FW: fourscore...

[James Smith]

I recall being told that the average age at death for
the men who signed the Declaration of Independence was
over 80. I've never checked this out for myself, but
it should be fairly easy to confirm or disprove.

--- George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
> Once upon a time I did a good deal of reading in
> genealogies, with reference to my mother's family,
> who were a bunch of old-time yankees.  I was struck
> at how many of the people listed from the 17th &
> 18th Cs lived to be 70, 80, or beyond, if they
> didn't die in infancy or early adulthood.

....

> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African
> Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.


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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.

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