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ATCHITT, or ADJETT, JOHN and SAMUEL, sons of John. Samuel d. 1712, at Hartford. John d. 1712, at Block Island, and left an estate of £94, which his father, then living, inherited as next of kin. John left no children.
ATKINS has four coats of arms. ATKYNS has six. (See ADKINS.
ATKINSON. This name was early at Boston, about 1634, where he owned the pasture near Fort Hill, about seven acres. At- kinson street was called after his name. He was from Bury, Lan- caster County, in England. THEODORE, his grandson, settled at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and m. a daughter of Gov. Went- worth, where he became a man of note, under Gov. Shute, where he d. in 1719. His son, Theodore, of New Castle, became a man of more celebrity than his father : he d. 1779, aged 82 years. His only son, Theodore, was Secretary of the Province, m. a daughter of Wm. Wentworth, of Boston. He d. in 1769, while young. His widow, two weeks after his decease, m. Gov. Wentworth, of Ports- mouth, N. H. (See Farmer, Lancaster.)
* Milford, (or rather Wepowaug,) was one of the original towns in the New Haven Colony and settled in 1639.
" At a general meeting of Wepowage," (Milford,) concerning the ordering of civil affairs, March 9th, 1639, held on money matters.
At a meeting held Nov. 20, 1639, by the first freemen of Milford, Wm. Fowler, Edmond Tapp, Zachariah Whitman, John Astwood and Richard Miles, were chosen " Judges in all civil affairs, and to try all causes between man and man, as a court to punish any offence, and sin, against the commandments therein, till a body of Laws" should be established, " they to observe and apply themselves to the rule of the written word of God."
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ATKINSON, THOMAS, freeman, in Massachusetts, 1636. Had a daughter Hannah, b. at Concord, in 1643.
ATKINSON, MILES and THOMAS, were to be transported to Virginia, in July, 1635, and embarked in the Alice, Richard Orch- ard, master. They took the oath of allegiance and "supremicie."
ATCHINSON, NATHANIEL, was chosen deacon of the church in West Springfield, 1759, and d. in 1801, aged 92. Achieson, has two coats of arms in England, and Aitkinson, one, (Scotland.) At- kinson has thirteen coats of arms in England. ATCHISON, (Scot- land,) has one coat of arms, and ATCHESON, one.
ATKINSON, LUKE, a planter in the N. Haven Colony, in 1643, with a family of four persons. Few of the name are now in Conn.
*ATWATER, JOSHUA, a merchant at Suffield, d. in 1776. Thomas Lee, then late of Boston, with David Todd, of Suffield, gave the administration bond with Thaddeus Leavit. Children not found : probably a descendant of Joshua Atwater, an early settler at New Haven. This name is found on Milford record, later than at New Haven. Twenty-one persons by this name graduated at Yale Col- lege, before 1851.
The name of Atwater from the early settlement of New Haven, has been highly respectable in that Colony. Joshua Atwater was a Magistrate in the New Haven Colony, in 1658. This name has five coats of arms.
* Copy of the original agreement entered into by the first settlers of New Haven, of which Joshua Atwater was one of the signers, viz :
" Whereas there was a foundamintall agreemt made in a generall meeting of all the ffree Planters of this towne, on the 4th of the fowerth moneth called June, namely, that church members onely, shall be free burgesses, and they only shall chuse among themselves, magistrates. and officers, to have the power of transacting all publique, civill affayres of this plantation, of making and repealing lawes, dividing inheritances, deciding of differences that may arise, and doing all things and businesses, of like nature. Itt was therefore ordered by all the said ffree Planters, that all those that hereafter, should be received as planters into this plantation, should also submitt to the said foundamentall agreement, and testifie the same by subscribing their names vnder the names of the aforesad
Planters, as followeth-
Mr. Theoph. Eaton,
Tho. Kimberly,
Will. Potter,
Mr. John Davenport,
John Benham, John Mossee,
Mr. Sam. Eaton,
Mr. Wilkes,
John Charles,
Mr. Rob Newman,
Tho. Jeffreys, Richard Beach,
Mr. Math. Gilbert,
Rob' Seely,
Timothy fforde,
Mr. Nath. Turner,
John Reader,
Mr. Rich. Malbon,
John Budd, Rich. Hull, (or Hall,) John Cogswell,
Mr. Browninge,
Wm. Preston,
Mathew Hitchcock,
Mr. Linge,
John Brockett,
ffrancis Hall,
Mr. William Touttle,
Jer. Dixon,
Richard Osborn,
Mr. Cheevers,
Rob Hill,
James Clarke,
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ATWELL, (Atwill, Atwel.) This name was in Connecticut about 1700, east of Connecticut river ; the name is yet found in New London county, and at Roxbury, Conn., and other places.
