Taylor Family Genealogy
George HOLLINGSWORTH
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Name George HOLLINGSWORTH [1] Born 12 Apr 1712 Cecil, Co. MD 
[2] Gender Male Person ID I215 Josh E. Taylor Jr. Tree Last Modified 1 Nov 2019
Father Abraham HOLLINGSWORTH Relationship natural Mother Ann ROBINSON Relationship natural Family ID F157 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Hannah MCKAY, b. Between 1718 and 1719, d. Bef 1754 (Age ~ 35 years) Married 7 Apr 1734 Hopewell Friends Meeting House Notes - This was the first marriage of friends in the Hopewell meeting which had been organized earlier in that year. -- Hopewell Friends History, p. 543.
However Hunter McKay gives the date as Dec 19, 1734 and the place as the house of Isaac Parkins in Va. He notes that the couple were married under the care of the Nottingham monthly meeting as the Hopewell meeting had not yet been officially established. This was the first marriage in the Shenandoah Valley of Friends -- The Mackeys and Allied Families, pp. 150-151.
Dee Ann (Shipp) Buck also gives the December date for the marriage.
Children 1. Abraham HOLLINGSWORTH, b. 1735, Winchester, Va [natural]2. Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH, b. 1737, Frederick Co., Va [natural]3. Isaac HOLLINGSWORTH, b. 1739, Frederick Co., Va , d. 1809 (Age 70 years) [natural]4. Ann HOLLINGSWORTH, b. 1741, d. 1799 (Age 58 years) [natural] 5. Robert HOLLINGSWORTH, b. 1744, d. 1799 (Age 55 years) [natural] Last Modified 1 Nov 2019 Family ID F155 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Jane EWELL Married Abt 1754 [3] Last Modified 1 Nov 2019 Family ID F156 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- This was the first marriage of friends in the Hopewell meeting which had been organized earlier in that year. -- Hopewell Friends History, p. 543.
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Notes - George's father, Abraham, was probably descended from Valentine Hollingsworth, born 1632. The family was from Cheshire by the way of Ireland -- Jobe's Journal -- information from Les Tucker of Edmond OK.
Hunter Mc Kay lists dob as April 9, 1712
George was arrested and fined 5 pounds Sterling for ' disorderly meeting and assembling' when he and others held a meeting beneath the windows of the Winchester jail where a large group of Friends were being held because they refused to bear arms to fight the French and Indians. -- -- Hopewell Friends History, p. 187-188.
After George's marriage to Jane Elwell, the family, with the exception of son Robert, removed to South Carolina, but some of these children then removed to Ohio.
- George's father, Abraham, was probably descended from Valentine Hollingsworth, born 1632. The family was from Cheshire by the way of Ireland -- Jobe's Journal -- information from Les Tucker of Edmond OK.
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