Joshua Lamb

Who was Joshua Lamb?

Joshua Lamb was born in Massachusetts and became a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Onslow township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1770 to 1774 and in 1776.

Lamb was one of the first persons granted land in Onslow township. He was the first registrar of deeds for Cumberland County, serving from 1770 to 1777 and also served as a justice of the peace. He was unseated for non-attendance in 1772 but elected again in a by-election held in February 1776. Lamb, who sympathized with the American Revolution, refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown. His seat in the provincial assembly was declared vacant in June 1776. He went to Canaan Plantation, Maine, in 1777 and received a land grant in Massachusetts in 1800.

Lamb married Mercy Brooks in 1766 and he died on 27 December 1813 in Lincolnville. Their son, Captain Joshua Lamb, built the Lincolnville Center Meeting House.