Marriage record, Groton MA
WARLLY, Thomas, and Mehetubel Yarrow, both of Dunstable, May 17, 1729
YARROW, Mehetubel and Thomas Warlly, both of Dunstable, May 17, 1729

BIOGRAPHY: From "The Worthley Newsletter," A Newsletter for the Worthley Reunion of 1999, November 1998, posted online at: [http://www.worthley.com/Newsletters/1198.htm]:
THOMAS WORTHLEY. Thomas was born in Bedfordshire, England, about 1691; ran away from home and came to this country about the year 1705. He landed in Salem, Mass., and from there went to
Worcester, Mass., Londonderry, NH, Goffstown, NH, and then settled near Weare, New Hampshire, in 1751. He died at the age of 108 -- which was 1799."
We have record of him being in his Majesty's service under command of Captain Tyng in Indian campaigns from June 10th to November 10th, 1726. He was enrolled as THOMAS WORTLEY of Dunstable, now Nashua. He also lived in Litchfield, Londonderry, Goffstown, and Parkers Village before finally settling permanently at Weare, in which town he was the first settler and where he remained the rest of his life. The territory as outlined and embracing the towns mentioned is located in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. "
"Before he settled permanently he located on the site or very near the house of Mrs. David A. Parker of Parkers Village but was driven off by the Indians. He afterwards returned to this site but was driven off again by the Indians and seeking a new location for his home, built a cabin near the Cold Spring, which he discovered when hunting, and from that settlement came the town of Weare, New Hampshire. He was 85 years of age when the Revolutionary War broke out and was the first one to sign the "Association Test" for the town of Weare. His first wife Mehitable Yarrow, died at Weare and was the
first death in town. Her grave, covered with boulders, as was the custom in those days is still plainly visible and is on the farm property of Mr. George Henry Eastman, Weare, N.H. He married for his second wife, Mehitable Ordway of Hopkinton.
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From: The first settlers of Weare, N.H., were Nathaniel Martin in 1750; John Jewell, May 1751; Thomas Worthley, October 1751.
and excerpts from: "HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE"
THOMAS WORTHLEY, the third settler, came in October, 1751, from Goffstown. He got his deed June 17, 1752, of lots thirty-three and thirty-four, range one, of Joseph Batchelder, the consideration being twenty pounds old tenor "and to settle." He was born in England, sailed to this country at an early age, married Mehitable Yarrow of Worcester, lived at various places, once at Bedford, and was one of Colonel Goffe’s friends. He built his log-house on lot thirty-four, range one, in the marshy vale of the Otter, by a cold, never-failing spring of the purest water. There were several beaver meadows on the slow, winding stream; hunters, had killed the beavers; some one had torn down their dams and let out the water from the soft ground; the grass sprang up luxuriantly; blue joint of excellent quality and as high as a man’s head. Worthley came up with some help in the summer, cut it and stacked the hay in a warm, dry place; built a small log-barn; in the fall drove up his cattle and in the winter fed it out to them.
He was also quite a hunter; caught mink and otter on the streams; sable and fishercats on the hills and sometimes in early winter he got larger game; moose and wolves. To his practiced ear, the evening howl of the wolves from the frozen mountains was a wild melody. Deer were very plenty; more at the time than there are sheep in town now, and our settler had a great luck catching them. The Indians build drives in which they captured them; Worthley found the remains of one. He and his friends profited by the idea; they renewed it and then they could go up near the head of the Otter on Mount William almost any time, start up several deer, hurry them down into the drive and shoot them as they tried to escape. They got a good supply of meat this way, but one year they had to hang it up in the tops of some great hemlock trees near Worthley’s cabin, to keep it from the deer-keepers the town chose. The stumps of those old hemlocks are still to be seen.
