2736. John GRAY
BURIAL: Old Burying Ground back of the First Church, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts. OGF
2737. Hannah Sturgis
BURIAL: Old Burying Ground back of the First Church, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts. OGF
2880. Jorgen Rasmussen Moller
INFORMATION: AF 1996.
2882. Hans Pedersen
INFORMATION: AF 1996.
2883. Mette Laursen
INFORMATION: AF 1996.
2944. James Avery
HISTORY: THE HISTORY OF STONINGTON, CONN., by Richard Ansel Wheeler, page 199-200: Capt. James Avery, the only child of Christopher, was born in 1620. Came to America with his father, and lived at Gloucester for several years. The Rev. Mr. Blinman, who had been a minister of Gloucester for eight years, was engaged to become the minister of the Pequot Plantation. A party of his friends proposed to move with him, and came on to make preparatory arrangements, Oct. 19, 1650. It appears that james Avery went back to Gloucerster, sold his possessions there to his father, and in 1651 returned to New London. In March of that year the principal body of these eastern families arrived.
Capt. James acquired large tracts of land at what is now Poquonoc Bridge, Groton, east of New London. About 1636 he built the hive of the Avery's at the head of Poquonoc Plain, a mile and a half from the river Thames. In 1684, the old Blinman edifice, first church of New London, the unadorned church and water-tower of the wilderness, which had stood for thirty years, was sold to DCapt. Avery for six pounds, with the dondition that he should remove it in one month's time. According to tradition, the church was taken down, its materials carried across the river, and added to the house, he had already built at Poquonoc. In spite of this analytic and synthetic progress, the ancient dwelling seemed to have retained some of its sacred character, for a century later it was occupied until Julyu 21, 1894, when a s park from a pssing locomotive ignited its well-seasoned frame, and in a short time only the ancient chimney remained to mark the s pot of this historic house of Eastern Connecticut. A few years later the cimney was taken down, the grounds graded, and a tasteful monument was erected by the descendants of James Avery.
He was ensign, Lieutenant and captain of the New London companies and served throughout King Philip's war in command of forty Indians from Stonington, New London and Lyme. In 1676 he was captain of one of the four comp;anies which protected the frontier, and for twenty three years an officer of the town, and twelve times deputy to the General Court, 1656-80; also assisting judge in deputy to the Prerogative Court, and was most prominent in matters relating to the church, as references to him in such connections are numerous.
H marriec 1st Nov. 10, 1643, Joanna Greenslade, b. about 1622; she d. after 1693. He married 2nd, Mrs Abigail (Ingraham) Chesebrough, widow of Joshus Holmes, July 4, 1698, (No. 2) Holmes family. He died April 18, 1700. His widow was living as late as 1714.
2945. Joanna GREENSLADE
HISTORY: THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, page 43: That her name was Joane Greenslade is learned from her letter of dismissal from the church at Boston to the one at Gloucester in 1544. The first volume of admissions of the First Church of Boston contains what little information we have been able to glean concerning Joane Greenslade. On page 63 is a list of six names of which hers stands third among the admissions as follows: "The 18th day of ye 4th Moneth 1643 Joan Greenslade, a single woman. "On page 66 of the same volume is an entry is an entry showing her dismissal to the church of Gloucester: "The 17 day of ye 4th Moneth 1644 Our Sister Joan Greenslade now ye wife of one James Averil of Gloster had granted hir by ye Churches silence Ires of Recomend to ye Church of Gloster." She, however, seems to have retained her connection with the First Church at Boston, for on page 97 of the book of admissions is the record: "be Sister Joan Avery wth ye Concent of ye whole church waas dismist unto ye church of Christ at Pekot on ye 31 of ye 6th mo 1651"
2953. Alice PADDUCK
This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
Robert /PADDOCK/ (AFN:4HWZ-29) and Mary /TRINE/ (AFN:8XP6-X1)
Robert /PADDOCK/ (AFN:4HWZ-29) and Mary /TRINE/ (AFN:9M8Q-45)
2954. John Devotion
CONFLICT-BIRTH: FGS of Peter Parker & Sarah Ruggles shoes John born 26 Jun 1639, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
2959. Mary Leonard
This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
Thomas /LEONARD/ (AFN:8MXS-4G) and Mary /WATSON/ (AFN:8MXS-5M)
Thomas /LEONARD/ (AFN:GTXW-0S) and Mary /WATSON/ (AFN:GTXW-10)