Captain John Worthington ¹

  Research Notes:

Source: Side-Lights on Maryland History with Sketches of Early Maryland Families by Hester Dorsey Richardson, Vol. 2 (Baltimore, 1913), pp. 255-256

From http://usgwarchives.net/md/annearundel/tsimages/stanne/circle.html (St. Anne's in the Circle Cemetery, Anne Arundel Co., MD):
Here lyeth interred the body of, departed this life age 51

  Burial Notes:

From Historic Graves of Maryland, p. 144:
"[Samuel Worthington] was the grandson of Capt. John Worthington, who lies buried, on what was his home place, opposite Annapolis."

Ibid., p. 16:
"In the third election district of Anne Arundel county, is a farm known as 'Pendennis' belonging to the estate of the late Tilghman Brice. About 100 feet north of the house, which stands on a hill across the Severn Bridge, is the tomb of the founder of the Worthington family, inscribed as follows:

"Here lyeth the body of Captain John Worthington who departed this life the 9 day of April 1701, aged 51 years."

He is buried in the churchyard of St. Anne's in the Circle.

John married Sarah Howard, daughter of Matthew Howard Jr. and Sarah Dorsey. (Sarah Howard died on 21 Dec 1726 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, (United States) and was buried in Westminster Parish, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, (United States).)