Austin SMITH, Jr.

1753 - 1846  (92 years)

• Name	Austin SMITH  [1]
  	"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..... [1]
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	20 Dec 1753	Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Dec 1846	Schroeppel, Oswego County, New York   [1]
  Person ID	I68929	Main Tree
  Last Modified	8 Aug 2012

  
  

  Father	Austin SMITH,   b. Abt 1728   d. 1817, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Sarah KNAPP,   b. 5 Jun 1730, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 1817 (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	17 Aug 1752	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F27777	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth NEWMAN
  Marriage	11 Jan 1781	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F27781	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Aug 2012

  
  

  Family 2	Rebecca REYNOLDS
  Marriage	Abt 1800  [1]
  Family ID	F27782	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Aug 2012

  
  

• Sources

  [S4917] Connecticut Ancestry 2008 February Vol. 50 No. 3. [S03428] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stamford. [S4914] Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D., "Nicholas Knapp Genealogy" Part One & Two, (Winter Park Florida 1953).