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son. At an early age he entered Derby Academy at Hingham, and 

 subseqnently Washington Academy at Machias, ]\Iaine. At the age 

 of fifteen he entered Harvard College, and graduated in 1803. Three 

 years later he took his master's degree. In 1805, owing to feeble 

 health, he visited, in company with a relative, St. Domingo, Demerara, 

 Jamaica, and other of the West India Islands. He studied law with 

 Chief Justice Parker, Samuel Dexter, and William Sullivan, and was 

 admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1807. 



Mr. Savage's name will be found largely associated with the civil, 

 literary, and benevolent institutions of the city of Boston. Early 

 a member, he was for a time secretary, of the Anthology Society, 

 of whose organ, the " Monthly Anthology," he was for five years 

 editor. He was one of the founders of the Boston Athenfeum. 

 In 1811 he delivered the oration before the authorities of the city of 

 Boston, and in the following year the oration before the Phi Beta 

 Kappa Society at Cambridge. This year (1812), he was first elected 

 a representative to the General Court. Subsequently he became a 

 member of the State Senate and of the Executive Council. He was a 

 member of the convention for the revisal of the State constitution in 

 1820, having the year before again visited Demerara. He was elected 

 to the Common Council of the city of Boston, first in 1823, and was 

 afterwards a member of the ' Board of Aldermen and of the School 

 Committee. 



Mr. Savage's literary labors have been extensive. His connection 

 with the " Monthly Anthology " has already been referred to. On the 

 establishment of its literary successor, the " North American Review," 

 in 1815, he became a contributor to its columns. He revised for 

 the press the volume of " Charters and General Laws of the Colony 

 and Province of Massachusetts Bay," published under a commission of 

 the State in 1814, and prepared an Index for the same. In 1825 and 

 1826 he published a new edition, in two volumes, of Governor Winthrop's 

 History of New England. The occasion of the preparation of this 

 edition was the discovery, or more properly the recovery, in 1816, in 

 the tower of the Old South Church in Boston, of the third MS. volume 

 of this History, in the autograph of the author. Here the Rev. Thomas 

 Prince, the annalist, the pastor of that church, who died in 1758, had 

 kept his library. Prince, in 1754, had announced that he had " lately 

 received a most authentic and valuable Journal of Events relating to 

 said [Massachusetts] Colony, . . . viz., From 3fonday, 3farch2%, 1630, 

 to Jan. 11, 1648, 9, . . . all wrote with . . . Gov. Winthrop's own 

 Hand, who deceas'd in the very House I dwell in on the 26th of 



