by Roxy Triebel
treebz65@hotmail.com
Avery / Every DNA Project
I received the following email from another Avery / Every researcher who needs help with a DNA project.
I'm Dick Allen, a descendant of Uriah Every and Miriam Hill. I am looking for a living male Avery/Every who is descended from Old Uriah. I am the co-administrator of the Avery/Every family Group Project at Family Tree DNA. We have several Avery's and one Every in our family group project. We do not yet have a descendant of Uriah Every in the project. If we could get one or more, we could determine if Uriah was an Avery or an Every.We have several Avery's in the project who have paper back to Christopher Avery who came from England in the 1600's. The one Every we have does not match their DNA. This Every may be of the same line as Old Uriah, DNA will tell.
Thanks for your help.
Dick Allen, 4th Gr. Grandson of Uriah Every.
oldbones1@comcast.net
For additional information on this project, see the following websites:
Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches
AVERY / EVERY
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URIAH AVERY - our ancestor - served in the Dutchess Co. Militia 2nd Regt. in the Revolutionary War. I have not made any direct connection, since I do not know when or where he was born, but am quite sure our line of this family comes from the first of that name to come to this country in the early 1660's from England to Massachusetts and Connecticut. They were "wanderers"; came to this area through Westchester County, NY into Dutchess, Delaware, and Ulster Counties. Many of the older family members used to talk about visiting relatives "back in old Dedham".
AVERY is from the Latin Aviaries, meaning Bird Keeper. This from Ancestral Heads New England.
Many variations of the name noted in N.Y. Historical and Biographical Register 1895 include AVERY - EVERY - AVERAND - AVERET - AVERIT - EVRIE - EVERIT - EVERETT. In Kingston Old Dutch Church Records also EFFERLIE and INENING Kgn #4651. In Dutchess County Wills also EAVERY. In New Paltz RDC, AVRY pg 161.
There was, in the late 1700s, a pirate named AVERY. He was called one of the worst, but that may have been because he was one of two that refused to share his loot with the English government.
One, a lawyer, Waitstill AVERY went from Connecticut to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina before the Revolutionary War. He fought in the Revolution as officer in a North Carolina Regiment. As one of the early settlers of that region, he stated in court that the correct spelling of the name was AVERY. In May 1773, he was one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. There is, in 1986, a Waitstill Avery living in this same area.
A PETER AVERY born 26 May 1739 Dutchess County, NY baptized in Poughkeepsie Church, (son of Nehemiah "Myer" Avery and Dorcas Fredericks) fought in the Revolutionary War, and married as Peter EFFERLIE in Kingston, residing Bakatakan, 1778 to Mary Yaple. They had a large family, several baptized in Ulster County, but before 1790 they were living in Tennessee. He was one of the guides appointed by the State of North Carolina to lay out a road through the Indian country to Nashville. He had an unerring woodscraft and was never at a moment's loss to tell the points of the compass, was known as "OLD COMPASS HEAD". One road is still called AVERY TRACE. He had eleven children. They evidently wandered and were widely scattered, several in Tennessee, others in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. (Mary Yaple's father was a clock maker, and held captive at Pepacton by the Indians. Her aunt was very friendly with Teunis, the Indian, who warned them of the impending INDIAN and TORY RAID. Many settlers were forced to flee over Pine Hill.)
Peter Avery had a brother baptized in Kingston RDC 1736 #4651.
Early settlers of Colchester, Delaware County, NY were also Every and Avery. (see French's GAZETTEER OF NEW YORK pg 260) Every Brook in Kartright was named for Everys from Connecticut. (see Munsell's HIST. DEL. CO.)
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