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way. We have not heard from him."
    We found a case in the Irish Common Law Reports, II:336, Kidd v.
Loughnan, 1849, which was intriguing, since it was a George Kidd who 
was  Plaintiff, but the wife's name was Mary, and the case did not fit
in any other way, still going on after our G.K. had sneaked away.
    Kidd naturalized in the Cincinnati Court of Common Pleas, his
Declaration of Intention being dated 1 May 1854. The petition shows 
George Kidd had emigrated from Liverpool on the 14 March 1849 and ar-
rived in New York on 14 Apr 1849. We have not found his name on the
passenger lists for that day or other adjacent days. He was aged 62
when he signed the petition,, and a native of Ireland. His son-in-1aw, 
Edward Thomas Hollingsworth, the one who had come out with George's 
wife and family (his, wife, was George Kidd's daughter, his aunt Martha 
was George Kidd's wife) petitioned the same day, stating he had also 
sailed from Liverpool on 10 April and arrived in New York on 1 May of
1849. We did find him on the Passenger list of the ship Constitution
passenger manifest dated 2 May 1849. (HR March 1968 p. 6.)
    Born in 1792, and aged 57 when he came out of Ireland, it would
seem that George Kidd did not attempt to start over in business, but
lived out his days in retirement, as Irish gentlemen did. He died on
Monday 7 April 1862, aged 70. Martha (Hollingsworth) Kidd, his wife,
born at Cranacrower, Ballycanew, County Wexford, died in Cincinnati 
on Wed 4 Apr 1866, aged 68. Both were laid to rest in the Cemetery of 
Spring Grove, whose Superintendent boasted in his letter to me of 
May 9, 1962 that of the 150,000 burials there, all had been well 
catalogued with statistics. The Kidd-Hollingsworth monument is a
large and impressive affair.

Land Patents of Cecil County, MD

Thanks to Correspondent Madelyn W. Clark, Wilmington, Delaware, from 
book of same name in the Historical Society of Delaware, pp. 32-33.

(1)HOLLINGSWORTH & BOOTH - 1782; Henry Hollingsworth & Ebenezer Booth:
Certificate 243A, Liber Bc & GS#50, folio 278; Patent 243A, Lib, IC#A,
f. 2; Certificate in name of Henry Hollingsworth: Patented cert. #440.
(2)HOLLINGSWORTH FARM - 1817; Jacob Hollingsworth: 454A-lR-14P, Un-
patented certificate #149.
(3)HOLLINGSWORTH FIRST PARCEL - 1737; Hugh Walker & others; Patent 
85A, Liber EI#2, f 539, Lib IL#A, f 4; Certificate in name of Abraham 
Hollingsworth.
HOLLINGSWORTH FIRST PARCEL - 1737; Rowland Chambers & others; Patent 
85A, LIB EI#2, f 539, Lib IL#A., f 4; Certificate in name of Abraham 
Hollingsworth.
HOLLINGSWORTH FIRST PARCEL - 1737; William Edmondson and John and 
others: Pat. 85A, Lib EI#2, f 539, Lib IL#A f 4; same as,above.
HOLLINGSWORTH SECOND PARCEL - 1734; Zebulon Hollingsworth; Patent 100A 
Lib EI#1, f 431, Lib IL#A, f 4; Cert in name of Abraham Hollingsworth.
HOLLINGSWORTH THIRD PARCELL - 1734; Zebulon Hollingsworth; Pat 115A, 
Lib EI#2, f 98, Lib IL#A, f 4; Cert in name of Abraham Hollingsworth. 
HOLLINGSWORTH FOURTH PARCELL - l734; Zebulon Hollingsworth; Pat 100A, 
Lib EI#1, f 433, Lib IL#A, f 4; Cert in name of Abraham Hollingsworth. 
HOLLINGSWORTH PARCELLS - l716; Abraham Hollingsworth; Cert 400A, Lib 
IL#A, f 4; Patents to Zebulon Hollingsworth & others.
HOLLINGSWORTH RESTITUTION - l803; Zebulon Hollingsworth; Cert
169 3/4A, Lib IC#B, 286; Patents 169 3/4 A, Lib IC#B, f 176.


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