27875. Howard A. Murphy Captain
Canada, Seafarers of the Atlantic Provinces
Name: Howard A Murphy
Record Type: Master
Age: 29
Birth Year: abt 1863
Birth Place: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Residence Place: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Vessel Name: Privateer
Vessel Type: Ship
Voyage Departure Date: 15 Apr 1892
Voyage Departure Port: London, England
Voyage Arrival Date: 17 Apr 1893
Voyage Arrival Port: St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
Vessel Registration Number:J872074
Vessel Registration Place: St. John, New Brunswick
Year Vessel Constructed: 1872
Crew Number: 1
Discharge Date: 29 Jan 1893
Discharge Place: Santos, Brazil
Discharge: Died of disease
Digby Courier
October 28, 1898DEATH OF MRS SABINE SAVARY At Plympton, Digby County on Sunday morning after an illness of four days,
Olivia MARSHALL relict of Sabine SAVARY aged 97 years, 6 months and five days passed to her rest.She was the mother of four children , an only son Judge A.W. SAVARY of Annapolis and three daughters Mrs R.P. MCGIVERN of Saint John NB; Mrs James R.GARDEN formerly of Fredericton, now residing at Plympton and Miss Savary of Plympton.
Her grandson, Rev. A. GARDEN of Texas USA was on a visit to her and his parents at the time of her death.
She was the daughter of Samuel MARSHALL, a loyalist, who was MPP for Yarmouth from 1811-1813 and one of the first two Church Wardens in Trinity Church in that town.
She was born April 11, 1801 and was married Nov. 21 1821, when she removed to the place where she died. She was looked up to by her fiends and acquaintances as a woman of unusual power of mind and excised in her younger days a strong social influence. Intensely devoted to the avancement and interests of her family ,she will be long remembered by an affectionate posterity , and by the older members of the community in which in days long gone by she played so active and useful part. She brought up her children in her father's faith to which her descendents all adhere. She had two brothers of whom Charles in early youth went to Upper Canada and left descendents there and in Michigan.and William settled in Texas where his children are now members of her grandson's congregation.
The Gardenia Lodge-Savary House is valued for its intimate association with the descendants of Loyalists Nathan and Deidamia Savary, and especially the Honourable Alfred William Savary, LL.D.
The Gardenia Lodge-Savary House was built in 1820 by Sabine Savary. Sabine was the son of Massachusetts Loyalist Nathan Savary and his wife, Deidamia, who settled on the Sissiboo grant. Along with farming, Sabine prospered as a notable shipbuilder, ship owner and merchant. The Savary House was the centre of his diversified enterprise. In one wing of the house, Sabine operated a general store and ship chandlery. The barn stored farm produce and served as a warehouse for larger ships stores. Some few hundred yards to the rear, in the woods, a sawmill on Savary Brook cut out lumber for building the fast schooners and brigantines which Sabine operated in the "Boston trade": the thriving shipping-based economy between the Maritimes and New England. With wealth and domestic opulence, Sabine acquired social status. Thirty years before Sabine's death, the "Boston trade" evaporated. In his later years, Sabine's commercial transactions were confined largely to trade across the Bay of Fundy, with occasional brigantines sent to the West Indies. No more ships were built at Savary Point. The enterprises shrank to the store and farming; the mill was allowed to rot away.
The Savary House is best known as the birthplace and childhood home of the Honourable Alfred William Savary, LL.D, Sabine's only son. Alfred studied law and practiced first in St. John, New Brunswick and then in Digby, Nova Scotia. He was the first Member of Parliament for Digby in the first two Parliaments convened after Confederation in 1867. In 1870, he was appointed Queen's Counsel and in 1876 appointed judge of the newly established county court for the three western counties of Nova Scotia. His career on the bench was long and distinguished. He was also responsible for re-naming St. Mary's Bay Village as Plympton. The bronze plaque by the front door, placed there by the Province in 1957, does honour to a remarkable figure in Canada's life.
Sabine had four children, three daughters and one son, but left this house to his unmarried daughter and his second daughter, Eliza Helen, the wife of James R. Garden. James and Eliza had one child, Alfred William Savary Garden, who had a long and fruitful ministry as an Episcopalian clergyman in the United States. The Reverend Alfred Garden acquired the house and land from his mother and aunt and began restoring it. His widow, Maude Garden, carried on this work and gave the shore land to the Province in 1962 for Savary Provincial Park. The Savary House is currently owned by a descendant of Sabine Savary. The Savary House is a two-and-a-half storey, New England Colonial-style house with a five bay front façade. The frame is 12x12 white pine, hand hewn and pegged, the work done by Sabine Savary and his shipwrights. Originally there were four rooms of the same size on both storeys with the centre traversing the corridors and stairwell. The single storey "shop" on the east end is as old as the house but its second storey was added in 1936-37. A summer kitchen and a small rear wing were built in the 1920s, as was a rear enclosed porch a decade later. It is unknown when the front vestibule was added. At the rear of the house is the barn which is believed to be original to the house.
The Gardenia Lodge-Savary House is one of the largest and oldest houses in Digby County. Opposite the property is the Savary Provincial Park which includes the Savary family cemetery and the remains of the Savary shipyard. The house is unquestionably a landmark on Highway 101 as it runs along the inner shore of St. Mary's Bay from Digby to Cape St. Mary's.
Source: Provincial Heritage Program property files, no. 116, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, NS.