13th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

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

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 District	Name
County of Halifax	Samuel George William Archibald
	William Lawson
	George Smith
	Lawrence Hartshorne
County of Annapolis	Thomas Chandler Haliburton[1] John Johnston (1829)
	William Henry Roach
County of Lunenburg	Lot Church
	William Rudolf
County of Cumberland	Alexander Stewart
	Joseph Oxley
County of King's	John Starr [2]
	Samuel Bishop
County of Queen's	Joseph Freeman
	John Barss
County of Hants	Benjamin DeWolf
County of Shelburne	John McKinnon
	J.B. Moody[3] John Forman (1828)
County of Sydney	John Young
	Thomas Dickson
County of Cape Breton	Richard John Uniacke, Jr.
	Laurence Kavanagh
Town of Halifax	Charles R. Fairbanks
	B. Murdoch
Town of Truro	Charles Dickson Archibald
Town of Onslow	John Crowe
Town of Londonderry	John Wier
Town of Annapolis	James R. Lovett
Town of Granville	Timothy Ruggles
Town of Digby	John Elkanah Morton
Town of Lunenburg	John Heckman
Town of Amherst	James Shannon Morse
Town of Horton	James Harris, Jr.
Town of Cornwallis	John Morton
Town of Liverpool	James Ratchford DeWolf
Town of Windsor	David Dill
Town of Newport	Shubael Dimock
Town of Falmouth	William Henry Shay
Town of Shelburne	John Alexander Barry[4]
Town of Barrington	John Homer
Town of Yarmouth	Samuel Sheldon Poole

Notes:

1. named judge
2. died in 1827
3. died in 1828
4. Nathaniel Whitworth White was originally returned but, 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

References

• Journal and proceedings of the House of Assembly, 1827 (1827)