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fought in the wars of that queen under the duke of Marlborough. 
In the early part of the last century he came to New York with 
his father. He was wounded in Braddock’s defeat ; was carried a 
prisoner to Quebec during the revolutionary war ; and was much 
cut up by wounds. He died on the 26th of October, 1820, in 
the 155th year of his age, after an illness of forty-five days, 
brought on by an attack of the fever and ague. 
‘In the latter part of his life he resided about two miles from 
the village of Whitehall, N. Y. The year before his death he was 
visited by Professor Silliman, from whose account the following 
extracts are taken. 
‘¢ When we arrived at his residence (a plain farmer’s house, not 
painted, rather out of repair, and much open to the wind), he was 
up stairs, at his daily work of spooling and winding yarn. This 
_ occupation is auxiliary to that of his wife, who is a weaver, and 
although more than eighty years old, she weaves six yards a day, 
and the old man can supply her with more yarn than she can weave. 
Supposing he must be very feeble, we offered to go up stairs to 
him, but he soon came down, walking somewhat stooping, and 
supported by a staff, but with less apparent inconvenience than 
most persons exhibit at eighty or ninety. 
‘« His stature is of middle size, and although his person is 
rather delicate and slender, he stoops but little, even when unsup- 
ported. His complexion is very fair and delicate, and his express- 
ion bright, cheerful, and intelligent ; his features are handsome, 
and considering that they have endured through one third part of 
a second century, they are regular, comely, and wonderfully un- 
disfigured by the hand of time; his eyes are of a lively blue ; 
his profile is Grecian, and very fine ; his head is completely 
covered with the most beautiful and delicate white locks imagina- 
