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b.Abt 1598
 
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Name[1][2][3] Richard Austin
Gender Male
Birth[2][3] Abt 1598
Marriage to Unknown
Reference Number[5] Q7323828 (Wikidata)
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Richard Austin (1598–1645) was an early puritan colonist who landed in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts on 16 May 1638 on board a ship called the Bevis. He was the immigrant paternal English ancestor and great-great-great-grandfather of Stephen F. Austin, empresario, considered the "Father of Texas" and founder of Texas.

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  1. ↑ 12, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    Richard Austin.

    "Austin, Richard: [Origin] Bishopstoke, Hampshire; [Emigration] 1638 on Bevis; passenger list only [Drake's Founders 60]. (Claims that he settled at Charlestown lack supporting evidence [Wyman 28].)"

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Richard Austin 2., in Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879)
    28.

    "Richard (Austin) 2. [A passenger of this name embarked in the 'Bevis' from Southampton with wife and two children (not named) in 1638. His age, 40. Had been a tailor at Bishopstoke, co. Hants. No evidence certainly connects the inhabitant here with that early immigrant.]"

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Richard 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)
    1:81.

    "Richard (Austin), Charlestown, came in the Bevis, from Southampton, 1638, with w. and two ch. He was then aged 40, and had been a tailor at Bishopstoke in Co. Hants."

  4.   Richard Austin (colonist), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  5. ↑ Wikidata.
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