Dr. Samuel Worden [1646-1716]
Worden Pond, land deed register 19 Sep 1693

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[Worden Pond, land deed register 19 Sep 1693. (Looking at an old map,
it appears Worden Pond lies near the following old townships in RI:
South Kingston, Richmond & Charleston)]

Samuel was born in Barnstable (now East Dennis), Massachusetts.

In 1665, he married Hopestill Holley.

In 1672 Samuel Werden was proposed for a freeman. In New
England, a man attained the status of freeman either as
the eldest son or by owning a freehold estate; and in
every town there was a commission appointed to examine
that freehold estate and make sure its title was clear.

Sometime before 1693, Dr. Samuel bought land in Rhode
Island, because in a deed registered there on 19
September 1693, Werden's Pond is called by his name. (Old
N.K. Land Evidences, Volume 1, Page 223 in S.K.
Townhouse.)

On 8 July 1695, he bought land consisting of 250 acres
from Benedict Arnold, one of the original purchasers of a
tract of land in this "collony comonly called
Pitticomcott." This was originally purchased by Benedict
Arnold in 1658 and comprises the present towns of South
Kingston and Narragansett.

In 1696, Dr. Samuel sold his farm in the town of
Yarmouth, Mass. to Isaac Chapman "except one half aker of
land which I Samuel Werden except and reserve to myself
and to my fathers posterity forever, lying square about
the place where my father Werden was buried, out of the
aforementioned farm, notwithstanding whatever is said
above to the contrary, with free liberty of ingress and
egress with horse or cart or foot from the common highway
to same to have and to hold forever." He therefore
preserved this land to all Wordens forever.

In the Norwich town clerk's office, Oliver Newton Worden
found this precious record of conjugal and filial
affection: "September 13, 1715, it was to me that woeful
day in which my dear and tender and loving wife departed
this life and was buried on ye 27th." "8 November 1752,
then ye above written was entered from an ancient
writing, at ye desire of Mr. Thomas Werden Jr. by me -
Isaac Huntington, T.C." A few months after Hopestill
died, Dr. Samuel married Francis West. In Stonington,
Connecticut 18 September 1716, "Francis Werden, widow and
relique of Samuel Werden late of Stonington dec. refuseth
to administer upon ye estate of her late husband, Samuel
Werden dec. and desireth that adm. may be granted to
Isaac Werden. Isaac Werden died in 1718 and his wife
Rebekah became administer for both estates.

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