HOLLINGSWORTH FAMILY TREE
Cumberland County - North Carolina

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Nash Hollingsworth
1917-1977
Married: 7 Dec. 1938
Amanda Huggins
1922-1998


Philander Hollingsworth
1876-1953
Married: 27 Sept. 1900
Mary Ellen Sikes
~1885-1956

John C. Hollingsworth
1830-1913
Married: 25, March 1869
Mary Elizabeth Hales
1852-1929

John (Jno.) Hollingsworth
1794-1850
Married: 25, May 1836
Catherine "Kitty" Anderson
~1815-1880's



Hollingsworth
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?? STEPHEN HOLLINGSWORTH ??
Son of John Hollingsworth ??
Father of Jno. Hollingsworth ??


Decendents of Valentine Hollingsworth Sr. (c.1925) - Page143. Shows Stephen to be Jno.'s father.

Jno. Hollingsworth's & Catherine Anderson's Marriage Register - Shows a Stephen to be the bondsman for Jno.'s marriage bond.

This Stephen hasn't been confirmed yet, unless you go by the book written in 1925 "Decendents of Valentine Hollingsworth Sr.", page 143, from above (Entire Book Posted Below). The book just mentioned was a modification of an earlier book of written by Wm. B. Hollingsworth's (of Baltimore), printed in 1884. It is very likely that most of these entries are accurate, but if any of you have tried to follow the Hollingsworth line, you will know that it can be confusing. So I am waiting on more confirmation via documents or DNA before extending this tree any further (hopefully very soon). In the meantime, I have listed some other resources that MAY be relating to this Stephen and the Hollingsworths in general. Happy searching!!
~Salvatore





The family seal, as used by Jno. Hollingsworth his 1836 marriage license.

It was also the same one that Stephen used on the same document.

Below is my interpretation of the seal, as it probably would have looked. I tried to clean it up as much as possible...










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Decendants of Valentine Hollingsworth Sr., by J. Adger Stewart, 1925 (John P. Morton & Company, Inc. - Louisville, KY).
This document is the whole book that shows most of the possible connections for the Hollingsworth family.

From the Nash Hollingsworth pedigree line above, you can tell that we have gotten up to Jno. Hollingsworth, and we think that the next father in line is Stephen Hollingsworth. This part of the site is dedicated to connecting Jno. to the rest of the fathers leading up to Valentine Hollingsworth (the first Hollingsworth into the new world). James Hollingsworth (son of Nash Hollingsworth) has done a DNA test, and it has shown that he is a direct match of the Valentine DNA line. So, now the question is, which of Valentine's sons and grandsons are part of the pedigree?? I have a pretty good guess, but am wanting a concrete primary document proving such before I start posting things. There are some links below to help you get started on completing the clues. In case you don't know, start at the free FamilySearch.org website, or the roughly $20 a month Ancestry.com. Census documents are very quick but only go back so far. After that, you will need to start looking at wills (what one makes out before he/she dies), or probates (basically what the court makes if you didn't have a will). Property deeds is another good source to look for. Anyway, happy hunting!!



Thanks Dotty for the below information:

Allocation to Mary Edwards Hollingsworth, dec'd children
Augustus Jackson Hollingsworth 175 acres
Susan Hollingsworth Melvin wife of Issac C Melvin 80 acres subject to a 2 acre deduction of Cedar Creek Church
Rebecca Jane Hollingsworth wife of Willis Holley/Hawley 47.5 acres
Isabella Hollingsworth wife of Marshall W Fisher 47.5 acres
I find it interesting that Susan's land mentions the 2 acres her grandfather, Stephen Hollingsworth (Revolutionary Patriot) deeded in 1802 to create this church.


Stephen Hollingsworth, Revolutionary Patriot
4) S 8726. HOLLINGSWORTH, STEPHEN. North Carolina.

GRANTED, This Applicant appeared 21 Aug., 1834, before Joseph Arey, Justice of the Peace, Cumberland Co., North Carolina, signed with his mark "O" as "Stephen Hollingsworth, Senior." He stated he served a tour of six months under Capt. William Harding's Co. attached to Col. Robinson's Regiment, in spring and summer of 1777, and in others. 0ne tour, the winter or early spring of 1778, he states "his father, JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH was called into service for three months, which tour affidant performed as his substitute in Capt. Peter Roberson's Company." He served another tour after this.

