Zachariah Austin

1763 - 1830  (66 years)

• Name	Zachariah Austin
  Birth	20 Jan 1763	Rock Creek, Frederick,MD
  Gender	Male
  AFN	1175-SD4
  Death	1830	Ohio Co.,KY
  Person ID	I93	John & Charity Austin of Montgomery Co., Maryland
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2020

  
  

  Father	John Austin, Jr.,   b. 1729, Prince George's Co.,MD d. 1823, Montgomery Co.,MD (Age 94 years)
  Mother	Charity Kendrick,   b. 1732   d. 1820, Montgomery Co.,MD (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1762	Frederick Co.,MD
  Family ID	F44	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Offutt,   b. 22 Jul 1760, Frederick Co.,MD d. 1820, Ohio Co.,KY (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	1789	Montgomery,MD
  Children	1. Baruch Austin,   b. 1792, Montgomery Co.,MD   2. Brooks Austin,   b. Abt 1794, Montgomery Co.,MD d. 1875, Ohio Co.,KY (Age 81 years)   3. William Austin,   b. 1796, Montgomery Co.,MD   4. Zachariah Offut Austin,   b. 30 Nov 1797, Montgomery Co.,MD d. Bef 1855, Ohio Co.,KY (Age 57 years)   5. Enoch Austin,   b. 18 Nov 1799, Montgomery,MD d. Abt 1820, Franklin Co.,KY (Age 20 years)   6. Samuel Austin,   b. 18 Nov 1801, Montgomery Co.,MD d. 1 Dec 1884, Butler Co.,KY (Age 83 years)   7. Dr. John Magruder Austin,   b. 14 Dec 1803, Montgomery Co.,MD d. 1 Jul 1852, Morgantown,Butler,KY (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F54	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 May 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Jan 1763 - Rock Creek, Frederick,MD Marriage - 1789 - Montgomery,MD Death - 1830 - Ohio Co.,KY  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  A Summary of Zachariah Austin's Ohio Co. KY Land Purchase, 16 Aug 1816 Shows land survey compared to a satellite photo and summarizes relevant deed book entries regarding Zachariah's purchase of Lots #9 and #11, 799 acres on Rough Creek.

  
  

• Notes

  BIRTH: Prince George's Parish Records, Rock Creek, Frederick County until 1776/Montgomery County, Maryland. Now on file at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. and other places. BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCE: "The Austin Family - Montgomery County, Maryland and Ohio County, Kentucky with Related Lines" compiled by Jeane Austin King Galau, 1978. A copy in AFAOA Southern Austin Manuscripts # 1, pages 1-123. Page 74-80. BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCE: "THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND CHARITY KENDRICK AUSTIN OF FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND" by Jeane Austin King Galau, published in the Austins of America Quarterly, Feb 1982, page 34 +. MILITARY-MARRIAGE-MIGRATION: "Zachariah Austin of Prince George's Parish, Frederick County, Maryland" by Arthur Clement Austin. Austins of America Quarterly, Feb 1983, pp 65-66. Can be viewed on AOAGS Research Website at http:// www.aoags.org/ResearchCenter/ . "In 1780 Zachariah was a private in 2nd Company, Class one, of the Lower Battalion of Montgomery County, MD. Baruch Odle (first husband of Margaret Odle) was in class seven of same. During the Whiskey Rebellion, Zachariah enlisted in 1794 as an Ensign, was a Captain when he resigned in Oct 1795. During the War of 1812, witnessed the burning of Washington, D.C." "Baruch Odle's will 1788/1789 left his plantation "Grubby Thicket" to his wife Margaret and their 6 daughters. In June of 1790, the census taker at "Grubby Thicket" listed Zachariah Austin, 3 males under 16 (?brothers? ), 7 females. Later two of Zechariah's brothers would marry two of Margaret's daughters. By late 1815, Zachariah, after buying from Margaret's daughters their 2/3 rights to "Grubby Thicket" sold it to George Bohrer of Georgetown for $2960. The author speculates that if the Austins-Offutts-Odles who settled in KY all left together, they would have formed a "formidable" caravan. 16 Aug 1816, Ohio Co. KY. Zachariah bought 790 acres, Lots 9 and 11 on Rough Creek from William S. Maidson of Mercer Co. KY for $1598. Deed Book D, Pg 280. BIRTH-SPOUSE-PARENTS: Research of Francine Conn Halter, e-mail to Liz Austin Carlin, AFAOA genealogist, 12 Jan 2002. CENSUS: 1790 MD, Montgomery Co. 3 m <16, 7 free white females, 3 slaves; 1800 MD, Montgomery, p 144: 5 m <10 ,1 m 26-45, 2 f 10-16, 1 f 16-26, 1 f 26-45, 10 slaves; 1820 KY, Ohio Co. Zachariah, 2 m 10-16, m 16-18, 2 m 18-26, 1 m over 45; 1 f over 45, 7 slaves; 1830 KY, Hartford Twnshp, Ohio Zachariah Austin, 1 m 15-20, 1 m 60-70, 0 females, 5 male and 4 female slaves. MIGRATION: Mar 2011 research by William H. Austin of Winchester, VA. "In the article Zachariah Austin of Prince George's Parish Frederick County, Maryland , published in Austin's of America, February 1983, page 66, Arthur Clement Austin concludes in the second paragraph, "If all the Austins-Offutts-Odles who settled in Kentucky at this time moved in a group by ox-cart and mules, they formed a formidable caravan, and probably traveled the recently-completed Cumberland Road across the top of Maryland and Pennsylvania…" Although the author makes clear this route of travel from Maryland to Kentucky is only speculation, I wish to share a few additional historical facts. Braddock's Road and the Forbes' Road were military roads, by-y-products of the French and Indian War. Both roads led to the forks of the Ohio River where later pioneers migrated westward by floating the Ohio River. If traveling a land route, the family more likely traveled through the Shenandoah Valley and through the Cumberland Gap into the Kentucky heartland. Remember, we have documented that Zachariah purchased about 800 acres of land on Rough Creek in Ohio County in 1816. The initial segment of the Cumberland Road, also known as the Nationanal Road, between Cumberland, MD and Wheeling, VA (now WV) didn't open until 1818 and was therefore unavailable for the Austin migration at the time. It was the Valley Road of Virginia that offered the path of least resistance to those Americans crossing the Appalachians in 1816-1817. According to recently published work from the University of Virginia, the Valley Road served as a primary wagon route west to burgeoning frontiers in Tennessee, Kentucky, and along the Ohio River until about 1820 when traffic finally diverted to the National Road and other western routes. The Shenandoah Valley experienced a town-building boom that accelerated the growth of communities along the wagon road after the American Revolution. Fifteen new towns and villages were platted in the Valley between 1785 and 1800. By the time the Austin clan headed west, they would have encountered towns spaced about two to twelve miles apart in the northern Valley and twenty-two to thirty miles a apart in the l less-populated southern Valley. All along this route the family would have had access to blacksmiths for wagon repairs or shoeing of horses and to country shopkeepers for surplus apples and salt pork or to grain mills for wheat or corn. Source: The Great Valley Road of Virginia, edited by Warren R. Hofstra and Karl Raitz, University of Virginia Press, 2010. www.upress.virginia.edu. ".