Leah Francks Avery (Probart)

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p 230-235

After parents deaths, MELISSA and one of her siblings went with their maternal aunt, Mrs. (Waightstill) Leah Probart Franks Avery to Morganton, NC to live. Melissa married Joseph Perkins.

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lavender/659/

From: "Tracy Putnam" <nccuzins@hotmail.com> Subject: [NCGREENE] Re: NCCraven: Confusion on one of the new posts (Franck) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:55:27 -0500

Martha and All,

Found this at http://www.jmfranck.com

"Edward Franck. Born ca 1725 in Jones County NC. Edward died in Jones County

NC ca 1776; he was 51.

Edward married Leah Probast, daughter of Yelverton Payton Probast & Leah

Lane, in Jones County NC."

This Edward Franck was the son of John Martin Franck and Sevilla (Civella)

Miller (daughter of Jacob Miller)

Don't have any idea what the documentation for this is, later this week,

will go the the Lenoir County Library and take a look at the Sybill Hyatt 

collection, see if I can find anything..While Browsing through it last week, 

noticed there was quite a bit of info on the Franck family.

Tracy
http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-68045/north-carolina-...

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From: Martha Marble <mmarble@erols.com>

To: NCCraven@usgennet.org, NCGREENE-L@rootsweb.com, JCNCFamilys@egroups.com,  NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com

Subject: NCCraven: Confusion on one of the new posts

Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:17:09 -0500

Col. Wrightstill AVERY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~paday/dobbers/avery.htm
2. The Lane family of Craven and Jones came from Md. Where this starts with

"My maternal grandmother's name was Lane" - whose maternal grandmother and

was Lane her surname? Did she marry Yelverton Peyton Probart?

3. My mother married Martin Franks but Mr. Franks died without issue -

those of you in Jones Co - who did Martin Franks marry? She must have

remarried the Avery. Was she Leah Lane? END

475. Waightstill AVERY (Humphrey , Samuel , James , Christopher ) was born 10 May 1741 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut. He died 13 Mar 1831 in Morganton, Burke Co., North Carolina.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. Found in the DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 230.

    Waightstill Avery was one of the grantees of Littleton, NH, Nov. 17, 1764. He and his brother, Isaac, were prepared for college by the Rev. Samuel Seabury, a native of Groton. At his graduation by Princeton College in 1766, he was awarded hight honor in his class and delivered a Latin salutatory. He soon went to Maryland where he stucied law with Littleton Dennis, and then removed to North Carolina, tking with him letters to her most prominent men. About this time he changed the spelling from Waitstill to Waightstill. He admitted to practice in that colony, Feb. 4, 1769, lived at Salisbury a year, and then went to Charlotte when he soon acquired friends and rapid promotion. In 1772, he was a member of the provincial assembly and was soon made attorney-general for the crown. He was active in encouraging education and literature, and was a devoted friend to liberty. In the dubious and dangerous conflict with the mother country, he was a leader of the bold spirits in the patriotic county of Mecklenburg. In May, 1775, he was a member of the committee that passed the famous "Mecklenburg Resolves," and was one of those who signed that defiant document.

    In the same year, he was a member of the committee of safety for Rowan county, a committee that urged the militia captains to prepare for war, took possession of all the powder of the county, and resolved "to rouse like one Man in Defense of our religion from Popery, our Liberty from Slavery and our lives from Tormenting Death" (Col. Rec. of North Carolina, 10:135). In August, he was a delegate to the provincial congress held at Hillsborough, which placed the state under a military organization.

    In "Memorial Hall" of the North Carolina University is a tablet inscribed to her distinguished sons. Waightstill Avery's name appears thereon in connection with the provincial government and again in connection with the state constitution, and with the Revolutionary war.

DAR PATRIOT INDEX CENTENNIAL EDITION, PART I, A-F, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Centennial Administration, Mrs. Eldred Martin Yochim, President General, Washington: 1990, page 100.

    AVERY, Waightstill: b. 5-10-1741 CT, d. 3-13-1821 NC, m. Leah (Probart) Franks, Col PS NC.

Waightstill married Leah PROBART, daughter of Yelverton Payton PROBART, on 3 Oct 1778 in Newbern, North Carolina. Leah was born in Snow Hill, Maryland. She died 13 Jan 1832 in Morganton, Burke Co., North Carolina.
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