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Note From Larry Chesebro' (a diligent and thorough compiler of the Cheesbrough family of England and related families): "Regarding Abigail Chesebrough and John Avery, I have attached a short genealogy report for the descendants of Captain James Avery and his two wives, Joanna Greenslade and Abigail Ingraham. This report identifies what I believe is an error in the LDS data for the parents of Ebenezer Avery. They show John Avery and Mary Griswold as Ebenezer's parents. I have double checked my Chesebrough, Avery and History of Stonington books because I found a conflict as I started to add Ebenezer to John Avery, b. 1 Apr 1683, whom I had already recorded as married to Sarah Denison. All three sources confirm that Ebenezer was the son of James III and Mary Griswold."
In May of 1749, Ebenezer was commissioned Ensign of the First Company of Groton, later a Captain, then in May of 1768 became a Major of the Eighth Regiment. In October of 1770 he was made a Lieutenant-Colonel succeeding Christopher Avery. In the DAR lineage book, vol. 7, page 283 it is written that "Ebenezer commanded the Eighth Militia Regiment but his old age compelled him to resign and he was succeeded in 1776 by Oliver Smith." Virkus records that "... he married Lucy Latham [and was] Lt. Col. of the 8th Connecticut Regiment in the American Revolution". [This being true, he must have resigned his commission shortly after the Revolution began.] In 1736 he is recorded as a Juryman, as a Constable in 1737 and during the years 1748 - 1753 he was a Selectman [Representative].
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Jan's birth has also been reported as May 16, 1829. Jan and Klaasje left for America June 8, 1885, their granddaughter Marjorie writes, with their sons Garrett and Wieger, only 14 and 10 years old at the time. She also tells us that their son, Hessel, (her father) came in 1884 and that their son Pete and wife Froukje left for America in April 1886 from Rotterdam on a cattle boat with three children, Anna, John and William. Pete and family arrived 18 Jun 1886 thus making it a quite long trip. Marjorie goes on to write that her Aunt Froukje told her granddaughters what a bad trip it was, with three little kids on a cattleboat and, she writes, Froukje must have been pregnant at the time with Caroline who was born September 1886. Jan is credited with influencing the name re-spelling to "Bymers". [Like so many of these old-country immigrant pioneers, these were tough and determined people who were so much Americans in spirit, not just in fact.]
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In the original Dutch, Klaasje surname was probably Graafstra. There is also the report that Klaasje died in February, day and year not given.