Ancestry of
John D. Rockefeller

Founder of the Standard Oil Company

Samuel Avery

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of John D. Rockefeller — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 80 
  • Father:
  • James Avery 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna Greenslade   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Aug 1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 May 1723 
  • Death Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Avery-Morgan Burial Ground, Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susannah Palmes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Oct 1686 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Avery

  Humphrey Avery (Ahnentafel No:40 )

• Sources for Samuel Avery

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 13, Birth record for son Humphrey Avery.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 17, Birth record for Samuel Avery.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 17, Death record for Samuel Avery.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 17, Marriage record for Samuel Avery and Susanna Palins.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/23/2012).
  • ⁶ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ⁷ Sweet, Homer De Lois, The Averys of Groton, Syracuse, New York: Rice-Taylor Print. Co. (1894), 27, 558-559.
  • ⁸ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 4, Pelham - Avery - West . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2017), 19, 25-26.