Here’s a summary of what we do and don’t know about Andrew Langworthy:

* We don’t know when or where he was born. This is discussed in detail under “Genealogical Miscellany”, accessed from the main page of this site.

* We don’t know when he came to America, what ship he came on, or where he arrived.

* He first appears in Newport, Rhode Island on Oct 6, 1652, when he was baptized “at the mill” by Obadiah Holmes.

* We do not know how Andrew made his living, but he seems to have been a respectable member of society: he is on the list of the freemen of Newport in 1655, he married well, he served on the Newport Grand Jury (1668), and he bought land in several locations. In March, 1688 he owned land “in the Precincts of Newport” which was adjacent to the land of his father-in-law, Samuel Hubbard. (Rhode Island Land Evidences, V1, p212)

* In 1658 he married Rachel Hubbard, the daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard. They had 10 children, discussed under “The Children of Andrew and Rachel”, accessed from their family page.

* We don’t know when he died, though it must have been after July 4, 1690, when he executed a deed. William Franklin Langworthy believed that Andrew must have died before 1692 because Andrew’s name does not appear on the Seventh Day Baptist church list of 1692, but I think the evidence shows that Andrew never joined that church:
- His name doesn’t appear on any membership list I’ve found.
- His father in law, Samuel Hubbard, a founder of the Seventh Day Baptist Church in Newport, wrote (March 28, 1686): “...I have no greater joy than to hear of my children walking in the truth, & with me and my wife all of them and two of their husbands the other is a baptized person....”. His children were Ruth, Rachel and Bethia - all of them appear on the 1692 list. Ruth’s husband Robert Burdick and Bethia’s husband Joseph Clarke also appear on the 1692 list. This means that “the other” was Rachel’s husband Andrew Langworthy, who was baptized at the mill in Newport in 1652 but didn’t join the Seventh Day Baptists.

* The graves of Andrew and Rachel haven’t been found.