Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH

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Immigration of the Irish Quakers, by Albert Cook Myers, 1902, p. 312

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    A transcription from "Immigration of the Irish Quakers," gives some historical detail.  Transcription in NOTES.


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Valentine Hollingsworth, wife Ann, and children came over to Pennsylvania in 1682, from Balleniskcrannell, Parish of Sego, County Armagh, Ireland, and settled in New Castle County on Delaware.

Henry Hollingsworth, son of Valentine, came over from Ireland in 1683, in the Ship Lion, as an indented servant to Robert Turner.Penrta Mag. VIII., 334.

Valentine Hollingsworth, 1 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 :
'' £bte (0 tO Certtfie the truth to all people that Valentine Hollenworth 3 in y° 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, woh 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 y° yeare 1672 whene they tooke one another in marriage in the presence of god and of his people

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1 The records of this family in Ireland are from the registers of Lurgan Meeting, County Armagh. There is, of course, no foundation for the tradition that Valentine Hollingsworth married Catharine, daughter of Henry Cornish, High Sheriff of London, who was executed in 1685. It is probable that the Hollingsworths went over from England to Ireland with other planters early in the seventeenth century, but there is no proof to show that they came from Cheshire, as stated by some historians of the family. For an extended record of descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth see Hollingsworth Genealogical Memoranda, by William B. Hollingsworth (Baltimore, 1884); also see Mc Far Ian-Stern Genealogy, 6-11, 56-60, History of Chester County, 605.
2 In 1681, one John Rea, of Parish of Maherlin, County Down, had his goods seized for tithes.Stockdale, 170.
3 Page 85, Marriage Book of Lurgan Monthly Meeting. 
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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.
(Francis 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 Tames Bradshaw An. Bradshaw
Tho. Wederall Rob Chambers I*ho: Calvert debora Kirk
Will dixon Antho. Dixon fergus Softly Alice Wright
dina Kirke Mary Walker "
William Stockdalel 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, 18s ;" 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 Brandy wine 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 y1 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.* He died subsequent to 1710, and his wife Ann died 8 Mo. 17, 1697. They were interred in Friends' ground at Newark.

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1 A Great Cry of Oppression, 3, *5> 27, 37.
2 Deposition of Samuel, son of Valentine Hollingsworth, made before the Mayor of Philadelphia, June 4, 1735 (printed in McFarlan-Stern Geneology, 58-59).
3 See page 120.
* Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, IX., 648, 651, 652, 653.
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The children of Valentine Hollingsworth by his first wife, Ann Ree, were as follows :
1. Mary Hollingsworth, born I 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, an^ 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,*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 Lyclia 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

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1 See Smith, History of Delaware County, 469.
2The original marriage certificate is in possession of Miss Margaret Gilpin, of Cecil Co., Md.
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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. n 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 ^.ios."
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

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1 See Philadelphia Friend, XXIX., 404. About 1735, George Robinson, of Brandywine, New Castle County, aged about 69 years, deposed in the Penna.-Md. boundary dispute that he " has dwelt in the said County about 49 years."No. 173, Miscellaneous Papers {'633-1805), Three Lower Counties, Hist. Soc. of Penna. 
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.
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6. Enoch Hollingsworth, b. 6 Mo. 7, 1675, at Belleniskcrannel; died in New Castle County, 8 Mo. 24, 1687.
7. Valentine Hollingsworth, b. n 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.