Person:James Packer (6)

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  • F.  John Packer (add)
  • M.  Rebecca Wells (add)
  1. Captain James Packer1681 - 1765
  • HCaptain James Packer1681 - 1765
  • WAbigail Avery1678/79 - 1722
m. Bef 1707
  1. Abigail Packer1708 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] Captain James Packer
Gender Male
Christening[1] 11 Sep 1681 New London, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Bef 1707 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Abigail Avery
Death[1] 24 Apr 1765 West Mystic, New London, Connecticut, United States
Burial[2] Packer Cemetery, West Mystic, New London, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 34. Abigail4 Avery, in Avery, Elroy McKendree, and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery. The Groton Avery Clan. (Cleveland, Ohio: Privately Published, 1912)
    140-41.

    "… James Packer, s. of Thomas [error for John] and Rebecca (Wells) Packer. Rebecca Wells was the widow of Thomas Latham. James Packer was bap. Sept. 11, 1681, First church of New London. … He d. April 24, 1765, from a fire that burned his barn. His will was probated May 10, 1765 at New London. He mentioned his wife, Thankful; sons, Ichabod, John, and Joseph; family of son James, deceased; dau., Abigail Eldridge; dau. Desire, wife of Capt. John Burrows; dau., Freelove, wife of Lemuel Burrows; children of deceased daughter, Lucretia Fish; and the children of his later marriage. He left each son a good farm."

  2. Capt James Packer, in Find A Grave.