Background
He was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, the son of Doctor Jabez Upham and Katharine Nichols, and graduated from Harvard College in 1763.
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Joshua Upham
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Harvard University.
Career
He practised law in Brookfield. In 1777, when, as a lawyer, he was required to take an oath of allegiance to the American state, he declared himself a loyalist and left for New York City to join the British. (He was subsequently named in the Massachusetts Banishment Acting of 1778) Upham was an officer, ending the war as a major in the King"s American Dragoons.
He was named a judge in the Supreme Court of New Brunswick in 1784.
Upham, a slave-owner, voted to uphold the legality of slavery in New Brunswick in 1800. He died at the age of 66 in London, England, where he had gone to lobby the British government to make the salaries of Supreme Court judges in New Brunswick comparable with those in Upper and Lower Canada.
Membership
He served as a member of the New Brunswick Council.
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Canada