Abbreviations used
Date September 29 1870
County Westmorland
Place Sackville
Newspaper Chignecto Post
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Mention of a letter from Jabez MORSE dated at Newport, Mass. ... The letter further said that the writer had made a pilgrimage here in 1819 when a young man, visiting Fort Cumberland of which he gave a short account and the cemetery at Fort Lawrence where he searched for and discovered the monument of his ancestor Joseph MORSE, Esq., half thrown out of the ground and nearly covered with wild shrubbery. (see original)