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Austin, Jonathan Loring

patriot, was born Jan. 2, 1748, in Boston, Mass.

He was graduated at Harvard college in 1766, and became a merchant in Portsmouth, N. H. He was secretary to the Massachusetts board of war until October, 1777, and was sent to France with dispatches to Dr. Franklin announcing the defeat of Burgoyne and asking for clothing and stores for the army. He was a state senator for several terms, and elected state treasurer, and subsequently secretary of state. He died May 10, 1826, in Boston, Mass.

AUSTIN, JONATHAN WILLIAMS, soldier, was born April 18, 1751, in Boston, Mass. He was graduated at Harvard in 1769; studied law in the office of John Adams, and admitted to the bar in 1772.

In the Middlesex convention in 1774 he was chairman of the committee that drew up the resolutions. He served as a major in the revolutionary war, and was commandant at Castle William in 1776.

He died in 1778 in the south.