Edward Worthington
Edward Worthington | |
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Born | c. 1754 Ohio River Valley and founding the fortified , Kentucky settlement, Worthington's Station |
Spouse(s) | His only wife's name was documented, under many different names, including; Mary Worthington, Elizabeth Worthington, Mary Elizabeth Worthington, Betsey Worthington, Elizabeth Stephens Worthington, Mary Worthington, Elizabeth Jefferies Worthington |
Edward Worthington (c. 1754–1804) was an Irish-born American frontiersman, hunter, surveyor and soldier who explored and later helped settle the Kentucky frontier. A veteran of the
Early life
Edward Worthington, born in
American Revolutionary War
Edward Worthington was one of the defenders at
In early 1778, Edward Worthington left his wife at Harrod's Town and joined the Kentucky Militia as a
In 1779, Edward Worthington, still serving under Clark, participated in the
Later life and death
[10] In 1804, Edward Worthington was in New Orleans, Territory of Orleans, within the Louisiana Purchase, of the US, now New Orleans, Louisiana, to conduct what turned out to be a business deal gone bad. He had filed a lawsuit in New Orleans against Dan Callaghan, who had swindled him out of a large sum of money in a land fraud scheme. Edward Worthington died from yellow fever before the case was tried, but his family continued the suit and they were awarded judgment against Callaghan according to the court documents in the Minute Book, Louisiana Court of Pleas, 1804.
References
- ^ Stewart, A.A. Iowa Colonels and Regiments: Being a History of Iowa Regiments in the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines: Mills & Co., 1865. (pg. 125)
- ^ Lodwick, L. Kathleen. Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874–1917. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
- ISBN 0-7884-2271-5
- ISBN 0-8131-1801-8
- ^ Conover, Charlotte Reeve. Concerning the Forefathers: Being a Memoir, with Personal Narrative and Letters of Two Pioneers, Col. Robert Patterson and Col. John Johnston. New York: Winthrop Press, 1902. (pg. 146)
- ISBN 9780811709798
- ^ Filson Club. The History Quarterly of the Filson Club. University of Louisville, 1926. (pg. 235)
- ^ Lincoln County Historical Society. Lincoln County, Kentucky. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 2002. (pg. 19)
- ^ http://www.nwta.com/about/the-field-guide/
- ^ Hayden, William. Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778–1783. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896. (pg. 151-152)
Further reading
- Drake, William and Louise Drake; Samuel M. Wilson, Julia S. Ardery and Garrett G. Clift. Kentucky in Retrospect: Noteworthy Personages and Events in Kentucky History. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1967.
- Kerr, Charles; William Elsey Connelley and Ellis Merton Coulter. History of Kentucky. American Historical Society, 1926.
- Gallit, David Lowell. Early Kentucky Pioneers: Fulkerson, Bullock, Kimbley, Tichenor, and Allied Families. D.L. Gallit, 1998.