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John T. Hollingsworth of Calhoun (Benton) County, Alabama, has been one of the biggest surprises of our DNA project, as his descendants fail to match any of our other Hollingsworth participants genetically.
According to the Census records, John T. Hollingsworth was born in Virginia about 1785. He moved to South Carolina by 1807, when his son Wesley was born there. By 1850, he had moved to Benton, now Calhoun, County, Alabama, where he was recorded in the 1850 and 1860 Census. He had numerous children, and many of his descendants reside in Alabama and Arkansas.
Although the descendants of John T. Hollingsworth do not have genetic matches to other branches of the Hollingsworth family, we have learned recently that they are genetic matches to some members of the Hampton family.
According to Karl Hampton, a DNA match to this branch of the Hollingsworth family, the Hamptons who are genetic kin to the Calhoun County Hollingsworth clan descend from John and Andrew Hampton, who emigrated from Scotland to New Jersey in 1683. Descendants of John and Andrew Hampton migrated south first to Cecil County, Maryland, and later to Frederick County, Virginia, in the early 1700s. Although most of the Hampton family continued to move southward and westward, at least one male descendant of John Hampton was still living in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1785.
Although there were other Hamptons living in Virginia in 1785, Karl Hampton indicated that they belong to a different DNA group from his Scottish forebears.
At the time of the 1787 Virginia personal property tax lists, there were only 4 groupings of Hollingsworths still listed in the state—those in Frederick and adjacent Loudoun Counties, Prince George County, Patrick County, and Amherst County. Documentary evidence hints that there were also Hollingsworths in Shenandoah County who were not included in the personal property tax lists for some reason.
The Hollingsworths who were in Frederick and Loudoun Counties in 1787 were Robert of George of Abraham of Thomas of Valentine; Jonah of Isaac of Abraham of Thomas of Valentine, Zebidee of Jacob of Thomas of Valentine, and John and Err, sons of Thomas of Thomas of Thomas of Valentine.
I recommend that researchers interested in this family focus their attention on Frederick County, Virginia, in the 1780s to see if they can find the “missing link” between John T. Hollingsworth and the Hampton family.
Doug Hollingsworth
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