Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Austin was born on 17 June 1706, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Austin III, was 28 and his mother, Prudence Royce, was 25. He married Anne Hough on 27 October 1737, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 11 November 1772, in his hometown, at the age of 66, and was buried in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- Samuell Austin, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Samuel Austin, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Samuel in entry for Enos Austin, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1732
In 1732 the Colony of Connecticut granted to Windsor, Connecticut several townships including Torrington. Ebenezer Lyman Jr. of Durham purchased land from one of the Windsor proprietors and in 1735 became Torrington's first settler. The second area to be settled was the eastern hill known as Torringford. In October 1740, Torrington was given permission to incorporate as a town and organize its own town government and ecclesiastical society. Significant industrial growth began to occur here in 1813 when Frederick Wolcott erected a woolen mill. The small industrial village that grew up around the mill was called Wolcottville for many decades and is now the central business district of Torrington.
1735
Torrington, in Litchfield County, is located in northwest Connecticut on the Naugatuck River. Originally called Mast Swamp for the pines harvested for use as ship masts, Torrington was settled in 1735, incorporated in 1740, and chartered as a city in 1923. In the years before the Civil War, Torringford, a section of Torrington, was a transportation center for the Underground Railroad.
Name Meaning
English, French, and German: from the personal name Austin, from Latin Augustinus, a derivative of Augustus (see Augustin ). This was an extremely common personal name in every part of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, owing its popularity chiefly to Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), whose influence on Christianity is generally considered to be second only to that of Saint Paul. Various religious orders came to be formed following rules named in his honor, including the ‘Austin canons’, established in the 11th century, and the ‘Austin friars’, a mendicant order dating from the 13th century. The popularity of the personal name in England was further increased by the fact that it was borne by Saint Augustine of Canterbury (died c. 605), an Italian Benedictine monk known as ‘the Apostle of the English’, who brought Christianity to southern England in 597 and founded the see of Canterbury.
English: variant of Aspden , with which this surname became confused.
History: This was the name of a merchant family that became established in eastern MA in the 17th century, notably in Charlestown. Richard Austin came from England and landed at Boston in 1638, and his son Anthony was clerk of Suffield, CT, in 1674. The surname is very common in England as well as America; this Richard Austin was only one of a number of bearers who brought it to North America. — In 1821 Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), born in Austinville VA, founded the first Anglo colony in TX.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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