Hartland (Carleton Co.) April 9 - Rev. Ezekiel SIPPRELL, frequently spoken of as 'the old patriarch' passed away peacefully away to his rest at 7 o'clock this morn. He had been in a feeble condition all winter and his demise was being looked for at any moment. He was confined to his bed for three days. He was quite conscious to the last but his mind wandered. Uncle Zekle has been a familiar cognomen for two score years. Born at Studholm (Kings Co.) Aug. 10th, 1799, the son of a Loyalist who was a native of France settled in Pennsylvania, from whence with his wife he came during revolutionary times. When deceased was a child his father's family moved to Lower Brighton where he spent his youth and young manhood. His mother was a FOSTER and he was quite closely connected with the Fosters, Fenwicks, McLeods, Sprouls, McFarlands and Kiersteads of Kings Co., including Dr. McLEOD of Fredericton and Hon. G.E. FOSTER, Minister of Finance. Mr. Sipprell had four brothers, two of whom settled in Ontario and one in Aroostock County. He had several sisters, one of whom married a MORTON, another a GOOD of Millstream; another married a GREY of Pembroke. He, with his brother, Seth SIPPRELL were the pioneer settlers in this locality. It is a story the old man loved to repeat, of how two poled up the river in a canoe, with a gallon of molasses, a bag of cornmeal, their guns and axes. Landing just opposite where Hartland now stands they began cutting birch timber. In a little hut they lived alone for a number of years and on their first clearing sowed wheat and from two acres raised the unparalled crop on 101 bushels which took the king's bounty for that year. Unkle Zekle could easily remember Waterloo and the war of 1812. He often recited to his children how 'In Boston Bay, the Chesapeake lay' and told of his being drafted for the Aroostock war, and how he gave his watch and five pounds sterling for a substitute, that he might not have to leave his wife and young children. It is interesting to note that the substitute returned in a few days without so much as having smelled the smoke of powder. In 1833 Mr. Sipprell married a daughter of the late Nathaniel SHAW of Victoria Corner by whom he had 14 children, 10 of whom are living. The sons are on the divided homestead; one in Washington, E.M. SIPPRELL, general manager of the Ontario Mutual Life Assurance Co. St. John and one son who settled on the Mattawamkeag. Mr. Sipprell had a posterity numbering nearly 100 souls. He was ordained minister of the Free Christian Baptist conference shortly after his marriage and in this capacity he labored for years until his superannuation. The funeral takes place in the Free Baptist Church at Victoria Corner, Thursday 10 a.m., Rev. Joseph Noble to preach the funeral sermon. Interment in the burying ground of the same church.