f.2. John (Capt). geb. 12/1731, Litchfield, Hillsborough New Hampshire, VSA, oorl. 07/06/1810, North Yarmouth, Cumberland x 09/11/1758, Cumberland, Cumberland, Maine, VSA met Martha BAILEY, geb. 08/02/1758, Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine, VSA, oorl. 14/06/1817, Ware, Hampshire, MA, d.v. Robert Bailey en Martha Riggs Millett.
John was die seun van Thomas Wortley en Mehitable Yarrow.
The name of Worthley became quite prominent in the history of North Yarmouth, Maine from 1750 till about 1820 when the sons of John Worthley with the exception of Justin removed from the town. John Worthley is recorded as coming from "Haletown". Tradition says that his name was originally "Wortley" and that he was connected with prominent families in England. His neighbors called him Worthley and being of an easy disposition, he ultimately wrote it so. (https://www.geni.com/people/Capt-John-Wortley/6000000000140023206)
Name John Wortley
Event Type Military Service
Event Date 23 Aug 1754
Event Place New Hampshire, United States
Name John Wortley
Event Type Military Service
Event Date 1755
Event Place New Hampshire, United States
(Old times: a Magaxine devoted to the preservation and publication of documents relating to the early history of North Yarmouth, Maine, Vol. 5. No. 1. Augustus W. Corliss, Yarmouth, Maine, Jan. 1, 1881.)
He was a captain in the Revolutionary War and commanded a company known as Captain John Worthley's Company of North Yarmouth, Maine, of Colonel Edmund Phinney's Regiment of Foot 1775 and was also a captain of a company on Colonel Reuben Fogg's Militia Regiment in 1776. It is apparent from historical data that he went from Weare, N.H. to Maine, somewhere between 1755 and 1758 and located in North Yarmouth permanently and there raised a family of 10 children. He was a respected citizen, a faithful member of the Congregational Church, loyal to his country and his family. (https://www.geni.com/people/Capt-John-Wortley/6000000000140023206)
This family of 10 children were all members of the Congregational Church. They were not remarkable for financial ability, but were attentive to their religious duties and left large families, except Justin who I believe had no children. (They adopted some.) from Old Times in North Yarmouth Revolutionary service of John Worthley (Sr. ) of North Yarmouth. -- Captain in Colonel Edmund Phinney's (31st) Regiment, engaged April 24, 1775, reinforce the Continental Army, as returned to Samuel Thompson, Brigadier for Cumberland County, dated North Yarmouth Dec. 3, 1776, also captain of a company raised in North Yarmouth, return dated Falmouth Dec. 9, 1776, signed by Colonel Jonathan Mitchell &
Colonel Timothy Pike, field officers in Cumberland County of officers appointed to command various companies drafted from the rnilitia in accordance with an order of the General Court to serve under Colonel Reuben Fogg.
(https://www.angelfire.com/ut2/dlarsen/manwill/histories/manwill/worthley.html)
He served as a Captain in 3 divisions of the Revolutionary Army of 1776 and was a New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence of 1776.
(Old times: a Magaxine devoted to the preservation and publication of documents relating to the early history of North Yarmouth, Maine, Vol. 5. No. 1. Augustus W. Corliss, Yarmouth, Maine, Jan. 1, 1881.)
