AUSTIN, JOHN AND ELIZABETH - VIRGINIA

John Austin declared that he entered in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination, at which period, "I was a private in Captain Porterfield's Company until the rendevous at Middlebrook in the Jerseys.  I was transferred to Captain Gabriel Long's Company who was arranged to Colonel Daniel Morgan's Regiment.  I was sometimes under the command of Colonel Slaughter, Lieutenant Colonel Butler and Major Morris, who was killed at White Plains.  Benjamin Ashby was part of the time our paymaster.  I was acquainted with Captain John Marshall who is now Chief Justice of the United States and sent my discharge to him in Richmond, Virginia to effect a settlement for me and it was lost by M. Picket.  I also declare that after my discharge, I received a ticket for the reward of eighty dollars and I further declare that on the 15th of Mar 1826, I was not on the pension list of the United States.

Avington Phelps came before the Justice of the Peace in Oldham County in the state of Kentucky and made certification that John Austin is reputed to be a man of his word, and to have been a soldier of the Revolution.  This declaration was made 19 Sep 1828 in Oldham County court before Smith Phelps, a Justice of the Peace.

John Allen said that he was a soldier of the Revolution, a private in the Morgan's Regiment, and became acquainted with John Austin, and that he and Austin were both at the Battle of Burgain and served together at the Battle of Burgin and served together until his term expired, made before B. Gaines, Justice of the Peace of Woodford County, Kentucky, where the statement was made.

On 18 Nov 1846, Henry Browning, a resident of Henry County, Kentucky appeared before the said court of Henry County and made oath that sometime in the year 1784 John Austin and Elizabeth Lindsey, Brown's half sister, left the home of Henry Brown's mother for the purpose of getting married, and that they returned the same evening as man and wife, and that they remained so until October 1845, the date of John Austin's death. 

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This declaration was made before Thomas B. Posey, a Justice of the Peace of Henry County, Kentucky on the date aforesaid. 

Elizabeth Austin made the declaration in Henry County on 20 Nov 1846 that she was married to John Austin 02 Nov 1784, and that her maiden name was Lindsey, and that she lived with until October 1845, the day of his death.  Statement certified by G. J. Johnston, a Justice of the Peace of Henry County.

On 25 Feb 1850, Daniel Austin made the following declaration in the court of Oldham County, Kentucky:   That he is the son of John and Elizabeth Austin, that he will be fifty-two years old the 24th of next May, that he has three brothers and one sister, older than himself.....William, Lucy, James and John, that his brother John is better than two years older than himself, that his brother James is about four years older than himself, that his sister Lucy is about seven years older, and that his brother William, the oldest of his father and mother's children, was about nine years older than himself.     He also stated that he has often heard them say, and the ages of the children, he thinks they were married about the year 1787, and that his father and mother lived together as man and wife until the death of his father, which took place on the 14 Oct 1845. 

On 25 Feb 1850, Daniel Austin appointed Isaac W. Grabue his lawful attorney, in the presence of G. Knightly.

John Austin was pensioned 11 Nov 1832 in Oldham County, Kentucky for the service in the Virginia line of two years.