John Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 May 1761 - Truro, Massachusetts 1
Baptism: 5 Jul 1761 - Truro, Massachusetts 2
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Abijah Savage (1739- )
Mother: Bette Smith (Abt 1742- ) 3
Spouses and Children
1. *Deliverance H (Est 1764 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Abigail Savage (1793- ) 4
2. John Savage (1796- ) 5
3. Robert Savage (1800-1876) 5
Notes
General:
m2 Lydia?
John Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Nov 1789 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 5 Oct 1811 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
Burial: in Cobb's Hill cemetery, Barnstable
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Savage M.D. (1748-1831)
Mother: Hope Doane (1756-1830) 7
Notes
General:
stone:
Here lies the body of
Mr John Savage, Student of Law
son of Samuel & Hope Savage
he departed this life
Oct'r 5th 1811 Etatis 22
Insatiate archer could not one suffice
Thy shafts flew thrice and thrice my peace was slaine 8
John Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1733 - Truro, Massachusetts 9
Baptism: 17 Oct 1742 - Truro, Massachusetts 10
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Savage (1704-Bef 1788)
Mother: Dinah Lewes (1709-1788)
John Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Sep 1704 - Pamet (Truro), Massachusetts 11
Baptism: 10 Oct 1742 - Truro, Massachusetts 12
Death: Bef 1788
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Savage (Abt 1679- )
Mother: Joanna Newcomb (Est 1685- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Dinah Lewes (6 Mar 1709 - 8 May 1788)
Marriage: 14 Feb 1728 - Truro, Massachusetts 13
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Savage (1731- )
2. John Savage (Abt 1733- )
3. Ebenezer Savage (1737- )
4. Abijah Savage (1739- )
5. Hannah Savage (1743- )
6. Thomas Savage (1747- )
7. Nehemiah Savage (1749-1749) 11
8. Dinah Savage (1750-1816)
John Wallace Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Jul 1842 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Robert Savage (1800-1876) 5
Mother: Betsey Newcomb (1804-1881) 15
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Mary Pettigrew
Married: 17 Jan 1870 in Provincetown
Jonathan Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 26 Feb 1728 - Truro, Massachusetts 12
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Savage (Abt 1679- )
Mother: Joanna Newcomb (Est 1685- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Lyon (Est 1730 - )
Marriage: 5 Dec 1750 - Brookline, Massachusetts
Status:
Joseph Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Mar 1791 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 29 Aug 1791 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
Burial: in Cobb's Hill cemetery, Barnstable
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Savage M.D. (1748-1831)
Mother: Hope Doane (1756-1830) 16
Joshua Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 10 Feb 1740 - Truro, Massachusetts 10
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father:
Mother: Rebecca Savage (1728- )
Kate A Savage
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Jul 1847 - Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 30 Oct 1924
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Levi Walter Higgins (29 Feb 1844 - 5 Feb 1924) 17
Marriage: 30 Dec 1868 - Charlestown, Massachusetts 18
Status:
Children:
1. Lester C Higgins (1872- )
2. Harry S Higgins (1877- )
Notes
General:
d/o John & MaryMarriage Notes (Levi Walter Higgins)
1860 res Cambridge
1880 US census, Kinsley, Edwards, Kansas
Levi W Higgins, 36, farmer, Ma
Kate A Higgins, 30, keeping house, Ma
Lester G Higgins, 8, at school, Ma
Harry S Higgins, 3, Ks
Mary Savage
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Jun 1731 - Truro, Massachusetts 11
Baptism: 17 Oct 1742 - Truro, Massachusetts 10
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Savage (1704-Bef 1788)
Mother: Dinah Lewes (1709-1788)
Spouses and Children
1. *William Hall (Est 1728 - )
Marriage: 18 Nov 1756 - Truro, Massachusetts 19
Status:
Nehemiah Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 May 1749 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism: 4 Jun 1749 - Truro, Massachusetts 10
Death: Jun 1749 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Savage (1704-Bef 1788)
Mother: Dinah Lewes (1709-1788)
Rebecca Savage
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 26 Feb 1728 - Truro, Massachusetts 12
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Ebenezer Savage (Abt 1679- )
Mother: Joanna Newcomb (Est 1685- )
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Joshua Savage (1740- )
Robert Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Jun 1800 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 5
Baptism:
Death: 24 Oct 1876 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 20
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Savage (1761- )
Mother: Deliverance H (Est 1764- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Betsey Newcomb (30 Nov 1804 - 5 Apr 1881) 15
Marriage: 16 Dec 1826
Status:
Children:
1. Abigail Savage (1826-1911) 14
2. Betsey Ann Savage (1832-1913) 14
3. Dilla H Savage (1836-1861) 14
4. Eliza N Savage (1839- ) 14
5. John Wallace Savage (1842- ) 14
6. Elizabeth Small Savage (1845- ) 15
Notes
Medical:
age 76-4-7
mariner
married
b & res Provincetown
s/o John & Lydia [sic]
[cause of death too faint to read] 21
Samuel Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 7 Apr 1734 - Truro, Massachusetts 12
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Savage (1706- )
Mother: Martha Doane (Cir 1709- )
Samuel Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Apr 1779 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 10 Jun 1800 - Kingston, Jamaica
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Savage M.D. (1748-1831)
Mother: Hope Doane (1756-1830) 16
Samuel Savage M.D.
