Ancestry of
William Sprague

27th Governor of Rhode Island

Benjamin Avery

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of William Sprague — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • James Avery Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Stallion   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1696 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Groton, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Dec 1772 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Avery-Morgan Burial Ground, Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thankful Avery
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 9 Sep 1735 
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  • Child:

  Mary Avery (Ahnentafel No:13 )

• Sources for Benjamin Avery

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/19/2019).
  • ² Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, pp. 102, 132-133.
  • ³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2004, pp. 279, 283.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ 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.