Our correspondent, Miss Jeanne Coan of Bruceville, Indiana, has 
been successful in her long search to prove her descent from Valentine 
Hollingsworth, Sr.  In proving it, she has caused to be added a whole 
"new family" of descent, hitherto unattached from earlier generations.  
We want to share her find with our readers. 
    The method called "stockpiling" genealogical data, no matter how 
insignificant some of it may appear, is vindicated in this success 
story.  The final legal proof was made clear because so much had been 
gathered from so many sources.  The Quaker meeting-house record books, 
land deeds, probate records and a published genealogy, combined to weave
the full tapestry. 
    The series of deeds on Hollingsworth from Union District, South 
Carolina, currently running in the "REGISTER" is an important part in 
this discovery.  Other deeds, located by John V. Hollingsworth, Chadds 
Ford, Pennsylvania, (while on a trip to the South last summer) in the 
Anson County, North Carolina, courthouse, "clinched the deal," and a 
legal tie was made between Miss Coan's line, and the older Quaker 
Hollingsworths!  This writer is happy to have had a part in such a 
success story. 
    The particular line "found" passes from Valentine Hollingsworth, 
Sr., (1632-171_) through his son Thomas Hollingsworth by Thomas' second 
wife Grace Cook, and then to Thomas' son Joseph Hollingsworth who 
married Martha Houghton.  In his valuable book, "Descendants of
Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr.," (1925), Mr. Joseph Adger Stewart brought 
the line of descent to that point, but not further.  On page 2-B, we 
find the following: 
    "(Thomas2 Hollingsworth; Valentine1.) 
"Issue 2nd Marriage ... 
"IX.  JOSEPH3 - Born March 11 (May 11th is correct Quaker date - Ed.) 
         1709.  Married in 1730, Martha Haughton. Removed to Virginia; 
         more of Joseph later."

    But there is no "more of Joseph" in the book.  Either this last
statement was an oversight, or the later continuation was accidentally 
omitted. 
    Joseph Hollingsworth went South very early.  He sojourned in 
Virginia, but went to North Carolina before 1753 (when he received a 
grant of land from Governor Matthew Rowen) and died in Anson County 
before 1757.  The records which establish these items as facts are: 
(1) The Certificate of Removal dated 3mo. 2, 1741, for Joseph and 
Martha Hollingsworth, from Pennsylvania to Hopewell Monthly Meeting 
of Quakers, in Virginia, (2) Deed Book "M" p.304, Union District, South 
Carolina, reciting the Grant of 4 Sept. 1753; (3) Estate Administration
Papers, 1757, Joseph Hollingsworth, deceased, Anson County, North 
Carolina.