| 词条 | Sampson Salter Blowers |
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Early years and marriage{{unsourced|section|date=March 2018}}He was born in Boston, the son of John Blowers III and Sarah Salter, but raised by his maternal grandfather, Sampson Salter, after the death of his parents. He was educated in Boston and at Harvard College, then went on to study law. Blowers is probably most noted as one of the defence attorneys representing the soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre, along with such notables as John Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr. He worked in the office of Governor Thomas Hutchinson. In 1774, he married Sarah Kent, daughter of patriot lawyer Benjamin Kent, and went to England with her later that year. He returned to Newport, Rhode Island in 1778; he was arrested after travelling to Boston to visit his sick wife. He was later released and returned to Newport as a judge in the vice admiralty court. Nova Scotia{{onesource|section|date=March 2018}}In 1783, he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The following year, he was appointed attorney general for New Brunswick but refused the post, not wanting to relocate his family. Later that year, he was named attorney general for Nova Scotia. In 1785, he was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Halifax County and was chosen to be speaker for the assembly. In 1788, he was named to the Nova Scotia Council. In his later years, he served as Chief Justice of Nova Scotia for 36 years, from 1797 to 1832. Blowers was also judge in the vice admiralty court from 1821-33. Because Blowers put the onus on slave owners to prove that they had a legal right to purchase slaves, slavery died out in Nova Scotia early in the 19th century. He was a member of the board of governors for King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Solicitor General Richard John Uniacke beat Jonathan Sterns so "savagely" that died. Sterns was Blowers' protégé who afterward challenged Uniacke to a dual, which Uniacke accepted but then contacted the police.[2][3] DeathBlowers died in Halifax in 1842, aged 100, soon after he broke his hip in a fall. Most of his estate went to his adopted daughter, Sarah Ann Anderson, who had married William Blowers Bliss.[3] He is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Church (Halifax). Legacy
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References1. ^Robin Winks. Blacks In Canada, p. 102 {{Chief Justices of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Blowers, Sampson Salter}}{{Canada-law-bio-stub}}{{NovaScotia-MLA-stub}}2. ^{{cite DCB |title=Blowers, Sampson Salter |first=Phyllis R. |last=Blakeley |volume=VII |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/blowers_sampson_salter_7E.html}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|last=Hutchinson|first=Thomas|title=The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOUbw0m-1pUC&pg=PA342|year=2010|publisher=Applewood Books|isbn=978-1-4290-2299-6|page=342}} 16 : Loyalists in the American Revolution|Loyalists who settled Nova Scotia|Judges in Nova Scotia|Canadian centenarians|1742 births|1842 deaths|Harvard College alumni|Nova Scotia pre-Confederation MLAs|Speakers of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly|People from colonial Boston|Deaths from falls|People of colonial Massachusetts|Canadian abolitionists|Colony of Nova Scotia judges|Members of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia|Attorneys General of the Colony of Nova Scotia |
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