Hollingsworth, *Valentine Sr.

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HOPEWELL FRIENDS HISTORY 1734-1934 Frederick County, Virginia
CHAPTER XIV ITEMS AND INCIDENTS
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I. Valentine Hollingsworth Sr., first of this family in America, was born in Parish Sego, County Armagh, Ireland, about 1632, son of Henry and Catherine Hollingsworth. He married, Apr. 7, 1655, Ann, daughter of Nicholas Ree, of the same county. She died Feb. 1, 1671, and he then married Ann, daughter of Thomas and Jane Calvert, of Parish Sego, County Armagh, Apr. 12, 1672. In 1682 he and his family, including his son-in-law Thomas Connaway and indented servant John Musgrave, sailed from Belfast to the Delaware River, arriving a few months after William Penn's ship, the Welcome. He settled on a plantation of nearly 1000 acres in Brandy Wine Hundred, Del. Shortly after his arrival a meeting was established at his house, and in 1687 he granted [p.206] "unto ffriends for a burying place half an acre of land for ye purpose, there being already ffriends buried in the spot." He was a member of the first Pennsylvania Assembly 1682-83, and of the Assemblies of 1687, 1688, 1695, and 1700. He was a signer of Penn's Great Charter and a justice for New Kent County. He was an overseer of Friends' meeting many years. His second wife died Aug. 17, 1697, and his death occurred about 1711. Both Valentine Hollingsworth Sr. and his second wife are buried in the Friends' graveyard at Newark, Del., which he had given them in 1687. By his first marriage he had 11 children.
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Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 6
ISSUE BY FIRST MARRIAGE
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VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTH, the original emigrant ancestor was a son of Henry HOLLINGSWORTH of Belleniskcrannel, Parish of Legoe, County Armagh, Ireland, and Catharine, his wife and was born at Belleniskcrannel, about the sixth month in the year 1632. He was m. 7th April, 1655, to Ann REE, daughter of Nicholas REE, of Tanderagee, County Armagh. Ann REE was b. circa 1628, at Tanderagee, and d. 1st February, 1671. He then m. a second time, 12th April, 1672, Ann CALVERT, daughter of Thomas CALVERT, of Dromgora, Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, and Jane his wife. Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH was a Quaker and belonged to the Society of Friends; this in a way explains his departure for the New World when in 1682, Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH and his family, accompanied by his son-in-law, Thomas CONNAWAY, and by John MUSGRAVE an indented servant, sailed from Belfast, for the Delaware River, arriving a few months after William PENN'S arrival in the good ship Welcome. He settled on a large plantation of nearly a thousand acres on Shelpot Creek in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, about five miles northeast of the present city of Wilmington, and not far from the Fort Christina, or Christiana of the Swedes. That Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH was a man of extraordinary ability and influence is demonstrated from the fact that almost immediately after his arrival in the New World, he was called upon to hold office and participate in public affairs. He was a Member of the First Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, shortly after William PENN'S advent, that of 1682-1683; also of the Grand Inquest empaneled 25th October, 1683, to consider the famous case of Charles PICKERING and others charged with counterfeiting. He served in several subsequent sessions of the Assembly, those of 1687, 1688, 1689, 1695, and 1700, from New Castle County, and was a Justice of the Peace from the same County. He was also a Signer of PENN'S Great Charter and [p.293] a Member of the Pro-Provincial Council. He d. circa 1711; his wife Ann, d. 17th August, 1697; both were buried in the old burial ground at Newark, Delaware, which he had presented to the Friends in 1687.
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Pennsylvania Irish Quaker Immigrants, 1682-1750
__Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750 With Their Early History in Ireland
Newark or Kennett Monthly Meeting Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County, Delaware. Established in 1686.__
"Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750 With Their Early History in Ireland
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Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County, Delaware. Established in 1686.


Name: Valentine Hollingsworth
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son of Henry Hollingsworth, of Belleniskcrannell, Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, Ireland, and Catharine, his wife, was born at Belleniskcrannel, "about the sixth month in the yeare 1632"; was married 4 Mo. 7, 1655, to Ann Ree, daughter of Nicholas Ree,2 of Tanderagee, County Armagh. She was born about 1628, at Tanderagee, and died 2 Mo. 1, 1671. He then was married a second time, 4 Mo. 12, 1672, to Ann Calvert, daughter of Thomas Calvert, of Dromgora, Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, and Jane his wife. The following is a copy of the marriage certificate:
"This is to certifie the truth to all people that Valentine Hollenworth3 in ye psh of Sego in ye county of Armagh, and Anne Calvert of the same psh having intentions of marriage according to the ordinance of God, and Gods joining, Did lay it before mens meeting before whom theire marriage being propounded, then ye meeting desired them to wait some time, weh they did, so the meeting makeing inquiry between the times whether ye man be free from all other women, and the woman free from all other men, and so the second time they comeing before the mens meeting, all things being found clear, so they being left to theire freedome. A meeting of the people of god being appointed and assembled together at the house of Marke Wright, in the psh of Shankell the twelfth day of the fourth month in ye yeare 1672 whene they tooke one another in marriage in the presence of god and of his people according to ye law of god, & we are witnesses of the same whose names are hereunto subscribed ye day and yeare aforesaid
Val: Holengworth Anne Holengworth 1672.
