Thomas Savage, arrived in Virginia 1608
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In 1609, Savage arrived at Jamestown with messages from Powhatan. Savage asked that “some of his countrymen” return with him to Powhatan; and another young boy, Henry Spelman, was willingly “appointed to go” and remained with Powhatan several weeks. (Spelman would return to Powhatan, and subsequently lived with the Patawomeck Indians on the Potomac River for more than a year.)
Powhatan allowed Savage to return to the colonists in 1610, and they did not see each other for four years, when Savage once again served as interpreter on behalf of Thomas Dale.
By 1621, Savage was reported to be living among the Indians, after an Indian known as “The Laughing King,” gave him a tract of land on Virginia’s Eastern Shore — later called “Savage’s Neck.”
His wife, Hannah, arrived in Virginia in 1621 and, six years later, to defray the cost of her transportation, was given 50 acres of land in Accomac.
Historians have recorded Thomas Savage as having died in the early 1630s. Both he and Henry Spelman died before they were 35 years of age.
photo 1607. A Nation Takes Root
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