♀Cristian (surname unknown)

Cristian (living in 1748) was the wife, and by 1748 the widow, of James Savage (died before 13 September 1748), a farmer of Georgetown, near the mouth of the Kennebec River, in what was then the Province of Massachusetts Bay. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Daniel Savage (1729–1795). Her maiden name is not known. A deed of 1748 speaks of “the Estate of James Savage of Georgetown aforesaid, lately deceased”, and of “Cristian Savage the widow of the said Deceased”; in it the husbands of her daughters sold their shares of his estate to three younger men of his surname, Isaac, Daniel and Edward Savage.

Her children

The deed names her four daughters, “the daughters of the said James Savage”, who released their own dower: Catharine (written “Catrin”), the wife of James Grant of Wiscasset; Jane, the wife of Bryant Robinson; Mary, the wife of James Savage; and Sarah, the wife of George Boulton. Her daughter Mary was married to a man with the same name as her father, James Savage; a family history of Maine published in 1909 calls him Mary’s cousin.

The deed does not call Isaac, Daniel and Edward her sons, but a sale by her daughters’ husbands to three men of her husband’s surname implies that they were. The 1909 family history spells her name Christian. A history of Augusta published in 1870 gives her and her husband seven children: the four daughters and three sons, John, Daniel and Edward. Nothing is known of her after the deed of 1748.

Notes

The deed of 1748

The deed was acknowledged before a justice of the peace of York County, the first signers appearing on 13 September 1748 and the last, George Boulton and his wife Sarah, on 14 April 1749; it was entered in the Lincoln County land records at Pownalborough only on 26 April 1762, and Lincoln County, formed in 1760, did not exist when it was made. The sale included any part that would fall to the sellers at her death, most likely her dower^W, the share of her husband’s land a widow held for her lifetime.