Individual Details

Sarah Avery was accepted into church membership in Greenland, 1728, and joined the Townsend church by letter after removing there, he previous residence clearly state.

Sarah's parents are said to be John Petts and Abigail. However, death records for the burials of John and Abigail Patts in Townsend would seem to make them too young to be Sarah's parents. Abigail died in 1761 at age 43; John died in 1767 at age 54. And birth dates of their other children begin in 1713. Sarah could have been the eldest and married at 14/15. One of the heirs of John Petts was named as daughter Sarah Avery. It has also been suggested she could have been a child of David Petts, a deceased son of John & Abigail, but that seems to stretch the math even further. All the names of John & Abigail Petts children were repeated in the names of the children of Robert & Sarah Avery.


Robert2 (?-1756) who in 1724 married Sarah PETTS, the daughter of John (1681-1757) and Abigail HARRISON (1685-1735) PETTS , the former of whom was one of the earliest settlers on a tract of land which became incorporated as Townsend, MA in 1732. Sarah PETTS' siblings were John (1713-1767), Ebenezer (1717-?), David (1719-?), Mary (1721-?), Abigail (1725-?), Anna (1725-?) and Jonathan (1727-?).

Admitted to the Church of Greenland by the Rev. William Allen
1728 Sarah Avery, wife to Robert Avery Jr.
NEH&G Register 1874, Vol 28, p.254

Sarah was administratrix of the estate of Robert Avery in 1756. She was likely the widow Sarah Avery who went to Westford in 1766. No more is known about her.



More about John Petts, possible father of Sarah:
John Petts was one of the earliest settlers on a tract of land which became incorporated as Townsend, MA in 1732.
Children named in the settlement of John Petts estate were John Jr., eldest son, born ca 1713, according to his gravestone; Jonathan, b. 15 oct 1727 at Townsend; David, dec'd who had left heirs; Sarah, who had married Avery; Abigail; and Anna.
The names of all the children of John Petts were repeated in the names of the children of Sarah & Robert Avery.

Marriage	5 Nov 1724	Rockingham County, New Hampshire - ROBERT AVERY
Birth		Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Spouse	ROBERT AVERY (1704 - 1756)
Child	Sarah AVERY (1726 - )
Child	Jonathan AVERY (1728 - )
Child	Abigail AVERY (1731 - 1810)
Child	Robert AVERY Jr. (1733 - 1757)
Child	Mary AVERY (1735 - )
Child	DAVID AVERY (1737 - )
Child	Elisabeth AVERY (1739 - )
Child	Anna AVERY (1742 - )
Child	John AVERY (1743 - 1760)
Child	Rachel AVERY (1746 - 1815)
Child	Lucy AVERY (1749 - )

Father	John PETTS (1681 - 1756)
Mother	Abigail ?Harrison (1685 - 1762)
Sibling	John PETTS (1713 - 1767)
Sibling	Ebenezer PETTS (1717 - )
Sibling	David PETTS (1719 - 1756)
Sibling	Mary PETTS (1721 - )
Sibling	Abigail PETTS (1725 - )
Sibling	Anna PETTS (1725 - )
Sibling	Jonathan PETTS (1727 - )