LONGEVITr. 



Providencci. Tmmediatcly after the creation, when the world 

 was to be peoo'ed by one man and woman, the ordinary age 

 was nine hundred years and upwards. Immediately after 

 the flood, when there were three perfons to Hock the world, 

 their age was ctit (horter ; and none of thofe patriarchs, 

 but Shorn, arrived at five hundred. In the fecond century 

 we find none that reached two hundred and forty, in the 

 third, none, but Terah, that came to two hundred years ; 

 the world, Rt leaft a part of it, by that time being fo well 

 peopled, that they had built cities, and were cantoned out 

 into dillant nations. (See Antediluvian.) By degrees, 

 as the numberof people increafcd, their longevity decreafed, 

 till it came down at length to feventy or eighty years ; and 



there it flood, and has continued to fland, ever (ince the time- 

 of Mofes. This is found a good medium, and, by means 

 here-of, the world is neither overftocked, nur kept too thin • 

 but life and death keep a tolerably equal pace. So that 

 from this period the common duration of man's life haS' ' 

 been mlich the fame in all ages, as we learn both from facrcd 

 and profane hiftory. In confequence of the refeavches of 

 the ingenious Mr. Whitchurft (fee his Inquiry into the 

 Origin of the Earth), and of Dr. Fothergill (fee his Ob- 

 fervations on Longevity in the Mancheller Memoir?, vol: i.) 

 we are enabled to prefent our readers with tables of longe- 

 vity, and appropriate refledion^,. wliich wi.l be no lefs ia-. 

 llruftive than amufmic. 



Table I. 



Names cf the Perfons. 



Ages. 



Places of Abode. 



Thomas Pane 



Henry Jenkins 



Robert Montgomery 



James Sands 



His Wife 



Countefs of Di-fmond 



Countels of Ecleilun 



J. Sagar - - ' - 



Laurence 



Simon Sajk 



Colonel Thomas Window 



Francis Confiil 



Chrift. J. Drakenberg 



Margaret Forfter 



Her Daughter 



Francis Rons 



J:^!m Brookey 



James Bowels 



John Tice - - - 



John Mo'jnt 



A. Goldimith 



Marv Yates 



Ji;hn' EaV's 



William E'lis 



Louiffa Truxo, a Ncgrefs' 



in South America 

 I'largaret Patten 

 Janet Taylor 

 Richard Lloyd 

 %ifannah Hil!iar 

 James Hayley 

 Ann Cockbolt 



169 

 126 



140 



12.!. 

 140 



143 

 112 

 140 

 141 

 146 

 i;o 

 146 



104 

 121 



134 

 152 

 12; 



140 

 128 

 126 

 130 



i7J 



'38 



108 



■133 

 100 

 112 



10c 



Livini' or De_d. 



Shropfhire _ _ _ 



York(hire _ - . 



Yorkfhire 



Staffon-.lliire _ _ - 



Staffordihire - - -. 



Ireland - - - 



Ireland _ - _ 



Lancadiire _ _ _ 



Scotland _ _ . 



Trionia - - . 



Ireland . _ . 



Yorkfhire . _ _ 



Norway - - - 



Cunnberland _ _ . 



Cumberland . _ . 



France - . . 



Devonfhire _ _ _ 



Killingworth - _ _ 



WoLcellcrlbire - - _ 



Scotland ... 



France _ . . 



Shropfliire ' - , - 

 Nortliampton ... 



Liverpool - _ . 



Tucuman, South America 



Lockneugh, near Paiiley / 

 Fintray, Scotland 



Montgomery - _ . 



Piddington, Northamptonfliire - 

 Middlewich, Che.Tiire - 

 Stoke-Bruernc, Nortliamptonfhire 



Died Nov. 16, 163,-, Phil. Tran. N 44. 

 Dec.8.i76o,Phil.Tran.N 221. 



in 1670. 



|- Ditto Fuller's Worthies, p. 47. 



Riv.leigh's Hiftory, p. 16Q. 



1691 (a) 



Died 



Living 



Died May 30, 



Auguil 26, 



January 



June 24, 



y Both Living 



Died February 6, 



Living 



Died Auguft 15', 



March 



February 27, 



June . 



April 5, 

 Auguil 16, 



1668 (l>) 



1764 

 1766 

 1768 

 1770 (J) 



1771 

 1769 

 1777 (0 



1656 (/) 



1774 (g) 

 1776 (b) 



1776 (/•) 

 1776 (i) 



1706 (/) 

 I7S0 



17S0 (n) 



Living OAober 5, 



Lynche's Guide to Health. 

 Died October 10, ' 

 Lynche's Guide to Health. 

 Died February 19, 178 1 (0) 



March 17, 1781 (/>) 



1780 



April 5, 



(?) 



William Walker, aged 112, not m.entioned above, who was a foldier at the battle of Edge-Hill. 



(a) Fuller's Worthies, p. 140. 



(i) Philofophical Tranfadions, abridged by Lowthorp, 

 vol. iii. p. 306. 



(r) Derham's Phyfico Theology, p. 1,73. 



(d) Annual Regifter. 



(/^) Daily Advcrtifer, Nov. i3, 1777. 



{/) War'.vick{liire. 



(^) Daily Advertifcr, March 1774. 



{//) Moraing Poll, Feb. 29, 1776. 



(;') Daily Advertifcr, June 24, 1776. 



(/') Ibidem, Auguil 22, 1 776. 



(/) See Infcriptiou in the portico of All-Saints church, 



(m) London Evening Pod, Aug'.ift 22, 1780. 



(n) London Chronicle, Oclober 5, 1780. 



(oj Nortl.em Mercury, Feb. 19, 17S1. 



(/>) General Evening Poll, March 24, 17S1. 



(y) Well known to perfons of credit at Northamptoiw 



If 



