JäsenJohnWorthington

Kirjat
38
Kokoelmat
Avainsanoja
Pilvet
Avainsanapilvi, Tekijäpilvi, Avainsanapeili
Väline
Ryhmät
Liittynyt
Jan 5, 2009
Oikea nimi
John Worthington
About My Library
Worthington's library of law books is now at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, having been acquired in 1995. The collection can be browsed through their online catalog here.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Do you know of additional books which should be included here? Please contact Libraries of Early America coordinator Jeremy Dibbell.
About Me
John Worthington (1719-1800), Massachusetts lawyer and land speculator. Worthington graduated from Yale College in 1740 and briefly studied theology there while serving as a tutor 1742-1743. He then took up the practice of law in Springfield, where he served as King's attorney for the western region of Massachusetts and as high sheriff of Hampshire County.

Called the "political dictator of Springfield" by one biographer, Worthington also was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives almonst continuously 1747-1766 and 1770-1774; for two years (1767-1768) he sat on the governor's Council. He was made a colonel of militia in 1754. During the 1750s he was among the more active legislators in the House of Representatives, but his involvement faded during the 1760s. Worthington's loyalism (he was close friends with Thomas Hutchinson) almost resulted in his removal to Canada during the Revolution, but he opted to stay in Massachusetts and by 1778 had contributed funds to the Continental army and resumed local political activities.

Worthington married first Hannah Hopkins; after her death in 1766 her took as his second wife Mary Stoddard. Three of Worthington's four daughters (by his first wife) also married leading lawyers: Hannah was the wife of Springfield attorney Thomas Dwight (1758-1819), Mary web Jonathan Bliss (1742-1822), and Frances married Fisher Ames (1758-1808), a lawyer and U.S. Congressman.

Worthington's land speculations tended toward the successful, and one investment resulted in the settlement of what is today Worthington, MA.

A short biography of Worthington can be found in John A. Schutz, ed. Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. A more complete sketch is in the Dictionary of American Biography.
Sijainti
Springfield, MA

Viimeaikaiset tapahtumat

JohnWorthington lisäsi
Thoughts upon the political situation of the United States of America : in which that of Massachusetts is more particularly considered; with some observations on the constitution for a federal government, addressed to the people of the union (tekijä: Jonathan Jackson
)
JohnWorthington lisäsi
A treatise of testaments and last wills, compiled out of the laws ecclesiastical, civil and canon, as also out of the common law, customs and statutes of this realm : the whole digested into seven parts ... (tekijä: Henry Swinburne
)
JohnWorthington lisäsi
A treatise of tenures : in two parts : containing ... (tekijä: Geoffrey Gilbert
)
JohnWorthington lisäsi
A supplement to the second volume of Notes of cases in points of practice : taken in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster : which contains all the cases subsequent to the said second volume to the end of Hilary term 1756 (tekijä: Henry Barnes
)
JohnWorthington lisäsi
The practical register, or, The accomplished attorney consisting of rules, orders, and the most principal observations concerning the practice of the Common-law in His Majesties courts at Westminster, but most particularly applicable to the proceedings in the Kings Bench, as well in matters criminal as civil (tekijä: William Style
)
JohnWorthington lisäsi
The reports of that reverend and learned judge, the Right Honourable Sr. Henry Hobart knight and baronet, lord chief justice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas; and chancellor to both their Highnesses Henry and Charles, princes of Wales (tekijä: Sir Henry Hobart
)