Sampson Davis, a witness, appeared Aug. 4, 1834, in Bladen Co. North Carolina, stating he was well acquainted with Stephen Hollingsworth of Cumberland Co. and knew him during the Revolutionary War and was with him six months at Jumping Run under Wm. Hardin, Capt., and Col. Roberson, 3 months at Caswell's Camps, "and that the said Hollingsworth served that term faithfully as a soldier." This soldier was enrollee as Certificate holder #30,596, W.C. issued Apr. 29, 1836, receiving arrears to the 4th March, 1836, of $200.00, and semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 4, 1836, $2O.O0. Book E, volume 672, page 59.

The true identity and connection of tnis Stephen Hollingsworth "Sr." and his father, John Hollingsworth both of Cumberland County, North Carolina is not known. In fact, their presence presents a complication which threatens to wreak havoc with some of the long establisbed ideas and famiiy trees as shown in the J. A. Stewart book! So we will leave speculation for a later day. If you happen to know who he is, let us know!

This excerpt was from Vol I, #3 October 1965 newsletter issue of "The Hollingsworth Register."

Past issues of this newsletter can be found today online and is dedicated to the Hollingsworth Family. Later issues will address the Cumberland & Bladen County Hollingsworth and resolve the parentage of Stephen Hollingsworth, Sr who died in 1838 Cumberland County. He had a long and prosperous life. I have placed online a copy of a Cumberland County, North Carolina land deed between Stephen, SR. and Stephen, JR. The land deed confirms John Hollingsworth as Stephen, Sr's father.

Happy Hollingsworth hunting,
Dotty

dsemotchko originally shared this
01 Oct 2013 story
Stephen Hollingsworth, Sr and mention of his father John Hollingsworth
October 1965 Cumberland County, NC
----Noted from above: Page 437 Stephen Sr to Stephen Jr Probate----


Stephen Hollingsworth's connection to Valentine Hollingsworth
Based on the information contained in this land deed, Stephen, Sr's father was John Hollingsworth. This John Hollingsworth is probably the John Hollingsworth mentioned in Elizabeth Edwards 1755 will in Bladen County, NC. Also mentioned as grandchildren were Samuel and Isaac Hollingsworth. An executor of the will was Valentine Hollingsworth and Robert Edwards (an uncle to the Hollingsworth grandchildren. He would have been the son born of Elizabeth's second marriage to an Edwards.)

There are many family trees with various opinions about the father of John Hollingsworth and for that matter about John's son, Stephen, Sr. I can lay to rest Stephen, Sr.'s (br abt 1754) father. The 1826 land deed between Stephen, Sr. & Stephen, Jr. clearly names Stephen, Sr's father as John Hollingsworth.

The poorly abstracted will of Catherine Edwards' 1755 Bladen Co., NC will left some confusion. On a recent trip to Raleigh, NC, I copied her will, it cleared up several points. Catherine's actual will names three of her sons, Stephen Hollingsworth, Valantine Hollingsworth and Robert Edwards, Jr. She also states the name of three Hollingsworth grandchildren, John, Samuel and Isaac. What the abstract does not mention is the words see used in the will "their father." Their father is Stephen Hollingsworth (b. abt. 1707) that can later be supported by Bladen County, NC tax list, when Stephen and Isaac are listed together. Robert Edwards, Jr and his half brother Valentine Hollingsworth are named as the executors.

A pdf. copy (2 pgs) of a land deed between Stephen Sr. (b. abt. 1754) and Stephen Jr. (b. abt 1800) states father of Stephen Sr. as John. That John received the land from Valentine who died without issue and that the land came to Valentine from Stephen (b. abt. 1707) who had received from and Eagan.

A pdf. copy of Catherine Edwards 1755 will also clears up Hollingsworth sons and grandchildren.


