Children of DAVID¹⁰ LOVE (8353) both born Cloughboy Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland include:

                   129.         i.    ROBERT¹¹ LOVE (8359). ROBERT (8359) was born circa 1760. ROBERT (8359) died 1812 in Cloughboy Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, at an unknown age. His body was interred 1812 in Grange Cem., Donaghedy, Tyrone, Ireland.

                   130.        ii.    ALLAN LOVE (8354). ALLAN (8354) was born circa 1761. ALLAN (8354) died 27 May 1763 in Cloughboy Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, at an unknown age. His body was interred 27 May 1763 in Grange Cem., Donaghedy, Tyrone, Ireland.

93. JOHN¹⁰ LOVE (8745) (DAVID⁹, DAVID⁸, ROBERT⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). JOHN (8745) was born at an unknown date in Tamnaclare Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (119836).

  JOHN (8745) died at an unknown date in Tamnaclare Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, at an unknown age. His body was interred at an unknown date in Grange Cem., Donaghedy, Tyrone, Ireland.

     Children of JOHN¹⁰ LOVE (8745) and UNKNOWN (--?--) (119836) are as follows:

                   131.         i.    JAMES¹¹ LOVE (119837).

JAMES LOVE (119837) was shown in his uncle David's will as being in America along with his sister Sarah. They were to receive financial assistance but gave up all other claims to his will.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

David Love Will 9 December 1845 P.R.O.N.I. File D/1495/2/27.

                   132.        ii.    SARAH LOVE (119838).

SARAH LOVE (119838) was shown in her uncle David's will as being in America along with her brother, James. They were to receive financial assistance but gave up all other claims to his will.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

David Love Will 9 December 1845 P.R.O.N.I. File D/1495/2/27.

96. ISABELLA¹⁰ LOVE (8749) (DAVID⁹, DAVID⁸, ROBERT⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). ISABELLA (8749) was born at an unknown date in Tamnaclare Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. She married JAMES CLARK (119833).

  ISABELLA (8749) died at an unknown date in Tamnaclare Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, at an unknown age. Her body was interred at an unknown date in Grange Cem., Donaghedy, Tyrone, Ireland.

     Children of ISABELLA¹⁰ LOVE (8749) and JAMES CLARK (119833) are:

                   133.         i.    NANCY¹¹ CLARK (119834).

97. ¹⁰ LOVE (8747) (DAVID⁹, DAVID⁸, ROBERT⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). VICTOR (8747) was born at an unknown date in Tamnaclare Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (57093) at an unknown date. VICTOR (8747) died at an unknown date in Tamnaclare Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, at an unknown age. His body was interred at an unknown date in Grange Cem., Donaghedy, Tyrone, Ireland.

     Children of VICTOR¹⁰ LOVE (8747) and UNKNOWN (--?--) (57093) were:

             + 134.         i.    GEORGE¹¹ LOVE (8796) GEORGE (8796) was born 1810 in Gortivea Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married MARTHA LINDSAY (8797) at an unknown date in Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

99. SAMUEL¹⁰ LOVE (117390) (HUGH⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born circa 1755 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

  He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (117392).

SAMUEL LOVE (117390) rented 21.1.20 acres of land in 1771 from James Hamilton, 8^th Earl of Abercorn. He was paying an annual rent of £ 13.15.10. P.R.O.N.I. file D623/D1/23. LDS film # 1885920. Copies of the rental map showing exact location and lists showing the quality of the land are in my files.

      SAMUEL LOVE SR. was a seat holder at the Second Castlederg Presbyterian Church in 1788 and 1789.

     SOURCE of INFORMATION

   James Emery, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland through the research of Hilary Tulloch, Dublin, Ireland.

 SAMUEL was leasing land for annual rent of £ 15.0.0.. shown as East Upper Crew. Taken from Abercorn Estate Papers, Manor of Strabane Rent Rolls 1794-1809. P.R.O.N.I. record D/623/C/41. Supplied by Ulster Historical Foundation. I don't think they mean leasing for the full period but only meaning he was leasing for some period between these dates.

     Samuel Love is shown in the Crew Tithe Applotment book 1823-37 but not necessarily for all these years.

     There may be confusion here. It appears that Samuel Sr. #117,390 has taken over the lease of his father , Hugh, most likely when Hugh died. Then it appears that Samuel Jr, #117,210 has taken over the lease formerly held by his father, Samuel Sr. #117390. However the acreage has changed from 21 acres to 45 acres but the area on the 1860 and 1871 lease appears to be the same. There were offers made earlier to take over the lease on plot 5 from another tenant but it ever went through back then. However it may have been settled subsequently and the addition of this acreage from plot 5 appears to make the total for Samuel Jr. up to 45 instead of just 21 acres.

     Children of SAMUEL¹⁰ LOVE (117390) and UNKNOWN (--?--) (117392) both born in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, were as follows:

             + 135.         i.    SAMUEL¹¹ LOVE (117210) was born in 1781.

  He married SARAH (--?--) (117211). He died on 8 November 1879. He was buried on 10 November 1879.

                   136.        ii.    THOMAS LOVE (117411) was born circa 1784.

  He married ANN (--?--) (117412). He died in 1834 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     THOMAS LOVE (117411) was shown in the Tithe Applotment Book 1823-1837 for Crew Townland. This doesn'y mean he paid tithes in all these years as he died in 1834.

     I haven't been able to identify the exact location of the land Thomas was leasing. He happens to have fallen between the years of the available Abercorn lease maps.

     Consistorial Will Index, Derry, 1612-1858 Thomas died in Crew Townland in 1834. I have been unable to locate a copy of this Will or even an abstract.

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ANN (--?--) (117412) took over the lease in Crew Townland after her husband, THOMAS, died in 1834. PRONI file D623/421/246.

102. ROBERT¹⁰ LOVE (117358) (WILLIAM⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born circa 1761 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (117439). He died before 1835 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

ROBERT LOVE (117358) was leasing land in 1806 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish along with John, Daniel and Stephen Hughey. It is not clear on the 1806 lease map exactly how much acreage this comprised but it appears to be about the same as the arable portion of the land their father had been leasing, about 30 acres. This lease map was found in the Abercorn Estate Papers on LDS film #1885920 or in PRONI file D623/D1/23.

       Listymore Townland. Rent £ 8.11.3. Taken from Abercorn Estate Papers, Manor of Strabane Rent Rolls 1794-1809. P.R.O.N.I. record D/623/C/41. Supplied by Ulster Historical Foundation. Photocopy of the lease map is in my files.

      ROBERT was shown in the Tithe Applotment 1823-1837 Book. This means he paid tithes some time during these years and not necessarily for all those years.

     Children of ROBERT¹⁰ LOVE (117358) and UNKNOWN (--?--) (117439) all born in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland, were as follows:

             + 137.         i.    WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (117441) was born circa 1785.

  He married MARGARET HAMILTON (117443) circa 1815. He died on 11 December 1885.

                   138.        ii.    JAMES LOVE (117440) was born circa 1789.

  He died before 1860 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

     JAMES LOVE (117440) was shown in the Tithes Applotment 1823-37 Book. If this looks too young for James to be paying tithes, remember that it doesn't neccesarily mean that he was paying tithes in all those years but just at some time during that period.

     James was sharing leased land with his brothers William and Thomas in 1835 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone. PRONI file D623/421/390

          Griffith’s Valuation shows JAMES LOVE leasing 45 acres 0 rods and 0 perches from the Marquis of Abercorn. Assessment was £25 for the land and £2 for the house. He evidently had a second house which he rented to JAMES KEYES.

       JAMES LOVE was leasing 45 acres in 1860 survey of Strabane Manor. However it looks as though he had died recently or moved as there is a notation that it is now ROBERT ROBINSON. PRONI file D623/D2. LDS film # 1885949. Copy in my files.

            Although I am showing James dying before 1860 it may be that he moved elsewhere or emigrated to America. The reason for the doubt is the same notation is on his brother, Thomas, lease for 1860 which seems strange they both died around this time.

                   139.       iii.    THOMAS LOVE (117442) was born circa 1804.

  He died before 1860 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

     THOMAS LOVE (117442) was sharing leased land with his brothers James and William in 1835 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone. PRONI file D623/421/389

          Griffith’s Valuation shows THOMAS LOVE leasing 42 acres 2 rods

 and 35 perches from the Marquis of Abercorn. Assessment was £17 10 shillings for the land and £3 for the house. He evidently had a second house which he rented to JOHN GINN.

       THOMAS LOVE was leasing 43 acres as shown in the 1860 survey

 of Strabane Manor. However he must have died recently or moved as there is a note by the listing stating it is now JAMES HEMPHILL. PRONI file D623/D2/. LDS film # 1885949. Copy is in my files.

       Although I am showing Thomas dying before 1860 it may be that he moved elsewhere or emigrated to America. The reason for the doubt is the same notation is on his brother, James, lease for 1860 which seems strange they both died around this time.

103. WILLIAM¹⁰ LOVE (56) (JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). WILLIAM (56) was born circa 1769 in Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married MARY HUNTER (2525) 21 August 1791 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. WILLIAM (56) died 16 November 1796 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA, at an unknown age.

WILLIAM LOVE (56) was in the Huntingdon County Militia in July 1792. He was in the Second Battalion, Second Company. This is shown in the Pennsylvania Archives 5th Series Volume 4 Page 113 and Volume 5 Page 325. Copies are in my files.

     WILLIAM LOVE was shown as "freeman" starting in 1788 which may indicate he was born (back in Ireland) circa 1769 as normally they were not shown as "freemen" until they were 21, but not married. He was taxed 0-5-0. But by 1792 he was shown with 50 acres and 1 cow and taxed 0-1-2. He evidently took over the "Home Farm" of 200 acres in 1794 after his father died. However he also died in 1796 so his mother Lilly took over the farm and she and JAMES LOVE (the next oldest son) petitioned the Court to divide the property, as evidently JOHN LOVE (5) had died intestate without a will.

    The marriage of WILLIAM LOVE and MARY HUNTER was recorded in Volume 1 - Marriage Records of the First Presbyterian Church, Carlyle 1785-1812.

     WILLIAM's wife MARY HUNTER was left with 4 small children after WILLIAM'S death. She received her 5th of the 200 acres but was then instructed by the Court to sell this in order to support the children (one of whom had died in the meantime). She then disappeared from the tax records but it said she "had removed to Cromwell Township". When MARY and her children moved to Cromwell Township, that was the end of any Loves living in Loves Valley.

     MARY HUNTER (2525). MARY (2525) died at an unknown date at an unknown age.

     Children of WILLIAM¹⁰ LOVE (56) and MARY HUNTER (2525) all born in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA, were as follows:

                   140.         i.    INFANT¹¹ LOVE (40974). INFANT (40974) was born circa 1792. INFANT (40974) died circa 1797 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA, at age at an unknown age.

