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6th General Assembly Of Nova Scotia
The 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between November 1785 to 1793. The Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, Edmund Fanning until 1786, and then under Governor John Parr. Sessions In 1785, the Speaker of the House was Sampson Salter Blowers In 1789, the speaker was Richard John Uniacke. A writ for the election of the 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia was issued on 21 October 1785, returnable by 1 December 1785. The assembly convened on 5 December 1785, held seven sessions, and was dissolved on 22 January 1793. Governor and Council At the convening of the assembly: *Governor: John Parr **Lieutenant Governor: Edmund Fanning After April 1786: * Governor-in-Chief of British North America: Guy Carleton **Lieutenant Governor: John Parr -died 25 November 1791 ***Administrator: Richard Bulkeley ''-served as acting governor'' **Lieutenant Governor: Sir John Wentworth -named 14 May 1792 ''Technically, Gov. Carleton was appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native English-speakers, and the province's population is 969,383 according to the 2021 Census. It is the most populous of Canada's Atlantic provinces. It is the country's second-most densely populated province and second-smallest province by area, both after Prince Edward Island. Its area of includes Cape Breton Island and 3,800 other coastal islands. The Nova Scotia peninsula is connected to the rest of North America by the Isthmus of Chignecto, on which the province's land border with New Brunswick is located. The province borders the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, and is separated from Prince Edward Island and the island of Newfoundland by the Northumberland and Cabot straits, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunbury County, Nova Scotia
Sunbury County was a county in Nova Scotia. The county ceased to exist when the province of New Brunswick was created in 1784. The county was created in 1765, alongside a formal enlargement of Cumberland County north and westward (taking in present-day Westmoreland and Albert Counties, New Brunswick). Sunbury County's seat and its court of general sessions were established at Campobello Island, in Passamaquoddy Bay.William B. Hamilton, 'Place Names of Atlantic Canada,' University of Toronto Press, 1996 Campobello was fairly central on the coast under its purview, as Sunbury included what the Province of Massachusetts regarded as the eastern portion of its district of Maine. (In practice, neither Boston nor Halifax were interested in expending energy or money to administer the area so the geographic overlap was permitted to exist.) In 1784, in part due to the immigration to Nova Scotia of many thousands of Loyalists refugees, Sunbury County, with the newer, mainland portion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Butler Dight
John Butler Dight (Butler) (c. 1760 – July 2, 1854) was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1785 to 1793. He was born in England, the son of Colonel Joshua Dight and Elizabeth Butler. and came to Nova Scotia in 1773. Dight served in the commissariat at Fort Cumberland. He later moved to Halifax where he established himself as a general merchant. He also served as a captain in the Halifax militia. In 1787, he married Ameliora Burgess Morden. In the 1790s, he changed his name to John Butler Butler when he inherited the estate of his uncle John Butler, a condition of the will. In 1792, he was named justice of the peace for Halifax County and, in 1804, he was named to the Nova Scotia Council. Butler served as a commissary in Wellington's army during the Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Belcher
Benjamin Belcher (July 17, 1743 – May 14, 1802) was a merchant, militia leader and political figure in Nova Scotia. He was victorious in the Battle off Cape Split during the American Revolution. He represented Cornwallis Township from 1785 to 1793 and King's County from 1793 to 1799 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. He was born in Gibraltar and came to Nova Scotia around 1760, settling at Cornwallis years later. In 1764, he married Sarah Post. Belcher operated a general store and was involved in the trade with the West Indies bringing eggnog to the continent of North America. He was a lieutenant in the local militia. During the American Revolution, he was in command of the Success and on 21 May 1781, he made a daring attack on American Privateers, killing one crew member and capturing 30 others. Belcher died with Cornwallis at the age of 58. In his will he indicated that he had slaves. His grandson Clement Horton Belcher was a publisher and book seller in Halifax, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gideon White
Gideon White (March 1753 – September 30, 1833) was an American military officer who served as a captain in the Duke of Cumberland's Regiment and then became a merchant, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Barrington Township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1790 to 1793. Early life He was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of Captain Gideon White and Joanna Howland, both descendants of the Pilgrims. Career White was in Nova Scotia in 1776. In September that same year, he was captured by an American privateer and taken back to Massachusetts where he was placed under house arrest. White went to Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the winter of the following year. After trading in the Caribbean, he established himself as a merchant in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1782, he went to New York City and served as a captain in the Duke of Cumberland's Regiment. White settled at Shelburne, Nova Scotia with other members of that retired regiment in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Aplin
Joseph Aplin (c. 1740 – April 26, 1804) was a lawyer and political figure in colonial Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. He represented Barrington Township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1785 to 1787. He was born in Rhode Island, the son of John Aplin, and became a lawyer like his father, setting up practice in Newport. As a loyalist, he was forced to move to New York City and went to Nova Scotia in 1783. In 1787, he went to St. John's Island (later Prince Edward Island) as solicitor general for Edmund Fanning. In 1790, he was named attorney general. Aplin was charged with wrongdoing by supporters of former governor Walter Patterson in 1791; he was exonerated and successfully sued for damages in 1793. In 1798, after becoming associated with a group advocating that the island rejoin Nova Scotia, he resigned from the island's Council and was dismissed as attorney general. After unsuccessfully attempting to clear his name in England, he returned to Annapolis Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Delancey (loyalist)