ATWELL, (Devonshire Patent, 1614,) one coat of arms. Anoth- er ATWELL, (Devonshire,) Ar. three leopards' heads, az.
ATWELL or ATWILL, (Devonshire.) Ar. a pile gu. over all a bordure engr. or. Atwyll, one.
ATWELL, BENJAMIN, Maine, 1675. (See Farmer and Hub- bard.) Two of the name graduated at Brown University, R. I.
ATWOOD, CAPT. THOMAS, of Wethersfield, Conn., tradition says was for a time captain of a company under Oliver Cromwell. The name was in Massachusetts earlier than in Connecticut.
ATWOOD, HARMAN, member of the ar. co., 1644, freeman in Mass., 1645. THOMAS died there, April, 3, 1694. PHILIP, one of the first proprietors of Bradford, Mass. (Farmer.) JOHN ATWOOD, Assistant in Plymouth Colony, in 1638. He brought to New England a large estate ; died in 1644. (Farmer.)
Mr. Perry,
Andw Low,
Andrew Hull,
Mr. Crane,
Will. Thorpe,
Edwd Patterson,
Mr. ffran. Newman,
John Ponderson,
Will. Ives,
Mr. Thomas Yale,
John Johnson,
Geo. Smith,
Tho. ffugill,
Edwd Wigglesworth,
John Peacock,
William Andrewes,
John Clarke,
Mathew Moulthrop,
Richard Beckley,
Sam. Whitehead,
Andrew Messenger,
John Cooper,
John Potter,
Geo. Warde,
Jarvis Boykin,
Arthur Halbidge,
Laurence Warde.
John Chapman,
Edwd Banister,
The following are original signatures, (on the contract.)
Stephen Goodyear,
Richard Merriman,
Adam - Nicholls,
Thos Gregson,
Edward IT Chepperfield,
Thos 8 Beamont,
Thos Nash,
Stephen Metcalfe,
Joshua Atwater,
Wm Jearies,
Thos Powell,
Thos Osborne,
Jno. Evance,
James Russell,
John Wakeman,
Thos Munson,
Peter Browne, John, his ₮ mark,
Francis N Browne,
Jeremy Whitwell,
Abraham - Bell,
Robert Rigg,
Luke Atkinson,
John f Vincent,
Nath. Merriman,
Thos Morris,
Wm. Gibbard,
Roger Alling,
Wm Russill,
Ralph Dayghton, Wm. Pecke,
Marke Peerce,
Thos Mitchell,-K. Mitchell,
Anthony Thompson,
Theophilus Higginson,
John Walker, (mark,)
Christopher Todd,
David Atwater,
Benjn Hawley,
John Gibbs,
Mathew Camfield.
Will his W mark Gibbins, **
John Nash,
Henry - Peck,
Benjamin Vincent,
Wm. his w mark Davis,
John Livermore,
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CAPT. THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Abigail, and had issue born at Wethersfield, Conn., viz : Abigall, b. Sept. 30, 1668 ; Andrew, b. Sept. 1, 1671 ; Jonathan, b. June 8, 1675 ; Josiah, b. Oct. 4, 1678. Capt. Thomas was not one of the first settlers of Wethersfield ; prob- ably went there about 1667. Capt. Thomas was a physician of some note ; he died in 1682. Estate, £148, 16s. 9d.
ATWOOD, JOSIAH, son of Capt. Thomas, m. Bathsheba, daugh- ter of Bazalael Lattimer, then deceased, Feb. 16, 1709-10, by Hon. John Chester, Assistant ; children, Abigaile, b. Dec. 6, 1710 ; Oli- ver, b. March 1, 1715-16 ; Jedediah, born June 28, 1719 ; moved to the State of New York ; Josiah, Jr., and Hezekiah, twins, b. April 13, 1727 ; Hezekiah moved to Great Barrington, Mass. ; Asher, b. Dec. 27, 1729. Asher lived and died at Newington.