                    + 141.   ii.    WILLIAM LOVE (39795) WILLIAM (39795) was born 1793. He married LUCY STEPHENGER (39796) , daughter of ELIZABETH STEPHENGER (55010), at an unknown date. WILLIAM (39795) died before 1870 at an unknown age.

                   142.       iii.    INFANT LOVE (40975). INFANT (40975) was born circa 1794.

                   143.       iv.    INFANT LOVE (40976). INFANT (40976) was born circa 1796.

104. JAMES¹⁰ LOVE (37) (JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). JAMES (37) was born 1771 in Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married MARY UTLEY (38) , daughter of MATTHEW UTLEY (67) and SUSANNAH (SUSAN) MITCHELL (68), circa 1798 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. JAMES (37) died 30 June 1851 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at an unknown age. His body was interred after 30 June 1851 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

     JAMES LOVE (37) was the son of JOHN LOVE (c1739-1794) and LILY (ELIZABETH) ALLEN (c1750-?).He arrived in Pennsylvania from Ireland in 1774/5 with his father John, mother Lilly and brother William. Although there is no absolute proof yet, circumstantial evidence has grown to make it fairly certain they came from Ardstraw Parish in County Tyrone. In fact we now feel sure JAMES was born in CREW TOWNLAND where there were so many LOVES in 1771 according to the Rental Maps of the Earl of Abercorn.

     The family stories say they stayed first in what is now Wayne County in Eastern Pennsylvania. This is very likely if they arrived in winter of 1774. We know they had arrived in Cumberland County near Mercersburg (now Franklin County) by 5 March 1775 as James' brother John had been born at sea and was baptized in the Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian Church in Mercersburg on that date.

     The family lived in Peters Township, Cumberland County (now Franklin County) until early 1880's when they moved to Shirley Township in Huntingdon County, Pa. There are more details about their stay in Peters Township and their move to Shirley Township in the biographical notes for John Love.

     In Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, the family lived in what is still known as "Love's Valley". In the next valley to the east which is Black Log Valley, there lived a family by the name of Utley. JAMES LOVE married MARY UTLEY probably about 1797/8. Their first two children were born there, William in 1799 and John in 1801 just before they left for Canada.

     In the meantime James father JOHN had died in 1794 and his older brother William had died in 1796. James and his mother Lilly petitioned the court to divide the father's estate between the children and William's widow. She was left with 4 small children. There are copies of the Orphan's Court records in my files taken from Book "A" Page 169. It was granted 27 November 1800. Copies in my files are taken from Orphan's Court Book "A" Pages 181-4. It is interesting to note the court appointed a jury of 12 men to make the decisions. A copy in my file was most helpful to locate the location of the land as they showed a survey of the 200 acres in what turned out to be "Love's Valley". It was also the means of finding out the names of the other members of the family.

     JAMES LOVE first appears on the Shirley Township, Huntingdon County tax records in 1791 where he is shown as a "freeman". This term indicated a male 21 years of age or older and not married. This would tie in with the supposed birth date of James in 1770/1. He was taxed £0 10S 0P which was the standard tax for freemen without property. He was taxed the same in 1792-3-4.

     The 1795 tax records show William with 200 acres which he must have received after his father died in 1794. There was no official transfer of land as proven by the later petitions. He also had 2 horses and 2 cows. James shows on those same records as having no acreage but having 2 horses and 2 cows.

     By the 1798 tax records and the same for 1799, 1800 and 1801, it shows

Widow Love 100 acres 1 horse, 1 cow value £228.

James Love 100 acres 3 horses, 3 cows value £296.

John Love the younger brother shows as freeman.

     I have not located a marriage record for JAMES LOVE and MARY UTLEY. The Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia say that at that date marriage was not considered a sacrament in the Presbyterian Church but a christening was considered a sacrament. Therefore most people out on the frontiers were married by a Justice of the Peace and christenings were performed by the Presbyterian "missionary" who periodically rode through the area. The closest Presbytery to Shirley Township would have been in Carlisle in Cumberland County 100 miles away. I had an interesting talk with the present minister in Carlisle. He said that at first in those days a "lay" preacher would ride the circuit and when a local congregation was formed and they had some sort of building the church would assign a regular minister. It is known that Rev. Robert Ayers was going through the area about 1798 when I think James Love was married. He was known to have held services in people's homes in Shirleysburg just over Sandy Ridge from Love's Valley and also in Orbisonia which was at the foot of Love's Valley.

     I investigated the Presbyterian connection because we know James Love's father John had two of the sons baptized in the Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian Church in Mercersburg before they moved to Huntingdon County. However it becomes obvious that JAMES LOVE and MARY UTLEY were converted to Methodism before they arrived in Canada. They were immediately strong Wesleyan Methodists when they arrived. It is my belief they came under the influence of some of the Methodist "circuit riders" that were starting to push into the frontier country just at that time. They got into the back areas where the ordained ministers of the the other denominations would not bother. Rev. Ayers mentioned above, actually converted to Methodism himself. In my files is an article showing the Methodist circuit riders who appeared in the area before 1800. In 1797/8 when I think James Love was married, it was Rev. Seeley Bunn and Rev. John Philips. According to the present minister at the United Methodist Church in Carlisle, they were not authorized to perform marriages but they were definitely preaching in homes and barns in the area.

    I came across one other source that make it most likely that James and Mary converted to Methodism while they were still in Pennsylvania. It is an article about Orbisonia Bi-Centennial and a copy is in my files. It mentions that a Mr. Thomas Cromwell was mainly responsible for the Methodist classes in the area. He was a neighbour of the Loves and I think he may have purchased the Love property when the family left for Canada. The deeds from about 1790 to 1850 seem to be missing from the Huntingdon County Land Registry Office. There was no law to say that deeds had to be registered and it may have been too long a trip from Love's Valley to Huntingdon which is about 40 miles. At any rate Mrs. Varner who lives in 1994 at the northern end of John Love's 200 acres has an old deed from 1853 for her property. On the back of the envelope just written in pencil is a note that says "Lilly and John Love to Thomas Cromwell". If he did buy the Love property after the court divided it in 1800 it would be natural as he already owned the land to the south of the Love property.

     The 1800 State of Pennsylvania Census for Huntingdon County, Shirley Township, shows JAMES LOVE as 1 male under 10, 2 males under 16, 1 male under 45, 1 female under 16, 1 female under 26, 1 female under 45.

     There are copies of two court documents in my files from Huntingdon County Court records. It is possible they don't refer to "our James Love as there was another James Love further west In Huntingdon County at the same time. These documents state that Samuel Howe and James McMurtrie took Patrick Galbraith and JAMES LOVE to court for a debt of £40 in 1799. In 1801 Paul Yeager supplied bail for JAMES LOVE for £50. This is recorded in the court records of 4 August 1802. Knowing that James Love left for Canada in the summer or early fall of 1801 it may fit in with the timing on the bail.

     MARY UTLEY had inherited property from her father Mathew Utley when he died. It was on Black Log Valley Road near where it crosses into Shirley Township. JAMES LOVE and MARY sold this property for £20 to Reese Thompson. He was Mary's step-father as Reese Thompson had married her mother Susannah after Mathew Utley died. Copy of this deed is in my files dated 16 June 1800 Recorded 4 February 1804. It was taken from Huntingdon County Deed Book 1 Page 463. This was the document that provided positive proof that James Love's wife was Mary Utley and not Mary Mitchell as all the Canadian records had shown. She had to sign off her dower rights so that is why it showed both their names in one document and connected them as husband and wife,

     We know they left for Canada in the late summer or early fall of 1801 as they arrived in York County in November 1801. It was a surprise to learn the whole family had come at that time and not just James, Mary and the two children. All this is proven in the OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE they signed on arriving in Canada. These documents are extremely interesting as they give the physical descriptions as well as places of birth,

JAMES LOVE 29 5ft 8in grey eyes light hair born Ireland.

JOHN LOVE 25 5ft 9in blue eyes dark brown hair born At Sea.

DAVID LOVE 23 5ft 11in grey eyes brown hair born Pennsylvania.

(note that the ages do not work out exactly)

      Photographs of the originals are in my files. The originals are held by the Baldwin Room of Toronto Reference Library on Yonge St. Toronto. Travelling together was Widow Lilly , James' mother, James and wife Mary with their two children William and John (who would have been only about 5 months old), younger brother John and his wife Nancy, younger brother David, unmarried and younger sister Lilly also unmarried.

     They first lived in a cabin near Richmond Hill and all the brothers petitioned for land grants. Copies of these petitions are in my files and they tie the whole family together. It appears they had horses with them when they travelled as they are mentioned in their petitions.

     It is only speculation on my part in trying to determine the route the LOVES would have used between Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania and King Township, York County in Ontario. They would have used the old Indian Paths which in some cases had been widened to take a cart. The Indians had found the best routes through the mountains and across the many rivers to be forded. In many cases these old trails were later used as the basis of new roads. At "LOVES VALLEY" they were right on the Frankston Path and in fact where the Black Log Creek crossed this Path the Indians had named it "the sleeping place". If they went east on the Frankston Path through the Tuscarora Mountain they would meet the Tuscarora Path heading north. This came out on the Susquehanna River at Shamokin (now called Sunbury)..

       An alternate route to save going over the Tuscarora Mountains would be to go from Shirleysburg up to Mount Union and then take the Juanita Path to Shamokin (Sunbury). After travelling both routes myself I think this latter route would have been more probable.

       Either way they would then head north along the Susquehanna River on the Shamokin Path. Or they could have actually travelled that stretch by boat on the river. Probably they would then take a short-cut on the Culbertson's Path to what is now Williamsport which would be the highest mountains they would encounter. From there the Tioga Path would take them to Painted Post in New York State and then they could head for Buffalo and cross the Niagara River at Fort Erie. A crude ferry was operating here or if they were lucky enough to have a Conestoga wagon they could float it across. Finally they would take the trail that led around the end of Lake Ontario at Hamilton to reach York (Toronto). All this would take from 6 to 10 weeks depending how many were walking. In my files are copies of many Indian Paths taken from the book "Indian Paths of Pennsylvania". A copy of the book is in my library.

     When JAMES and MARY arrived in Canada they had with them a bible which is inscribed "James Love purchased this book in Chambersburg, August 1801, for 9s/6d." We know they arrived in York County Ontario by November 1801 and it probaly took them 4 to 6 weeks to make the long jouney through the mountains and woods. I was curious as to the source of this bible and found that in 1798 there had been a printer in Chambersburg who also operated a book store. This would be rare in that area so early and I found the store had been on the town square and the printer had been a Mr. Shrylock. It was a well known family in the area as they also operated a paper mill. This was the only straight book store although it is possible "general merchants" could have sold bibles as well. It is even more probable that this was where James purchased the bible as in the same building the Lutheran Church was publishing religious books and very likely bibles as well. In my files is an article showing the location on the town square of Shrylock's. Also a picture of the new location showing the store after Chambersburg was burned during the Civil War in 1864.

