GeorgeBoswell_Panel_V2 Boswell entered fully into the development and promotion of his chosen community. He was �rst Secretary of the Cobourg Harbour Company and a member of the �rst Board of Directors of the projected railroad to Rice Lake and later director of the Cobourg & Peterborough Railway Company. He also became a large landowner with a number of stores and houses. He built his last residence at 230 King Street East, and named it Balmuto after the family ancestral estates in Scotland. It is now demolished. As a conservative in principle, Boswell identi�ed with the reform movement and was an advocate for responsible govern- ment. With Captain Archibald Macdonald and his father-in-law, James Radcli�e, he led the moderate reformers in the area. Even so, when the Rebellion of 1837 broke out he served in the government militia and saw action at Chippewa. It then became his lot and duty, as a barrister with sympathy for the reform movement, to defend defend a number of the rebels charged with high treason. In 1841 he was elected a member of the �rst Parliament of the United Canadas where he continued to forcefully argue for responsible government. When Judge Boswell died in 1889, he was considered the last survivor of the �rst parliament of the United Canadas and the last of the initial group of Upper Canadian lawyers created as Queen's Council in 1841. Judge Boswell with his second wife, a nurse and four granddaughters circa1900