Dorcas (Smith) Worth (1687 - 1730)

Born 1687 in Edgartown, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Hawes — married 24 Jul 1705 in Edgartown, Dukes, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wife of John Worth — married 22 Dec 1724 in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 4 Aug 1730 at about age 43 in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

LNAB: Dorcas Smith

m1. 24 July 1705 Benjamin Hawes

m2. 22 Dec. 1724 John Worth

Dorcas Smith was born in 1687, a daughter of Benjamin Smith and Jedidah Mayhew Smith of Edgartown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. ^[1]

On July 24, 1705, in Edgartown, Dorcas married Benjamin Hawes, a son of John Hawes and Desire Gorham Hawes. Children of Dorcas and Benjamin include:

• Experience Hawes, born November 14, 1706, in Edgartown, died September 19, 1778, in Chilmark, Dukes county, Massachusetts, married Shubael Claghorn
• Jedidah Hawes, born July 30 1709, in Edgartown, died December 22, 1764, in South Dartmouth, married Jabez Sherman
• Benjamin Hawes, Jr.
• Samuel Hawes
• Shubeael Hawes, born August 2710, died March 12, 1722, in infancy

Benjamin Hawes died in Edgartown between Oct 15 and Nov 28 in 1722. On December 22, 1724, at Edgartown, Dorcas (Smith) Hawes married, as his third wife, John Worth, a son of William Worth and Sarah Macy Worth. Children of Dorcas and John include:

• Deacon John Worth, Jr. born September 14, 1725, in Dukes county, Massachusetts, ^[2] died July 1, 1802, in Edgartown, Dukes county, Massachusetts ^[3] married Sarah Athearn on 26 May 1748 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. ^[4]
• Sarah Worth, born January 5, 1728, died March 2, 1795, married Isaac Pope
• Lydia Worth
• Dorcas Worth

Dorcas (Smith) Hawes Worth died August 4, 1730, in Edgartown, Dukes county, Massachusetts Bay and is buried in the Tower Hill Cemetery. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-R7YY : 3 November 2017), Dorcas Smith, Jan 1686; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 775,836
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZSR-XLS : 10 February 2018), Darcus in entry for John Worth, 14 Sep 1725; citing EDGARTOWN,DUKES,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823599 IT 3
3. ↑ The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, July 1905, p 297, Deaths at Edgartown
4. ↑ Nantucket Vital Records to 1850, Marriages, p 525
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #48782524

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQD8-45Z : 10 February 2018), Dorcas in entry for Thomas Worth, 1766; citing NANTUCKET,NANTUCKET,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 823,703

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC4J-ZXT : 24 January 2020), Darcas Hawes in entry for John Worth, 1724.

• Vincent, Daniel Records From Capt. John Gorham's Bible, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1915) Vol. 69, Page 242: see footnote.
• Vital Records of Edgartown, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, 1906) Page 131. Marriage record.