      At the time PERCY LOVE was doing his research in the 1920s, this bible was in the possession of Rev. J. F. Dyer of Aurora. He was the husband of RUTH LOVE, daughter of MATTHEW LOVE and a niece of JOHN LOVE. In trying to trace the bible, I found that Ruth Love Dyer had died in 1924 and her husband, Rev. Dyer in 1925. They did not have any children so what happened to the bible is still a mystery. It was valuable in our search as it verified the dates of birth for JOHN and WILLIAM and it also gave us the rough locality of where JAMES LOVE and MARY UTLEY had started their journey.

     When JAMES and MARY first arrived they used their home to hold Wesleyan Methodist meetings until the first log church was built in 1809. This building was 20' X 30' and was on Lot 67 Concession 1 King Township. This immediate involvement in the Methodist faith confirms the idea they were converted in Pennsylvania. Also the first Methodist "saddle bag" preachers did not arrive on Yonge Street until about 1805. In the Christian Guardian of 18 May 1854, commenting on MARY LOVE'S death, it states "the Word was preached and the Class met in her home long before the church building was erected". In official church circles it was known as "Love's Meeting House" or "Love's Appointment'. The corner of present Bathurst Street and King Side Road was known as "Love's Corners" until about 1870 when it became officially Temperanceville.

     In 1854 the log building was replaced by a brick church which was on Lot 66 Concession 1 King Township. This was the property purchased by JOHN LOVE the son of JAMES and MARY. This building was again replaced in 1897 with the building that is still used in 1995 at the corner of Bathurst Street and King Side Road.

                                     A CENTURY AND A QUARTER AGO

         The history of Temperanceville United Church takes us back to the days of the "Pioneer Settlers " in the last of the 1790 's and the early days of the nineteenth century. With the opening of Yonge Street and the surveying of King Township in 1800, the settlers began to trek into this, what was then, the hinterland. Following close on the trail of the settlers was the" Saddle Bag" preacher of the Methodist Church. Wm. Carrol who wrote quite extensively of the early days of Methodism, tells us that in 1805 Yonge Street was peopled as far north as the 1st Quaker Settlement. In this year "Yonge Street" was named as one of the seven Circuits of the Methodist Church in Upper Canada, and included all the Townships on both sides of the Bay of Toronto to Lake Simcoe, such as Scarborough, York, Etobicoke, Vaughan, King, Whitchurch, and East and West Gwillimbury.

     In 1819 this Circuit is described as a four weeks circuit with two preachers. This meant that it would take each minister four weeks to make the rounds of the circuit, preaching almost every night. Revs. Wright and Corson, the ministers on the Circuit in 1832-3 report the circuit as being fifty miles long and twenty-five miles in width, with thirty two regular appointments. They had three Missionary Societies, nine or ten Temperance Societies and a number of Sunday School's. Two parsonages were built this year. They had an increase of 376 for the year, making a total membership of 951. As we have the minute book of the Sunday School of the year 1832 our Sunday School would be one of those included in the report given above.

     Thus we have definite record from this year 1832 on, of services being held at what is now Temperanceville. However we are of the opinion that Methodism had established itself at this point at a much earlier date than this.

     James and Mary Love with their three children came to Lot 67 in the Township of King in the year 1804 the Registry office showing the record of their purchase of this lot at this time. This is the family who were destined to give the community its name, for the community was known as LOVES CORNERS for almost three quarters of a century. The Church was known in official church circles as LOVES MEETING HOUSE, or LOVE'S APPOINTMENT, retaining this name as late as 1877. From an obituary of Mary Love written at the time of her death and published in the Christian Guardian, the official paper of the Methodist Church, in May,1854, we learn that "THE WORD” was preached and the Class met in her house long before a church was erected. Thus, no doubt, services were held in the Love home soon after arrival in the community which would be well over one hundred and twenty five years ago.

                         Petition by JAMES LOVE for Crown Land Grant

                                                     18 May 1802

              U.C.L. Petitions Book D # 784 L Bundle 3 Reel C2125 L 5 44.

                                  Held by Ontario Archives, Toronto

      To His Excellency Peter Hunter, Esquire, Lieut. Governor of the Province of Upper Canada. In Council, The petition of John Love of Markham, Humbly showeth

     That your petitioner came into the Province from Pennsylvania about six months ago and that his family consists of a wife and two children, now in Vaughan.

      That your petitioner has three horses, one cow, farming utensils and other property and being desirous to settle upon and improve a vacant lot of the Crown he humbly prays your Excellency would be pleased to grant him a lot in the neighbourhood of Yonge Street for actual settlement and that your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray.

     York, 18 May 1802 Signed - James Love

     Evidently this was very slow in being granted so JAMES went ahead and purchased land. He bought 210 acres Lot 67, Concession 1, King Township, York County, deed dated 11 April 1804 Registered 14 April 1804, Instrument # 417. Copy is in my files as well as copy of the Abstract Ledger Sheet. This lot ran all the way from Concession 1 (now Bathurst Street) through to Yonge Street. On 13 February 1832 he sold 100 acres fronting on Yonge Street to Leonard Wilcox for $800. Copy of this deed in my files was Registered 15 March 1833 Instrument # 9583. also in my files are Historic and modern maps showing the location of this property.

MEMORIAL Registered 11 APRIL 1804 to JAMES LOVE Instrument #417

210 Acres Concession 1 Lot 67 King Township, York County, Ontario, Canada

          A Memorial pursuant to an Act of the Legislature of the Province of Upper Canada for the Public Registering of Deeds, Conveyances etc.

          Of an Indenture of Bargain and Sale bearing date the Eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight Hundred and Four, made between Edward Wright of the Town of York, in the County of York. In the Home District of the Province of Upper Canada, yeoman, and Sarah his wife, of one part and James Love of the Township of King, in the County of York, in the Home District of the Province aforesaid, yeoman, of the other part , whereby the said Edward Wright and Sarah his wife have Granted, bargained and sold unto the said James Love his heirs and assignes forever, all that certain tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being in the Township of King, in the County of York, in the Home District of said Province, known and described by Lot Number sixty seven on the West side of Yonge Street, in the first Concession of the said Township of King, containing by admeasurement Two Hundred and Ten Acres, be the same more or less, which said Two Hundred and Ten Acres of land are abutted and bounded or maybe otherwise known as follows, that is to say, commencing in front of the said Concession at the South East Angle of the said lot, then along Yonge Street on a course about North Nine degrees West, Twenty Chains; then South seventy four degrees West, one hundred and five chains; Then South nine degrees East Twenty Chains; Then North seventy four degrees East, One Hundred and Five Chains, more or less, to the place of beginning, together with all Houses, outhouses, woods and waters thereon erected, lying and being, and all the profits hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises belonging or appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof.

          Which said Indenture is witnessed by John Fisk and John Bassett, both of the Town of York, Yeomen. And is hereby required to be registered pursuant to the said Act by me the said James Love, the Grantee. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at York aforesaid this Eleventh Day of April 1804.

Signed and Sealed in the presence of Signed and Sealed

John Fisk

John Bassett James Love

          I John Fisk do make oath that I was personally present and did see within named Edward Wright and Sarah his wife, sign, seal and as their respective act and Deed deliver the Indenture of Bargain and Sale in the before written memorial mentioned also did see James Love the Grantee in the said Deed sign and seal the before written memorial for the registry thereof

Signed before me this Eleventh Day of April 1804. Signed

F. Ridout

Registrar, County of York                                                         John Fisk.

     Unfortunately tragedy struck the family in 1802. The story as passed down is that the three brothers were on an overnight trip down to York (Toronto). They camped overnight and hearing a noise John went to investigate while the others still slept. Then James and David were awakened and seeing a shape outside they thought it was a bear and fired their rifles. John was hit and died shortly after. John's widow, Nancy went to work as a housekeeper for Jesse and Seneca Ketchum in York. In 1804 she married Jesse Ketchum in St. James Church.

     JAMES LOVE filed a second petition for an Upper Canada Land Grant 28 October 1805 and finally was granted 200 acres Lot 4 Concession 4, Uxbridge Township, Ontario County. A copy of the original Patent is in my files. Because he had already purchased the other property, he immediately sold this land to Timothy Street. Deed in my file is dated 6 December 1805 Registered 22 July 1806. Taken from Ontario Archives GS4882 and GS4885. Upper Canada Land Grants Bundle "L" 7 Item 25 microfilm reel C2125 and Book "F" Item 352 microfilm MS 9 Reel 6.

                 Back in the early 1800s the Clerk of King Township, York County kept some very valuable records from the Minutes of Council Meetings. It is also fortunate that a later Clerk in the 20th century, who was interested in the history of the Township, extracted all the pertinent information about people who lived in King Township in the early 19th century.

     The Council minutes show JAMES LOVE's involvement in the community.

     1809 minutes Married (This means he was already married at this date)

     1812 minutes Highway Overseer.

     1814 minutes Assessor.

     1816 minutes Highway Overseer.

     1819 minutes Town Warden.

     1830 minutes Town Warden

     JAMES LOVE was Secretary of the first Sunday School started 23 April 1832. He must have been a man of many talents. He was a farmer of course but also a shoemaker, a charcoal maker and did the family weaving.

     The King Township assessment records in 1841 shows the value of his property was £83 and the tax on this was 6 shillings 11 pence.

                                           Will of JAMES LOVE

                          Dated 2 April 1848 Recorded 20 February 1852.

    Will # 43339 Held by Land Registry Office, Newmarket, Ontario

     A Memorial to be registered of a Will made on the second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight-hundred and forty-eight in word and manner following

     In the name of God, Amen, I James Love, Yeoman of the Township of King, Home District, Canada West, being weak in body but sound in mind do hereby make my last Will and Testament and as touching the earthly estate with which it has pleased God to bless me, I do hereby Will, order bequeath, devise or dispose of in the following manner. That is to say.

     I Will, order, bequeath or devise unto my beloved son Robert Love the whole of my farm consisting of one hundred acres more or less of the west end of Lot No. Seven (should have been 67) of the Township of King, Home District, C. W. Aforesaid providing my beloved son Robert Love shall give unto my beloved wife Mary Love the sum of twenty-five pounds currency yearly until her demise and shall provide and keep for her one cow and four sheep and I do hereby order that my son Robert Love shall pay unto my beloved sons and daughters, John Love, Lydia Love, James Love, David Love and Mary Love the sum of five shillings each individually and unto my beloved son Matthew Love the sum of twenty-five pounds currency, the first half to be paid on or before the expiration of two years after the demise of my body, the remainder in three years after my demise. The whole of the aforenamed legacies to be paid unto my beloved sons and daughters before the expiration of three years after the demise of my body.

