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Thomas was born 6 May 1651, in Groton, New London, Connecticut and married first 22 October 1677 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, Hannah MINER, the daughrer of Thomas MINER and Grace PALMER. She was born 15 September 1655 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut and died 1692 in Montville, New London, Connecticut.
He married 11 March 1693 in , New London, Connecticut, Mrs. Hannah (RAYMOND) BUCKLEY the widow of Edward BUCKLEY M.D and daughter of Joahua RAYMOND and Elizabeth SMITH. She was born 8 August 1668 in New London, New London, Connecticut and died 28 January 1742 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
Thomas died 5 January 1736, in Montville, New London, Connecticut.
Avery
6. Thomas , b. May 6, 1651, m. Hannah Miner, Oct. 22, 1677.
Miner
21. Hannah, b. in Stonington Sept. 15, 1655, m. Thomas Avery Oct. 22, 1672 (No. 6), Avery family.
Thomas Avery (No. 6) m. Hannah Miner (No. 21) that family, Oct. 22, 1677; she d. 1692. Married 2nd, Mrs. Hannah Buckley, widow of Edward Buckley, M.D., Mar. 11, 1693. He was in King Philip's war and was a successful Indian interperter. During that part of his life he removed to Montville, Conn. He d. Jan. 5, 1737; she d. 1692.
???. Thomas3 AVERY (James2, Christopher1)
He was in King Philip's War and was a successful Indian interpreter. During the latter part of his life he removed to Montville, Conn.
Thomas3 Avery may have lived for a short time at Stonington, but most of his life was spent at New London, first on the east side of the river in what is now Groton, and later in the North Parish, now called Montville. May 12, 1681, he was made a freeman of New London; May, 1693, he was commissioned captain of the train band on the east side of the river, New London; in 1694, he was deputy ot the general court.
It is evident that James Avery and Thomas Minor had a clear understanding concerning the marriage portions to be given to their children. One the twenty-sixth of December, 1677, Captain James Avery and his wife, Joanna, executed a deed which was owned and subscribed before Thomas Minor as commissioner. The deed ran as follows:
This prsnt writing witnesseth to all it doe or may concerne that I James Avery of the couonty of New London, in ye Collony6 of Connecticott for divers good reasons & considerations known to myself and with my wife Joane Avery's consent fully give to my sonn Thomas Avery and his wife Hannah Avery my whole right of my parcell of land that I borght of Amos Richardson of Stonington be it more or less wh formerly was laide out and bounded to Mr. Obadiah Bruen of New London and also thirtie acres of upland upon Poquanys Plaine as it was formerly bounded to me from the swamp to the river, moreover one halfe of one hundred acres of upland and meadow as it was carried out and bounded and recorded to me at Pachauge next to Mr. Thomas Stanton, sen., his land. Also a piece of land joyning to Mr. Nehemiah Smith his playne lying betwixt Nehemiah Smiths land & ye comon I say all and every of these tracts and parcels of land I I doe give grant pass over alyeanate & confirm all my whole right and title to my sonn Thomas Avery & his wife Hannah Avery with all the privilledges & appurtenances to them belonging to them their heirs, executors and assigns forever to have & to hold possess & enjoy to use & improve for their best advantage provided that if either he or she shall have occasion to sell any one or more of these particular tracts or parcells of land they shall first make tender of it to the said Thomas Avery's Brothers and if they accept of the profer to give a rational price for it to sell it to no other person I doe hereby bind my other sonnes to make him or her the like tender upon the same terms and to the ture performance of and to every particular hereof we set our hands & seals this 26th of December, 1677
Signed seaaled and delivered
in the presence of James Avery
William Mead Joane Avery
Jonathan Avery
(New London Deads.).
