Valentine Hollingsworth and Ann Ree

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Husband Valentine Hollingsworth ¹

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           Born: Abt Aug 1632
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           Died: 1710 - New Castle Co, DE 2
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         Father: Henry Hollingsworth (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Catherine Cornish (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 7 Jun 1655 1

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   Other Spouse: Ann Calvert (      -      ) 1 - 12 Jun 1672 - parish of Shenkell, County Armagh, Ireland 1

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Wife Ann Ree ¹

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            AKA: Ann Rea 1
           Born: 1628 1
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           Died: 1 Apr 1671 1
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         Father: Nicholas Ree (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 F Ann Hollingsworth ¹

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         Spouse: Thomas Conway (      -      ) 1

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2 M Henry Hollingsworth ²

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           Born: 7 Nov 1658 - Ballineskcrannell, parish of Segoe, County Armagh, Ireland 2
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           Died: Apr 1721 or May 1721 - Elkton, Cecil Co, MD 2
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         Spouse: Lydia Atkinson (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 22 Aug 1688 - parish of Segoe, County Armagh, Ireland 2

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3 M Thomas Hollingsworth ²

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4 F Catharine Hollingsworth ²

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         Spouse: George Robinson (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Valentine Hollingsworth

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The founder of the Hollingsworth family in America, was born "about the Sixth Month in the Year 1632," as shown by the ancient records of the Society of Friends, in County Armagh, Ireland.

An early convert to Quakerism, he suffered severe persecutions for his faith in 1671 and 1672. With his second wife, their three eldest children, his daughter Ann, by his first marriage, and her husband Thomas Conway, he came to America in 1682, it is said with William Penn, in the "Welcome." They settled on a plantation of 1000 acres on Shelpot creek, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, now in Delaware, about five miles northwestwardly from the present city of Wilmington, where Valentine died in 1710. The early meetings of Friends were held at his house, and later a meeting house erected on his land and a monthly meeting established, known as "New Worke Meeting," which later became Kennett Monthly Meeting, Chester county. In 1687, Valentine Hollingsworth donated "unto friends for a burying place halfe an acre of land for yt purpose," as shown by the records of said meeting. Valentine Hollingsworth was a representative from New Castle county in the first Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1682-3, and in the subsequent assemblies of 1685, 1687, 1688, 1689, 1695 and 1700, and was also a justice of the county from February 7, 1685 to his death.

He had seven children by his second wife.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 609.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 610.