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John Worth was an innkeeper and in 1713 was appointed Associate Justice of the County Court. His will of 7 Dec 1730 was probated 7 Mar 1731/32. [Banks adds that he came to Edgartown about 1700 and that he is buried at Tower Hill Cemetery.]
Notes:
John Worth was an innkeeper and in 1713 was appointed Associate Justice of the County Court. His will of 7 Dec 1730 was probated 7 Mar 1731/32. [Banks adds that he came to Edgartown about 1700 and that he is buried at Tower Hill Cemetery.]
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William Worth was one of the first settlers of Nantucket Island. He was born in England about 1640 ("The Worths of Nantucket") and left Salem, MA to join Tristram Coffin's colony in Nantucket in 1662 as a "halfshare" man. This was soon after the arrival of original owners, called "first purchasers", who had bought the land in 1659 while Nantucket was under the rule of the colony of New York. In 1655 a law had been passed by the Massachusetts colony that "no Quaker be entertained by any person within the government under penalty of five pounds for each default or to be whipped". It was this law which had something to do with William Worth, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey and Richard Hussey going to Nantucket Island. He was a blacksmith and mariner, a justice and a clerk of court. Of the "first purchasers," there were a number whose descendants intermarried with William Worth's descendants--particularly Tristram and Peter Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard and John Swain, and Thomas Barnard. The following contract recorded on 20 July 1662 in Nantucket's town records concerns William Worth's becoming a "half-share" man in Nantucket:"Those presents do witness that wee whose names am underwritten do give and grant unto William Worth sailer half a sham of land and meadow wood and Timber and all manner of privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging upon the Island of Nantucket both house Lot and other Division of land, meeadow, wood, Timber and Commonage we say half as much as any one of the Twenty first purchasers have both in plantation and patent Right to him the aforesaid William Worth, his heirs and assigns, forever."
William first married Sarah Macy, the daughter of "first purchaser" Thomas Macy and his wife, Sarah Hopcott. Their only son, John Worth married Miriam Gardner, daughter of another early Nantucket settler, Richard Gardner. ( from "Joseph and Lydia (Gorham) Worth of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Their Wandering Children" by Elizabeth Pearson White, C.G., F.A.S.G., F.N.G.S. and Edwin W. Coles)
According to "Genealogy of the Worth Family" by Cornelia Worth French, Genealogist, General William Worth, a descendent of Wm. Worth (1642-1724) and Sarah Macy, was the only Worth sufficiently reknown for his name to find a place in history. Under Gen. Zachary Taylor and Gen. Winfield Scott, General Worth lead the attack from the landing at Vera Cruz to the taking of Mexico City. A statue erected to his memory stands in Union Square in N.Y. City.
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There is no record that Sarah and William had more than the one child, John.
Note: WILL OF ROGER REDE, SON OF WILLIAM REDE.
In the name of God, Amen; the Xth day of December in the yere of our Lord God, 1557, etc. I, Roger Rede, of Wyckford, make this my last will and testament:
First, I bequethe my soull to Allmyghty God, and my bodye to be buryed.
Also I give and bequeathe unto Elizabethe, my wyf, and to her assynes xivj? xiijs iiijd of good and lawfull money of England.
Also I geve unto Elizabethe, my wif, two kyne a blacke and a branded.
Also I geve unto Elizabethe, my wif, all such houshold [stuff] and plate as she had when and at such tyme as we were marryed, upon condycion hereafter followeying: That is to saye, I will that Elizabethe, my wyf, shall
release and yeld unto John and Willm, my sones, accordyne to my will within one monthe next after my decease, all that her ryght, tytill and intrest of dowrye of all those my tenements and lands, which tenements and lands I was seased of at the daye and tyme of our spousage.
Also I will that Elizabeth, my wif, shall delvy or cause to be delvyed, a certayne bill of conveyance made betwene me and my wife before our spousage. And in case that Elizabethe, my wif, doe refuse to yelde up and release all her right, tytill and intrest of dowyre of all my tenements and lands as before is sayd, as also to delyver or cause to be delyved unto my executor the byll or elles to make a suffycyent quyttance and dyscharge for the said byll or any thyng therein contayned, then I will that Elizabethe, my wyf, shall have no pte of the legacies to her here in
my will before bequethed.
Also, I geve unto sayd Elizabethe xxvjs viijd for a bed and the new cupbord in the p'lor.
Also I will that my executor hereafter named, shall paye or cause to be payed unto the saide Elizabethe, my wyf, within one monthe next after my decease, xxvj? xiijs iiijd of the aforesaid legacye.
Also I will that Elizabethe, my wyf, shall make, release of all her right, tytill and interest of her dowrye and of the bill of covenants between us made at the days of our spousage as before is said. And in so doynge the other xx? to be payd to her within one yere and a half next after my decease.
Also I will that Elizabethe, my wyf, and Roger, my sone, shall be here in the house with my two sones, John and Willyame, until my monethes days. And furthermore, I will my executor shall keape Roger, my sone, at there charges with suffycyent apparrell and in otherwyse.
Also I geve unto Roger, my sone, at the age of xxj years, xi? of good lawfull money of England, to be payd by the hands of myne executors or there assygnes.
