Austin SMITH, Jr.

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"Connecticut Ancestry": On 2 October 1798 Austin Smith Jr. of Stamford gave bond as guardian of Luke Smith, a son of Joshua Smith, late of Stamford, deceased. Austin Smith Jr's pension application file makes it clear that he was this person from Stamford, enlisting there on 1 Jan 1777, and aged 66 years in Aug 1820. During this enlistment he served three years with the ranks of Corporal (11 months) and Sergeant (13 months) in Col. Philip Bradley's Connecticut Regiment and was discharged on 29 Dec 1779 at Morristown, new Jersey. An earlier enlistment in Col. David Waterbury's Company of the 5th connecticut Regiment from 8 May to 13 Dec 1775 was clearly for this same "Austin Smith Jr." but not recognized at all in "Stamford's Soldiers". Another brief enlistment from 6 Dec 1776 to 11 Jan 1777 in Capt. Jonathan Whitney's Company of the 9th Connecticut Militia Regiment was almost certainly for this soldier although often attributed to his father. Austin Jr's older brother Gold Smith served in this same Company and it would have been extremely unlikely that a 48 year old father with a large family at home would have served in the same Company with his oldest son. Austin Smith, Jr. later resided in a variety of locations in New York State.....

Austin married Elizabeth NEWMAN on 11 Jan 1781 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Austin married Rebecca REYNOLDS about 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]