William Avery

1622 - 1687  (65 years)

• Name	William Avery  [1]
  Birth	1622	Berkshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	18 Mar 1686	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Death	18 Mar 1687	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4]
  Burial	King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 5]
  Person ID	I30790	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Avery,   b. of Wokingham, Berkshire, England d. Between 30 Mar 1642 and 15 Jun 1644
  Mother	Joanne
  Family ID	F18283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Allright,   b. Abt 1623   d. 28 Sep 1678, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 55 years)
  Children	+ 1. Robert Avery,   b. Bef 7 Dec 1649   d. 3 Oct 1722, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 72 years)
  Family ID	F18280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Woodmansey,   b. Bef 13 Mar 1629   d. 21 May 1707, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 78 years)
  Marriage	1679  [2, 6]
  Family ID	F18286	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  See the entry on his father-in-law William Allright for reason to believe that the Dedham settler was the William Avery born in Berkshire in 1622. He arrived in New England in 1650 and settled at Dedham. He was a physician. Following the 1678 death of his first wife, Margaret Allright, he married Mary Woodmansey, daughter of Robert Woodmansey and widow of John Tappin, and moved to Boston, where he took charge of the bookstore being run by his new wife's son Joseph Tappin. From Isaiah Thomas's 1810 History of Printing in America: "William Avery was [a] Bookseller, located near the Blue Anchor, in 1679." From George Littlefield's 1900 Early Boston Booksellers 1642-1711: "His Wife (Margaret) died September 28th, 1678, & in 1679 he married Mrs. Maria Tappin, widow of John Tappin, died Sept. 14, 1678, married 20, 6 mo. 1654, of Boston, to which place he removed & took charge of the book shop recently conducted by Joseph Tappin, her son, to which he added an apothecary's department, which is said to have been the first ever established in New England. In 1679 he published a book the title of which reads: 'The Necessity of pouring out the spirit from on High, etc.' Boston: Printed by John Foster, for William Avery near the sign of the Blew Anchor, 1679."

  
  

• Sources

  [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S4819] The Avery, Fairchild, and Park Families of Massachusetts, Connecticut, & Rhode Island by Samuel Putnam Avery. Hartford, Connecticut, 1919. [S2646] Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), on americanancestors.org. Database built from the card index used by Annie Haven Thwing (1851-1940) to write The Crooked and Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (1920)., year only. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S2646] Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), on americanancestors.org. Database built from the card index used by Annie Haven Thwing (1851-1940) to write The Crooked and Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (1920). [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., "after 1678".