Excerpt from A History of Cleveland and Its Environs, Vol. 2: The Heart of New Connecticut, BiographyIn the Battle of Groton Heights, September 6, 1781, it is recorded that eleven Averys were killed and seven wounded. No Avery was a Tory. Yet Lucy Avery's great-great-grand mother, Susannah Palmes, wife of Samuel Avery of New London, Connecticut, was of royal descent, being the granddaughter of John Humfrey, who married in England the Lady Susan, daughter of the third Earl of Lincoln, who was descended from Edmund Ironside, king of England, and several kings of Scotland, and France and Spain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.