(1) Hij is getrouwd met Abigail Parke.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 19 december 1704 te Preston, New London County, Connecticut, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.
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(2) Hij is getrouwd met Prudence Payson.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 1 april 1714 te Groton, New London County, Connecticut, hij was toen 35 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
(3) Hij is getrouwd met Esther Hammond.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 1 januari 1734/1735 te Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, hij was toen 54 jaar oud.
(4) Hij is getrouwd met Susanna [Susannah) Baker.
Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1753, hij was toen 73 jaar oud.
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Per "The Groton Avery Clan" - Page 125:
Christopher4 Avery was selectman, 1731, 1735, 1737; surveyor, 1736, and served as one of the justices for New London County. He was clerk of the North Society (Groton) church. In 1724 and 1725, he was deputy to the general court; he was successively ensign, lieutenant (1714), and captain (1730). (Conn. Col. Rec., 6:426,
483, 553 & 7:303). In the division of land in the northwest part of Groton (now Ledyard), as described in the record of Edward Avery (No. 13), Christopher took the eastern part, and there he lived, died, and was buried.
"Captain Christopher Avery deceased, January 20, 1753, in the 73d year of his age" (Groton Records).
His will was dated March 18, 1752; he mentioned wife, Susanna; sons, John, Christopher, Nathan, and Jacob; daughters, Abigail Allyn, Priscilla Breed, Hannah Gallup, and Temperance Morgan; granddau., Prudence, dau. of son, Isaac, deceased; Susanna Stoddard, mother of Prudence. His property was appraised thus:
Homestead farm,œ10,000 (old tenor) Brewster's Neck farm2,500 Negroes-Jube500 Jeune250 Nero530 Lydia260 Sarah240 Tom210
In 1888, some of his descendants set up a brown-stone obelisk on the east side of Avery Hill, Ledyard (formerly the North Parish of Groton) not far from his former home. The front bears this inscription:
Christopher Avery,
1680-1753
His Four Wives.
His daughter, Temperance, and her husband, William Morgan, were buried in the same lot.
Children of Christopher and Abigail (Parke) Avery, b. at Groton:
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