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Aug 1748 - Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 28 Jun 1831 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
Burial: in Cobb's Hill cemetery, Barnstable
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Hope Doane (24 Mar 1756 - 22 Dec 1830) 16
Marriage: 18 Feb 1777 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
Status:
Children:
1. Samuel Savage (1779-1800) 22
2. William Henry Savage (1782- )
3. Charles Savage (1785-1840) 22
4. Elisha Doane Savage (1786-1807) 6
5. John Savage (1788-1788) 6
6. John Savage (1789-1811) 6
7. Joseph Savage (1791-1791) 6
8. Hope Savage (1792-1792) 6
9. Hope Savage (1793-1879)
10. Tyler Savage (1794-1796) 24
Notes
General:
Fred B. Rogers. Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 29:108-111. Jan 1974. "Dr. Samuel Savage (1748-1831): Medical Patriarch of Cape Cod"Marriage Notes (Hope Doane)
"...
Samuel Savage was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 11 August 1748, son of Samuel Phillips and Sarah Tyler Savage, and baptized at Brattle Square Congregational Church (2) After attending the Boston Latin School, he was graduated with an A B degree from Harvard College in 1766 He taught at Lincoln and Weston town schools for several years after graduation, Harvard conferred its A m degree upon him in 1777.3 His medical training was acquired by preceptor-ship to Dr Benjamin Church of Boston, who later became the first Surgeon General of the American Army
In 1772, Dr Savage settled for country practice near Barnstable village on Cape Cod. In January 1775 the East Parish of Barnstable delegated him to carry its ten shilling donation to besieged Boston. On 6 September 1778, he was called for four days' military duty during the alarm sounded because of a British assault on Bedford, Dartmouth, and Falmouth during the War of Independence Savage served with the First Barnstable Company, Massachusetts Militia, headed by Capt George Lewis (Col Nathaniel Freeman's Regiment) during that brief mobilization.(4)
Dr Savage became well known through his professional attainments He was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1786, and retired from that organization thirty-four years later.(5)"
" Perhaps because of his resolute character, Dr. Savage was named to the Court of Common Pleas for Barnstable in 1782. Eight years later he became a Justice of the Peace, and in 1815 he was appointed to the Quorum. The administering of civil justice must have been stamped with his austere personality. This disposition was subsequently recalled by a young neighbor, who stated that 'the residents of this village, who were school children fifty to sixty years ago, have not forgotten the terror his presence imposed, seated in his round-about chair at the door of the porch or vestibule of his residence. . . . The girl who ventured to pass without curtsying, or boy without removing his cap, were sure to be brought to bay by a rap on the floor with his cane and a hail that youthful temerity dared not pass unheeded.'(11)
Dr. Savage became a member of Fraternal Masonic Lodge, which was chartered and held its first meeting at the house of Robert Lathrop in Barnstable on 21 July 1801. Harvard University awarded him an honorary m.d. degree in 1808, twelve years before he retired from medical practice.(12) In 1814 the American Antiquarian Society, located at Worcester, Massachusetts, elected him to membership. He was listed as a subscriber to Dr. Thomas Thacher's two-volume American Medical Biography (1828), but his vita was not included in that compilation.(13)
Cape Cod's medical patriarch died at a venerable age.(14 ) His gravestone, next to that of his wife who died on 22 December 1830, can be seen in the cemetery of Barnstable's East Parish Unitarian Church.(15) Its inscription reads:
'In Memory of Doct. Samuel Savage, an eminent physician, a patriotic citizen, beloved and respected in all the relations of social and domestic life. He departed this life June 28th, 1831, in his 83rd year.' "
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"Dr. Samuel Savage was born in 1748. He resided near the present residence of Henry F. Loring, west of Barnstable village. He was very peculiar in his manners, and when the stage-coach was passing, would ascend a large rock, which is still there, and in sepulchral tones announce himself as a physician and surgeon. He died June 28, 1831." 25
Fred B. Rogers. Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 29:108-111. Jan 1974. "Dr. Samuel Savage (1748-1831): Medical Patriarch of Cape Cod"
..." Dr. Savage was married to Hope Doane (1756-1830), daughter of Col. Elisha and Hope Rich Doane of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on 18 February 1777. Sorrow marred their family life. Three sons, William, Joseph and Tyler, died in infancy. Three other sons died in young manhood—John, a law student who graduated from Harvard College in 1810, expired at age 22 in the following year, and his brothers Elisha and Samuel died at Kingston, Jamaica, where they had gone in hopes of regaining impaired health.(10) The inscription upon Samuel's tombstone closed with a quotation from the English poet Edward Young (1683-1765):
Insatiate archer! Could not one suffice?
