Austin, Patience (1836), 1812 -

Patience Austin was the daughter of William and Lucy Austin of Mashpee, Massachusetts,  As the wife of Joseph Gardner, the couple had a number of children: Elizabeth, Lucy Anne, and Oliver S. Gardner.

According to a Mashpee petition to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1836, she was a proprietor and inhabitant of the Mashpee Indian community who supported Fish's missionary efforts and the status quo regarding the Mashpee parsonage, lands, and meeting house.   

Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001.  Mashpee, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, Deaths 1834-1870.  Family Search.  Petition of Sundry Indians of Marshpee to the Massachusetts General Court for the Preservation of the Parsonage, 1836.01.00.00.