     And as to the residue of my effects not heretofore mentioned, after payment of all just debts, funeral and Testamentary expenses and the aforenamed legacies, I will and bequeath the same to my beloved son Robert Love.

     And I do hereby nominate and appoint Thomas Beynon and Renay Saigon of the Township of King to be the Executors for carrying out my last Will and Testament with effect.

     And finally I revoke and make void all other wills and Testaments made by me at any time heretofore. Witness my hand this second day of April 1868.

                                                                                               Signed - James Love Seal

Signed by the said James Love in the presence of us subscribing our names.

John Fleury, Yeoman of King Township

Lacy Spring, Yeoman of King Township

     JAMES AND MARY LOVE are both buried in the little pioneer cemetery located in the corner of the Temperanceville United Church grounds at the corner of Bathurst Street and King Side Road. In my files are photographs taken in 1994 of the tombstones and the church.

           SOURCE INFORMATION

     PAPERS and RECORDS Volume 27 ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Published in 1931. Covers marriages by Rev. William Jenkins. Copies of the pertinent pages are in my files.

     THE CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN 18 May 1854. Found at the United Church Archives, Charles Street, Toronto.

     KING TOWNSHIP COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. Obtained from the Township Clerk at King Township Offices.

     TEMPERANCEVILLE taken from THE HISTORY OF KING TOWNSHIP. A copy of this book is in my library and pertinent pages are in my files.

     OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE TAKEN IN YORK. The originals of about 80 of these are held by the Baldwin Room at the Toronto Reference Library on Yonge Street, Toronto. Finding these was a lucky break as most Oaths of Allegiance were oral and not recorded. Also there has been no attempt to collate the written ones from different areas and therefore there is no central index. Photographs of the 3 Love brothers Oaths are in my files.

      PERCY LOVE's GENEALOGY NOTES A copy of these were found in the papers of Martin Aubrey Love. They were evidently made from the stories of the Love families still living in the Temperanceville area in the early 1900s. PERCY LOVE was the son of JOHN LOVE and SARAH HODGSON. And this JOHN LOVE was the son of JOHN LOVE and VIOLET HUGHEY. This would make him a fourth cousin of my father MARTIN AUBREY LOVE as their common ancestors would be JAMES LOVE and MARY UTLEY. PERCY's notes were very accurate except the story told to him by some elderly ladies that JAMES LOVE's wife's maiden name was MARY MITCHELL whereas it turned out to be MARY UTLEY.

     LANDMARKS OF TORONTO. This book held by the Richmond Hill Public Library, Historical Department tells about Jesse Ketchum and early Toronto. Copies of some pages are in my files.

     YORK PIONEER 1931. Published by the York Pioneer and Historical Society. This issue gives the Oaths of Allegiance mentioned above.

     INDIAN PATHS OF PENNSYLVANIA. A copy of this book is in my library and copies of pertinent pages are in my files

     CHURCHES OF THE VALLEY by Rev. Alfred Nevin published in 1852. A copy of this book is held by the Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, Pa.

     THE BURNING OF CHAMBERSBURG by Rev. B. S. Schneck published in 1865. A copy of this book is held by the Huntingdon Public Library in Huntingdon, Pa. Copies of many pages are in my files.

     METHODISM IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA by Frederick E. Maser. A copy of this book is held by The United Methodist Church in Carlisle, Pa. Copies of the pertinent pages are in my files.

     HISTORY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN CARLISLE PENNSYLVANIA. Copy of this book is held by the United Methodist Church in Carlisle, Pa. Copies of several pertinent pages are in my files.

     THE CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL OF PRESBYTERY OF CARLISLE published in 1889. A copy of this book is held by the Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, Pa. Copies of pertinent pages are in my files.

     CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF PRESBYTERY OF HUNTINGDON published in 1896. Copy of this book is held by the Huntingdon County Historical Society in Huntingdon, Pa. Copies of the pertinent pages are in my files.

     MARY UTLEY (38). MARY (38) was born 1779 in Black Log Valley, Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. MARY (38) died 15 October 1853 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at an unknown age. Her body was interred after 15 October 1853 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

MARY UTLEY (38) sold the property inherited from her father Matthew Utley.

     29 August 1801 Deed Book I-1, page 463

    John and Mary Love sold her share of her father’s estate to Reese Thompson for twenty pounds. Witnesses are Adam Sharra, Abraham Vantries. Recorded Feb 1804.

     SOURCE of INFORMATION

MRS. ROSEMARY CROWNOVER, Huntingdon County, PA., USA.

                                   Obituary of MARY UTLEY wife of JAMES LOVE

              Written by Rev. Wiloughby, the Minister on The Aurora Circuit at the time.

    Mary Love departed this life, Oct.22,1853. She gave her heart to God fully and served her Divine Master devoutly to the close of her earthy pilgrimage, which terminated when about 80 years of age .She was among the first who united with the Methodist Church in the neighbourhood where she resided and had the happiness to see all children and many of her grandchildren converted and gathered into the church militant. She was called to join the church triumph. Also of seeing some of her sons use fully engaged in important official stations in the house of the Lord. Her Christian course was consistent upright and steady. In her house the Word was preached and the "Class "met for the years. Afterwards when a place was created for the public worship of Almighty God, she was generally among those who went to claim the blessing of Him who said. "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. " Her end was peace, a calm and certain triumph over death. She left a bright testimony that she went to him.

     Children of JAMES¹⁰ LOVE (37) and MARY UTLEY (38) were as follows:

             + 144.         i.    WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (47) WILLIAM (47) was born 25 February 1799 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. He married CHRISTINA McLAUGHLIN (40324) , daughter of JAMES McLAUGHLIN (40326), 8 February 1827. WILLIAM (47) died at an unknown date in At sea at an unknown age.

             + 145.       ii.    JOHN LOVE SR. (48) JOHN (48) was born 24 May 1801 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. He married VIOLET HUGHEY (2518) , daughter of JAMES HUGHEY (40320) and ELIZABETH (--?--) (40321), 2 May 1833 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. JOHN (48) died 26 August 1874 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age 73. His body was interred after 26 August 1874 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

             + 146.      iii.    LYDIA (LILLY) LOVE (49) LYDIA (49) was born 11 January 1804 in Vaughan Twp., York Co., ON, Canada. She married JAMES BARNES BEYNON (2519) , son of JOHN BEYNON (17494) and JANE WHITTEN (17493), 9 July 1829 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. LYDIA (49) died 24 December 1880 in Lot 3 Con 2 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 76. Her body was interred after 24 December 1880 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

             + 147.       iv.    JAMES LOVE JR. (50) JAMES (50) was born 24 August 1806 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married MARY JANE JONES (widow DAWSON) (2521) , daughter of EVAN W. JONES (39298) and LYDIA (--?--) (42517), 18 February 1841 in Fountain County, IN, USA. JAMES (50) died 5 January 1877 in Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL, USA, at age 70. His body was interred after 5 January 1877 in Keller Cem., Moultrie Co., IL, USA.

             + 148.        v.    DAVID LOVE (51) DAVID (51) was born 5 February 1810 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD (2522) , daughter of GEORGE ANTHONY HOLLINGSHEAD SR. (40094) and SARAH (--?--) (40095), 18 November 1833 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. DAVID (51) died 5 December 1881 in Lot 12 Con 6 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 71. His body was interred after 5 December 1881 in King City Cem., York, ON, Canada.

             + 149.       vi.    MATTHEW LOVE (52) MATTHEW (52) was born 9 July 1812 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married ELIZABETH (ELIZA) BEYNON (17496) , daughter of JOHN BEYNON (17494) and JANE WHITTEN (17493), 18 May 1835 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. MATTHEW (52) died 17 August 1885 in Lot 17 Con 1 Whitchurch Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 73. His body was interred after 17 August 1885 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

             + 150.     vii.    MARY LOVE (53) MARY (53) was born 28 November 1815 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. She married JONATHON BEYNON (2524) , son of JOHN BEYNON (17494) and JANE WHITTEN (17493), 30 September 1835 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. MARY (53) died 27 May 1881 in Lot 2 Con 2 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 65. Her body was interred after 27 May 1881 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

             + 151.    viii.    ROBERT LOVE (35) ROBERT (35) was born 2 May 1818 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married MARY ANN FLEURY (36) , daughter of JOSEPH FLEURY (62) and MARY SIPES (63), 23 December 1846 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. ROBERT (35) died 21 October 1878 in Maryborough Twp., Wellington, ON, Canada, at age 60. His body was interred after 21 October 1878 in Zion Hill Cem., Wellington, ON, Canada.

105. JOHN¹⁰ LOVE (57) (JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). JOHN (57) was born before 5 March 1775 in the ship at sea on way from Ireland. He was baptized on 5 March 1775 in Upper West Conococheague Ch., Mercersburg, Franklin, PA, USA. He married NANCY (--?--) (2526) before 1801 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. JOHN (57) died circa 1803 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at an unknown age.

JOHN LOVE (57) was the son of JOHN LOVE (c1739-1795) and LILLY (ELIZABETH) ALLEN.

      From the Baptismal records of Rev. John King

            Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian Church

                  Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania,

           Photocopies from the original records are in my files

        1775 - March 4 John Love son of John Love

     We know JAMES LOVE and his wife MARY UTLEY left for Canada in the late summer or early fall of 1801 as they arrived in York County in November 1801. It was a surprise to learn the whole family had come at that time and not just James, Mary and the two children. All this is proven in the Oaths of Allegiance they signed on arriving in Canada. These documents are extremely interesting, as well as rare, as they give the physical descriptions as well as places of birth,

JAMES LOVE 29 5ft 8in grey eyes light hair born Ireland.

JOHN LOVE 25 5ft 9in blue eyes dark brown hair born At Sea.

DAVID LOVE 23 5ft 11in grey eyes brown hair born Pennsylvania.

      Photographs of the originals are in my files. The originals are held by the Baldwin Room of Toronto Reference Library on Yonge St. Toronto.

      Travelling together from Pennsylvania, were Widow Lilly who was James' mother, James and wife Mary Utley with their two children William and John (who would have been only about 5 months old), younger brother John and his wife Nancy, younger brother DAVID, unmarried and younger sister Lilly also unmarried.

 Petition by JOHN LOVE for Crown Land Grant 18 May 1802

 U.C.L. Petitions Book D # 784 L Bundle 3 Reel C2125 L 5 43.

                        Held by Ontario Archives, Toronto

      To His Excellency Peter Hunter, Esquire, Lieut. Governor of the Province of Upper Canada. In Council, The petition of John Love of Markham, Humbly showeth

     That your Petitioner came lately into the Province with three brothers, also that he has a wife. That your Petitioner has two horses, one cow, farming utensils and other property. That he is desirous to settle upon and improve a vacant lot, he therefore humbly prays your Excellency would be pleased to grant him one for actual and immediate settlement and as in duty bound your Petitioner shall ever pray.

