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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

by Frank H. Stauffer

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A Good Tenant

In the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for September, 1775, Mr. Clayton, a wealthy farmer of Berkshire, is related to have died at the extraordinary age of one hundred and fifteen years, during which time he rented the same farm for ninety years. An occupancy of so great duration, by one individual, is perhaps unequalled in the history of landlord and tenant.

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