Abbreviations used
Date April 19 1884
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
The first of the family in this country appears to have been Thomas BURPEE who settled at Rowley, Mass. (see original -Ancestry of First Families of Saint John by Edwin Salter, Washington, D.C.)