Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Henry HOLLINGSWORTH
HOLLINGSWROTH, Henry, was the son of Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH, an eminent
Quaker, who came from Cheshire about the year 1682, and settled in
Newcastle
county. His mother was Ann, the daugher of Henry CORNISH, High Sheriff of
London, who was unjustly executed during the reign of James II. Henry was a
surveyor, and it has been said that he assisted Thomas HOLMES, the
Surveryor-General, in laying out the plan of Philadelphia. If this be the
case, he must have immigrated before his father. He was in membership with
Friends, and appears to have been married before he left England. For some
time he was deputy surveyor for Chester county and made a number of our
original surveys. In 1695, when he resided in Chester, and held the office
of Sheriff of Chester county, he represented Newcastle county in the
Provincial Assembly; his father being a representative for Newcastle county
the same year. In 1700 and for some time afterwards he was clerk of the
courts of Chester county He appears to have been a man of considerable
energy whch he exercised in furthering the improvements of the county. He
was the owner of lots and built in Chester and was part owner and probably
the projector of the first mill built in Upper Providence (about 1695). He
resided in Chester til 1701 and perhaps later when he removed to Maryland
and settled at Elk (now Elkton) and received the appointment of Surveyor
for Cecil county. He raised a large family of sons among who mas Zebulon, the
father of Levi HOLLINGSWORTH, and eminent merchant of Philadelphia who died in 1824.
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