Benjamin Gerrish, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Benjamin Gerrish

Halifax merchant and politician

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1717

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 06-May-1772

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Benjamin Gerrish

  • Benjamin Gerrish (October 19, 1717 – May 6, 1772) was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia.
  • He was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1759 to 1768. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Gerrish and Sarah Hobbes.
  • Binney married Rebecca Dudley in 1744 and they moved to Halifax around 1751, shortly after his brother Joseph had moved there.
  • Gerrish set up in business with Joseph Gray, his brother Joseph's son-in-law.
  • With others, he lobbied for representative government in the province.
  • His brother was elected to the first assembly and Gerrish succeeded him in the second.
  • In 1760, he was named justice of the peace for Halifax County, a captain in the militia and Indian commissary.
  • When Jonathan Belcher became lieutenant governor, he removed Gerrish from the commissary contract.
  • When Belcher allowed the province's debtor's act to lapse in 1761, Gerrish helped lead a boycott of the assembly which eventually led to Belcher's removal.
  • In 1768, Gerrish was named to the province's Council.
  • He died in Southampton in England at the age of 54. Rebecca, his widow, married John Burbidge, another member of the province's assembly.
  • She is buried, under her married name Gerrish, at the King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.

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