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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book: "A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, Embracing a Genealogical Record, Etc.," by Edwin Salter, published 1890, p. lxiv: "Winner, Winnow - John Winnow's (or Winner's) house is named in a survey 1790 between North and Middle branches Forked River on main road from Goodluck to Egg Harbor. Jonathan Winer lived at same place at a little later date. Jonathan was m. to Sarah Predmore, July 28, 1800. His dau. or sister Mary m. Samuel Worden, who d. in 1812; she d. in 1828 a. 59 years. [George] King Winner of Toms River, a coasting captain, went West, probably to San Francisco, about forty years ago."
2. Ancestry.com 12 Sep 2002 database ":2078748" indicates Samuel is the fifth of a long line of Samuel Wordens or Werdens. Parents are Samuel Worden of Goodluck and Rebecca Chamberlain of Shrewsbury, NJ. They list a son by the name of Charles Worden, b. 28 Dec 1796 in New Jersey and d. 19 Sep 1881 and he married Hanna Cramner 19 Nov 1819.
3. Ancestry.com 12 Sep 2002 database "ivey" indicates the following children all presumably born in NJ:
Albert, b. 16 Sep 1795, d. 22 May 1869, m. Levina or Lavinia Headley 22 May 1816. May have other wives as well: Margaret, Abigail, Rebecca Coward.
Charles, b. 28 Dec 1796, d. 19 Sep 1881/3 in Wellington, Sumner, Kansas, m. Hannah Cramner or Cramer 11 Nov 1819/22 in Forked River, Monmouth, New Jersey.
Elizabeth, b. 1799?
Joshua, b. 1 Oct 1801, d. 19 Jul 1875, m. Susannah Knox 1824.
Mary, b. 1803?
Catherine, b. 1805?
William, b. 9 Jul 1808, d. 30 Jan 1877, m. Hannah Brown 1827.
Sarah/Sallie, b. 1810?
Samuel, b. 1811?
4. FHL book 929.273 W891bg (film 1440714) "The Worden Surname from Peter Worden of Yarmouth, to 1850," by Gilbert S. Bahn, revised 2002 edition, pp. 182-85:
"It is believed (by many) that Samuel III migrated a little beyond Hudson River, to settle in New Jersey, and that a line of Samuels followed. The primary basis for belief is provided by two marriages at Monmouth (per New Jersey Archives, First Series, Vol 22, p 448): Phebe Worden and Safety Bowne on 22 Apr 1743, and Penelope Warden [sic] and David Woodmansee on 21 Dec 1744, these females matching the two known daughters.
It is presumed that the following children were born to Samuel III and his wife, Abigail Mott, and are missing from surviving records: Samuel IV circa 1732, Sarah circa 1735, Hannah 18 Jan 1738, and Hosannah circa 1740. These approximate years of birth for daughters are consistent with these later marriages [same reference]: Sarah Worden and Job Comel, 30 May 1755, Hannah Warden [sic] and James Woodmansee, 5 Oct 1758, and Hosannah Worden and John Johnson, 4 Jun 1760. Sarah married at Shrewsbury, and the other two at Monmouth.
A Samuel Worden married Rebecca Chamberlain, both of Good Luck, 10 Oct 1755, according to New Jersey Colonial Documents, Vol XXII, p 433. This is presumed to be Samuel IV. There is a Good Luck Cemetery at Forked River, Ocean Co, NJ, which seems to identify the location of the vanished community of Good Luck. Nothing more is known definitively of this presumed Samuel IV or Rebecca. On page 195 of Wordens Past, this Samuel is credited with sons Albert, Daniel, and Washington, and it is said that he and they operated a salt works. Not only are these three otherwise unknown, but also it is extremely unlikely that a 1755 marriage might have produced a son named Washington. On page 1520 of Wordens Past, it is stated that Samuel Worden in 1754 owned a salt works along Barnegat Bay (which corresponds to Forked River), and that the salt works were destroyed by the British during the Revolution.
