Fonds MC363 - Smiths Creek burying ground

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Smiths Creek burying ground

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CA PANB MC363

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5 pp. of textual records

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(Operational since ca. 1822)

Administrative history

The Smiths Creek burying ground is located near Sussex, in the parish of Studholm, Kings County on the road to Knightville. The site was established as a cemetery about 1822, but it appears that it was originally used only by the Gosline family. Most of the gravestones in the cemetery date from the early 1840s.

In 1850 Samuel Gosline of Smiths Creek donated the land for use as a public, nondenominational burying ground. The original trustees of the cemetery were John King, David Hayward, Edward Currie, Hugh J. Gosline, William Mace, William A. Stockton, Peter Parlee, and John A. Gosline. In the 21st century, the site is still sometimes referred to as the Gosline Cemetery.

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The fonds contains a copy of the deed from Samuel Gosline to the trustees of the public burying ground for the residents of Smiths Creek, dated 26 August 1850. Also included is a list of subscribers in connection with the clearing and fencing of the cemetery land (1853).

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Lent to the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick by Thomas Anderson, of Sussex, New Brunswick, for photocopying on 29 April 1980.

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