Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Jonathan Loring AUSTIN
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 22 Dec 1747 in Charlestown, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 10 May 1826 in Boston, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Benjamin AUSTIN Birth: 9 Mar 1717 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Death: 14 Mar 1806 in Boston, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth WALDO Birth: 14 Oct 1716 Death: 4 May 1801 in Boston, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
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 Moore, Edith Austin, The Descendants of Richard Austin of Charlestown Massachusetts 1638, unpublished manuscript, LDS Film#0873972#2.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 p21, Sav-age AUSTIN Ebenezer],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21],
parents:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p21, Sav-age AUSTIN Ebenezer]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p40],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p40]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah IVERS
date:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p40],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p40]
Research Notes:
graduated from Latin School and Harvard College in 1766 [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p41]

successful merchant in Kittery ME [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p41]

chosen as Messenger Extraordinary from the Colonial Government to Benjamin Franklin, our first Minister to the French Court. He was officialmessenter to convey the news of Burgoyne's surrender to the American commission at Paris. He sailed on the Snow Penet from Boston on Oct 31 1777, arrived at Nantes on Nov 30, and delivered the dispatches to Franklin at Passey on Dec 4. on Jan 31 1778, Frenklin sent Austin on a secret mission to London, in order to supply the opposition leaders with information that would enable them to demonstrate the uselessness of continuing the war. Austin moved about London freely, dined with Lord Shelburn and Dr.Price, visited his Loyalist cousins, near Bristol, and left for France on Mar 23 1778 when warned by the French ambassador that communications would soon be closed. [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p41]

Secretary and Treasurer of State and Senator from Essex Co MA; Secretary of MA Board of War 1777; Government Agent in Europe 1778-80; Major in Langdon's Reg't, Aid to Gen. Sullivan; Recipient of Franklin Medal 1793; Secretary to Benjamin Franklin whileMinister to France [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p41]



Pedigree of Jonathan Loring AUSTIN
                            /-----Richard AUSTIN
                   /-----Richard AUSTIN
                  |         \-----Elizabeth (AUSTIN)
          /-----Ebenezer AUSTIN
         |        |         /-----William BATCHELDER
         |         \-----Abigail BATCHELDER
         |                  \-----Jane COWPER
 /-----Benjamin AUSTIN
|        |         /-----Samuel Lt SPRAGUE
|         \-----Rebecca SPRAGUE
|                  \-----Rebecca CRAWFORD
Jonathan Loring AUSTIN
|         /-----Cornelius WALDO
 \-----Elizabeth WALDO
          \-----Faith SAVAGE



Descendants of Jonathan Loring AUSTIN
1. Jonathan Loring AUSTIN m. Hannah IVERS
m. Hannah IVERS father: James IVERS mother: Hannah TRECOTHICK