York, 18 May 1802 Signed - John Love

      Unfortunately tragedy struck the family in 1802. The story as passed down is that the three brothers were on an overnight trip down to York (Toronto), probably to check on their petitions for Crown Land Grants which they had filed in York. They camped overnight and hearing a noise John went to investigate while the others still slept. Then James and David were awakened and seeing a shape outside they thought it was a bear and fired their rifles. John was hit and died shortly after. John's widow, Nancy went to work as a housekeeper for Jesse and Seneca Ketchum in York. In 1804 she married Jesse Ketchum in St. James Church, Toronto.

     JOHN LOVE'S wife NANCY (2526) was born 1786 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA but we have been unable to determine who her parents were.

  She married JESSE KETCHUM JR. (2527) , son of JESSE KETCHUM (40116) and MOLLIE ROBBINS (40117), 24 January 1804 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada. NANCY (2526) died 19 July 1833 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada, at an unknown age.

|Marriage Registers of St. James Anglican Church, York (Toronto), 1800 - 1803

      Marriages performed by George O'Kill STUART, Eccles. Commissioner of Upper Canada and Minister of Kingston, in the absence of Rev. John STRACHAN

    24 January, 1804, Banns, JESSE KETCHUM. Jun. and NANCY LOVE. The bridegroom was the well known Jesse Ketchum, of "The Tannery on Richmond Street." Witnesses - Jesse Ketchum Jr. and Seneca Ketchum.

     Taken from "Landmarks of Toronto", volume 3, pp. 395 ff., by John Ross Robertson.

     Children of JOHN¹⁰ LOVE (57) and NANCY (--?--) (2526) were:

+ 152.           i.LILLY¹¹ LOVE (40113) LILLY (40113) was born circa 1801 in Vaughan Twp., York Co., ON, Canada. She married JOSEPH SHERBURNE (70) 10 May 1823.

106. DAVID¹⁰ LOVE (58) (JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). DAVID (58) was born 23 March 1777 in Peters Twp., Franklin, PA, USA. He was baptized on 28 June 1781; Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian Church

Mercercburg. He married ELIZA ANN (?) (--?--) (39799) circa 1801 in Ontario Province, Canada. DAVID (58) died 12 October 1846 in Marshall County, IL, USA, at age 69. He was buried after 12 October 1846 in Old Salem Cem, Lacon, Marshall Co., IL, USA.

     DAVID LOVE (58) was baptized in the Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian Church

Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1781.

      Photocopies from the original records are in my files, taken from the Baptismal records of Rev. John King

           "1781 - June 28. David, son of John Love."

           We know JAMES LOVE and his wife MARY UTLEY left for Canada in the late summer or early fall of 1801 as they arrived in York County in November 1801. It was a surprise to learn the whole family had come at that time and not just James, Mary and the two children. All this is proven in the Oaths of Allegiance they signed on arriving in Canada. These documents are extremely interesting, as well as rare, as they give the physical descriptions as well as places of birth,

JAMES LOVE 29 5ft 8 in grey eyes light hair born Ireland.

JOHN LOVE 25 5ft 9 in blue eyes dark brown hair born At Sea.

DAVID LOVE 23 5ft 11 in grey eyes brown hair born Pennsylvania.

      Photographs of the originals are in my files. The originals are held by the Baldwin Room of Toronto Reference Library on Yonge St. Toronto.

      Travelling together from Pennsylvania, were Widow Lilly who was James' mother, James and wife Mary Utley with their two children William and John (who would have been only about 5 months old), younger brother John and his wife Nancy, younger brother DAVID, unmarried and younger sister Lilly also unmarried.

                        Petition for Crown Land Grant by DAVID LOVE

                                                   18 May 1802

  U.C.L. Book D #784 L Bundle 3 L 5/45. Held by Ontario Archives, Toronto

         To His Excellency Peter Hunter, Esquire, Lieut. Governor of the Province of Upper Canada. In Council, The petition of David Love of the Township of Vaughn, Humbly showeth

          That your Petitioner came into the Province last November with his brothers James and John Love and their families and with his mother and sister who comprise your petitioners family, all of whom are now on Yonge Street. That your Petitioner has two horses, a yoke of oxen, two cows and other property and being desirous to settle upon and improve a vacant lot of the Crown, your Petitioner humbly prays your Excellency would be pleased to grant him one under the usual conditions and as in duty bound your Petitioner shall ever pray.

York, 1 May 1802 Signed - David Love

          DAVID LOVE did not receive a free Crown grant and so purchased 210 acres Lot 65 Concession 1 King Township, York County, Ontario. Deed in my file is dated 29 January 1806 Registered 26 March 1806, Instrument # 710. He sold this land to his brother-in-law Jesse Ketchum 5 October 1819 Registered 26 February 1820 Instrument # 3593. This deed is very informative as it states that DAVID LOVE was a resident of Lawrence County, Indiana at the time the deed was signed. This information was legally necessary on the deed so we can be sure it is correct.

     Back in the early 1800s the Clerk of King Township, York County kept some very valuable records from the Minutes of Council Meetings. It is also fortunate that a later Clerk in the 20th century, who was interested in the history of the Township, extracted all the pertinent information about people who lived in King Township in the early 19th century.

     It appears that DAVID emigrated to Indiana late in 1816 or early in 1817 as 1817 is the first year he does NOT appear in the Township of King, Clerk's records. We don't have any record of his marriage but it must have been in Ontario shortly after they arrived in 1801. This is shown in the 1820 census in Lawrence County, Indiana, by the ages of his children. Unfortunately the census in 1820 only shows a name for the head of the household and just the age groupings for the wife and children. However luckily there was only one DAVID LOVE in Lawrence County, Indiana in 1820 so we can be sure he is the correct one we are following.

     The extractions from the Council Meetings of King Township show the following mentions of DAVID LOVE.

      1809 minutes Married (This notation just means DAVID was already married at this date,)

      1810 minutes Highway Overseer.

      1812 minutes Town Warden.

      1814 minutes Highway Overseer.

      1815 minutes Assessor

      1816 minutes Assessor

      1817 minutes Not shown in 1817 - Moved to Indiana.

          The only information shown in the 1820 Lawrence County, Indiana, census is the number of male and female children in each age group. In the male group it shows one 16 but under 18, two 18 but under 26, one 26 but under 45. In the female group it shows two under 10, one 18 but under 26. In the 1820 census there was one other category. That was for foreigners not naturalized (not having received citizenship). There is no indication of sex or age but that person probably is DAVID's wife who if she was born in Canada would be classified as such. Another remote possibility would be that it is DAVID's mother LILLY LOVE, age circa 70 as we have never found her death or burial location. I believe this to be unlikely as there is nobody listed that would be the correct age for David's wife. There is no township shown in the census but Lawrence County surrounds what is now the main city of Bedford.

      In analyzing these ages we can be sure the male between 25 and 44 is DAVID himself as his birth was in 1781 making hin 39 in 1820. I would think the 2 boys ages 18 to 24 would be at the bottom range of 18 because we know DAVID was not married when he arrived in Canada in 1801. Shown in Indiana, Lawrence County 1820 census Roll 14 Book 1 Page 145.

     I cannot locate DAVID LOVE in the 1830 census of Indiana. The Lawrence County records may have been destroyed. But in 1840 he was in Logan Township, Fountain County, Indiana. This ties in well with the fact that his daughter LYDIA (LILLY) LOVE had been married in Fountain County in 1838. DAVID would have been 59 years old in 1840. Three of his daughters and two of his sons were still living with him. Although in the 1840 Census, children and wives were not named, there is no mention of a female who would have been the possible age for David's wife, She must have died by 1840. His son DAVID JR. had been married and was farming on his own. Taken from the Fountain County, Indiana 1840 Census.

     Why DAVID LOVE at age 36 with a wife and 4 children would have emigrated to Indiana, we will never know or even guess. He had cleared and developed his farm in King Township, York County. He was active on the Township Council and with his brother James was active in the newly organized Methodist Church. To choose to develop new land in the wilds of Indiana, we can't understand unless it was financial. The farm may have been dropping into debt when he sold it to his brother-in-law Jesse Ketchum.

     In Indiana between 1805 and 1811 there was continual marauding by the Indians who were trying to protect their land from "incursion by the whites". This was particularly so in the area of Lawrence County where DAVID LOVE settled. Tecumseh and his brother The Prophet had partially succeeded in uniting some of the various tribes who had lived in that part of the country. The United States government had troops in the area and several forts. They made treaties with some of the chiefs but they could not get a broad overall treaty that would satisfy all the different tribes involved. So between 1805 and the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, many people were killed on both sides and the area was in continuous turmoil..

    After 1811 the situation was under better control and settlers started migrating from Kentucky and the Carolinas to take advantage of the cheap and extensive land held by the government. Land was $2.00 an acre with only one quarter of that to be paid in cash. That may have been the crux of David's decision. He probably received much, much more than that when he sold his farm in Canada.

     Indiana had only been organized into a state in 1815. Lawrence was formed in 1816 just when DAVID LOVE arrived. It contained 438 square miles and was in the southwestern area of Indiana. Unfortunately they weren't the only problems he faced. In 1821/3 the area was hit by Remittent Fever which was very like and just as bad as Yellow Fever further south. There was evidently a lot of swampy land and they blamed the fever on the decaying foliage. The cows were also effected and further spread sickness through their milk. There were a considerable number of deaths and many left that part of the country.

   Immediately following that problem came the depression. Many people who had taken advantage of the low down payment on land, had committed themselves for more property than they could pay for when it came to the installment payments due. Banks foreclosed and in the end the state bank itself failed. This created a huge depression over the next 5 years. So all in all, DAVID LOVE's decision to move his family to Indiana proved very difficult but evidently he survived and raised his family.

  Modern historians claim that anybody who arrived prior to 1825 was considered a Pioneer. So DAVID arriving in 1816/17 certainly meets that criteria. To understand Pioneer life for the new arrivals I am going to print below a complete article written by R. Branson for the Lawrence County, Indiana website. It is very interesting as well as informative but if you are not interested in history, you should skip this part.

                           INDIANA PIONEER LIFE

          When the American pioneer began to enter the unbroken forests of Indiana, the Indian beheld his approach with feelings of mingled fear and dread as the sound of the axe fell ominously upon the Indian ear signaling a rapidly approaching ruin. In the face of all the dangers from Indian retaliations, and sometimes in sight of horrible deaths, or thrice horrible tortures, the pioneer of Indiana pressed forward, with his faithful gun as a protector, and his axe as an implement of industry, he went forth to do battle with the forest.

