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OG.Our village and neighborhood are favored more than usual the present season with notices by travelling correspondents of the city press A cor. respondent of the Brooklyn Daily Advertiser has the following: t

 "From Cornwall we proceeded to Litchfeld.- No where is the air more pure and bracng than here. cit finds himself renewed in body and mind as soon he reaches these nights, and he be- comes as spry as in his youthful days What we call extreme longevity is here an every day matter. You will meet with parents who have boys and girls sirty years of age, and who will walk as many miles any day as their grand children who have gone to the city to live.

 This town has been somewhat noted for the number of its Revolutionary pensioners havo seen at least dozen of the venerable patriots my self in my occasional visits here Some of these have since been gathered to their fathers," but two of them reached the age of 93. One of those who survive, Mir. John Hall, of Milton parish, who is approaching four score and twelve years, and who participated in the varied fortunes of the A. merican army in this vicinity in 1776 and after wards, walked upwards of three miles on the 1lth of July last past, and hoed three roscs o corn, each forty rods in length! MT. H. has neighbor and fellow soldier who has passed his ssth year, and is in good health. The Episcopal minister in the same parish is 70, and were it not for his white locks, you would scarcely suppose him older than

 

 no further proof of the healthness of this region"

 It is singular fact that three individuals have lived and died in the house now occupied by the venerable Mr. John Hall, whose united age at the time of their death was PIT years, viz:

 Reuben Dickinson, died in 1878, aged 1o3 years;

 Sarah Dickinson, wife of Reuben D died in 1877, aged 90; and

 Tabiatha Gibbs, wife of Gershom Gibbs, the first white male child born in Litchfeld, died in 1915, aged s4.

 Add to 277 the ages of John Hall (92) and his wife (9O), both now living in the same house, and we have 45e for the aggregate age of five persons of one house! with fair prospect of dozen years addition to the two living! In the same immediate neighborhood, Mrs. Ruth Baldwin. daughter of the said Gershom Gibbs, died in 1s4O, at the age of s7 1; and Gershom Gibbs, son Of said Gershom, died in ls43. aged 93. The Mrs. Dickinson above mentioned was sister of the said Gershom Gibbs. Such instances of lon. gevity in one family are almost without precedent. | MT Dickinson, after he was 1O2 years old, amu- sed his descendants of three generations by mow- ing in the field. We learn from Rev. MT. Jones that MT. D. was born in Hatfield, Mass. 17l6, and that he was married to Miss Sarah Gibbs in 1746. They lived in the marriage state seuenty gears ! Beat that who can