John Austin (1643 - 1690)

Born 1643 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Husband of Mercy (Atwater) Austin — married 5 Nov 1667 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Husband of Elizabeth (Barnes) Austin — married 21 Jan 1684 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 22 Feb 1690 at about age 47 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

John Austin

Born: ABT 1647

Immigration: BEF 1667

Note: John Austin, immigrant ancestor of this family, settled at New Haven, Connecticut, before 1667. Land Record: 1667 Note: “In 1667 William Fowler, of Milford, sold some of his land at the cove (Solitary cove, now called Morris Cove) and on the creek which still bears his name, to John Austin. The latter was in East Haven as early as 1673, and in 1679 obtained land at the Forge dam. He lived on the road west of the “green”.” “north side of the green, between John Potter and John Austin”

1st Marriage: 05 NOV 1667 to Mercy Atwater in New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut

Details: In a early Feb. 1668 New Haven town meeting, “The Committee formerly appointed for y new feating of perfons in y meeting houfe pfented what they had done, which was read to the towne & is as ffolloweth: “. The senior members set in the first nine rows ” y long feates”. Then came the middle, and last the Gallery. John Auftin sat in the third row of five in the Gallery. ” There being noe gallery for women, they was not now feated”

Census: 1669 Note: Appears in 1669 Census with David Atwater in New Haven

Birth of Son: 23 APR 1669 Name: John Austin

Note: ABT 1670 Details: John Austen listed as one of the original proprietors of Wallingford. However, since he was not a house owner in the town when it was laid out, the Wallingford Bi-centennial Comm. did not list John as a founder.

Birth of Son: 23 FEB 1671 Name: David Austin

Note: 25 NOV 1672 Details: “At a towne meeting held att Newhaven November 25 1672 – ” The towne was informed y it was time for choofeing of new conftables, y former confiables yeare being up; …. and John Auftin att y iron-workes, all for y yeare enfueing. “

Birth of Son: 03 SEP 1673 Name: Joshua Austin

Note: 27 Dec 1673 Details: The will of Mary Osborn ( previously widow Mary Jones) gave most of her est. to her two sons John and David, and to John Austin and his wife Mercy.

Birth of Daughter: 1675 Name: Mercy Austin

Land Rec: 1676 Details: In 1676 William Fowler confirmed by dead to John land he had previously bought of widow Jones in Stoney-river. John Austin appears on record in 1673, and six years after obtained a piece of land overflowed by the Forge pond. He built on the north side of the road, west of the Green.

Birth of Son: 14 OCT 1677 Name: John Austin

Birth of Daughter: 14 OCT 1677 Name: Hannah Austin

Birth of Daughter: 17 APR 1680 Name: Mercy Austin

Birth of Child: 05 APR 1683 Name:  ? Austin

Land Rec: 1683 Details: ” The village granted lands in 1683 to John Chidsey and Joseph Russell, both on the north side of the present green. In the same year an allotment of lands was made, after the New Haven method, viz.: 20 acres to each family: 4 acres to each child of the family: and 20 acres for each 100 (pounds) in the list. … The persons to whom lands were allotted were: John Austin, …”

2nd Marriage: 21 Jan 1683/84 to Elizabeth Barnes in New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut

Birth of Daughter: 23 JAN 1685 Name: Sarah Austin

Land Rec: 04 MAR 1686 Details: John Austin, John Potter and Deacon John Chedsey obtained liberty of New-Haven to buy one quarter of an acre of the Indians land at the Ferry place, to build housing for their horses, when they went to New-Haven. They obtained a deed for the land, which was signed by Narranshanott, George Sagamore, Maug, and Kehow. They paid six shillings for it, and afterwards called it Stable point.

Birth of Daughter: ABT 1687 Name: Elizabeth Austin^[1]

Name

John Austin

Birth

1643 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Death

22 FEB 1690 East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

The inventory of John Austin Late of New Haven deceased was taken on 10 November 1690 in New Haven, and in 28 June 1690 in Wallingford.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith
2. ↑ “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9JH-B : 12 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 294-295. New Haven Probate Record, 1668-1703, Vol. 2, Part 1, page 61-62.

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• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Vol. I, p. 54.

• AUSTIN, John (-1690) & 2/wf Elizabeth (BARNES) BROCKETT (1650-), w. Benjamin; 21 Jan 1684, [1684/5]; New Haven

• Barnes, Trescott. The Barnes Family Yearbook (Grafton Press, New York, 1907) Vol. 1, Page 16.
• Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 30.
• Hart, Frederick, C., Early Austins of Greenwich and Stamfrod, Connecticut, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 2014) Vol. 168, Page 85.
  • "The DNA results have already challenged some earlier speculation that the Greenwich/Stamford Austins were closely related to a New Haven, Connecticut, family headed by a John Austin who died in New Haven in 1690, husband of (1) Mercy Atwater and (2) Elizabeth (Barnes) Brockett. The DNA signatures tend to demonstrate that the New Haven clan was of a completely different Y-cs haplogroup from at least one of the Austin families in the Greenwich/Stamford area."