Abbreviations used
Date January 17 1863
County Northumberland
Place Chatham
Newspaper The Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma
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.
d. Wednesday 7th inst., at his residence Elm-tree, S.W., Phineas DAVIDSON, age 82, last survivor of family of late William DAVIDSON, Esq., first British settler of the Province, then (1764) part of Nova Scotia.