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of the name of Ecclefton, who lived to the age of 143. 
Another Englifhman, of the name of Effingham, died 
in 1757, at the age of 144. 
Niels Jukens, of Hammerfet in Denmark, died in 1764, 
aged 146. The fame year died George Kirton, of Ox- 
nop-hall, near Reath, Yorkshire, in his 125th year. 
Chriftian Jacob Drakenberg died in 1770 at Archufen, 
in the 146th year of his age ; this old man of the north 
was born at Stavangar in Norway 1624, and at the age 
of 130 married a widow of fixty. 
In Norway fome men have lived to the age of 150.—John 
Rovin, who was born at Szatlova-Carantz-Betcher, in 
the bannat of Temefvvar, lived to the age of 172, and 
his wife to that of 164, having been married to him 
during the fpace of 147 years ; when Rovin died, their 
youngeft fon was 99 years of age.—Peter Zoten, a pea- 
fant, and a countryman of John Rovin, died in 1724 
at the age of 185: his youngeft fon was then 97 years 
of age.—The hiftoryand whole-length pictures of John 
Rovin, Henry Jenkins, and Peter Zoten, are to be feen 
in the library of prince Charles at Bruffels. 
Hanovins, profefi'or at Dantzic, mentions in his Nomen¬ 
clature an old man who died at the age of 184; and an¬ 
other ftill alive at Wallachia, whofe age, according to 
this author, amounted to 186. 
Thomas Parr, of Shroplhire, died November 16, 1635, 
aged 152. _ 
Henry Jenkins, of Yorkfliire, died December 8, 1670, 
aged 169,. , 
Robert Montgomery, of Yorkfliire, died in 1670, aged 126. 
James Sands, of StafFordfhire, aged 140, and his wife 120. 
The countefs of Defmond, of Ireland, aged 140. 
J. Sager, of Lancafliire, died in 1668, aged 1x2. 
One Laurence, of Scotland, aged 140. 
Simon Sack, of Triona, died May 30, 1764, aged 141. 
Col. Thomas Winflow, of Ireland, died Augult 26, 1766, 
aged 146. 
Francis Confift, of Yorkfliire, died in January 1768, 
' aged 150. 
Margaret Forfter, aged 136, and her daughter aged 104, 
of Cumberland, were both living in 1771. 
Francis Bons, of France, died February 6, 1769, aged 121. 
James Bowles, of Killingworth, aged 153. 
John Tice, of Worcefterfhire, died March 1774, aged 125. 
John Mount, of Scotland, died Feb. 27, 1766, aged 136. 
A goldfmith, of France, died in June 1776, aged 140. 
Mary Yates, of Shroplhire, died in 1776, aged 128. 
John Bales, of Northampton, died April 5, 1766, aged 126. 
William Ellis, of Liverpool, died Auguft 16,1780, aged 130. 
Louila Truxo, a negrefs of Tucomea, South America, 
was living October 5, 1780, aged 175. 
Margaret Patten, of Lockneugh, near Paifley, aged 138. 
Janet Taylor, of Fintray, Scotland, died Oftober 10, 1780, 
aged 108. 
Richard Lloyd, of Montgomery, aged 133. 
Sufannah Hillar, of Piddington, Northamptonlhire, died 
Feb. 19, 1781, aged no. 
Ann Cockbolt, of Stoke-Bruerne, Northamptonlhire, died 
April 5, 17755 aged 105.. 
Janies Hayley, of Middlewich, Chelliire, died March 17, 
1781, aged 112. 
William Walker, who was a foldier at the battle of Edge- 
hill, lived to the age of 112. 
Hippocrates, phyfician, of the ifland of Cos, aged 104. 
Democritus the philofopher, of Abdera, aged 109. 
Galen, phyfician, of Pergamus, aged 143. 
Albuna Marc, of Ethiopia, aged 150. 
Dumitur Raduly, of Haroml'zeck, Trannfylvania, died 
Jan. 18, 1702, aged 140. 
Titus Pollonius, of Bononia, aged 150. 
Abraham Paiba, of Charleftown, South Carolina, aged 142. 
L. Tertula, of Arminium, aged 137. 
Lewis Cornato, of Venice, aged 100. 