ATWOOD, OLIVER, son of Josiah, of Wethersfield, m. Dorothy Curtiss, Nov. 12, 1746, by Rev. James Lockwood, and had issue, Abigail, b. August 28, 1747 ; Elijah, b. August 28, 1751; Levi, b. May 10, 1752 ; John, b. April 16, 1755. John imprisoned in the Sugar House, N. Y., and died soon after.
ATWOOD, JEDEDIAH, son of Josiah, m. Susanna Deming, Nov. 29, 1747, by David Goodrich, Esq., Justice of Peace: issue Timothy, b. Sept. 9, 1749. His wife, Susanna, died, and he married Sarah Lomis, for his second wife, Nov. 22, 1759, by Silas Lomis, Justice of Peace.
ATWOOD, JOSIAH, JR., m. Caroline Mygatt, April 13, 1751, by Rev. E. Whitman ; had issue, Huldah, b. Jan. 28, 1752, d. Oct. 22, 1752 ; second Huldah, b. March 13, 1754 ; sons, Salmon, and Hozea Atwood, and Elijah, of Berlin.
ATWOOD, ASHER, youngest son of Josiah, Sen., was m. to Mary Mitchelson, in April, 1757, by Rev. Joshua Belding ; issue, Elizabeth, b. Feb. 6, 1759, d. single; Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1762, d. single ; Ezekiel, b. August 19, A. D. 1764.
ATWOOD, HEZEKIAH, son of Josiah, Sen., m. Abigail Hun, of. Wethersfield, and had issue, Hezekiah, Jr., b. Sept. 29, 1764 ; Phineas, b. Sept. 11, 1766, moved to Massachusetts.
ATWOOD, EZEKIEL, son of Ashur, m. Hannah Francis, Jan. 21, 1793, (by Ashbel Gillett,) issue : Josiah, b. April 26, 1794 ; Sarah, b. March 11, 1796 ; Francis, b. Aug. 27, 1803.
ATWOOD, JONATHAN, son of Dr. Thomas Atwood, Sen., emigrated to Woodbury, Conn., where he d. Feb. 11, 1733. His el- dest son d. there, aged about 22 years. His son Elijah m. An- ner Joslin, of East Haven ; she d. 1814 ; had children : Jesse, Molly,
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Noble, Sally, Elijah and Anna ; d. 1804. Jesse, son of Elijah and Anner, m. Rachel Miner : he d. at Jefferson, Delaware County, N. Y. Rachel, his widow, resides at Lockport, N. Y. His children, were Asa, Lydia, William, Betsey, Oliver and Jarad. Lydia m. Wells Atwood, and moved to the West.
ATWOOD, WILLIAM, b. 1783, m. Miss Martin, of Woodbury, and now resides in Watertown, and has an only child, Jason.
BETSEY m. Beecher Toles, and removed to the state of New York.
ALLY d. a maiden.
ANNA m. Jacob Jones, in the state of New York. Jared, her brother, no information of him.
ASA, son of Elijah, m. and had children : Ichabod, Anna, Asa, (shot in New York, the day New York was given up to the Brit- ish.) ICHABOD m. and removed to Ellsworth, Conn., and from thence to Ohio. ASENATH m. Mr. Chapman. MOLLY m. Eli- jah Weller, and had Annis, Huldah, Benjamin and Orry. BEN- JAMIN enlisted into the U. S. Army. ORRY m. Cady. NO- BLE ATWOOD, b. Oct. 26, 1758, m. Margaret Judd, daughter of Stephen, and had issue : Curtiss, Stephen, Warner, Nancy, Elijah. Noble d. Sept. 13, 1838, aged 80. His wife d. March 31, 1833, aged 74. CURTISS, son of Noble, graduated at Yale College, in 1806. He located (and m. in South Carolina,) as a Physician, where he died and left children.
ATWOOD, STEPHEN, b. April 14, 1785. His children were, Chauncey, Oliver, George, Maria, Marsha, Henry N., Eben, Mar- garet.
CHAUNCEY, b. Jan. 13, 1816, m. Martha, and had Olive, b. June 25, 1817, &c.
Six persons of this name had graduated at Yale College, before 1851, and three at Harvard College.
This name is now at Hartford, Wethersfield, Woodbury, Water- town, and other towns in Connecticut ; in New York, Philadelphia, and in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
ATWOOD, ELIJAH, of Haddam, was not of the family of Dr. Thomas, of Hartford and Wethersfield. This Elijah was from the Cape.
