Capt. Asa Avery

A Patriot of the American Revolution for CONNECTICUT. DAR Ancestor # A003931

Asa' Avery was lister, 1745; grand juryman, 1748; surveyor, 1755, 1762. He was commissioned captain of the fifth company of the eighth regiment, Oct. , 1765 {Conn. Col. Rec, 12, 416). During the Revolutionary war, he was several times on a committee to procure clothing and other supplies for the soldiers (Selectmen's Minutes, Ch^oton). In his will, made Sept. 19, 1789, and proved Oct. 21, 1789, he mentioned wife, Lucretia ; sons, Benajah, Daniel, David ; daughters, Zipporah Bailey, Esther Swan, and Mary Wightman (Stonington Wills, 4:168). He d. Sept. 27, 1789, at Groton; she d. March 15, 1790, at Groton; they are buried in the Edward Avery burying-ground, at Ledyard.

Source: The Groton Avery Clan, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden), Vol. I, p. 167

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