Sarah Hicks

Widow Sarah (Avery) Burrows lost her husband in this battle (Fort Griswold) and two brothers, Daniel Avery age 40 and married, Solomon Avery age 32 and unmarried. She was faced with the task of providing for a large family of young children. Subsequently she remarried to John Hicks ( born 1731, died 1818, s on of John Hicks and Lydia Latham). There were several children to this union.

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Sarah Avery {Benjamin^ James', James', Christopher^) was b. July 29, 1742, at Groton; bap. Dec. 19, 1742, First Church of Groton; m. Hubbard Burrows, s. of Hubbard and Mercy (Denison) Burrows. He was b. June 26, 1739, at Groton. He was a private in Capt. John Stanton's company, 4th reg't, campaign of 1759 {French and Indian War Rolls, 2:167); was a captain of militia in the Revolutionary war; was in the siege around New York, 1776 (Conn. Men in the Rev'n, pp. 333, 451, 577); was in Capt. Walker's company and marched under Lafayette, 1780 {Collections of the Conn. Hist. Soc, 8:122); was killed at the massacre of Fort Griswold, Sept. 6, 1781. His first wife was Prisciila Baldwin. October 3, 1775, Mr. Hubbard Burrows of Groton complained to the court, for his wife, she being one of the heirs, that the estate of her father, Benjamin Avery, had not been settled. The court ordered Benjamin Avery, the executor, to appear and explain {Stonington Wills). Sarah' Avery m. 2d, John Hicks after 1784 {Groton Deeds, 9:88). According to their gravestones in the Mystic burying-ground, he d. May 3, 1818, at Groton, aged 87; "his wife Sarah" d. same place, Sept. 3, 1834, aged 92.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p 189

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GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM CHESEBROUGH OF BOSTON, REHOBOTH, MASS., by Anna Chesebrough Wildey, New York, Press of T. A. Wright, 1903, p. 23

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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. 282

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