ATWOOD, MRS. ANN, relict of Mr. John, (of Plymouth, Mass.,) " sometime wife of Mr. John Atwood, Gent." Her will dated April 27, 1650 : she notices her brother and sister, Robert and Mary Lee, her loving nephew, Wm. Crow, and made the latter Executor of her
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will. Inventory taken June 1, 1654. (See her will, His. Gen. Reg. p. 260, No. 18.)
WILLIAM, of Charlestown, freeman 1652. (Farmer.) Philip made free at Malden, in 1689-90.
ATWOOD, ALEXANDER, of New Hampshire, free 1684.
ASTWOOD, JOHN, was one of the first, and an important settler at Milford. He d. in 1654, and the name has become extinct in Milford, and probably in the state. JAMES ASTWOOD, free in Massachusetts, 1639. WILLIAM, 1652.
Coats of arms of the Atwood family : ATWOOD, (Bromfield, Essex, ) one. ATWOOD, (Gloucestershire,) one. ATWOOD, (Broughton, Co. Salop,) one. ATWOOD has sixteen coats of arms.
ATWOOD, STEPHEN, SEN. and JR., were inhabitants of East- ham, Mass., before 1690. His son Medad, b. Jan., 1658-9. Me- dad m. Esther, and had daughter Mercy, b. June 26, 1686 ; also Abi- gail, 1689; David, 1691; Samuel, 1695; Esther, 1699 ; Phebe, 1702, and Nathan, b. June 27, 1705. There were also other fami- lies of the name in Eastham, before 1700. (Hist. Gen. Reg.)
ATWOOD, PHILLIP, embarked in the Planter, for New Eng- land, in 1635. PHILLIP ATWOOD, 13th Nov., embarked in the Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne, Master, for New England.
ATWOOD, JOHN, made free 1635-6. ALEXANDER, N. Hamp- ton, made free, 1684. PHILLIP ATWOOD of Malden, free 1689- 90, in Massachusetts. Mr. JOHN, of Plymouth, made his will 20th Oct. 1643 : he says, " For my Brethren, God has blessed them that they may be as well to give to me as I to them, and for their children, they may be many, I do here give and bequeath them, greate and smale, young and old, male and female, which were borne before the date of these presents, twelve pence apiece, if demanded." " And for his little kinsman, Wm. Crowe, and his brother and sister Lee, and their two children, Ann and Mary, he left it discretionary with his wife Anne, to deal with them as she pleased, and appointed An- ne Atwood, his loving wife, Executrix ; and gave her the residue of his estate." (N. E. His. and Gen. Reg. No. 14, p. 173. Note next page, 174.) " This is Mr. John Atwood, the assistant, gener- ally styled gentleman, formerly of London." Left no issue. He is " confounded by genealogists, with John Wood, alias Atwood, who was also of Plymouth." James Astwood had twenty-eight acres at Roxbury, (Rocksbury,) and nine persons in his family, (probably about 1639.) The families of this name at Woodbury and Water-
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town, Conn., are all descendants of Doctor Thomas Atwood, for- merly of Wethersfield, Conn.
AUSTIN, JOHN, was born in Catharine Street, in the Strand, in London, England, and was there educated a merchant, by his father. He removed to Boston, Mass., from London, where he continued for a time, and then removed to Hartford, Conn., where he m. widow Mary Hooker, (maiden name Stanley,) Dec. 8, 1713, the mother of Capt. Nathaniel Hooker. They had a son John b. Oct. 15, 1714, who d. soon after. They also had a daughter Mary, who m. John Ellery, Esq., then of Boston, but he afterwards removed to Hartford.
Mr. Austin made his will 1741-2, and d. at Hartford, in 1743. John Ellery, and Mary, his wife, Executors. By his will, he gave his wife Mary, £300 in money, one Cow, the use of his servant for her life, and the use of half his lands, and " housing," in Hartford, for life. To his daughter Mary Ellery, he gave the other half for her life. He gave his grandson, Wm. Ellery, after the decease of his widow, all his lands in Litchfield and New Hartford, forever. He gave to his grandson, John Ellery, Jr., after the decease of his wid- ow and daughter, the remainder of his estate in Hartford, forever. A daughter of Wm. Ellery, m. Major Henry Seymour, of Hartford. (late deceased.) It was her son, Col. Thomas H. Seymour, to whom the Legislature presented a valuable sword for his brilliant services in the late Mexican War. It was he who stript the Mexican stand- ard from the walls of Chepultepec. His aged mother lived to witness the bravery of her son, and participated with him the honors conferred upon him, by his native state. Mary, wife of John Aus- tin, d. Aug. 23, 1753, aged 76.
