ight to keep the fires burning, so as to keep
the rest from freezing. Some destitute people made use of boards,
which the older ones kept heating before the fire and applied by
turns to the smaller children to keep them warm.

Many women and children, and some of the men, died from cold and
exposure. Graves were dug with axes and shovels near the spot where
our party had landed, and there in stormy winter weather our loved
ones were buried. We had no minister, so we had to bury them
without any religious service, besides our own prayers. The first
burial ground continued to be used for some years until it was
nearly filled. We called it "The Loyalist Provincials Burial
Ground."

The site of this old grave-yard, is on the Ketchum place at Salamanca,
just below Fredericton, near the shore. Some rude headstones may
perhaps yet be found there. The late Adolphus G. Beckwith told me that
he remembered when a boy to have seen a number of pine "head-boards,"
much decayed, but still standing in this old cemetery. The painted
epitaphs, or inscriptions, were in some cases fairly well preserved. He
remembered, he said, that many of the names seemed to be German (or
Dutch), a statement which I hardly credited at the time, but which is
entirely in harmony with the old grandmother's story. Continuing her
narrative, she says:

Among those who came with us to St. Ann's, or who were there when
we arrived were Messrs. Swim, Burkstaff, McComesky, three named
Ridner, Wooley, Bass, Paine, Ryerse, Acker, Lownsberry, Ingraham,
Buchanan, Ackerman, Donley, Vanderbeck, Smith, Essington and some
few others.

Here again the grandmother's story is confirmed by the Muster Rolls of
the New Jersey Volunteers, lately placed by our Historical Society in
the Dominion Archives at Ottawa for safe-keeping. Nearly all the names
she mentions are to be found there. In Captain Waldron Blaan's Company,
we find John Swim, Vincent Swim, Moses McComesky, David Burkstaff,
Frederick Burkstaff. In Col. VanBuskirk's Company we find Abraham
Vanderbeck, Conrad Ridner, Abraham Ackerman, Morris Ackerman and
Marmaduke Ackerman. In Captain Edward Earle's Company, Lodewick Fisher,
Peter Ridnor and Peter Smith. In Captain Samuel Ryerson's Company,
Samuel Buchanan. In Captain Jacob Buskirk's Company, James Ackerman.

Benjamin Ingraham, mentioned above, was a sergeant in the King's
American Regiment; he served