The Worland Family in America and Beyond

I began my life in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, on an island filled with forests and wild rhododendrons. I was separated from my Worland family there at an early age. Recently, I was reunited with my family and learned of my heritage. And so, this journey to know my ancestors began. The Worlands, Gideons, Newtons, Conards... they were the colonists, the settlers, the pioneers. They fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War. This is their story, and the story of a nation. -Deci Worland MacKinnon

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

October 1738, Connecticut

October 28, 1738- Abishai Marks is born to Abishai Marks & Martha Cornwall in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

(Abishai Marks is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck.)
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

October 1738, Pennsylvania

The interior of an old meeting house in the Un...Image via WikipediaOctober 4, 1738- William Edwards, of Milford,  marries Martha Foulke, daughter of Hugh Foulke,  at the Richland Monthly Meeting in Buck's County, Pennsylvania.
Among the witnesses are the names of Edwards, Foulke, Roberts, Griffith, Lester, Ball and others well known in this part of Pennsylvania.

"She was a daughter of our ancient friend, Hugh Foulke and Ann his wife..., and being religiously educated, was in her young years an example of virtue and sobriety to her sex; and in the twenty-second year of her age, was married to William Edwards, an approved minister of Richland Monthly Meeting." 

Dated: 5th-mo. 20, 1781
Samuel Foulke
William and Martha both became prominent ministers and elders in the Society of Friends (Quakers).



(Martha Foulke is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Aret Klincken & Niske Agnes Jensen.)
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Monday, August 29, 2011

September 1738, Connecticut

A sign on New Haven Green that details the cit...Image via WikipediaSeptember 1, 1738- Philemon Doolittle is born, the first child of John Doolittle & Hannah Royce, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.

September 10, 1738- Hannah Doolittle, my seventh great grandmother, dies at the age of 37 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

(Philemon Doolittle is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.)
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

August 1738, Maryland

August 1738- Around this time, Margaret Neale, widow of Richard Edelen, marries Zachariah Bond in Charles County, Maryland.

(Margaret Neale is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Benjamin Gill & Mary Mainwaring and Oliver Mainwaring & Margaret Torbock.)
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Friday, August 26, 2011

August 1738, Connecticut

August 11, 1738- Mindwell Cornwall is born to Benjamin Cornwall & Mary Ward in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. She will not survive until adulthood, dying at age 4.

August 12, 1738- Jesse Doolittle is born to Ebenezer Doolittle & Lydia Warner in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.

(Mindwell Cornwall is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck.
Jesse Doolittle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss.)
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

August 1738, Pennsylvania

August 5, 1738- Isaac Conard is born to Dennis Conard & Ann Knight in Abington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

August 28, 1738- Margaret Roberts, wife of Isaac Cadwallader, dies at the age of 26 in Horsham, Pennsylvania. She leaves a two-year-old son, Isaac, and her husband will die within the following year.

August 30, 1738- Joseph Davis marries Elizabeth Shoemaker in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

(Isaac Conard is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magdalen Tyson and Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Elizabeth Shoemaker is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.
Margaret Roberts is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.)
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

August 1738, Rhode Island

National Register of Historic Places listings ...Image via WikipediaAugust 3, 1738- Alice Sherman is born to Thomas Sherman & Mary Sanford in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

(Alice Sherman [Shearman] is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah Lawton and Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

July 1738, Pennsylvania

Seal of Germantown Pennsylvania, 1691Image via WikipediaJuly 21, 1738- Everard Conard is born to Cornelius Conard & Priscilla Bolton in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Monday, August 15, 2011

July 1738, Rhode Island

Official seal of Newport, Rhode IslandImage via WikipediaJuly 18, 1738- David Slocum, son of Eleazer Slocum & Deborah Smith, dies at the age of 18 in Newport, Rhode Island, at the house of Peter Easton  to whom he was apprenticed.

(David Slocum is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson.)
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

July 1738, Connecticut

July 1, 1738- My sixth great grandmother, Mary Harrington, is born to Josiah Harrington & Elizabeth Bennett in Voluntown, New London County, Connecticut.

July 2, 1738- John Abernathy is born to Caleb Anthony & Lois Gaylord in Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut.

July 13, 1738- Sarah Tuttle is born to Isaiah Tuttle & Susanna Doolittle in New Haven, Connecticut.

(John Abernathy is my third cousin 7 times removed. Sarah Tuttle is his second cousin. Sarah Tuttle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.)
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

June 1738, Pennsylvania

June 30, 1738- Barbara Shoemaker is born to Jacob Shoemaker & Margaret Conard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(Barbara Shoemaker is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magadalen Tyson and Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.)
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

June 1738, Connecticut

June 10, 1738- Catherine Doolittle is born to Thomas Doolittle & Hannah Fenn in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.

