Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF PEKN TOWNSHIP. 61.7
3Iibes Avery was born Deceill ber 25, 1 791, alt Tunl~llannock, Pa.
IIe ~vas the eldest son of Cyrus Avery, who calne from Kor~~~icll,
Conn., to Pennsyl~~nnia al~out 1700, ancl there married Lydia Marcy, a
daugll ter of Colollel Zebulon Ma~cy, wllose father caa~t f roll1 Dover,
Dutchess countr. K. IT., as et~vly as i;i@, wit11 the Connecticut colonr,
and is said tlo iln~~e built the first cabin at Pittston, near Old ~or$e,
in 1779. This clnliin lle sold to Ehenezer, his brother, wl~o came the
same war to Tul~lth;~nnc;ck, an (1 aided in oiaganizing Putnaln tou~nship
antl :I:;I:IV 17. 'IS, tlietl July 30,
'83, at South Enton, Pa.; i\Iiijor Qros, Mar*cl; S, '91; Miles, ~ rhe 3,
'23, died October 10, '84; Humphrey, July 4, '25, a ~aesitlent of Penn