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An American Family History

Savary Family

  Savary, Savery, Savory  
The first European settlements in Maryland were made in 1634 when English settlers created a permanent colony.

The first settlers homes included primitive dugouts and log cabins.

William Savary took possesion of part of Cabin Neck on April 8, 1688.

William Savary married Penelope Saller. She had been married before to John Ricketts (1658-1698).

William and Penelope's children included:

Penelope Savery (1700)
William Savery, Jr. (1702)
Elizabeth Savery (1706)

William Savary married Anne Groome Richardson Maxwell, the widow of James Maxwell, after 1728.

William Savory, Sr., was listed in the Debt Books of Kent County as owning several tracts of land between 1733 and 1752: Probus, Galloway's Chance, Pope's Forest, Cornwallis Choice, Carola, and Locust Point.

William Savary died in 1739 in Kent County, Maryland. He died intestate, but left an inventory appraised on 22 June 1739 at £301.14.1 by Samuel Groome and William Graves. Thomas Williams, Jr., signed as creditor, and Nathaniel Ricketts (his step-son, the son of Penelope Saller and John Ricketts) (maybe his sister-in-law) and Esther Saller signed as next of kin. William Savory, admin., filed the inventory on 23 June 1739. An additional inventory worth £39.19.8 was filed by the administrator on 5 May 1741

On September 3, 1740 William Savory, Jr. patented Savorys Priviledge which was 49 acres in Baltimore County, Maryland

In August, 1747 William Savory patented Gist's Addition which was on the northwest side of the northwest branch of the Patapsco River. The Patapsco is in central Maryland which flows for 39 miles into the Chesapeake Bay. The river's tidal portion forms the harbor for the city of Baltimore.

On August 29, 1748 William Savory patented Savorys Farm which was 290 acres.

August 29, 1752 the court confirmed William Savory's claim to Cabin Neck Enlarged, in Baltimore County, in Gunpowder Neck containing 124 acres. William patented 124 acres of Cabin Neck Enlarged on March 16, 1754.

Baltimore County, Maryland was founded in 1659 and included most of northeastern Maryland. The original county included parts of Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Carroll, and Baltimore Counties.

 

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