Major Patrick Sutherland served as commander at Fort Edward and then became one of the founding fathers of

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Lunenburg is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia. The economy was traditionally based on the offshore fishery and today Lu ...

. He remained in command at Lunenburg until his death 15 years after establishing the town (c. 1768). He helped the village survive

Father Le Loutre's War Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the Briti ...

and the

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. During this time he quelled the Lunenburg Rebellion and built blockhouses to protect the village after the Raid on Lunenburg (1756). He participated in the

Siege of Louisbourg (1758) The siege of Louisbourg was a pivotal operation of the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in 1758 that ended the French colonial era in Atlantic Canada and led to the subsequent British campaign to cap ...

and in protecting the village Lunenburg from the subsequent Lunenburg Campaign (1758). Sutherland became a justice of the peace (1759),

custos rotulorum ''Custos rotulorum'' (; plural: ''custodes rotulorum''; Latin for "keeper of the rolls", ) is a civic post that is recognised in the United Kingdom (except Scotland) and in Jamaica. England, Wales and Northern Ireland The ''custos rotulorum'' i ...

(1760) and a justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Lunenburg County (1760). Sutherland was promoted to major in the 77th Regiment of Foot, and participated in the Battle of St. John's (1762).Canadian Biography - Patrick Sutherland
/ref> He died in 1766.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutherland, Patrick People from Hants County, Nova Scotia People from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Patrick Sutherland

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