EAM Notes: Jeremiah Austin, son of Robert resided at Kingstown, Exeter, RI. In 1720, he and son Jeremiah, Jr. attended town meeting. This year the town was divided into North & South Kingstown. Twenty years later Exeter was set off from N. Kingstown, and Jeremiah Austin, though found successively in three towns, may yet have lived on one piece of land.
His Will, dated 6 Mar 1752, proved 1754 lists executrix, wife Elizabeth. He signed by mark, perhaps through infirmity of age, for he calls himself weak "Weak in body and well striken in years." "To wife Elizabeth, two feather beds, iron pot, all the pewter, two iron kettles, and all movable estate." He mentions no real estate, which had perhaps already been deeded to his children. At the time of his decease there were seven Austin's bearing the name of Jeremiah, viz: Jeremiah, Jeremiah, Jr., Jeremiah, 3rd., Jeremiah, son of Robert, Jeremiah, son of Pasko, Jeremiah, son of Ezekiel, Jeremiah, son of Robert.
BIRTH: Figured from the birth date of the first born child. ams 9/19/2007
DEATH: Research of Marian C. Reid, 2/93. Compilers Note death between will and proving will. ams 3/19/2008
EAM Ref.: John Osborne Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Edith Austin Moore, "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Austin of Kingstown, RI"; St. Petersburg, FL, 1951; p 11, 12. Links: