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- THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and CatherineHitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. Found in the DAR Library,Washington DC. Page 212.
"He was an ensign under Major Rogers and was killed near Misiski Bay,up near Colerain" (David Avery ms.) Major Robert Rogers spoke of EnsignAvery in a letter dated Nov. 5, 1759. Ensign Avery was with him when hereconnoitered the Indian town of St. Francis, and at Cohase Intervales.They expected to find provisions at Misisquey Bay. Elias Avery is spokenof as being "of Fitches" (Rogers's Journal, F. B. Hough, editor, p. 141).
New York regiment. Elizer Fitch, major. Three companies were allowedby the Conn. general assembly to be enlisted in Conn., "on the pay andencouragement" of New York, to be commanded by their own company officersand in a regiment having a Conn. major. Elias Avery was in Capt. JohnSlapp's company, May, 1755. They were sent to the northward of Albany toremove encroachments on his Majestic's lands. In Phineas Lyman'sregiment, raised in 1757, and sent to the northward of Albany, was Serg'tElias Avery. In Col. Eliezer Fitch's reg't, in the campaigns of 1758 and1759, was Ensign Elias Avery (French and Indian War Rolls, 1:190 & 2:71,166. See also Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe, 2:255; Avery's History of theUnited States and Its People, 4:chap. 13; and Benadam Gallop, No. 80,supra.)
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