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Jonathan Loring Austin was born on January 2, 1748 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Benjamin and Elizabeth (Waldo) Austin.
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An oration delivered July 4, 1786: at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, in celebration of the anniversary of American independence.
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Title: An oration delivered July 4, 1786 : at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, in celebration of the anniversary of American independence. Author: Jonathan Loring Austin Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP03833500 CollectionID: CTRG01-B3621 PublicationDate: 17860101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 19 p. ; 25 cm
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Jonathan Loring Austin
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Austin graduated from the Latin School and Harvard College (1766).
Career
After Jonathan Loring Austin graduated from Harvard, he moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire and became a merchant there.
When the war started Austin became a Major in Langdon's Regiment, and later an aid to General John Sullivan. Austin was the secretary to the Massachusetts Board of War until October 1777, when he was sent to Paris by Massachusetts to announce to Benjamin Franklin and his associates the news of John Burgoyne's surrender at the Battle of Saratoga. Franklin soon afterwards sent him on a secret mission to England, where he met many members of the opposition and furnished them with much information concerning American affairs. The trip was full of incident. He carried dispatches to Congress from the United States Commissioners in Paris early in 1779.
The State of Massachusetts-Bay sent him abroad in January 1780 to raise a loan of £150, 000. He was captured by a Jersey privateer, was released through the exertion of his English friends, and pursued his mission with no other success than the purchase on credit of £3, 000 worth of military clothing in Holland.
Returning to Boston in the summer of 1781, he became his brother's partner and a merchant. Until the party division of 1793, when the "Honesti" were ostracized by Federalists and confined to the society of the few gentlefolk who became Republicans, Austin was a man of fashion. He was elected to the state Senate from Boston in 1801, to the House from Cambridge in 1803 and 1806; served as secretary of the commonwealth under Gov. Sullivan (1806-1808) and as treasurer under Gov. Gerry (1811-1812).
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An oration delivered July 4, 1786: at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, in celebration of the anniversary of American independence.
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An oration delivered July 4, 1786: at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, in celebration of the anniversary of American independence.
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Austin married Hannah Ivers, the daughter of James and Hannah (Trecothick) Ivers on April 4, 1782 in Boston and had one son.
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Democratic-Republican Party