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Newark Union Church and Cemetery has a name older than the Delaware city of Newark. An Out & About account says it predates the city by 12 years, tracing it to New Wark, the name Valentine Hollingsworth gave his plantation. The name later became New Worke, then Newark.
The account places the cemetery in Brandywine Hundred, among office parks and subdivisions. It says the site occupies a small part of a 986-acre grant William Penn made to Hollingsworth in 1682. A memorial stone to Hollingsworth stands prominently there, alongside graves of veterans from eight wars. For someone passing through the area, that is a lot of history to miss. What surviving records document the original land grant?
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