Ancestry of
Thankful Avery

(1718–1814)

Thankful Avery

View famous kin of Thankful Avery

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • (probable) John Avery Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Sarah Denison   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Apr 1718 
  • Birth Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1814 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Avery-Morgan Burial Ground, Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Thankful Avery is identified as the daughter of John Avery and Sarah Denison in History of the Town of Stonington published in 1900. Other publications say she is the daughter of his brother Benjamin Avery and Sarah Denison. Since no birth record has been found for the latter, but one has been found for the former, it seems more likely she is the daughter of John Avery.

    Some published sources give Thankful's age at death as over 100 which would be exaggerated if she was the daughter of John Avery.

• Marriages for Thankful Avery

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  • Spouse:
  • Benjamin Avery
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 9 Sep 1735

• Sources for Thankful Avery

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 17A, Birth record for Thankful Avery.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com.
  • ³ Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, p. 132-133.
  • ⁴ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2004, p. 279.
  • ⁵ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 201, 204.
  • ⁶ Wildey, Anna Chesebrough, Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough of Boston, Rehoboth, Mass., New York: Press of T. A. Wright (1903), 22, 41-42.