In summer, when there were plenty of flowers, Worthley hunted bees. The first year he was here he found them at work on the turf in the rear of his cabin, where the sink-water was thrown. He cut up a piece with a bee on it, carried it in the direction from which they seemed to come, let the bee go back and forth several times and found a large swarm in the great pine. He felled the tree, and when it struck the ground the honey spurted out. He gathered it up as well as he could and got from the tree a large washtub nearly full of the nicest. At another time he found a swarm with an abundance of honey in the top of a pine that two "shingle-weavers" had felled and were making shingles from its butt. They had seen the bees, but did not think they had a home in their tree.
He had four sons: John, Timothy, Thomas and Jonathan, and several daughters., all of them came to Weare with him. His first wife died young and was buried on the west side of the north road from Oil Mill to South Weare. Her grave, paved with pebbles is under a pine tree and is still plain to be seen. His second wife, Widow Mehitable Ordway, lived to be ninety-five years old. He resided here all the rest of his life, died at the great age of one hundred and eight years and was buried in the cemetery at South Weare. His old cellar can now be pointed out and the pure, cold spring near by is often visited.
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History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885, 878 pgs.
"Thomas Worthley was the third settler. He was originally from Bedford, but came to Weare from Goffstown, 1751. He settled on the west bank of the Otter near a cold spring and a few rods east of the north road from Oil-mill to South Weare. His old cellar is yet plain to be seen, and his wife's grave, paved with white pebbles, is near by. By his cabin was an open meadow, where once was a beaver's pond, and from it he got wild grass for his stock. His sons -- Timothy, Jonathan and Thomas, -- came to Weare with him, and one of his daughters married Jotham Tuttle, who found the beans for Miss Jewell's wedding.
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FROM: Ancestry.com. New England Immigrants, 1700-1775 [database online]. Orem, Utah: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. Original data: Bolton, Ethel Stanwood. Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775. Flint, James, ed. Boston: n.p.
WORTHLEY, Thomas, Salem, Worcester, Mass., Londonderry and Goffstown, N.H.; from England, 1705; b. 1691, Bedfordshire; m. 1. Mehitable Yarrow, of Worcester; m. 2. Mehitable Ordway, of Hopkinton; Children: Timothy, Thomas, John, Mehitable, Molly, Susanna, Jonathan; d. aged 108 years. Hadley's History of Goffstown, p. 571.
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Worthley was originally spelled Wortley, Thomas was born in Bedfordshire, England, in the Year 1691. He ran away from home at age 14 and landed at Salem, Mass. in 1705, It is not known how long he stayed at that Location but ended up in Worcester, Worcester, Mass. and moved onto Hillsborough County, N.H., Litchfield, Londonderry, Goffstown, and Parkers Village before finally settling permanently at Weare in which he was the First Settler and where he remained the rest of his life. He was in His Majesty's service under Command of Captain Eleazer Tyng in Indian Campaigns from June 10th to November 10,1726. He was enrolled as Thomas Wortley of Punstable, now Nashua. Before he settled permanently he located on the sight or very near where the house of Mrs. David A. Parker of Parkers Village now stands but was driven off by the Indians. He afterwards returned to this site but was driven off again by the Indians. While hunting he discovered the Cold Springs and Built his Cabin near by, the Town of Weare then Sprung up around him as other's settled in, his wife Mehitable Yarrow was the First to die in Town in 1765, Her Grave covered with Boulders as was the Custom of the Time is still visible on the now Farm Property of Mr. George Henry Eastman. Thomas Married a Second time, Mehitable Ordway of Hopkinton who lived to be 95 Yrs. Old. Thomas was 85 when the Revolutionary war broke out and was the first to sign the " Association Test ". He died 1799 at age 108.

• Married: 17 May 1728 in Groton, MA Records

1. Molly WORTHLEY b: 12 Jul 1734 in Litchfield NH
2. Timothy WORTHLEY b: Abt 1740 in prob Goffstown NH
3. John WORTHLEY b: Dec 1731 in Litchfield NH
4. Susannah WORTHLEY b: Abt 1736 in Litchfield NH
5. Thomas WORTHLEY b: Abt 1739
6. Samuel WORTHLEY b: 1729 in Litchfield NH
7. Jonathan WORTHLEY b: 9 May 1746/1750 in Weare, Hillsborough Co NH
8. Mehitable WORTHLEY b: Abt 1751

• Married: Abt or Aft 1765 in NH

1. Author: Worthley Reunion of 1999
   Title: "The Worthley Newsletter,"
   Publication: http://www.worthley.com/Newsletters/1198.htm
   Repository: