page_title: Nova Scotia Council
section_title: Councilors
hierarchical_section_title: Nova Scotia Council / Halifax Council / Councilors
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Benjamin Green by Joseph Blackburn
context_page_description: The Nova Scotia Council was the British administrative and judicial body in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Council was also known as the Council of Nova Scotia, the Annapolis Council and the Halifax Council. After 1749, the Nova Scotia Council was limited to administrative powers and the judicial courts are set separately.
  There was no legislative assembly in British-ruled Nova Scotia from the time of the conquest in 1710 until during the Seven Years' War in 1758. The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations in London through much of the 1750s pressured the various governors in Nova Scotia to establish the 1st General Assembly of Nova Scotia. The lack of civil government with an elected assembly was a drawback to attracting settlers from the older, established colonies of New England where the population was expanding and seeking new lands. New Englanders wanted guarantees that they would have governmental institutions the same as or similar to what they had become accustomed in New England. In 1758 the Board of Trade, anxious to attract settlers to found new townships, ordered Col. Charles Lawrence to hold an election and convene an assembly.
context_section_description: Lt Governor Edward Cornwallis (1749-1752)
  Paul Mascarene
  Captain Edward How
  Erasmus James Philipps
  John Gorham (military officer)
  Benjamin Green
  John Salusbury (diarist)
  Hugh Davidson (secretary)
  James F Mercer
  Rob Ellison
  Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet
  Peregrine Hopson
  John Collier
  Mr. William Steel
  Col. John Horseman
  Captain George Fotheringham
  Governor Peregrine Hopson (1752-1753)
  Charles Lawrence
  John Collier
  Mr. Cotterall
  John Duport (clerk)
  Benjamin Green
  Governor Charles Lawrence (1753-1760)
  Charles Morris (jurist)
  John Collier
  Mr. Cotterall
  Henry Newton (politician) (1758-1760)
  Benjamin Green
  John Rous
  Jonathan Belcher (jurist)
  Richard Bulkeley (governor)
  Governor Jonathan Belcher (jurist) (1760-1763)
  Richard Bulkeley (governor)
  John Collier
  Joseph Gerrish
  Alexander Grant
  Governor Montague Wilmot (1763-1766)
  Joseph Gorham
  Governor William Campbell (1766-1773)
  John Newton (Nova Scotia politician)
  Governor Francis Legge (1772-1776)
  Lieutenant-Governor Mariot Arbuthnot (1776-1778)
  Colonel Arthur Goold
  Lieutenant-Governor Richard Hughes (1778-1781)
  Lieutenant-Governor Andrew Hammond (1781-1782)
  Governor John Parr (1782-1786)
caption: Benjamin Green by Joseph Blackburn
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