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Number relation (or a distant relation) to the empresario Stephen Austin, John was born to John Punderson Austin and Susan Rogers Austin in New Haven, Connecticut.
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He initially also bore the middle name Punderson but apparently ceased using it, as it appears on none of his Texan records. John found work as a sailor and joined the Long expedition in New Orleans in 1819. Captured and imprisoned in Mexico, John later returned to Texas and joined Stephen Austin"s colony, befriending him and becoming constable of his settlement at San Felipe de Austin.
Involved through his business with the coasting trade, John became the port officer in 1831 and alcalde for Brazoria the next year.
He was also the delegate for Victoria at the Convention of 1832, signed the Turtle Bayou Resolutions, and following his command at Velasco was elected brigadier general of the Texian militia. His father, arriving in Texas, also succumbed to cholera and died in 1834.
The lower John Austin league was latter sold to John and Augustus Allen for the settlement which became Houston, Texas.
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United States