Joseph Fairbanks
Union Fire-Club
Joseph Fairbanks was from Massachusetts. He was one of the representatives in the first House of Assembly, summoned in 1758. Mr. Fairbanks left no children. His nephew, the late Rufus Fairbanks, became heir to all his property in Halifax, which at the time of his death was very considerable. Mr. Rufus Fairbanks was for many years one of the magistrates of Halifax ; he married a daughter of Charles Prescott, sister to the Hon. Charles Prescott (note from the Halifax Fire Historical Society: Charles Prescott is listed as one of the Members of the Sun Fire Company in 1801), of Cornwallis, and was the father of the Hon. John E. Fairbanks, of the firm of Painbanks & McNab. of Hon. Charles R. Fairbanks, many years a member of Assembly for Halifax and Judge of Admiralty and Master of the Rolls, and of Samuel P. Fairbanks, formerly member for Queen's County, with other children.