     Let us glance at the pioneers of Indiana in the different phases of their experience, and in the beauty and simplicity of their character. The journey from civilization to the forest-home for the pioneer, with his wife and family, was not among the least of their difficulties. The route lay, for the most part, through a rough country. Swamps and marshes were crossed with great exertion and fatigue; rivers were forded with difficulty and danger; forests were penetrated with risk of captivity by hostile Indiana; nights were passed in open prairies, with the sod for a couch and the heavens for a shelter; long, weary days and weeks of tiresome travel were endured. Perchance the mother and child were seated in a rough farm-wagon, while the father walked by the side of his faithful team, urging them over the uneven ground. But they were not always blessed with this means of transportation. And, in the best cases, the journey westward was a tedious, tiresome, dangerous one. Often the children sickened by the way, and anxious parents worried over them in a rude camp, until relieved either by returning health or by death. If the latter, a father would be compelled to dig the grave for the body of his own child in a lonely forest. Who shall describe the burial scene when parents are the only mourners? This is a subject only for contemplation. After a few sad days, the bereaved ones take up the journey, leaving only a little fresh mound to mark the sacred spot. But these incidents were not frequent. Generally the pioneers were blessed with good health, and enabled to overcome the privations of the forest travel. At night they slept in their wagon, or upon the grass; while the mules, hobbled to prevent escape, grazed the prairie around them.

     But the toils and dangers of the pioneer were not ended with the termination of his journey. Perchance the cabin is yet existing only in the surrounding trees. But he never falters. The forest bows beneath his axe; and, as log after log is placed one upon the other, his situation becomes more cheerful. Already the anxious mother has pointed out the corner for the rude chimney, and designated her choice in the location of the door and window. The cabin grows day by day; and at length it is finished, and the family enters their home. It is not a model home; but it is the beginning of a great prosperity, and as such is worthy of preservation in history, on account of its obscurity and its severe economy. But it was a home, notwithstanding; and I venture the observation, that with all its lack of comforts, with all its pinching poverty, with all its isolation and danger, it was often a happy home; and perhaps its growth, in this respect, is not among the greatest of its accomplishments; yet after all, it has become happier, as well as wealthier.

     Next to building the cabin-home came the work of preparing the soil for agricultural purposes. This was a work of no ordinary magnitude. For miles in every direction, the eye of the pioneer met only a dense forest, broken here and there by rivers and creeks and small lakes. Dams must be constructed, and mills erected on these streams; and the forest must be cleared away to make room for the cornfield. For the accomplishment of these ends, the pioneer prepares his axe, and day after day he toils on. Tree after tree bows its lofty top. Log after log is rolled into the stream. Through many a long, dreary winter's day, with only a log to serve the double purpose of a chair and table; but, endowed with a spirit of enterprise that knows no faltering, he toiled steadily on.

     Spring comes, and he goes forth to prepare the patches of ground for the planter. The team is ready. The father takes his post at the plow; and the daughter takes possession of the reins. This is a grand scene, -- one full of grace and beauty. This pioneer girl thinks but little of fine dress; knows less of the fashions; has possibly heard of the opera, but does not understand its meaning; has been told of the piano, but has never seen one; wears a dress "buttoned up behind;" has on leather boots, and "drives plow" for her father. But her situation has changed. Today she sits in the parlor of her grandson, whose wife keeps house through the proxy of one or two servants, and whose daughters are flinging their nimble, delicate fingers over the white keys of a charming Chickering piano, filling the home with a melody that has but few charms for the plain old grandmother. Her mind runs back to the cornfield, to the cabin-home, to the washtub by the running brook, to the spinning wheel, to toil and danger; and well may she exclaim, "Oh, wondrous progress! My lite is but a dream." Truly our pioneer mothers were hard working, honest-thinking women. Out highest praise is but a poor tribute to their worth.

     The character of the pioneers of Indiana is properly within our range. They lived in a region of exuberant fertility, where nature had scattered her blessings with a liberal hand. Their liberties, the vastness of their inheritance, -- its giant forests, its broad prairies, its numerous rivers, - the many improvements constantly going forward, and the bright prospect for a glorious future in everything that renders life pleasant, combined to deeply impress their character, to give them a spirit of enterprise, an independence of feeling, and a joyousness of hope. They were a thorough combination and mixture of all nations, characters, languages, conditions, and opinions. There was scarcely a nation in Europe, or a State in the Union, that was not represented among the early settlers. The much greater proportion of the emigrants from Europe were of humbler classes, who came here from hunger, poverty and oppression. They found themselves here the "joy of ship-wrecked mariners, cast on the untenanted woods, and instantly became cheered with the hope of being able to built up a family and a fortune from new elements."

     The Puritan and the Planter, the German, the Briton, the Frenchman, the Irishman, the Swede, the Dane and the Hollander, -- each with his peculiar prejudices and local attachments, and all the complicated and interwoven tissue of sentiments, feelings, and thoughts that country, kindred, and home have, -- settled down beside and with each other. All now form one society. "Men must cleave to their kind, and must be dependent upon each other. Pride and jealousy give way to the natural yearnings of the human heart for society. They begin to rub off mutual prejudices; one takes a step, and then the other; they meet half-way, and embrace: and the society thus newly organized and constituted is more liberal, enlarged, unprejudiced, and, of course, more affectionate, than a society of people of like birth and character, who bring all their early prejudice as a common stock, to be transmitted as an inheritance to posterity. The rough, sturdy, and simple habits of the early pioneer of Indiana, living in that plenty which depends only upon God and nature, have laid broad the foundation of independent thought and feeling.

     The wedding was an attractive feature of pioneer life. For a long time after the first settlement of the Territory, the people married young. There was no distinction of rank, and very little of fortune. On these accounts, the first impression of love generally resulted in marriage. The family establishment cost but little labor - nothing more. A description of a wedding in the olden time will serve to show the progress made in society, as well as preserve an important phase of history. The marriage was always celebrated at the house of the bride; and she was generally left to choose the officiating clergyman. A wedding, however, engaged the attention of the whole neighborhood. It was anticipated by both old and young with eager expectation. In the morning of the wedding day the groom and his intimate friends assembled at the house of his father, and, after due preparation, departed, enmasse, for the "mansion" of his bride. The journey was sometimes made on horseback, sometimes on foot, and sometimes in farm wagons or carts. It was always a merry journey; and, to insure merriment, the bottle was taken along. On reaching the house of the bride, the marriage ceremony took place; and then dinner or supper was served. After the meal, the dancing commenced, and generally lasted till the following morning. The figures of the dances were three and four hundred reels, or square sets and jigs. The commencement was always a square four, which was followed by what the pioneers called "jigging;" that is, two of the four would single our for a jig, and were followed by the remaining couple. The jigs were often accompanied with what was called "cutting out;" that is, when either of the parties became tiered of the dance, on intimation, the place was supplied by someone of the company, without any interruption of the dance. In this way the reel was often continued until the musician was exhausted.

     About nine or ten o'clock in the evening, a deputation of young ladies stole off the bride, and put her to bed. In doing this, they had to ascend a ladder from the kitchen to the upper floor, which was composed of loose boards. Here, in this pioneer bridal chamber, the young, simple-hearted girl was put to bed by her enthusiastic friends. This done, a deputation of young men escorted the groom to the same apartment, and placed him snugly by the side of his bride. The dance still continued; and if seats were scarce, which was generally the case, "every young man, when not engaged in the dance was obliged to offer his lap as a seat for one of the girls; and the offer was sure to be accepted." During the night's festivities, spirits were freely used, but seldom to great excess. The affair was held on the following evening, when the same order of exercise was observed.

     The "bee" was another distinguishing and interesting feature of pioneer life. The first settlers were alone, and had to build their cabins as best they could; but, when the people were sufficiently numerous, the cabin was nearly always raised by a "bee," or "frolic." The latter is a very old but significant term. We will now suppose that a young couple has been married. They are about to settle down on their own account. A spot is selected on a piece of land for their habitation. A day is appointed for the commencement of the building of the cabin. The fatigue party, consisting of the choppers, fells the trees, and cuts them in proper lengths. This done, a man with a team hauls them to the place, and arranges them properly assorted. Another party selects the proper materials for the roof; and still another prepares the puncheons for the floor. The materials all on the ground, the raising takes place. The first thing to be done is the election of four corner men, whose business it is to notch and place the logs. The rest of the company does the lifting. The cabin being finished, it was generally "warmed" by a good "breakdown," or dance. With the use of liquor, these "warmings" were always full of spirit and hilarity.

     Going to the mill was quite an undertaking with the pioneer. It was, perhaps, two or three days' journey to the mill, more or less, in proportion to the situation and growth of the neighborhood. Sometimes a pair of oxen, attached to a two-wheeled cart, carried the farmer and his grain on this journey; but frequently he went on horseback, with the bag of grain across the horse's back, before him. This was a tedious way of transporting grain to the mill; but his return was anxiously waited for by the mother and children, all suffering, it maybe, from the scarcity of flour. There are some recollections of "going to mill" that bring with them vivid pictures of weary, watchful nights, when the father did not return as promised and expected, being delayed either by the number of "grists" before him, or the impassable conditions of the roads, or "traces." Those were the dismal, desolate phases of pioneer life, when the darkness closed in upon the anxious mother and crying children; when the winds beat upon the rude cabin, bringing to their ears unwelcomed sounds, laden with the dying howls of starving wolves; when hunger pressed heavily upon helpless women and children.

     The years passed on, and the pioneers continued their toils, submitted patiently to their hardships, until the light of civilization and prosperity dawned upon them in open cornfields, waving in harvest luxury, or in neat, comfortable dwellings, that were raise by the site of the cabin homes. But his dawn is rapidly approaching the high noon of prosperity. In place of the ever-winding "trace," the iron rail may now be seen, and for the old-fashioned two-wheeled cart we have the powerful locomotive. The scene has been completely changed. The forests have disappeared, or are rapidly disappearing, and being supplanted by cultivated fields. On every hand we may behold evidences of this great transformation. Let us thank God and praise the pioneers of Indiana for what has been accomplished, and, having the promises already fulfilled in our eyes, continue in the industry and perseverance for which we have had so glorious an example.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

INDIANA COUNTY HISTORY, by T. Branson.

HISTORY of INDIANA, by Col. William M. Cockrum. Published in 1907 by Oakland City Journal, Indiana.

    DAVID LOVE'S wife ELIZA ANN (?) (--?--) (39799) was born circa 1785 in Ontario Province, Canada. ELIZA (39799) died before 1840 in Indiana State, USA, at an unknown age.

     Children of DAVID¹⁰ LOVE (58) and ELIZA ANN (?) (--?--) (39799) were as follows:

                   153.         i.    DAVID¹¹ LOVE (39801). DAVID (39801) was born circa 1801 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. He died in Lawrence County, IN, USA.

             + 154.       ii.    MARTIN LOVE (39803) MARTIN (39803) was born circa 1802 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. He married NANCY (--?--) (55454) circa 1824 in Indiana State, USA. MARTIN (39803) died circa 1848 in Marshall County, IL, USA, at an unknown age.

