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grey hair had fallen off, and Avas lately renewed by a dark 

 head of hair ; a new set of teeth had made their appear- 

 ance, and a few hours previous to his death he ate three 

 pounds of pork, two or three pounds of bread, and drank 

 nearly a pint of wine." 



J. H. Chateau. 

 Philadelphia. 



" On the 30th of May past, the children, grandchildren, 

 and great-grandchildren of Richard Buffington, senior, to 

 the number of 115, met together at his house in Chester 

 County, as also his nine sons and daughters-in-law, and 

 twelve great-grandchildren-in-law. The old man is from 

 Great Marie upon the Thames, in Buckinghamshire, in 

 Old England, aged about eighty-five, and is still hearty, 

 active, and of perfect memory. His eldest son, now in 

 the sixtieth year of his age, was the first born of English 

 descent in this province." — From the Fennsylvania Ga- 

 zette, No. 551., for July 5, 1739. 



James. 



Philadelphia. 



Mrs. Mary Clifford, daughter of Highgate Boyd 

 of Rosslare, county Wexford, Esq., and widow of 

 Robert Clifford of Wexford, died at the age of 

 101. 



In 1835 died Mrs. Sarah Colvill, daughter of 

 C. Lennox, Esq., of Londonderry, and widow of 

 Robert Colvill, Esq., of Youghal, whom she sur- 

 vived forty-seven years, having lived to the age of 

 105. 



A letter from Seville of October 28, 1853, men- 

 tions the death of Isabella Chava, in the 115th 

 year of her age. (Saunders' Newspaper, Decem- 

 ber 8, 1853.) Y. S. M. 



" Haller, who has collected the greatest number of ex- 

 amples of longevity, says that he has found more than 



1000 who have lived from 100 to 110 years. 



60 „ „ 110 to 120 „ 



29 „ „ 120 to 130 „ 



15 „ „ 130 to 140 „ 



6 „ „ 140 to 160 „ 



and 



1 who reached the astonishing age of 169 years. 



It has been remarked that England, Sweden, and Den- 

 mark have produced the greatest number of long-lived 

 persons." — MontMy Mirror, London, November, 1800. 



w.w. 



Malta. 



I copy the following from the Hidl News, 

 No. 135., Saturday, July 29, 1854, p. 1. : 



" The Dublin Freeman says, ' Owen Duffy, of Mo- 

 naghan county, is 122 years old. When 116 he lost his 

 second wife, and subsequently married p. third, by whom 

 he had a son and a daughter. His youngest son is two 

 years old, his eldest 90. He still retains, in much vigour, 

 his mental and corporeal faculties, and frequently walks 

 to the county town, a distance of eight miles.' " 



J, Sansom. 



" Sarum, April SO. We hear from Leamington, in Hants, 

 that one Jfrs. jMitchell was lately brought to bed there 

 of a daughter, whose great-great-grandmother is still 

 living, and has already seen her fifth generation, and all 



daughters ; so that she may say the same that the distich 

 doth, made on one of the Dalburg's family of Basil : 



' Mater ait natae, die natse, filia natam 



Ut moneat, natae, plangere filiolam.' 

 ' Rise up, daughter, and go to thy daughter. 



For her daughter's daughter hath a daughter.' 



She is about ninety-two years of age, is in perfect health,, 

 has all her senses clear, and hopes to see five generations 

 more." — From the Fennsylvania Gazette, No. 556., of 

 August 9, 1739, printed by Benjamin Franklin. 



Jambs'. 

 Philadelphia. 



Perhaps the following instance of longevity, 

 taken from the London Monthly Mirror of Janu- 

 ary, 1798, may be found of sufficient interest to 

 claim a space in " N. & Q." : 



" A Mulatto man at Frederick Town, Virginia, at the 

 extraordinary age of 180 years, 140 of which he was a 

 slave to the family of Colonel Sims." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



"The register of the parish of Bremhill commences 

 with the year 1591. It contains the following remarkable 

 entry : 



' Buried, September the 29th, 1696, Edith Goldie, Grace 

 Young, Elizabeth Wiltshire. Their united ages make 300 

 years.' " 



The above is extracted from Britton's Beauties 

 of Wiltshire, London, 1825, vol. iii. p. 170. Is 

 the register authentic and genuine ? J. Sansom. 



MORGAN ODOHERTT. 



(Vol. X., p. 96.) 



It would be very interesting — and now that 

 poor Wilson is no more, the time seems very op- 

 portune — if the Blackwoods would favour the 

 world with a list of the contributors to Maga as 

 far as they are known, and up to Wilson's re- 

 signation of the office of editor. I think there 

 can be no doubt but that Dr. Maginn originated 

 the notion of the redoubtable ensign ; but the 

 idea was so simple, and so easily adhered to, that 

 many writers afterwards took up the notion ; and 

 the character, I believe, owes much of its reality 

 to the various jocular spirits who each contri- 

 buted some new yet harmonising feature to the 

 grotesque structure. Of the truth of this fact the 

 present writer can speak of his own knowledge. 

 He himself contributed one or two papers among 

 the HorcB Cantabrigienses, introducing the merry 

 Morgan to Cambridge. These papers were sent 

 anonymously, yet they were not only inserted, 

 but referred to afterwards by the veritable Morgan 

 (whoever he might be) as part of his series. This 

 proves the truth of Mr. Warden's conjecture, 

 that there must have been "more than one 

 writer." Indeed, I believe there were many, homo- 



