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Capt. Thomas AVERY
 1651 - 1736

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  • Title  Capt. 
    Birth  6 May 1651  Groton, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened  First Church of New London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  5 Jan 1736  Montville,New London,Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried  Jan 1737  New London County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I252  Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
    Last Modified  20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 
     
    Father  James AVERY, Sr., b. Bef 22 Apr 1621, , Lincolnshire, , England  
    Mother  Joanna "Jane" GREENSLADE, b. ABT. 1622, of Boston, Suffolk, Ma  
    Family ID  F180  Group Sheet
     
    Family 1  Hannah MINOR, b. 15 Sep 1655, Stonington, New London, Connecticut  
    Married  22 Oct 1677 
    Children 
     1. Thomas AVERY, b. 20 Apr 1679
    >2. Samuel AVERY, b. 15 Nov 1680, Groton, New London, Connecticut
     3. daughter AVERY, b. 2 Oct 1682
     4. Ephraim AVERY, c. 18 Oct 1685
    >5. Hannah AVERY, b. 4 May 1686
    >6. Elizabeth AVERY, b. 9 Dec 1691, New London,New London,Connecticut
    Family ID  F189  Group Sheet
     
    Family 2  Ann SHAPLEY 
    Married  11 Mar 1692  Wethersfield Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F190  Group Sheet
     
    Family 3  Hannah RAYMOND, b. 8 Aug 1668, New London County, Connecticut  
    Married  13 Mar 1693  Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary AVERY
     2. Joshua AVERY, b. Bef 25 Aug 1695
     3. Jonathan AVERY, b. Bef 25 Oct 1704
     4. Charles AVERY, b. Bef 27 Oct 1706
     5. Isaac AVERY, b. Bef 17 Jul 1709
     6. Peter AVERY, b. Bef 5 Aug 1711
    Family ID  F42862  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • VITAL RECORDS OF NEW LONDON, NEW LONDON CO., CONN.
      Thomas Avery sonn of Capt. James Avery was marryed unto Hannah daughter of Thomas Miner of Stonington the 22nd of October 1677.



      Thomas Avery and his sister Hannah Avery Miner's descendants married
      Thomas Avery‘s granddaughter Anna Avery married his sister Hannah Avery Miner‘s son Sylvanus Miner

      Thomas Avery, ^ b. May 06, 1651 Hannah Avery, ^ b. May 04, 1686
      +Hannah Miner, ^ b. September 15, 1655 +Thomas Miner, ^ b. September 20, 1683?
      >Thomas Avery II, ^ b. April 20, 1679 >Sylvanus Miner I, ^ b. March 03, 1708
      +Ann Shapely, ^ b. August 31, 1685 + Anna Avery, ^ b. May 12, 1707
      > Anna Avery, ^ May 12, 1707
      + Sylvanus Miner I, ^ b March 03, 1708

      Sept. 19, 1717, Capt. Thomas Avery, Capt. James Avery, Capt. John Avery, and Samuel Avery, "out of love," deeded land to their sister Rebecca Potts, and to her husband, William Potts (Groton Deeds, 1:830). Jan. 4, 1727, William and Rebecca Potts deeded land to their loving son-in-law, Joshua Bill, husband of their daughter, Joanna, deceased and to their heirs. They reserved the right to cut firewood on this land during their natural lives (Groton

      The following information comes from the Groton Avery Clan vol 1; Elroy McKendree Avery and Catharine Avery 1912

      Dec. 17, 1677 Thomas & Grace Minor a deeded 150 acres of land to their daughter Hannah and her husband, Thomas Avery:

      To daughter Hannah Avery, during her natural life and to her husband
      Thomas Avery during his natural life although my said daughter
      should die before him and in case my daughter shall have any child or
      children at the time of her departure then living it shall be theirs forever
      to have and to hold possess and enjoy to use and improve with all
      the meadows joining to it, I say all the one hundred and fifty acres of
      upland and meadow as it was laid out to me with all the privileges &
      appurtenances belonging thereunto. And in case my daughter should
      die without any child than she shall have by deed full power to dispose
      of it to any one or two of my son Clement Minor, his sonnes as she
      shall see meet Provided it shall not prevent her husband of it during
      his natural life if she die before her husband. I say my one hundred
      and fifty acres of upland and meadow lying at Anagomenacunuck as it
      was laid out to me and bounded and recorded at Hartford and in Stonington
      books of records. And hereinto we set our hands and seals this
      seventeenth day of December one thousand six hundred and seventy
      and seven.
      Witness
      James Noyes Thomas Minor
      Samuel Avery Grace Minor
      Acknowledged before James Avery Commissioner.
      (New London Deeds, 5:34)

