Aaron Austin (August 25, 1745 – July 15, 1829)[1][2] was an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (now known as the Connecticut Supreme Court) from 1794 to 1807.[3]

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Austin "served in the War of the Revolution in the following services: as Captain in the 18th Militia Regiment 1778; Paymaster 1780", and received a pension under an 1818 act of Congress.[1] He was appointed to the state supreme court in 1794, and served until the court was abolished in favor of a new, expanded court in 1807.[3]

Austin died in New Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 83.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 West Virginia Society, Sons of the Revolution in the State of West Virginia, Bulletin No. 7 (February 1925), p. 50, citing Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pages 624, 629, 632.
  2. 1 2 "Deaths", Hartford Courant (August 4, 1829), p. 3.
  3. 1 2 Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the state of Connecticut. Hudson and Goodwin. p. viii.


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