The Old Place or Belding Cemetery located

On Graveyard Spit on east side Little Dipper Harbour

Chance Harbour, NB

In January of 2008 Maurice Belding and Freddie Thompson

Arranged a crew

And cleared out the cemetery

On the Graveyard Spit

These pictures were taken in April of 2008

Remember that this is the final unmarked resting place

Of Daniel Belding and Mabel Bristol

Who came to Saint John from New Haven, CT

In 1784 as Loyalists

And also their cousin Felix Thomas, master mariner,

And father of Jane Thomas, wife of David Belding

And part owner of the ‘General Smythe’, a privateer

In the War of 1812

And lived in Saint John until 1805

When they moved to Chance Harbour to

Become the first permanent residents of the Village

And the ancestors of all the residents living

There in 1945 save for the Abbott family

List of Photos

Chance Harbour Map for Orientation purposes

Round Meadows Point from Spit

West Side Little Dipper Harbour

More west side Little Dipper Harbour

Lobster Cove just inside Round Meadows Point

Crow Island on east side of Little Dipper Harbour

Breakwater between Crow Island and mainland

Old Place landing site and Wharves as seen from the Spit

Shoreline east of Old Place

Beach on west side of Spit near north end of same

Trees on north end of Spit

West beach of Spit looking north to the houses and beyond them the road

Looking east from center of the cemetery over Belding Creek

Cemetery, cairn and Belding Creek in the distance

South side of cemetery, cairn to the left

West side of cemetery by west beach of Spit on Little Dipper Harbour

One fenced enclosure on east side of Cemetery

Looking south from north side of Cemetery, Old Place in distance

Backside of cairn from inside the cemetery

Enclosure with graves of Robert and Charlotte Belding on left

and Mabel Thompson on right

Gravestone of Robert Belding and wife Charlotte Giggey

The Cairn erected 1967 by Woman’s Institute

(Note absence of any reference to Daniel Belding, his wife Mabel Bristol

Or their cousin, Captain Felix Thomas)

Enclosure with gravestone of Maria Belding and husband James Tiner

Gravestone of Maria Belding and husband James Tiner

List of names on Cairn

Enclosures on south side of Cairn one containing gravestone of Mabel Belding

Another view of the enclosure

Looking north past the Cairn to Little Dipper Harbour

Looking west over the cemetery to Little Dipper Harbour

Inside of one enclosure

FIN

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