Dudley Avery (1770 - 1816)

Born 19 Mar 1770 in Groton, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Morgan) Avery — married 1792 in Groton, Connecticut

Husband of Mary Ann (Brown) Avery — married 1806 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Descendants

Died 16 Aug 1816 at age 46 in At Sea

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Biography

Dudley Avery, born 19 Mar 1770 at Groton, Connecticut, was the third child of Deborah Avery (1742-1825) and Daniel Avery (1740-1781).

Per the Avery genealogy, Dudley Avery was one of the Aurora party of 1795; was appointed sheriff of Onondaga County, July 5, 1798; ensign of Onondaga County militia, 1798; promoted to lieutenant same year; captain, 1802. He was a cabinet maker. About 1804, he returned to Groton and studied medicine. He then went to Cincinnati, and later to Baton Rouge, La., where he became successful in his profession. He was a member of the state legislature and was in the War of 1812. He had a vessel built for trade with New York, and, on her trial trip in 1816, died of yellow fever, off the coast of Cuba.

He married first, 8 Nov 1792 @ Groton, Connecticut, Hannah Morgan [b. 16 Nov 1775; daughter of Nathan & Hannah (Perkins) Morgan; d. 20 Mar 1804]. This couple soon removed to the wilderness of central New York State, and resided in newly laid out Cayuga County in a township named Aurora.

They had 4 children:

1. Dudley Avery, b. 24 Nov 1793 @ Groton, CT; d. 19 Sep 1796 @ Aurora, NY
2. Barton Frederick Avery (1796-1857); married 23 Sep 1817 @ Parkman, Ohio, Betsey Brown
3. Caroline Campuit (Avery) Fellows (1798-); married Henry Fellows
4. Hannah (Avery) Sprague (1804-); married William Sprague

After the death of his first wife, Dudley Avery married second, in 1806 @ Cincinnati, Ohio, Mary Ann Brown [b. 1782 in Ohio, daughter of John W. & Sarah Brown of Bristol, England; d. 19 Aug 1836, Baton Rouge, LA]; they had 4 children:

1. John Brown Avery (1808 - 1812)
2. Daniel Dudley Avery (1810-1879); married Sarah Craig Marsh
3. Latham Avery (1812- 1814)
4. Eliza Brown (Avery) (Walsh) Sharpe (abt.1815-1884); married 1) Simon Walsh; 2) William Sharpe

The memorial stone for Dudley Avery in the Avery Island Cemetery, Iberia Parish, Louisiana ^[1] is a cenotaph, not a grave marker. His remains were buried at sea.

Note: The region where the initial Dudley Avery family resided was during that timeframe a quite inhospitable place to settle. Whereas the cause of his first wife Hannah's death (age 29) is not documented, it is relevant to consider that many transients and settlers in that region suffered from "lake fever", a form of malaria which debilitated combatants on both sides during the War of 1812. That disease, as well as equine encephalitis, continued to plague residents of the eastern Lake States for well over a century thereafter. After the death of Hannah, her widower Dudley Avery soon returned to his place of origin at Groton, Connecticut, and studied medicine. Subsequently he took up a new life path which led him to other "wild" lands of his newly expanding country, and ironically died from yellow fever, at sea off the coast of Cuba.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #113208370

• DAR Lineage Book (Daughters of the American Revolution, 1898): Vol. 6, Page 4

• The Groton Avery Clan (Avery & Avery, 1912), p. 188, 303, no. 396: https://archive.org/details/grotonaveryclan01aver/page/188/mode/1up; https://archive.org/stream/grotonaveryclan01aver#page/303/mode/1up

• http://www.geni.com/people/Capt-Dudley-Avery/367407053150002996