Ancestry of
Myron H. Avery

Co-Founder, Appalachian Trail

Rebecca Edes

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Myron H. Avery — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Edes 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Larrabee   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 16 Nov 1760 
  • Christening Location:
  • New North Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 21 Apr 1836 
  • Death Location:
  • Lubec, Washington, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Major Trescott Cemetery, Lubec, Washington, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • James Avery
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Dec 1781 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John George Washington Avery (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Additional marriages for Rebecca Edes

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  • Spouse:
  • Lemuel Trescott
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1808
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Machias, Washington, Maine

• Sources for Rebecca Edes

  • ¹ Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies, Lemuel Trescott (1750-1826) [Participant], pp. 1-3.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 20384, Membership application for Doris Diana Pike White.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/03/2024).
  • ⁴ Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, FHL No 7595755, Images 18 and 66, Birth record for son John George Washington 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 Jordan, Tristram Frost, The Jordan Memorial: Family Records of the Rev. Robert Jordan and His Descendants in America, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1882), 125.