Winckworth Tonge

Winckworth Tonge (4 February 1727 – 2 February 1792) was an Anglo-Irish soldier who served in North America, where he became a land owner and political figure in Nova Scotia after his military service. He represented Cumberland County from 1759 to 1760, King's County from 1765 to 1783 and Hants County from 1785 to 1792 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Biography

Winckworth Tonge was born in

Halifax, Nova Scotia, where a fort was built. Tonge also took part in the Battle of Fort Beauséjour, where he was wounded in action.^[1] In 1758, he took part in the siege of Louisbourg and, in 1759, served with General Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham

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After retiring from the army, Tonge received grants of land in Nova Scotia, where he settled. He married Martha Grace Cottnam and they had a family. Their son William Cottnam later became an attorney and a judge. Like his father, he was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia legislative assembly.

Tonge was commissioned as a colonel in the local militia and served as

privateers during the American Revolutionary War, Tonge had to sell most of his property later in his life. He died in 1792 at Halifax.^{[citation needed}

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Legacy

namesake of Tonge's Island, Tantramar Marsh, New Brunswick [3]^[4]
His son Captain William Peter Tonge participated in the action of 21 July 1781^[5]
His son William Cottnam Tonge is the namesake of Tonge Hill, Windsor, Nova Scotia^[6]
Wentworth Road, Windsor, Nova Scotia is a corruption of Winckworth Road, which was named after Winckworth Tonge.^[6]

References

^ Porter, Whitworth (28 January 1889). "History of the Corps of Royal Engineers". Longmans, Green – via Google Books.
^ A DRAUGHT of the ISTHMUS which joyns Nova Scotia to the Continent with the Situation of the ENGLISH and FRENCH FORTS & the Adjacent BAYS and RIVERS
^ "A monograph of the place-nomenclature of the province of New Brunswick [microform]". Ottawa : J. Durie; Toronto : Copp-Clark. 28 January 1896 – via Internet Archive.
^ "Tongues Island". Place Names of New Brunswick: Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
^ Murdoch, Beamish (1866). A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie. Vol. II. Halifax: J. Barnes. p. 619.
^ ^a ^b "Tonge Hill". West Hants Historical Society.

External links

[1] Porter, Whitworth (28 January 1889). "History of the Corps of Royal Engineers". Longmans, Green – via Google Books.

[2] A DRAUGHT of the ISTHMUS which joyns Nova Scotia to the Continent with the Situation of the ENGLISH and FRENCH FORTS & the Adjacent BAYS and RIVERS

[3] "A monograph of the place-nomenclature of the province of New Brunswick [microform]". Ottawa : J. Durie; Toronto : Copp-Clark. 28 January 1896 – via Internet Archive.

[4] "Tongues Island". Place Names of New Brunswick: Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

[5] Murdoch, Beamish (1866). A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie. Vol. II. Halifax: J. Barnes. p. 619.

[auto-6] "Tonge Hill". West Hants Historical Society.

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