Person:Anthony Austin (4)

Captain Anthony Austin
b.Abt 1636
  • HCaptain Anthony AustinAbt 1636 - 1708
  • WEsther HugginsAbt 1643 - 1697/98
m. 19 Oct 1664
  1. Captain Richard Austin1665 - 1733
  2. Ensign Anthony Austin1668 - 1732/33
  3. Lieutenant John Austin1671 - 1737
  4. Dr. Nathaniel Austin1678 - 1760
  5. Elizabeth Austin1681 - 1682
  6. Elizabeth Austin1684 - 1752
  7. Esther Austin1686/87 - 1761
Facts and Events
Name[2][3][7] Captain Anthony Austin
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1636
Residence[1] 1664 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 19 Oct 1664 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Esther Huggins
Other[1][2][3] 19 May 1669 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Antho. Austin").
Residence[1] 1674 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Alt Death[6] 22 Aug 1703 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2][4][5] 22 Aug 1708 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[5] Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 7. Anthony2 Austin, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
    4-5.

    7. Anthony2 Austin, son of Richard1 of Charlestown, in Mar., 1663, testified in the case of Anthony Crosby vs. John Pickard, in the Essex County Court, that he was aged about 27 years, and said, 'being of Boston when Mr. Crosbie was ready to goe for England that Mr. Crosbie employed him to write some letters to send to his friends at Rowley. … He was admitted [to Rowley Church] 29 Mar., 1669. Freeman 19 May, 1669.

    29 Nov., 1674, 'Br. Austin acknowledged his fayling that he had gone soe farr in ingageing himself to a remove to a new plantation before he had propounded his desire to the church that he might have their advise and consent, the church saw noe ground to disuade him from his undertaking (seeing he had noe accomodations heer) but wished gods blesssing upon him and his' (Ch. R.). He moved to Suffield, Conn., about Dec., 1674, and died there 22 Aug., 1708."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Anthony Austin, in 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: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:80.

    "Austin, Anthony, Rowley, freem. 1669, had Richard, b. 1666; Anthony, 1668; John, 1672; rem. to Suffield, there had Nathaniel, 1678; Eliz. 1681, d. young; Eliz. again; 1684; Esther, 1686; and d. 1708, his w. hav. d. ten yrs. bef. Descend. are num. 1:80

    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 1:499] [Vol. 1] Page 80, l. 11, bef. 1666; ins. 22 Sept.
    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 1:499] [Vol. 1] Page 80, l. 12, bef. 1668; ins. 7 Dec.-also, bef 1672; ins. 22 Oct.-also, bef. 1678; ins 20 May
    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 1:499] [Vol. 1] Page 80, l. 13, bef. 1684; ins. 20 Apr.-also, bef. 1686; ins. 11 Jan.-also, bef. 1708, ins. 29 Aug."

  3. 3.0 3.1 Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:240.
  4. Suffield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    17.

    "Austin, … Anthony, Capt., d. Aug. 22, 1708 [1:3]"

  5. 5.0 5.1 Capt Anthony Austin, in Find A Grave.
  6. Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 49 125-1 Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, in Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
    16.

    "Austin, Captain Anthony, died Aug. 22, 1703, age 73 yrs."

  7. Some secondary sources identify this Anthony as the son of the Richard Austin who embarked from Southampton of the Bevis in 1638. No evidence appears to support this identification.