Mr. Worcester on Longevity. i) 
in New Hampshire. He was a native of England, and served as 
an ensign in the army of Oliver Cromwell ; but on the restoration 
of Charles II. he came to this country, and was one of the first 
settlers of Dunstable. He was the father of Zaccheus Lovewell, 
a colonel in the French war, and of Captain John Lovewell, the 
commander in the celebrated action at Pequawkett, known by the 
name of ‘* Lovewell’s Fight.”” But few particulars can be ascer- 
tained respecting his history, and the precise time of his death is 
not known. 
William Perkins, of Newmarket, was a native of the west of . 
England. Governor Burnet visited him at his residence, in 1729, 
and examined him respecting many facts and occurrences during 
the civil war in England. A son of his died in 1757, at the age 
of 87; and Thomas Perkins, of Wakefield, N. H., a great 
grandson, died in 1824, at the age of 92. 
Robert Metlin (called by Dr. Belknap, Robert Macklin), who 
died at Wakefield, in 1787, at the age of 115, was a native of 
Scotland. He lived for some time at Portsmouth, and followed 
the occupation of a baker. The following anecdote respecting 
him is related by Mr. Adams, in his “ Annals of Portsmouth,” 
under the year 1787, the year of Metlin’s death. . 
«« He was a great pedestrian. He usually bought his flour in 
Boston, and always travelled thither on foot ; he performed the 
journey in a day, the distance being then about sixty-six miles, 
made his purchases, put his flour on board a coaster, and returned 
home the next day. He waseighty years of age the last time he 
performed this journey. At that time this was thought an extra- 
ordinary day’s journey for a horse. ‘The stages required the 
greatest part of two days. Col. Atkinson, with a strong horse, 
in a very light sulky, once accomplished it in aday. He set out 
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