Stephen Sr to Jr 1826 Land Deed - 1      
Stephen Sr to Jr Land Deed - 2

Mary Mosley Edwards - Will1      
Mary Mosley Edwards - Will2

Stephen Sr.'s Death Notice 1      
Stephen Sr.'s Death Notice 2

Stephen Sr.'s Will

Stephen Sr.'s Revolutionary War Pension

The Hollingsworth Register









1775 HOLLINGSWORTH MAP
Just SouthEast of Fayetteville, NC. - Samual & Stephen
(1) Stephen, b. cl707, Salem County, New Jersey; d. before Feb. Court Term, 1779, Bladen County, North Carolina, aged 72. Buried on his farm in the Welsh Tract on N.W. Cape Fear River, northeast side, square acre of ground now lost by plowing. (Called incorrectly "Hopkin" Hollingsworth ... a correction "Stephin or Stephen" ... in the deed of sale. See H.R. Vol. 2,page 144 number k.) Became zealous Hard-Shell Baptist (Welsh Baptist) minister in North Carolina. Obtained grants of 640 and 250 acres at same time as his mother Catherine or Katherine Edwards, 1735. Resource Link






CAPE FEAR BABTIST CHURCH

The sign outside of the church used to read "Founded Prior to 1770." It now reads "Constituted 1756." Some claim that the church was actually started in 1738. The original church name was Particular Baptist Church.

Regardless, the current church building was constructed in 1859. It still has an old hand pulled bell for call to worship in front. This building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

6041 Butler Nursery Road
Fayetteville, NC USA 28306
Thanks "showbizkid" and "silverquill" from WayMarking.com for the info and pictures above.

See the land deeds and wills from Stephen Hollingsworth for primary documentation:
Stephen Sr.'s Church Deed










https://www.stoppingpoints.com/north-carolina/sights.cgi?marker=Cape+Fear+Baptist+Church&cnty=Cumberland

Cape Fear Baptist Church
NC-87 at Blossom Road, Fayetteville, NC, USA
Latitude & Longitude: 34° 54' 45.4752", -78° 51' 26.6652"

Marker Text:
"Constituted in 1756 as Particular Baptist. Stephen Hollingsworth, first minister. Present (1859) building 2 mi. E."

Cape Fear Baptist Church, located in southern Cumberland County near the boundary with Bladen County, from its beginnings in the mid-eighteenth century was associated with that sect of the denomination known as Particular Baptists. In brief, they were Calvinists, believing only the “elect,” that is, particular individuals, would be saved. From all indications Cape Fear is among the oldest, if not the oldest, Particular Baptist congregation in the state. Only the Jersey Church of the Yadkin River, also begun in 1756 but broken up by the Cherokee uprising four years later, was as old.

Cape Fear Baptist Church was established (or constituted, by the denomination’s terminology) in January 1756. Several sources, including Baptist history scholar George Washington Paschal, date worship at the site prior to 1756. Paschal’s authority is the work of Morgan Edwards (1722-1795). Edwards, a Delaware Baptist, collected materials with the intent of writing histories of the Baptists in each of the colonies. His notes on North Carolina (a “poor and unhappy . . . wretched province,” by his reckoning), prepared in 1772, set the date prior to 1756. It was in that year that mention of Cape Fear first appeared in the records of the Charleston Association.

Cape Fear’s mother church, Welsh Neck Baptist on the Pee Dee River in South Carolina, was constituted in 1738. At some point thereafter, settlers moved northward to the Cape Fear and in time founded the new congregation. Stephen Hollingsworth (died 1772), the first pastor at Cape Fear, received a land grant in the area in 1735. Hollingsworth is said by Paschal to “have had no little part in winning General Baptist preachers of North Carolina to Calvinism.” The original church building was replaced in 1859 by the present structure located one-fourth mile north of the original site.

References:
G. W. Paschal, “Morgan Edwards’ Materials Towards a History of the Baptist in the Province of North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review (July 1930): 365-399
G. W. Paschal, History of North Carolina Baptists, 2 vols. (1930-1955)
National Register of Historic Places nomination (1984)
Historical Sketch of Welsh Neck Baptist Church (1988)
The History of Cape Fear Baptist Church (1990)









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From "The Robeson" 10, April 1903




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From "The Robeson" 27, August 1914


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