Hannah Tate
(A special Thanks!" to the researcher who is the Source of this entire document: Stanley Heginbotham. E-Mail Stanley Heginbotham at: s.heginbotham@worldnet.att.net
(Mr. Heginbotham has some sources listed at the bottom of his research.)
FIRST GENERATION
1. Hannah TATE was born on Mar 15 1753 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware. She was excommunicated on Jul 14 1774 in Kennett Monthly Meeting, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. The meeting minute read: "Whereas, Hannah Tharp (formerly Tate) hath had a Right of Me
mbership amongst us the People called Quakers but for want of a Strict attention to the Dictates of Truth in her Heart hath So far Erred as to have Carnal knowledge with him that is now her Husband before Marriage and Accomplished Said Marriage by a Magistrate. Therefore for Clearing the Society from the Reproach Such Conduct Occasions we Account the Said Hannah Tharp no member thereof Until by Repentance and Amendment of life She shalt Condemn her Said Outgoings which that she may Happily Experience is our Sincerest Desire. Given forth by our Monthly Meeting of Kennett held the 14th of the 7th Month 1774 and Signed by order of the Society.By Caleb Peirce, Clerk"
SECOND GENERATION
2. William TATE was born in 1730 in Upper Providence, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. He died on Apr 3 1782 in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware. Listed in his will as a Yeoman, Mill Crk. Hd. He was married to Martha DIXON on Jan 17 1751 in Hochessin Meeting, Kennett Monthly Meeting, New Castle Co., Delaware. They seem to have lived most of their lives at Mill Creek in Newcastle Co., Delaware. They were members of the Society of Friends.
3. Martha DIXON was born in 1730 in Newcastle County, Delaware. William TATE and Martha DIXON had the following children:
THIRD GENERATION
4. George TATE was born about 1694. He was married to Katherine MALIN on Mar 29 1721 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
5. Katherine MALIN was born about 1703 in Upper Providence, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.1 George TATE and Katherine MALIN had the following children:
6. Henry DIXSON was born in 1692 in New Castle Co., Delaware. He died before 1742. He was married to Ruth JONES on Apr 25 1715 in Newark Monthly Meeting, Brandywine, New Castle Co., Delaware.
7. Ruth JONES was born about 1694 in New Castle Co., Delaware. She died in 1758. Henry DIXSON and Ruth JONES had the following children:
FOURTH GENERATION
8. Chester TATE. Chester TATE had the following children:
10. Randal MALIN was born in Great Barrum, Cheshire, England. Randal was first married in 1676 to an Elizabeth of unknown last name. While still in Cheshire County, England, they had two children who survived infancy, Mary (born 1678) and Isaac (born 1681). They emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682, settling on Ridley Creek in Upper Providence, near Media. A son, Jacob, was born in 1686. The following year Elizabeth died. He was married to Mary HOLLINGSWORTH in 1693 in New Castle Co., Delaware.2,3 Randal became a Quaker minister and they settled within the limits of Goshen Monthly Meeting in 1727. For a comprehensive account of Randal, his wives, children, and descendants, see Judy A. Gambert, compiler, Randal Malin: A Quaker, From Cheshire, England to Chester (now Delaware) Co., Pa. and His Descendants.
11. Mary HOLLINGSWORTH was born on Jan 25 1656 in Bellenishcrannel, Armagh Co., Ireland. She died about 1746 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania. She was a Quaker. Randal MALIN and Mary HOLLINGSWORTH had the following children:
12. William DIXSON4 was born in 1662 in Armagh, Armagh Co., Ireland. He immigrated in Sep 1676 to New Castle Co., Delaware. He came on the vessel JOSEPH AND BENJAMIN, accompanied by a Thomas Pierson who later married his sister, Rose. [the date of immigration conflicts with that in Tharp Genealogy, which is 1688.]
He died in Sep 1708. He was a weaver. He was married to Ann GREGG in 1690.