Samuel IV is presumed to be the father of Samuel V, of Forked River, born in August 1772 (per Wordens Past page 386). On one side there is a huge void in applicable New Jersey records, subsequent to the early marriages presented above, especially in lack of census records prior to 1830. On the other side is the fact that when Wordens actually can be picked up again in New Jersey, in the 1830 census, five households in Monmouth County are headed by five sons of this presumed Samuel V (one of them named Albert, to be mentioned below).
Samuel IV might perhaps be a Tory mentioned by ONW on his page 163, that is, Samuel Worden of Murderkill, DE [a vanished location name]. If he were, this might explain there being no details about Albert and Daniel, and a brother - gone off to the British, with Samuel V and his mother left behind. If the three alleged sons were old enough (as teenagers) to be assisting Samuel IV at the salt works on the eve of the Revolution, then they were much older than Samuel V, and (presuming their very existence) likely half-brothers. ONWs Delaware Tory must be the subject of a brief account on page 236 of Wordens Past. This concerns a sea captain named Samuel Worden who absconded from New Jersey in 1774 with a boat, and took with him a woman not his wife. He was then of Kent County, DE, and the woman was of Great Egg Harbour NJ. He was about 45 years of age, which comes close to matching the birth year assigned above, approximately, to Samuel IV.
On page 1176 of Wordens Past there was considered the possibility (which remains just that) that William Worden of Springfield OH (variously said to have been born in New Jersey, Philadelphia, or Delaware) was a grandson of the presumed Samuel IV; William was born in 1785. Now there arises the alternate possibility that he was the offspring of the illicit union of the sea captain and the woman from Great Egg Harbour, altho the eleven years between 1774 and 1785 argues against so delayed a demonstrable consequence of passion. While these elements concerning the Tory, the sea captain, and William of Springfield remain indefinite, they demonstrate the importance of bits and pieces of the record to be found in Wordens Past. What are needed are many more bits and pieces, to fill in large remaining gaps.
Borrowing from what follows, it should be noted that while the sons attributed to Samuel V are found in Monmouth County in 1830 and 1840, two of them are found at Union, Ocean County, in 1850 (with the other three also scattered from Dover). A Union has not been located in Ocean County, and one may suggest that the actual location was the same as Forked River. This premise becomes more tenable when it is noted that the Albert mentioned above was buried in the aforementioned Good Luck Cemetery at Forked River, this being in 1868 when Albert was aged 72. (This, and other burials there, are noted on page 1574 of Wordens Past; that of a Samuel Worden who died 1 Apr 1842, aged 39, is inexplicable.)
Now attention can be directed to the family of the Samuel taken to be Samuel V, having no known siblings for this man after having excluded the ethereal Albert, Daniel, and "Washington." The maiden name of Samuel's wife Mary is given variously as Winner or Winnow. He died in June 1812 at Lanoka Harbor, NJ, which is very close to Forked River in Ocean County. (This suggests the Monmouth County census appearances to be the exceptional ones.) Samuel and Mary had Albert born 16 Oct 1795 as computed from age at death, Charles born 27 Dec 1796 as likewise computed, Elizabeth born c1799, Joshua born 1 Oct 1801, Mary born c1803, Catherine born c1805, Samuel (VI, as assumed) born c1806, William born 9 Jul 1808, and Sarah b. c1810.
Albert's first wife was Lavina (or Lavinia) Headley, whom he married 15 Jun 1816. She died in 1825. His second wife, named Margaret, died in 1828, and his third, named Abigail, died in 1841. His fourth wife was Rebecca Coward (perhaps Widow Coward). Albert is found in the 1830 and 1840 censuses at Dover, Monmouth Co, NJ, and in 1850 at Union, Ocean Co. His children were Samuel, born 25 Mar 1817, Martha, born c1818, Joel Headley, born 16 Sep 1820, Daniel Conover, born 3 Oct 1822, Albert, born 14 Apr 1825 (and died 10 May 1825), Randolph, born 4 Sep 1827, William Henry, born c1833 (and died 7 Jul 1837), Mary, born c1836, Margaret, born 30 Aug 1839 (and died in 1849), and George R, born c1840. Five were born to Lavina, Randolph to Margaret, and four to Abigail.
