Ancestry of
Myron H. Avery

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James Avery

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Myron H. Avery — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Robert Avery 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Cushman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Nov 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Mar 1799 
  • Death Location:
  • Machias, Washington, Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Edes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Dec 1781 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John George Washington Avery (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for James Avery

  • ¹ Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies, Lemuel Trescott (1750-1826) [Participant], p. 1.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 20384, Membership application for Doris Diana Pike White.
  • ³ Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, FHL No 7595755, Images 18 and 66, Birth record for son John George Washington Avery.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990, Record for Lt. James Avery.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for James Avery and Rebecca Edes.
  • ⁶ Drisko, George W., Narrative of the Town of Machias: The Old and the New, The Early and the Late, Machias, Maine: Press of the Republican (1904), 345-346.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 142.