Aaron Austin (August 25, 1745 – July 15, 1829)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."Deaths", ''Hartford Courant'' (August 4, 1829), p. 3. was an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (now known as the

Connecticut Supreme Court The Connecticut Supreme Court, formerly known as the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, is the supreme court, highest court in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It consists of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices. The seven justices sit in ...

) from 1794 to 1807. Born in

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, 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. 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. Austin died in

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, at the age of 83.

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