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  • Name: Seth AUSTIN
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 14 Dec 1731 in Suffield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Now Hartford Co, Connecticut) b
  • Death: 14 Apr 1806 in Suffield, Connecticut d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Richard AUSTIN Birth: 9 Oct 1699 in Suffield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Now Hartford Co, Connecticut) Death: 3 Jan 1761 in Suffield, Connecticut
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth JESSA Birth: 8 May 1704 in Boston, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Delight AUSTIN Birth: 8 Dec 1755 in Suffield, Connecticut Death: 21 Sep 1758 in Suffield, Connecticut
  2. Horace AUSTIN Birth: 14 Aug 1757 in Suffield, Connecticut Death: 8 Jun 1798 in Suffield, Connecticut
  3. Roderick R AUSTIN Birth: 27 Dec 1759 in Suffield, Connecticut Death: 18 Dec 1841 in Otego, Otsego Co, New York
  4. Calvin AUSTIN Birth: 27 Jan 1762 in Suffield, Connecticut
  5. Mary AUSTIN Birth: 1 Jun 1764 in Suffield, Connecticut
  6. Delight AUSTIN Birth: 6 Feb 1767 in Suffield, Connecticut
  7. Seth AUSTIN Birth: 22 Jun 1769 in Suffield, Connecticut
  8. Jonathan Seymour AUSTIN Birth: 28 Jul 1771 in Suffield, Connecticut Death: 18 Jul 1802
  9. Clarissa AUSTIN Birth: 9 May 1773 in Suffield, Connecticut Death: 17 Jul 1775 in Suffield, Connecticut
  10. Hester AUSTIN Birth: 9 May 1773 in Suffield, Connecticut Death: 17 Jul 1775 in Suffield, Connecticut
  11. James AUSTIN Birth: 6 Feb 1776 in Suffield, Connecticut
  12. Thaddeus Richard AUSTIN Birth: 25 Sep 1778 in Suffield, Connecticut
  13. Hester Gildall AUSTIN Birth: 26 Nov 1780 in Suffield, Connecticut
  14. Susanna AUSTIN Birth: 25 Apr 1784 in Suffield, Connecticut
  15. Mehitable AUSTIN Birth: Abt 1785 in Suffield, Connecticut

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. Moore, Edith Austin, The Descendants of Richard Austin of Charlestown Massachusetts 1638, unpublished manuscript, LDS Film#0873972#2.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]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Hinman PuritanSettlers p83, Moore AUSTIN p24],
place:
[Ref: Hinman PuritanSettlers p83, Moore AUSTIN p24],
parents:
[Ref: Hinman PuritanSettlers p83, Moore AUSTIN p24]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p48],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p48]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary SEYMOUR
date:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p48],
place:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p48],
child:
[Ref: Moore AUSTIN p48]
Research Notes:
Captain in the Militia. Called out on Alarm at Lexington or Bunker Hill; fought in the battles of Long Island and White Plains. [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

residence during Revolution was Salisbury, CT [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Jul 14 1785: signed document as one of the Prudential Committee on dividing land in town [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Jul 10 1787 bid off 500 acres for six pounds [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Dec 2 1788 signed as one of the committee [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Sep 4 1788 Moderator of the town meeting [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Nov 9 1791 selectman [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Nov 9 1793 chosen as moderator [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Apr 8 1794 chosen as moderator [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p49]

Will dated Apr 3 1806, names wife Mary, sons Seth, James and Thaddeus R Austin, sons of Jonathan S viz Horace and John S;his dau. Mehitable, his dau. Susanna Austin, his son Roderick, his dau. Delight Fairman, his dau Mary Ewing. Mehitable and Susanna are called "unmarried." Division of the estate was made May 24 1809 to Mrs Hetty G Fairman and Mrs Susan Lewis and others as above [Ref: Moore AUSTIN p48]



Pedigree of Seth AUSTIN
                            /-----Richard AUSTIN
                   /-----Anthony AUSTIN
                  |         \-----Elizabeth (AUSTIN)
          /-----Richard AUSTIN
         |        |         /-----John HUGGINS
         |         \-----Esther HUGGINS
         |                 |         /-----Henry GREEN
         |                  \-----Bridget GREEN
         |                           \-----Joan GROVES
 /-----Richard AUSTIN
|        |                  /-----Robert ADAMS
|        |         /-----Jacob ADAMS
|         \-----Dorothy ADAMS
|                  \-----Anne ALDEN
Seth AUSTIN
|         /-----David JESSA
 \-----Elizabeth JESSA
          \-----Mary WILSON



Descendants of Seth AUSTIN
1. Seth AUSTIN m. Mary SEYMOUR
m. Mary SEYMOUR father: Jonathan SEYMOUR mother: Mary BULL