Worthington Descendants – Vol 1, No 3, Page 7 April 1983 – Query 13

I would like to know the parents of SAMUEL WORTHINGTON, b. Mar..1746 Baltimore, Md. d. 3 Jan. 1821, Anderson County, Tenn. mar. 1774 to ELIZABETH CARNEY b. 30 Apr. 1756 in Va. d. 22 Oct. 1850 in Anderson County Tenn. — Mrs. Andrew Sansone, 1548 Rinderer Drive, Wasson Woods, Mo. 63122

Worthington Descendants – Vol 1, No 3, Page 6 1983 – Worthington, Capt. John

The Immigrant Ancestor of the WORTHINGTON FAMILY in MARYLAND came to the Province in 1664. We know nothing of the circumstances that brought fourteen-year-old JOHN WORTHINGTON to these shores. We know nothing factual of the next fourteen years of his life. We do know that in 1678 he was a member of the Anne Arundel County unit of Militia that “went out against the Nanticoke Indians.” In 1686 he purchased a property on the north side of the Severn River, on the Broad Neck Peninsula, from Colonel NICHOLAS GREENBURY. He was to “hold” this property for the remainder of his life. When he died, he was buried upon that property. His tombstone can be found today, not with his interred body, but in the Churchyard of Saint Anne’s Church in ANNAPOLIS. A year or so after he purchased this property, he married SARAH HOWARD, daughter of MATTHEW and SARAH (nee DORSEY) HOWARD. The baptisms of their six children are found in the records of WESTMINSTER PARISH. These children were:

i: JOHN WORTHINGTON Born 1689 He married (1) HELEN HAMMOND, and

(2) COMFORT

ii: THOMAS WORTHINGTON Born 1691 He married ELIZABETH RIDGELY.

iii: WILLIAM WORTHINGTON Born 1694 He married SARAH HOMEWOOD.

iv: SARAH WORTHINGTON Born 1696 She married NICHOLAS RIDGELY.

v: CHARLES WORTHINGTON Born 1699 He died in infancy.

Vi: CHARLES WORTHINGTON Born 1701 He married (1) HAMUTEL HAMMOND, and (2) SARAH CHEW

Captain JOHN WORTHINGTON was an Officer in the Troop of Horse in the Militia. He also served as the Coroner of Anne Arundel County. In 1692 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the County. In 1699 he served in the Legislative Assembly. He was most prominent in military and political affairs of the county. His advice and counsel were often sought by his peers. Captain JOHN WORTHINGTON died on 9 APRIL 1701. He was, as we have noted, buried upon his “plantation” near the present day Naval Academy.

Soon after the birth of her sixth child, “the Widow” SARAH (nee HOWARD) WORTHINGTON married JOHN BRICE. She had three other children from this second marriage. JOHN BRICE died in 1713. She died in 1726.

This Genealogical Sketch written by WILLIAM D. MOUNTAIN, a member of the Anne Arundel and Carroll County Genealogical Societies, at the expressed request of FRANCES EPLER-BRENGLE, Editor of the WORTHINGTON DESCENDANTS and herself a descendant of that CHARLES WORTHINGTON, child “vi” above.

Worthington Descendants – Vol 1, No 3, Page 1 1983 – Worthington, Joseph Muse

Extract from “The Medical Annuals of Maryland 1799-1899. Worthington, Joseph Muse, 1898. Born at Belvoir on the Severn River. Anne Arundel County, Md. Dec. 16, 1846 educated at the School of Letters and Science University of Maryland and in the Maryland Agricultural Colleges Ph. G. Maryland College of Pharmacy 1868, pupil of Dr. R.N. Smith M.D. University of Maryland 1872, in 1873, suggested general bovine vaccination and in 1877 suggested contagious and Infectious: Disease Act for the Public Schools Health Officer of Anne Arundel County and Physician to the County jail 1892-1900; in 1872 invented anesthesia table, and in 1876 a prescription counter: practice at Annapolis, Md.

Article: Submitted by Miss Margaret Muse Worthington, Annapolis, Md. (Her father)

Worthington Descendants – Vol 1, No 2, Page 5 – Worthington, Jacob

SKETCH OF JACOB WORTHINGTON: b. bef. 1765, Frederick Co., Va. D. 1827 Fleming Co., Ky mar. (1) by 1790, Westmoreland Co., Pa., Eleanor ___[1] (2) 1814 Fleming Co,. Ky. Mary Pruitt. He was a Frontier Ranger, in Westmoreland Co., 1778-1784 Issue; Mary Ann Mar. Wm. Gillespie; Phoebe mar. Isaac Gillespie; Abraham Mar. Fanny McIntyre; James Holland Truitt; William Collins; Eli Johnson; Elizabeth mar _____[2] Wilson; Sarah mar. _____[3] Bid__[4]

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Worthington Descendants – Vol 1, No 2, Page 5 – Worthington, William

SKETCH OF WILLIAM WORTHINGTON: 1819-1859 Harford County, Md. mar. Mary Dallam 1822 1888 Harford Co. Md. D/O William and Sarah (Webster) Dallam, Baltimore, Md.