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Mehitable Savage (Phillips)

Also Known As: "Harwood", "Mehetabel"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: June 06, 1737
Newbury, Essex County, MA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry Phillips, of Dedham & Boston and Mary Phillips
Wife of Thomas Savage, I, Twin and Benjamin Harwood
Mother of Thomas Savage; Capt. Habijah Savage; Hannah Savage; Benjamin Savage; Mary Crocker and 3 others
Sister of Eleazer Phillips; Henry Phillips, Jr.; Timothy Phillips; Mary Phipps; Elishu Phillips and 7 others
Half sister of Eleazer Phillips (died young); Hannah Negus; Abigail Walter; John Phillips (died young); Sarah Jamison and 1 other

Managed by: Lori Lynn Wilke
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About Mehitable Savage

Origins

Children of Henry Phillips and Mary, his 3rd wife:

  1. Eleazer son of Henry Philips was baptised 8d 8m 1654 [October 8, 1654] . [15]
  2. Henry Philips, son of Henry of Dedham was born on October 4, 1656 and baptized at the First Church of Boston on 28 day 7 mo 1656 [ September 28, 1656] [17]; died on January 11, 1680. [18]
  3. Timothy born on September 15, 1658 and baptized at the First Church, Boston 19 day 7 mo. 1658 [September 19, 1658] [17]
  4. Mary born on November 28, 1660 and baptized on 2 day 10 mo. 1660 [December 2, 1660] [17]; likely died before August, 1682, as she is not mentioned in her father's will. [14]
  5. Samuel baptized at the First Church, Boston on 2 day 9 mo. 1662 [ November 2, 1662] [17]
  6. Elishu born on May 12, 1665 and was baptized at the First Church, Boston on May 15, 1665 [17] ; likely died before August, 1682, as he is not mentioned in his father's will. [14]
  7. Jonathan born on September 12, 1666 [17]; likely died before August, 1682, as he is not mentioned in his father's will. [14]
  8. Josua was baptized on was baptized on 22 day 5 mo. 1666 [July 22, 1666] [17] ; likely died before August, 1682, as he is not mentioned in his father's will. [14]
  9. Mehetabel was baptized at the FIrst Church, Boston on 21 day 5 mo. 1667 [July 21, 1667] [17]; married Thomas Savage. [3]
  10. John born on January 22, 1668 and baptized at the First Church, Boston on 24 day 11 mo. 1668 [January 24, 1669] [17]; died before July , 1670.
  11. John born on July 9, 1670 and was baptized at the First Church, Boston on 10 day 5 mo. 1670 [July 10, 1670] [17]
  12. Elizabeth born on August 29, 1672 [17]; married Benjamin Sweetser. [3]
  13. Joseph born February 19, 1674/5 at Charlestown [18]; baptized at the First Church at Charlestown on February 28, 1674/5. [19]; likely died before August, 1682, as he is not mentioned in his father's will. [14]

Mehitable Phillips was born in Boston and baptized July 21, 1667, a daughter of Henry Phillips and Mary (Dwight) of Boston. [1] Prior to 1687, Mehitable married Benjamin Harwood, a mariner, by whom she had two children. [2]

Rachel Harwood, born July 3, 1687, in Boston [3] Mehetable (Mehitable) Harwood, born April 25, 1689, in Boston [4]
After the death of her first husband, (see notes) Mrs Mehitable (Phillips) Hardwood became the wife of Thomas Savage I — married 5 Feb 1689 in Boston, Massachusetts. [5] Children of Mehitable and Thomas were born in Boston, Massachusetts:

Thomas Savage, born January 20, 1692/3, married in Bermuda, about 1714, Elizabeth Fowle, daughter of Reverend John Fowle and Love (Gibbons) Fowle of Bermuda [6]
Habijah Savage, born October 22, 1695, died prior to 1750, wife's name unknown, but at least two daughters survived him [7]
Hannah Savage, born September 20, 1697, probably died young [8]
Benjamin Savage, born October 8, 1699, baptized at the First Church on the same day, married at Charleston, January 16, 1737/8 Martha Pickering, a widow with several children, whose first husband was probably Samuel Pickering, an English Merchant, who died there in 1737. [9]
Mary Savage, born March 16, 1701/2, baptized at the First Church, in Boston, March 22, 1701/2, married Captain John Crocker [10]
Savage, Mehetabel, w. Thomas, and d. Henry and Mary Phillips, late of Boston, June 6, 1737, in her 70th y. G.R. 16.[11]

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Mehitable Savage's Timeline

1667
July 21, 1667
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1687
July 3, 1687
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1689
April 25, 1689
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1693
January 20, 1693
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1695
October 23, 1695
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1697
September 20, 1697
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1699
October 18, 1699
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1700
1700
Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA, United States
1737
June 6, 1737
Age 69
Newbury, Essex County, MA, United States