             + 155.      iii.    WILLIAM LOVE (39800) WILLIAM (39800) was born circa 1804 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. He married MARY GUTHRIE (39867) 11 December 1828 in Lawrence County, IN, USA.

             + 156.       iv.    NANCY LOVE (56818) NANCY (56818) was born 1810 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. She married JOHN GRINDSTAFF (57296) 1 September 1834 in Lawrence County, IN, USA. NANCY (56818) died before 1880 at an unknown age.

             + 157.        v.    LYDIA (LILLY) LOVE (40312) LYDIA (40312) was born 11 April 1817 in Ross County, OH, USA. She married ROBERT MILLER (40313) 15 March 1838 in Fountain County, IN, USA. She died on 18 September 1806 in Bloomington, McLean Co., IL, USA.

                   158.        vi.    MARY LOVE (55007). MARY (55007) was born 22 July 1819 in Ross County, OH, USA. She married WILLIAM CRANELL (119905) on 19 December 1841 in Fountain County, IN, USA.

  She married DAVID JUSTICE (119906) on 17 April 1845 in Vermilion County, IN, USA.

  She died on 22 June 1891 in Geneva, Fillmore Co., NE, USA, at age 71.

     WILLIAM CRANELL (119905) was born circa 1820.

     DAVID JUSTICE (119906) was born on 8 March 1815 in Indiana or Ohio, USA.

  He died on 26 April 1864 in Marshall County, IL, USA, at age 49.

                   159.      vii.    RICHARD LOVE (119907) was born on 23 February 1824 in Lawrence County, IN, USA.

  He married SUSAN BROWN (119908).

  He married JULIETT (--?--) (119909) circa 1884 in Kankakee Co., IL, USA.

  He died on 28 October 1900 in Attica, Fountain Co., IN, USA, at age 76.

     SUSAN BROWN (119908) died in 1880 in Yellowhead Twp., Kankakee Co., IL, USA.

             + 160.    viii.    JAMES A. LOVE (55004) JAMES (55004) was born 18 July 1826 in Indiana State, USA. He married NANCY JANE MILLER (57876) 1848 in Marshall County, IL, USA. He died on 17 October 1909 in Pontiac, Livingston Co., IL, USA, at age 83.

             + 161.       ix.    ELIZABETH ANN LOVE (40723) ELIZABETH (40723) was born 1829 in Attica, Fountain Co., IN, USA. She married ROBERT JUSTICE (40724) 21 September 1846 in Vermilion County, IN, USA. ELIZABETH (40723) died before 1920 in Jasper County, IL, USA, at age at an unknown age.

                   162.         x.    LOUISA LOVE (56122). LOUISA (56122) was born March 1830 in Vermilion County, IN, USA. She married WILLIAM DAVIS (119911).

  She died between 1910 and 1916 in Marshall County, IL, USA.

     WILLIAM DAVIS (119911) died before 1870 in Marshall County, IL, USA.

                   163.       xi.    DAVID LOVE JR. (119912) was born in 1834 in Indiana State, USA.

  He married MARTHA J. DYER (119913) on 16 October 1856 in Kankakee County, IL, USA.

  He died on 11 November 1895 in Kankakee County, IL, USA.

     MARTHA J. DYER (119913) was born in 1842 in Illinois State, USA.

                   164.      xii.    ANNA LILLY LOVE (119914) was born on 27 February 1842 in Indiana State, USA.

  She married ROBERT MILLER (119915). She died on 21 March 1881 in Lacon, Marshall Co., IL, USA, at age 39.

     ROBERT MILLER (119915) was born on 15 December 1835 in Indiana State, USA.

  He died on 12 May 1885 in Lacon, Marshall Co., IL, USA, at age 49.

108. ANNE¹⁰ STAPYLTON (120082) (LECKIE⁹ LOVE, JOHN⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) married Rev. JOHN BREE (120083) in 1770. She died in 1816.

     Rev. JOHN BREE (120083) was born in 1734 in Marks Tev, Essex, England. He died on 5 April 1797.

     Children of ANNE¹⁰ STAPYLTON (120082) and Rev. JOHN BREE (120083) were as follows:

                   165.         i.    MARTIN¹¹ BREE (120084) was born in September 1771 in Marks Tev, Essex, England.

  He died on 7 March 1842 at age 70.

                   166.        ii.    JOHN BREE (120085) was born in 1773 in Emerald Keswick, Norfolk, England.

             + 167.      iii.    ROBERT FRANCIS BREE (120086) was born in 1776 in Markstay, Essex, England.

  He married CHARLOTTE RICHARDS (120088) on 12 May 1797 in St. Thomas, Dublin, Ireland.

  He married CHARLOTTE PRESCOTT MAXWELL (120089) on 14 June 1827 in Hascombe, Surrey, England.

  He died on 28 January 1842 in Newington, London, England.

                   168.        iv.    ANN BREE (120087) was born in 1776.

110. SAMUEL¹⁰ LOVE (117292) (JAMES⁹, ROBERT⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born in Ballyfolliard Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (117362).

     SAMUEL LOVE (117292) was renting 34 acres in Ballifolliard townland with his brother Robert for £ 13.15.0 This lease replacing lease held by their father, James. Taken from Abercorn Estate Papers, Manor of Strabane Rent Rolls 1794-1809. P.R.O.N.I. record D/623/C/41. Supplied by Ulster Historical Foundation.

       SAMUEL was renting land in 1806 in Ballyfolliard Townland with his brother Robert. As this is the same land as James Love was leasing in 1771 and 1777 presumably Robert and Samuel are the sons of JAMES LOVE. They are paying rent of £ 13.15.0 annually. Same file references as JAMES LOVE and maps in my files.

      SAMUEL is shown in the Tithe Applotment Book between 1823 and 1837. This does not mean he was paying tithes for all those years.

       Griffith’s Valuation shows SAMUEL LOVE leasing 26 acres 0 rods and 31 perches from the Marquis of Abercorn. Assessment was £15 10 shillings for the land and £1 10 shillings for the house.

     Children of SAMUEL¹⁰ LOVE (117292) and UNKNOWN (--?--) (117362) are:

                   169.         i.    JAMES¹¹ LOVE (117363) was born in Ballyfolliard Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     JAMES LOVE (117363) received a flax seed allotment in 1796 when the government decided to encourage the growing of flax in Ireland to compete against the English imports. This was called the Flax Seed Entitlement but only approved men received this issue of seed. James Love was one of the men who received the seed.

      James was shown in the Tithe Applotment Book in 1806.

      Griffith’s Valuation shows JAMES LOVE leasing 30 acres 1 rods and 25 perches from the Marquis of Abercorn. Assessment was £15 5 shillings for the land and £2 for the house.

     JAMES was leasing 2 plots of land in Ballyfolliard in 1871. One was 54 acres and the other 32 acres. He evidently had 2 houses as he was renting a house to Patrick McGrath and William McLoughlin for 2 pounds 10 shillings. P.R.O.N.I. file D623/D2 ITEM 12. Found in LDS film # 1885949 . Photocopy of the lease map is in my file.

111. ROBERT¹⁰ LOVE SR. (8453) (CHRISTOPHER⁹, ANDREW⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). ROBERT (8453) was born 1731 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married ELEANOR LOVE (8454) circa 1762 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. ROBERT (8453) died 6 October 1796 in Clark's Fork, York County, SC, USA, at an unknown age. He was buried after 6 October 1796 in Beersheba Presbyterian Cemetery, Off Highway 5 near York, SC, USA.

     ROBERT LOVE SR. (8453) was renting 46.1.18 acres in Crew Townland in 1771 at an annual rent of £ 10.0.6 from James Hamilton, 8^th Earl of Abercorn. P.R.O.N.I. file D623/D1/16-23. LDS film # 1885920. In my files are copies of the rental maps showing the exact location and lists detailing the quality of the land. Note he was still leasing in 1777.

       ROBERT LOVE SR. arrived in America on the ship Irish Volunteer at Charleston, S.C on 11 January 1791. Some records show that it had sailed from Larne, just north of Belfast on the east coast, but that still has to be verified. It would have been a long trip by horse cart and walking for anybody from Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone. It is about 80 miles. Most people from that area would have sailed from Derry in County Tyrone on the north coast.

     The family settled at Clarks' Fork, York County, SC. Robert's will was dated 4 October 1796 and recorded 28 March 1797 in York County, SC. His wife, Eleanor and his cousin William were executors. Witnessed by William Love and Sarah Patterson.

                                   Will of ROBERT LOVE 1731-1796

      Last Will and Testament of Robert Love 4 Oct. 1796; In the name of God Amen I Robert Love of Clarks Fork in York County and State of South Carolina being very sick and weak of body but perfectly sound in mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of all flesh and that it is appointed for all men once to die do first of all command my body to be interred with decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, And as touching my worldly estate which it hath pleased God to bless me with I leave bequeath and dispose of in the form and matter following that is to say first of all I leave and bequeath unto my eldest son John the sum of one Shilling Sterling.

      2. I leave and bequeath all the lands I am now possessed of together with my still and ___ to be equally divided between my two sons William and Robert but allow them to pay all my debts with funeral expenses and to give to my dearly beloved wife Eleanor the quantity of fifty bushels of good sound Indian corn ___ and yearly during her natural life.

      3. I leave and bequeath all my moveable property (the still and ___ only excepted to be equally divided between my beloved wife Eleanor and my three daughters viz Janet, Frances and Elizabeth. Further I ordain constitute and appoint my dearly beloved wife Eleanor and my cousin William Love Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking, disclaiming and disannulling all former wills by me made at any time or times and establishing this my last will and testament.

Signed Sealed Published and Declared Robert Love Seal

in the Presence of us this fourth day of His mark

Oct. 1796.

Wm. Love

Peter Patterson

Sarah Patterson.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

TRACIE GROSS gorec@onramp.net

MANUSCRIPT by ROBERT LOVE 16 October 1896. Forwared to me by MR. ANDREW OLER, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

     Robert Love's wife ELEANOR LOVE (8454). died after 1796 in York County, SC, USA, at an unknown age.

     Children of ROBERT¹⁰ LOVE SR. (8453) and ELEANOR LOVE (8454) all born in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, were as follows:

                   170.         i.    JENET (JANE)¹¹ LOVE (8455). JENET (8455) was born 1763. She married THOMAS JAMES WALLACE (8456) at an unknown date.

                                      JENET (8455) died 1851 in York County, SC, USA, at an unknown age.

JENET (JANE) LOVE (8455) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with her parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

     THOMAS JAMES WALLACE (8456). THOMAS (8456) died at an unknown date at an unknown age.

             + 171.       ii.    JOHN LOVE (8457) JOHN (8457) was born 1765. He married MARGARET RIPPA (8458) at an unknown date in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. JOHN (8457) died 6 March 1849 at an unknown age.

