a woman named Hannah, sometimes known as Ann, who came to the colony at her own expense in 1621.
  • 1624 - John Savage is born to Thomas and Hannah Savage.
  • May 1625 - Thomas Savage is credited with a dividend of land, which is included in a list that is sent back to England.
  • December 12, 1627 - Hannah Savage receives a patent for 50 acres of land on the Eastern Shore, a neck of land on which the Savage household is then seated.
  • By September 1633 - Thomas Savage dies, leaving his real estate to his son, John Savage.

• Title: Ensign
• Immigrated in the year 1607 vanuit Jamestown, Virginia.
• He died on September 24, 1633 in Savage Neck, Accomack, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, he was 39 years old.
• A child of William Savage and Anne Knottesford

Household of Thomas Savage

Notes about Thomas Savage

In 1621, John Pory wrote: “This Thomas Savage… hath served the public without any public recompense, yet had an arrow shot through his body in that service."

 Thomas Savage left England at the age of 13 to cross the Atlantic with Captain Christopher Newport, arriving in Virginia on the first supply ship in 1608, eight months after Jamestown colony had been established.

 

Within weeks, he accompanied Newport and Captain John Smith to the village of Chief Powhatan, who welcomed and entertained them lavishly. After days of bargaining, Newport left him “as his son” with the chief in return for an Indian, Namontack, who would accompany Newport on his return voyage to learn the “strength and condition” of the English.

Savage served as interpreter and messenger between Indians and English, which both facilitated trade and raised his status among the colonists. His ability to speak to and for both cultures and share information was key to the survival of the settlement.

Although his knowledge of the Algonquian language helped avoid misunderstandings and distrust between the two cultures, when he was sent to Jamestown fort to secure the release of several captured hostile Indians, the effort failed. Even so, Powhatan asked that “the Boy might come again, which he loved exceedingly.”

In 1609, Savage arrived at Jamestown with messages from Powhatan. Savage asked that “some of his countrymen” return with him to Powhatan; and another young boy, Henry Spelman, was willingly “appointed to go” and remained with Powhatan several weeks. (Spelman would return to Powhatan, and subsequently lived with the Patawomeck Indians on the Potomac River for more than a year.)

Powhatan allowed Savage to return to the colonists in 1610, and they did not see each other for four years, when Savage once again served as interpreter on behalf of Thomas Dale.

 

By 1621, Savage was reported to be living among the Indians, after an Indian known as “The Laughing King,” gave him a tract of land on Virginia’s Eastern Shore — later called “Savage’s Neck.”

His wife, Hannah, arrived in Virginia in 1621 and, six years later, to defray the cost of her transportation, was given 50 acres of land in Accomac.

Historians have recorded Thomas Savage as having died in the early 1630s. Both he and Henry Spelman died before they were 35 years of age.

ca. 1595 - Thomas Savage is born in England.

January 2, 1608 - Thomas Savage, a young laborer, arrives in Virginia aboard the John and Francis.February 1608 - Powhatan, the paramount chief of Tsenacomoco, exchanges a boy named Namontack for the English boy Thomas Savage. The boys will learn the other's language in order to eventually serve as interpreters.

1610 - Thomas Savage travels to Jamestown and does not return to Tsenacomoco.

May 1614 - Thomas Savage accompanies Ralph Hamor to Werowocomoco to try to arrange a marriage between Powhatan's youngest daughter and Sir Thomas Dale. Powhatan greets Savage warmly.

1619–1620 - Governor George Yeardley sends Thomas Savage on a trading mission, not realizing that Savage is in the employ of Captain John Martin of Martin's Brandon.

1621 - Thomas Savage accompanies John Pory on two trading expeditions to the Eastern Shore, where he establishes a good relationship with the Occohannock and Accomac Indians.

1621 - Esmy Shichans, the so-called Laughing King of the Eastern Shore, gives Thomas Savage a large tract of land measuring some 9,000 acres.

ca. 1623 - Thomas Savage marries a woman named Hannah, sometimes known as Ann, who came to the colony at her own expense in 1621.

1624 - Former governor Sir George Yardley convicts Thomas Savage of slander and insubordination against Captain William Eppes, commander of the Eastern Shore plantations and an associate of Yeardley's. Savage is sentenced to serve Yeardley and Eppes.

1624 - John Savage is born to Thomas and Hannah Savage.

Early 1625 - Thomas Savage, his wife, Hannah, and their son, John, are living on the Eastern Shore.

March 7, 1625 - Thomas Savage is made the official interpreter of the plantation of Accomack and is subject to the orders he receives from Captain William Eppes, the Eastern Shore's commander.

May 1625 - Thomas Savage is credited with a dividend of land, which is included in a list that is sent back to England.

December 12, 1627 - Hannah Savage receives a patent for 50 acres of land on the Eastern Shore, a neck of land on which the Savage household is then seated.

March 14, 1632 - Thomas Savage is identified as a carpenter when he obtains a lease for 100 acres on Old Plantation Creek.

By September 1633 - Thomas Savage dies, leaving his real estate to his son, John Savage.

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