Austin 

 Austin / Austen / Attnoke Family 1; Family 2

Family 1:

William AUSTIN born 1516 Titchfield Hampshire ENG; died after 5/27/1567 Titchfield 

Spouse: Allis? born circa 1520 Titchfield, married before 1548

Children: Richard born 1554?


Richard AUSTEN born 1554? Titchfield Hampshire ENG; buried 15 February 1622/23 Titchfield; will proved 7/4/1623

Spouse: Annis?

Children: Annis/Agnes; Daniel; Peter; Richard came on Bevis 1638 w/wife & 2 children; John; Ellen (Emlen?) married Richard Tayler; Elizabeth


Annis/Agnes AUSTIN born 2/1/1596 Devon ENG; died 4/2/1678 Wells York ME; survived Edmund, executed will 12/12/1766; sailed on "Bevis" May 1638 with 6 youngest children, Edmund had sailed earlier

Spouse: Edmund LITTLEFIELD born 1592 Titchfield Hampshire ENG; baptized 6/27/1592; died 12/11/1661 Wells York ME, clothier, married 10/16/1614 Titchfield

Children: Anne born 1616 ; Edmund born 1618; Francis born 1619; Anthony born circa 1621 died 1662 Wells ME married Mary Page; John, Capt., born 1624 married Patience Wakefield; Elizabeth; Mary; Thomas; Anne (Hannah?); Francis

Descended from both Anthony and John, see Littlefield 1 & 2
Go to Ships for Bevis passengers.
A William Austin had house and garden 1632 value £1 10s 0d per www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/titch1632.htm.


Family 2

Matthew AUSTIN Sr. born 1620 ENG died 11/19/1684 Kittery ME, weaver, Sergeant 1659

Spouse: (1) ? CANNEY; (2). Mary Davis widow of Geo. Dodd married before 6/6/1686

Children: Child of Canney -- Matthew born circa 1658 -- child of Canney; Children of Mary Davis --  Mary married Jonathan Saywood & Lewis Beane/Bane, Sarah born before 1667 married Joseph Preble & Job Young, Isabella born after 1667 married Samuel Bragdon who married 2nd Lydia (Young) Haynes


Captain Matthew AUSTIN Jr. born circa 1658, died before 1/6/1718-9 York ME, innholder

Spouse: Mary LITTLEFIELD born 1659, died 1701, married before 1675

Children: Matthew killed by Indians 8/11/1704; Mary captured by Indians married Etienne Gibau of Montreal; Patience; Elizabeth; Ichabod; Joseph; Benjamin


Ichabod AUSTIN born circa 1688 York Co. ME; died 9/19/1718 York

Spouse: Susanna YOUNG married 1717; Susanna's 2nd husband was Magnus Redlon of York had 4 children with him

Children: Ichabod; Ebenezer born 2/13/1724; John born 3/31/1726; Mathew born 9/19/1728 (Ichabod Sr. may have had son Benoni by Sarah Moore);


Ichabod AUSTIN baptized 3/29/1717-8 Saco ME; died 10/5/1748; Icabod & Elizabeth admitted Biddeford church 11/21/1742

Spouse: Elizabeth BILLINGS; intended marriage Biddeford 9/5/1736

Children: Susanna married Joshua Maddox; Rebecca


Rebecca AUSTIN born 1738 Saco ME; died after 1790 Eastport ME

Spouse: (1) William RUMERY born 2/3/1737 Biddeford ME; died 11/21/1764 Biddeford ME; married 9/10/1758 York Co. ME (2) William Clark; family moved to Passamaquoddy area after 1770 [ME Marriages 1743-1891 - Rebeckah Austen married William Rumery 8/8/1758 York County could be when intentions were filed]

Children: Elizabeth baptized 7/12/1761 Biddeford, died 3/1822 Plantation 14 East Ridge ME married Nathan Preston Sr born 1753 Newmarket NH residing Trescott ME when married 7/4/1780; Elizabeth age 3 when father killed; age 8 when mother wed Wlm Clark; Dominicus

Gen Dictionary ME & NH pg 69: Matthew Austin, York, weaver, Serg 1659; selectman 1665, 1669-73, 1683-6; Jury 1662. Grand jury 1663, 1674, 1676, 1679, 1681, 1686. Lists 25, 33. Will 19 Nov 1684-1 Mar 1685-6. He m 1st a dau of Tho Canney; 2nd Mary (Davis), widow of George Dodd, dau of Nicholas Davis who m 3d after 1686 (William of Boston?) Wright, and was living in York in 1713. Ch by first wife, Matthew b c 1658; by 2d wife, Mary, m 1st bef 6 June 1686 Jonathan Saywood, 2d Lewis Beane; Sarah b bf 1667 m 1st Joseph Preble, 2d Job Young; Isabella b aft 1667 m Samuel Bragdon.

pg 69: Capt. Matthew Austin, innholder, many years juryman, foreman 1711, 1712, prominent in county affairs. Adm 6 Jan 1718-9 to James Grant. Wife Mary Littlefield dau of Capt. John. Ch Matthew "only son," killed by Indians 11 Aug 1704. List 96. Mary, taken by Indians bef 1695, m 3 Jan 1710 Etienne Gibau of Montreal, carpenter, d 4 Oct 1755. List 99. 9 ch Patience, m James Grant of York, gent. Ch b 1709-1723. Elizabeth m 25 Dec 1712 Ralph Farnham. 10 ch. Ichabod accused by Sarah Moore, dau of John and Martha (Walford) Moore (her son "Ichabod" b 12 Aug 1712, peh called himself Benoni, possibly that Ichabod drowned at Gloucester 17 Mar 1734-5); m in 1717 Susannah Young dau of Matthews and Eleanor (Haines). He d 19 Sep 1718 and his widow m Magnus Redlon. Her ch by both husbands were recorded together: Ichabod b 29 Mar 1717-8, four by Redlon. Joseph had the homestead, m 19 Apr 1725 Sarah Grant dau of James and Mary (Nason) Grant of Berwick, d 4 Feb 1799. List 279. 3 ch rec. Benjamin of Berwick, laborer, in 1746.

pg 69: Joseph Austin b c 1616, Matthew b c 1620, and Samuel, but little younger than Benj Bosworth b c 1615, all had to do with Dover. Matthew named a dau Isabel. Samuel was an early friend and [church?] bro of Capt Benj Bosworth, for the region of Dedham, whence Francis Austin came to Hampton. The relations of these men to each other, to the Austins of Charlestown, and to Annis (Austin) Littlefield have not been exam.

Pioneers MA pg 24: AUSTIN, AUSTEN, ASTEN; Francis, a pioneer at Dedham 1636; his lot passed to Francis Chickering before (7) 1640.   Richard, tailor, of Bishopstocke ENG ae. 40 with wife and 2 ch. came in the Bevis in May 1638.

Was Matthew Austin Sr. son of Francis Austin 1594-1641 & Isabel Bland 1596?

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