Fredericton's Old Burial Ground - Seann Chladh

SCOTS AND THE OLD PUBLIC BURIAL GROUND, FREDERICTON  by Dr. Ellen MacGillivray, c. 1991 When John Ross and I were co-historians of the Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew from 1985-1987 we had not yet started to sort the Society's documents left in John's care by late Dr. D. J. MacLeod. We became interested in finding the burial plots in the Old Public Burial Ground of the Chartered Members of the Society as well as those of others who came later. But first some notes on the place itself.  THE OLD PUBLIC BURIAL GROUND  According to Dr. Lillian Maxwell (1937) on August 2nd, 1785 the Governor-in- Council appointed Trustees to lay out Fredericton. One of these Trustees was Lieutenant Dugald Campbell who made the survey in 1785-1786: "The Town Plat as first laid out extended from Smythe street to Sunbury street and from the river to Charlotte street. The blocks were laid out to cover four and a half acres, the streets one chain wide. A square was laid out in the middle of th...