 It then became the property of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, whose family held the manor of Worthing for over 200 years.After founding the Province of Pennsylvania two years earlier, William Penn landed at Worthing in 1684 on his way from Lewes in Sussex County in the Delaware Colony, across the Atlantic to his home in Warminghurst, about north of Worthing.Penn actually wrote "Worden" in some letters and in the beginning of an autobiography, which is how Worthing would have been pronounced by the people of Sussex at this time.