June 14, 1738- Thankful Stow is born to Eliakim Stow & Lydia Miller in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

(Catherine Doolittle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle, Paul Peck & Hannah Hale, and John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles.
Thankful Stow is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Whitmore & Sarah Hall.)
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

June 1738, Rhode Island

June 10, 1738- Tyla Stafford is born to David Stafford & Lydia Davol in Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island.

(Tyla Stafford is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Richard Sisson & Mary Atkinson.)
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

May 1738, Maryland

May 27, 1738- Charles County Land Records, 1733-1743; Liber O#2; Page 329.


Recorded May 27, 1738.
Maryland 136Image by paints12 via FlickrMay 1, 1738 from John Hanson, Sr. of Charles County, Gentleman, to John Hanson, Jr. (son of the aforesaid John Hanson, Sr.) of Charles County, for the natural love that he has for his said son and for 5 shillings and for divers other good causes, a certain parcel of land in Charles County, being part of a tract of land called Green Land, bounded by Moors Lodge, the bound tree of Bartons Meadow, containing 555 acres.
Signed -John Hanson. Wit - Robert Hanson, Samuel Hanson Jr.
(Green Land was formerly called Husseys Addition.)

John Hanson, Jr. is my sixth great granduncle. He is the son of John Hanson, Sr. & Elizabeth Hussey.
Elizabeth Hussey is my seventh great grandmother, the widow of my seventh great grandfather, Samuel Luckett. The marriage is her third, and she is quite a bit older than her spouse. 
Elizabeth Hussey is the daughter of Thomas Hussey, Gentleman, and his wife, Joanna Porter, who were of the Roman Catholic faith. The 'Gentleman' indicates that he is descended from English gentry. Documents bearing his signature indicate that he was educated in letters, an accomplishment not too common among early settlers. Thomas became one of the interesting characters of the early days and once wrote to Lord Baltimore that he had been robbed by the Indians "of alle but the clothes on my bodye".
Following Samuel Luckett's death, Elizabeth lost little time acquiring a third husband, and by November 6, 1705, she had married John Hanson. On that date, John Hanson and Elizabeth, and Samuel Luckett, her son, 'executors of Samuel Luckett, deceased...' rendered an account to the Prerogative Court of Charles County:
"At the fall session of the County Court the Grand Jury with John Beale as foreman, indicted Nicholas Gulick, a Romanist priest, for "marrying John Hanson and the widow Luckett contrary to law." Likewise, John Hanson and Elizabeth, his wife, were indicted "for being & Suffering the ___ to marry."'
There are no known descendants of Elizabeth Hussey and John Gardiner who was a staunch Roman Catholic; Samuel Luckett, her second husband subscribed to the Church of England; and the third, John Hanson, was also of the Church of England. There were four children from this third marriage and all four of these children were reared within the Catholic Church."
These were difficult religious times dating back over 150 years to the reign of Henry VIII.  Her parents were Catholic, her first husband was Catholic, she was married to her third husband by a Catholic priest, and she reared the children from her first husband as Catholics. The only period she appears to follow the Church of England is during her marriage to Samuel Luckett. It is probably no coincidence that Thomas Hussey Luckett, a Catholic, was the only son of Samuel and Elizabeth's children to be named in the will of Elizabeth's father.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

May 1738, Rhode Island

May 2, 1738- Joseph Peckham is born to Isaac Peckham & Jane Sisson in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island.

May 12, 1738- Hannah Fish is born to David Fish & Jemima Tallman in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

May 26, 1738- Peleg Clarke is born to Benjamin Clarke & Grizzel Sherman in  Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

(Joseph Peckham is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah Lawton.
Hannah Fish is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Hall & Mary Thomas.
Peleg Clarke is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)
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Monday, August 1, 2011

May 1738, Connecticut

May, 1738- Colonial Connecticut Records, Volume VII: "Upon the memorial of Prince Tracy of Willington, representing the peculiar circumstances of one Reuben Goff, an idiot child now resident in Wellington, and praying for relief, &c., as per his memorial on file, dated May 15th, 1738; Resolved by this Assembly, that there be paid out of the publick treasury of this Colony, for the support of said Reuben Goff, the sum of ten shillings per week; and that Nathaniel Stanly, Esqr, of Hartford, do from time to time sign and direct orders to the Treasurer of this Colony (on application of such meet person as the town of Willington shall to that purpose appoint,) to draw out of the publick treasury the sum of ten shillings per week, quarterly, to be improved for the subsistence of the said idiot child, during the pleasure of this Assembly."

