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Samuel Embrie

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ7411329 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samuel Embrie (? - c.1799) was an American-born farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Cumberland County in the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia from 1847 to 1851. His name also appears as Samuel Embree.

He was born in New York state. In 1777, he married Sarah Hyatt, a loyalist from New York. Embrie was a lieutenant in Colonel Oliver DeLancey's regiment. He left New York in 1783 and settled in Cobequid Mountain.

References

Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1984). Elliott, Shirley B. (ed.).

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“Samuel Embrie” enters the record as canadian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Samuel, Embrie and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1799, 1847, 1851, 1777—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Samuel, Embrie and Canadian.
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“Samuel Embrie” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Samuel, Embrie and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7411329. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1799, 1847, 1851 and 1777.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samuel Embrie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.