As part of the Lost Colony project, we are reconstructing the various families on Hatteras Island (NC). Hatteras had been part of Currituck, Hyde and now Dare Counties. If you descend from this family, please contact me. Here is some info about the earliest Austin family found there. Thomas Austin is found in the tax list of 1755. He died in 1806 and had 4 sons Cornelius, Daniel, Thomas and William, and 1 daughter, Peggy. Roberta Estes