e. Thomas, geb. 27/01/1691, Sandy, Bedfordshire, Engeland, oorl. 1799, Weare, New Hampshire, VSA, begr. Hillside begraafplaas, Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, VSA x 11 May 1729, Worcester, Massachusetts , VSA met Mehitable YARROW, geb. 1701, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, VSA, oorl. 1765, Weare, Hillsboro, New Hampshire, VSA, d.v. Joseph Yarrow en Sarah NN xx Mehitable ORDWAY, geb. 1711, Haverhill, Essex, MA, VSA, oorl. 1806, Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, VSA.
Thomas was die seun van John Wortley en NN.
Thomas word deur verskeie bronne as die
seun van Samuel Wortley en Joan Cooper aangegee, maar Samuel se seun Thomas is eers in 1701 gedoop.
Rootsweb gee sy pa as John Wortley, geb. 1653 aan, wat hierdie skakeling meer waarskynlik maak.
Thomas Worthley, originally spelled Wortley, was born in Bedfordshire, England. He ran away form home and landed in Salem, Massaachusetts in the year 1705. It is not known how long he stayed at that place, but he next moved to Worcester, Massachusetts where he married his first wife, Mehitalbe Yarrow. From there he went to the then Province of New Hampshire, where he served in the Majesty’s service under the command of Captain Ebeneezer Tyng in Indian campaigns from June 10th to November 10th, 1726. He was enrolled as Thomas Worthley of Dunstable (now Nashua New Hampshire). He also lived in Litchfield, Londonderry, Goffstown and Parker Village (a section of Goffstown) New Hampshire before he settled in Weare, New Hampshire, where he was one of the first settlers. (https://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2016/08/28/consumed-by-fire-weare-new-hampshires-william-worthley-1808-1874/)
"Before he settled permanently he located on the site or very near the house of Mrs. David A. Parker of Parkers Village but was driven off by the Indians. He afterwards returned to this site but was driven off again by the Indians and seeking a new location for his home, built a cabin near the Cold Spring, which he discovered when hunting, and from that settlement came the town of Weare, New Hampshire. (http://www.worthley.com/Newsletters/1198.htm)
The first settlers of Weare, N.H., were Nathaniel Martin in 1750; John Jewell, May 1751; Thomas Worthley, October 1751.
THOMAS WORTHLEY, the third settler, came in October, 1751, from Goffstown. He got his deed June 17, 1752, of lots thirty-three and thirty-four, range one, of Joseph Batchelder, the consideration being twenty pounds old tenor " and to settle." He was born in England, sailed to this country at an early age, married Mehitable Yarrow of Worcester, lived at various places, once at Bedford, and was one of Colonel Goffe’s friends. (Excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE")
He settled on the west bank of the Otter near a cold spring and a few rods east of the north road from Oil-mill to South Weare. His old cellar is yet plain to be seen, and his wife's grave, paved with white pebbles, is near by. By his cabin was an open meadow, where once was a beaver's pond, and from it he got wild grass for his stock. (History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885, 878 pgs. )
He built his log-house on lot thirty-four, range one, in the marshy vale of the Otter, by a cold, never-failing spring of the purest water. There were several beaver meadows on the slow, winding stream; hunters, had killed the beavers; some one had torn down their dams and let out the water from the soft ground; the grass sprang up luxuriantly; blue joint of excellent quality and as high as a man’s head. Worthley came up with some help in the summer, cut it and stacked the hay in a warm, dry place; built a small log-barn; in the fall drove up his cattle and in the winter fed it out to them.
