3rd New Brunswick Legislature

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The 3rd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between February 9, 1796, and 1802.

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The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick Thomas Carleton. Construction of a building to house the assembly at Fredericton, Province Hall, began in 1799 and was completed in 1802.

Amos Botsford was chosen as speaker for the house.

History

Members

Electoral DistrictName
Saint John County William Pagan
Jonathan Bliss
James Simonds
Bradford Gilbert
York Daniel Murray
Jacob Ellegood
Archibald McLean
James French [1]
Stair Agnew (1796)
Westmorland Amos Botsford
Samuel Gay
Ralph Siddall
Thomas Dixson
Kings John Coffin
David Fanning
Queens James Peters
John Yeamans
Charlotte Robert Pagan
James Campbell
David Owen
David Mowatt
Northumberland James Fraser
Samuel Lee
Sunbury James Glenie
Samuel Denny Street
Saint John City George Younghusband
Nathan Smith

Notes

  1. unseated after an appeal

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Preceded by Legislative Assemblies of New Brunswick
1795–1802
Succeeded by