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Jeremiah Street ( - c. 13 Jun 1703)

Subject of/in a document
Subject of/in display
Relevant locations: Place of display (non-collection) at Halifax, West Yorkshire
Residence at Wiltshire, England
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

My Friend Mr. Jonathan Priestley's MS. Additions to Mr. Turner's History of Providences, furnishes us with a later Instance, and a Native of England, Jeremiah Street (a Wiltshire Man born) who, May 22. 1703. was shew'd publicly at Halifax, for his extraordinary Stature, I could, saith he (who is himself a proper Person), stand under his Arm-hole, and above an Inch to spare, and with my Hand could just reach the top of his Head. He was seven Foot and five Inches high, but corpulent and unhealthy, and falling sick at Bradford, was interredburied there 13 June