Lieutenant Nathaniel Savage

1745 - 1823  (78 years)

• Name	Nathaniel Savage
  Prefix	Lieutenant
  Birth	27 Oct 1745	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Dec 1823	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Person ID	I52943	Scudder
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2013

  
  

  Father	John Savage,   b. 28 Feb 1711, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 28 Aug 1792 (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Martha Beckley,   b. 27 Oct 1720, Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut d. 1757 (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	4 Aug 1742
  Family ID	F18941	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Stow,   b. 5 Apr 1752, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 30 Sep 1815 (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1772
  Children	1. Lucy Savage,   b. 1773   d. 1778 (Age 5 years)   2. Esther Savage,   b. 1776   d. 1853 (Age 77 years)   3. Captain Absalom Savage,   b. 1 Nov 1781   d. Jul 1821 (Age 39 years)   4. Mary Savage,   b. 1784   d. 1862 (Age 78 years)   5. Daniel Savage,   b. 1787   d. 1815, At Sea (Age 28 years)   6. Lucy Savage,   b. 1790   d. 1880 (Age 90 years)   7. Nathaniel Savage, Jr.,   b. 1794   d. 1884 (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F18945	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Nathaniel enlisted in the Army of the Revolution of 1776. He was taken prisoner, and imprisoned on the noted British Prison Ship located on Long Island shore. While a prisoner, he was attacked with the ship fever and given over to die, but being excessively thirsty and not allowed water to drink, in the absence of the guard, he crawled out of his bunk and to a pail of water, drinking freely, thinking as he said, if he must die, he would have one good drink first. This broke the fever and he recovered. After this during that extreme cold winter, the sound was frozen across to the Conn. shore and he escaped through a window in the cabin or hold, fled on the ice to the Conn. shore and escaped.