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Martha WORTHINGTON

136. MARTHA6 WORTHINGTON (ROBERT5, JOHN W4, JOHN3, ENGLAND/PA2, MISC WORTHINGTON1 INFORMATION) was born Abt. 1731 in Orange Frederick Va, and died Bef. 1757 in Virginia. She married SAMUEL PEARSON.       Children of MARTHA WORTHINGTON and SAMUEL PEARSON are:
  i. MARY7 PEARSON.
ii. ENOCH PEARSON.
iii. WILLIAM PEARSON.

Robert, Jr. WORTHINGTON Colonel

  This was "Colonel" Robert whose daughter Mary married Edward Tiffin, first governor of Ohio, and whose son Thomas Worthington became the sixth governor of Ohio.  These lines have been will documented.  Robert had a son, Thomas, who was the 6th Governor of Ohio. RE: Hopewell MM Va: on 9-24-1759 Robert Worthington Jr. reported for marrying out of unity. Disowned.

137. COL ROBERT6 WORTHINGTON (ROBERT5, JOHN W4, JOHN3, ENGLAND/PA2, MISC WORTHINGTON1 INFORMATION) was born Abt. 1730 in Spottsylvania Co Virginia, and died Aft. July 30, 1779 in Berkeley Co Va. He married MARGARET MATHEWS November 24, 1759. She was born Abt. 1738 in of Fredericktown Md, and died 1780. Notes for COL ROBERT WORTHINGTON:"Soon after her husband's death, Mrs. Worthington married a farmer of the locality, Samuel Brittain, and the children were made his wards. He treated Robert harshly and in 1740 bound him out to a severe master. As a result, the boy run away to Philadelphia, where he worked until he was eighteen. Returning to the Valley in 1748 to receive his patrimony, he took up farming, surveying, and land-dealing in his own right. A tireless worker, he was soon able to buy the reversionary claims to most of his six hundred acres from his nephew Bobby, who, after a period of prosperity as a speculator in Valley lands, seems to have dissipated his holdings rapidly. In 1752, Bobby sold 700 acres to Lawrence Washington, and in 1754, he sold Piedmont (Quarry Bank) and 1,279 acres of land, which was perhaps all he owned by that time, to Charles Dick.(7) Years later, Mrs. Brittain told her grandson Thomas that Bobby had drifted West penniless, but since he had received L2,200 from Dick for the Piedmont estate, she was either in error or he owned many debts.Having had little schooling, Robert secured a tutor for himself and soon became proficient in his studies, especially in mathematics, which he needed for surveying. He sometimes worked with George Washington as a chain carrier in the lower Valley, where the latter was employed as surveyor by Lord Thomas Fairfax.(8) They often stayed at Fairfax' splendid mansion, Green Courts, thirteen miles southwest of Winchester. The bachelor lord's five and a half million acres between the Rappahannock and the Potomac and an approximately equal area in and beyond the Shenandoah Valley itself gave them plenty to do. Washington was Robert's junior by two years; both served Virginia in Braddock's campaign, and were lucky to get back home alive. George Washington himself had a farm on Bullskin Creek. Harewood, Samuel Washington's home, lay next to Worthington's, between Bullskin Creek and Evitts Run. In 1759, Robert married Margaret Mattews, and Irish lass form Fredericktown, Maryland. For marrying outside the Quaker communion he was "disowned" by the Hopewell Friends Meeting. By diligent effort he and his wife built up an impressive estate near the present Charles Town. They called their home, a stone house halfway between Quarry Bank and the Washington estate at Altona, the Manor House, and finished out their lives there; they also owned a town house in the village of Martinsburg, which they called the Mansion House. Robert invested in several tracts of Ohio country land and at his death owned at least a score of slaves. Worthington took no part in Lord Dunmore's War, and that in spite of the fact that he owned at least 2,170 acres of frontier land (the "Potato Garden") on Raccoon Creek in western Pennsylvania. He had purchased this tract from William Crawford in 1772 for one hundred sixty pounds in Virginia currency, and it was very advantageously located on the Mingo Path in the area west of Pittsburgh, only seven mile form the Ohio River. He also owned a tract of perhaps sixteen hundred acres west of the Ohio on Yellow Creek (Columbiana County, Ohio). It is likely that his Quaker training made him fundamentally a man of peace, especially when it came to despoiling the Indians, with whose plight, it is reasonable to believe, he was sympathetic. On the other hand, with the coming of the Revolution, Captain Worthington was not slow to espouse the patriot cause. He and Captain William Darke hurried east to offer their services to Washington upon his appointment as commander of the Continental Army. Of his services we have no record. However, we do know that four years later Worthington was back home endeavoring to raise a troop of cavalry, chiefly at his own expense, when death overtook him in 1779, at the age of forty-nine. His wife died the next year, leaving six children: Ephraim, Martha, Mary, William, Robert and Thomas-the last a boy of six (born July 16, 1773)" (Thomas Worthington Father of Ohio Stateood by Alfred Bryon Sears) ************************************************************************************** "After his (Robert Worthington, Sr) death "Quarry Banks" & a portion of his land came into the possession of his youngest son Robert (Son by Mary Burtis who was the father of Gov Thomas Worthington of Ohio) The latter by marriage out of the meeting withdrew from our Society in 1760 & shortly thereafter he with others rected near his mansion house St George' Chapel said to have been the most costly chapel in Virginia at that time. The ruins of this chapel are a well known landmark 21/2 miles nw of Charles Town. His son Thomas born & reared at "Quarry Banks" removed to Ross County, Ohio & became the 6th Governor of that state. The remainder of the "Quarry Banks" estate was divided among the older childern of Robert Worthington, Sr & was purchased from them at various times by Lawrence & Samuel Washington, the latter of whom built on a part of this land, his mansion "Hardwood" where he resided at the time of his death in 1781..." More About COL ROBERT WORTHINGTON:Religion 1: he was disowned by Hopewell Meeting for marrying outside the faithReligion 2: became an Episcopalian father was QuakerWill: July 30, 1779, drawn by local Episcopal minister Rev Daniel Sturges      Children of COL WORTHINGTON and MARGARET MATHEWS are:
  i. MARY7 WORTHINGTON, b. Bef. 1773, Berkeley now Jefferson Co Va; d. Bef. April 16, 1809; m. GOV EDWARD TIFFIN, Abt. 1789; b. June 19, 1761, Carlisle England; d. August 09, 1829, Ohio.

