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.
Incorporated on March 6, 1759, Johnston was named for the colonial attorney general, Augustus Johnston.
Augustus | Augustus John | Joseph E. Johnston | Daniel Johnston | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | Ben Johnston | Augustus Pugin | Augustus II the Strong | Augustus De Morgan | Albert Sidney Johnston | Charles Augustus FitzRoy | Ollie Johnston | Johnston Forbes-Robertson | Johnston Atoll | F. Augustus Heinze | Ernest Augustus I of Hanover | Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Ben Johnston (composer) | Antony Johnston | Sigismund II Augustus | Levi Johnston | Johnston | Joe Johnston | Herbert Johnston | Freedy Johnston | David Johnston | Augustus III of Poland | Augustus (honorific) | Seimone Augustus | Robin Knox-Johnston |