THE UEOR({E :;:;_, \-_\UY ~L'lXSIOX, '-'-,, _,n,-,-1L1Y. (;n,,, Fl A'-'I•. ~r_,., .... B1-11,T 1x 1:-:211. A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF TJIE SA VERY FAl\!IILIES (SAVORY AND SAVARY) .IND Ul•' TIIE SEVERY FAlVIIL Y (SEYEt:rr, SAVEHY, SAV<Ha·, AND 8AL\1tY) DESCJ•:NDED FHOM IUHLY DDll<.R.\NTS TO Nl~W J!XGL.\NI> AND PHILADELPHIA WITH INTRODl'CTORY ARTICLES ON THE ORIGIN AND JIUiTORY OF THE NA~ms, AN!> OF ENGLl:SII F.IM!LIES OF TUI! N.Dm SAVEHY IN ITS VA­ HIOUS FOIDIS; ,\ I>In'.111.EI> SKETC'II OF Tim UFE ANll LABOitS OJ,' WILJ.Ll:ir SAVEHY, ~IJ'.'/18TEI: OF Tim c:osp1,;r, [:"< TUE SO('JETY OF FIUl!:'.\l>Sj AXI> .\l'l'EN[>IXES co:-.;T,\IXING AX .IC'l'(WNT ()F S.\ nm y's INVF,NTlflX OF nm STE.DI ENnJ:-.;E, ANJ> I•:XTit.lCTS FIW~I 1-::,.;n- 1.1,-;11, :"<l•:W EN<H,.\NI>, .IXD BAHll.\l>OES ltECOHVR JrnLATIN(; TO F.DIILJE,-; OF BUTH N.\~ms. 11,· 01' .1NNAl'OUS ROYAL, :N°OVA SCOTIA, ,JFDHE 01" THE COUNTY COURTS OF NOVA SCOTIA. ASSISTED I:'< THE GENEALOGY HY MISS LYDIA A. SAVARY, I'' OF EAST WAl1EIIAM, 3IA~S. Mea me virtn::;, et saneta orncula Divnm, Cu!(n:itlque patres, tun terrls dhlltn. fa11111, Conjunxere tihl. YIRG., ,·EN. viii. 131. BOSTON: 'l'IIE COLLINS PRESS. 18!l3. PREFACE. BESIDES my recognized assistant in the compilation of this Genealogy, and those to whom I acknowledged my obligations in the '' New England Historical and Genealogical Register" for Octo­ ber, 1887, I am imlehtetl to Dr. William Savery, of Sharon Hill, Penn., for biographical matter pertaining to the Philadelphia Family, to Hon. James B. Severy, Jmlge of the County Court of El Paso County, Col., for information by which I was enabled to trace the branches of the Severy family settled in Maine, and to Dr. Samuel Smiles for the permission acconlc(l me to publish in America the chapter in his "Lives of Boulton and ·watt," which gives an account of Savery's invention of the steam engine. Auel in this place I would repeat with emphasis the expression of my great indebtedness to ]Hiss Lydia A. Savary for her invaluable and continued assistance, without which I would never have been able to bring the work to a satisfactory conclusion. She gathered n.nd furnished me by far the grenter part of the materials woven into the genealogy of what l lmvc callC\l "Subdivision A" of the Old Colony Family, and a considerable quantity of other important mat­ ter nlilizctl in appropriate places in the genealogical portious of the book. I have consulted, for my sketch of the eminent minister, the "Journal of the Life and Labours of William Savery," edited by Jonathan Evans, Philadelphia; the "Life of Elizabeth Fry," by her daughter, l\Irs. Cresswell; "Anecdotes of Friends" (issued by the "Tract Association of Friends," Philadelphia), and some letters of the minister to his wife from England. Those who have been surprised and disappointed at the long delay in issuing the book have no conception of the immense amount of time and labor which the compilation of such a work clemnnds, and which was, in this case, aggravate\l by the (listance of my residence from the reconls in which information was to be songht, and my want of suOicient leisure to spare from the duties of an engrossing oflice. The correspondence involved was enormot1s, aml the ex- iv PREFACE. penses iucuned so extraordinary that the lluanciul loss will be great relatively to that resulting from the prcparntiou uml publication of most wol'lrn of the same nature. Such books :ire expecte1l to rq1:1y tlie cost of publication, and sometimes partially or wholly the expense of reseat·ches, but the work of compiling arnl w{·iting is a " labor of love." My own expenses are much beyond the possiuility of recoup­ ment from sales of the book. It may appear ungracious to mention this, and yet it seems but right to disabuse the minds of those who may suppose that I have entered upon and carried on this work with a prospect of pecuniary gain. What was at first the indulgeuce of a taste for antiqnariau research, family history, nrnl speculations in heredity, grndnally grew iuto a bercnlean task, which I more than once seriously contemplated abandoning in despair. In beginning my inYestigations in 1881, I was actuated simply by a desire to clearly truce np my own ancestry to its source on the olher side of the Atlantic, and to that end applied for information to several kinspeople in Massachusetts whose aclllrcsses l chance1l to obtain, lmt whom I hnd never met. These, in the <mkr of time, were Hon. ,Villiam Savei·y, of Uarver; Adolphus