THOMAS WORTHLEY, the third settler, came in October, 1751, from Goffstown. He got his deed June 17, 1752, of lots thirty-three and thirty-four, range one, of Joseph Batchelder, the consideration being twenty pounds old tenor " and to settle." He was born in England, sailed to this country at an early age, married Mehitable Yarrow of Worcester, lived at various places, once at Bedford, and was one of Colonel Goffe’s friends. (Excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE")
He settled on the west bank of the Otter near a cold spring and a few rods east of the north road from Oil-mill to South Weare. His old cellar is yet plain to be seen, and his wife's grave, paved with white pebbles, is near by. By his cabin was an open meadow, where once was a beaver's pond, and from it he got wild grass for his stock. (History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885, 878 pgs. )
He built his log-house on lot thirty-four, range one, in the marshy vale of the Otter, by a cold, never-failing spring of the purest water. There were several beaver meadows on the slow, winding stream; hunters, had killed the beavers; some one had torn down their dams and let out the water from the soft ground; the grass sprang up luxuriantly; blue joint of excellent quality and as high as a man’s head. Worthley came up with some help in the summer, cut it and stacked the hay in a warm, dry place; built a small log-barn; in the fall drove up his cattle and in the winter fed it out to them.
He was also quite a hunter; caught mink and otter on the streams; sable and fishercats on the hills and sometimes in early winter he got larger game; moose and wolves. To his practiced ear, the evening howl of the wolves from the frozen mountains was a wild melody. Deer were very plenty; more at the time than there are sheep in town now, and our settler had a great luck catching them. The Indians build drives in which they captured them; Worthley found the remains of one. He and his friends profited by the idea; they renewed it and then they could go up near the head of the Otter on Mount William almost any time, start up several deer, hurry them down into the drive and shoot them as they tried to escape. They got a good supply of meat this way, but one year they had to hang it up in the tops of some great hemlock trees near Worthley’s cabin, to keep it from the deer-keepers the town chose. The stumps of those old hemlocks are still to be seen. (Excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE")
In summer, when there were plenty of flowers, Worthley hunted bees. The first year he was here he found them at work on the turf in the rear of his cabin, where the sink-water was thrown. He cut up a piece with a bee on it, carried it in the direction from which they seemed to come, let the bee go back and forth several times and found a large swarm in the great pine. He felled the tree, and when it struck the ground the honey spurted out. He gathered it up as well as he could and got from the tree a large washtub nearly full of the nicest. At another time he found a swarm with an abundance of honey in the top of a pine that two "shingle-weavers" had felled and were making shingles from its butt. They had seen the bees, but did not think they had a home in their tree. (Excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE")
He had four sons: John, Timothy, Thomas and Jonathan, and several daughters, all of them came to Weare with him. (Excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE")
His sons -- Timothy, Jonathan and Thomas, -- came to Weare with him, and one of his daughters married Jotham Tuttle, who found the beans for Miss Jewell's wedding. (History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885, 878 pgs)
His first wife died young and was buried on the west side of the north road from Oil Mill to South Weare. Her grave, paved with pebbles is under a pine tree and is still plain to be seen. (Excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE")
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His first wife Mehitable Yarrow, death was the first death in town. Her grave, covered with boulders, as was the custom in those days is still plainly visible and is on the farm property of Mr. George Henry Eastman, Weare, N.H. (http://www.worthley.com/Newsletters/1198.htm)
He married for his second wife, Mehitable Ordway of Hopkinton. (http://www.worthley.com/Newsletters/1198.htm)
His second wife, Widow Mehitable Ordway, lived to be ninety-five years old. He resided here all the rest of his life, died at the great age of one hundred and eight years and was buried in the cemetery at South Weare. His old cellar can now be pointed out and the pure, cold spring near by is often visited. (Excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE")
He was 85 years old when the Revolutionary War broke out, and he was the first one to sign the Association Test. (https://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2016/08/28/consumed-by-fire-weare-new-hampshires-william-worthley-1808-1874/)
He died in Weare, Hillsborough Co. New Hampshire. He died in the year 1799, at the great age of 108 years. (https://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2016/08/28/consumed-by-fire-weare-new-hampshires-william-worthley-1808-1874/)
(https://www.geni.com/people/Captain-Thomas-G-Worthley/6000000026714208089)
Note that his tombstone spells his last name as "Wortley".
