5th New Brunswick Legislature

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The 5th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between January 27, 1810, and 1816.

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The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick Thomas Carleton. Carleton having left the province in 1805, the colony was actually governed by a series of colonial administrators during this period.

The speaker of the house was selected as Amos Botsford. After Botsford's passing in 1813, John Robinson was appointed speaker.

History

Members

Electoral DistrictName
Saint John County William Pagan
Hugh Johnston
John Ward
Thomas Wetmore
York Peter Fraser
John Allen
Stair Agnew
Duncan McLeod
Westmorland Amos Botsford [1]
William Botsford (1813)
Titus Knapp
James Easterbrooks
John Chapman
Kings John Coffin [2]
Jasper Belding
George Pitfield [2]
George Leonard
Queens James Peters
John Yeamans
Charlotte Robert Pagan
John Dunn
Donald McDonald
Colin Campbell
Northumberland James Fraser
Alexander Taylor
Sunbury Samuel Denny Street
James Taylor
Saint John City John Garrison
John Robinson (1810)
Stephen Humbert

Notes

  1. died in 1812
  2. 1 2 unseated after an appeal Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine

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Preceded by Legislative Assemblies of New Brunswick
1809–1816
Succeeded by