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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 11 Numéro 334

Date 7 août 1845
Comté York
Lieu Fredericton
Journal The Loyalist

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In the Old Burying Ground at St. John we found a monument erected to the Memory of Walter CHALONER, Esq. formerly Sheriff of Newport, Rhode Island and latterly one of the Magistrates for County of Kings; Another monument purports tohave been erected to the Memory of Mary BLISS w/o Jonathan BLISS, Esq. and daughter to the Hon. John WORTHINGTON, Esq. of Springfield, Mass.; This monument is erected to the Memory ofthe Hon. Ward CHIPMAN, Esq. who was born in the Province ofMassachusetts Bay on 30th July 1754 and died at Fredericton9th February 1824. He was a graduate of Harvard Universityand educated to the profession of Law. Retaining his loyaltyto his Sovereign, he was obliged to abandon his native landon the Evacuation of Boston in 1776. Having repaired to England the Royal Bounty bestowed on him a pension. But a state of inactivity being ill suited to his ardent mind, inless than a year he relinquished his pension and rejoined theKing's Troops in New York, where he was employed in the Military Dept. and in the practice of the Court of Admiraltyuntil the peace of 1783. On the first erection of this province in 1784 he was appointed Solicitor General, and afterwards an advocate at the Bar, Member of the House of Assembly, Member of H.M. Council, Judge of Supreme Court andagent on part of H.M. before several commissions, Presidentand Commander in Chief during vacancy in office of Lt. Gov.;Sacred to the Memory of Hon. James PUTNAM, Esq., appointedMember of H.M. Council, and Justice of Supreme Court on theorganization of the Gov't. in this Province in 1784. He hadbeen for many years before the American War a Barrister atLaw and last Attorney General under H.M. in late Province ofMassachusetts Bay. He died 25th Oct. 1789, age 64. Besides these, there is a handsome monument in the new burying ground: Sacred to the Memory of Amos BOTSFORD, Esq.Born at Newton, Connecticut 30th January 1744. He was appointed in 1782 by Sir Guy Carleton, an agent for the Loyalists who were then embarking at New York to seek an asylum in Nova Scotia and arrived at Annapolis with the firstfleet in the Autumn of that year. On the Erection of the Province he represented Westmorland County, elected Speakerof the first House of Assembly in 1786 and afterwards filledthat office 27 years. He died 14th Sept. 1812, age 69. In the Burying Ground at Fredericton, are several monumentsto the Memory of Loyalists including: Hon. Jonathan BLISS,Samuel Denny STREET, Esq., Lt. Col. Isaac ALLEN, the widow of Edward WINSLOW, Esq., formerly of Massachusetts and Capt. Peter CLEMENTS, King's late American Regiment who died December 1833, age 93; Hon. Jonathan ODELL M.A. born 25th Sept. 1737 and died 25th Nov. 1818. He was educated in profession of Physic and Surgery. In 1767 ordained and appointed spiritual charge of Burlington, New Jersey. In theAmerican War of Independence he was persecuted, proscribedand in 1776 driven out from his family and home. At the closeof the Rebellion he took refuge in the Mother Country. He wascalled to a seat in H.M. Council in this province with theappointment of Secretary, Registrar of Records and Clerk ofthe Council.; Sacred to Memory of Hon. John SAUNDERS, D.C.L., chief Justice of N.B. who was born 1st June 1754 in PrincessAnn County, Virginia and died 24th May 1834 at Fredericton.On commencement of hostilities, relinquishing the academicstudies, he repaired to the Royal Standard with a troop ofDragoons raised at his own expense. Being subsequently transfered to the Queens Rangers, he was twice wounded andthe cavalry and flank companies of the detachment placed under his command. At the war's conclusion, he returned tothe land of his ancestors, entered the Middle Temple and wascalled in 1787 to the English Bar. In 1790 he was appointed aJudge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick; In 1822 elevatedto Chief Justice and President of H.M. Council. The principal men who founded St. Andrews went from Bostonand Falmouth of whom a number are named in the Massachusettsproscription act of 1778. At St. Andrews closed the lives ofPAGAN and WYER both of Falmouth. In N.B. the first was a Member of House of Assembly and Chief Justice of Common Pleas; the other was a sheriff, a judge, a deputy treasurerand govt. agent.

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