John Heckman (1785 – March 11, 1871) was a political figure in

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 Eng ...

. He represented Lunenburg County from 1818 to 1826 and Luneng burg township from 1826 to 1847 in the

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. He was born in

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Lunenburg is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia. The economy was traditionally based on the offshore fishery and today L ...

, the son of Caspar Heckman and Mary Elizabeth Zwicker. In 1809, he married Elizabeth Ernst. Heckman was named a

justice of the peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

in 1831. He served as

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for Lunenburg County from 1841 to 1867 and was registrar of deeds for the county from 1859 to 1871. He died in Lunenburg at the age of 86.

References

* ''A Directory of the Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758-1958'', Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1958) 1785 births 1871 deaths Nova Scotia pre-Confederation MLAs {{NovaScotia-MLA-stub