More About MARY WORTHINGTON: Childern: none

Notes for GOV EDWARD TIFFIN: Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States 1789-1978  Volume III (Montana-Pennsylvania Edited by Robert Sobel and John Raimo  Meckler Books A Division of Microform Review, Inc. 520 Riverside Ave.  Westport, CT 06880 Page Ohio / 1193   TIFFIN, Edward, 1803-1807  Born on June 19,1761, in Carlisle, England, one of four children of Henry and Mary (Parker) Tiffin, both Episcopalians; himself a Methodist. Married Mary Worthington in 1789, who died childless; remarried to Mary Porter on April 16, 1809; father of Mary Porter, Diathea Madison, Eleanor Worthington, Rebecca Turner and Edward Porter. Studied medicine in England, emigrated with his family to Virginia, where he attended Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania from 1784 to 1786; practiced in, Charles Town. Ordained in 1792 as a lay preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and served in that capacity throughout his life. Migrated to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1798. Appointed Prothonotary of the Territorial Court of Common Pleas in 1798. Served as Speaker of the  Territorial Legislature in 1799 and 1801. As leader of the 'Chillicothe Junto," opposed Territorial Governor St. Clair, pushed for immediate statehood, and thwarted efforts of the Federalists. He served as President of Ohio's Constitutional Convention, and was nominated for Governor by the Democratic-Republican Convention in 1802 and again in 1805. He received 4,564 or 100% of the votes cast on January 11, 1803, and 4,783 or 100% of the votes cast on October 8, 1805. Tiffin's first concern as governor was to appoint his fellow Democratic-Republicans to state offices. In reaction to Governor St. Clair's autocratic rule, the first Ohio Constitution severely limited the authority of the governor, but Tiffin as head of his party and the "Junto" wielded a great deal of power. He was a strong advocate of free navigation of the Mississippi River, and an opponent of slavery. He is best remembered for preventing the Burr Conspiracy. Tiffin resigned as governor to become a United States Senator on March 4. 1807. When his wife died in July 1808 Tiffin resigned and returned to private life on his farm. In 1809 Tiffin was elected to the state's General Assembly and again became Speaker until 1811. He was appointed commissioner of the newly created land office in 1812, and when the British invaded Washington, D.C., he was able to save his land books from being destroyed. Late in 1814, he exchanged offices with Josiah Meigs, Surveyor General for the Northwest, in order to reside at his home. He continued in this position until a few weeks prior to his death. He died on August 9,1829, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery at Chillicothe.

More About GOV EDWARD TIFFIN: Burial: Grandview Chillicotte Cemetery Occupation: 1st Governor of Ohio

157. ii. GOV THOMAS WORTHINGTON, b. July 16, 1773, Jefferson Co Virginia; d. July 19, 1827, New York City.
iii. EPHRAIM WORTHINGTON, b. Bef. 1766.
iv. MARTHA WORTHINGTON, b. Bef. 1773.
v. WILLIAM WORTHINGTON, b. Abt. 1766; d. 1801, nr Maysville Kentucky; m. ELIZABETH MACHIE, 1787.

Notes for WILLIAM WORTHINGTON: )William died in 1801 at or near Maysville, Kentucky. Thomas Worthington was his executor. Worthington's diary, August 26, 1811. All references to the diary refer to the Worthington notebooks in the Library of Congress and the Ohio Historical Society. See also letters of Eliza Worthington to Thomas Worthington, February 1 and March 7, 1801, in Wm. (Thomas Worthington Father of Ohio Statehood by Alfred Bryon Sears)  

vi. ROBERT WORTHINGTON, b. Bef. 1773.

