Ezekiel Worthen Jr. (1672 - abt. 1755)

Born 18 May 1672 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Carter) Worthen — married 26 Dec 1704 in Amesbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about Oct 1755 at about age 83 in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire [uncertain]

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Biography

Ezekiel Worthen (Wathen) Jr. was born on 18 May 1672 in Amesbury, Essex County, (then) Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Ezekiel and Hannah (Martyn) Wathen.^[1]

He married Abigail Carter on 26 December 1704 in Amesbury.^[2]

Ezekiel may have died in 1765 or 1766 in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire.^[3]

Children born Amesbury, Essex:^[4]

1. Mary Worthen b: 2 Nov 1705
2. Jacob Worthen b: 21 Jan 1707/1708
3. Ezekiel Worthen b: 18 Mar 1709/1710
4. Thomas Worthen b: 3 Feb 1711/1712
5. Abigail Worthen b: 24 May 1714
6. Hannah Worthen b: 25 Jul 1716
7. Martha Worthen b: 1721
8. Mehetable Worthen b: 4 Jun 1722
9. Anne Worthen b: 24 Nov 1724
10. Samuel Worthen b: 31 Mar 1727
11. Ephraim Worthen b: 28 Aug 1728

Sources

1. ↑ Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), p. 249, citing Old Norfolk County Court records.

   "Wathen, Ezekiell, s. Ezekiell and Hannah, May 18 1672."

2. ↑ Salisbury (Mass.), Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass., Topsfield historical society, 1915), Page 520,

   "Ezekiel, jr., of Amesbury, and Abigail Carter, [were married] at Amesbury, [Essex, Massachusetts] Dec. 26, 1704.*"

3. ↑ Joyce S. Pendery, "Descendants of George & Margery Wathen of Salem, Massachusetts," NEHGR Vol. 154:348, (July 2000), information from a chart in the Edwin B. Worthem Manuscript (MSS A W67) at the New England Historical Society. This collection, containing numerous pages of Worthen family notes, is presumed to have been compiled by Edwin Worthen, Sr., a 19th-generation descendant of George & Margery Worthen, or his son Edwin, Jr.
4. ↑ Amesbury (Mass.), Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass. : Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), pp. 249, 262-265.

See also:

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• David Webster Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts ; with Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton (Providence, R.I. : [Snow & Farnham, printers], 1897), Vols. 1, 2, 3.
• Malva Lynn Teed and Mary L. Emil, We Are Because They Were, 1983. LDS Microfilm 1033945, Item 6.