Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

From a late Liverpool Paper.

To the Printer.

Sir--That instances of longevity are not so rare in modern times as is usually imagined, the subjoined list, collected from various sources, is a curious proof, to which I beg you will give a place in your columns, if you think it will afford any amusement to your numerous readers. That I might not swell it to an inconvenient length, none have been inserted who have not attained their 130th year, or whose longevity has not appeared to be well attested. Many more might, without doubt, be added, by those who have better opportunities for collecting such accounts.

The date affixed to each name is the year in which each person died, when that has been ascertained, or when not, the last year in which each is known to have lived.

To these may be added a Mulatto man who died in 1797 in Frederick Town, North-America, and who was said to be 180 years old.

In the Country Chronicle, of Dec. 13, 1791, a paragraph was inserted, which stated that Thomas Carn, according to the parish register of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, died the 28th of January, 1588, aged 207. This is an instance of longevity so far exceeding any other on record, that one is disposed to suspect some mistake either in the register or in the extract. Such however, as it was there given, I now send it you; and if it should find a place in your columns, you will oblige.

A. B.