Col. Simeon Avery

Simeon Avery enlisted in the first regiment of Conn, line, as ensign, Jan, 1, 1777 ; was second lieutenant, Jan. 1, 1778 ; first lieutenant, Nov. 15, 1778; later became adjutant and continued as such until 1781. He was in the battles of White Plains, Germantown, Monmouth, and Stony Point and endured the hardships of Valley Forge.

Simeon Avery was an important citizen of Groton in times of peace. He was selectman and member of the school committee. He became colonel of militia and was known as CoL Simeon Avery and is so recorded on his tombstone. April 20, 1778, he received permission to free his slave, Joseph, aged 25; who was "able bodied and industrious and not likely to become a charge on the town."

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 264-267

Colonel Simeon Avery was on the staff of General Washington in the Revolutionary War.

source: and his wife Mary Hudson Avery the former a son of Colonel Simeon Avery who was on the staff of General Washington in the Revolutionary War, pg. 316