      On the December 26, 1677, Captain James and Joane Avery executed a deed which was owned and subscribed before Thomas Minor as commissioner. The deed ran as follows:

      This prsnt writing witnesseth to all it doe or may concerne that I James
      Avery of the county of New London, in ye Collony of Connecticott for
      divers good reasons & considerations known to myself and with my
      wife Joane Avery's consent fully give to my sonn Thomas Avery
      and his wife Hannah (Miner) Avery my whole right of my parcell of land that
      I bought of Amos Richardson of Stonington be it more or less wh formerly
      was laide out and bounded to Mr. Obadiah Bruen of New London
      and also thirtie acres of upland upon Poquanys Plaine as it was formerly
      bounded to me from the swamp to the river, moreover one halfe of one
      hundred acres of upland and meadow as it was carried out and bounded
      and recorded to me at Pachauge next to Mr. Thomas Stanton, sen.,
      his land. Also a piece of land joyning to Mr. Nehemiah Smith his
      playne lying betwixt Nehemiah Smiths land & ye comon I say all and
      every of these tracts and parcels of Land I doe give grant pass over
      alyeanate & confirm all my whole right and title to my sonn Thomas
      Avery & his wife Hannah Avery with all the privilledges & appurtenances
      to them belonging to them their heirs, executors and assigns
      forever to have & to hold possess & enjoy to use & improve for their
      best advatage provided that if either he or she shall have occasion to
      sell any one or more of these particular tracts or parcells of land they
      shall first make tender of it to the said Thomas Avery's Brothers and
      if they accept of the profer to give a rational price for it to sell it to
      no other person I doe hereby bind my other sonnes to make him or her
      the like tender upon the same terms and to the true performance of
      and to every particular hereof we set our hands & seals this 26th of
      December, 1677.


      Signed sealed and delivered
      in the the presence of James Avery
      William Mead Joane Avery
      Jonathan Avery
      (New London Deeds.)

      Thomas was in the illfated Fitz-John Winthrop expedition of 1690 which was to advance from Albany by way of Lake Champlain to Montreal. In his diary, Winthrop gives an account of the difficulties that they encountered. Under the date of Aug. 4, 1690, is found the following:

      "I consulted with the officers & twas concluded to march forwards, & then devided our provition, wch was about 35 cakes of bread for each souldr, besides pork, which was scarce eateable. At this post [Saratoga] I
      left Liut Tho. Avery with some souldrs to gaurd our provition to us wch was coming vp the river" (The Winthrop Papers, Massachusetts Hist. Col., Fifth Series, 8:314). For an account of this expedition, see Avery's History of the United States and Its People, vol. 3, pages 263, 264.

      The latter part of his life he lived near the Mohegan Indian reservation. On the 22d of June, 1720, Capt. Thomas Avery and his brother Capt. James Avery were appointed interpreters for the Mohegans in a suit then pending before the governor and council. In 1721, Caezer, the sachem of the Mohegans, conveyed to Thomas Avery 160 acres of land in consideration of the kindness shown them by Captain Avery and his family. Upon this land Thomas Avery lived; the house he built there is still standing. About ten years before his death, in consideration of love and good will and on account of the infirmities of age, he conveyed this land to his son, Abraham.

      The last entry of accessions to the church of New London during Mr. Bradstreet's ministry reads: "Sept. 10, 1682, Thomas Avery and wife were added to the Church." They were among the organizers of the church of the North Parish, afterward called Montville. Their names appear first on the list of original covenanters. Before the North Parish could enjoy religious services, a long-standing quarrel had to be settled. October, 1721, the parish petitioned the general court for liberty to form a separate church. The first name on the petition was that of Thomas3 Avery, the third was that of Abraham4 Avery. (Connecticut Ecclesiastical Archives, 2:251.) Finally, Jan. 17, 1721, it was agreed
      that the meeting-house should stand on Raymond Hill, land being given for the purpose. In his church record, Mr. James Hillhouse, the first minister, says:

      "I was installed October the 3d day, 1722.
      Mr. Adams preached from Acts 16:9. There were seven that belonged to
      the Church at my installment--Capt. Avery, Capt. Denison, Mr. Nathl
      Otis, Mr. Allen, Mr. Vibber, Charles Campbell and one Deacon."
     

  
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