... III. Captain William Avery, (4 of II. above), m. (1) Lydia, dau. of Nathan Smith, of Groton, who d. Jan. 1804 ; m. (2) Sarah Harris, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Harris, of Colochester, now Salem, Conn., June 10, 1804. He enlisted at the Lexington alarm and was a sergeant under Putnam at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. He was a man of note and influence, and, of his seventeen children, fifteen were ancestors of men who have been prominent in American history. ...