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- The family he-bear was Thomas HOLLINGSWORTH I , b.
1660-1661, Belleniskcrannel, Parish of Legoe, County Armagh, Ireland
[-or Upper Providence, Penn. ] & Grace COOK, b. 1763, England [or
Concord, Franklin, Penn.]
He was the seventh generation of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. who
came from Belfast, Ireland in 1682 and settled on a plantation in New
Castle Co. (now Deleware). He was a member of the first Assembly of
the Providence of Penn. and a member of the Society of Friends to whom
he gave land for "a burying place," now Newark, Deleware. where he
was
buried in 1711. HIs grandson, Jeptha, b. 1746, fought in the
Revolutionary War under Col. Samuel Gordon and later married his
sister,
Nancy Gordon.
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1708 - Yes, date unknown