Person:Austin Piety (1)

"Austin Piety, an English officer, was stationed at 'Fort Pitt,' at the headwaters of the Ohio river, now 'Pittsburg,' Pennsylvania. He was united in marriage to Sarah Polk about the year 1769. He, with his command, was ordered to Kaskaskia, on the Mississippi River in 1770 by the British authorities. He descended the Ohio river with his wife and troops under his command, as far as the Falls of the Ohio river, and there made a short stay in order to lay in a supply of buffalo and other meat; from thence down the river to its mouth (now Cairo, Illinois), and from thence up to their destination, 'the American Bottom.' on the east side of the Mississippi, opposite St. Louis. During their stay the subject of this sketch, to-wit Thomas Piety, Sr., was born in 1770. Austin Piety returned to Fort Pitt with his command, and during the Revolutionary War returned to England, and from thence never returned, leaving his wife, Sarah Piety, and four children in America.

Indiana magazine of history, Volume 10 By Indiana University, Bloomington. Dept. of History, Indiana University. Dept. of History, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Library, pp 90-94

Additional info provides that when he returned to England he married Mary Judd 1778 (or perhaps 1788 from a newly found source 2-15) . He became a minster in Kent Co. England.