Thomas Savage (Virginia interpreter)

Ensign Thomas Savage
Young Thomas Savage accompanying Ralph Hamor in a meeting with Powhatan, 1614
Born	c. 1594 Cheshire, England
Died	1633(1633-00-00) (aged 38–39) Accomac Shire, Virginia
Other names	Thomas Salvage, Thomas Savadge, Thomas Newport[1]
Occupation(s)	Adventurer, Powhatan interpreter, ancient planter

Thomas Savage (b. c. 1594 - d. 1633) was an English adventurer to the Virginia colony. At age thirteen he emigrated to the New World, and soon after lived with Powhatan (Native American leader) as an cultural emmissary from 1608 to 1610. Savage became a Tidewater Algonquian interpreter for the English. Savage settled on the Eastern Shore of Virginia where he interacted with native leader Debedeavon. Thomas Savage was an ancient planter, married a tobacco bride, and had a son (John) that represented Northampton County, Virginia in the House of Burgesses.