By 1850, Samuel had married and acquired an infant daughter. His wife's name was Edith and the baby, b. c1849, was Catharine according to the census, and apparently properly Mary Catharine. They resided within Albert's household. .
By 1850, Joel had married Mary A. Lampson, and they had children Lavinia, born 24 May 1843, Emeline, born 11 Feb 1845, and Redden (per census) / Reding (per WP 1574) / Redding (per WP 1575), born 13 Sep 1848. Also by 1850, Daniel had married Isabel Hull, and Randolph had married Mariah or Maria (Wood?), apparently a young widow, because there is found in 1850 at Union a household comprised of Jeremiah H. Wood, 54, his wife Louisa, 48, Maria L. Worden, 23, and William H. Wood, .5. Only the censustaker could explain why Randolph and Maria were listed in different households. Daniel and Isobel subsequently had Washington, born 21 Nov 1850, and William Henry, born 7 Dec 1852.
The second son of the presumed Samuel V, Charles, married Hannah Cramer. Knowledge of their family is incomplete. They had John Wesley, born 11 Sep 1820, Charles, born c1827, James, born 26 Mar 1826, and Elizabeth, born c1834, plus three "census daughters" and one "census son" according to the 1830 and 1840 censuses. In 1850, Charles and Hannah resided with Dykeman Shook and his wife Elizabeth, i.e., their daughter Elizabeth, in Henderson County, IL. Also there was their son John with a family. His wife was Mary A Salter, who was born I 5 Feb 1827 and whom he married 15 Jan 1844, and their children then were Hannah Elizabeth, born 10 Jul 1845, Charles, born 10 Oct 1847, and Sarah Emeline, born 10 Oct 1849. Their children born after 1850 were John Salter, born 21 Feb 1851, Mary Jane, born 9 Mar 1855, Samuel, born 19 Jan 1857, Fanny, born 20 Jan 1859, Lavina, born 15 Mar 1861, David S, born 8 Jan 1863, James, born 25 May 1865, Paul, born 6 Aug 1 867, and William Edwin, born 6 Mar 1870. The sons Charles Jr. and James of the first Charles, and their four unknown "census siblings" have not been located in the 1850 census.
The third son of the presumed Samuel V, Joshua, married Susan Knox. They had one daughter who lived to adulthood, Elizabeth, born c1825, and two others. One of these two was Harriet, who was born in 1826 and died past the 1830 census. The name of the other is unknown. She was counted in 1840, and apparently died prior to 1850. In 1850 at Union the household headed by Joshua, 48, had also Susan, 46, Elizabeth, 25, and Rebecca Van Cleaf, 2.
The fourth son of the presumed Samuel V, William, married Hannah Brown. After 1830 at Dover, they are found in 1840 at Bergen, Hudson Co, NJ, still childless, and their status is unchanged there in 1850, he then aged 40 and she 39.
The presumed Samuel VI is found in the 1830 census at Upper Freehold in Monmouth Go, with wife Maryann Hendrickson, whom he married 11 Oct 1827, and infants William and Alice. The family was missed in 1840 (at least in indexing), and appears again in 1850 at New Hanover, Burlington Go, NJ. Then the composition is Samuel, 44, Maryann, 40, William, 21, Alice, 20, Asa 19, Annaliza, 15, Gilbert, 13, and Mary C, 11."
BIRTH:
1. Calculated from tombstone cemetery record cited below. Some ancestry.com databases indicate Aug 1773 but without documentation.
DEATH:
1. Per website <http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nj/ocean/cemetery/goodluck.txt> 13 Sep 2002; Good Luck Cemetery is located in Lacey Township, Ocean Co. [formerly Monmouth], New Jersey on the east side of Route 9 in Lanoka Harbor. Many of the early settlers in and around this area are buried here. This list was compiled by the Ocean County Historical Society. Many Wordens are listed including:
-Samuel Worden, 1 June 1812, age 39 years, 10 months, 26 days.
-Mary Worden, 24 Jan 1828, age 59 years, 4 months, 11 days.
2. I checked the book "Index of wills, office of Secretary of State, state of New Jersey" and found no entry for any Samuel Worden.
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