AVERY Family


12 Capt James A 1621-1700 (bust)
11 Capt James A II 1646-1728
11 Capt Samuel A III 1664-1723
10 Elisha A 1697-1726
(d/l from geni.com)

The earliest known AVERY ancestor was Cynthia 1795-1868 73yo m. Moor(e)s DUNSMORE 1787-1869 82yo. The geni.com website shows her born in Prescott, ON. Below I'll try to connect her to the loyalist AVERYs from Groton, New London, CT who were forced to move to Canada just after the American Revolution (1783).

Rootsweb.com shows a Maria AVERY of Yonge, ON m. Wm MAY of Estcott, ON. They were m. at Oak Point in Hammond, ON on 9-29-1855. Connected?

There's a wiki page for .../Prescott,_Ontario w/alot of info on that town. It was fnd'd in the early 19C by Edw JESSUP [hmmm, today we associate that surname w/Mormons, esp. the FLDS ones near the AZ/UT border], a loyalist soldier of the American Revolution, who named the village for frmr Gov. in Chief of Canada Robt PRESCOTT 1797-1807 (cf Prescott.html, I'll look later for possible connection). At the time this land was mostly unsettled, but today its in the 'United Counties of Leeds and Grenville' in E Ontario, just across from Ogdensburg in NW NY. There'd been a French trading post there (fnd'd?) 1673. The 1760 Battle of the Thousand Islands was fought nearby as part of the French & Indian Wars (our term for Britain/France's '7 Years War' 1756-62, cf the bk '1759: The Year the British Took Over the World' in file? br-1759). In 1775 the loyalists in America were dispossessed of their lands and forced to leave that country. Many moved to Canada, esp. those areas just across the border from N NY state along the St Lawrence river heading NE from Kingston, ON. In 1783 the Brits surveyed land around Prescott for award to these dispossessed loyalists. Edw JESSUP was b1735 in Stamford, CT, and lost ~500k acres near Albany, NY. He'd led the Jessup Loyal Rangers. His group was the 1st to settle, in 1783 just after disbanding of the unit (after the end of the war). That group included at least 2 AVERY soldiers; Joseph and William (bros?). In 1810 JESSUP surveyed the town site for Prescott.

Another wiki site discussed the origins of the AVERY family in Northumberland, England. The earliest individual in the records is Rogerus filius [son of] Averary fl 1166. One branch later settled in Egginton, Derbyshire, where the main church has many monuments to the EVERY family. See descent chart below for more detail.

In Hilary MANTEL's 2009 book 'Wolf Hall' (p207), we meet Thomas AVERY, a young accountant (in 1530) employed (and housed) by Thomas CROMWELL at his home in Austin Friars. Not sure if this is a real person, but if so perhaps related to this line.

The 2017 XOM Proxy Statement introduces us to 67yo Susan K AVERY, whom they propose to add as a director for that corporation (and want shareholders to vote for). She served as President and Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2008-15 and as interim dean of the graduate school and vice chancellor for research, interim provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the U of CO Boulder 2004-8. She owns 8k shares of XOM, currently worth ($80/sh) $640k. They include a picture. Related to this line?

The Avery Dennison Corporation is a global provider of labelling and packaging materials and solutions. Perhaps it was founded by an AVERY of this line? The 2017 MAT proxy statement shows 61yo Dean A Scarborough as an MAT director since 2007, and CEO of ADC 2005-16.



Names

6 1795-1868 AVERY, Cynthia - DUNSMORE, Moor(e)s (1787-1869)
[... below is conjectural, but seems to fit ...]
7 1751-1826 AVERY, William - ?, Deliverance (moved to ON c1784)
8 1724-1xxx AVERY, William Jr - ?, Abigail
9 1692-1755 AVERY, Lt Wm - ?, Anne or Sarah
10 1654-1724 AVERY, John [I] Sr - ?, Abigail or Deborah
11 1621-1700 AVERY, Capt James - ?, Joanna or Abigail
12 1590-1670 AVERY, Christopher II - ?, Margery (arrived 1630 aboard Arbella)
13 1550-1613 AVERY, Christopher I - ?, Joanna Mary (of Torbryan, Totnes, Devonshire)
14 1531-1xxx AVERY, Johann - ? (root of geni.com line)
... ~13 gens ...
27 fl 1160s AVERARY, Rogerus filius - ?
28 fl 1130s AVERARY - ?



Descent Chart



Here's info from MoorDUN.html:

Born: 23 Oct 1787 at ?, Vermont
Died: 23 May 1869 at Lyme, Jefferson, NY (bur. Prescott, Ontario, Canada?)

Father: Joseph? DUNSMORE (176?-1???) [Joseph had a son Wm, so Moores' bro?]
Mother: ? (176?-1???)

Spouse: Cynthia AVERY b. c1795 d. 1822 Jefferson Co., NY

Children:

  • Ruth (DENSMORE) b1812 m. Lorenzo D ACKERMAN c1838
  • Edmund M. (1830-1874) m. Belinda MALLORY
  • others?

    Moors owned a barge that was used to remove dirt when the Erie Canal was dug. Moors and Cynthia would have been married ca. 1810, probably in Jefferson County, NY. Moors died at the home of his daughter Ruth at Three Mile Bay, Jefferson Co., NY.

