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Elijah Austin was a ship owner, a captain, and a shop keeper. He died of yellow fever in New York in 1794. After the family learned that the estate was insolvent, Henry, at the age of fourteen, joined the crew of
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to Elijah and Esther (Phelps) Austin. He joined the merchant marine at the age of twelve, first as a cabin boy on a ship bound for China. He had five brothers and two sisters. One of his sisters was
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