George Worthen

Biography

George Wathen was born on 15: 10m: 1669 (15 December 1669) in Amesbury, Essex, (then) Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Ezekiel and Hannah (Martyn) Wathen.[1][2]

He married first, probably in Newbury about 1699, Anne Annis, the daughter of Charles/Curmac and Sarah (Chase) Annis.[3][4][2] Anne was named in her mother's will, dated 1718, proved 1726, as Ann Worthen.[5] She presumably died by 1732 when George remarried.[2]

He married, second, the widow Deborah Blasdell on 24 October 1732 at Newbury.[6][2] She was possibly the widow of Ephraim Blaisell who died in 1728, and the daughter of Christopher and Deborah (Weed) Bartlett, born in 1680 in Amesbury.[2][7]

In December 1708 he was listed as a husbandman among the "Snow-Shoe Men" of Amesbury, defenders against Indian attack.[8]

In 1711, George and Anne Warthen (by her mark) signed a 1709 deed of gift conveying entailed land to John Warthen, oldest son of Ezekiel2 and Hannah Wathen. In 1723 George Warthen, husbandman of Amesbury, sold to his brother Ezekiel land in Salisbury. In 1728 He sold to Ezekiel land in Amesbury, as well as a salt meadow lot in Salisbury to Joseph Moulton, blacksmith of Newbury. In 1738 he conveyed Amesbury land to his oldest son, Charles Wathen, and in 1741 more to his second son, George Wathen Jr.[9]

George was buried in Amesbury on 01 April 1745.[10]

Deborah died probably shortly before May 1754.[11] No probate records found for George or either wife in Essex County records.[2]

Children recorded Amesbury:[12]

Priscilla, b. 27 Feb 1699/1700
Priscilla/Preselah, b. 19 Oct 1703
Anne, b. 18 Jan 1704/5
Charles, b. 7 Dec 1706
George, b. 20 Mar 1709
Deborah, b. 5 Apr 1712
Judith, b. 28 Sep 1717
Aquila, b. 6 Sep 1721

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George Wathen (1669 - bef. 1745)

George Wathen aka Warthen, Wothen, Worthen

Born 15 Dec 1669 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Son of Ezekiel Wathen and Hannah (Martyn) Wathen

Brother of Hannah (Wathen) Fowler, John Wathen, Thomas Wathen, Ezekiel Worthen Jr., Margerite (Wathen) Weed, Samuel Worthen, Dorothy (Worthen) Flanders, Judith (Wathen) Page and Deborah (Wathen) Wells

Husband of Anne (Annis) Wathen — married about 1699 (to before 24 Oct 1732) [location unknown]

Husband of Deborah (Bartlett) Wathen — married 24 Oct 1732 (to before 1 Apr 1745) in Amesbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Father of Priscilla Wathen, Priscilla Wathen, Anne (Worthen) Tuxbury, Charles Worthen, George (Wathen) Warthen, Deborah (Worthen) Martin, Judith Wathen and Aquila Worthen

Died before 1 Apr 1745 before age 75 in Amesbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wathen-8 created 14 Sep 2010 | Last modified 19 Mar 2022

Sources

↑ Topsfield Historical Society, compiler, Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), p. 249].
WATHEN, George, s. Ezekiell and Hannah, 15: 10 m: 1669. CT. R
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Pendery, Joyce S., "Descendants of George & Margery Wathen of Salem, Massachusetts," The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.) Vol. 154:325-352 (July 2000), p. 347.
↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), citing Salisbury Fam. 371, 823; Essex Ant. 3:184; Spear Anc. 120
↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin. Massachusetts & Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, original version published by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, CD version published 1998 by Broderbund, Novato, CA, 1996, Page: 1:27-31, Annis of Newbury & Wells
↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin. Massachusetts & Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, original version published by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, CD version published 1998 by Broderbund, Novato, CA, 1996, "Ancestry of Annis Spear," p. 28.
↑ Essex Institute, compiler, VRs of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol. 2:501.
WARTHEN, George, widr., and wid. Deborah Blasdell, Oct. 24, 1732. C. R. 7 [Queen Anne's Chapel, Episcopal Church records]
↑ Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol. 1:38.
"Bartlet, Deborah, d. Christopher, June 23, 1680."
↑ Hoyt, David Webster, The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts; with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton, (Providence, R.I.: Snow & Farnham, 1897) p. 25.
↑ Pendery, Wathen, pp. 347-8, citing Essex County Deeds, 56:19b, 83, 92, 112; 77:122, 128; 81:228.
↑ Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol. 2:757.
Worthen, George, of Amesbury, buried Apr. 1, 1745. CR7. [Queen Anne's Chapel, Episcopal Church records]
↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, file #2556, Ephraim Blaisdell 05 Aug 1728.
↑ Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol. 1:249, 250, 262, 263, 265 (variously recorded as Wathen, Warthen, Worthen and Wothen.)
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Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Page 798