Englebert Hoff
Eglebert Hoff var en (angivelig) norskfødt mann som døde i Fishkill, New York, USA i enten 1764[1] eller 1765,[2] angivelig i sitt 128. år. Hoff skal ha vært i hollandsk og senere engelsk krigstjeneste og skal visstnok ha deltatt i kaperfart som 70-åring. Han var gift og hadde 12 barn[3]
Selv om alderen vanskelig kan dokumenteres, er omtalen av Hoff underholdende nok:
 | «Remarkable instance of longevity On the 8th of March, 1764, died at Fishkill, Duchefs county, New York, mr. Eglebert Hoff, in the one hundred and twenty-eighth year of his age. He was born in Norway, and remembered that he was a lad driving a team, when news was brought to his country, that King Charles I. was beheaded. He served as a soldier under the prince of Orange, afterwards king of England, in the time of king James II. In queen Anne's war, he went a privateering out of New York, being then aged seventy. When he returned, he married, had twelve children, and afterwards lived a widower thirty-three years. He never used spectacles, but read fluently. His memory and senses were entirely strong until death which was occasioned by a fall that mortally hurt his hip.» |  |
Referanser
- ↑ The American Museum, Or Universal Magazine, Vol. VIII, juli–desember 1790, s. 45, skriver 8. mars 1764.
- ↑ 21. mars 1765, jf. Vital Records from the New Hampshire Gazette, 1756–1800.
- ↑ The American Museum, Or Universal Magazine, Vol. VIII, juli–desember 1790, Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart & Co., 1790, s. 45.
Litteratur
- The American Museum, Or Universal Magazine, Vol. VIII, juli–desember 1790, Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart & Co., 1790, s. 45.
- Vital Records from the New Hampshire Gazette, 1756–1800. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003.)