Little information is known about Charles Proctor. He was born in 1720 and was a ship owner and political figure in Nova Scotia. He arrived in Halifax in 1749 after serving as an officer in Louisbourg (Salisbury 2011, 173). In 1751, he was sent to Boston to raise a company of a hundred men under his command, to be used as troops for the new colony of Nova Scotia (Chard 1977). He was later appointed to lay out the Dockyard in 1758 and became a surveyor of highways (Salisbury 2011, 173). On March 11, 1760, he was appointed justice of the peace for the town of Halifax. He represented King's County from 1759 to 1760 and Halifax Township from 1765 to 1773 at the Nova Scotia Legislature. Proctor served as major and then lieutenant colonel in the Halifax town militia and was named Provost Marshal for Nova Scotia in 1771. He either died in Halifax on December 21, 1773, or in Windsor in 1774. Information on this varies.
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