DURATION or HUMAN LIFE. 45 
and died November r7th, 1782.—Mr. Hooton, a native 
of the city of New-York, was living laft fummer (and [ 
believe is fill alive,) in the diftri@ of Southwark; aged, ab 
that time, upwards of 107 :years.—In'the bill of mortali- 
ty for Chrift church and St. Peter’s, in this city, in the 
year 1775, Lobferve the death of one perfon, aged P20 
years. The Pennfylvania Mercury of the 1% of March, 
1788, has, republithed from a Wilmington paper under 
the date of February 27th, the names: of fifty perfons 
then living, in Anameflex and Pocomoke: Hundreds, So= 
merfet county, in the ftate of Maryland,--all of great ages: 
of thefe, twenty-three were upwards of ninety years of 
age; fixteen, upwards of eighty-feven ; and eleven, aged 
eighty-five. In the year 1775, Mrs. Lear died at Porte 
mouth, New-Hampfhire, at the age of 103 years. Inthe 
fame year, Mrs. Abigail Mayo died at Cambridve, Mafla- 
chuffetts, aged 106 years. And Mr.. William Ward, a 
native of Fairfield, in. Conneicut,-died in the fate of 
New-York, allo in the year 1775, aged 105 years, four 
months andtwenty days. LRA ay) i 
On the 2oth of Sept. 1788, died at his featin Albemarle 
country, Virg. Daniel Maupin, who was born on the 25th 
of March, 1700. At the time of his death; there. were ]j- 
ving, of his offspring, upwards of 200 perfons, including 
fome of the fifth generation. His wife was then alive and 
in good health; and it was not known that:any female of 
Her generation, after attaining tothe years of a woman, 
died under the age of eighty-five: years.---About three 
years fince, Arthur Bibbington died at Wyndham in Con- 
necticut, aged 107 years:+--And, about the fame time 
Mrs. Jane Brafher died in the city of New-York, at the 
age of a 102 years.---Timothy Matlack, Ef. clerk of the 
Senate of Pennfylvania, has favored me with a communi- 
cation of the following facts, tranfcribed from a note made 
by him, about twenty-four years fince—Upon reading a 
7 paragraph: 
