Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1759.03.19

NYGWPB.759.018
19 Mar 1759:32 (846)
Philadelphia, March 15.  On Saturday last died, of a tedious
illness, John Forbes, Esq; in the forty-ninth year of his
age, . . . [36 lines on his life and service]
Yesterday he was interred in the Chapel of Christ Church, in
this city.  The form and order of march at his funeral was
as follows.
. . . [List of marchers]
2. The Seventh Regiment, . . . the drums covered with black;
. . . [list of other mourners]