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  Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Blowers then studied law in the office of Thomas Hutchinson and in 1766 was admitted as an attorney in the Suffolk Inferior Court.
Blowers made spectacular progress as a trial lawyer, and in 1770 was associated with John Adams and Josiah Quincy in defending the soldiers of the 29th Foot accused of murder in the Boston “massacre.” By that time the income from his law practice was £400 annually, one of the largest in Boston.
Sampson Salter Blowers kept a diary of his 1776 “Journey to and Thro’ part of France andc,” preserved in PANS, MG 1, 139B.
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 Salter Scale
Martin Salter was born in Hampton, in west London, on the 19th April 1954.
Robert Bruce Salter (born December 15, 1924), C.C., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. is a Canadian surgeon and a pioneer in the field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery.
Susanna Madora Salter (born Susanna Madora Kinsey) (1860-1961), U.S. politician, On April 4, 1887, At the tender age of 27, she was elected as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, becoming the first woman elected as mayor in the United States.
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 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia, 1800-1867.
Blowers sought to practice law but things were slow at first, as, "there was no need of lawyers." His loyalty to the crown, however, was to pay off.
In 1797, Blowers was appointed the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.
Blowers was to die at the grand old age of 100.
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 Sampson Salter Blowers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sampson Salter Blowers (March 10, 1742 - October 25, 1842) was a noted (A native or inhabitant of North America) North American lawyer and jurist.
Blowers is probably most noted as one of the defense attorneys representing the soldiers accused after the (additional info and facts about Boston Massacre) Boston Massacre, along with such notables as (2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)) John Adams and (American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)) Josiah Quincy.
In his later years he served as Chief Justice of (The Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns) Nova Scotia for 36 years.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Blowers could not practise because New York was under military rule, but he found “sufficient and profitable employment” in the Vice-Admiralty Court.
Blowers objected, declaring that the attorney general should also be advocate general, and he wrote to the home secretary that no one “ever has been or will be found more deficient in Loyalty” than Uniacke.
In 1824 an attempt was made to unite King’s and the non-denominational Dalhousie College in Halifax, but Blowers objected, declaring that any such action would be too near to a breach of trust by the governors of King’s.
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 Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.
The longest serving chief justice, Sampson Salter Blowers, was in office for a remarkable 35 years, from 1797 until he retired in 1832 at age 90.
One of Sampson Salter Blowers’ first cases was helping to defend British Redcoats accused of murder in 1770 for firing into crowds in the infamous Boston Massacre.
Blowers backed the Supreme Court’s beleaguered assistant judges Isaac Deschamps and James Brenton in the “Judges’ Affair” and joined them on the bench in September 1797, when he was appointed chief justice.
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 Centrifugal Blowers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Sampson Salter Blowers
Information on Sampson Salter Blowers, born 1741, Boston.
Sampson Salter Blowers - Boston to Halifax, NS Richard Brezet 12/27/03
Re: Sampson Salter Blowers Eula Lee Maddox Blowers 3/13/00
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 BLOWERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Search the BLOWERS Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the BLOWERS Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named BLOWERS at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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 Loyalist Collection at the University of New Brunswick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sampson Salter Blowers, born in Boston, Massachusetts, was the son of John Blowers, a lieutenant who died at the siege of Louisbourg.
He was raised by his grandfather Sampson Salter, graduated from Harvard with a Master of Arts degree in 1765, studied law in the office of Thomas Hutchinson, and became a successful barrister in the Massachusetts Superior Court.
During the American Revolution he went to England for a short period, and when he returned to America he was employed in the Vice-Admiralty Court in New York.
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 Copyright 2001-2005, New England Historic Genealogical Society.
When Blowers rode into Boston and informed the Council of his presence, it told him to notify a justice of the peace.
Blowers then rushed off to the bedside of his ill wife, but in the midst of his visit he was interrupted by a messenger from the Boston committee of correspondence.
