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Literary Papers of William Austin, with a Biographical Sketch

William Austin, 1890. Held for a sentence: the biographical sketch STATES where and when Peter Rugg was first printed, which is the only kind of evidence on which this archive will assert that a tale was first printed at all.

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William Austin

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Boston, Little, Brown

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1890

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-_ -*" (Ufa d&sypt^ LITERARY PAPERS WILLIAM AUSTIN £&itfj a Biographical Sfcctrfj BY HI3 SON JAMES WALKER AUSTIN BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1890 Copyright, 1S90, By James Walker Adstin. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COFIES PRINTED. University Press : John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. CONTENTS. PlGE Biographical Sketch of William Austin" v-xvi Feter Rugg, the Missing Man 3— 10 The Late Joseph Xatterstrom 43-58 Martha Gardner ; or, Moral Reaction 61-74 The Man with the Cloaks : A Vermont Legend . 77-96 The Sufferings of a Country Schoolmaster . . . 99-119 Letters from London 123-327 The Human Character of Jesus Christ .... 331-372 Oration at Charleston, Mass., June 17, 1801 . . 375-394 M209621 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. WILLIAM AUSTIN, the author of the Papers in- cluded in this volume, was the son of Nathaniel Austin. — of the Austin family that settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1638, — and of Margaret Rand, a sister of Dr. Isaac Rand, well spoken of by Lorenzo Sabine in the Biographical Sketches of American Loyalists. The earliest recorded notice of the Austin name in the Charlestown Records is that of Richard Austin, who was admitted a freeman in 1651, probably when he became twenty-one years of age. From this Richard descended Benjamin Austin, commonly known as u Honestus ; " Jonathan Loring Austin, secretary to Dr. Franklin at Paris, and afterward Secretary of State and Treasurer of Massachusetts ; and the late Attorney-general, James Trccothick Austin. During the Revolution all of the Austin name were patriots, stanch and active; and Benjamin, the father of "Honestus," was one of the number of those whose appointment as councillors was vetoed by Governor Gage. There is a tradition that two boys, brothers, came to Charlestown in 1638, — one of whom was Richard (ad- mitted freeman in 1651, as before stated), and the other named Anthony, who first went to Rowley, Massachusetts, and thence to Suffield, Connecticut. That one of the same race as Richard of 1651 removed to Connecticut is vi MOGKAPIIICAL SKETCH. beyond doubt, but at what particular time we have no evidence. It is stated thai from this Connecticut branch was descended Stephen Puller Austin, by whose forecast, wisdom, and energy, in a large measure, Texas became a part of tbe Union. Tbe two boys mentioned above were probably tbe " two children" accompanying tbat Richard Austin of Bishop- stoke, England, enumerated by John Camden Hottcn in his " Original Lists of Emigrants" as embarking from Southamp- ton, bound for New England, in the ship " Bevis " in May, 1638. No further trace of Richard, senior, lias been found ; and be is unaccounted for, unless identical with the Aus- tin mentioned in Winthrop's Journal, who arrived in New England in 1638, and whose subsequent capture by the Turks on his return voyage to England by way of Spain is considered by Winthrop a judgment of God for his dis- satisfaction with the new country and withdrawal there- from. This may be the Richard, as tbe date of his arrival, 1638, corresponds with the year of his departure from England ; but if so, Winthrop is in error in stating that he with " bis wife and family were carried to Algiers and sold there for slaves." Such may have been the fate of Richard and his wife, but not of the children, who seem to have re- mained in this coun

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