Henry Avery

He was a lawyer and lived at Cincinnati, Ohio.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 429

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In 1687 Dr Solomon Tracy sold 21 j4 rods at the south west corner of the Sluman lot abutting north and east on his own land south on the highway 6j4 rods and west on the highway CA rods to Jonathan Crane Here the latter builds a barn In the sale of the Crane property to Israel Lathrop this land and barn are included In 1722 Israel gives the land then called a garden spott to his son William who in 1729 gives it back to Israel who then in 1731 2 deeds it to his son Ebenezer with shop by theUide of sd highway At Ebenezer's death in 1781 the garden where the old blacksmith shop stands is given to his son Jedidiah who sells it in 1785 to Samuel Avery Here is built the shop where Samuel Avery and Maj Thomas Tracy were associated together in business as the firm of Avery & Tracy and after the death of Maj Tracy in 1805 Samuel Avery takes his son Henry into partnership and the firm is known as Samuel Avery & Son In 1818 Roger Huntington and Henry Avery are established here as the firm of Roger Huntington & Co In 1843 David M Lewis purchases the property which he sells in 1856 to William Jackson who alters the store into a house in which he lives for many years

source: Old Houses of the Antient Town of Norwich [Conn.] 1660-1800 By Mary Elizabeth Perkins pg 194