AUSTIN, CAPT. ANTHONY, had fifty acres of land granted to him, in Feather street, in Suffield, July, 1674, by the town Commit- tee. He had forty acres of land allotted to each of his sons, Rich- ard and Anthony Austin, Jr., in 1679. Not akin to John above.
AUSTIN, CAPT. ANTHONY, was from Rowley, Mass., to Suf- field. The better evidence is that he had three children before he re- moved, and perhaps more, by his wife, Ester, viz : Richard, b. Sept. 22, 1666 ; Anthony, b. Dec. 7, 1668 ; John, b. Oct. 22, 1672. He also had b. at Suffield, Nathaniel, b. May 20, 1678 ; Elizabeth, b. July 8, 1681 ; 2d Elizabeth, b. April 20, 1684, and Esther, b. Jan. 11, 1686. His wife Esther d. March 7, 1697. Capt. Austin d. Aug. 22, 1708. He had held the offices of Selectman, and Town Clerk, in 1681, '2 '3 '6 '7 '9, and Commissioner, in 1688. He was
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an influential man in Suffield, in Church and State. Made free in Massachusetts, 1669. His first daughter Elizabeth, d. Oct. 2, 1682.
AUSTIN, CAPT. RICHARD, son of Capt. Anthony, m. Dorothy Adams, of Suffield, Jan. 12, 1698-9 : Richard, b. Oct. 9, 1699; Doro- thy, b. July 26, 1701 ; Jacob, b. June 1, 1704; Ebenezer b. April 22, 1706 ; Anna, b. Jan. 16, 1708-9; Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1710-11 ; Rebecka, b. April 16, 1713 ; Moses, b. April 25, 1716 ; Elias, b. April 14, 1718. Capt. Richard d. Oct. 29, 1733, and his widow Dorothy d. June 26, 1772.
AUSTIN, JOHN, of Suffield, son of Capt. Anthony, m. Agnis King, Oct. 5, 1699 : and had Agnis, b. Jan. 21, 1701 ; John, b. Aug. 9, 1702, d. 1702 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 3, 1703-4 ; 2d John b. May 17, 1706; Mary, b. June 27, 1708; James, b. Dec. 29, 1710 ; William and Margaret, twins, b. March 5, 1712-13 ; Bethia, b. June 15, 1718. Agnis, the mother, d. Jan. 7, 1732-3, and John m. for his second wife, widow Mary Burbank, July 3, 1734, and he d. May 18, 1737. He was Town Clerk in Suffield, 1714, also an Assessor and Selectman.
AUSTIN, NATHANIEL, of Suffield, son of Capt. Anthony, m. Abigail Hovey, Jan., 1702, and had Nathaniel, b. May 23, 1703. Thomas, b. Sept. 21, 1705 ; Rachel b. Feb. 13, 1707-8; Miriam, b. Feb. 21, 1709-10; Aaron, b. Feb. 7, 1711-12, and d. Nov. 10; - Abigail, b. June 13, 1714 ; 2d Aaron, b. Feb. 25, 1715-16 ; Dan- iel, b. April 28, 1720; Samuel, b. July 24, 1722 ; Hannah, b. June 5, 1725. Samuel d. Dec. 30, 1744. The father d. Dec. 12, 1760, and the mother d. Jan. 9, 1764.
AUSTIN, AARON, son of Nathaniel, of Suffield, m. widow Eliza- beth Kent, Nov. 28, 1744, and had Aaron, b. Aug. 27, 1745 ; Sam- uel, b. Oct. 28, 1747 ; Serinus, a son, b. June 11, 1750 ; Nathan- iel, b. Nov. 28, 1752 ; Eusebeous, a son, b. April 28, 1758.
AUSTIN, THOMAS, son of Nathaniel, m. Hannah Hale, Dec. 19, 1737, and had Thomas, b. Aug. 29, 1738.
AUSTIN, WILLIAM, son of John, m. Ame Hall, July 20, 1738, and had Ame, b. June 23, 1739 ; Mabel, b. June 3, 1742 ; Bethiah, b. March 17, 1744-5 ; William, b. May 10, 1747; Agnis, b. Dec. 19, 1749 ; James, b. March 22, 1752; Candace, b. July 9, 1754 ; John, b. March 4, 1757 : Tahpenes, b. Dec. 3, 1759, and died.