Thomas Minor and Grace his wife had already deeded, Dec. 17, 1677, 150 acres of land to their daughter Hannah and her husband, Thomas Avery:
To daughter Hannah Avery, during her natural life and to her husband Thomas Avery during his natural life although my said daughter should die before him and in case my daughter shall have any child or children at the time of her departure then living it shall be theirs forever to have and to hold possess and enjoy to use and improve with all the meadows joining to it, I say all the one hundred and fifty acres of upland and meadow as it was laid out to me with all the privileges & appurtenance belonging thereunto. And in case my daughter should die without any child then she shall have by deed full power to dispose of it to any one or two of my son Clement Minor, his sonnes as she shall see meet. Provided it shall not prevent her husband of it during his natural life if she die before her husband. I say my one hundred and fifty acres of upland and meadow lying at Anagomenacunuck as it was laid out to me and bounded and recorded at Hartford and in Stonington books of records. And hereinto we set our hands and seals this seventeenth day of December one thousand six hundred and seventy and seven.
Witness
James Noyes Thomas Minor
Samuel Avery Grace Minor Acknowledged before James Avery Commissioner.
(New London Deeds, 5:34)
Thomas Avery probably built upon one of these plots of land, as the following would indicate:
March, 1667-8. "the 23. Thomas Averys house was raysed."
June, 1668. Tuesday 25, Hannah went to her owne house."
(Minor's Diary.)
Thomas3 Avery received his share of his grandfather's estate by deed from his father, James Avery, April 1, 1685, and three weeks later sold it to his brother, Samuel. He also owned other land in New London. He was in the King Philip war of 1675, and, for his services, hat lot No. 10 of arable land and lot No. 154 of cedar swamp allotted to him in Vol.untown. He was in the illfated Fitz-John Winthrop expedition of 1690 which was to advance from Albany by way of Lake Champlain to Montreal. In his diary, Winthrop gives an account of the difficulties that they encountered. Under the date of Aug. 4, 1690, is found the following:
"I consulted with the officers & twas concluded to march forwards, & then devided our provition, wch was about 35 cakes of bread for each souldr, besides pork, which was scarce eatable. At this post (Saratoga) i left Liut Tho. Avery with some souldrs to gaurd our provition to us wch was coming up the river". (The Winthrop Papers, Massachusetts Hist. Col., Fifth Series, 8:314).
For an account of this expedition, see Avery's "History of the United States and Its People," vol. 3, pages 263, 264.
The latter part of his life he lived near the Mohegan Indian reservation. On the 22d of June, 1720, Capt. Thomas Avery and his brother Capt. James Avery were appointed interpreters for the Mohegans in a suit then pending before the governor and council. In 1721, Caezer, the sachem of the Mohegans, conveyed to Thomas Avery 160 acres of land in consideration of the kindness shown them by Captain Avery and his family. Upon this land Thomas Avery lived; the house he built there is still standing. About ten years before his death, in consideration of love and good will and on account of the infirmities of age, he conveyed this land to his son, Abraham.
The last entry of accessions to the church of New London during Mr. Bradstreet's ministry reads: "Sept. 10, 1682, Thomas Avery and wife were added to the Church." They were among the organizers of the church of the North Parish, afterward called Montville. Their names appear first on the list of original covenanters. Before the North Parish could enjoy religious services, a long-standing quarrel had to be settled. October, 1721, the parish petitioned the general court for liberty to form a separate church. The first name on the petition was that of Thomas3 Avery, the third was that of Abraham4 Avery. (Connecticut Ecclesiastical Archives, 2:251.)
Finally, Jan. 17, 1721, it was agreed that the meeting-house should stand on Raymond Hill, land being given for the purpose. In his church record, Mr. James Hillhouse, the first minister, says:
"I was installed October the 3d day, 1722.
Mr. Adams preached from Acts 16:9. There were seven that belonged to the Church at my installment - Capt. Avery, Capt. Denison, Mr. Nathl Otis, Mr. Allen, Mr. Vibber, Charles Cambell and one Deacon."
Thomas3 Avery died at Montville, Jan. 5, 1736. His widow died Jan. 28, 1742, at Norwich.
It has been found very difficult to arrange the record of the children of Thomas Avery by his two wives. Thomas Minor died Oct. 23, 1690. The following items are taken from his diary:
1655, Oct. "Satterday the 15 my wife was delivered of hana"
"Tho: Averie and Hanah Minor was maried the 22 of october 1677."