Also I will that my said executors or there assygnes shall bye the said Roger a fetherbed and all thyngs to yt belonging, or els xis for the bed.
Also I geve and bequethe to Byttrys Hastler [daughter or sister?] xxs and a petycoote to be payde to her within one yere next after my decease.
Item--I geve and bequethe to Avys Hastler [daughter or sister?] xxs iiijd ewe shepe to be payde by the hands ot my executors or there assygnes to her within ij yeres next after my decease.
Also I geve and bequethe to Agnys, my daughter, the wyf of Henry Dowe, xxvjs viijd, and that yt be payde imedyatlye after my decease by the hands of myne executors.
Also I geve John Rede, my sone, all my tenements and lands, called greate Amys and littill Amys, with all the apptennes thereto, belonging to him and his heires assygnes for ever, lyinge and beynge within the pyshe of
Wyckford.
Item--Also I geve unto Willm Rede, my sone, and to the heires of his bodye lawfully begotten, a certeyne tent called felds and all the land with the apptennes thereto belonging; and a certayne parcell of land called Helman's
croft, lyinge and beynge in the pysche of Wyckford.
Also that I will that yf God call Willm, my sone, to his mcye, without yssew of his bodye lawfully begotten, then I will his legacye of land remayno to Roger, my sone, and to his heires of his body lawfully begotten.
The residew of all my goods unbequethed with a leasse of a pece of land called Rosses, my debts beynge payde, my bodye honestly buryed, my funeralls done and this my present testament beyng pformed and fulfilled,
I give wholy to John Rede and William Rede, my sones, pte and parte, lykewhith, John Rede and Willm I constitute ordeyne and make my executors of this my present testament and last will.
In witness unto this my present testament and last will I have my marke with myne owne hand
Wytness hereunto:
WILLM STAMER,
THOMS DERYVALL,
EDWARD STAMER,
and others.
Notes:
As many researchers contend that Elizabeth was Roger Reade's second wife, the mother of Roger's children may in fact be unknown.
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[From the Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Carol Clark Johnson.] William Worth, who came to Nantucket in 1662, and Richard Worth, who came to New Jersey in 1660, are decendents from Reginald Paganal [Paynell] Payne who joined William the Conqueror in the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. In Return for his support he was awarded property in Devon confiscated from the Saxon owner "Swardus". Reginald was the first of the family ancestral line in England, having come there with the army of William the Conqueror.
The ancient Ancestral home, in the hamlet of Worth in Devonshire, England, is The Worth House and the Village Church St. Marys Washfield Parish. St. Marys Church was constructed in the mid 15th century in Norman style. It contains a small but well appointed little alcove known as the Worth Chapel, the final resting place of the ancestral patrons who worshiped there. The sterling chalice and serving appointments were donated by the Worth's many years ago. The address of the church is St. Mary's Washfield, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6lt, England.
John was a Loyalist during the Revolution in 1642/1646 and was killed, as was his son John, defending Plymouth Fort, and their estates were subsequently confiscated.. He was a 23rd Generation descendent of Reginald.
These were bad times. Plague had killed one-half the population of Plymouth in 1625 and circa 1643 and Charles the First had attempted to arrest five leaders of his opposition in commons. In June of 1642 Parliament sent the King a statement of nineteen demands including Parliamentary control of the army and the appointments of ministers and judges as well as abolishment of Roman catholicism in England. The demands were ignored and Civil War became inevitable. The opponents drew up sides, on one hand the Royalists comprised of nobles, most anglicans and catholics were in support of the despotic King Charles, while the Roundheads, the supporters of Parliament, so named because of their short haircuts. This latter group included Puritans, merchants and artisans. Both king and parliament were seeking popular support and securing their fortresses. The opening battle of the great rebellion was at Edgehill October 23, 1642. Plymouth declared on the popular side, the only place remaining faithful to the parliament in all the western peninsula. Protective steps were taken and earthworks thrown up by November, and attacks by the Royalists were soundly defeated, but by August 1643, Plymouth was completely blockaded by Colonel Digby. Prince Maurice marched to subdue Plymouth where the citizen army had been augmented by 500 soldiers under Colonel Wardlaw. Stubborn Plymouth held out under almost daily assault, routing the Cavaliers to the cry of "God With Us!" and for many years the bells of St. Andrews rang out in memory of the Sabbath day fight of December 3, 1643, and a pious Puritan widow left a trust fund for sermons to be preached in rememberance of the deliverance. " Turris fortissima est nomen Jehova" ("The name of the Lord is a strong tower" Proverbs 18 10) was adopted as the town motto. Fighting continued off and on at Plymouth until 1646, and three years of siege had cost the town dear. The parish registers record deaths of some 1,000 soldiers and about 2,000 townsfolk due to the war, but the figures do not include the defenders who were burried where they fell. More than 100 men fell in one assault, more than 300 in another, this at a time when the population of Plymouth was not over 7,000. The seige probably caused 8,000 deaths, ruined the trade of the town and reduced scores of families to great distress. It was during this period that the sons of John Worth went to America. [ John Worth IV, is the 7th great grandfather of Winfield D. Gallup.]
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Richard Worth emmigrated from England in 1660 and established the Worth line in New Jersey. Two years later his brother William established the line in Nantucket.