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Date January 20 1849
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. Brighton (Carleton Co.) at residence of Charles H. RICHARDSON, 6th inst., George SINNET, supposed to have been at least 120 years of age. He was a native of Lower Germany and came to this country in the Army of the famous Gen. WOLFE and was at the Battle of Quebec on 13th Sept. 1759 and stood by that celebrated General when he bled on the Plains of Abraham; afterwards came to this Province and enlisted in 104th Regt. from which he was discharged about 35 years ago. He came to live with the late Joseph RICHARDSON about 34 years ago. - Carleton Sentinel