Walkershire - Person Sheet
Walkershire - Person Sheet
NameDavid Avery
Birth Date1779
Birth PlacePequonnock, Connecticut
Reside Date1795
Reside PlaceAuburn, Cayuga, New York, USA
Death Date17 Nov 1866
Death PlaceScipio, Cayauga, NY
FatherMr. Avery (~1750-)
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 1780
Death Date30 Mar 1869
FatherColonel Ebenezer Avery Iii (1762-1842)
MotherHannah Morgan (1765-1792)
Notes for David Avery
CNIDR Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 (File: 41)
In response to my entry of the Avery Scrap book, the pages are brittle, dark and not easily photo-copied, so I'm going to copy the article. Keep in mind, we are sure Christopher Avery was not on the Mayflower, so the names mentioned may or not present the leads we want.

UINCLE DAVID AVERY'S STORY
"I was born in Pequonnock, Connecticut in the year 1779. In 1795 , I
started for the western part of the State of New York, commonly called the
Genesees. I came in company with Hezekiah Avery and wife, Daniel Avery
and wife, Ebenezer Avery and wife, Dudley Avery and wife, and several
young men. Nathaniel Gallop and wife came with us to Albany and stopped
there.

We came on a sloop, owned and commanded by Amos Avery. One of the
young men had a violin and when we bid farewell to Groton Bank, we left
under the sounds of music. A great crowd of relatives and friends stood on
the bank to bid us farewell, and long gazed upon us, as we sailed down the
Thames into Long Island Sound. At the lighthouse we took on board another
family named Babcock.

We had not been in the Sound more than fifteen minutes when there came
up a stong Southeaster and every lady on board was seasick. We ran all day
under close-reefed sails, and at night anchored in a bay under the lee of
Long Island, the ladies all going on shore to house. In the morning we again
spread sail for New York, and arrived there on the third day. On the
following day, against a head-wind, we started up the Hudson for Albany.
Day after day during flood-tide, we beat up the river, and as the ebb came,
we dropped anchor. To while away the time, the young folks often danced on
deck to the music of young Smith's violin. Sometimes we went on shore.
Near Albany we ran violently on the rocks, knocking every one down, but
finally got off without injury. On the sixteenth day from New York we
arrived at Albany (a trip now made by rail in five hours).

At Albany we had our goods placed on hired wagons and transported a few
miles across to Schenectady, on the Mohawk, where each family bought a
butteaux and started up that river. In passing the rapids called (Old
Knock-em Stiff," we had great difficulty, and came near capsizing some of
the boats, but finally got to Little Falls, Mrs. Baabcock having died on the
passage. At that place we had our boats and effects hauled in wagons round
the Falls and put in the river above, the distance being about a mile.

Our next point was Fort Schuyler (now Utica), where we found two log
houses in a dense forest--thence moved on to Fort Stanwix (now Rome),
the head of canoe navigation. From there we hired out goods and boats
hauled through a dense wilderness, thirty miles, to the mouth of Wood
Creek, on Oneida lake, there not being a house in the whole distance. Next
morning we converted our tents into sails and started the little fleet across
the lake, which was very rough, but we got safely across to Fort
Barrington, tarried a little, and continued to Three River Point, thence up
Seneca river to Cayuga lake, and up it to our destination where Aurora
stands, having been forty days in our journey (which is now performed by
rail via Albany, Hartford and Norwich, in about twelve hours).

My brother, Ben Avery, and I worked for hire that Summer, and in the
Fall, or early Winter, in company with Captain Daniel Avery and others,
with our packs on our backs, started back on foot for Groton, New London
County. I was lame from a cut, and suffered much. From Oneida Castle for
nine miles there was not a house, and the snow was knee-deep, so we
travelled in Indian file, there being seven or eight of us.

In the following Spring my father moved out by the same route we had
taken.

In 1808 I returned again to Groton and married my present wife and
cousin, Fanny, a daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Avery, whose father, also
named Ebenezer, was one of the nine Avery Martyrs who fell at Fort
Ledyard, on Groton Bank, in 1781. You must understand that Christopher
Avery, of the MAYFLOWER, was father of the first James, he of the second
James, he of the first Ebenezer, he of the second Ebenezer of Ledyard
memory; he of the third, or Colonel Ebenezer, who was father of my wife,
and of Mrs. David Mitchel, Mrs. Nathan Dennison, and the five brothers
Ebenezer (4th), Henry W., Sidney, Rev. Charles E., Egbert, Rev., Jared R.

When married I bought a chaise, and came back in rather better style than
when we moved out thirteen years before. In conclusion, I have lived ever
since 1796 on the same piece of land I then entered, 17 miles south of
Auburn, on the Poplar Ridge road."

""And so ends Uncle David's story. He died, as Christians only die, on his
homestead, Nov. 17, 1866, having lived there 70 years. His venerated and
loved consort followed him March 30, 1869."" Visitor.

If anyone can date and identify this newspaper, please advise.
Betty Kovac


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Posted by Judy Goldbaum on October 04, 1998 at 13:10:51:

I am looking for the family of David Rossiter Avery born 22 Sept 1820 in Scipio, NY. He married Abby Lorraine
Bryant on 1 Oct 1846 in Collins, NY. They had 1 child, Adelle Avery b. 1858. His wife died 6 Sept 1874. He
then married Elizabeth Cummings who had three children from previous marriage. I am interested in finding Adelle's
family. Please e-mail
Notes for Fanny (Spouse 1)


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