Abbreviations used
Date December 6 1851
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper New Brunswick Courier
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. Oromocto (Sunbury Co.) 8th Sept., Abner SEELY, age 31; Also Blissville, 12th, Linus SEELY, age 51 years 1 mos. 12 days; On 18th Oct., Jacob SEELY, age 21 years 2 days; On 4th Nov., Miss Mary Ann SEELY, age 18 years 2 mos. 10 days; On 18th, Mrs. Elizabeth SEELY, age 56 years 4 mos. 18 days; The mother, father and three children of same family have been taken away by a malignant fever in short space of ten weeks; the lives of two other members of the same family are despaired of.