Ancestor #:A004015

HARVEY, A HIST OF WILKES-BARRE LUZERNE CO, PA, 1927, VOL 3, PP 1250, 1251

Proceed with Caution - Siblings of the same name - Proceed with Caution

Solomon Avery was one of the grantees of Chiswick, NH, and one of the proprietors of the Susquehanna land company. 'The Boston Gazette and County Journal', July 27, 1778, contained a letter from Mr. Samuel Avery, of July 15, 1778, "Giving the disagreeable intelligence brought by Mr. Solomon Avery this moment returned from Wyoming on the Susquehanna River, which says 'the informant conceives that of about five thousand inhabitants one half are killed and taken by the enemy prisoners and the others fleeing away naked and distressed!"" (Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, 6:662).

Solomon, son of Humphrey and Jerusha (Morgan) Avery, was born at Groton June 17, 1729. He settled in Norwich about the time his father removed there, and from Norwich he immigrated to Wyoming Valley. In the Summer of 1772 he drew Lot No. 36 in the town-plot of Wilkes-Barre (see page (i>5), and lots in the three other divisions of the township. May 15,1780, he was admitted a proprietor in the township of Putnam in the Susquehanna Purchase. In 1786 he was residing in the township of WilkesBarre. but a few years later he removed with his family to Putnam Township, then in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. May 8, 1798, he deeded to his sons Solomon, Miles, Stephen, Punderson and Henry part of Lot No. 11 in Putnam Township. Another of his sons—who was then residing in Putnam Township—was Cyrus Avery. Solomon Avery died in Putnam Township—at what is now Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania—December 23, 1798. In September, 1799, his son Miles resided at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Henry resided at Livingston, Columbia County, New York.

April 25, 1780, Solomon Avery, Richardson Avery, and other inhabitants of Wilkesbarre, Penn., asked for help to build a fort and for arms and ammunition "In the name and in behalf of themselves and the Rest of the People that are driven from their settlements and Westmoreland on the Susquehanna River by the savages" (Western Land Documents, Hartford, 1:118).

July 11, 1783, Solomon Avery wrote from Groton to his brother, Col. Waightstill Avery of North Carolina, telling him of the battle of Groton Hights, Sept. 6, 1781. He says: "Eleven Averys were killed in the fort at Groton and seven wounded. Many Averys have been killed in this county, but there have been no Tories among them of our name." The letter is in the possession of a descendant of Waightstill Avery.

Sources

• THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p 224-225

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• 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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• Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present; (1905). Author: Ashe, Samuel A. (Samuel A'Court), 1840-1938.

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NOTE: He died at Putnam TWP in Luzerne Co, Pennsylvania which is now Tunkhannock in Wyoming County.

He married Hannah Punderson on Feb 18,1751 at Groton,CT. She was born on Jun 16,1733 at Groton,CT, a daughter of Rev.Ebenezer Punderson and Hannah Minor Punderson. She died on Feb 5,1775 at Norwich,CT, after which time, Solomon eventually removed to Pennsylvania.

Children: Zipporah Avery Chapman, Esther Avery Chapman, Solomon Avery Jr, Miles Avery, Stephen Avery(whose first wife was Sarah Bement Avery), Ebenezer Punderson Avery, Henry Avery, Cyrus Avery, and Humphrey Avery.