John Valentine Hollingsworth

Valentine Hollingsworth Jr. was born in Ballyvickcrannel, standardized spelling on modern Ordinance Survey maps is Ballymacrandal, Seagoe, Armagh, Ireland to Valentine Hollingsworth Sr. and his wife Ann Calvert.[1]

born 12th day, January 1677/8.[2]
"Vallentine Hollingsworth third son of Vallentine Hollingsworth, and of Ann his wife was borne at Bellenickcranell, aforesd [in the parish of Sego and County of Ardmagh], the twelueth day of the eleauenth month Anno Dom. 1677"[3][4][5][6]
Valentine Sr. was "the original immigrant ancestor of the American family of Hollingsworth.... In 1682, [he] and his family ... sailed from Belfast for the Delaware River, arriving a few months after William Penn's arrival in the good ship Welcome.[7] His certificate is dated July 6, 1682.

Sailing aboard the Antelope in 1682: "Valentine Hollingsworth, his wife Ann, his children Katherine, Thomas, Samuel and Mary; Mary's husband Thomas Conway; and indentured servant John Musgrave"[8]
Antelope was out of Liverpool, loaded at Belfast, and arrived in Delaware December 9-10, 1682[9]
Three of Valentine's older children, by his first wife Ann Rea[10] arrived with him to settle Brandywine Hundred in 1682: "a daughter Mary (with her husband Thomas Connaway), a son Thomas, and a daughter Catherine. His eldest son, Henry Hollingsworth, followed the next year. Then there was his [2nd] wife, Ann, and four younger children: Samuel, Enoch, Valentine, and Ann. The son Enoch died in 1687 at the age of twelve years, but two other sons, John and Joseph, born after the family arrived in Delaware, survived to adulthood. The youngest son, also named Enoch, died in infancy."[11]

Fifth son of Valentine Hollingsworth (third son by his wife Anne Calvert),[12] Valentine Jr. married Elizabeth Heald (born 1681 in England on May 2, 1713 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania.[1]

Valentine and Elizabeth's children were James Hollingsworth, Rachel Hollingsworth and Sarah (Hollingsworth) Harlan.[1]

"His children's names were Valentine, Elizabeth and Sarah, to who he gave small amounts to in his will. He or his son is in the 1755 Tax lists of Orange Co., NC. (C-956)"
Stewart J. Adger, comp, Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr., (John P. Morton & Co., 1925).
Jolliffe, William, Historical, Genealogical and Biographical Account of the Jolliffe Family of Virginia, 1652-1893, (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, c1893).
Walter I. Farmer, In America Since 1607, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1987).
William B. Holllingsworth, Hollingsworth Genealogical Memoranda in the United States, from 1682-1884 (1884)
Eli JAY, Centennial Anniversary of W.Branch MM of Friends as presented in the Miami Valleyrecords, Vol. VI, Quaker Records, by Lindsay M. Brien, 1935 Miami Valley Rec, Quaker Rec, Vol.VI, 1935 (c1907).
Marshall, Mike, Email 2000 sent to Steve Pearson and forwarded to L.Dudick from michaelm[at]inna.net.
Valentine died before March 25, 1757, in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (date and place of probate). His wife Elizabeth died in New Castle County, Delaware (whether before or after her husband was not stated).

Event
1715: Taxed in Kennett[13]
1757 Will of Valentine Hollingsworth Volume D page 80 (image 44/586)
Son: Valentine Hollingsworth
Son: James Hollingsworth
Daughter: Rachel Hope
Daughter: Elizabeth Harlan
Daughter: Sarah Harlan
Numerous grandchildren named
Witness: Enoch Hollingsworth, John Heald, Henry Harvey
.....
Sources
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 information from datafields of Hollingsworth-73 as of October 6, 2015
↑ 12th day, 11th month, 1677 would be the end of the "old style" year - January 1677 - but January 1678 by the new calendar (adopted 1752, changing the start of the year from March to January). Quakers counted a month's days from a Sunday start. See Sue Roe's "The Problem with Dates," which also touches on the numbers used by Quakers in their dates ("day" being counted from Sunday, so 12th day might not be 12 January, but the second Thursday in January).

So the 11th month is January, and the 12th day may have been, by new calendar standards, either the 10th (1678) or 11th (January 1677 - or the 13th or 14th according to this perpetual calendar).

↑ Source: #S381
↑ 11.12.1677, Bellenickcranell in the parish of Sego and County of Ardmagh. Source: #S382 Page: VOLUME I., NUMBER 1. pg 8

