Joseph Pernette

Joseph Pernette (1728?1807) ^[1] was a German-born merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia . He represented Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1761 to 1770.

He was born in Strasbourg , served in the Breton Volunteers and then came to Nova Scotia as a Foreign Protestants with Edward Cornwallis in 1751. Pernette served as an aide-de-camp during the taking of Quebec City in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham . ^[2] He first settled at Halifax but later moved to the New Dublin area. He built a gristmill and a sawmill on the LaHave River and also built the first ship on the river. Pernette served as justice of the peace , deputy surveyor and was colonel in the local militia, participating in the defense of Lunenburg during the Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782) . ^[3] He also conducted a census of the area and constructed a road to Lunenburg . Pernette also operated a ferry connecting that road to the road to Liverpool .

His daughter Charlotte married Charles Morris ^[4] and his daughter Catherine married Garrett Miller . ^[5]

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LeHave River Fort Point Museum, Founding Fathers

^ Hamilton, William B Place Names of Atlantic Canada , p.313
^ "Desbrisay, Mather B The History of the County of Lunenburg (1970) p. 137" . Archived from the original on 15 June 2011 . Retrieved 2 October 2008 .
^ Joseph Pernette to Franklin, letter, dated at La Have, July 3, 1782, reprinted in DesBrisay, Mather Byles, History of the County of Lunenburg, Toronto: Wesley Briggs, 1895, 65-67.
^ Charles Morris at the Canadian Dictionary of Biography
^ Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1984). Elliott, Shirley B (ed.). The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758?1983: A biographical directory . Province of Nova Scotia. ISBN 0-88871-050-X .

[1] Hamilton, William B Place Names of Atlantic Canada , p.313

[2] "Desbrisay, Mather B The History of the County of Lunenburg (1970) p. 137" . Archived from the original on 15 June 2011 . Retrieved 2 October 2008 .

[3] Joseph Pernette to Franklin, letter, dated at La Have, July 3, 1782, reprinted in DesBrisay, Mather Byles, History of the County of Lunenburg, Toronto: Wesley Briggs, 1895, 65-67.

[4] Charles Morris at the Canadian Dictionary of Biography

[5] Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1984). Elliott, Shirley B (ed.). The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758?1983: A biographical directory . Province of Nova Scotia. ISBN 0-88871-050-X .

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