13th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

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The 13th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between 1826 and 1830.

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The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Nova Scotia, James Kempt. After Kempt was named Governor of British North America in 1828, Thomas N. Jeffrey became governor for Nova Scotia.

Samuel George William Archibald was chosen as speaker for the house.

List of members

Electoral DistrictNameFirst elected / previously elected
Town of Amherst James Shannon Morse 1818
County of Annapolis Thomas Chandler Haliburton [a] 1826
John Johnston (1829)1829
William Henry Roach 1818
Town of Annapolis James R. Lovett 1826
Town of Barrington John Homer 1826
County of Cape Breton Richard John Uniacke, Jr. 1818
Laurence Kavanagh 1818
Town of Cornwallis John Morton 1826
County of Cumberland Alexander Stewart 1826
Joseph Oxley 1826
Town of Digby John Elkanah Morton 1826
Town of Falmouth William Henry Shay 1826
Town of Granville Timothy Ruggles 1818
County of Halifax Samuel George William Archibald 1806
William Lawson 1806
George Smith 1819
Lawrence Hartshorne 1825
Town of Halifax Charles R. Fairbanks 1823
B. Murdoch 1826
County of Hants Benjamin DeWolf 1824
John MacKay 1826
Richard Smith (1827)1827
Town of Horton James Harris, Jr. 1826
County of King's John Starr [b] 1826
William Allen Chipman (1828)1799, 1828
Samuel Bishop 1820
Town of Liverpool James Ratchford DeWolf 1820
Town of Londonderry John Wier 1826
County of Lunenburg Lot Church 1820
William Rudolf 1826
Town of Lunenburg John Heckman 1826
Town of Newport Shubael Dimock 1793, 1826
Town of Onslow John Crowe 1826
County of Queen's Joseph Freeman 1811
John Barss 1813, 1826
County of Shelburne John McKinnon 1820
J.B. Moody [c] 1826
John Forman (1829)1829
Town of Shelburne Nathaniel W. White1826
John Alexander Barry (1827) [d] 1827
County of Sydney John Young 1824
Thomas Dickson 1818
Town of Truro Charles Dickson Archibald 1826
Town of Windsor David Dill1826
Town of Yarmouth Samuel Sheldon Poole 1785, 1804, 1813

Notes

  1. named judge
  2. died in 1827
  3. died in 1828
  4. Nathaniel Whitworth White was originally returned; however, after an appeal, a review by a Select Committee in April 1827 found that many of the votes supporting White came from disqualified voters and Barry was declared elected

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