13. Ann GREGG was born in 1670. She died in 1729. William DIXSON and Ann GREGG had the following children:
FIFTH GENERATION
22. Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH5,6 was born about Aug 15 1632 in Bellevickcrannell, Armagh Co., Ireland. He was a member of the first Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania in 1682/83.7 He also served in the sessions of 1687, '88, '95, and 1700. He was a signer of Penn's Great Charter. He immigrated in 1683 to Upland (now Chester), Delaware. Hollingsworth was accompanied by his second wife, Ann Calvert; by his daughter, Mary, and her husband, Thomas Connaway; by his four children from his second wife; and by an indentured servant, John Musgrave. No records have been found to specify the vessel on which the Hollingsworths came to the Delaware river. It was probably several months after William Penn arrived on the "Welcome." Hollingsworth settled his family on a "plantation" of about one thousand acres. He called the plantation "New Worke" or "New Ark." It was located on Shellpot Creek about 5 miles north-east of Wilmington, near the present-day community of Brandywine. Hollingsworth was instrumental in the founding of a meeting, building of a meeting house, and creating a burying-place. The location is now known as "Newark Union" church, off of Baynard Blvd. It should not be confused with the monthly meeting in the town of Newark. He died on Oct 13 1710 in New Castle Co., Delaware. He was buried in Newark Union Friends Meeting Burial Ground, Brandywine, DE. The cemetery is often erroneously said to be located in the town of Newark, Delaware. It can be found by taking Foulk Road north from US 202 to Shipley Road and then south to Baynard Blvd and east to Newark Union Public Road, where a Delaware State historical marker describes Hollingsworth's plantation. The burying ground is adjacent to an abandoned church up the road. He was a Quaker.8,9 The Hollingsworths were among the earliest members of the Lurgan meeting, which was the first Quaker meeting in Ireland, founded by William Edmundson and Richard Clayton. He was married to Anne REA on Apr 7 1655 in Tanderagee, Armagh Co. , Ireland.
23. Anne REA was born about 1628 in Tanderagee, County Armagh, Ireland. She died on Feb 1 1671 in Ireland. Valentine HOLLINGSWORTH and Anne REA had the following children:
24. Henry DIXSON was born between 1630 and 1633 in Armagh Co., Ireland. He died before 1688 in Armagh Co., Ireland. He emigrated in 1688 from Ireland. He was an an innkeeper. He was married to Rose.
25. Rose was born about 1637 in Ireland. Henry DIXSON and Rose had the following children:
26. William GREGG was born about 1648 in Co. Antrim, Ireland. He emigrated in 1682.11 After the restoration of Charles II, rigorous laws restraining Quakers induced William Penn to emigrate to America. Gregg and his family went in the first wave of 1682, probably aboard the "Caledonia." He lived from "Strand Millas" between 1683 and 1687 in Christiana Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware.12 He initially received a grant of 200 acres in the upper part of the Hundred from Rockland Manor (a principal manor of William Penn). Two years later (in 1684) he received a warrant for an additional 400 acres, on which he built a log cabin at a site he called Strand Millas. It adjoined the lands of Matthias Defosse on Squirrel Creek. This is in the vicinity of the upper reaches of Winterthur estate and Center Meeting Road. Initially his family were involved with the Newark Quaker Meeting, on the property of Vallentine Hollingsworth, east of Brandywine Creek, but in 1687, Gregg and his neighbors were given permission to start their own meeting, to become Centre Meeting, on the west side "by reason of the dangerousness of ye ford." He died 1 7mo 1687 Old Style in "Strand Millas," Christiana Hundred, New Castle Co., Delaware. He was a Quaker in Waterford, Antrim Co., Ireland.13 GREGG was apparently among those converted by William Penn when he visited Waterford in 1678. He was married to Ann WILKINSON.