Davary, Etill., nnd Miss Lydia A. Savary, of East '\Varel.mm; Theodore P. Adams, Esq., of Boston; aml ReY. "\V. H. SaYnry, of Canton, now of South Boston; all of whom most cordially responded, with a large amount of interesting matter, which, while not reaching back for enough to elucidate the transatlantic origin of the family, inspired me with more zeal to discover it, and promptetl the more ambitious task of a full family hhltory and genealogy. The plcnsme I have 1\el'in,d from my correspondence and subsequent acquaintance with these and others of my American kinsfolk, and others not kinsfolk, who have in various degrees contributed to my success, has relieyed ancl lightened my labors. A complication that rendered my work more difficult was the exist­ ence in Plymoutll County of a quite numm·ons family of the same name, wlio, it was taken for grunted by myself and most of my early correspondents, were a part of the " Old Colony" family of Saverys, but whom a careful investigation proYed to haYe been descended from an entirely different source, the name being a tlevelopment from one originally quite different, aml an example of the eurious way iu which iu English-speaking communities a name originally PREFACE. y pnrcly French, will, in the comsc of generations, become grndually chnngctl into one of English sound, or locally common ns nu English nnme. The book will therefore be dh·idccl into t,vo parts, the second of which will contain the genealogy of the Severy family, and.9f the Saverys who are descended from the immigrant ancestor of the Severys, whose name, it will be seen, was Sivret, changed to Severit on this side of the water. I at one time thought of publishing this in a separate volume, but decided finally that it would he more inter­ esting and useful to both families to place the two genealogies in juxta­ position in the same book, in order that difference, as well as identity, of origin and pedigree, and non-relationship, as well as relationship, of people bearing the sa111e names, might be elucillated together. I nm sorry that the genealogy of the Severy family is not fuller. l\l:rny of the 1lcscc11tl:111ts of the first ,Joseph Severy, of Sutton, I h:we been unable to trnce, nnd there were evidently two of the nn111c, probably his 11nclcs, "·Ito 1·e111ni11ell nt l\farblchead, and were progen­ itors of n n11mero11s posterity, who now all write their names " Savory." All the l\Iarblehea<l church aml town records relating to the name I have inserted in an appendix, so that any one who may wish to truce these lines more closely may be aided in doing so. I w:is clis:ippointcd at lliscon~ring that so many esteemed correspontl­ ents, worthy of all regard, allll much intercstcll in this Gcucnlogy, were in no wise related to the family of which I was a member, or to any of the co11sa11g11incous families of the same name, whose his­ tory alone I for some time thought I was compiling. In the female lines I did not at first expect to give more than the marri:iges of daughters, and the first generations of their children. ,vherc I hnvc done more, the information wns Yolunteered to me, or was easily obtainable. A genealogy of the descendants of an early immigrant to America on a plan embracing the descenll:ints in female as well ns in male lines is rnrely accomplished, and would have been much beyond my time :ind resources. A. W. SAVARY. ANNAPOLIS, 1893. TABLE OF CONTENTS. l'AGE LIST 01' ILLUSTRATIONS ix Exl'I,,\NATIONS <w SruN:- ANH .A1m1rnnATIONS xi NOTES, ADDITIONS, AND ConnECTIONS • xiii PART I. I. INTRODUCTORY. The name Srwery 1 The N ::une in France . 7 Modern E1!glish Families 8 The Name in early New .England Amrnls 12 II. TnE OLD COLONY FAMILY. Thomas Savory, the Pil- grim, and his Descendants 19 Subdivision A 31 Subdivision B 74 811hdidsio11 C nr, III. Tm, EssEx COUNTY F AMILL Robert Savory and his Descendants . 102 IV. THE NEw HAMPSHIRE FA.ilHLY. Richard Stwory and his Descendants 125 Y. THE NAME IN BAllBADOES 133 YI. THE Pmr.ADELPmA FAMILY. "\Villiam Savery, Sr., and his Descemlants 136 VII. "\YILLIAl\I SAYERY, THE EMINENT IllINISTEll 146 PART II. VIII. THE SEYEHY FA!IIILY AND SAYERYS rnoM THE SAME ANCESTOR: Intrml11ctory: The Name and its Origin 177 John Severit or Senry and h~s Dcscemlnnts 179 viii TABLE 01!' CONTENTS. V.A.LEDICTORY RE)lARKS 213 APPENDIX A. Extracts from Rcconls relnting to Savery I◄'t,mily . 217 Extracts from Records relating to Severy Family, 224 APPENDIX n. Savery's Invention of the Steam Engine 2:W APPENDIX C.