Died on Saturday the 8th ultimo, Henry Brackbill, Sen., aged 99 years and 7 months.

This interesting old man was born in Philadelphia in March 1726 and served in the British army at the taking of Havana in 1754 – and was one of only seven of his company, which comprised of seventy seven men who survived the ravages of a malignant epidemic fever which prevailed among the soldiers at that time. He likewise served as a volunteer at the commencement of the revolutionary war, being then too old to be put in requisition as a militiaman. He preserved his mental faculties free from the dotage incident to old persons until his last moments and his bodily strength and activity was a matter of astonishment to all who knew him. Two years ago although then upwards of ninety seven years of age, he cut all the timber off a well timbered clearing of four acres within the space of six weeks and in the same year, he marched with his axe on his shoulder to the mountain, a distance of two miles from his residence and felled and trimmed up a tree, two feet and a half over and returned home again before night; and during the present year he has performed tasks which might make some of your young men blush. He never was during his long life visited by any sickness except that which carried him off, which only lasted twelve hours. – Mifflin Eagle