Samuel Worcester

Samuel Austin Worcester (19 January 1798 – 20 April 1859), was a missionary to the Cherokee, translator of the Bible, printer and defender of the Cherokee's sovereignty. He was a party in Worcester v. Georgia (1832), a case that went to the United States Supreme Court, in which Chief Justice John Marshall defined the exclusive relationship of the federal government to the Indian nations and recognized the latter's sovereignty, above state laws. Worcester was born in Peacham, Vermont on January 19, 1798, to the Rev. Leonard Worcester, a minister. He was the seventh generation of pastors in his family, dating back to ancestors who lived in England. According to Charles Perry of the Peacham Historical Association, his father also worked as...