After all, it argued, Johonnott had been a mere youth in 1776, and the other two were inconspicuous tories, while Blowers had been a prominent supporter of the king before the war.
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 Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.
Blowers was a leader among the Americans who had backed the wrong side in the Revolutionary War and fled to Nova Scotia.
Uniacke insulted and berated Blowers and the latter issued a challenge, but the authorities intervened and prevented a duel.
Blowers, by now the chief justice, again issued a challenge to fight a duel.
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 SAMPSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Blowers Family Genealogy Forum (25 Latest Messages)
Sampson Salter Blowers - Boston to Halifax, NS - Richard Brezet 12/27/03
Re: Sampson Salter Blowers - Rouletta Blowers 9/10/03
Abiather Blowers 1830 N.Y. Ken Carol Baker 11/02/02
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 The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution (1891)
He was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts in 1768, and one of the seventeen "Rescinders." Proscribed under the act of 1778, he went to New Brunswick, where he finally attained the rank of Chief-Justice, and also President of the Council.
SAMPSON SALTER BLOWERS, of Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1763, in a class celebrated for the number of Loyalists and judges it produced.
He entered on the study of law with Hutchinson, then judge of probate and lieutenant-governor, and in 1770, was associated with Messrs.
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 Ancestry Message Boards [ Blowers ]
Sampson Salter Blowers ~ 1741-1842 : Joyce Peck -- 26 Sep 2004
Looking for a coulor copy of the Blowers family crest to be emailed to me : Sheldon Blowers -- 23 Mar 2004
Blowers from Ohio; Lawrence, Scioto or Gallia Counties : Helen Sierer -- 21 Sep 2002
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 The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution (1891)
Susanna Francklin, widow of the Honorable Michael Francklin, daughter of Joseph Boutineau of Boston, and granddaughter of Peter Faneuil of that city; the trustees of the school, Governor Parr, Bishop Inglis, Richard Bulkeley, Sampson Salter Blowers, and Richard John Uniacke, having leased the property from Mrs.
The committee consisted of the bishop, Judge Alexander Croke, and Chief-Justice Blowers, who soon presented their report, which was adopted.
The committee appointed to frame statues, were instructed to take the statutes of Oxford University as their model, and notwithstanding the different conditions existing in Nova Scotia, where either the Roman Catholics, the Presbyterians, or the Baptists, outnumbered the Church, one of the statutes presented, required from all matriculants, subscription to the thirty-nine articles.
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 The Collections of The Nova Scotia Historical Society.
John Doull (-1969), a justice of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia; Otis Little, Wm.
Nesbitt, James Brenton, Richard Gibbons, Samuel Salter Blowers, Vol #26 (1945); pp.
Sampson Salter Blowers (1743-1842); Vol #28 (1949); pp.
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 blowers - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 John Blowers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The initials may be those of Edmund Fowle, one of the witnesses to Set Storer's will.
John married Sarah Holmes Salter, daughter of Malichi Salter and Sarah Holmes, on 27 Nov 1735 in Boston Suffolk MA.
(Sarah Holmes Salter was born on 17 Feb 1719 in Boston Suffolk MA and died in Boston Suffolk MA.)
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
were Royalists and left the country; and among them Jonathan Sewall, then Attorney-General, a man held in high esteem for professional talent; and Sampson Salter Blowers, who enjoyed an honorable reputation as a lawyer and the esteem of many affectionate friends; Samuel Quincy, Timothy Ruggles and James Putnam.
See also for a highly colored account of this case Sampson against the Philistines, by William Duane (1805).
Rodney (later United States Attorney General, appeared for the prosecution, and Alexander J. Dallas and Jared Ingersoll for the defendants, occurred one of the finest pleas in behalf of the Common Law, in the annals of American legal history.
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 My DANFORTH Family Lines
+Pyam Blowers m: Mar 31, 1668 d: 1709
8 Elizabeth Blowers b: Aug 19, 1675 d: Apr 06, 1714
10 Sampson Salter Blowers d: Oct 25, 1842
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