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• Hij is geboren op 24 april 1711 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachuettes Bay Colony.Bronnen 5, 6, 7, 8, 10
• Woonachtig in het jaar 1790: Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.Bron 3
• Hij is overleden op 2 september 1797 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, USA, hij was toen 86 jaar oud.Bronnen 5, 6, 8, 10

  Age: 87

• Hij is begraven september 1797 in Windham County, Vermont, Verenigde Staten.Bronnen 8, 10
• Een kind van John Averill en Anna Greensleet

Gezin van John Averill , Captain

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Phippen.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 7 mei 1735 te Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, USA, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.Bronnen 4, 9

Kind(eren):

1. Abigail Averill  1738-1839 
2. Asa Averill  1739-1825
3. Oliver Averill  1739-????
4. Thomas Averill  1745-1823
5. Samuel Averill  1746-1825
6. John Averill  1748-1835
7. Mary Averill  1750-1820
8. Anna Averill  1751-1795

Notities over John Averill , Captain

AVERILL
John Averill came up the Connecticut River, or the "Great River" as is was called, from Northfield MA with his family in canoes in the Spring of 1751 to Westminster, then called No. 1 and under a Massachusetts charter. There were two houses in town at the time, one built by Richard Ellis and his son in 1739, at the foot of Willard's or Clapp's hill, "at the southern extremity of the 10 rods highway," which was then unoccupied. The other house, whose builder is unknown, was "at the lower end of the street, ... at the top of Willard's Hill." The Averills moved into this house which was occupied at the time by four men, one woman and two children; they were, William Gould, John Gould, Amos Carpenter, and Atherton Chaffee. During the summer of 1751, Goold and Carpenter moved their families up from Northfield.
Averill References: Fairbanks 566-567.

752 HISTORY OF EASTERN VERMONT.
APPENDIX I.
THE "WESTMINSTER MASSACRE."
March 13, 1775
In the east parish of Westminster, "the Liberty men" were few and far between. In the west parish, the majority of the inhabitants were "pure Whigs." The men who served under Capt. Azariah Wright on the 13th of March, were mostly from the latter parish. Captain Wright's company was organized between the years 1768 and 1770. It is not known whence he obtained his captaincy, but it is evident that
APPENDIX I. 753
his force at the time of the outbreak, was of the people and supported the people's cause. For several years he had been accustomed to call his company together for drill, at his own house, and if the policy of the Whigs had not interdicted the use of fire arms, his men would have evinced their skill as marksmen in such a manner as would have caused no discredit to their leader. As far as can now be ascertained, the organization of the company was as follows:- Captain, Azariah Wright; Lieu­tenant, Jabez Perry; First Sergeant, Simeon Burke; Second Sergeant, Jesse Burke.
PRIVATES.
Jacob Albee, Francis Holden,
John Albee, John Holt,
Lemuel Ames, Ichabod Ide,
Asa Averill, Israel Ide,
John Averill, Joseph Ide,
Thomas Averill, Robert Miller,
Jabez Bates, John Petty,
Silas Burke, Atwater Phippen,
Atherton Chaffee, Joseph Phippen.
Andrew Crook, Samuel Phippen,
Robert Crook, Robert Rand,
William Crook, James Richardson,
David Daley, Nathaniel Robertson,
Jonathan Fuller, Reuben Robertson,
Seth Goold, Edmund Shipman,
William Goold, Jehiel Webb,
John Wells.

The officers of the Rockingham company were, as far as remembered, Captain, Stephen Sargeant; Lieutenant, Philip Safford; Surgeon, Reuben Jones. Nothing is known of the organization of the companies from Guilford or Walpole. It had long been the custom of Judge Thomas Chandler, to procure commissions of one kind and another from New York, and bestow them on such as he favored. In this way several military officers had been appointed in different parts of the county. Those persons in Westminster who had obtained the titles which they bore in this manner, were Major John Norton, Captain Benjamin Burt, Lieutenant Medad Wright, and Ensign William Willard, but it is believed that no company was ever organized under these officers.
The manner in which the Court party treated the "rioters" on the night of the affray, was to the former an especial topic of congratulation among themselves. One of them, William Willard, a justice of the peace, even while a prisoner in the Court­house, "made a brag that he struck French" and knocked him down. After his enlargement, he went to New York, and on his return, appeared in a new suit of clothes, which, it was said, had been given him by the Lieutenant Governor, in acknowledgment of his valiant conduct. He died at Brattleborough. In his last days he was insane, and his final sickness, being hemorrhagic in its character, was regarded by the old people as a judgment upon him from God, for the part he had taken in shedding the blood of French.
A door of the old Court-house, which was perforated by a bullet on the memor­able night of the rencontre, was for many years preserved by a citizen of Westminster and did him good service as a door in his own dwelling.
Concerning Dr. Reuben Jones who acted so prominent a part among the Whigs, 48

754 HISTORY OF EASTERN VERMONT.

but little is known. That he was a man of intelligence, is proved by his "Relation of the proceedings of the people of the County of Cumberland, and Province of New York," which has been already referred to. At the meeting held at Westminster on the 11th of April, 1775, for the purpose of devising means to resist the progress of oppression, Dr. Jones served as clerk. On account of his facility in composition and his general accuracy, he was often chosen to similar positions on more important occasions. He was the delegate from Rockingham in the convention held at Dorset on the 25th of September, 1776, and represented the former town in the General Assembly of Vermont during the sessions of 1778, 1779, and 1780. He then removed to Chester, and in 1781 was the representative from that town in the Gene­ral Assembly. Like many of the early settlers of Vermont, he became involved in debt. Having been seized in New Hampshire, at the instance of an inhabitant of that state, he was confined in the jail of Cheshire county, during a part of the sum­mer of 1785. On the 16th of August, in that year, he effected his escape from pri­son. On the 22d, a warrant was issued by Simeon Olcott, a justice of the peace for Cheshire county, directing his arrest if found within the bailiwick of the sheriff of that county. To evade the officers of the law, Dr. Jones repaired to Vermont. Simon Stevens, a justice of the peace for Windsor county, issued an order for his arrest on the 27th, and on the 29th the unfortunate physician was taken at Chester by John Griswold of Springfield. But even now his friends did not desert him. As Griswold was taking him off, John Caryl and Amos Fisher, citizens of Ches­ter, made an attack upon the officer, and delivered Dr. Jones from his hands. At the session of the Supreme court held at Windsor, "on the second Tuesday, next following the fourth Tuesday of August," 1785, the grand jurors found a true bill against the Doctor and his two friends for resisting an officer, but the result of the trial which followed does not appear.

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