Alexander, his wife Agnes and their children sailed from Belfast to Charleston, South Carolina. On board was Alexander's brother, James, and his sons, James, Alexander. William and Samuel and daughters Henrietta and Nancy. After a 70-day voyage they arrived in Charleston on 13 November 13, 1804. They erected a one room cabin on 700 acres in Cross Hill, Laurens County. Alexander filed for citizenship in the Laurens District Court on 14 November 1815 and took the oath of citizenship April 18,1821.
Alexander successfully established his family providing for a medical education for his son, Robert Campbell, with William inheriting the "big house" and some land. His son, Alexander, Jr., also inherited land which he resold to William, using the proceeds to purchase the land on the Saluda River which became the foundation of the Anderson-Abbeville line of Austins. Alexander died in Cross Hill, SC in October 1826. Five of their ten children who reached maturity were born in South Carolina.
This database was originally established by Cindy Privette of North Carolina in 1995. It has been available on the AFAOA web site as part of the Southern Unplaced database. Gerald Blake Austin of Ontario, Canada made his research available to the AFAOA in 1999. Recently, William Austin, of Hingham, Massachusetts has been working with AFAOA Genealogist Liz Austin Carlin on incorporating data from William's manuscript, "Alexander Austin and his Honea Path Family." As a result of the growth in size of the database, it has been decided to place it on the web as a stand-alone database.
Liz Austin Carlin will serve as temporary compiler so please mail any corrections, updates, etc. to her.
Please note: For privacy reasons, this database follows the criteria for living people.
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