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Susannah Avery (Palmes)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: October 09, 1747 (82)
Groton, New London County, Connecticut Colony
Place of Burial: Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Palmes; William Palmes and Anne Myles
Wife of Captain Samuel Avery, III
Mother of Samuel Avery; Dea. Jonathan Avery; William Avery; Mary Walworth; Col. Christopher Avery and 6 others
Sister of Jonathan Palmes; Ann Lange and Elizabeth Edwards
Half sister of Hannah Mason (Myles)

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About Susannah Avery

From Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families:

Anne Humphrey, daughter of John Humphrey by his wife Elizabeth Pelham, married (1st) William Palmes, Gent. of Ardfinan co. Tipperary, Ireland. They had one son, Johnathan, and three daughters, Susannah, (wife of Samuel Avery), Elizabeth (wife of Griffin Edwards), and Anne (wife of Nicholas Lange).

Source: The Groton Avery Clan, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden), Vol. I, p. 114-5


Susannah was the daughter of William Palmes and Ann Humphrey. She has royal lineage. Ann Humphrey's parents were Elizabeth Pelham and John Humphrey Esq. Elizabeth Pelham's parents were Lady Elizabeth West and Sir Herbert Pelham. Lady Elizabeth West's parents were Lady Anne Knollys and Sir Thomas West Kt, 2nd Lord de la Warr, MP. Lady Anne Knollys parents were Catherine Carey and Sir Francis Knollys. Catherine was the daughter of Mary Boleyn.
Inscription: Wife of Capt. Samuel Avery

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2004-05/...

9. Humphrey line, p. 406. In the discussion of Anne Humphrey and her husband William Palmes, it's noted that "[t]hey had one daughter, Susannah (wife of Samuel Avery)." I think the common wisdom is that only Susannah has living descendants, but William and Anne Palmes actually had four children:

  • Jonathan Palmes
  • Elizabeth Palmes, m. Griffin Edwards
  • Susannah Palmes, m. Samuel Avery
  • Anne Palmes, m. Nicholas Lang

Sources are:

  • a. _NEHGR_, 31:307-08 (contemporary statement that Anne Palmes brought a son and three daughters with her when she returned to New England from Ireland; also that "Mrs." Susannah Palmes married Samuel Avery, and that "Mrs." Anne Palmes married Nicholas Lang [both marriages at Swansea, Mass.]).
  • b. _NEHGR_, 99:240.
  • c. _Records and Files of the Essex County [Mass.] Quarterly Courts_, 8:137-38; 174 (mentions Jonathan Palmes and his sister Elizabeth, wife of Griffin Edwards, controversy over land at Lynn, Mass., presumably part of the estate of John Humphrey).
  • d. Savage, _Genealogical Dictionary_ (entry for Griffin Edwards mentions that he "calls, in a deed, Ann, w. of Rev. John Myles, who was sole heir of John Humphrey, his mo.-in-law").

The extracted IGI for Swansea, Mass., shows these marriages--

  • Samuel Avevy [sic] to Susannah Palmer [sic], 25 Oct. 1686
  • Nicholas Lang to Anne Palmer [sic], 10 Jan. 1687

If you do a search in the Ancestral File for Nicholas Lang + Ann, a family group at Bedford, Westchester, New York, pops up. Nicholas Lang, b. ca. 1668, died 1728, married ca. 1692 to Ann Palmes and had [at least] two daughters: Sarah Lang, married to Aaron Furman, and Susannah Lang, married to Othniel Sands.

_Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of NewYork_, vol. 3 (1730-1744), p. 29, has a will dated 15 July 1728, and proved 20 April 1731, that matches this quite closely. Nicholas Lange, "being by Divine Favour in tolerable health," divided his estate in six parts, five of them to his five children, "Elizabeth Forman, William [Lange], Ann Hutton, Susannah Sands, and Sarah Forman."

This Nicholas Lang has living descendants. I find that the use of the names Ann and Susannah offers *some* onomastic support for the assertion that this is the same Nicholas Lang who married a granddaughter of Mr. John Humphrey of Lynn.

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Susannah Avery's Timeline

1665
August 14, 1665
Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1687
August 11, 1687
Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
1689
January 18, 1689
Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
1692
August 25, 1692
Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
1695
January 10, 1695
Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1697
February 10, 1697
Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1699
July 4, 1699
Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1699
1702
January 30, 1702
Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony