Wiggins Cemetery
Fanjoy's Point, Waterborough, Queens Co., NB
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The Fanjoy's Point Cemetery is a rather old cemetery on the shores of the Grand Lake at Waterborough, Queens County. It is approximately one mile north of Lakeside Provincial Park and about one quarter mile off the Trans-Canada Highway. It is located on a point of land out on the lake and is surrounded by summer cottages; also it is surrounded by trees but is not really overgrown. Besides the inscriptions recorded herein there appears to be at least twenty-five other graves marked by fieldstones at head and foot. Some of these fieldstones have indications of inscriptions on them, but apart from one set of initials (recorded) nothing is legible. The dates on the other stones range from 1815 to 1885.
This data was collected by several members of the Queens County Historical Society, who visited it on the day of their annual picnic, 4 Aug 1975.HUGHES:
06. John Hughes d. 14 Oct 1850 ae 63 yrsMcLEAN:
02. Elizabeth w/o Charles McLean d. 17 Aug 1847 ae 33 yrs
their dau, Hannah d. 4 July 1847 ae 5 mosSLOCUM:
04. Ebenezer Slocum, who served as Capt. of the Royal Volunteers
during the American Revolutionary War, and came to NB with the
Loyalist in 1783, d. 9 Apr 1827 ae 77 yrs
h/w Esther* d. 20 Dec 1836 ae 87 yrs
*(Esther (Corey) Wiggins/ On the other side of Ebenezer is buried his
mother, Sarah (Allen) Slocum - Mrs. Charles. Stone is missing. All 3
were b. in North Kingston, Rhode Island. Families had been Quakers for
over a century.)
05. Daniel Slocum d. 12 June 1885 ae 88 yrs
Mary w/o Daniel Slocum d. 1 Feb 1877 ae 79 yrs
(Mary (Parks) Slocum)WIGGINS:
01. Charles J. s/o Stephen ? Esther Wiggins d. 16 Jan 1855 ae 4 mos
03. Jacob Wiggins, Esq. d. 2 Feb 1815 ae 52 yrs (b. Newbury, NY)*
h/w Elizabeth* d. 12 May 1852 ae 82 yrs
*(Elizabeth Ruth (Slocum) Wiggins)
08. Fieldstone: M.J.W. (This is not near stone for Jacob Wiggins.)07. Footstone M.S.
*NOTES: by Dr. Mildred Smith
* Wiggin's Family Cemetery, on land of Jacob Wiggins.
Anglican Cemetery of 1/2 acre starting at shore of Grand Lake, dedicated 1815.
In all deeds after 1815 the cemtery half acre is exempt from the sale.
The Slocum Family History in American Antiquarium Society Library, Worchester,
Mass, names nearly 100 buried in this Loyalist Cemetery. Each year there are
fewer stones and smaller boundaries.
Jacob Wiggins was the first one buried there in 1815, but it cannot be called
a Wiggins Family Cemetery only. His executors gave 1/2 acre of his land as an
Anglican Cemetery for their relatives and neighbours.
Modified: Sunday, 06-Apr-2008 22:46:22 MDT