Christopher Avery of Newton Abbott County, Devon, was born in England about 1652.
His son, Christopher Avery, was born in 1590 in Newton Abbott County, Devon England. He came to America in 1630 and his first son, Jacob Avery, came with him. They came in the “Arabella”; landed in Gloucester Massachusetts. He was a weaver by trade, a selectman in 1646, 1652, 1654. He purchased a home in Boston, 18 March, 1658; sold it and moved to New London. he was a freeman in the COlony of Connecticut in October, 1669.
His wife, Margery Stevens, whom he married in 1616, refused to come to America with her husband and son, Jacob. Later the second son, John Avery, who was born in 1620 and died in 1700, did come to America.
Jacob Avery did not live in Massachusetts but a few weeks. After he arrived, he met a group of young men who were getting together a wagon train to go to Virginia. He joined the wagon train. The very first things he did was to buy a tract of land when he got to Virginia.
When he came to America he brought four men with him; one had a wife. They had agreed to work for him until their passage was paid, then they were to be freemen.
He acquired many acres of land and these men all married and were overseers of his land. He married and had seven children. He died 27 February 1748.
