Bios: WORTH, Thomas, 1680's: Chester (now Deleware)/Allegheny Cos, PA

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THOMAS WORTH

    He was born 1649 at oxten county of Nottingham, England.  On 
February 21, 1682, in company with William Penn he
left England in a ship sailing to a land of promise- Pennsylvania.  A   
settlement of Friends or Quakers was established at Darby upon the   
arrivalof the ship in 1682.  On october 8, 1685 he married an Isabelle
Davidson, who probably also came from England in the same boat.  Thomas
served as an assemblyman in 1697.  He owned 222 acres of land at Darby 
which he bequeathed to his son, Thomas.  He also owned 500 acres of 
land at East Bradford.

From Smith's "History of Delaware County"

Contributor's notes:

Thomas Worth and Isabella Davidson had three children - John, Thomas, and
Sarah.  Thomas was born Jan 4th, 1688 and died in 1783. 
 He married Mary Fawertt and had seven children 
(Samual, Susanna, Lydia, Rebecca, Hannah, Ebenezer, and Mary.) 

Samual was born Jan 25, 1718 and married Elizabeth Carter
(of East Bradford) on Oct 27, 1744 and had six children.
  (second marriage to Jane Buffington, April 30, 1778.)

Samual's six children's names were: John, Thomas, James, May, Joseph, and
Elizabeth.  

John was born 10-05-1745 and died 10-17-1790.  John married Mary
Bently. (daughter of George and Jane Bently) in 1773 and had eight children. 
Thomas, Elizabeth, Ebenezer, Samuel, John, George, Emmon, and Benjamin.

  John was born 6-25-1782 and married Lydia Carpenter in 1804 and had eight children. 

Mary Bently was born 12-15-1754  and died 12-20-1830.  John Worth and Mary
lived at Mortonville, where John owned a mill.  he was commissioned a J.P. of
the court of common please 4-11-1789 for the districts composed of the
townships of Pennsburg, East and West Bradford, Newtown, and East Fallowfeld.
John Worth was a private in Captain Bentley's company, Chester County militia.
1780

Ebenezer Worth (John's son) was born 4-10-1778.  Ebenezer moved west (away
from his people in Chester County) around 1798 to a location near Pittburgh
settled at first ten miles from Pittsburgh on the northside of the Ohio river
but about 1804.  He located about sixteen miles below Pittsburgh in Moon
township, one mile from the Ohio river on Flaugherty Run, on a 265 acre farm
near Shausetown (now Glen Willard).  Here he built a mill as well as a great
log mansion.  Ebenezer was married in Pittsburgh to Margaret Perry, June
5, 1806.  They had 10 children.  Both Ebenezar and his wife Margaret were
buried in the Sharon Church cementary at Carnot, Pa.  Their children were:

  James Perry 10-26-1807
  Mary Ann 5-27-1809
  Hannah Iven 3-10-1811
  John Bingley 10-04-1814
  Elizabeth 2-21-1816
  Asenath 2-17-1819
  Margaret Jane 11-13-1820
  Louise 8-01-1823
  Lucinda 8-18-18?

My grandmother had this information tracked down.  It all came from either the
Pennsylvania State Library and Museum in Harrisburgh (archivist) or
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania of the Fort McIntosh chapter or
data from the chester county history

Margaret Jane Worth married John Chisholm Boggs April 16,1849.  John Boggs
moved from the farm at Shousetown at the age of 22 and returned to the farm
as owner in 1868.  In 1857 or 1858 was appointed superintendent of the
shousetown shipyard and continued on this until 1868.  Under his supervision
was built the "Great Republic," "Continental," "Commonewalth", "Glencoe," and 
"James Whan."  The "James Whan" was captured by the confederates and converted 
into a gun boat called the "Little Rebel." (from Alleghany history.)