AUSTIN, JACOB, son of Capt. Richard, m. Hannah Pomeroy, Dec. 20, 1739, and had Jacob, b. April 12, 1740 ; Elias, b. Nov. 22, 1741 ; Elijah, b. Feb. 28, 1744; Hannah and Phineas, twins, b. March 1, 1747; Abiah, b. Oct. 10, 1749.
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AUSTIN, RICHARD, JR., of Suffield, son of Richard, m. Eliza- beth Jesse, May 5, 1726, and had Elizabeth, b. March 15, 1726-7, d. -; Jesse, b. Dec. 28, 1728 ; Seth, b. Dec. 14, 1731; 2d Elizabeth, b. 1734, d. 1735 ; Mary, b. Dec. 16, 1736 ; Richard, b. Oct. 20, 1739 ; Susannah, b. Sept. 9, 1742; David, b. Nov. 26, 1746. Richard d. Jan. 3, 1761.
AUSTIN, JOSEPH, son of Capt. Richard, m. Abigail Allen, of Suffield, May 8, 1740, and had Caroline, b. April 25, 1742; Abi- gail, b. Nov. 15, 1747; Ruth, b. Nov. 15, 1749 ; Joseph, b. March 16, 1750-1, d. 1753 ; 2d Joseph, b. Nov. 3, 1753 ; Benjamin, b. June 19, 1756 ; Tryphene, b. March 25, 1759 ; Luraina, b. June 15, 1761; Olive, b. March 12, 1764 ; Lucy, b. March 15, 1747.
AUSTIN, ANTHONY, JR., of Suffield, m. Elizabeth King, July 22, 1725, and had Zephenias, b. April 16, 1727 ; Ann, b. Dec. 30, 1728 ; Elizabeth, b. at the Lower Township of " Housatonick," (Shef- field,) Jan. 23, 1730-1; Anthony, b. at Sheffield, Oct. 2, 1733. Anthony settled at Sheffield, and has descendants there now.
AUSTIN, JOHN, of Suffield, son of John, m. Mary Hovey of Mansfield, Jan. 14, 1729-30, and had Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1730-1; John, b. Oct. 22, 1732.
AUSTIN, DEA. URIAH, m. Abigail Case, of Suffield, March 3, 1742-3, and had Abigail, b. April 29, 1745; Benajah, b. Sept. 3, 1747 ; Rhoda, b. July 26, 1751 ; Uriah, b. Oct. 23, 1757. Dea. Austin d. Dec. 28, 1799.
AUSTIN, NATHANIEL, of Sheffield, m. Agnes Adams, of Suf- field, May 16, 1732.
AUSTIN, HON. AARON, of New Hartford, was b. at Suffield, in 1745, son of Aaron, and grandson of Nathaniel Austin, of Suf- field ; but his father, soon after Aaron's birth, removed his family to Torringford, Ct., where his son Aaron remained, and was m. at the age of 22 years, to Miss Kellogg. About the time of his marriage, he removed to New Hartford. In the struggle of the Revolution, he happened at Boston when the first alarm was given. He was in two campaigns at the North, as a subaltern officer. He was at the defeat of Burgoyne,-also at the burning of Danbury. He was a brave and valiant soldier and officer. In private life, he was a most worthy, pious and useful citizen. For about 25 years, he was an As- sistant, or one of the Governor's Council of Connecticut. Many years, he was either Chief Judge or Associate Judge of the County Court at Litchfield. In 1803, he was appointed a Fellow of the Corporation of
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Yale College, which he held many years, (15,) as he did the high of- fice of Assistant. In 1805, received an honorary degree at Yale Col- lege. Even in his old age, when his age had become a disqualification for some of the higher offices, he was elected by his town, a Represent- ative to the General Assembly. He was a Deacon of the church in New Hartford, about 30 years. He was a Trustee of the Mission- ary Society of Connecticut, for many years. He was a gentleman of the old school, plain in his attire, of great good common sense, and as strict as were the Puritans, in all his family devotions, and other religious services. He died in 1829. His children were, Montgomery, who m. a sister of Dr. Griffin, of Williamstown, Mass. After his death, she m. Rev. Mr. Wilder for her second hus- band. Ralsaman C., graduated at Yale College in 1801, and read law at Litchfield, settled at Peekskill, N. Y., and d. at Washington, D. C., Sept. 19, 1840 ; Esther ; Sarah, never m. She removed to Ohio ; Clarinda, and one or two others, d. in early life. His daugh- ter Esther m. Hon. Uriel Holmes, of Litchfield, who became a well- read lawyer, frequently a member of the Legislature, and a member of Congress. Mr. Holmes had a daughter, who d. aged 3 years ; Uriel, Jun., d. aged 22 years. He graduated at Yale College, 1816. Dr. Henry Holmes, who now resides at Hartford, pursuing his pro- fession, is the only survivor of the Hon. Uriel Holmes, who d. at Litchfield, in May, 1827, aged 62 years. His wife d. in 1802.
