Christopher Avery

Abt 1590 - 1679  (~ 89 years)

• Name	Christopher Avery
  Birth	Abt 1590	Ipplepen, Devon, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Mar 1679	New London, New London, Connecticut   [3, 4, 5]
  Burial	12 Mar 1679	New London, New London, Connecticut   [6]
  Person ID	I4020	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	20 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Christopher Avery   d. Bef 10 Jul 1613
  Mother	Joan   d. Aft 10 Jul 1613
  Family ID	F7766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margery Abraham   d. Bef 21 Aug 1626
  Marriage	28 Aug 1616	Abbotskerwell, Devon, England   [1]
  Children	1. James Avery,   b. Bef 22 Apr 1621   d. 18 Apr 1700, Groton, New London, Connecticut (Age > 78 years)
  Family ID	F5322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was a kersey weaver. From The Granberry Family (citation details below): He settled in Gloucester, Mass., by 1642, and was sworn Constable of Gloucester, 28 Dec. 1647. He removed to Boston, Mass., where he was admitted an inhabitant on 30 July 1655. He bought for £40 half a house in Boston, 18 Mar. 1658/9, from John Samuell and Lucy his wife, and received an acquittance for the purchase price, 7 Feb. 1661/2. He was charged in Salem Court, 27 Dec. 1643, with "living absent from his wife." This came up again at Court, 29 Feb. 1647/8. In Sept. 1649 he was presented for speaking scoffingly of Mr. Blinman [the minister], but it was reported that he "had gone to Boston to live." On 29 June 1652, he was sworn freeman, and the same date was chosen clerk of the [military] band of Gloucester, and clerk of the market, and served on a trial jury. The question of his wife, "she being in England," came up finally 27 Sept. 1653, and he was fined £20 for not living with her, "or to go to her at the first opportunity," and he was also sentenced to make acknowledgment "for reproachful speeches." On 26 June 1655, he sued two men for slander for saying that he attended a drinking party and that he dandled another man's wife on his knee as "ye foolish man her husband Looked on." "Christopher Auery, being fined 20li, at Ipswich Court, for liuing from his wife, vppon his pet[ition] to this Court, being aged & poore, & havinge vsed meanes to p[ro]cure his wife hither, his fine is remitted," 19 Oct. 1654. [Shurtleff's Records of Massachusetts Bay, 3-364.] He followed his only son to New London, Conn., where he bought a house, orchard and lot, 8 Aug. 1665 [New London Town Records 1647-66, p. 146]. He was freed from training, 6 June 1666, on account of age. He served on a jury, 5 June 1667. He was made a freeman of Connecticut, 14 Oct. 1669.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3332] The Avery Family: The Ancestors and Descendants of Christopher Avery by Maureen A. Taylor, with contributions by Julie Helen Otto. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2004. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945., county and country only. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952. [S657] The Groton Averys, Christopher and James, The Founders of the Family by Elroy M. Avery. 1893. [S3763] Babcock and Allied Families by Louis Effingham De Forest. New Haven, Connecticut: De Forest Publishing Co., 1928. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945.