27. Ann WILKINSON. William GREGG and Ann WILKINSON had the following children:
SIXTH GENERATION
44. Henry HOLLINGSWORTH14 lived from in Bellenishcrannel, Armagh Co., Ireland. The conventional wisdom suggests that Hollingsworth or his parents were among the group of English "planters" who were settled on lands in Ireland that had been vacated by the forced expatriation of Irish by Cromwell and his son. Presumably, the families came from northern Chester, perhaps descendants of the family associated with Hollingsworth Hall, near Macclesfield. He was married to Catherine.
45. Catherine. Henry HOLLINGSWORTH and Catherine had the following children:
46. Nicholas REA lived from in Tanderagee, Armagh Co. , Ireland. Nicholas REA had the following children:
52. William GREGG15 was born about 1616 in Glen Orchy, Argylshire, Scotland. An "Ulster Presbyterian," William and his family were persecuted after the rise of Charles I. Their position was finally undermined and they were forced to leave his inheritance of Glenarm Barony after the insurrection at Carrifergus of 1853. He took his family by ship, settling at Ardmore, on the southwest shore of Waterford County, Ireland. He died about 1672 in Ardmore, Waterford Co., Ireland.
53. Mother UNKNOWN. William GREGG and Mother UNKNOWN had the following children:
SEVENTH GENERATION
104. John GREG16 was born in 1576. John was given by King James I, and settled his people in, the barony of Glenarm, County Antrim, on the northeast coast of Ireland. He is said to have received a silver-studded ivory-headed cane in appreciation of his leadership in getting the family settled in Ireland. The cane, which was to be inherited by the second son in each succeeding generation was reported, in 1944, to be in the possession of Charles A. Gregg of Fredericktown, Ohio. He died in 1644. John GREG had the following children:
SOURCES
1. Albert Cook Meyers. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, With their Early History in Ireland. Swathmore, 1902, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994. p. 314; she is listed as the third child, but without a date of birth (she is not listed at all in Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth.
2. Ibid. p. 319.
3. Gambert, Judy A., compiler. RANDAL MALIN: A Quaker, From Cheshire, England to Chester (now Delaware) Co., Pa. And His Descendants. McDowell Publications,11129 Pleasant Ridge Road,Utica, Kentucky 42376, 1997.
4. George Dixon, exegete@swbell.net. Email of April 1, 1998.
5. John V. Kieffer. HOLLINGSWORTH Register Report. 17190 W. 160th St., Olathe KS 66062
jvmusik@primenet.com.
6. J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881. In a brief biography of Valentine Hollingsworth, this source lists his first wife as "Catherine Cornish, daughter of Henry Cornish, high sheriff of London, who was unjustly executed during the reign of James II." Since no other source confirms this, and since the biography contains numerous other errors, I presume that this listing is wrong.
7. J. Adger Stewart and William B. Hollingsworth. Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. Louisville: Kentucky, John P. Morton & Co., 1925. P. 1.
8. Albert Cook Meyers. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, With their Early History in Ireland. Swathmore, 1902, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994. pp. 16-19.
9. William Edmundson. Journal. London: Mary Hinde, in George-Yard, Lombard Street, 1774 (cited in Immigration of the Irish Quakers).
10. Alpheus Harlan. History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family and Particularly of the Descendants of George and Michael Harlan who Settled in Chester County, Pa. 1687. Harlan Family in America Website.
11. Hazel May Middleton Kendall. The Quaker Greggs: This book records the descendants of William Gregg the friend immigrant to Delaware 1682 . . . Anderson, Indiana: Hazel May Middleton Kendall, 1944. p. 19.
12. Ibid. p. 19-20.
13. Ibid. p. 19.
14. J. Adger Stewart and William B. Hollingsworth. Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. Louisville: Kentucky, John P. Morton & Co., 1925.
15. Hazel May Middleton Kendall. The Quaker Greggs: This book records the descendants of William Gregg the friend immigrant to Delaware 1682 . . . Anderson, Indiana: Hazel May Middleton Kendall, 1944. pp. 16-17.
16. Ibid. pp. 16-19.
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