Elizabeth Hollingsworth

Elizabeth married Samuel Harlan in Aug 1745 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Samuel (son of Aaron Harlan and Sarah Heald) was born in 1722 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; died in 1798. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Hollingsworth's were an old Saxon family said to have settled in the northeastern part of Cheshire, as early as 1022, in which year the ancestral estate, Hollingsworth Manor, in Cheshire was purchased. The name comes from the two words, "holly" and "worth," a farm; meaning a farm of holly trees. The name Hollinsworth, in the United States, is spelled: Hollingworth, Hollinsworth, and Hollingsworth, the last has been clung to by a large majority of descendants of the founder of the family in America, who was Valentine Hollingsworth, (grandfather of Valentine born 1677) who came direct to the New World, from Ireland, in 1682, the year in which William Penn arrived in the Delaware, in front of what is now the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Valentine Hollingsworth of Kennett, Pennsylvania, born 12 November 1677 at Beleniskcrannel, Ireland; died 1757; will dated 30 November 1749 proved 25 March 1757; married in 1713 Elizabeth Heald. Children: Jame married Mary; Rachel mary (1st) ____Hope; married (2nd) in 1737, ____Barnes. Valentine, married in 1743 Elizabeth Harlan; Elizabeth married in 1743, Samuel Harlan; moved to North Caroline in 1753.; Sarah, married in 1746, Aaron Harlan, moved to Cane Creek north Carolina in 1753. [Source: George Norbury Mackenzie, "Colonial Families of the United States of America", (reprint Baltimore: Genealogical publishing County, Inc., 1966, 1995), vol VII, pg. 294]

Birth:
11 Mo. 12, 1677

Valentine married Elizabeth Heald in 1713. Elizabeth (daughter of James Heald and Elizabeth Steward) was born on 26 Dec 1690 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; died in 1747 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Valentine and family, along with son-in-law Thomas Connway, left Ireland because of religious persecution. Their refusal to adhere to the State Church had brought penalties & fines upon them. They sailed in 1682 aboard the "Sea Lion:, settling in New Castle County, Delaware. Valentine had a plantation of 1000 acres on Shelpot Creek.

The family is originally English. Though persons of this name lived in Cheshire, there is no proof that this immigrant traces his roots to that shire. Nor is there any proof that he was son-in-law to Henry Cornish, the High Sheriff of London who was executed in 1685. Valentine came from Lurgan MM in County Armagh. Newark Meeting House (Delaware) was built on land that he donated. He served as Justice of the Peace, and an Assembly-man for many years.

Valentine's name seems to appear frequently in early histories. his descendants, however, fan out & straggle away. [Source: Immigrant Ancestors of Miami 'Valley, Ohio, Quaker Families: Summer 1984, pg. 7]

...The meetings in New Castle County "on Delaware" received an important migration of Irish Friends, and although now within the State of Delaware, in those early days were in that part of Penn's possessions known as "The Territories" or "Lower Counties" of Pennsylvania.
...About 1682, several Friends with their families arrived and settled near each other on the east side of Brandywine Creek, in New Castle County. Among these were; Valentine Hollingsworth, from Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, justice of the peace and for many years a representative to the Provincial Assembly.
...They held meetings for worship at the houses of Valentine Hollingsworth and Cornelius Empson. Valentine Hollingsworth lived on a large plantation of nearly a thousand acres on Shelpot Creek, in Brandywine Hundred, about five miles north-east of the present City of Wilmington, Delaware, and in 1687, he gave "unto ffriends for A burying place half an Acre of [his] land for ye purpose there being Some already buried in ye Spot. ffriends have referred fencing of it." 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 of 1684 was called 'New Worke,' doubtless a corruption of Newark. A meeting was continued here until 1754, when the Friends "being suited with a better conveniency, it was laid down." [Immigration of Irish Quakers in Pennsylvania 1682-1750, with their history in Ireland, Albert Cook Myers (1901), pg 119-120, PDF, Archive.org.]

Birth:
[6mo 1632]

Valentine married Ann Calvert on 12 Jun 1672 in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland. Ann was born in Nov 1650 in County Down, Ireland; died on 17 Oct 1697 in Shellpot Creek, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Elizabeth Steward on 11 Aug 1688 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England. Elizabeth was born about 1668; died on 3 Feb 1708 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England; was buried on 5 Feb 1708 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Heald, father of William and grandfather of Samuel, the immigrant, was also born in Mobberly about 1622. He married Elizabeth Hobson in 1645 and they had at least 7 children born between 1647 and 1666. An effort to trace the Hobson family uncovered a William Hobson in Mobberly, contemporary of Elizabeth (Hobson) Heald, possibly her brother and a John Hobson family in Stockport, who appears to be of a younger generation (Quaker Quarterly Meeting records for Cheshire). [Source: Carmen J. Finley, Hackney, Harlan & Heald - Our Quaker Ancestors, (Computer printed: C. J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987), pg. 19]

Thomas married Elizabeth Hobson on 2 Feb 1641 in Davenham, Cheshire, England. Elizabeth was born in 1624 in England; died on 10 May 1664 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]