Thy shaft flew thrice, and
Thrice my peace was slain.
Another son, Charles, became a United States consul to the Republic of Central America, stationed at Guatemala City from 1825 to 1838. He married Susan Wood (1790-1825), daughter of Gen. Abraham Wood of Wiscasset, Maine. Dr. and Mrs. Savage's only daughter, Hope, became the second wife of the Hon. Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861) of Barnstable, who was Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1830 to 1860. Hope Shaw bore the jurist two sons, Lemuel and Samuel, and lived until 1879. Through her step-daughter, Elizabeth Shaw, she became the mother-in-law of novelist Herman Melville."
Sarah Savage
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1764
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *George Thacher (12 Apr 1754 - 24 Apr 1824)
Marriage: 1784
Status:
Susannah Savage
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1683
Baptism:
Death: Abt 1710
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Beriah Smith (2 Mar 1680 - After 1743) 26
Marriage: 16 Jun 1703 - Eastham, Massachusetts 27
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Smith (1704- )
2. Susanna Smith (1704- )
3. Samuel Smith (1706- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Beriah Smith)
The Eastham and Truro records seem to disagree about whether the daughter in 1704 is Mary or Susannah. Eastham was apparently keeping records for people in the area later incorporated as Truro.
Thomas Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1611 - Rocksavage, Chester, Cheshire
Baptism:
Death: 14 Feb 1682 - Chester, Cheshire
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, , Chester, Cheshire in Chester, Cheshire
Spouses and Children
1. *Faith Hutchinson (14 Aug 1617 - Cir 1651)
Marriage: 1637 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Status:
Children:
1. Habijah Savage (1638-1669)
Thomas Savage
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 22 Dec 1734 - Truro, Massachusetts 12
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Savage (1706- )
Mother: Martha Doane (Cir 1709- )
Sources
1. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 87.
2. John Harvey Treat, rearranged by Kathryn Rich, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Vital Statistics. Section Two, Truro Baptisms 1711-1800 (1969. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), TB55. has transcription errors
3. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 89.
4. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 11:218, 23:96.
5. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 23:96.
6. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 67:326.
7. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 67:326. .... Evelyn Rich, "Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of his descendants" (New England Historical and Genealogical Register.), 83:264. in 5 parts. vol. 83: 261-278, 394-414 (1929) and vol. 84: 34-62, 117-134, 294-304 (1930)
Numerous small mistakes. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:6. Elisha Doane family. .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 62 (MD15:142). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
8. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
9. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 15. born 30 Mar 173- (illegible date in original record).
10. John Harvey Treat, rearranged by Kathryn Rich, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Vital Statistics. Section Two, Truro Baptisms 1711-1800 (1969. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), TB55.
11. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 15.
12. John Harvey Treat, rearranged by Kathryn Rich, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Vital Statistics. Section Two, Truro Baptisms 1711-1800 (1969. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), TB54.
13. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 21.
14. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 26:113.
15. Rosemary West, "R.K. West's Master List" (Sept 2003. Rootsweb).
16. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 67:326. .... Evelyn Rich, "Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of his descendants" (New England Historical and Genealogical Register.), 83:264. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:6. Elisha Doane family. .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 62 (MD15:142).
17. Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society).
18. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Charlestown.
19. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 54.
20. Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm). badly organized
21. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Provincetown.
22. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 67:325.
23. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:530. Marriages.
24. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 67:327.
25. George N. Munsell, M.D. ( Simeon L. Deyo, editor), History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 12, Medical Profession (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 243.
26. Marilyn Maxwell Strout, "Descendants of James Maxwell and Christopher Strout" (2001. freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~strout/geneal.html). unreferenced but generally plausible
27. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 41 (MD8:90).