Isaac Hollingsworth was the son of George Hollingsworth and Hannah Mackay and the husband of Susannah Wright. During the Revolutionary War he stopped a British officer from entering his farm corn crib. When the officer drew his sword Isaac said, "Thus far shalt you go, but no further."
The British officer backed off.
Noted Quaker researcher Willard C. Heiss wrote, "(Isaac Hollingsworth) possessed great physical strength and unbounded courage. ..Once, when he was starting to meeting, a poor Irishman accosted him desiring employment. Isaac having nothing else for him to do set him to moving a pile of stones. On returning from meeting and finding the job done he had him to move the stones back. After which he paid him. Wile on the road to Ohio he was one day sitting upon a log while his horses were eating. A man came along and asked him where he was moving. 'I am not moving,' said Isaac, "ia ma sitting still.' 'Well, where are you bound then?' 'I am not bound at all," said he, ' I am a free man.' The discomfited man passed on. When reprimanded by his daughter for his uncourteous answers he naively answered that he did not know that it was any of the man's business where he was going."
Isaac was appointed an overseer at Bush River MM in South Carolina. He and his family migrated from South Carolina to Ohio in 1805.
Children (in addition to those listed in familylinks below):
John Hollingsworth (1772-1781)
William Hollingsworth
Sarah Hollingsworth Stanton
Isaac Hollingsworth
John Hollingsworth, b 1792
Nathan Hollingsworth
Source: Willard C. Heiss, "Quakers in the South Carolina Backcountry: Waterloo and Bush River," Indiana Quaker Records, 1969, 45 pages.
The British officer backed off.
Noted Quaker researcher Willard C. Heiss wrote, "(Isaac Hollingsworth) possessed great physical strength and unbounded courage. ..Once, when he was starting to meeting, a poor Irishman accosted him desiring employment. Isaac having nothing else for him to do set him to moving a pile of stones. On returning from meeting and finding the job done he had him to move the stones back. After which he paid him. Wile on the road to Ohio he was one day sitting upon a log while his horses were eating. A man came along and asked him where he was moving. 'I am not moving,' said Isaac, "ia ma sitting still.' 'Well, where are you bound then?' 'I am not bound at all," said he, ' I am a free man.' The discomfited man passed on. When reprimanded by his daughter for his uncourteous answers he naively answered that he did not know that it was any of the man's business where he was going."
Isaac was appointed an overseer at Bush River MM in South Carolina. He and his family migrated from South Carolina to Ohio in 1805.
Children (in addition to those listed in familylinks below):
John Hollingsworth (1772-1781)
William Hollingsworth
Sarah Hollingsworth Stanton
Isaac Hollingsworth
John Hollingsworth, b 1792
Nathan Hollingsworth
Source: Willard C. Heiss, "Quakers in the South Carolina Backcountry: Waterloo and Bush River," Indiana Quaker Records, 1969, 45 pages.
Isaac Hollingsworth was the son of George Hollingsworth and Hannah Mackay and the husband of Susannah Wright. During the Revolutionary War he stopped a British officer from entering his farm corn crib. When the officer drew his sword Isaac said, "Thus far shalt you go, but no further."
The British officer backed off.
Noted Quaker researcher Willard C. Heiss wrote, "(Isaac Hollingsworth) possessed great physical strength and unbounded courage. ..Once, when he was starting to meeting, a poor Irishman accosted him desiring employment. Isaac having nothing else for him to do set him to moving a pile of stones. On returning from meeting and finding the job done he had him to move the stones back. After which he paid him. Wile on the road to Ohio he was one day sitting upon a log while his horses were eating. A man came along and asked him where he was moving. 'I am not moving,' said Isaac, "ia ma sitting still.' 'Well, where are you bound then?' 'I am not bound at all," said he, ' I am a free man.' The discomfited man passed on. When reprimanded by his daughter for his uncourteous answers he naively answered that he did not know that it was any of the man's business where he was going."
Isaac was appointed an overseer at Bush River MM in South Carolina. He and his family migrated from South Carolina to Ohio in 1805.
Children (in addition to those listed in familylinks below):
John Hollingsworth (1772-1781)
William Hollingsworth
Sarah Hollingsworth Stanton
Isaac Hollingsworth
John Hollingsworth, b 1792
Nathan Hollingsworth
Source: Willard C. Heiss, "Quakers in the South Carolina Backcountry: Waterloo and Bush River," Indiana Quaker Records, 1969, 45 pages.
The British officer backed off.
Noted Quaker researcher Willard C. Heiss wrote, "(Isaac Hollingsworth) possessed great physical strength and unbounded courage. ..Once, when he was starting to meeting, a poor Irishman accosted him desiring employment. Isaac having nothing else for him to do set him to moving a pile of stones. On returning from meeting and finding the job done he had him to move the stones back. After which he paid him. Wile on the road to Ohio he was one day sitting upon a log while his horses were eating. A man came along and asked him where he was moving. 'I am not moving,' said Isaac, "ia ma sitting still.' 'Well, where are you bound then?' 'I am not bound at all," said he, ' I am a free man.' The discomfited man passed on. When reprimanded by his daughter for his uncourteous answers he naively answered that he did not know that it was any of the man's business where he was going."
Isaac was appointed an overseer at Bush River MM in South Carolina. He and his family migrated from South Carolina to Ohio in 1805.
Children (in addition to those listed in familylinks below):
John Hollingsworth (1772-1781)
William Hollingsworth
Sarah Hollingsworth Stanton
Isaac Hollingsworth
John Hollingsworth, b 1792
Nathan Hollingsworth
Source: Willard C. Heiss, "Quakers in the South Carolina Backcountry: Waterloo and Bush River," Indiana Quaker Records, 1969, 45 pages.
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