Excerpt from The Averell-Averill-Avery Family, Vol. 1 of 2: A Record of the Descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass As in most New England families whose ancestors came over in the seventeenth century, the two traditions of descent from two brothers, and descent from three brothers, have been found in our family. The theory that the family was of Scotch descent from one of two brothers who came from Scotland and settled in America was the only one known by the compiler's father, Newell (no. 1128) Avery. No evidence of the Scotch ancestry of the Averells has been found in America; but the records of Scotland have not been searched, and the name is found there today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.