Mr. Worcester on Longevity. 3 
In a number of instances, the statements of age, as given in 
different publications, have been ascertained to be incorrect. It is 
stated in the Gazetteer of New Hampshire, and likewise in the 
10th volume of the Second Series of the Massachusetts Historical 
Collections, that ‘ Mrs. Hayley’? died at Exeter, in 1790, at the 
age of LOL. In the Transactions of the American Philosophical 
Society, [vol. v.] the name is ‘ Thomas Hayley,” and the age 
101. In the 4th volume of the Massachusetts Historical Collec- 
tions, the name is ‘Benjamin Hayley,” and the age about 100. 
But by information obtained from the son of this man, it has been 
found that his name was Thomas Hayley, and his age only 98 ; and 
that no other person of the name of Hayley has died at Exeter 
at so great an age. Ina Magazine, published at Philadelphia, in 
1804, it was stated that Samuel Bartrow died at Boothbay, 
Maine, at the age of 135. But instead of this, it appears that a 
man of the name of Barter died at that place, at the age of 105. 
Several newspapers and journals, in 1823, mentioned the death 
of a Moor, of the name of Yarrow, at Georgetown, Columbia, 
at the age of 135; but it has been found that his age was only 
about 85. It was stated in a Magazine, published in London, 
and also in one of Philadelphia, that a Mulatto man died at 
Fredericktown, in 1797, said to be 180 years of age ; but with 
regard to this statement, no information either to contradict or to 
confirm it, has been procured. In some publications Sarah 
Norton, a coloured woman, of Barnstable, Massachusetts, has 
been stated to have died, in 1818, at the age of 116; but it has 
been ascertained that her age fell short of this period by about 
ten years. Other similar exaggerations have been detected which 
it is not necessary to specify ; and it is probable that if all the 
instances enumerated in the following lists, were thoroughly 