1679, April. "20 day Hanah son was borne."
1680, Nov. "Monday the 15, hanahs second sonn was borne."
The second of October 1682 Tho: Averys daughter was borne."
1684, Aug. "Tuesday the 12, Thomas Avery his childe was buried."
Hanah Avery her children.
Tho Avery
Samuell Avery
Ephriam Avery
Hanah Avery."
This last item has no date but must have been written shortly before his death. The births of Thomas and Samuel are recorded on the New London town-books. The baptisms of Thomas, Samuel, Abraham, Joshua, and a "child" (Oct. 25, 1704) are recorded on the books of the First Church of New London; the baptisms of Hannah and Ephraim are found on the books of the First Church of Stonington; those of Charles, Isaac and Peter appear on the books of the First Church of Norwich. Mr. Baker, in his history of Montville, says that Jonathan was b. Dec. 9, 1691, but he was not able to give any satisfactory authority for that statement and it is hardly possible that Jonathan could have been born in December, 1691, and Abraham baptized March 6, 1692.
Dec. 2, 1736, Samuel Avery, Abraham Avery and Hannah (Avery) Minor seem to be the only surviving children of Thomas3 and Hannah (Minor) Avery. At that time, in connection with Thomas Minor, the husband of Hannah (Avery) Minor, they sold the 150 acres of land that came to them from their honored grandfather and his wife, Grace. This land had been given by Thomas Minor and his wife, Grace, to his daughter, Hannah Monor Avery, and her husband Thomas3 Avery for their life. When both were dead, the land was to revert to Hannah Minor Avery's surviving children. (See deed). The children, Ephraim and Thomas, were dead. Samuel, Abraham and Hannah, as heirs-at-law, sold the land. Jonathan Avery was, at this time, very much alive, but he did not join in the sale. It seem improbable that he was the son of Hannah (Minor) Avery.
(Preston Land Records, 5:7).
Thomas3 Avery had a daughter Mary by his second wife Hannah Raymond. Mary (Smith) Raymond, widow of Samuel Raymond, and daughter of Nehemiah Smith, made a will May 8, 1705. This was probated at New London. She mentioned cousin Hannah Avery, Elizabeth Avery, daughter of cousin Martha Ransford deceased, and cousin Mary Avery. She was the aunt of Hannah Raymond Avery. Thomas and Hannah (Raymond) Avery probably had a daughter Elizabeth, as an Elizabeth Avery was maarried to Sylvester Baldwin, at Montville, May 9, 1724, by the Rev. Mr. Hillhouse
588. Thomas Avery, born 6 May 1651 in Groton, New London County, Connecticut; died 05 Jan 1736/37 in Montville, New London County, Connecticut. He was the son of 1176. Capt. James Avery and 1177. Joanna (Jane) Greenslade. He married 589. Hannah Miner 22 Oct 1677 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut.
589. Hannah Miner, born 15 Sep 1655 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; died 1692 in Montville, New London County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of 1178. Thomas Miner and 1179. Grace Palmer.
i. Thomas Avery, born 20 Apr 1679 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut; died 25 Nov 1711 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut; married Ann Shapley 12 Jul 1704 in New London
County, Connecticut; born 31 Aug 1685 in New London County,
Connecticut; died 09 Sep 1761 in Montville, New London County,
Connecticut.
294. ii. Samuel Avery, born 15 Nov 1680 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut; died 25 Feb 1749 in Montville, New London County,
Connecticut; married Elizabeth Ransford 26 Jun 1702 in New
London County, Connecticut; born 1681 in Boston, Suffolk County,
Massachusetts; died 2 Sep 1761 in Montville, New London County,
Connecticut.
iii. Jonathan Avery, born 1683 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut; married Elizabeth BILL Abt. 1712; born Abt 1692.
iv. William Avery, born 1683 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut; died 1684 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut.
v. Ephraim Avery, born 1685 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut; died 09 May 1719 in Powder Island, Connecticut;
married Abigail Mason Abt. 1708 in New London County
Connecticut; born 03 Feb 1688/89 in Stonington, New London
County, Connecticut; died 25 Aug 1717 in Mystic, New London
County, Connecticut.
