Alice Avery

from: "find a grave" https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42584572/christopher-avery

Christopher Avery, along with his son James, migrated to Groton,CT about 1636. Christopher's wife (James' mother) Margery never came to New England. In fact, she died in August 1626, and Christopher Avery married Alice Berdon on July 25,1630 in Wolborough,Co.Devonshire,England. Christopher and James left Alice behind in England, never to return. Christopher Avery was fined many times for "living apart from his wife", which was an offense in Puritan New England."

From The Granberry Family (citation details below):

Christopher Avery was charged in Salem Court, 27 Dec. 1643, with "living absent from his wife." This came up again at Court, 29 Feb. 1647/8. In Sept. 1649 he was presented for speaking scoffingly of Mr. Blinman [the minister], but it was reported that he "had gone to Boston to live." On 29 June 1652, he was sworn freeman, and the same date was chosen clerk of the [military] band of Gloucester, and clerk of the market, and served on a trial jury. The question of his wife, "she being in England," came up finally 27 Sept. 1653, and he was fined £20 for not living with her, "or to go to her at the first opportunity," and he was also sentenced to make acknowledgment "for reproachful speeches." On 26 June 1655, he sued two men for slander for saying that he attended a drinking party and that he dandled another man's wife on his knee as "ye foolish man her husband Looked on."

"Christopher Auery, being fined 20li, at Ipswich Court, for liuing from his wife, vppon his pet[ition] to this Court, being aged & poore, & havinge vsed meanes to p[ro]cure his wife hither, his fine is remitted," 19 Oct. 1654. [Shurtleff's Records of Massachusetts Bay, 3-364.]

He followed his only son to New London, Conn., where he bought a house, orchard and lot, 8 Aug. 1665 [New London Town Records 1647-66, p. 146]. He was freed from training, 6 June 1666, on account of age. He served on a jury, 5 June 1667. He was made a freeman of Connecticut, 14 Oct. 1669.

References

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