Ancestry of
DuBose Heyward

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Thomas Savage

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of DuBose Heyward — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Savage 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Fowle   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Sep 1738 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bermuda 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 May 1786 
  • Death Location:
  • Charleston, South Carolina 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Michael's Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Elliott Butler
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Apr 1767 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Savannah, Chatham, Georgia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Savage (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  Mary Ann Savage

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    Plantation and slave owner

• Sources for Thomas Savage

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913, Vol. 67, pp. 310, 320-321.
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 117.
  • ³ Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie, The Cuthberts, Barons of Castle Hill and Their Descendants in South Carolina and Georgia, Washington, D. C.: n. p. (1908), 40.
  • ⁴ Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie, M.D., A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family, Columbia, South Carolina: The R.L. Bryan Company (1901), 43-44.
  • ⁵ Park, Lawrence, Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1914), 30-32.