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• Name: Richard AUSTIN
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1598 in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England ^b
• Death: Abt 1638 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts ^d
• Burial: Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts ^u


Parents:

Family:
Marriage:

• Elizabeth (AUSTIN) at England .^m1
  
• Elizabeth (AUSTIN) Birth: 1610 in England Death: Charlestown, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts

Children:

1. Richard AUSTIN Birth: 15 Nov 1632 in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England Death: 15 Aug 1703 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts
2. Anthony AUSTIN Birth: Abt Feb 1636 in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England Death: 22 Aug 1708 in Suffield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Now Hartford Co, Connecticut)

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p9]

abt 1598 [Ref: Roberts USPres HAYES, Sav-age AUSTIN Anthony, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1],

place:

[Ref: Banks Topo p60, Moore AUSTIN p9, Roberts USPres HAYES, Sav-age AUSTIN Anthony, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1]

Sources for death Information

date:

after 1638 [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1]

shortly after 1638 [Ref: Roberts USPres HAYES]

yr of arrival in America [Ref: Baker AUSTIN p106],

place:

[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p9, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

place:

Charlestown, Massachusetts [Ref: Roberts USPres HAYES]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1]

Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth (AUSTIN)

place:

[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1],

names:

Richard AUSTIN & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Sav-age AUSTIN Anthony, Sav-age AUSTIN Richard, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1]

___ AUSTIN & Betsy ___ [Ref: Baker AUSTIN p95],

child:

[Ref: Baker AUSTIN p95, Sav-age AUSTIN Anthony, Sav-age AUSTIN Richard, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1]

Research Notes:
emigrated from Bishops Stoke, Hampshire, England, ship "Bevis" to Charlestown, Mass [Ref: Banks Planters p198, Banks Topo p60]

emigrated on ship Bevis, from Southampton in 1638, with wife and two children. He was then aged 40, and had been a tailor at Bishopstoke in Co. Hants. [Ref: Banks Planters p199, Coldham Immigrants p196, Pope PioneersMA p24, Sav-age AUSTIN Richard, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p1]

In the Original Lists of Persons of Quality who went from Great Britian to the American Plantations 1600-1700, by John Camden Hatten (1874): 40, Richard Austin - tailor of Bishopstocke, his wife 05 and two children. Ribert Knight his servants - carpenter. May 1638. Page 298 [Ref: Baker AUSTIN p106]

Original document listing passengers on the ship Bevis, which sailed from England in May of 1638, reads as follows: "Southampton - The list of the names of Passengers Intended to shipe themselves, In the Bevis of Hampton of CL. Tounes, Robert Batten Mr for Newengland. And thus by vertue of the Lord Treasurers warrant of the second of May whih was after the restraynt and they some Dayes gone to sea Before the Kinges Mates Proclamacon Came unto South'ton" age: 40 Richard Austin of Bishopstoke, tailor, his wife, two children and a servant, Robert Knight, carpenter. total 61 passengers [Ref: Hotten OriginalLists p298, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p12]

Sailed from South Hampton May 16 1638 [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p9]

Their pastor was Rev. Stephen Bachiler, former vicar at Horwell until excommunicated in 1605 from the Church of England [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p13]

In Will of Thomas South in 1698, he bequeaths the house he bought from Richard Austin; probably when Richard went to America. Perhaps a relative by marriage [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p9]



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