Browsing: Diary of John Adams, Volume 2

2. Jonathan Loring Austin, Harvard 1766, who had brought the news of Burgoyne's surrender to France the previous fall and then served Franklin in various capacities; during the summer of 1778 he acted as secretary to JA (JA, Autobiography, under the present date; Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 1:620–621, 630–631; JA–Austin correspondence in Adams Papers).