Ebenezer Avery

He enlisted in the Revolution from Preston in Capt. Boardman's company, Col. Sherman; carried from Boston to Philadelphia the specie to pay the soldiers; applied Aug. 2, 1832, for a pension which was granted (Pension Bureau Records & Conn. Men in the Rev'n, 661). He represented Preston in the state legislature.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 269

• Enlisted as private; October 10, 1777; in the company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Witter at Fort Griswold in the regiment commanded by Colonel Oliver Smith; 2 months service.
• Served 2 months at Fort Griswold as substitute for Abijah Park commencing April, 1778
• Drafted as private; June 1778; serving at Fort Griswold under the command of Capt. Prior; 2 months service expiring in August 1778.
• Served as substitute for Abijah Park at Fort Griswold commencing in September, 1778, in a detachment commanded by Lt. Park Avery; stationed at the shore below the fort in Groton; 2 months service
• Served as substitute for Oliver Sisson commencing in May, 1779 at Fort Griswold; Ebenezer Ledyard commanding.
• Served 2 months under the command of Jesse Stockweather, commencing in September, 1779 and ending November, 1779.
• Served as private; substituting for Joseph Sisson, son of Oliver Sisson, at Fort Griswold, under the command of Capt. William Latham.
• Commencing in the Spring of 1781, enlisted as waiter to Lt. Ephraim Morgan in the Fifth Connecticut Regiment under the command of Colonel Isaac Sherman; discharged after approximately nine months service.

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Alternate Birth Date: Ebenezer states his own birth date as October 10, 1761 as recorded in his War Pension Declaration, December 20,1832 (see document in source tab - SAK)