vi. Hannah Avery, born 04 May 1686 in Groton, New London, County,
Connecticut; died 09 Dec 1762 in Stonington, New London, County,
Connecticut; msrried Deacon Thomas Miner 26 Dec 1706 in Groton,
New London, County, Connecticut; born 30 Sep 1683 in Stonington,
New London, County, Connecticut; died 09 Apr 1739 in Stonington,
New London County, Connecticut.
vii. Mary Avery, born 1688 in Groton New London, County,
Connecticut; married Benjamin Baker; born Abt. 1683 in
Fairfield, Connecticut.
viii. Abraham Avery, born 1690 in Groton New London, County,
Connecticut; died 21 Jun 1761 in Montville, New London
County, Connecticut; married (1) Jane Hill Abt 1734 in
New London County, Connecticut; born Abt. 1714 in Connecticut;
died 26 Jul 1744 in Montville, New London County, Connecticut;
married (2) Sara Coop 01 Oct 1751 in Montville, New London
County, Connecticut; born 03 Dec 1712 in Montville, New London
County, Connecticut.
ix. Elizabeth Avery, born 1792 in Groton, New London County,
Connecticut; died 17 Jul 1728 in Stonington, New London
County, Connecticut; married Sylvester Baldwin 19 May 1724
in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; born 06 Mar
1676/77 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; died
1732 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut.
CHILDREN of Thomas AVERY and Hannah MINER:
1. THOMAS b: 20 Apr 1679; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
md: 12 Jul 1704; , New London, Connecticut.
Ann SHAPLEY
d: 25 Nov 1711; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
+ 2. SAMUEL b: 15 Nov 1680; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
md: 23 Jun 1702; New London, New London, Connecticut.
Elizabeth RAINSFORD
d: 25 Feb 1749; Montville, New London, Connecticut.
3. DAUGHTER b: 2 Oct 1682; Groron, New London, Connecticut.
d: 12 Aug 1684; Groron, New London, Connecticut.
4. JONATHAN b: Abt 1683; Groron, New London, Connecticut.
md: Abt 1712; , , .
Elizabeth BILL
5. EPHRAIN chr: 18 Oct 1685; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
md: Abt 1708; , New London, Connecticut.
Abigail MASON
d: 9 May 1719; Powder Island, Connecticut.
6. HANNAH b: 4 May 1686; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
md: 26 Dec 1706; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
Deacon Thomas MINER
d: 9 Dec 1762; Stonington, New London, Connecticut.
7. MARY b: Abt 1688; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
md: ; , , .
Benjamin BAKER
8. ABRAHAM b: Abt 1690; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
md: Abt 1734; , New London, Connecticut.
Jane HILL
md: 1 Oct 1751; Montville, New London, Connecticut.
Sara COOP
d: 23 Jun 1761; Montville, New London, Connecticut.
9. ELIZABETH b: Abt 1692; Groton, New London, Connecticut.
md: 19 May 1724; Stonington, New London, Connecticut.
Sylvester BALDWIN
d: 17 Jul 1728; Stonington, New London, Connecticut.
CHILDREN of Thomas AVERY and Hannah RAYMOND:
10. JOSHUA chr: 25 Aug 1695; New London, New London, Connecticut.
md: 17 AUG 1722; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
Jerusha ROCKWELL
11. DAUGHTER b: 1697; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
12. DAUGHTER b: 1699; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
13. JONATHAN chr: 25 Oct 1704; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
md: 16 Apr 1724; New London, New London, Connecticut.
Elizabeth WATERMAN
md: 18 Oct 1752; , New London, Connecticut.
Dorothy DENISON
14. CHARLES chr: 26 Oct 1706; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
d: died young ; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
15. ISAAC chr: 17 Jul 1709; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
md: 1731; , New London, Connecticut.
Elizabeth FOX
d: 3 Apr 1777; West Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut
16. PETER chr: 5 Aug 1711; Norwich, New London, Connecticut.
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