20 Mr. Worcester on Longevity. 
PLACE. YEAR. _— AGE, 
Mr. Neighbours Laurens Dist. S. C. 1798 114 
John Weeks New London, Ct. 1798 114 
Ephraim Bunche St. James Parish, S.C. 1814 114 
Frank, a negro Woodstock, Va. 1820 114 
Charles Jordan North Carolina 1803 114 
Adam Smith, 2 negro Philadelphia, Pa. 1819 114 
Alexander Berkley* Charlotte Co. Va. 1825 114 
Orono, a Penobscot Indian Chief | Old Town, Me. 1801 Lis 
Mrs. Belknapt 113 
Shenandoah, an Indian chief Oneida Castle, N. Y. 1816 113 
Dinah M’Intire, a negress Philadelphia, Pa. 1819 113 
Priscilla Carmichael Surrey Co. Va. 1818 113 
* Alexander Berkley was a native of Scotland, and came to this country at 
the age of 15 years. At the age of 110 he recovered the perfect use of his sight, 
which had been partially injured, and entire blindness ensued thirty days after. 
He died on the 22d of October, 1825, and his wife, whom he married at the age 
of 21, died on the 19th of January, 1826. They had liyed together 93 years, 
and had 14 children, 12 of whom lived to mature age. : 
+ Mrs. Belknap’s husband is said to have come from England and settled in 
Haverhill in Massachusetts ; but the time and place of the death of Mrs. Belknap 
are not known. Her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Newton, of Southborough, Mass. (men- 
tioned in the Am. Phil. Trans. Vol. III. p. 46) died in 1790, at the age of 106. 
The following particulars are stated respecting five other children, viz.—that her 
son, John Belknap, died in Westborough, Mass. in his 101st year; that another 
son lived to upwards of 100; that her daughter, Mrs. Flagg, of Boston. (proba- 
bly the same as Mrs. Hannah Flagg, stated in the Am. Phil. Trans. Vol. IIL. 
p- 47, to have died in Boston, in 1787, aged 102) lived to 101; and that two 
other daughters, Mrs. Cunningham and Mrs. Merril, each exceeded the age of 
100 years. The particulars respecting this extraordinay instance of family lon- 
gevity, were communicated to the writer by a clergyman of respectability, 
who stated that he received them from two great grandsons of Mrs. Belknap, and 
that he has “ reason to believe them to be substantially correct.” 
