Peleg Wiswall (April 8, 1763 – September 18, 1836) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in

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. He represented

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in the

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from 1812 to 1816. He was born in April 1763 in

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(now Portland), the son of the Reverend John Wiswall and Mercy Minot.Collections, Volumes 12-14By Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax
Google Books Wiswall married Mary Nichols. In 1816, he was named associate judge for the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Wiswall worked with the Abbé

Jean-Mandé Sigogne Jean-Mandé Sigogne (6 April 1763 – 9 November 1844) was a French Catholic priest, who moved to Canada after the Revolution and became known for his missionary work among the Acadians and Mi'kmaw of Nova Scotia. A large number of Mi'kmaq vi ...

during the 1820s and 1830s to establish an experimental

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settlement at Bear River. He died in

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at the age of 74. His daughter Mary married Charles Budd, who also served in the provincial assembly.

References

External links

Loyalist Collection, University of New Brunswick

Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide, Government of Nova Scotia

1763 births 1836 deaths 19th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly British emigrants to pre-Confederation Nova Scotia Lawyers from Portland, Maine Colony of Nova Scotia judges American emigrants to Canada 19th-century American lawyers {{NovaScotia-MLA-stub