• General Notes

  REFN: 757
  SOURCE: " MY KINFOLKS AND YOURS ", A PAPER BY JOSIE WORTHY, DECEMBER
  1959. THE MAJOR PART OF THE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE WORTHY CLAN
  HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED WILL BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THIS PAPER, GIVEN TO ME BY
  NANCY CROSBY ANDERSON, OF CHESTER, S.C., 803/ 377-8171 ON JULY 16, 1996.
  THE FIRST RECORD OF A WORTHY IN AMERICA IS 1746. ONE THOMAS WORTHY
  RECEIVED A LARGE LAND GRANT IN LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA. THE DATE OF
  THE GRANT WAS JANUARY 12, 1746, BEFORE THE PRESENT CALENDER WAS ADOPTED.
  AT THAT TIME MARCH WAS THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR AND FEBRUARY THE
  LAST. HENCE THOMAS WORTHY RECEIVED HIS LAND GRANT THE LATTER PART OF
  1746. THE TAX LIST FOR THE YEAR 1748 , ORIGIONAL OF LUNENBURG REVEALS
  SAID THOMAS WORTHY, BUT DOES NOT SHOW THE NUMBER OF TITHES {MALES OVER
  16} . THE YEAR 1749 THOMAS WORTHY IS ASSESSED 5 TITHES. HE HAD 4 SONS
  PAST 16 YEARS OLD, THE 5th BEING HIMSELF. 1750 SAME AS 1749, NO LIST
  FOR 1751. NO OTHER WORTHYS' WERE IN LUNENBURG ACCORDING TO THE TAX
  LISTS. IN 1752 THOMAS WORTHY IS ASSESSED 6 TITHES, 5 OF WHICH RESIDE IN
  HIS HOME, THE 6th. BEING A TENANT, JOHN WORTHY , SON OF SAID THOMAS, WHO
  RESIDED ON HIS FATHER'S PLACE, BEING MARRIED. THOMAS HAD IN 1752 FIVE
  SONS, 4 IN THE HOME. THERE ARE NO OTHER WORTHYS' LISTED IN THE COUNTY
  THROUGH 1764. CHARLOTTE COUNTY WAS CUT OUT OF LUNENBURG COUNTY IN 1764
  / 1765, SO WITHOUT MOVING LIVED IN A NEW COUNTY, CHARLOTTE COUNTY,
  VIRGINIA. BETWEEN 1764 AND 1770, A RICHARD AND A MARTIN WORTHY WERE
  RESIDING WITHIN HOMES OF THEIR OWN ON THE PREMISES OF THOMAS WORTHY.
  THERE WERE NO OTHER WORTHYS' LISTED IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VIRGINIA EXCEPT
  THOMAS WORTHY, LAND OWNER, AND JOHN, RICHARD AND MARTIN WORTHY, TENANTS.
  PROBATE RECORDS OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY REVEAL THAT SON, JOHN WORTHY DIED ,
  INTESTATE AND WITHOUT REAL PROPERTY, IN 1771. IT HAS BEEN CHARACTISTIC
  OF THIS BRANCH OF THE WORTHY FAMILY TO DISPOSE OF THEIR PROPERTY BEFORE
  DEATH, TO BE CERTAIN IT WAS KEPT IN THE FAMILY. THE FOLLOWING IS AN
  EXCERPT FROM A DEED GRANTED BY THOMAS WORTHY, Sr. TO THOMAS WORTHY, Jr.
  AND DATED FEBRUARY 21, 1776, CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VIRGINIA: " ....THOMAS
  WORTHY, Jr., .. TO SUPPORT HIS FATHER ....TO ALLOW HIM DURING HIS
  LIFETIME THE USE OF THE PLANTATION HE NOW LIVES ON, 240 ACRES OF LAND,
  PART OF THE TRACT GRANTED THE SAID THOMAS WORTHY, Sr., DATED JANUARY 12,
  1746 "
  FROM THIS DEED, IT WAS ABLE TO DETERMINE: [ 1 ] THOMAS WORTHY WAS SAME
  MAN WHOSE NAME APPEARED ON THE ORIGIONAL TAX LIST OF LUNENBURG COUNTY. [
  2 ] THOMAS WORTHY, Sr. RESIDED CONTINUOUSLY ON HIS PLANTATION REFERRED TO
  IN THE DEED, SINCE THE GRANT THEREOF WAS DATED JANUARY 12, 1746, AND AS A
  RESIDENT OF LUNENBURG COUNTY FROM THE YEAR 1746 THROUGH 1763, AND AS A
  RESIDENT OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY FROM THE YEAR 1764 / 1765 THROUGH FEBRUARY
  21, 1776. [ 3 ] THOMAS WORTHY , Sr. WAS AN ELDERLY MAN AND A WIDOWER.
  [ 4 ] THOMAS WORTHY , Jr. WAS A MARRIED MAN, AS CONDITIONS REQUIRED BY
  THE DEED WERE RIGID IN THAT AN UNMARRIED MAN COULD NOT FULLFILL THEM,
  THUS THOMAS WORTHY WAS MARRIED AT DATE OF THE DEED, FEB. 21, 1776.
  OTHER GIFTS GRANTED BY THOMAS WORTHY, Sr. DATED MARCH 30, 1776: [1]
  TO SON RICHARD WORTHY, 53 1/2 ACRES OF LAND. [2] TO SON MARTIN, 52
  ACRES OF LAND. [3] TO WILLIAM MORTON, 104 ACRES OF LAND; EVIDENTLY
  MORTON WAS A SON-IN-LAW.
  IN 1778 THOMAS WORTHY, Sr. DIED, HIS ESTATE WAS A SMALL PERSONAL ESTATE
  WHICH WAS FILED FOR PROBATE; THOMAS WORTHY, Jr. WAS APPOINTED
  ADMINISTRATOR, SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE CONCLUDED AND CASE DISMISSED JANUARY
  11, 1781. PROPER DISTRIBUTION OF THE ESTATE WAS AUTHORIZED TO THE
  SEVERAL HEIRS, NONE BEING IDENTIFIED BY NAME. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THOMAS
  WHO DIED IN 1778 EMIGRATED FROM ENGLAND. THIS IS SUBSTANTIATED BY
  JUANITA PEELER OF GAFFNEY, WHO SAYS THOMAS WORTHY, Sr., WAS b.
  1700 IN ENGLAND d. 1778 CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VA.; WIFE DIED BEFORE 1746..
  

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