Similar to the case of the centenarian who had seen Henry Jenkins was that of James Horrocks, who was born in 1744 and died in 1844.

His father was born in 1657, one year before the death of the Protector, and had issue in early life.

He married again at eighty-four to a woman of twenty-six, of which marriage James was the offspring in 1744.

In 1844 this man could with verity say that he had a brother born during the reign of Charles II, and that his father was a citizen of the Commonwealth.
Among the Mission Indians of Southern California there are reported instances of longevity ranging from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty.

Lieutenant Gibbons found in a village in Peru one hundred inhabitants who were past the century mark, and another credible explorer in the same territory records a case of longevity of one hundred and forty.