Robert Blackney, efq. of Armagh, Ireland, aged 114. 
Margaret Scott, of Dalkeith, Scotland, aged 125. 
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W. Gulftone, of Ireland, aged 140. 
J. Bright, of Ludlow, aged 105. 
William Poltill, of France, aged 120. 
Jane Reeves, of Eflex, aged 103. 
W. Paulet, marquis of Winchefter, of Hampfliire, 106. 
John Wilfon, of Suffolk, aged 116. 
Patrick Wian, of Lelbury, Northumberland, aged 115. 
Mr. Laurence, of Orcades, aged 140. 
William Wakeley, of Shroplhire, aged 124, was buried 
at Abbafton in 1714. 
Evan Williams, of Caermarthen work-houfe, was alive in 
Oflober 1782, aged 145. 
John Jacobs, of Mount Jura, aged 121. This man, in 
17895 aged 120, quitted his native hills, and from the 
fummit of Mount Jura undertook a journey to Ver- 
failles, to behold and return thanks to the national af- 
fembly for the vote which had freed him and his poor 
countrymen from the feudal yoke. In the early part 
of his life, he was a fervant in the family of the prince 
de Beaufremont. His memory continued good to the 
laft day of his life; and the principal inconveniencies 
which he felt from his great age were, that his fight 
was weakened, and the natural heat of His body was fo 
diminilhed, that he Ihivered with cold in the middle of 
the dog-days if he was not fitting by a good fire. This 
old man was received in the body of the houi'e by the 
national affembly, indulged with a chair, and dire (fled 
to keep on his hat, left he fliould catch cold if he u’ere 
to fit uncovered A collection was made for him by 
the members, which exceeded 500I. fterling ; but he 
lived not to return to Mount Jura : he was buried on 
Saturday the 31ft of January, 1790, with great funeral 
pomp, in the parifli-church of St. Euftace, at Paris. 
Donald Macleod, of the Ille of Sky, was living in May 1793, 
aged 105. This old gentleman, for it appears that he 
really was a gentleman both by birth and behaviour, 
was born in the year of the revolution, in the parilh of 
Bracadill, in the Ifie of Sky, and county of Invernefs, 
North Britain. He was a cadet of the family of Uliniflt 
in Sky ; and defcended, through his mother, from Mac¬ 
donald of Slate, the anceftor of the prelent lord Mac¬ 
donald. The earlier part of his life coincided with the 
famine of feven years in Scotland ; which was fo great 
as to fpggeft, even to the patriotic Mr. Fletcher, the 
idea of the people felling themfelves as Haves for imme¬ 
diate fubfiftence. He was bred in the midlt of want 
and hardlhips, cold, hunger, and, for the years of his 
fervitude with a mafon and ftone-cutter in Inver- 
nefs, in inceffant fatigue. He inlifted, when a boy, 
in the Scottilh fervice, in the town of Perth, in the-halt 
year of the reign of king William. The regiment into 
which he inlifted was the Scots Royals, commanded by 
the earl of Orkney. That old military corps, at that 
time, ufed bows and arrows as well as fwords, and 
wore fteel caps. He ferved in Germany and Flanders 
under the duke of Marlborough ; under the duke of 
Argyle, in the rebellion 1715 ; in the Highland Watch, 
or companies raifed for enforcing the laws in the High¬ 
lands ; in the fame companies when, under the name of 
the 42d regiment, they were fent abroad to Flanders, 
to join the army under the duke of Cumberland ; in 
the fame regiment in Ireland, and on the breaking-out 
of the French war, 1757, in America. From the 4ad 
he was draughted to aCt as a drill-ferjeant in the 78th 
regiment, in which he ferved at the reduction of Louif- 
bnrg and Quebec- After this he became an out-pen- 
fioner of Chelfea-hofpital. But fuch was the fpirit of 
this brave and hardy veteran, that he ferved in 1761 as 
a volunteer in Germany under the marquis of Granby j 
and offered his lervices in the American war to fir Henry 
Clinton ; who, though he declined to employ the old 
man in the fatigues and dangers of war, treated hint 
with great kindnefs, allowed him a liberal weekly pen- 
fion out of his own pocket, and fent him home in a 
ftrip charged with dilpatches to government. The fer- 
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