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Données personnelles Thomas Avery Sr 

• Il est né le 6 mai 1651 dans Stonington, New London County, Connecticut.Source 1
• Il est décédé le 5 janvier 1735/1736 dans Montville, New London County, Connecticut, il avait 83 ans.
• Il est enterré en l'an 1736 dans Montville, New London County,Ct.
• Un enfant de James Avery et Joane Greenslade
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 19 mai 2007.

Famille de Thomas Avery Sr

(1) Il est marié avec Hannah Miner.

Ils se sont mariés le 22 octobre 1677 à Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, il avait 26 ans.Source 1

(2) Il est marié avec Hannah Raymond.

Ils se sont mariés le 13 mars 1692/1693 à Wethersfield,Hartford County, Connecticut, il avait 40 ans.

Notes par Thomas Avery Sr

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 to the general court.
It is evident that James2 Avery and Thomas Minor had a clear understanding concerning the marriage portions to be given to their children. On 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 county of New London, in ye Collony 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 bought 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 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 advatage 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 true performance of
and to every particular hereof we set our hands & seals this 26th of
December, 1677.
Signed sealed and delivered
in the the presence of James Avery
William Mead Joane Avery
Jonathan Avery
(New London Deeds.)

From "The Groton Avery Clan"Page 104

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, had lot No. 10 of arable land and lot No. 154 of cedar swamp allotted to him in Voluntown. 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 eateable. At this post [Saratoga] I
left Liut Tho. Avery with some souldrs to gaurd our provition to us
wch was coming vp 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.

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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 Campbell and one Deacon."
Thomas3 Avery died at Montville, Jan. 5, 1736. His widow died Jan. 28, 1742, at Norwich.
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