Augustus Johnston (ca. 1729 – 1790) was an Attorney General in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations from 1758 to 1766 and is the namesake of Johnston, Rhode Island. He also served briefly as a stamp distributor during the controversial Stamp Act 1765 protests and later fled Rhode Island after the Revolutionary War due to his Tory sympathies.[1]
Citing (Wilkins Updike, Memoirs of the Rhode Island Bar (1842); Records of the Colony of R.I. and Providence Plantations, ed. by J. R. Bartlett, vols. V, VI, VII, 1860–62; Supplement to the R.I. Colonial Records (1875); S. G. Arnold, Hist. of the State of R.I., and Providence Plantations, vol. II (1860). E.M.S.B." (Elsie M. S. Bronson (full name for initials, handwritten on page copy))