Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Comstock
and Mary (Lee) Comstock
Wife of
James Avery
— married
before 1760 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
John Lee Avery, Mary Elizabeth Avery, Edward Avery, Abigail (Avery) Sholes, James Avery, William B. Avery, Theophilus Avery, Joshua Avery, Polly (Avery) Comstock and Sarah (Avery) Lester
Died
at age 41
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Jul 2012
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Biography
Mary Comstock was born 28 Apr 1743, daughter of John Comstock (1705-) & Mary (Lee) Comstock.
She married James Avery; they had 11 children during the timespan 1760 to Sept. 1783, all at Ledyard (formerly the North Parish of Groton), Connecticut; their final child died in infancy:
- Squire Avery (Sept. 10, 1783 - March 1784)
Mary (Comstock) Avery passed away in 1785 on Feb 14.
Sources
- The Groton Avery Clan (Avery & Avery, 1912), p. 253, no. 281.
- Hale, Charles R. "Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions, 1675-1934," (Conn: Charles R Hale, 1934), 66. Text: Avery, Mary, wife of James, died Feb 12, 1785, age 41.
- Comstock, Cyrus B., 1907. A Comstock Genealogy: Descendants of William Comstock of New London, Conn., who died after 1662. The Knickerbocker Press, New York, NY. page 24 (#207)
Acknowledgements
Stanley Wood contributed to this profile.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Hoover Willis 
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~0.78%
Frank Lamb :
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Jennifer (Willis) Papitto :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Jessica (Willis) Laviolette :
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~0.39%
Duncan Sparrell :
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Comstock-383 and Comstock-1727 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate
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