Erected to the memory of the Hon. Ward Chipman, Esq. who was born in the Province Massachusetts Bay on 30 July 1754 and died at Fredericton 9th Feb 1824. he was a graduate of Harvard University and educated to the profession of Law. Retaining his loyalty to this sovereign he was obliged to abandon his native London and evacuation of Boston in 1776 Having repaired to England the Royal Bounty bestowed on his a pension But a state of inactivity being ill suited to his ardent mind in less than a year he relinquished his pension and rejoined the King's Troops in New York, where he was employed in the Military Dept and in the practice of the Court of Admiralty until the peace of 1783. On the first erection of this province in 1784 he was appointed Solicitor General, and afterwards an advocate of the Bar, Member of the House of Assembly, Member of H.M. Council, Judge of Supreme Court and agent on the part of H.M. before several commissions, President and commander in Chief during vacancy in office of Lt. Gov., [[Source: PANB Daniel Johnson's Vital Stats, Vol 11, #334 'The Loyalist, Fredericton dated Aug 7, 1845]
Erected to the memory of the Hon. Ward Chipman, Esq. who was born in the Province Massachusetts Bay on 30 July 1754 and died at Fredericton 9th Feb 1824. he was a graduate of Harvard University and educated to the profession of Law. Retaining his loyalty to this sovereign he was obliged to abandon his native London and evacuation of Boston in 1776 Having repaired to England the Royal Bounty bestowed on his a pension But a state of inactivity being ill suited to his ardent mind in less than a year he relinquished his pension and rejoined the King's Troops in New York, where he was employed in the Military Dept and in the practice of the Court of Admiralty until the peace of 1783. On the first erection of this province in 1784 he was appointed Solicitor General, and afterwards an advocate of the Bar, Member of the House of Assembly, Member of H.M. Council, Judge of Supreme Court and agent on the part of H.M. before several commissions, President and commander in Chief during vacancy in office of Lt. Gov., [[Source: PANB Daniel Johnson's Vital Stats, Vol 11, #334 'The Loyalist, Fredericton dated Aug 7, 1845]
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