26 Mr. Worcester on Longevity. 
weighing usually from 112 to 116 pounds—in his best health, 
124 pounds ;_ but possessed considerable strength and activity of 
body till a short time before bis decease. He was illiterate, of 
moderate intellect, and cheerful disposition. There was nothing 
peculiar in his diet; he was not remarkably temperate, nor yet 
intemperate ; he was of industrious habits, and was accustomed 
to hard labour and coarse fare. 
Ephraim Pratt, the grandson of one of the early settlers at 
Plymouth, in Massachusetts, was born in East Sudbury, in the 
same state, in 1686 or 1687. The last 50 years of his life, 
he passed in the town of Shutesbury, where he died, May 
22, 1804. He married at the age of 21, and, it is stated in Dr. 
Allen’s ‘ American Biographical Dictionary,”’ that he could num- 
ber, before his death, among his decendants, about 1500 persons. 
In 1801 four of his sons were living, the oldest of whom was 
90 years of age, and the youngest 82. He was through life re- 
markable for temperance, and drank no wine or distilled spirits 
during his last 50 years; and for 40 years he ate no animal food, 
living mostly upon bread and milk. He enjoyed such uniform 
health, that he was not known to have ever consulted a physician ; 
and he was able to walk several miles in a day till a few years 
before his death. 
John Summers, was born in Virginia, near the Potomac, 
July 12th, 1706. About the year 1785 he removed to the 
state of Kentucky, where he resided till 1820, when he again 
removed to the state of Indiana, where he died on the 29th of 
March, 1822. At an election in Kentucky, in 1818, being then 
112 years of age, he walked from his residence to the town of 
Mount Sterling, a distance of five miles, in order to exercise his 
right of suffiage. He was described then to be in sound health, 
