When William Worth was born on 4 January 1741, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joseph Worth, was 47 and his mother, Lydia Gorham, was 39. He married Ruth Folger on 29 January 1763, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1792, at the age of 51.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Worth, for example in Cheshire, Dorset, Sussex, and Kent, from Old English worth ‘enclosure, settlement’. The vocabulary word probably survived into the Middle English period in the sense of a subsidiary settlement dependent on a main village, and in some cases the surname may be a topographic name derived from this use. Compare Worthy .
North German: topographic name from Middle Low German wort ‘enclosure, elevated piece of land, farmstead’, or a habitational name from a place so named in northern Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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