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- MRS. HANNAH AVERY PARTRIDGE.
Born in Chaplin, Connecticut.
Widow of Frederick P. Partridge.
Descendant of Rev. David Avery. Daughter of David Avery, Jr., and Rebecca Brown Morgan, his wife. Granddaughter of Rev. David Avery and Hannah Chaplin, his wife.
David Avery, (1746-1818), was pastor of a church in Gage- boro, Mass., at the Lexington Alarm. He preached a farewell sermon, raised a company from his congregation and reported at Cambridge. The first Sunday in camp he preached to the army and was commissioned chaplain. He was at Bunker Hill, Long Island, in the Jersey campaign, at Valley Forge, in service until 1780 when he resigned. He was wasborn in Franklin, Conn.,
16. REV. DAVID AVERY
Was born 5 April, 1746, in that part of Norwich, Ct., now forming the town of Franklin. His parents were John and Lydia (Smith) Avery.* He was converted to God at about twenty years of age, under thepreaching of Whitefield. Fitted
for college at Dr. Wheelock's school, in Lebanon, Ct. Entered Yale College a year in advance, and graduated 1769, A. M. in course, and also at Dartmouth, 1773. Employed in his vacations teaching Indian schools. Studied theology with Rev. Dr. E. Wheelock of Dartmouth Coll. Preached a short time on Long Island as a licentiate. Was soon ordained, probably at Dartmouth, 29 August, 1771, as missionaryto the Oneida Indians, and colleague with Rev. Mr. Kirkland, father of President Kirkland of Harvard University.
He was compelled to leave this field of. labor by a bad fall upon the ice, when he returned to New England. After preaching in different places, he was installed at Gageboro', now Windsor, 25 March, 1773, and dismissed 14 April, 1777,** to go as chaplain in the army. On his return he was settled at Bennington, Vt., 3 May, 1780, and dismissed 17 June, 1783 ; again settled at Wrentham, 25 May, 1786; and after many councils and much difficulty, dismissed 21 April,
1794. He still preached to a congregation at North Wrentham, where a church was organized in 1795. He left previous to
1798, and removed his family to a farm belonging to his wife in Mansfield, now Chaplin, Ct., and employed himself in preaching in vacant places in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. He performed two missionary tours in the western frontiers of New York, and one in Maine, under the direction of the Massachusetts Domestic Missionary Society.*** He afterwards gathered a new church and society,called the Union Church, in Chaplin, Ct., to which he preached from 1798 to 1801. In 1817, October 28, he visited his daughter, Mrs. Hewett, then resident in Shepardstown, Va., where, and in the vicinity, he preached a few weeks. He received a cordial and unanimous call to settle in Middletown, fifteen miles from Shepardstown, where he was taken (on the evening of a day of fasting preparatory to his installation) with the typhus fever, of which he died. He was buried on the week of his intended installation, the clergy of the invited council officiating as his bearers. Mr. Avery married, 10 Oct., 1782, Hannah Chaplin, daughter of Dea. Benjamin Chaplin, of Mansfield, Ct. Her mother was Mary Paine, cousin of Judge Robert Treat Paine of Boston, and aunt of Judge Elijah Paine of Vermont.
They had four children :
1. Mary C., married to William H. Smith, Esq., and still living at Providence, R. I.
2. David, jr. ; graduated at Brown University ; lawyer ; married Miss Morgan, and resides in Hampton, Ct.
3. Hannah, married to Chester D. Clarke, merchant of Utica, N. Y.
4. Lydia S., married to Lieut. Thomas Hewitt, U. S. Army ; and resided in Shepardstown, Va., where both deceased.
* The first of the paternal line in New England was John Avery, a Scotchman, who wilh his wife and children, — four sons and several daughters, — settled in Truro, where he died. Two of the sons settled in Connecticut, from one of which Rev. Mr. A. descended. John Avery, former Secretary of the state of Massachusetts, and also Rev. Dr. Griffin. President of Wms. Coll., were cousins of Rev. David Avery. See Letter of AV. H. Smith, Esq., Prov. R. I. The first minister of Truro was Rev. John Avery, son of Robert, and grandson of Doct. William Avery of Dedham. Was he the same person 1 See notice of the Avery family, hy W. R. Deane. Boston.
**His commission was dated 18 April, 1776. He resigned it 1 Feb. 1780. He was attached to Col. Sherhorn's regiment, Continental army. Served from 15 Feb., 1777, to 5 March, 1780. — State Records.
***Rev. David Avery and Rev. 'Jacob Cram, (Licentiate, No. 15,)
were the first missionaries commissioned by the Society.
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