Brackett, Daniel

Brackett, Daniel a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in Berwick, Me., Oct. 4, 1803. His parents were Friends. When about nineteen years of age he became a Christian, and in 1824 he commenced to labor. as an itinerant minister. In 1829 he was at Houlton, on the border of the province of New Brunswick, and was there ordained by a council of ministers, who came more than a hundred miles through the forest for that purpose. About 1832 he removed to Brownfield, where his labors were greatly blessed. He preached in several of the adjoining towns, as Hiram and Fryburgh. He died near Cincinnati, O., Dec. 22, 1836. See The Morning Star, 20, 49. — (J. C. S.)