Grandfather of Mrs. Recorder Smith, of the city of New York, Mrs. Waddell, etc. (Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. "Recollections of a lifetime." NY : Miller, Orton & Co., 1856, v.2, pg. 539).
Worthington launched a courageous attack on the British in an attempt to secure his father's release during the Revolutionary War. Afterwards he was educated as a physician. He traveled south to aid in a yellow fever outbreak and eventually became ill himself. Returning home, he resettled in Coeymans, a remote area in Albany County west of the Hudson River, where he practiced medicine in a poor area (History of the Ely reunion held at Lyme, Conn., July 10th, 1878. Salem, Mass. : Higginson Book Co., pg. 100-106).