Person:Samuel Savory (1)

Biographical Record of the Savery and Severy Family by A.W. Savary, The Collins Press, Boston, 1830, Call Number: R929.2 S26: Page 18: SAMUEL2 SAVERY (Thomas1), born in or near Plymouth, June 4, 1651. No record of his marriage or death is to be found, and we are even left in ignorance ofhis wife's Christian name. In 1681, Jan. 30, he was granted twenty acres of land "between John's Pond and the Cedar Swamp," Swanhold. Swanhold was in thepresent town of Carver, formerly Plympton. On Feb. 6, 1701-2, the governmentdecreed that every freeholder of six years' standing, who had not received agrant of thirty acres of land, should forthwith receive that quantity. July 20, 1716, he sold 30 acres of land granted him by the town of Plymouth on Feb. 9, 1701-2, to Abiel Shurtliffe for 40s. As to his children the records again fail us. About the middle of page fifty-two of the town records of Rochester, we find "Samuel Savory, Jr., born ye 16th day of November in the year 1695." Then after the entry of John Bumpas's children (from 1695 to 1709) there follows this: "The births of Samuel Savery Senr's children are as follows"; proceeding to mention "Judee" in 1679-80, and Susanna, 1690 (ten years later), with the note, "his son's age may be seen above." These entries were evidently all made at one time, and not earlier than 1715, and no doubt copied fromfragmentary remains of an older book. In Vol. I. of Plymouth town records, p. 112, the entry of the births of the children of Thomas3 Savery is headed thus: "Children of Thomas Savery. Born Oct. 3, 1681." Whoever prompted this lucky addition to the name of the parent may have been conscious of the fact that his birth was not elsewhere recorded. Thomas in 1699 (18 years old) was a member of the South Military Company of Plymouth, which embraced Rochester, where Samuel was settled. There was no other Savery than Samuel then in Plymouth County who could have been this Thomas's father. Thomas handed down the name Samuel to his posterity, and his birth evidently fits the first vacant space after that of Judith. The children of Samuel were therefore: 3 I. ANTHONY3. II. MARY, b. Jan. 3, 1678-9; m. 1703, James Bumpas. III. JUDITH, b. Jan. 10, 1679-80. I read from the records that she m., by Samuel Prince, Esq., Feb. 27, 1719-20, Ebenezer Perry, but the correct date must be much earlier. In those days early marriages were the almost universal rule; and the recordsshow that there were born to "Ebenezer Perry and his wife Judee," (1) Ebenezer4, b. May 21, 1718; (2) Mary, twin of Ebenezer; (3) Hannah, b. July 6, 1722; and (4) Samuel Savery, b. Sept. 16, 1724 (she being then44). He was probably the same Ebenezer Perry who had first m. June 14, 1708, Mary Burgess, and had ch.: Meribah, b. Dec. 4, 1709; and Edmund, b. March 24, 1710-11. 4 IV. THOMAS, b. Oct. 3, 1681. V. SUSANNA, b. May 19, 1690; m. April 3, 1728, PeterOman, a Quaker. They had ch.: (1) Elizabeth4, b. March 22, 1729; (2) Deborah, b. Feb. 23, 1730-1; (3) Simon, b. Aug. 25, 1733. VI. SAMUEL, b. Nov. 16, 1695. Was living, an invalid, with Margaret Savery, widow of Anthony3 in 1723, which adds more strength to my opinion that this Anthony was son, rather than brother, of Samuel2, as he would be more likely to have a home with a brother's than with an uncle's widow. Mention is made of him as late as 1724. Never married.

1. ↑ Sharon Bearce (skbearce@mehs.com). number number Our RoyalAncestors.
2. ↑ Sharon Bearce (skbearce@mehs.com). number number Our RoyalAncestors.