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Thomas Avery

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
Death: May 04, 1825 (79)
Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Christopher Avery and Eunice Avery
Husband of Hannah Denison Avery and Phebe Avery
Father of Russell Avery; Gilbert Avery; Hannah Avery; Gilbert Avery; Anna "Nancy" Miner and 5 others
Brother of Christopher Avery; Esther Williams; Eunice Avery (Avery); Lucy Allyn; Nathan Avery and 7 others

Managed by: Caitlin Daniell Clark
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About Thomas Avery

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Avery-170

https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n228/mode/1up

https://archive.org/stream/grotonaveryclan01aver#page/282/mode/1up


A Patriot of the American Revolution for CONNECTICUT with the rank of FIRST LIEUTENANT. DAR Ancestor # A004023

He was sergeant, 1775; second lieutenant, 1776; first lieutenant, Jedediah Huntington's regiment, 1777 (Conn. Men in the Rev'n, 78, 99, 146). He was later made a captain of militia. He was in the siege of Boston; in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Germantown, and Peekskill; and was in camp at Valley Forge. He was an armorer. He settled in Colerain, Mass., after the Revolution. He was a congressman in Jefferson's administration.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 282

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He married, second, at Greenfield,MA on Sep 4,1814, Phebe Ward. (source unknown)

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Thomas Avery's Timeline

1746
February 10, 1746
Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
1769
July 18, 1769
New London, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1771
January 23, 1771
Stonington, New London, CT
1772
December 13, 1772
Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony
1775
January 18, 1775
Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony
1777
October 25, 1777
Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1779
September 10, 1779
Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1782
January 1, 1782
1784
July 3, 1784
Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States