Untitled - Memorial University's Digital Archives Initiative

-4-
••d 17 80 sold his f arm at this Ceve to Mr. Benj .. Leeter-, In my next I may 8ay
8emet hing of t he h1 atol7' .r"Sam Whit e ' s Cfie" ..
The .ld &r8veyard in Trinity 1s a very old place of int erment indee4.
Pr.~bly 200 yeers old vheu the last interment took place there in the Summer of
1881. It \188 that of old Mr:J. Uhite, mother .t the late Mr• .Tehn \./h1te. Constable.
I buried her m::rsell, a nd s a officiated 8 t the last interment in t he old graveyard.
Abeut
the centre of this ~8veyard I s the t omb of the Rever end J ohn Clinch, M.C.
I t marks the site of the altsr in the first church built at TrinitYJ for Mr.
Clinch vas buried UDder the altar vhfcb va s temporarily removed for that perpese..
Mr. Cllich vee 11.0 quack in medi c1Do_ he va s 8
regu18rly licensed praetiti,ner
bel ding diplomas 8S physician and surgeon from Lenden , He hac, when studying
medi cine , 8S 8
fello\l student , the celebrated Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of
v8c c1nat l on f~r mallpox . They pa ssed thei r exams an~ received their diplomas
at the same time.