John WORTHINGTON Sr.

    There were at least 13 chidren, the 9 not listed are not known at this time.  Larry Anderson, 25 May 2003.

    John Worthington, Sr. b. c. 1604-05, Eng. d. 1691, 10th month, 3rd day, (Dec 3, 1691) age 86, at Quarell Bank, Cheshire, Eng., buried at Mobberley; m. Marie (Mary) (believed, Hobson) who d. 1658, 10th month, 27th day (Dec 27,
1658) in Pownall Fee, Cheshire, Eng.; buried at Mobberley. Data on them, their children and grandchildren, from Cheshire & Staffordshire Quarterly Meeting (Quakers), 1650-1720, Library of Religious Society of Friends, Euston Road, London, NW1, England.

                                                                           Acknowledgement of Assistance

    If this monography on the "Worthington Family of Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, and Ohio" is ever published I wish the volume to be prefaced by this acknowledgement of material assistance to me in its prepartion.  First, I received great help from my friend Hon. Clarence E. Martin, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, former President of the American Bar Association, who started me on the right track of deeds and wills at Martinsburg, West Virginia, and at Winchester Virginia.  Next, I acknowledge the more than professional assistance given me by William B. Marye, Esq. genealogist, of Baltimore, Maryland; by Dr. Albert Cook Myers, historian and genealogist of Moylan, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia; and by J.W. Baker, genealogist of WInchester, Virginia.  Also I am grateful to Mrs. Katherine E. Brown, Deputy Clerk of the Circuit court of Orange, Virigina who searched the records there for me in advance of my visit, and thereby materially shortened my study of them.  And all Alabamians should be thankful to the keeper of the Archives in Montgomery, Mrs. Marie Bankhead Owen, for the care with which she had collected, indexed, and preserved every manuscript and newspaper statement she has obtained about every Alabama family, including the Worthingtons.

                                                                         Henry Upson Sims The Author June 1937

                                  Addendum
    I finished this genealogy in 1937.  The summer of 1950 I went to London again and visited Chaucer House, near the University of London and got into touch with the Sectetary of the Society of Genealogists, and from a list of employable members I selected R. S. Forman, Esq. of 43 Ossulton Way, London N 2, a retired barrister, whom I employed to verify the British data on Robert Worthington, as far as I had it.  He found nothing more in London, so I sent him to Cheshire to see if he could find anything to connect Robert or his father John Worthington to Cheshire with the Lancashire pedigrees in the Harleian Manuscripts.  He reported that while there were many Worthington data in Cheshire, he found nothing to make it worth while to go over them all in the hope of connecting the Cheshire Worthingtons with the Lancashire pedigrees.  Mr. Forman wrote me under date of December 28, 1950

    The Genealogy of the Worthington Family of Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, and Ohio, being descendants of Robert Worthington who imigrated to New Jersey in 1713.

    In this monograph, each generation is given a number, which is placed after each name.  In front of each name is a number in parenthesis, which represents the individual person bearing this number, and which has no duplicate.

    The Worthington Family in England.  The Worthington were a Lancashire family of considerable position.  "In the Hundred of Leyland, Parish of Standaish, and Palatinate of Lancaster is situated the manor of Worthington", and the family is traceable to the time of King Henry III.  The family of Worthington of Charley on the Douglas, Leyland Hundred, in Standish Parish dates back to A.D. 1225, and may be identified as existing in A.D. 1243, 1276, 1292, 1320 and 1327 from the names of places in the neighborhood.  The name of William de Worthington appears in the Testa de Neville, 20 Henry III.

     There are two Lancashire Worthington pedigrees among the Hareian Manuscripts in the Bristish Museum, which have been reprinted by the Cheltham Society.  They are Harleian Ms. 1437, folio 121, and folio 121lb; being in the Visitation of Lancashire in 1613, by Richard St. Gage, Narrow Knight At Arms.  Both these pedigrees were signed by Thomas Worthington of Worthington in 1613, and speak of that date....

Rodger WORTHINGTON

RECORD:

1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) - FamilySearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org), Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150  USA, 35 N WestTemple Street, Salt.

Frances WORTHINGTON

  The Worthington Family
   Frances of Pownall Fee married Edward Morgan of the City of Chester, in his own house in the City of Chester.

Sarah WORTHINGTON

  Sarah, spinster, of Morley, Pownall Fee, Cheshire, married Benjamin Boult
of Knowsley, at Thomas Pott's house at Pownell Fee.

Thomas TAYLOR

See notes of Robert Taylor as sent by Ruth May Henry, Stuck of Yuma,
Arizona  May 12, 1991.

Mary BARROW

   License to marry September 21, 1630, at Whitegate, Mary Barrow, of Davenham Parish, spinster.  As found on pg. 11 of The Robert Taylor Family history by Alfred Rudolph Justice, 1925.  Sent us by Ruth May Henry Stuck, May 12, 1991.

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