Reuben Goffe is the 8 year old son of Solomon Goffe & Mary Doolittle. Solomon Goffe must have suffered a series of financial reverses, as he had bought his brothers' interest in a property in Wethersfield in 1711.
He lived there ten years. In 1721, he sold the place to Thomas Andrews, of Wallingford.
Solomon and his wife were passing through Willington as transients at the time of Reuben's birth. They were very poor and unable to care for the disabled child, and through the years he was cared for by various residents of Willington.
The fate of Solomon and Mary is unclear. They may have settled in Willington, or died about this time.

May 3, 1738- Aaron Leaming is born to Jeremiah Leaming & Abigail Turner in Middletown, Middlesex,
Connecticut.

May 20, 1738- My eighth great grandfather, Nathaniel Hubbard, dies at the age of 85 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
Born in Middletown, Nathaniel was the son of George Hubbard & Elizabeth Watts, sister of Captain Thomas Watts. Nathaniel's father, George Hubbard, had come from England to Concord, Massachusetts in 1633.
In 1682, Nathaniel married Mary Earle, who preceded him in death. They lived at Long Hill, on the cross roads some two miles west of the Connecticut river, on property purchased by his father. Mary Earle's grandfather was Henry De Earl, Lord of Newton of England, who came to America on the ship "Speedwell" in 1656.
Nathaniel contributed 15 shillings toward the first church bell used in Middletown; which supplanted the drum for calling the people together.
He is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Middletown.
Inscription: Here lyes the body of Mr. Nathaniel Hubbard who deceased May 20, 1738 in ye 86th year of his age. 

His Will is recorded in Digest of Early Connecticut Wills. Inventoried 2 June 1738 (341pounds, 9s, 3p.)Recorded 5 June 1738. All ten children mentioned as living.


A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS. 1737 to 1742.
Page 80-81 Name: Nathaniel Hubbard, Sen. Location: Middletown
Invt. £341-09-03. Taken 2 June, 1738, by Solomon Adkins, Ephraim Adkins and Wm. Rockwell. Will dated 6 March, 1734-5.

I, Nathaniel Hubbard, Sen., of Middletown, in the County of Hartford, being sensible by my great age and weakness through it that my departure is at hand, do make and ordain this my last will and testament: I give to my son Nathaniel Hubbard what I have given him by deed of gift and £10 in money more, and 1-2 of my land on the west side the mountain, belonging to the lott my son Ebenezer liveth on. I give to my son John Hubbard what I have given him by deed of gift and £5 in money more, and the 1-2 of my land on the west side of the mountain, belonging to the lott my son Ebenezer liveth on. I give to my son Ebenezer Hubbard what I have given him by deed of gift and 10 shillings more. I give to my daughter Mary what I have given her by deed of gift and a share in the remainder of the homelott, so much as with the 1-2 acre already given her to make her part equal in value with her sisters' part in the homelott, except Sarah; and also a pewter platter which her mother designed for her. I give to my daughter Abigail £10-15-00 in money, which is to make her equal with the rest of them, and an iron kettle and an old brass kettle which her mother designed for her. I give to my daughter Elizabeth £10-15 in money, which is to make her equal with Esther, and my feather bed and blankets. I give to my daughter Sarah 1-2 of an acre of land at the southeast corner of my homelott, to lye square, and my new brass kettle, and my iron pott, and a pewter platter, which her mother designed for her. I give to my daughter Thankfull £7-15-00 in money to make her equal with Esther, and my hetchell between her and her sister Hannah. I give to my daughter Hannah £7-15-00 in money to make her equal with Esther, and 1-2 of my hetchell and my chest. I give to my daughter Esther my warming pan. My will is that my debts, funeral charges and ye legacies above mentioned to be paid to my children be paid out of my household stuff not here disposed of, and out of my stock so far as they will go, and the rest to be made up out of my homelott. And what remains of my homelott and buildings upon it I give to my 7 daughters, to Abigail, Elizabeth, Sarah, Thankfull, Hannah and Esther equal parts in it, and to Mary such a part as with the half acre I have already given her to make her part equal in value with her sisters' parts except Sarah, who is to have the half acre above mentioned besides her equal part in the rest. I appoint my sons Nathaniel and John Hubbard executors. Witness: William Rockwell, Benjamin Hand, Jr., Ebenezer Rockwell. Nathaniel X Hubbard, Sen., ls. Court Record, Page 30--5 June, 1738: Will proven.

(Reuben Goffe is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Samuel Doolittle & Mary Cornwall.
Aaron Leaming is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Edward Turner & Mary Sanford.)
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