Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...In Feb. of that year he travelled extensively on business through western Louisiana, parts of Arkansas and Texas, as far north as the Oregon River, and south nearly to the Mexican boundary, returning to New Orleans in May 1839, where he remained the rest of the year. In 1840, with a view of forming a partnership with John K. West of New Orleans, for tiie purchase of a cotton plantation, Savage visited many towns in Texas in search of a suitable situation, but his health and spirit, broken by fever and business reverses succumbed, and he died at Matagorda. Mr. and Mrs. Savage had no children. A miniature of Mr. Savage, painted in Boston abt. 1810 by Miss Margaret Doyle, is in the possession of his grandnephew, Henry Savage, Esq., of Camden, S. C. Iv. Elisha Doane, b. 21 Aug. 1786; d. unm. at Kingston, Jamaica, 17 May 1807 and bur. there. In 1803 he was sent to Boston to school, and after a nine monthsi trip to Jamaica in 1806 he left Boston in Dec. 1806 for Kingston, Jamaica, where he entered the employ of his uncle William Savage (22) of that place. v. John, b. 13 May 1788; d. at Barnstable 20 July 1788. vi. John, b. 11 Nov. 1789; H. C. 1810; d. at Barnstable 5 Oct. 1811. t vii. Joseph, b. 10 Mar. 1791; d. at Barnstable 29 J Aug. 1791. viii. Hope, b. 15 June 1792; d. at Barnstable 20 Oct. 1792. ix. Hope, b. 12 June 1793; d. in Boston 12 Aug. 179; m. at Barnstable, 29 Aug. 1827, as his second wife, Lemuel Shaw. b. at Barnstable 9 Jan. 1781, d. in Boston 30 Mar. 1861, son of Oakes and Susannah (Hayward) of Barnstable. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1800, and after studying law in Boston and at Amherst, N. H., was admitted to the bar at Hopkinton, N. H., in 1804 and in the same year to the Massachusetts bar at Plymouth. He...