Re: PHOTO - beautiful Welsh Church

Posted by Matt from CT on June 08, 2007 at 17:55:55 from (76.202.81.115):

In Reply to: PHOTO - beautiful Welsh Church posted by David in Wales on June 08, 2007 at 12:52:07:

I went to high school in Woodstock, Connecticut which was founded in 1686.

Going through the cemetery for a class one day (can't even remember why or whatfor the class was!) I was struck by the large, large number of 70/80/90 years olds and IIRC a couple centerians buried there from among the earliest settlers -- we're talking people who died in say 1750 at the age of 90. Their kids where living into their 70s it seemed by the stones, but the next generation saw a lot only living to 40/50/60.

Reading since then, that wasn't unusual among the isolated towns in interior New England -- the settlers got plenty of exercise from their daily activities and the towns were isolated from communicable diseases by long travel distances over poor roads or just trails back to the port cities.

After the middle of the 18th century as roads improved and new towns sprung up between these older, isolated "frontier" communities the life span dropped dramatically as diseases could now travel quickly from the port cities inland.

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