The Austins, of Sheffield, Mass., are of the family of Anthony, Sen., of Suffield, as was SAMUEL, of Norfolk, who was a son of SAMUEL, of Colebrook. ISAAC, of Colebrook, was also of the same family. He had children : Samuel, Levi, Dan, Caleb, Enos, Joseph, Benjamin, Ann and Eunice, some of whom are now living. JACOB, of Suffield, d. ; property distributed to his children in 1777, viz., to Jacob, Hannah, wife of Dan Phelps, Experience, Thankfull, Elijah, Elias and Phineas Austin. CAPT. RICHARD, of Suffield, d. in 1764, and left children : Richard, Joseph, Jacob, Ebenezer, Moses, Elias, Hannah Gates, Rebeccah Waters and Dorothy Aus- tin ; widow Elizabeth. REUBEN, of New Hartford, of the same family, d. in 1768, and left children : Robert, Phebe, Prudence, Hannah, Esther and Mary Austin. NATHANIEL, the son of Aa- ron Austin, Sen., of Suffield, resided several years at Torringford and New Hartford, and then removed with his family to Ohio. An- thony was for many years of the first settlement of Suffield, Town Clerk and Selectman, &c., and during his life was a leading man in
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the town, as several of his descendants have since been. THOMAS AUSTIN was seated in the meeting-house at Norwalk, Dec. 29, 1710, (not known to be of this family.) JONATHAN, of Taun- ton, Mass., purchased land of Joseph Cary, in Windham, April 2, 1716. Elizabeth, widow of Anthony, of Suffield, d. Oct. 2, 1682. There was early a family by the name of Austin, at Durham, Conn. MOSES AUSTIN, of Durham, and Moses Bates, left the town as adventurers, in 1798, and went to the lead mines in Virginia, then down the Ohio river, to St. Genevieve, to New Spain. Bates pur- chased of the Spanish Government 1000 acres of new lands, for $10. Austin purchased in the lead region, about 60 miles south of St. Louis, a league square of land. He laid out the city of Potosi, now the capital of Washington county. In 1819, Mr. Austin's affairs turned out unfortunate at Potosi, and he became poor. He then went to Texas, and obtained a large tract of land of the Mexican Government, and returned to Missouri after his family, and was taken sick and d. in May, 1822. His son, Stephen F. Austin, took posses- sion of his father's lands in Texas, and took a colony of men to the river Brazos, and laid out the town of Austin, which afterwards be- came the seat of government of Texas. He was encouraged by Iturbide, in 1822, in his colonization. But young Austin's ambition prompted him, in 1832, to petition the Congress of Mexico, to be- come a separate government, and not waiting for the action of the Mexican Congress, wrote to his constituents to form a government of their own ; for which he was imprisoned in Mexico, and did not reach home again until about 2 years. When he returned, he was ap- pointed commander-in-chief of the army, and the head of his govern- ment. He d. in 1835. His sister, Emily M., the wife of James F. Perry, resides near Brazoria, the heir of her brother's large amount of lands. It is unquestionably, in a great measure, owing to the energy, enterprise and talent of Moses Austin, and his son, Major Gen. Stephen F., that Texas was separated from Mexico, and has since become one of the United States .* I have no record evidence that the Austin family, at New Haven, were of the family at Suffield or Hartford. Thirteen persons of this name have graduated at Yale College, and fifteen at Harvard College. JOHN AUSTIN, of Wal- lingford, who m. Prudence Roys, in 1703, had children : John, Sam- uel, Joshua, Robert, Thankful, Noah and Prudence, appears to have been of a different family from John, of Hartford, or Anthony
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