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ciale in New York in the year 1737. After his arrival in Halifax he was em- 

 ployed for a short time in the country against the Indians and French. In 

 1762 he was appointed A.D.C. to General Monckton, with the rank of Major, 

 and accompanied him in the expedition against Martinique. Gates was after- 

 wards better known as a General in the American Revolutionary Army. Sir 

 PRobert Walpole, in a letter dated 1778, says Gates was the son of a house- 

 kee^Der nf the Duke of Tweeds. Sir Rob.ert was his god-father. 



Jonathan Binney was a native of Hull, a small village near Boston. He 

 came to Halifax shortly after the settlement was formed, and was engaged 

 in business. He was elected a member of Asisembly for the town in 1761, and 

 in 1764 was elected to tlhe Council. In 1768 he was sent to the Island of St. 

 John (now Prince Edward Island) as Second Judge of the Local Court, and 

 afterwards held the offices of Collector of the Revenue at Canso and Collector 

 of Imports and Excise at St. John Island. He was charged with errors in 

 hJis accounits by Mr. Legge, the- Governor of the provinoe, undeir which he 

 went to England in 1776, where he .completely refuted the charge-s made against 

 him. Mr. Binney married Hannah, daughter of Mr. Henry Newton, a mem- 

 ber of Council, and is the ancestor of the whole Binney family now in Nova 

 Scotia. 



Joseph Fairbanks was from Massachusetts. He was one of the repre- 

 sentatives in the first House of Assembly, summoned in 1758. Mr. Fairbanks 

 left no children. His nephew, the late Rufus Fairbanks, became heir to all 

 his property in Halifax, which at the time of his death was very considerable. 

 Mr. Rufus Fairbanks was for many years one of the magistrates of Halifax ; 

 he married a daughter of Charles Prescott, sister to the Hon. Charles Prescott, 

 of Cornwallis, and was the father of the Hon. John E. Fairbanks, of the firm 

 of Fairibanks & McNab, of Hon. Charl.es R. Fairbanks, many years a mem- 

 ber of Assembly for Halifax and Judge of Admiralty and Master of the Rolls, 

 and of Samuel P. Fairbanks, formerly member for Queen's County, with other 

 children. 



Benjamin and Joseph Gerrish were both from New England, The former 

 was a member of His Majesty's Council, appointed in 1768, and Agent for 

 Indian Affairs in 1760. The latter was many years Naval Storekeeper at 

 Halifax. He was also a member of Council. His appointment to the board 

 bears date August 16th, 1759, from which he was suspended in 1762 for non- 

 attendance. He died at Halifax in 1774. Mr. Joseph Gerrish built a resi- 

 dence in the north suburbs, south of the dockyard, between Lockman and 

 Water Streets, and had a fruit garden, the old stone wall of which remained 

 on the east side of Lockman Street until about 1835. One of these gentlemen 

 carried on business for some years in company with Mr. Gray, who was con- 

 nected with him by marriage. Mr. Gray was father of the late Rev. Dr. Ben- 

 jamin Gerrish Gray, minister of St. George's, and afterwards Rector of 

 Trinity, St. John, New Brunswick, who was succeeded by his son, the Rev. 

 Dr. William Gray, lately deceased. He was also ancestor of Mr. Charles 

 Gray, British Consul at Virginia. IThe Hon. John Gray, of St. John, New- 

 Brunswick, and Benjamin Gerrish Gray, Esq., barrister at law, of Halifax, 

 are their descendants ; one the son of Mr. Charles Gray, the other of Dr. Wil- 

 liam Gray. A Mr. Jdhn Gray came out with GovemoT Cornwallis in 1749 as a 

 Deputy Secretary ; probably Mr. Gray who was in partnership with Gerrish 

 was the same person. 



Major Leonard Lochman, (spelt wrongfully Lockman), was a German doc- 

 tor and practispd his profession in early life. He came out with the eettlers 

 in 1749 and resdded in the north suburbs, where he built a residence for him- 

 self and had a large garden. This old house was lately pulled down. It 

 stood on the upper side of Lockman Street and was built with a hipped or 

 gamble roof. He received the rank of Major in the army for services per- 