    W STEVENSON wrote on genforum (23 Jun 1999) "I have a newspaper clipping that reads: 'DUNSMORE - In Three Mile Bay, at the residence of L. D. ACKERMAN, May 23d 1869, Moores DUNSMORE, a soldier in the war of 1812, aged 81 years and 7 months.' No other info. This was in a book of clippings belonging to Delia A PRATT."

    Moores apparently left America for Canada (Yonge, Leeds Co., Ontario) during the Revolution (c1783 being a Loyalist, or at least m. into to a Loyalist family).

    Kathy (kamaba@myeastern.com on CTNEWLON-L) writes:
    Captain James AVERY (d. 1700) is buried in Pequonock Bridge (a village area in Groton) at the Morgan-Avery Cemetery, you have to go through the Smith Lake Cemetery entrance to get to it. James AVERY II (d. 1728) is also there as far as I know. As for Christopher AVERY (d. 1678), its possible that he is also there, as this was one of the very early cemeteries and many of the stones are unreadable or have have been completely destroyed by weather and time. Photos at my Groton USGenweb site. Not sure if these AVERYs are connected with above Cynthia.

    Lane Alexander (on CTNEWLON-L) writes:
    Subject: William Avery MINER and Samuel Elbert MINER: While doing research on another family line I was shocked to find one of my AVERY clan in Harrison county Missouri! I wanted to share this excerpt from the book The History of Harrison County Missouri and I hope it will be of some help.

    Family History Library film number 1000291
    History of Harrison county Missouri
    by George W. Wanamaker
    Historical Publishing Company
    Topeka - Indianapolis
    1921

    Page 360:
    William Avery MINER - The late William Avery MINER of Ridgeway, MO, was, during his lifetime a leading factor in the development of Harrison co. ... Mr. MINER was born at Brodhead, Green county WI, May 8, 1861. He was a son of Samuel Elbert and Maria C. (KELLY) MINER. The MINERs belong to one of the old New England families. Rev. Samuel Elbert MINER, father of William Avery MINER of this review went into WI during its pioneer days well equipped with educational and other qualities which he rendered his labors effective among the builders of the commonwealth ...

    Page 361:
    Rev. Samuel Elbert MINER was born at West Halifax, Vermont in Dec 1815, and had a long line of New England ancestors who were factors in the Colonial life of Stonington and Groton, CT. His father was Samuel Holman MINER and his mother was Anna AVERY. The latter was a daughter of Captain Thomas AVERY, a first lieutenant of the First CT regiment of Rev. troops. Samuel HOLMAN and Anna Avery MINER were the parents of 9 children, several of whom lived beyond the years of 'three score and ten', and one of them passed the century mark of time. Rev . Samuel Elbert MINER married Maria C. KELLY who died in July 1861, and their children as follows: Charles E., who died in the uniform of his country at Gettysburg as a member of Colonel CUSTER’s famous 7th MI Cavalry, and is buried in the National Cemetery there; Edgar S. of Bethany, MO; Mrs. George A. RICHARDSON, deceased, of Gilman City MO; Mrs. B. F. BAKER, a resident of Clark Lake Iowa; Mrs. F. W. STUMP of Redfield, South Dakota, and William AVERY of this review.

    From Beverly ACKERMAN (Mon, 29 Aug 2005 "bob ackerman" ):
    I found Moores DUNSMOORE in the Yonge, Leeds County, Ontario census (probably with wife Cynthia AVERY) in 1810, and 1811 census, with William DUNSMORE, Joseph DUNSMORE, William AVERY and Nehemiah AVERY next door or nearby. Moores is listed as a witness to a marriage, along with Samuel AVERY in Yonge. In 1808 Yonge census Moores must be living with either William or Joseph DUNSMORE as they are listed and he is not (it is a head of household with numbers type). AVERYs are nearby. AVERYs are in the 1802 & 1803 & 1804 census, DUNSMOREs are not. By 1819 Nehemiah and James AVERY are there, but no DUNSMOREs. I have a hunch William AVERY and Deliverance (?) are Cynthia's parents. He is described as a Loyalist who fled the US to Canada in 1783 or 1785. The DUNSMOREs may have originally come from Vermont, and Ireland or Scotland before that. Cynthia AVERY was born about 1795. Ruth DENSMORE ACKERMAN lists her parents on a census as being from Vermont (father, Moores) and New York (mother, Cynthia). She was born in Canada in 1812. There is a Corporal Moors DUNSMORE 46 Reg't (Coxe's) NY Militia for the War of 1812. I have seen where people think he was buried in Prescott, Ontario, but I have a cemetery inscription for Mores Dunsmore died 20 May 1871 82 years buried in Three Mile Bay Cemetery, Jefferson, NY.

    Beverly ACKERMAN (desc. from Ruth dau of Moores/Cynthia) writes later? (date?) on genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/dunsmore/342/ that she believes Moores' father may've been Joseph, also the father of (so Moores' bro) William, but no proof, just proximity (Clayton, Jefferson, NY) and hunch.



    Sources:
    - DUNSMORE family info
    - online info from rootsweb.com, geni.com ...

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