"235. Solomon5 Avery (Humphrey4, Samuel3, James2, Christopher1) was b. June 17, 1729, at Groton; bap. July 27, 1729, First Church of Groton; … Solomon Avery was one of the grantees of Chiswick, N. H., and one of the proprietors of the Susquehanna land company. The Boston Gazette and County Journal, July 27, 1778, contained a letter from Mr. Samuel Avery, of July 15, 1778, 'giving the disagreeable intelligence brought by Mr. Solomon Avery this moment returned from Wyoming on the Susquehanna River, which says 'the informant conceives that of about five thousand inhabitants one half are killed and taken by the enemy prisoners and the others fleeing away naked and distressed!' ' (Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, 6:662). April 25, 1780, Solomon Avery, Richardson Avery, and other inhabitants of Wilkesbarre, Penn., asked for help to build a fort and for arms and ammunition 'In the name and in behalf of themselves and the Rest of the People that are driven from their settlements at Westmoreland on the Susquehanna River by the savages' (Western Land Documents, Hartford, 1:118). July 11,1783, Solomon Avery wrote from Groton to his brother, Col. Waightstill Avery of North Carolina, telling him of the battle of Groton Heights, Sept 6, 1781. He says; 'Eleven Averys were killed in the fort at Groton and seven wounded. Many Averys have been killed in this county, but there have been no Tories among them of our name.' The letter is in the possession of a descendant of Waightstill Avery. … he d. Dec. 28, 1798, at Putnam township (Tunkhannock), Luzerne County, Penn."
