Robert Merritt (son of Thomas Merritt and Mary Underhill) was born 10 Mar 1728/29 in Rye Westchester Co. New York, YSA, and died Dec 1802 in Hampstead, Queens Co, N.B. Canada. He married Elizabeth Robinson on 1762 in Long Island, New York, USA.
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Phoebe Merritt (daughter of Gilbert Merritt and Phoebe Birdsell) was born 10 Jan 1811, and died 09 Mar 1885.
Gilbert Merritt (son of Robert Merritt and Elizabeth Robinson) was born 16 Nov 1765 in Rye, Westchester Co. NY, USA, and died 16 Oct 1840 in Hampstead, Queens Co, N.B. Canada. He is buried in the Merritt Slipp Cemetary. He immigrated to Shelbourne Nova Scotia by ship on The Montague. He married Phoebe Birdsell on 11 Jul 1790 in Gagetown, Queens Co. N.B. Canada. He was a farmer.
Newspapers
February 14, 1857, New Brunswick Courier, Saint John
m. 21st ult, at residence of bride’s father, by Rev Benjamin Merritt, George L. GOOD, Studholm (Kings Co.) / Charlotte M. SLIP fourth d/o late James SLIP, Hampstead (Queens Co.) Source: Daniel F Johnson: Volume 16 Number 1752
On February 18th Renae Grubb wrote:
I had a nice visit with my Aunt Francine (Elder) Ormiston (my Dad’s twin sister) from Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan on Monday, Feb. 16. She has loaned me the small brown photo frame with photos of George Leonard Good, (son of John Good & Hannah McLeod) & wife Charlotte Merritt Slip (daughter of James Slip & Phoebe Merritt). George Leonard Good born 14 Sept. 1831, died 29 Dec. 1890 and married 21 Jan.1857 to Charlotte Merritt Slip born 4 Dec. 1836 and died 9 Sept. 1885. They had one son, James Elbridge Good, my great grandfather.
I remember this little brown picture frame always sitting on my Grandma Gretta (Good) Elder’s bookshelf in the living room. Now Aunt Francine keeps it on her bookshelf. Charlotte’s photo is on glass & George’s photo is on tin stuck to glass. Rather strange each photo was done differently. That’s why George’s photo is darker. Then each photo is framed with a decorative tin frame.
Photos shown here without frames and cleaned up a bit from original scans. Click on photos to see larger versions.
George Leonard Good
Charlotte Merritt Slip (Mrs. George Leonard Good)
Framed Versions of Photos
George Leonard Good
Charlotte Merritt Slip 1836
When fire broke out at a hay barn at York Point Slip at 2:30 PM on June 02, 1877, the residents of Saint John were under the impression that no conflagration could match the fire department’s state of the art Amoskeag steam powered, horse drawn fire engines.
Unfortunately, recent cost cutting measures had forced the newly formed professional fire department to share its horses with the public works department. When eminent disaster struck, the horses were all at work on roads projects some distance away and so had to be brought back to the firehall before they could attend to the city’s most pressing need ever. By the time they arrived on site, the Great Fire of 1877 was well under way. By disaster’s end, two fifths of Saint John was lost.
Loyalist House, built in 1810 by David Merritt – a cousin of my direct Merritt ancestors, is one of the few buildings to have survived and now stands as a museum to the Loyalist era at the corners of Union and Germain.
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This entry was recieved by email from Carol Brown Parker:
Hello everyone. I am sending these pictures of The Merritt and Slipp Cemetery as I have seen in so any places on the internet that the cemetery is listed as the Slipp Cemetery.
As you all probably know the Merritts and Slipps inter-married but this cemetery was always located on Merritt land not Slipp land. The Merritt house, a large white two story located to the left of the small bungalow beside the cemetery was owned last by Benjamin Merritt who died in 1981 as left to Batemans as he had no children. The Merritt house was passed generation to generation. I have plot maps showing who owned these properties. The first Leonard Slipp owned a plot about 3 minutes from this cemetery which is still owned by a Slipp descendant.
See also: More photos and info from this cemetery
The following from Othniel Merritt of Vancouver to my husband’s grandfather, David R. Merritt on August 28. 1956 and all hand written: Gerry Black
This is a History of that Merritt Branch, descended from Robert Merritt, a Loyalist of Westchester County, New York State, who, early in 1783 went to Nova Scotia to establish for himself and his family a new home, under the British Crown. Like several thousand other Loyalists, he went first to Port Roseway (now Shelborne) in present day Nova Scotia. He filed on two land claims – on the Mainland, the other on McNutt Island out in the Shelborne Harbor.
(ed. note – a more general history of New Brunswick follows)