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    Person Info
  • Name: Benjamin AUSTIN
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 9 Mar 1717 in Charlestown, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 14 Mar 1806 in Boston, Massachusetts d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer AUSTIN Birth: 27 Aug 1662 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Death: 16 Jan 1723
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca SPRAGUE Birth: 1675 Death: 10 Nov 1769 in Boston, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Benjamin AUSTIN Birth: 25 Jul 1744 in Charlestown, Massachusetts
  2. Jonathan Loring AUSTIN Birth: 22 Dec 1747 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Death: 10 May 1826 in Boston, Massachusetts
  3. Rebecca AUSTIN Birth: 20 Jun 1749 in Charlestown, Massachusetts
  4. Benjamin AUSTIN Birth: 18 Nov 1752 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Death: 4 May 1820

Bibliography
  1. Moore, Edith Austin, The Descendants of Richard Austin of Charlestown Massachusetts 1638, unpublished manuscript, LDS Film#0873972#2.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]*].
  2. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p13, Sav-age AUSTIN Ebenezer],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p13, Sav-age AUSTIN Ebenezer],
parents:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p13, Sav-age AUSTIN Ebenezer]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth WALDO
date:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21, Sav-age AUSTIN Ebenezer],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21],
child:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21, Sav-age AUSTIN Ebenezer]
Research Notes:
merchant, and member of the Council of Mass. and selectman, Boston, 1775. He presided at Watertown celebration of anniversary of Boston Massacre [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21]



Pedigree of Benjamin AUSTIN
                   /-----Richard AUSTIN
          /-----Richard AUSTIN
         |         \-----Elizabeth (AUSTIN)
 /-----Ebenezer AUSTIN
|        |         /-----William BATCHELDER
|         \-----Abigail BATCHELDER
|                  \-----Jane COWPER
Benjamin AUSTIN
|         /-----Samuel Lt SPRAGUE
 \-----Rebecca SPRAGUE
          \-----Rebecca CRAWFORD



Descendants of Benjamin AUSTIN
1. Benjamin AUSTIN m. Elizabeth WALDO
m. Elizabeth WALDO father: Cornelius WALDO mother: Faith SAVAGE