The Newark Union Cemetery stands on ground donated by Valentine Hollingsworth in 1687 after his journey from Ballyvickcrannel in Seagoe Parish, County Armagh, Ireland, to what is now New Castle, Delaware, in 1682 aboard the ship Antelope, the same year William Penn deeded him 986 acres. The cemetery contains veterans of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, World War I, World War II, Civil War, Spanish-American War, Korean War, and Vietnam War, acknowledged with an American flag and a medallion representing the war in which they fought. Their stories are intertwined with the inception of the country, many prominent families of Brandywine Hundred, and historical sites in the area. One example is George Mousley, born in England in 1757, who came to America as a boy and settled in Brandywine Hundred; on January 2, 1777, at age 19, he joined the Continental forces as a private in William McMullin's Company of City Guards, participated in the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, and on April 11, 1787, married Catherine Poulson, who was born in Louden County, Virginia, was a descendant of the early Swedes who sailed on the Kalmar Nyckel, and whose family settled along the Delaware River.