1787 - 1863

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• Birth	24 May 1787	Colerain,Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Jun 1863	LaSalle,Monroe Co.,Michigan
  Person ID	I41928	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	27 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Abraham AVERY, b. 20 May 1754, Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Mary "Mercy" PACKER, b. 3 Jul 1761, Groton, New London, Connecticut
  Family ID	F15725	Group Sheet
  Family	Nancy MC CUTCHEON, b. 6 May 1787, Stowe,Vermont
  Married	5 Jul 1808	Preston,Albany Co.,New York
  Children	> 1. Casper Hugh AVERY, b. 25 Jul 1809, Preston,Albany Co.,New York   2. Elizabeth Jane AVERY, b. 5 May 1811, Preston,Albany Co.,New York   3. Hubbard Burrows AVERY, b. 21 Jan 1815, Rush,New York   4. Eveline Nancy AVERY, b. 14 Feb 1817, Rush,New York   5. Mercy Miranda AVERY, b. 13 Jun 1819, Rush,New York   6. Amos John AVERY, b. 22 Nov 1822, Rush,New York   7. Minorva Pratt AVERY, b. 8 Feb 1826, Rush,New York
  Family ID	F18372	Group Sheet

• Notes

  THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and CatherineHitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. Found in the DAR Library,Washington DC, page 349. He was a farmer. He werved in the war of 1812 and, with hisfather-in-law, was at the burning of Buffalo. At the end of his secondterm of service, he purchased a farm at Avon, now Rush, NY. Before hislog cabin was finished, he was again call "out on the lines," and hiswife and little ones were left alone to pass a dangerous winter. TheIndians prowled around the cabin, but Mrs. Avery was skilled in the useof a gun and stood ready to defend her children. In 1833, he, with mostof his family, moved to Michigan. They went by canal from Rochester toBuffalo, thence by steamer, "Uncle Sam," to Detroit. Here they took thesteamer, "Brandy," for Monroe, and, on August 16, went to their farm on"Stony Ridge" in the twonships of Erie and LaSalle, Monroe Co., a farmthat he had noted when a soldier with General Hull. It was then a dense wilderness. Here, he and his wife lived quiet,useful lives, respected by the entire community. His word was as good ashis bond and local newspaper account of his death said that he had"always been highly esteemed for his honesty of character and kindness ofheart -- for his upright and benevolent dealings with his fellow men."