James De Lancey (September 6, 1746 – May 2, 1804) was a colonial American who led one of the best known and most feared of the loyalist units, De Lancey's Brigade, during the American Revolution. He was known as the "Commander of the Cowboys" by the loyalists and by the Patriots he was known as the "Outlaw of the Bronx". He later became a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis Township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1786 to 1794. He has become a controversial figure for unsuccessfully trying to use the courts to retrieve a slave he brought to Nova Scotia. Early life He was born in Westchester County, New York, the son of Peter DeLancey (1705–1770) and Elizabeth ( née Colden) DeLancey. Among his siblings was brother Stephen DeLancey, also a member of the Nova Scotia Assembly, and sister Susan DeLancey, who was married to Thomas Henry Barclay, a lawyer who also became one of the United Empire Loyalists in Nova Scotia and served in the colony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Museum
The New York State Museum is a research-backed institution in Albany, New York, United States. It is located on Madison Avenue, attached to the south side of the Empire State Plaza, facing onto the plaza and towards the New York State Capitol. The museum houses art, artifacts (prehistoric and historic), and ecofacts that reflect New York’s cultural, natural, and geological development. Operated by the New York State Education Department's Office of Cultural Education, it is the oldest and largest state museum in the US. Formerly located in the State Education Building, the museum now occupies the first four floors of the Cultural Education Center, a ten-story, building that also houses the New York State Archives and New York State Library. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the NYSM, State Archives, and State Library to close temporarily, with museum employees continuing to work behind the scenes, offering virtual programming and online exhibitions. The Museum reope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen De Lancey
Stephen De Lancey (December 1738 – May 1809) was a lawyer and political figure in New York state and Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis Township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1784 to 1789. Early life He was born in West Farms, New York, the eldest son of Peter DeLancey (1705–1770) and Elizabeth ( née Colden) DeLancey. His sister, Susan DeLancey (1754–1837), was married to Thomas Henry Barclay (1753–1830), a lawyer who became one of the United Empire Loyalists in Nova Scotia and served in the colony's government. His paternal grandparents were Etienne de Lancey and Anne van Cortlandt (1676–1724), herself the third child of Gertrude Schuyler (born 1654) and Stephanus van Cortlandt (1643–1700), the Chief Justice of the Province of New York. Both his uncle, James DeLancey (1703–1760), and maternal grandfather, Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), served as Colonial Governors of New York. Career He studied law and later moved to Albany. From 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Howe
Alexander Howe (December 19, 1749 – January 9, 1813) was a soldier, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. He represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1785 to 1793, and then Granville Township from 1793 to 1799. He was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the son of Edward How and Marie-Madeleine Winniett. Howe served as a lieutenant with the British army in Jamaica, England and Ireland. He married Helen McKellar Bontein in 1778. In 1783, he returned to Granville, Nova Scotia and began farming. On June 15, 1786, he was declared elected to the 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia for Annapolis County, after two disputed elections were overturned. Howe also served as justice of the peace and judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Annapolis County. He was named captain in the Royal Nova Scotia Regiment and also was superintendent of Jamaican maroons. After he was replaced in that post, he moved to Prince Edwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Seabury (politician)
David Seabury (christened on September 10, 1749 in Nassau, Province of New York – September 26, 1840) was a tradesman, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He briefly represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1786. Biography He was born in what is now the United States, the son of the Reverend Samuel Seabury and Elizabeth Powell. His half-brother Samuel was the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. In 1770, he married Anne Lyne. A United Empire Loyalist, he served as captain in a loyalist regiment during the American Revolution and came to Nova Scotia in 1783, settling in Granville. Seabury was a lieutenant-colonel in the militia. He was elected to the 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia in 1785, but the seat was immediately contested and declared invalid on Dec. 8,1785, three days into the session. He was reelected and took seat June 10, 1786 but the election was again declared invalid June 15, 1786, and the seat awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Henry Barclay
Thomas Henry Barclay (October 12, 1753 – April 21, 1830) was an American lawyer who became one of the United Empire Loyalists in Nova Scotia and served in the colony's government. Early life Thomas Henry Barclay came from a prominent New York family, the son of the Reverend Henry Barclay (1712–1764), an Anglican clergyman who served as rector of Trinity Church in New York City, and Mary Rutgers, the daughter of a wealthy brewer. His paternal uncle was merchant Andrew Barclay, who married Helena Roosevelt, granddaughter of Nicholas Roosevelt. After attending King's College (later Columbia University), he studied law with John Jay and was called to the bar in 1775. American Revolutionary War Shortly after his marriage in 1775, his career was interrupted by the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Barclay served with distinction, as a major, in the "Loyal American Regiment", in the British Loyalist forces, throughout the war and, with the confiscation of his New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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