Bur: ‘Ham, Abraham, aged 56, a Farmer, s. of John & Sarah Ham. He was a man of very athletic constitution, which he destroy’d by the pernicious vice of Drinking - particularly spirits - which he drank a considerable while to very great excess. At length, however, hardy as he was, his constitution gave way: and after lingering many months, being able to retain nothing, neither solid nor liquid, in his Stomach, he fella victim to his folly: when had he liv’d a life of Temperance, in all human probability, his days might have been prolong’d to many years’ (The DCRS editor inserted ‘[quantity]’ after the word ‘considerable’, but this ignores the word ‘while’.)124