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  • Name: John AUSTIN
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 22 Oct 1732 in Suffield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Now Hartford Co, Connecticut) b
  • Death: 9 Feb 1826 in Becket, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts d
  • Burial: Becket, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • John AUSTIN Birth: 17 May 1706 in Suffield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Now Hartford Co, Connecticut) Death: Abt 1748
  • Mother:
  • Mary HOVEY Birth: Dec 1702 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Death: 1756

Family:
Marriage:
  • Margaret VEITS on 21 Apr 1759 at Mansfield, Connecticut .m1
  • Margaret VEITS Birth: 9 May 1739 in Symsbury, Connecticut Death: 22 Sep 1782 in Becket, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. John AUSTIN Birth: 25 Jan 1762 in Mansfield, Connecticut
  2. James AUSTIN Birth: 1 Jun 1764 in Mansfield, Connecticut

Bibliography
  1. Barbour Collection, Index to Connecticut Vital Records prior to 1850. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1949. LDS Film#002887-0002983. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CT vitals [0-9]*].
  2. Dimock, Susan W, Births Baptisms Marriages and Deaths in Mansfield Connecticut. NY: Baker & Taylor, 1898. NYPL *ZI-773 no 3. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/230149. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Dimock MansfieldCT vitals p[0-9]*].
  3. Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April 1775 to December 1783. Washington DC: Rare Book Shop, 1914. Available at http://archive.org/details/franheitmanreg00bernrich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1973. Reprint of the 1914 edition, with 1932 addenda. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008555325. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Heitman RevArmy p[0-9]*].
  4. Hinman, Royal R, Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, with the Time of their arrival in the Country and Colony, their standing in society, place of residence, condition in life, where from, business, &c, as far as is found on record. Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Co, 1852. Available at http://archive.org/details/catalogueofnames010hinm. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hinman PuritanSettlers p[0-9]*].
  5. Moore, Edith Austin, The Descendants of Richard Austin of Charlestown Massachusetts 1638, unpublished manuscript, LDS Film#0873972#2. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/227259. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p[0-9]*].
  6. Springfield MA Public Library, HOVEY Genealogy file, LDS Film#0185437#6. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008203031 images 271-313. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SpringfieldPubLib HOVEY.*].
  7. White, Lorraine, Ed, Suffield Vital Records 1764-1850, in Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Baltimore, MD: GenePubCo, c1994. M-LH 974.6 Whi. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SuffieldCT vitals p[0-9]*].
  8. Walters, Patricia, WALTERS, HERRMANN, and other related families, notebooks of 23 volumes. SLC: GeneSocUT, 1989. Vol 4 (AUSTIN), Film#1597565#4. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: CT vitals v1p96, Hinman PuritanSettlers p82, Hinman PuritanSettlers p83, Moore AUSTIN p32, SpringfieldPubLib HOVEY 042b, SuffieldCT vitals p25 John8, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4],
place:
[Ref: CT vitals v1p96, Hinman PuritanSettlers p82, Hinman PuritanSettlers p83, Moore AUSTIN p32, SpringfieldPubLib HOVEY 042b, SuffieldCT vitals p25 John8],
parents:
[Ref: CT vitals v1p96, Hinman PuritanSettlers p82, Hinman PuritanSettlers p83, Moore AUSTIN p32, SpringfieldPubLib HOVEY 042b, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4]
John AUSTIN & Mary ___ [Ref: SuffieldCT vitals p25 John8]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
place:
Mansfield, Windham, Connecticut [Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4],
place:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret VEITS
date:
[Ref: CT vitals vDp205, Dimock MansfieldCT vitals p205, Moore AUSTIN p32, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4],
place:
[Ref: CT vitals vDp205, Dimock MansfieldCT vitals p205, Moore AUSTIN p32, WaltersP WALTERS AUSTIN-p4],
child:
[Ref: Dimock MansfieldCT vitals p12]
Research Notes:
possibly the John AUSTIN who was Sergeant in Gridley's Regiment Massachusetts Artillery, June to Dec 1775, and inKnox's Regiment Continental Artillery in 1776. Sergeant 3d Continental Artillery, Jan 1777, 2d Lieutenant 17 May 1782, and served to June 1783 [Ref: Heitman RevArmy p78]



Pedigree of John AUSTIN
                            /-----Richard AUSTIN
                   /-----Anthony AUSTIN
                  |         \-----Elizabeth (AUSTIN)
          /-----John AUSTIN
         |        |         /-----John HUGGINS
         |         \-----Esther HUGGINS
         |                 |         /-----Henry GREEN
         |                  \-----Bridget GREEN
         |                           \-----Joan GROVES
 /-----John AUSTIN
|        |                  /-----William KINGE
|        |         /-----James KING
|        |        |         \-----Agnes ELWILL
|         \-----Agnes KING
|                 |                           /-----William FULLER Alias LOCKYER
|                 |                  /-----William FULLER Alias LOCKYER
|                 |         /-----John FULLER
|                 |        |         \-----Sarah (FULLER)
|                  \-----Elizabeth FULLER
|                          |                                    /-----Thomas EMERSON
|                          |                           /-----Thomas EMERSON
|                          |                  /-----Robert EMERSON
|                          |                 |         \-----Margery (EMERSON)
|                          |         /-----Thomas EMERSON
|                          |        |        |         /-----John CRABBE
|                          |        |         \-----Susan CRABBE
|                           \-----Elizabeth EMERSON
|                                    \-----Elizabeth BREWSTER
John AUSTIN
|                                    /-----Richard HOVEY
|                           /-----Daniel HOVEY
|                          |         \-----(Unk) (HOVEY)
|                  /-----James HOVEY
|                 |        |         /-----Robert ANDREWES
|                 |         \-----Abigail ANDREWES
|                 |                  \-----Elizabeth FRANKLIN
|         /-----James HOVEY
|        |        |                  /-----John DANE
|        |        |         /-----John DANE
|        |        |        |         \-----Frances BOWYER
|        |         \-----Rebecca DANE
|        |                  \-----Eleanor CLARK
 \-----Mary HOVEY
         |         /-----Edward BARLOW
          \-----Deborah BARLOW
                  |                  /-----(Unk) PEMBERTON
                  |         /-----James PEMBERTON
                   \-----Mary PEMBERTON
                            \-----Alice (PEMBERTON)



Descendants of John AUSTIN
1. John AUSTIN m. Margaret VEITS
m. Margaret VEITS father: Henry VEITS mother: Margaret HOPKINS