The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-09
Died.


On the 7th instant, of bilious fever JOHN r BAN
CROFT, aged rs years.
BrowD, are invited to after his funeral on Monday
9Th instant at three o'clock from his late reside
Ne. go Adams street, Brooklyn
In Brooklyn, on Saturday, Oct. Z. at o'clock P NJ
OF dysentery, JOHN E. CAMMEYER, Jr. son of John f.
and Catherine Cammeyer, aged II years, months,
and "a days.
The relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully requested attend his funeral from the resi-
dence Of his father No 81 Stanton street. at O'Clock
p NJ, without further invitation. The funeral SER
vices will take place at St. Johns Church at half past
On Saturday evening, at the Howard Hote', JoHv
His friends, and the members of Orion Lodge. No.
Es, o. f., are requested to attend his fu eral
this Monday afternoon. at half past three o'clock at
ton streets
On sunday morning. the sth instant after short
but severe Illness MATTHIAS L. ANDERSON in the 9th
The relatives and friends of the family are respect
fuy invited to ate nd his funeral frem the residence
day afternoon at half past three O'Clock without fur
ther invitation.
In New London, October Cd, 1s4s, General H,sny
BURBrcK, aged94. General Burbeck born In Bos
ton June stb 1854 and reared in his native place
Much Of the early part of his life was spent In Castle
W'IDsm, now Fort independence, in Boston harbor !;
his father being officer of the
in the service Of Great Britain He had just
his majority when the Of broke out
His father promptly took part with the popular cause
and entered into the service Of the country He also
Joined the American army and his fret commission
o. lieutenant In a company Of which his father had
command is dated at Cambridge 10th of May l775
and signed by General Joseph Warren. whose short
but gallant service and early fall at the battle of Gum
ker Hill have placed his name high on the list of the
martyrs and patriots Of the revolution This commits.
on ranks among the earliest in the American service
~ received the commission Of a captain in regime Mt
astery, Of the Massachusetts line 18th September
90 ana continued In that regiment and line till the
core OF tne war In the tolls and suYerings of the re-
voiuuop, General Burbeck bore full share In l775
he We WIN the army at Cambridge, Massachusetts;
.i 20 ne was employed In the vicinity Of sew York
VII the evacuation OF the city in Septem her and in
Il7' he joined the army In PENNSYLVANIA under Cen
washington and participated In the bloody aicts
OF BraDdywine and Germantown and In tho tsr,;hIs
dtprivsfions and suierings of the wnter AZ Vsi,av
Forge The following year he shared the neriIs ~ ~.
memorable retreat through New Jersey ana was
present at the battle of Monmouth He continued 10
active service until the close of the war in 5ss 90
when the army was dsbaBded he returned TO nriyats
life with the brevet rank of major Three wears suh
sequspty he again entered the service of his
with the rank Of captain, and for several wears
actively engaged In the Indian along the western
frontier, under General Anthony Wayne His death
has left General Solomon Van Rensselaer, the oniv
surviving officer Of Wsyne's army Four years he
held the command OF Fort Mackinaw then a solitary
post almost entirely cut of from commu ncation with
The civilized world In the with Great Britain
which commenced in 1912 he commanded at New
ork Newport New London, and Greenbush with the
rank OF briRadier general and the declaration of
peace In 1919 retired from public service to spend the
,veDipg OF bis days In the tramp utility Of domestic
life having spent thirty eight years almost
active military service Il IVES ct that tme thai -