page_title: John Creighton (judge)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: John Creighton (judge) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sacking of Lunenburg by Suzanne Conrad, Rug Hooking Museum of North America, Queensland, Nova Scotia
context_page_description: John Creighton was one of the founding fathers of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He led the settlement through the turbulent times of Father Le Loutre's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. He represented Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1770 to 1775. After establishing the town, he lived the rest of his life in the village until he died fifty-four years later.
  The stone monument to John Creighton in St. John's Anglican Church was created by John Bacon, a nineteenth century sculptor. He created six monuments in St. Paul's Cathedral and many in Westminster Abbey.)
context_section_description: He was born in Glastonbury and served as a lieutenant in the British dragoons. In 1749, he went with Edward Cornwallis to Halifax. He served in Cornwallis' militia. In 1753, he relocated to Lunenburg. Creighton was a justice of the peace and captain in the militia; he later became lieutenant-colonel. In 1753, he was named a judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and, in 1776, he was named a judge for the probate court. He was unsuccessful when he ran for a seat in the first election held in Nova Scotia. In 1775, he was named to the province's Council.
  He led the armed resistance to American privateers in the Raid on Lunenburg (1782). He and five others defended the town by firing at the privateers from the Blockhouse, wounding three of them.  The privateers captured Creighton and the five men, two of whom escaped.  The privateers burned the blockhouse and Creighton's home.  Creighton and the three others were taken captive to Boston. The lead privateer Noah Stoddard would later report of his prisoner Creighton that "I have a great regard for the old gentleman."  He eventually returned and died in Lunenburg in 1807 and is buried in the crypt in St. John's Anglican Church (Lunenburg).
caption: American Privateers burned blockhouse (top left) and John Creighton's home (bottom right), The Sacking of Lunenburg by Suzanne Conrad, Rug Hooking Museum of North America, Queensland, Nova Scotia
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