12th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

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The 12th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1820 and 1826.

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The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, James Kempt.

Simon Bradstreet Robie was chosen as speaker for the house. Samuel George William Archibald became speaker after Robie was named to the Council in 1824.

List of members

Electoral DistrictNameFirst elected / previously elected
Town of Amherst James Shannon Morse 1818
County of Annapolis Thomas Ritchie [a] 1806
Abraham Gesner (1824)1824
Samuel Campbell 1820
Town of Annapolis John Robertson 1820
Town of Barrington William Browne Sargent 1818
County of Cape Breton Richard John Uniacke, Jr. 1818
Laurence Kavanagh 1818
Town of Cornwallis John Wells 1820
County of Cumberland Thomas Roach 1799
George Oxley [b] 1820
Robert Blair (1821) [c] 1821
Town of Digby William Henry Roach 1818
Town of Falmouth William Young 1818
Town of Granville Timothy Ruggles 1818
County of Halifax William Lawson 1806
George Smith 1819
Samuel George William Archibald 1806
Simon Bradstreet Robie 1799
Lawrence Hartshorne, Jr. (1825)1825
Town of Halifax John Albro 1818
George Grassie 1820
Charles Rufus Fairbanks (1823)1823
County of Hants William Hersey Otis Haliburton [a] 1811
Benjamin DeWolf (1824)1824
William O'Brien 1820
Town of Horton Jonathan Crane [d] 1818
Sherman Denison (1821)1821
County of King's William Allen Chipman 1799
Samuel Bishop 1820
Town of Liverpool James R. Dewolf 1820
Town of Londonderry James Fleming 1811
County of Lunenburg John Heckman 1818
Lot Church 1820
Town of Lunenburg Edward James 1793, 1806, 1817
Town of Newport Daniel Wier 1820
Town of Onslow Robert Dickson 1818
County of Queen's Snow Parker 1801
Joseph Freeman 1811
County of Shelburne John Bingay 1818
John McKinnon 1820
Town of Shelburne Jared Ingersol Chipman 1818
Thomas Caldwell (1824)1824
County of Sydney John George Marshall 1811, 1820
John Young (1824)1824
Thomas Dickson 1818
Town of Truro William Dickson 1818
Town of Windsor William Fraser 1818
Town of Yarmouth Samuel Sheldon Poole 1785, 1804, 1813

Notes

  1. 1 2 named judge
  2. ↑ died in 1820
  3. ↑ left for England in 1825; his resignation was not accepted by the assembly, so the seat remained empty
  4. ↑ died before first session. Sherman Denison was elected in his place. [1]

References

  1. ↑ Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton (1910). The History of King's County, Nova Scotia. Salem Press Company. pp. 485, 490.
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