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the meeting; and what is sinpul.ir, the 

 part taken by the Justice in the trans- 

 action was not noticed. Tlieir chil- 

 dren were. Joiin, Joseph, Josiah, Abra- 

 ham, Mary, Benjamin, Elizabeth and 

 Sarah. 



Hill, William, whose wife was Mary 

 the daun;hter of John Hunter, was from 

 the nortli of England, and emigrated 

 prior to 1600. Their settlement was 

 in Middletown township, not far from 

 Lima. William died in 17.'>3 or 1754. 

 His children were Peter, John, Chris- 

 tiana and others. The Hills were not 

 originally in membership with Friends, 

 but some of their descendants united 

 with that Society. 



HoLGH, I.-;uAEL, a young Swedish 

 pastor.who visited the Swedish settle- 

 ments on the Delaware while under the 

 government of John Printz. He re- 

 mained about two years, when he re- 

 turned to his native country and became 

 a minister in West Gothland. 



Holland, Thomas, came to Darby in 

 1683, bringing a certiticate from the 

 Monthly Meeting at the " Brace house 

 in the County of Darby," dated " ye 8th 

 day of ye I2'th mon. 1682," for himself 

 and wife Mary. 



Holland, John, supposed to be a 

 son of the above Thomas, emigrated 

 from Hartshaw, in Lancashire, Eng- 

 land, in 1713. They were Friends, and 

 probably settled in Marple. 



Holme, Thomas, the first Surveyor- 

 General under Penn's government, was 

 from Waterford, Ireland. Though call- 

 ed Captain Holme, he was a Quaker. 

 He was for some years a member of 

 the Executive Council, at the com- 

 mencement of the government. He 

 died at his residence in Dublin town- 

 ship, Philadelphia County, in 16y5, 

 '• aged full seventie years." 



Hood, Tho.mas, came to this country 

 unmarried in 1682, and settled in 

 Darby township, west of the creek. 

 His former residence was Breason, in 

 the County of Derby, England, and 

 being a Friend, brought a certificate 

 from the meeting at the Breath-house, 

 la 1689 he married Sarah Blankley. 



of New Jersey. He left five daughters 

 but no son. His wife died in 1 702, and 

 he in 1717. 



Hood, John, Sr , with his wife, mi- 

 grated from Castledownington, Leices- 

 ter:<hire, England, in 1680, and settled 

 in Darby, now Upper Darby township. 

 His son John, in 1694, married Abigail 

 Shut, and at the same time Thomas 

 Shut married his daughter Elizabeth. 

 The younger John also settled in Up- 

 per Darby; but he died in 1702, and 

 while his father was still living. They 

 were all Friends. The elder John 

 Hood was a member of the Provincial 

 Assembly in 1704. 



Hollingsworth, 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 

 daughter 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 Surveyor-General, in laying out 

 the plan of Philadelphia. If this be 

 the case, he must have immigrated be- 

 fore bis father. He was in member- 

 ship 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 num- 

 ber of our original surveys. In 1695, 

 when he resided in Chester, and held 

 the olHce of Sheriff of Chester County, 

 he represented Newcastle County in 

 the Provincial Assembly ; his father 

 being a representative from 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 con- 

 siderable energy, which he exercised 

 in furthering the improvements of the 

 County. He was the owner of lots 

 and built in Chester, and was part 

 owner, and probabh' the projector, of 

 the first mill built in Upper Providence, 

 (about 1695.) He resided in Chester 

 till 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 whom was Zebulon, the 

 father of Levi Hollingsworth, an emi- 



