Thomas Dixson

To resist this siege, known as the Battle of Fort Cumberland, Captain Dixson sailed himself and three volunteers in a small open boat across the Minas Basin (known for some of the highest tides on Earth),[5] part of the Bay of Fundy, to warn the authorities in Halifax and bring reinforcements to the loyalists' aid.

[6] On 20 August 1776, Dixson was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia in a by-election to represent Cumberland County.

Dixson was subsequently elected to the same position he had held previously in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, representing Westmoreland County.

[1] At some point prior to 1761, Dixson travelled south to Massachusetts and met Catherine Wethered (or 'Weatherhead'),[1] whom he married in Kings Chapel in Boston on April 9 that year.

That same year, Dixson received a land grant at Fort Beauséjour, but later moved to Point de Bute, New Brunswick.