8th New Brunswick Legislature

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The 8th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between January 30, 1821, and 1827.

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The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick George S. Smyth. Howard Douglas became lieutenant governor in 1824.

The speaker of the house was selected as William Botsford. In 1824, after Botsford was appointed a judge, Ward Chipman, Jr. was elected speaker. Harry Peters succeeded Chipman as speaker in 1826.

Members

Electoral DistrictNameFirst elected / previously elected
Charlotte Hugh Mackay 1816
John Campbell1819
Peter Stubs1820
Joseph N. Clarke1820
Kings John Cougle Vail1820
David B. Wetmore 1816
Northumberland Richard Simonds 1816
Hugh Munro1820
Queens Samuel Scovil1816
William Peters1820
Saint John City Hugh Johnston, Jr. 1820
Harry Peters 1816
Saint John County Ward Chipman [a] 1820
Andrew S. Ritchie1820
John McNeil Wilmot 1820
Charles Simonds 1820
Robert Parker (1826)1826
Sunbury Elijah Miles 1816
Amos Perley [b] 1820
William Wilmot (1824)1824
Westmorland William Botsford [a] 1813
Rufus Smith 1816
Joseph Crandall [c] 1819
Benjamin Wilson1820
Malcolm Wilmot (1823)1823
William Crane (1824)1824
York Peter Fraser 1809
John Allen1809
John Dow1816
Stair Agnew [d] 1796
William Taylor (1822)1822

Notes

  1. 1 2 appointed judge
  2. died in 1822
  3. declared ineligible because he was a preacher
  4. died in 1821

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