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Samuel Freeze (May 3, 1778 – April 4, 1844) was a farmer and political figure in
New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime Canada, Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic Canad ...
. He represented King's County in the
Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick A legislature is an assembly Assembly may refer to: Organisations and meetings * Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions * General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an ...
in 1820, from 1828 to 1830 and from 1835 to 1844. He was born in
Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Cumberland County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. History The name Cumberland was applied by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Monckton to the captured Fort Beauséjour on June 18, 1755 in honour of the third son of King George I ...
, the son of William Freeze and Martha Bulmer who came to New Brunswick from
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,
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. Freeze married three times, first marrying Margaret Wells, then Bethia Wager and then Mary Jane Scott; he had 21 children. He died in office in King's County at the age of 65. His son Samuel Nelson served as sheriff for King's County. His daughter Miriam married
George Ryan George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934) is an American former politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 39th governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003. Elected in 1998, Ryan received national attention for his 1999 morat ...
, who served in the provincial assembly and the Canadian House of Commons.


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''The Chignecto isthmus and its first settlers'', H Trueman (1902)
1778 births 1844 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Colony of New Brunswick people {{NewBrunswick-MLA-stub