ffrancis Robson; William Williams; Jo: Calvert; Chris: Hillery; Hugh Stamper; George Hodgshon; Jam: Harison; dorothy Hillery; Roger Webb; Will pearson; Nic: Harison; Elis: Gnus; Robert Hoope; Marke Wright; John Wright; Alice Williams; Michael Staise; Timo: kirk James Bradshaw; An. Bradshaw; Tho. Wederall; Rob Chambers; Tho: Calvert; debora Kirk; Will dixon; Antho. Dixon; fergus Softly; Alice Wright; dina Kirke; Mary Walker"
William Stockdale1 gives the following account of Hollingsworth's persecutions for tithes:
1671, County Armagh, "Valentine Hollingsworth had taken from him for Tithe, by Thomas Ashbrook Tithmonger twenty nine stooks of Barly, and three stooks and a half of Oats, all worth one pound one shilling;" 1672, "Valentine Hollingsworth for Tithe by Edward O'Maghan, 26 stooks wheat. 3 car-loads Hey, 26 stooks of Oats, 26 stooks of Barley, Value ?2, 185;" 1673, corn and hay, valued at ?2; 1674, wheat, hay, oats, barley, valued at ?3 4s.
In 1682, Valentine Hollingsworth and his family, accompanied by his son-in-law, Thomas Connaway, and by John Musgrave, an indented servant, sailed from Belfast for the Delaware,2 and, as we have already stated,3 settled on a large plantation of nearly a thousand acres on Shelpot Creek in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, about five miles northeast of the present city of Wilmington. He was prominently identified with the affairs of Friends, the early meetings being held at his house. In 1687, he gave "unto ffriends for a burying place half an Acre of land for yt purpose." A meeting-house was afterward built on this plot and the meeting known as Newark, from the name of the plantation, which in the original survey was called "New Worke." Valentine Hollingsworth was appointed a Justice of the Peace for New Castle County, in 1685, and represented the county in the Assembly in 1682-3, 1687, 1688, 1689, 1695, and 1700,4 He died subsequent to 1710, and his wife Ann died 8 Mo. 17, 1697. They were interred in Friends' ground at Newark.
The children of Valentine Hollingsworth by his first wife, Ann Ree, were as follows:
1. Mary Hollingsworth, born 1 Mo. 25, 1656, at Belleniskcrannell, married, first, 4 Mo. 28, 1682, at the house of Francis Robson, Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, to Thomas Conway or Connaway, of Parish of Lisburn, County Antrim. They came to the Delaware with her father in 1682, and settled near him in New Castle County. Thomas Connaway died 11 Mo. 30, 1688-9, and his widow, in 1693, married, secondly, Randal Malin, widower, of Upper Providence, now Delaware County (originally of Great Barrum, Cheshire, England). Randal Malin became a Quaker minister and in 1727 removed with his wife and family within the limits of Goshen Monthly Meeting.
By her first husband, Thomas Connaway, she had three children: (1) Elizabeth, b. 7 Mo. 9, 1687, m. 1st Charles Booth, 1705, and 2d, Thomas Babb, in 1720; Ann, born about 1688, m. Philip Taylor, 6 Mo. 10, 1705; Sarah b. about 1689, m. 3 Mo., 1710, to John Yearsley, b. in England about 1685, son of John and Elizabeth. By her second, Randal Malin, she had three children: Hannah, b. 1 Mo. 7, 1695-6, m. Daniel Williamson, Jr., about 1716; Rachel, b. 5 Mo. 24, 1702, m. John Cain or Cane, 9 Mo. 7, 1722; and Katharine, who married --- Tate, in 1721.
