- Valentine Hollingsworth
Valentine Hollingsworth was one of the first to lead his family to the
New World .Born on
August 15 ,1632 inCounty Armagh ,Ireland , he married first Anne Rea in 1655, by whom he had four children and who died in 1671, then Anne Calvert in 1672 by whom he had four more children.Hollingsworth became a
Quaker while in Ireland and sufferedreligious persecution . In 1682 he and his family sailed for the New World, many on the ship "Antelope". He settled on a large farm near Shellpot Creek in theBrandywine Hundred , in what is nowNew Castle County ,Delaware .Hollingsworth was a member of the First Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania. He served as a
justice of the peace . He was one of the signers ofWilliam Penn 's Great Charter.He died on
October 13 ,1710 in Delaware. A large monument (normally abhorred by Quakers) now sits at his gravesite.External links
* [http://www.drwilliams.org/genealogy/3995.htm Biography]
* [http://home.att.net/~Pendroy/han_tate.html Genealogy and brief biography]
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~guinevere60/hollingsworth/pafx.htm Brief biography]
* [http://ftp.ev1.net/~dhoskins/web/henryholl/pafg02.htm Anecdotes]
* [http://www.hollygardens.com/hollingsw/pafg02.htm Some biography, some geneaology]
* [http://www.hollingsworthfamily.net/ Hollingsworth family website]
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