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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



same meeting in Philadelphia, and were 

 doubtless relatives. John removed to 

 Chester, or the neighborhood of that 

 place, where in the early part of 1684 

 he was married to Frances, the widow 

 of Thomas Taylor, after which he set- 

 tled in Middletown. In 1695 he was 

 a resident of Edgmont, where he con- 

 tinued to reside till the time of his de- 

 cease, in 1742, when he had attained 

 the age of eighty-four years. His wife 

 Frances died in 1712, and in 1714 he 

 married Sarah, the daughter of Thomas 

 Goodwin, of F.dgmout. It is not known 

 that John "Worrall had any child by 

 his first wife except a son named John, 

 who died young. By his second wife 

 he had seven children, viz., Elizabeth, 

 Mary, John, Peter, Sarah, Thomas and 

 Mary. 



It is supposed that the name Worrall 

 or Worrell was originally Ward, and 

 that those bearing it are descended 

 from a Sir Hubert de Warel, who lost 

 three sons at the battle of Hastings, 

 the town at which William the Con- 

 queror first landed. 



Worrell, John, with his wife Mary, 

 and family, settled very early in Marple 

 township. It has been supposed that 

 he was a son of Richard Worrell, who 

 settled in Philadelphia, but this is un- 

 certain. His wife was a sister of Harry 

 Lewis, of Radnor. He died in 1716, 

 leaving six children, viz., John, Peter, 

 Joshua, Henry, Mary and Hannah. His 

 widow married John Bromfield, of 

 Whiteland. 



Worrell, Thomas, a practitioner of 

 medicine, of considerable reputation 

 about the commencement of the present 

 century, was born in Upper Providence 

 township, in the year 1732. He was 

 the son of Dr. John Worrell, who 

 also practiced in this County, and who 

 accompanied the first Dr. Bernhard 

 Van Leer to Europe, for the purpose of 

 improvement in the study of medicine, 

 and was graduated in the same Institu- 

 tion. The elder Dr. Worrell died young, 

 having, as was believed, greatly im- 

 paired his health by experimenting 

 personally on the medical properties 

 of native j)lants, in which he appears 

 to have had great confidence, in com- 

 mon, it was said, with Dr. Van Leer. 



Tlie younger Dr. Worrell married 

 Lydia Vernon, of Lower Providence, 



aunt of Major Frederick Vernon, and 

 Captain Job Vernon, of the Revo- 

 lutionary army, and sister of Gideon 

 Vernon, who took part with the British 

 and fled to the Provinces. Though 

 considerably engaged in practice, and 

 having an excellent local reputation, he 

 was but partially devoted to medicine, 

 and seems to have preferred farming as 

 a business. He was also very skilful 

 in making and repairing the finer and 

 more complicated descriptions of ma- 

 chinery, especially clocks. He had the 

 reputation of being greatly skilled in 

 the use of native herbs, and was popu- 

 larly supposed to have obtained im- 

 portant secrets in that respect from the 

 Indians, which was the case, also to 

 some extent with his father, and with 

 the two Drs. Van Leer. 



Dr. Thomas Worrell died in 1818, at 

 an advanced age. He was a faithful 

 and consistent member of the Society 

 of Friends. His last descendants in this 

 County are the family of his grandson, 

 Mr. Thomas Cassin, who died in 1859. 

 Other descendants are settled near 

 Zanesville, Ohio. 



WoRRiLow, Thomas, was settled in 

 Edgmont as early as 1690, and pos- 

 sibly earlier. He called his place 

 Brooznoll, which was probably the 

 name of the place in England from 

 which he emigrated. He was in mem- 

 bership with Friends. The time of his 

 death is not exactly known. His widow 

 died at Philadelphia in 1710. 



WoRRiLow, John, a son of the above- 

 named Thomas, was settled in the 

 County as early as 1687. In 1690 he 

 was married to Ann, the daughter of 

 George Maris, of Springfield. As a 

 member of the Society of Friends, he 

 was more active than his father. His 

 place of residence was Edgmont. 



Worth, Thomas, was from Oxton, in 

 the County of Nottingham, England. 

 He settled in Darby town immediately 

 upon his arrival in 1682, and subse- 

 cjueutly higher up in the township. 

 He was a consistent and exemplary 

 member of the Society of Friends; and 

 having acquired a better education than 

 was usual in that day, his services were 

 constantly in demand in the perform- 

 ance of such duties as required an ex- 



