Avery Family of Louisiana, 1796-1951

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Avery Family of Louisiana, 1796-1951

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Avery and Marsh families of Petite Anse Island Plantation, later Avery Island, near New Iberia in Iberia Parish, La., and of Baton Rouge, La. Prominent family members were Dudley Avery (d. 1816), medical officer of the Drafted Militia in New Orleans, 1814-1816; his son, Daniel Dudley Avery (1810-1879) of Baton Rouge, lawyer, state senator, judge, and sugar planter; John Craig Marsh (1789-1857), who originally acquired Petite Anse Island Plantation; his son, George Marsh (d. 1859); and his daughter, Sarah Craig Marsh (1818-1878), who married Daniel Dudley Avery in 1837. The collection includes Avery family correspondence and financial and legal records, chiefly 1817-1895. Over half the collection consists of financial and legal papers relating to the operation of the Petite Anse Island sugar plantation and salt mines. These include plantation accounts, bills of sale for slaves (some bills are from New Jersey), bills for merchandise, promissory notes, and receipts. Correspondence includes letters from Dudley Avery serving as a medical officer in New Orleans during and after the War of 1812; letters, 1828-1845, between John Craig and George Marsh at Petite Anse and their relatives in New York and Rahway, N.J., about family and plantation affairs; letters, 1846-1847, about life in New Orleans and other matters; and family letters from Baton Rouge and other locations in the 1850s. Correspondence after the Civil War is chiefly to and from Daniel Dudley Avery and his business associates about the salt mines and plantation operations, and between Avery and members of his family about plantation and personal affairs, including the struggle to hold onto the family property.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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The Marsh family and the Avery families were united by the marriage of Sarah Craig Marsh (1818-1878) to Daniel Dudley Avery (1810-1879) in 1837. Daniel Dudley Avery's parents were Captain Dudley Avery (d. 1816) and Mary Ann Browne Avery (fl. 1807-1828). In 1807, Captain Avery left Onondaga County, N.Y., for Cincinnati, where he met and married Mary Ann Browne, daughter of Reverend John W. Browne. The Averys moved to Baton Rouge, La., where Captian Avery worked as a physi...

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Rev. Joseph Sylvester Clark (1800-1861) graduated from Amherst College in 1827 and was ordained in Sturbridge, Mass. In 1838, he left Sturbridge to become secretary of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, 1839-1857, and was instrumental in forming the Congregational LIbrary Association. Clark was editor of the _Congregational Quarterly_ and author of several historical sketches. From the description of Notebook, 1850s? (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 1912592...

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