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(Above in one hand apparently at a single sitting, by same clerk, but at a later time than the section closing with "fifth month, Anno Domini, 1663,")--- Note: one of the pages of Lurgan Quaker Meeting, Co. Armagh, Ireland, Book of births & deaths, which is the clerk's account of the family record of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr.
↑ Source: #S384
↑ Source: #S385
↑ Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth (1925 Louisville, Kentucky)
↑ for sources, see Antelope, sailing of 1682 (WikiTree space page accessed October 6, 2015)
↑ The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania.
↑ Ann Rea, "whom he had married in 1657"...after her death, he "married Ann Calvert in 1672" (#Standing)
↑ Herbert Standing, "Quakers in Delaware in the Time of William Penn"
↑ Albert Cook Myers, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750: with their early history in Ireland, p 316: "b. 11 mo. 12, 1677, at Belleniskcrannel; d. 1757; m. in 1713, Elizabeth Heald." (Published by the author in 1902, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania)
↑ Source: #S385
"Unsourced Bio Bit": Information included in the text of the WikiTree profile Hollingsworth-73 as of October 6, 2015 with no apparent source. (Searching through changes, via the Changes tab may reveal source, if you are so inclined.)
Hollingsworth Family DNA Project
Memorial Marker for Valentine Hollingsworth (Sr.) - image on this DVHSS page (second wife = Ann Calvert). DVHSS: Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth Senior Society
S382: Henry Albert Hollingsworth, "Hollingsworth Register" Hollingsworth Register, 3250 West 108th St., Inglewood, California, 90303, U.S.A.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1, APRIL, 1965 pg 4-8. Text: The lineage of the writer: Valentine Hollingsworth & Ann Calvert, their son Valentine Hollingsworth married Elizabeth Heald, their son James Hollingsworth married Mary Harvey; their son Abner Hollingsworth married Phoebe Hall; their son James Hollingsworth married Ann Hoopes; their son John Hollingsworth married Hannah Miller, Pylo; and their son Ralph Hollingsworth married Lydia Hysore, parents of the writer, John Valentine Hollingsworth, who married Ruth Cox, Chadda Ford, Pennsylvania. The Quaker Hollingsworths: Posterity of Valentine, by John V. Hollingsworth, Chadds Ford, Penna. (Chadda & Chadds from original import)
Earl Lee Jones & Shirley Jane Wilson, "Earl Lee Jones & Shirley Jane Wilson Ancestrial File" (Family Tree). Note: Lelah Nina Fudge is the 6th cousin of Earl Lee Jones. Text: Valentine Hollingsworth "II" was born on 12 Nov 1677. He died on 6 Aug 1757.
S384: Earl L. Darrah, "Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr" (Family Tree). Text: Valentine Jr. Hollingsworth, b. January 12, 1676/77, Ballyvickcrannel, Ireland; d. March 1757, Kennett Twp., Chester Co., PA. (Note: Earl Darrah published a book in 1995 called Hollingsworth: Westward Migration and Settlement of the Valentine Hollingsworth Family. It's available at the Library of Congress (call number CS74.H74 1995), at the National Genealogical Society, and the Mormon Library in Salt Lake City, UT. Earl L. Darrah edarrah[at]gte.net Tampa, FL)
S385: D. Hoskins, "Descendants of Henry Hollingsworth" #TOC Text: Valentine, Jr., b. Jan. 12, 1676/77 in Belleniskerannell, Segoe Parish, County Armagh, Ireland, m. may 2, 1713 to Elizabeth HEALD in Ireland, d. bef. March 25, 1757 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
"Of the forty-three persons taxed in Kennett, in 1715, there were nine Irish Friends, as follows: Gayen Miller, 8s. 6d.; Michael Harlan, 5s. 6d.; Ezekiel Harlan, 12s. 6d.; Aaron Harlan, 5s. 6d.; Moses Harlan, 4s. 2d.; VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTH, 2s. 9d.; James Harlan, 2s. 6d.; Joshua Harlan, 2s. 6d.; John Gregg, 3s. 4d. (from IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA, Places of Settlement, p. 130, as accessed at the web site of Ancestry Hometown.)"

"About Dec. 10, 1682, Valentine arrived on the Antelope under the master Edward Cooke. Missing from the 1682 immigration were sons Henry, age 23, Enoch, age 7, and Valentine, age 5 and daughter Ann, age 2. Perhaps they were on the ship the Sea Lion as the GAB states that Valentine immigrated on the Sea Lion instead in 1682. (C-429, 592) (This came from the book IMMIGRANTS OF THE IRISH INTO PENNSYLVANIA, 1682-1750 )

Valentine and family originally lived with Valentine's indentured servant, John Musgrave at the home of Robert Wade in the town of Chester. (C-956, 1546) They then settled on 986 acres granted by William Penn on Shelpat Creek, Brandywine Hundred in New Castle Co., PA (now Delaware). He named it 'Newworke'. ... He transferred his land before his death and received an annuity from his sons from that time forward. (C-124, 956, 1448)
"A Henry Hollingsworth immigrated to Philadelphia, PA in 1684. He was likely the son of Valentine Hollingsworth. He might have brought the younger children in the family with him. More detail will be known when the book by Sheppard entitled Passenger & Ships Prior to 1684, is located and pages 62 and 164 are consulted specifically. (C-429)
"Both Valentine [Sr.] and Ann [Calvert] are buried at the Newark Monthly Meeting in Delaware on land that he had donated for its establishment in 1687. It was near his home on the east side of Brandywine. ... (C-956, 1448) A memorial stone placed at Newark Burying Ground by some of his descendants in the 20th century states 'To the memory of Valentine Hollingsworth with his family he came to America with William Penn in 1682. Obtained patent for 986 acres of land which he called NewWork. A member of the Society of Friends, their meetings were held at his house and adjoining this half acre which he gave for a burying ground all Members of the Assembly from New Castle County, 1683, 1687, 1695, died about 1711 and with his second wife, Anne Calvert, is buried here. Erected by Descendants 19(35).'" ...
"Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH Jr. 1 2 3 4 5 Born: 12 Nov 1677, Ballyvickcrannell, Armagh, Irl ... [married] Elizabeth HEALD Abt May 1713 Died: Bef 25 Mar 1757, before age 79"
George Norbury Mackenzie, Colonial Families of the United States of America (7 volumes, New York, NY, USA: 1907)