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Rufus Worden

Male 1760 - 1812  (52 years)


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  • Name Rufus Worden 
    Born 1759/1760  Coventry or Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 May 1812  Brutus, Cayuga, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I12  Schuerman-Wood-Worden
    Last Modified 9 May 2020 

    Father Peter Worden, V,   b. 5 Jun 1728, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Feb 1808, Cheshire, Berkshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Mary "Mercy" Moon,   b. 10 Nov 1723, N. Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Dec 1805, Cheshire, Berkshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 18 Aug 1749  Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F9  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Tabitha Cook,   b. 1766, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1820  (Age > 55 years)  [2
    Married 16 Mar 1788  Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Mercy Worden
     2. Lydia Worden
     3. Robert Worden
     4. Eliza Worden
     5. Ripha Worden,   b. 1791, Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Nov 1849, Livonia, Wayne, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     6. Orinda (Minda) Worden
     7. Walter Washington Worden,   b. 27 May 1805, Cayuga, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Dec 1891, Davison, Genesee, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     8. Pardon Briggs Worden,   b. 1807,   d. 1869  (Age 62 years)
    Last Modified 16 Aug 2023 
    Family ID F5  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 1790 Shaftsbury, Bennington, VT census: Wording, Rufus 2M>16 (Rufus + ?), 1M<16 (Robert?), 2F (Tabitha, Mercy?)

      1800 Shaftsbury, Bennington, VT census, p. 40: Rufus Wordan 4m<10 (Ripha, Walter, Pardon?), 1M10-16 (Robert?), 1M26-45 (Rufus), 2F<10 (Lydia, Eliza?), 1F10-16 (Mercy?), 1F26-45 (Tabitha).

      1810 Brutus, Cayuga, NY census, p. 19: Rufus Worden 32110-3211, 3M<10 (Pardon?), 2M10-16 (Ripha, Walter), 1M16-26 (Robert), 1M26-45 (Rufus, should be over 45), 3F<10 (Orinda), 2F10-16 (Lydia, Eliza), 1F16-26 (Mercy), 1F26-45 (Tabitha).

      Censuses include persons not in family listing.

      Pat Worden:
      Referencing Rex Worden: b. 1759-60, d. Brutus, Cayuga, NY
      Referencing Rufus Ripha Worden: b. in VT or RI
      Referencing MA Archives: m 16 Mar 1788 Adams Berkshire, MA
      Referencing Bahn Studies: d. 27 Jan 1812
      Remark 1: 1780 Cheshire, MA

      Rex Warden has supplied copies of some material:

      Records of Town of Adams [MA]: A marriage is intended Between Rufus Worden and Tabitha Cook both of Adams, February 20, 1788
      Berkshire [?] March 16, 1788
      Then was Rufus Werden and Tabitha Cook both of Adams in the County of Berkshire joined together in Marriage as the law directs. By Peter Worden, Elder. Recorded April 19, 1788

      Various documents concerning settlement of his estate, including an inventory showing that after accounting for his assets, he owed $249. He died intestate.

      Gilbert Bahn, Wordens Past, Vol XIX, No 3, Nov 1998, p. 1496: Marriage at Adams, MA, 16 Mar 1788. Widow, Tabytha Worden, is at Brutus in the 1820 census. Died intestate. Estate was divided into ten shares in settlement. One share was allocated to his creditors and one, of course, to Tabytha. The remaining eight demonstrate that there were then eight living children. These were Lydia, Robert, Ripha, Eliza, Walter, Pardon, Mercy, and Orinda. . . . Tabatha and Robert are not to be found in censuses after 1820.

      From website:
      Estate Inventory of Rufus Worden
      20 May 1812

      One note of hand for grain against Japitha Lewis $30.00 One note against Elisha Kambal $10.38 One cow $15.00 One yoke of small stags $35.00 One yoke of yearling steers $18.00 One cow $16.00 One two year old heifer $12.00 One ox yoke $1.00 Fifteen sheep at 1.50 each $22.50 One yearling colt $20.00 Four small stone swine at 2.25 each $9.00 One sow $3.00 Four fat hogs $7.50 Ten geese at 31 cents each $3.25 Two tun of hay $10.00 One stack of oats $2.50 One stack of rye $28.12-1/2 One crib of damaged corn $6.00 Two ox chains $3.50 Old seythe $.50 Two old hoes $1.00 Eight harrow teeth $4.80 Old iron $1.25 Fourteen bushels of wheat $14.00 Thirty-five bushels of corn at 37-1/2 cents $13.12-1/2 One and one half flax seed $1.50 Twenty bushels potatoes at 25 cents $5.00 One bed and beding $19.00 One bed and beding $11.00 One bed and beding $10.00 One bed and beding $5.00 One old great coat $.50 One tight bodied coat $2.00 One old jacket $.50 One old jacket $.25 One do do $.25 One pair wollen trowsers $2.50 One do and velvet do $1.50 Two do and linen do $.25 Two linen shirts, old $.25 Two pair stockings $.37-1/2 One pair old mittens $.12-1/2 One old Bible $.25 Ten yards tow cloth at 37-1/2 cents a yard $3.75 Two old chests at fifty cents each $1.00 One reel $1.00 One tow wheel $2.00 Six old broken chair frames $1.00 Three old meal bags $.50 Two sad irons $.75 One old five pail kettle $.50 One small kettle $.50 One iron pot $1.00 One small do $1.00 One broken bake kettle $.50 One old tea kettle $.50 One grid iron $.50 one tin lantern $.37-1/2 One old pewter tea pot $.25 Two pounds old pewter $.25 One tea canester $.25 One two quart glass bottle $.19 One small tim pail $.12-1/2 One powdering tub $.75 One lod tin pan $.12 One iron crane $1.50 Thirty-two pounds and 1/2 tallow $4.03 Sixty pounds of flax $7.50 Two hundred-twenty eight white wood siding $1.25 Two new barrels $2.00 One linen wheel $2.00

      SOURCE: Obtained at Worden Hall in East Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass.

  • Sources 
    1. [S49] Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Washington Co., Arnold, James N. , (1874), E6975.1., Vol 1, p. 60, Coventry Marriages.
      Orig. vol 1, p. 21

    2. [S333] Adams, Berkshire Mass. Births, Marriages 1786-1847, (On FamilySearch.).
      Marriage intention 20 Feb. 1788, returned 11 Mar. 1788.

    3. [S23] Wordens Past, (Worden Family Newsletter), Vol XIX, No 3, Nov 1998, p. 1496.