Person:John Burbidge (4)
John Burbidge, Esq.
b.Abt 1718 Cowes, Hampshire, England
d.11 Mar 1812 Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Name[1] John Burbidge, Esq.
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1718 Cowes, Hampshire, England
Residence[1] 1749 Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Marriage 14 Oct 1775 Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadato Rebecca Dudley
Death[1] 11 Mar 1812 Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Burial[1] Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, CanadaSt. John's Church old churchyard
Reference Number? Q6223870?


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John Burbidge (c.1718 – March 11, 1812) was a soldier, land owner, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He was a member of the 1st General Assembly of Nova Scotia in 1758 and represented Halifax Township from 1759 to 1765 and Cornwallis Township from 1765 to 1775 in subsequent assemblies.

He was born in Cowes, England, and was at Louisbourg in 1747 and at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1749, when it was founded. In 1761, he became a justice of the peace for Halifax County and, in 1762, became captain in the local militia. Around 1764, he settled at Cornwallis where he acquired a large farm. He married Rebecca Dudley, the widow of Benjamin Gerrish, in 1775; his first wife was named Elizabeth. Burbidge became a major in the local militia, a justice of the peace and a customs collector in King's County. In 1776, he was named a judge for the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. Burbidge donated land and money to build an Anglican church in Cornwallis.

In 1790, he freed his slaves, also providing them with clothes and having them taught to read. He died in Cornwallis in 1812.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 3. Hon. Benjamin4 Gerrish, in Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton. The Gerrish Family: Family of Capt. John Gerrish. (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913)
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    John Burbidge, Esq., M.P.P., a native of Cowes, Isle of Wight, who with his first wife came to Halifax in 1749, and after living there a few years removed to Cornwallis, King's Co., N. S., where he was for many years a person of the highest importance. (Eaton's History of King's County, N. S., pp. 473-476.) He was one of the most liberal patrons of St. John's Church, Cornwallis, and in the old churchyard of that church he and presumably both his wives were buried. Mrs. Rebecca Burbidge died at Concord, N. H., while on a visit there 30 Jan. 1809. Mr. Burbidge died at Cornwallis 11 Mar. 1812.

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