The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, MassachusettsBrooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
Literary curiosa; New England -- Social life and customs
Anonymous, of Yorkshire, aged 140, and his son, aged 100,
were both living, and attended to give evidence at York
Assize, in 1664.
F. Sagar, of Lancashire, died in January, 1668, aged 112.
Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, died on the 8th of December,
1670, aged 169.
Robert Montgomery, of Yorkshire, was living in 1670, aged
126.
Countess of Desmond, Ireland, aged 140.
Mr. Ecleston, of Ireland, died 1691, aged 143.
Mr. Lawrence, of Scotland, living, aged 140.
Mary Gore, born at Collinworth, in Yorkshire, lived 100
years in Ireland, and died at Dublin in 1727, aged 125.
Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died about 1748, aged 137.
Simon Sack, of Trionia, died on the 30th of May, 1761, aged
141.
Col. Thomas Winsloe, of Ireland, died on the 12th of August,
1766, aged 156.
Francis Consist, of Yorkshire, died in January, 1768, aged
150.
Francis Bons, of France, died on the 6th of February, 1769,
aged 124.
Christopher Jacob Drakenberg, of Norway, a boatswain in the
Danish navy, died on the 24th of June, 1770, aged 146.
Margaret Forster, of Cumberland, aged 136.
Gen. Oglethorpe died in August last, aged 103.
A goldsmith, of France, died in June, 1776, aged 140.
Mary Yates, of Shropshire, died in 1776, aged 128.
John Brookley, of Devonshire, living in 1777, aged 134.
Miss Ellis, daughter of Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died in 1781,
aged 104.
Mr. Froome, of Holms-Chapel, in Cheshire, died in May last,
aged 125.
Mary M'Donald, county of Down, in Ireland, died on the 16th
of June last, aged 118.
Mary Cameron, of Invernessshire, in Scotland, died in July
last, aged 130.
Miss Ellis, of Richmond, in Surrey, living on the 16th of
August last, aged 105.
Mr. Rowe, at Nutwell-House, in Scotland, died in August
last, aged 106.
Donald McKeen, of Argyleshire, in Scotland, died in
September last, aged 109.
John Button, of Liverpool, died on the 18th of November
last, the oldest burgess of that borough upon record; he
lived in six reigns, being born in the reign of James II.
Mr. Smith, a farmer, at Dolver, in Montgomeryshire, died in
November last, aged 103: He was never known to drink any
thing but buttermilk.
John Follart, woolcomber, at Norney, near the city of
Exeter, living and in good health on the 30th of November
last, aged 121; he works still at his business, and retains
his faculties.
_Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 1, 1786.
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PHILADELPHIA, August 19.
_Instances of Longevity in America._
In South-America there was said, in the year 1785, to be a
negro woman living, aged about 175; she remembered her first
master, who died in 1615, and that he gave her away with
some other property towards sounding a school.
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