Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management. Commissioner of Public Records Collection – Records relating to the early history of Lunenburg, 1761-1778
RG 1 vol 382 no 34
Poll book, Town of Lunenburg - list of candidates running for Assembly seats and voter list
July 31, 1758
As returning officer the Deputy Provost Marshall, D. Christopher Jessen, had two assistants who swore to assist in preventing “Confusion & fraud”. Of the 1500 settlers of Lunenburg by the election of 1758, at most half the adult males qualified for naturalization out of around 250 heads of households. Of these, 58 voted on 31 July for two township representatives (hence the total of 116 votes). Presumably the same number voted for sixteen members elected for the province at large. The Lunenburg Township Poll Book for the 1758 election is the only extant poll book for the 1758 election. See page two for the assistants’ oath and page twelve for the list of candidates who ran in the election.
Documents from 1758
February 7, 1758
October 2, 1758
Journal and Proceedings of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly – account of the first day the Assembly met
October 2, 1758
An Act... Relating to the Duties of Import on Rum and other Distilled Liquors... - initial statute passed by the first Assembly
October 18, 1758
An Act…Relating to the Duties of Import on Rum and other Distilled Liquors… – initial statute passed by the first Assembly
October 2, 1758
Journals of the Legislative Council - Legislative Council account of the first day the Assembly met
1758
May 20, 1758
Proclamation, Call for Election - resolutions for the election of representatives to sit in Nova Scotia's first General Assembly
October 30, 1758
An Act for Confirming Titles to Lands and quieting possessions - second statute passed by the first Assembly
December 6, 1758
Journal and Proceedings of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly first defends rights of Members against Legislative Council
