Timothy Houghton (21 August 1727 – 10 May 1780) was the founder of Chester, Nova Scotia (1759).
In the wake of the American patriot rebellion in the Siege of Fort Cumberland during the American Revolution, while Chief magistrate and Justice of the Peace for the Chester township, he was jailed for betraying the Loyalist cause.[1][2] Among other crimes, he was accused of helping American privateer prisoners escape back to Boston.[3] According to historian Barry Cahill, this trial was the most important court proceedings against a New England Planter patriot along Nova Scotia’s South Shore, which included the Townships of Liverpool, Yarmouth and Barrington. One of his four accusers was John Umlach of the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment.[4] Through the trials for sedition, the Nova Scotia (Loyalist) government at Halifax was able to establish the “legal repression and the general criminalization of political dissent.”[5] Houghton's trial was only one of two in the province (John Frost (minister) was the other) that were successfully prosecuted.[6]
^Cahill, Barry, "The Sedition Trial of Timothy Houghton: Repression in a Marginal New England Planter Township during the Revolutionary Years". XXIV, 1 (Autumn 1994), pp. 35-58
^Keizer, David Anthony, History and genealogy of the Houghton family, p.3
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