♂Edward Savage

Edward Savage was, by the family tree and two compiled histories, a son of James Savage and Cristian, and a laborer of Georgetown, at the mouth of the Kennebec River in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was the fifth great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Daniel Savage (1729–1795), Nancy Jane’s fifth great-grandfather. His parents were James Savage, who died in 1748, and Cristian, his wife. His own birth and death dates are not known.

Georgetown

After James Savage’s death the husbands of his daughters, with one other seller, sold their shares of his estate to three men of his surname, “Isaac Savage, Daniel Savage and Edward Savage all of Georgetown aforesaid Labourers”, for five hundred pounds. The sale covered whatever came to the sellers from the estate, and any part they might have a right to at the death of the widow, Cristian. The sellers were James Grant, Bryant Robinson, George Boulton, James Savage (the husband of Mary Savage) and John Reade of Topsham, whose tie to the family the deed does not give; the four daughters released their dower. The first of them acknowledged the deed on 13 September 1748; it was entered in the Lincoln County land records only in 1762.

The deed does not call the three buyers sons of James Savage. A history of Augusta published in 1870 lists Edward among his seven children, with his brothers John and Daniel and the four daughters, and a family history of Maine published in 1909 gives the same seven.

Hallowell

The 1909 family history says that Edward moved to Hallowell, on the Kennebec above Georgetown, about 1762, and that he married Mary Hall. It says that Daniel came to Cushnoc, the settlement that became part of Hallowell, in 1762, and that John went there that year as well.

Notes

The year of his marriage

The 1909 family history gives a year for his marriage to Mary Hall as it is printed in the text. That cannot be right for a man whose brother Daniel was born in 1729 and who was a laborer in 1748. The year is most likely a printing error, and the year of his marriage is not given here.