Abbreviations used
Date August 12 1837
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper New Brunswick Courier
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.
d. Chelsea Hospital, England, Richard TAYLOR, oldest pensioner in that institution, aged 104, He was a drummer boy at the Battle of Moden in 1745; afterwards he served in Germany under Prince Ferdinand; the last action he was present in was at Alexandria in Egypt where Sir Ralph ABERCROMBIE fell.