Eustis (William) is elected to the Massachusetts legislature.

Born in Cambridge on June 10, 1753, William Eustis graduated from Boston Latin and Harvard College, served as a soldier and surgeon in the Continental Army. Eustis serves in the Massachusetts legislature (1788-94), in Congress (1801-05), and in the U.S. Senate (1803-08). He serves as U.S. Secretary of War (1809-13) and U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands (1813-19), and governor of Massachusetts (1823-25).* Eustis lives by that time at 33 Shirley Street. He dies while in office in Boston on February 6, 1825 and is buried in Lexington.