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Persoonlijke gegevens George Austin 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1710.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1774, hij was toen 64 jaar oud.

Gezin van George Austin

Hij had een relatie met Ann Ball.

Kind(eren):

1. Eleanor Austin  1738-1826 
2. ??  

Notities over George Austin

George Austin was born in Shifnal in 1710. He was the son of a moderately wealthy mercer who came to the town from Stone in Staffordshire. Little is known about his early years but what is known is that George later went to Carolina where he became involved in developing tobacco plantations, one of which he named Shifnal, after his birthplace. It lay next to the Ashepoo river, inland from Charleston, but little exists there today.

It was here that George started to ship and import slaves, and became very rich. In fact, he is believed to have been among the wealthiest men in the colonies. But despite his financial success in Carolina, things became sour after a while. Following disputes with his business partner, Henry Laurens, George returned to England with one of his sons in 1762 and settled at Aston Hall.

Meanwhile, his daughter Eleanor stayed in Carolina and married a man called John Moultrie. John was an even more successful and influential man than his father-in-law. He was was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1729, and was the son of a Scottish family. He came to study medicine at Edinburgh University in his late teenage years and became a doctor on his return to Carolina before giving i t up and getting involved with trade and politics. He too bought land and slaves and became very wealthy.
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