Draft:John Burton (Rhode Island judge)

John Burton (17__ – YEAR) was a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1761 to May 1762.

(apparently a long-serving Justice of the Peace in Providence before this, and refused a second term on the Supreme Court)

Of Cranston.

? "at a meeting September 24, 1774, Moderator Jonathan Randall, C. Lippitt, Zuriel Waterman, Caleb Potter, William Field and John Burton, Jr., were appointed a committee to collect donations for the relief of the poor of Boston, "now suffering in the glorious cause of Liberty.""