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Excerpt from Avery Notes and Queries: February, 1898

Search of the records in my possession revealed several things Mr. Sweet's history of The Averys of Groton, page 434, showed that a Nathan Avery had gone from Connecticut to Vermont, and thence to Palmyra, N. Y., where he applied for a pension. He had a son by the name of Benjamin Pearson Avery, and a daughter Betsey who married a Mr. Russell. After Nathan's death, his widow went back to Vermont and there died, after applying for a pension. This removal from Vermont to Palmyra, N. Y., was com mon to both parts of the broken chain for which we were seeking the connecting link, and suggested careful study on both sides of the break. In a case like this, Mrs. Avery has a faculty of observation and inference worthy of Sherlock Holmes. Studv of the applica tions for a pension showed that Nathan's widow returned to Vermont to be with some of her other children, among whom was Betsey Bissell.

Evidently, the family record had been printed wrong, and the daughter Betsey had married a Mr. Bissell, and not a Mr. Russell. This made stronger the probability that the missing link had been found; but Benjamin Pearson was not Benjamin 'perkins.

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