The Portland daily press., 1869-11-24
The oldest Woman in Delaware,

The Wilmington Commercial Of Novem-
ber 18th has the following:
Three scole years and ten is generally con-
sidered a good old agA; tours core is looked
upon as the utmost limit OF ripe old ace, ard
every year in excess OF the latter perioc is gen.
orally considered added by the Almost special
interposition OF Divine Providence TIE
Revolutionary he. oes have passed away; none
are now lell who took ar active part I'm The
stirring times that tired mems souls. Their
brilia.t achievements are fresh Upon our
memories, but the forms that wieIded the
arms of mortal SIRE upon the plains Of Lex
ineton, the heights OF Bunker Hill at the sur
render of Cornwa lis, at Yorktown, have pass
ed away. Tradition only tells of ther achieve
rents upon the ba tie fed which led to the
glorious Declaration OF Independence on the
4h of July, 1776. Here and there Ives an
Old veteran VINO has passel al togen ian
age, ana claims to be as Old as our natiul's
birthday; hut hone are so old as she whose
name heads this article, and who lives, hearty
and well, in Delaaare City, in the state of
Delaware.
Hannah FennimoTe was born on the 11th
day OF December, at Amsterdam. Germany,
in the year OF our Lord 176l and will, on tue
1lth da, OF next December, be 1J8 years Old.
She removed TO this country in the Sth year
OF her age. and has consequently been in the
country of her adoption one hundred years,
arriving h; re seven lears be ore the Declara-
ton o independence an when the old bell
was sending forth he proclamation OF orliberly
throughout the land aud t. all the inha itants
thereoI, she, in the maiden blush OF 'sweet
SIXTEEN" was living at he mouth o, Mantua
Creek, in New Jersey, where she was soon
afterwards wooed and won by Matthew
Bigger, a Joung Revo utionary soldier, whom
she married when she was Il yaars OF a.e,
and b, whom she had eleven children, he
youngest of whom is now 55 years old, and
the oldest, ii now living, would bdve been IS.
She is now living with her SOD, Cherries g.
Bigger, who, with one exception, is the
youngest of her children, and who is SO years
of age.
Her husband dying when her youngest
child was an infant, she remained widow a
short time, and married man by The name
OF FenniIDOre, with whom she lived uu iii his
death, which occurred in 1916, since which
she has lived with her son before mentioned
She is remarkably active. ana goes from
house to house, calling upon her nei -hbors,
and talking OF old times, when she was girl
Like most old people, she recolecis events
that have transplred 80 or 30 years a.o more
distinctly than events of mole recent dale.
She distinctly recollects the fiequent visits of
General Washington to the house where she
lived and his often dining there; and until
recently she recolected oil The principal events
OF the American Revolution. IN " ednesday
OF last week she trippeG right lively down the
main street OF Delaware City, to a dasue re-
olype gallery, and had her likeness taken.
From present appearances she BIDS fair to
live for number OF years yet.
This remarkable old lady is indeed cou-
Meeting link with past ase. Only 20 years
younger than General Washington, IA years
cid when the battle of Lexington took place,
and 2l years old at the close OF the Revol,l-
tion. She first lived in the Kingdom OF Hol-
land eight years from the time of her birth,
in 1851, to 1863; then in the British colonies,
under the reign OF King George, a period of
seven years, until tie Declaration of lnde-
pendence, when the colonies became Tree
and independent nation, under which she has
ever since resided.