Malachy Salter
| Malachy Salter | |
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Malachy Salter by John Smybert, Province House (Nova Scotia), from the collections of the Nova Scotia Legislative Library
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| MLA for Yarmouth township | |
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In office 1766–1772 |
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| MLA for Halifax township | |
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In office 1759–1765 |
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February 28, 1715 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | January 13, 1781 (aged 65) Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Spouse(s) | Susanna Mulberry |
| Occupation | Businessman, politician |
Malachy Salter (February 28, 1715 – January 13, 1781), a Nova Scotia merchant and office-holder, was born at Boston, second son of Malachy Salter and Sarah Holmes. He married Susanna Mulberry, on 26 July 1744 in Boston, and they had at least 11 children. He died at Halifax, Nova Scotia and is buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
He operated a successful Boston distillery, along with his Holmes uncles and was the senior partner in a firm involved in the fisheries and the West Indies trade. He relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia during Father Le Loutre's War and engaged in shipping ventures which brought him both North American and European goods, and extended credit, prosecuted debts, and settled estates. He purchased Halifax properties, which included the over-extended poor, likely the source of the comment that he was a "Litigious troublesome Man… who has treated us in a Barbarous cruel manner."
In 1754 Salter expanded his operations into the field of government contracts. He was subsequently called upon to provide certain mercantile evaluations for the government.
Salter was an early member of the grand jury in Halifax and served as a captain of militia (1761–1762) and an Overseer of the Poor (1765–1766). In 1757, he became a leader in the committee of Halifax freeholders which used legal effort to force Governor Charles Lawrence to convene a representative assembly in October 1758, Salter was amongst its 20 members.
For 15 years Salter sat in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, representing Halifax Township from 1759 to 1765 and Yarmouth Township from 1766 to 1772.
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