Rusty
Regular Member
- Messages
- 25
- Reaction score
- 18
- Points
- 3
- Location
- Indiana, U.S.A.
- Ethnic group
- Colonial American, primarily British
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I1
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H1c
Stephen Austin, who led the first Anglo-American settlements in what was then the Mexican province of Texas (for which he is known as the "Father of Texas") and the namesake of the city of Austin, Texas, belonged to haplogroup I2. He was descended from Richard Austin, who settled in Massachusetts in 1638. Several descendants of Richard have been tested on the Austin-Austen DNA Project at FTDNA.