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owner; a manufacturer of gun barrels and bayo-
nets, he was said to be the first manufacturer of
munitions in Maryland. Part owner of a market
house, 1783; merchant in Elkton, Cecil County,
and partner in a store, 1786; sold land mills, water
mills, merchant's mills, and sawmills, 1786;
farmer, 1786; owned a saltpeter works in Cecil
County. He organized the Cecil Manufacturing
Company in Little Elk Creek, Cecil County in
1794, and with nine other partners he built a stone
mill in 1796 and purchased 500 acres adjoining
the mill site for sheep pasturage to keep the mill
supplied with wool. He sold his interest in the
company in 1800. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE Lower House, Cecil County, 1789
(elected to session to fill vacancy), 1790, 1791-
1792, 1792, 1793, 1794; Senate, Eastern Shore,
Term of 1801-1806: 1801, 1802, 1803 (died before
the beginning of the Assembly). OTHER STATE
OFFICES: commissary, Eastern Shore, in office by
1776; commissioner to auction confiscated British
property, in office ca. 1785; Constitution Ratifica-
tion Convention, Cecil County, 1788. LOCAL OF-
FICES: churchwarden, North Elk Parish, Cecil
County, in office 1764; North Elk Parish Vestry,
Cecil County, in office 1779-1783, 1784-1786;
appointed to carry out the "act to prohibit for a
limited time the exportation of Indian corn etc. by
land" 1780; justice, Cecil County, 1789-1803. MIL-
ITARY SERVICE: lieutenant colonel, Elk Battalion,
Cecil County Militia, by 1776; colonel, Elk Battal-
ion, Cecil County Militia, by 1779-1781. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed
value £485.0.0, including 8 slaves, 1783. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: 817 acres in Cecil County, in-
cluding 389 acres purchased as confiscated British
property belonging to Robert Alexander (1740-
1805) and Henry Harford (ca. 1759-1834). Alex-
ander's wife protested the confiscation and sale of
her husband's property ca. 1786 and Hollings-
worth promised to restore the land should Alexan-
der return to Maryland to claim it. SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH: acquired 669 additional acres in
Cecil County, and sold 4 lots in Elkton, Cecil
County, 1794-1797. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED on
September 29, 1803, in Cecil County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY TEV, $21,380.71 (including 14 slaves
and books); FB, estate overpaid $66.42. LAND:
over 1,138 acres in Cecil County.
HOLLINGSWORTH, JESSE (1732/33-1810)
BORN on March 12, 1732/33, in St. Mary Anne's
Parish, Cecil County; eldest surviving son. NA-
TIVE: third generation. RESIDED: in Cecil County;
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Baltimore Town, by 1772. FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: Zebulon Hollingsworth (ca. 1696-1763),
of Cecil County, an innholder, a presiding justice
of Cecil County Court, and a vestryman of St.
Mary Anne's Parish, Cecil County, in 1743; son of
Henry Hollingsworth (1658-1721) and wife Lydia
Atkinson; immigrated in 1712 from Pennsylvania.
MOTHER: Ann (?-1740), daughter of Francis Maul-
din (?-1734/35). STEPMOTHER: Mary (?-1807),
daughter of Thomas Jacobs and wife Mary Robin-
son. UNCLE: Francis Mauldin (ca. 1719-1762).
AUNT: Fransinah Mauldin, who married Samuel
Bayard (1705-1776). BROTHERS: Steven (1730-
1740); Zebulon (1735-?); Henry Hollingsworth
(1737-1803); and Levi (1739-?). HALF BROTHERS:
Jacob (1742-1803); Thomas; Stephen (1749-1822),
who never married; John; David (1754-1775), who
never married; Samuel (1757-?); and William (?-
died young). SISTER: Elizabeth (1727/28-?), who
married (first name unknown) Veazey. HALF SIS-
TER: Lydia, who married Samuel Wallis. MARRIED
first, ca. 1758 Sinai RJcketts (1737-1786). MAR-
RIED second, in 1790 Rachel Lyde (?-1819),
widow of (first name unknown) Parkins; daughter
of Lyde Good win (1725-1801), a physician, and
wife Pleasance Ridgely; granddaughter of Charles
Ridgely (?-1772); niece of Capt. Charles Ridgely
(1733-1790), John Ridgely (?-1771), and Rachel
Ridgely, who married Darby Lux (?-1795). Her
brothers were William; Lyde. Her sisters were
Susannah; Pleasance, who married John Coleman.
Her first cousins were Charles Ridgely, of John (?-
ca. 1787); Deborah Ridgely (?-1817), who married
John Sterett (1750/51-1787); Mary (?-1804), who
married Benjamin Nicholson (?-1792); and Pru-
dence Carnan (1755-1822), who married Harry
Dorsey Gough (ca. 1745-1808). CHILDREN. SONS:
Zebulon, associate judge, Sixth District Court,
1806-by 1817, who married in 1790 Elizabeth Ire-
land; Francis (1773-1826), a merchant and part-
ner in the firm of Hollingsworth & Worthington,
who married Mary; John (1771-?), who married
Rachel Wilkins. STEPSON Thomas Parkins (?-
1797). DAUGHTERS: Ann, who married in 1792
Rev. Henry Willis; Mary (1760-?), who married in
1781 Capt. Jeremiah Yellott. PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION:
Methodist; active in organizing the Methodist So-
ciety in Baltimore Town, which built the first
Methodist Church in that town in 1775. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq. at death. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE: merchant; owned a privateer
during the Revolution. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLA-
TIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Baltimore Town,
1786-1787 (Claims 1, 2). OTHER STATE OFFICES:
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