John Avery, III

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John Avery, III

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
Death: November 10, 1815 (59)
Preston (Now Griswold), New London County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John Avery, Jr. and Mary Avery
Husband of Mary Brown Booth and Lucy Avery
Father of Capt. John Avery; Elisha Avery; Lucy Avery; Anna Alexander; Hannah Parke and 3 others
Brother of Elizabeth Avery; Zipporah Woodward; Anna Avery; Samuel Avery, Sr.; William Avery and 1 other
Half brother of Robert Stanton Avery; Nathaniel Avery; Amos Avery, Sr.; Jonas Avery; Mary Avery and 1 other

Occupation: Goldsmith
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About John Avery, III

He was a goldsmith; representative from Preston, 1781, 1784; captain, May, 1784 (Ms. State Papers, Hartford).

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 418



HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 207


John was appointed by the Connecticut general assembly as one of the committee to furnish arms for the state troops during the revolution.

source: "Our county and its people": A history of Hampden County ..., Volume 3 By Alfred Minott Copeland

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John Avery, III's Timeline

1755
December 14, 1755
Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
1780
November 23, 1780
Griswold, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1783
January 4, 1783
Griswold, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1785
March 17, 1785
Preston, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1787
April 2, 1787
Griswold, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1789
January 19, 1789
Griswold, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1791
April 18, 1791
Griswold, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1793
February 22, 1793
Griswold, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1795
June 22, 1795
Preston, New London, CT, United States