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About Humphrey Avery
Humphrey Avery was a freeman of Groton. In deeds given and received, he called himself a carpenter. He was justice of the peace for New London County, 1733, 1737, 1740, 1742, and as such was ordered, with others, "To perambulate the dividend boundary line" between Connecticut and Rhode Island and to send up the monuments. He was deputy from Groton from 1733 to 1735 inclusive, 1738, 1740, 1741, 1743 (Conn. Col. Rec., 7:403, 420, 424, 464, 482, 545 & 8:28, 81, 159, 188, 224, 551). He was deacon, 1730; tythingman, 1730; lister, 1732; selectman 1736. February 12, 1741, he and Christopher Avery were members of a committee to collect money from the sale of western lands belonging to the town. In 1747, he was deputy from Preston, New London Co., Conn., to which he had moved about 1745. He called himself of Preston, Feb. 4, 1750, at which time he sold land in a new township north of Wendellstown, Mass. to Bartholomew Arthur; Feb. 13, 1751, he sold land in the same township to John Maclewean; also to Daniel Lathrop and to Obadiah Gore (Springfield Deeds, U:150, 387 & X:542, 544).
He was one of the Susquehanna company, Wyoming Valley, on the Susquehanna River, was purchased by the Connecticut Susquehanna Company from the six Nations in 1754. In 1769, a body of forty Connecticut pioneers came to this region, but found the Pennsylvanians on the ground, the Indians having sold them the same tract the year before. From that time until the Revolution the conflicts between the two parties were numerous and bitter. Humphrey Avery and all of his sons owned shares in this company.
Humphrey Avery bought a large tract of land in Winthrop's Patent, Long Island, stretching four miles along South Bay and extending seven miles back into the interior. Becoming involved in debt. by fire and sickness, he procured the passage of an act by the New York legislature in 1756, authorizing him to dispose of his lands by lottery to pay his depts. The estate was appraised at 6,900 pounds. There were in the lottery 1,616 prizes to 6,384 blanks, making 8,000 tickets sold at 30 shillings each. There were 1,580 cash prizes at 3 pounds each; the land was cut into thirty-six parts, each of which was a land prize. The tract abounded in pine timber with a fine range for sheep and cattle; was divided by creeds into seven necks, Pine Neck, Swan Creek Neck, Pachoug Neck, Short Neck, Smith Neck, Tooker's Neck, and Blue Point Neck. It had on it four houses, a grist mill, and a saw mill.
In 1762, Humphrey Avery bought of Col. John Henry Lydius one seventy-sixth part of township 16, at Otter Creek, where it empties itself into Lake Champlain. The price was one shilling in hand, and annually, for twenty years, one pepper corn; the improvement of the land within the twenty years, and after that five shillings for each hundred acres of arable land to be paid to Lydius or his heirs or assigns annually forever.
Humphrey Avery's wife died Sept. 20, 1763, at Groton. He married 2d, Martha Coit, daughter of the Rev. Joseph and Experience (Wheeler) Coit, born about 1713. At the time of his second marriage he was living in Windham, Windham Co., Conn. He was one of the grantees of Chriswick, 1764 (New Hampshire State Papers, Vol. 25:260). His wife became a member of the Separatist Church of Preston, April 13, 1777.
Humphrey Avery, in his will, dated Nov. 17, 1768, mentioned wife, Martha, his son Christopher, who was to pay each of the other children, five York shillings, and receive the estate which was large. Among other lands, the estate included land lying in the colony of Connecticut; the Otter Creek patent near Lake Champlain; "at the Susquehannah," "at Delaware;" "at Lackawack;" "in the every part of Nova Scotia," "in the Ohio Country" and "in every part of North America that belongs to me." His son, Palmes, of weak mind, was to be cared for by Christopher. Humphrey Avery died March 28, 1788, at Groton, his will was proved at Norwich, May 20, 1788 (Norwich Wills, 6:245).
The children of Humphrey and Jerusha (Morgan) Avery, all excepting Nathan, born at Groton, New London Co., Conn.
Humphrey Avery, a younger sou of Capt. Samuel and Susannah (Palmes) Avery, was born July 4, 1699, in what is now Groton. From 1732 to 1743, inclusive, he was one of the Deputies from Groton to I lie General Assembly. He was a skilled surveyor, and in 1733 was appointed by the General Assembly one of tbe Surveyors of Lands in and for New London County. From 1735 to 1751, inclusive, he was a Justice of the Peace in and for New London County. In 1787 he was one of the Commissioners for Connecticut appointed "to perambulate" the Connecticut-Rhode Island boundary-Hue. About 1744 or '45 Humphrey Avery removed with his family from Groton to the town of Preston, adjoining Norwich, in New London County, and in 1747 he was a Deputy from Preston to the Genera] Assembly. In the "Colonial Records of Connecticut," IX : 537. we find in the proceedings of the General Assembly for May, 1760, the following : "Upon a memorial of Humphrey Avery of Preston, shewing to this Assembly the great difficulty and distress himself and family are brought to by his dwelling-house and household goods, cloaths, &c., being consumed by fire ; praying for relief from this Assembly. Resolved by this Assembly that the memorialist have out of the publick treasury of this Colony the sum of £2,100 in bills of credit of the old tenor on the Colony of Rhode Island or New Hampshire, for the space of two years_, interest free — provided he give bond with good and sufficient sureties * * for the repayment of the like sum at the expiration of said two years." Mr. Avery repaid this loan in 1754.
In October, 1752, Capt. William Witter was appointed by the General Assembly Surveyor of Lands in and for New London County "instead of Mr. Humphrey Avery, who had moved away."
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"Humphrey Avery of Groton (Connecticut Colony) married Jerusha Morgan on Feb.5, 1724" https://archive.org/stream/morgangenealogyh00morg#page/30/mode/1up
MORGAN GENEALOGY: A History of James Morgan, of New London, Conn., and His Descendants; from 1607 to 1869, By Nathaniel H. Morgan, Hartford, Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1869, p. 30
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Humphrey Avery's Timeline
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July 4, 1699
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Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
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August 20, 1699
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First Church of New London, New London, New London County, Connecticut Colony
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March 10, 1725
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Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
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September 13, 1726
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Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
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July 17, 1728
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Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
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June 17, 1729
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Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
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October 17, 1731
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Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
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August 13, 1733
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Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
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June 7, 1735
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Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
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