An Historical Discourse

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H. Bull, one of the eighteen that incorporated them- selves at the first, was Governor of the Colony after the Revolution. Mr. Ed. Thurston, who was Assistant, 1675, and many times Deputy for Newport, died 1706-7, aged ninety years. Many such instances might be given. And many of the second generation, such, I mean, as were born within the first twenty or twenty-five years, reached * This date should be 1G35-6, or as we should now write 1636. See p. 73, note. — Editor.
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 149
... for their comfortable subsistence. God was pleased to bless their provision, and satisfy his poor with food. * to fourscore, and some to ninety years. If we consider the long lives of so many of the first comers, notwith- standing the hardships and distresses they underwent, and the change of climate, diet, &c, and to this add the great age of many of their children, we cannot call the country unhealthy, or the inhabitants short lived. The proportion of ancient people above seventy years of age, to the whole number of the present inhabitants, compared with the like proportion in other countries, which have been fully settled and inhabited above a thousand years, can be no good rule to judge by.

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