John Day
1755 – 1775
Merchant, military provisioner and legislator from Nova Scotia.
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John Day was born in England to a well-known physician and moved early in life with his father to Nova Scotia. He became a merchant and military provisioner to royal forces and a member of the Nova Scotia assembly. Despite his military contracts, he was sympathetic to colonial claims, arguing that American settlers constituted independent and disinterested yeomen. He was killed by a lightning strike at sea in late 1775.
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