2. Henry Hollingsworth,1 b. 9 Mo. 7, 1658, at Belleniskcrannell, is thought to have come over to Pennsylvania as a redemptioner to Robert Turner, in 1683. Subsequently he lived for a time with his father in New Castle County. In 1688, he returned to Ireland for a wife and on 6 Mo. 22d of that year was married to Lydia Atkinson, of Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, whom he shortly after brought to Pennsylvania.2 For a number of years he was Deputy Surveyor of Chester County. In 1695, he resided in Chester, and was Sheriff of the County. He also represented New Castle County in the Provincial Assembly. In 1700, and for some time after he was Clerk of the Courts, and Coroner of Chester County. He removed to Elkton, Md., about 1712, in which year he was appointed (3 Mo. 9 by Lord Baltimore) Surveyor of Cecil County. His manuscript commonplace book, which is a medley of receipts, poetry, astrology, alchemy, chemistry, some of which is in Latin, is in the collection of the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, of Philadelphia. He died 2 Mo. or 3 Mo. 1721. His children were: Ruth, m. George Simpson, 12 Mo. 24, 1706; Stephen, who m. Ann ---, was a Magistrate in Cecil County, Md., in 1730, removing subsequently to Virginia, where, in 1734, he obtained a grant of 472 acres of land on the west side of the Shenandoah River, in Orange County; Zebulon, b. 1696, d. Cecil County, 8 Mo. 8, 1763, m. 4 Mo. 18, 1727, Ann, daughter of Col. Francis Mauldin; Catharine m. --- Dawson, of Kent County, Md.; Abigail, m. Richard Dobson, in 1720; and Mary.
3. Thomas Hollingsworth, b. 3 Mo., 1661, at Belleniskcrannell, d. 1732-3, in Winchester, Va. He resided for a time in Rockland Manor, New Castle County but later removed to Winchester, Va. His first wife Margaret (by whom he had one son Abram, born 1 Mo. 19, 1686), died in 8 Mo. 1687. He then married 1 Mo. 31, 1692, Grace Cook, of Concord. Children by second wife: Elizabeth, b. 11 Mo. 8, 1694, m. --- Stroud, in 1718; Hannah, b. 1 Mo. 17, 1697, m. William Dixon, in 1718; Thomas, b. 12 Mo. 23, 1698, m. Judith Lampley in 1723; Jacob, b. 1 Mo, 4, 1704, m. Rachel Chandler, 1729; Sarah, b. 8 Mo. 7, 1706, m. John Dixon, in 1724; Joseph, b. 3 Mo. 11, 1709, m. Martha Houghton, in 1730, and removed to Virginia; Grace, b. 3 Mo, 9, 1712.
4. Catharine Hollingsworth, b. 5 Mo., 1663, at Belleniskcranmell; d. 6 Mo. 29, 1746; m. 11 Mo. 2, 1688, George Robinson,1 who was born in the north of Ireland, about 1666, came to the Delaware in 1687, and died 9 Mo. 8, 1738. Their children were: Mary, m. Thomas Jacobs, 8 Mo, 13, 1710; Ann, m. Jonathan Ogden, in 1720; Valentine, m. Elizabeth Booth, in 1740.
At Newark Monthly Meeting (women's branch), 12 Mo. 4, 1698, "Wee have ordered that Katherine Robinson bee purser to this meeting Given in Collection ?5.105."

The children of Valentine Hollingsworth by his second wife, Ann Calvert, were:
5. Samuel Hollingsworth, b. 1 Mo. 27, 1673, at Belleniskcrannell; d. 1748; m. in 1701, Hannah Harlan, daughter of George and Elizabeth Harlan. He lived in Birmingham Township and held several important public offices. In 1729 and 1738, he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Chester County. From 1725 to 1728 he represented the county in the Provincial Assembly. Children: Enoch, m. 1st Joanna Crowley, 10 Mo. 23, 1725, 2d Elizabeth Chads, widow of William Pyle; John, m. Mary Reed, in 1732; Samuel, m. Barbara Shewin, in 1738, and died in 1751; George; Elizabeth, m. Henry Green, in 1734.
6. Enoch Hollingsworth, b. 6 Mo. 7, 1675, at Belleniskcrannel; died in New Castle County, 8 Mo. 24, 1687.
7. Valentine Hollingsworth, b. 11 Mo. 12, 1677, at Belleniskcrannell; d. 1757; m. in 1713, Elizabeth Heald.
8. Ann Hollingsworth, b. 10 Mo. 28, 1680, at Belleniskcrannell; m. James Thompson in 1700.
9. John Hollingsworth, b. 2 Mo. 19, 1684, in New Castle County; d. in 1722; m. Catherine Tyler, in 1706.
10. Joseph Hollingsworth, b. 5 M. 10, 1686, in New Castle County.
11. Enoch Hollingsworth, buried 9 Mo. 26, 1690."