                            172.iii.   WILLIAM LOVE (8459). WILLIAM (8459) was born 1767. He married NANCY McHARTER (8460) , daughter of NELSON McHARTER (112914) and SARAH ALLEN (112915), at an unknown date in South Carolina State, USA. WILLIAM (8459) died 4 October 1849 in York County, SC, USA, at an unknown age.

WILLIAM LOVE (8459) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with his parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

     NANCY McHARTER (8460). NANCY (8460) died at an unknown date at an unknown age.

             + 173.       iv.    FRANCES ELEANOR (FANNY) LOVE (8461) FRANCES (8461) was born 1768. She married ROBERT (ROBIN) FERGUSON (8462) at an unknown date in York County, SC, USA. FRANCES (8461) died 16 October 1858 at an unknown age.

             + 174.        v.    ELIZABETH LOVE (8463) ELIZABETH (8463) was born 1776. She married JOHN LOVE (8464) at an unknown date. ELIZABETH (8463) died 1852 at an unknown age.

             + 175.       vi.    ROBERT LOVE (8465) ROBERT (8465) was born 1776. He married SARAH McHARTER (8466) , daughter of NELSON McHARTER (112914) and SARAH ALLEN (112915), 14 February 1806 in South Carolina State, USA. ROBERT (8465) died 27 February 1848 at an unknown age.

112. ANDREW¹⁰ LOVE (8304) (CHRISTOPHER⁹, ANDREW⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). ANDREW (8304) was born circa 1742 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married SARAH DONAHUE (113118) circa 1769 in Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. ANDREW (8304) died circa 1795 in York County, SC, USA, at an unknown age.

ANDREW LOVE (8304) arrived in America on the ship Irish Volunteer at Charleston, S.C on 11 January 1791. Some records show that it had sailed from Larne, just north of Belfast on the east coast, but that still has to be verified. It would have been a long trip by horse cart and walking for anybody from Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone. It is about 80 miles. Most people from that area would have sailed from Derry in County Tyrone on the north coast.

     The family settled at Clarks' Fork, York County, SC. Andrew and Sarah brought most of their cildren with them but Christopher and Gilbert remained in Ireland and took over the lease in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone. It is possible that son Robert also rermained in Ireland. There is no mention in the records about daughter Mary born circa 1772 so she may have not come to America and maybe had died in Ireland. Daughter Elizabeth was born in 1792 in South Carolina after they arrived.

     SOURCE of INFORMATION

TRACIE GROSS gorec@onramp.net

MANUSCRIPT by ROBERT LOVE 16 October 1896. Forwared to me by MR. ANDREW OLER, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

     SARAH DONAHUE (113118) was born circa 1750 in County Tyrone, Ireland.

     Children of ANDREW¹⁰ LOVE (8304) and SARAH DONAHUE (113118) were as follows:

                   176.         i.    CHRISTOPHER¹¹ LOVE (8305). CHRISTOPHER (8305) was born circa 1770 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

CHRISTOPHER LOVE (8305) was paying rent £ 16.17.6.. in 1794 shown as Middle Crew. He was sharing this with his brother GILBERT. Taken from Abercorn Estate Papers, Manor of Strabane Rent Rolls 1794-1809. P.R.O.N.I. record D/623/C/41. Supplied by Ulster Historical Foundation.

       CHRISTOPHER was leasing land in Crew in 1806 sharing the lease with his brother Gilbert. Their parents had emigrated to South Carolina in 1791 and had taken all the rest of the children

     They are renting 35.1.23 acres at an annual rent of £ 36.17.6. This is shown in the rental records of Abercorn Estate Papers. P.R.O.N.I. file D623/D1/16-23. LDS film # 1885920. Copies of the rental maps showing exact location and lists showing the quality of the land are in my files.

                   177.        ii.    MARY LOVE (113119) was born circa 1772 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     MARY LOVE (113119) was born in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone, Ireland, circa 1772. Her parents emigrated to South Carolinja, USA in 1791 with most of the children but it has never been clear whether Mary went with them.

                   178.       iii.    MATTHEW LOVE (113120) was born circa 1774 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     MATTHEW LOVE (113120) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with his parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. This manuscript deals mainly with Robert Love the brother oif Andrew Love, father of the above child. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

                    + 179.  iv.    GILBERT LOVE (8306) GILBERT (8306) was born circa 1775 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (117250).

                   180.         v.    JAMES LOVE (113121) was born on 23 August 1776 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     JAMES LOVE (113121) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with his parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. This manuscript deals mainly with Robert Love the brother oif Andrew Love, father of the above child. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

                    + 181.  vi.    JOHN LOVE (113123) was born circa 1780 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

  He married ELIZABETH EWING (113194) in 1807. He died on 4 September 1818 in Louisiana, Pike, Missouri, USA.

                   182.      vii.    WILLIAM LOVE (113124) was born circa 1780 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     WILLIAM LOVE (113124) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with his parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. This manuscript deals mainly with Robert Love the brother oif Andrew Love, father of the above child. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

                   183.     viii.    ANDREW LOVE (113125) was born circa 1782 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     ANDREW LOVE (113125) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with his parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. This manuscript deals mainly with Robert Love the brother oif Andrew Love, father of the above child. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

             + 184.       ix.    ROBERT LOVE (117240) was born circa 1785 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

  He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (117241).

                   185.         x.    SARAH LOVE (113126) was born circa 1786 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     SARAH LOVE (113126) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with her parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. This manuscript deals mainly with Robert Love the brother oif Andrew Love, father of the above child. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

                   186.       xi.    SAMUEL LOVE (113127) was born circa 1788 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     SAMUEL LOVE (113127) emigrated to South Carolina, USA with his parents in 1791 sailing on the Irish Volunteer.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

Genealogy of the Loves of Crew by Robert Love 1896. This manuscript deals mainly with Robert Love the brother oif Andrew Love, father of the above child. It was forwarded to me by Andrew Oler of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

                   187.      xii.    ELIZABETH LOVE (113128) was born circa 1792 in Bullocks Creek, York, SC, USA.

113. JANE (JEAN)¹⁰ LOVE (117152) (ROBERT⁹, ANDREW⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born in 1767 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  She married SAMUEL WILSON (117153) , son of UNKNOWN WILSON (119791), circa 1783 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  She died after 1802 in Clarion Twp., Clarion Co., PA, USA. She was buried in New Rehobeth-Seceder Cem., Clarion Co., PA, USA.

     JANE (JEAN) LOVE (117152) married SAMUEL WILSON. MR. THOMAS LOVE, Corsica, Pa. USA advised that Robert Love's wife was Jane and they had 3 children. Jane, John and David. He said Jane married Samuel Wilson and they emigrated to America between 1790 and 1798 with the 2 brothers.

     SAMUEL WILSON (117153) was born circa 1766 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland. He died in 1801. He was buried in 1801 in Sinking Creek Cem., Centre Hill, Centre Co., PA, USA.

SAMUEL WILSON (117153) received a transmittal letter from Rev. Robert Clark, VDM, Minister of the Ardstraw Presbyterian Church. This letter recognized the ending of the Wilson family as members of the church in Ardstraw and was a recommendation letter to any new Presbyterian church in America.

      "That Saml willson together with his wife Jean willson alias Love is of a Reputable protestant Desenting familiy, & hath allways Behaved Becoming the Christian Char, & is now Designed to Visit Some of the united & Independent States of North america & that they are Every way worthey to Be admited to Church priviliedges & Christian Society, where it shall please God & his kind providence to appoint thire lot, is Certifyd at Ardstraw in the County Tyrone this 7th Day of May 1790 one

Robt. Clark V. D. M."

With the church transmittal letter, Samuel Wilson and his wife, Jean (sometimes referred to as Jane) Love Wilson, were prepared to leave family and friends to seek a new home in the recently formed independent United States. Why they decided to leave can only be surmised. Samuel Wilson was not wealthy, probably a tenant farmer. Rents had been constantly rising; the Presbyterian church, a dissenting church, was under continuous harrassment by the Church ofIreland (Anglican) and the English government; enticing news may have been received from friends or relatives already in the United States. They may have recalled that their forebears, years before, had left Scotland for the new settlements in Northern Ireland with promises of a better life, only to be disappointed. An opportunity was now at hand to live in a country free from English domination. Whatever the reasons it took courage, determination, and faith to leave the known for the unknown.

       Soon after receiving the transmittal letter of May 7, 1791 they embarked at the nearest port, Londonderry, with their three young children, Robert 6, Nancy 4, and Samuel 2. Samuel Wilson's brother, William, and Jean/Jane Love Wilson's brother, John Love, both being at most 16 years old, must have travelled with them. William Wilson was married and had a baby daughter.

      On the ocean crossing they must have often wished they could turn back. The voyage took three months and, as they had to supply their own food, water only being provided, they had to husband their provisions. Nancy caught smallpox, died, and was buried at sea. One can imagine their joy and anticipation when their ship rounded Cape May into Delaware Bay and sailed up the Delaware River to Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania and the second largest city in the United States with a population of about 30,000.

    SOURCE of INFORMATION

HISTORY OF THE WILSON fAMILY.

     Children of JANE (JEAN)¹⁰ LOVE (117152) and SAMUEL WILSON (117153) were as follows:

                   188.         i.    ROBERT¹¹ WILSON (119794) was born in 1785 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  He married SARAH McCONNELL (119795) in 1803. He died in 1832 in Clarion Twp., Clarion Co., PA, USA.

     SARAH McCONNELL (119795) was born in 1784. She died in 1925.

                   189.        ii.    NANCY WILSON (119796) was born in 1787 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  She died in 1791 in At sea on way from Ireland. She was buried in 1791 in At sea.

                   190.       iii.    SAMUEL WILSON (119797) was born in 1789 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  He married CATHERINE JACK (119798) in 1817. He died in 1880.

                   191.       iv.    JOHN WILSON (119799) was born in 1791.

  He married MARY OWENS (119800) circa 1811/12. He died in 1841.

                   192.         v.    WILLIAM WILSON (119801) was born in 1793 in Clarion Twp., Clarion Co., PA, USA.

  He married MARY ANN GOHEEN (119802). He died in 1866.

     MARY ANN GOHEEN (119802) was born in 1799. She died in 1866.

                   193.       vi.    DAVID WILSON (119803) was born in 1795 in Clarion Twp., Clarion Co., PA, USA.

  He married ELIZABETH GOHEEN (119804) in 1824. He died in 1873.

     ELIZABETH GOHEEN (119804) was born in 1804. She died in 1883.

114. DAVID¹⁰ LOVE (117155) (ROBERT⁹, ANDREW⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born circa 1771 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland. He married NANCY WAGGONER (119935) , daughter of JOHN WAGGONER (119936), on 14 September 1802 in Sinking Creek Presbyterian Ch, Centre Co., PA, USA. He married MARY VAN H ORNE (119968) , daughter of JOSEPH VAN H ORNE (119969), on 13 April 1818 in Sinking Creek Presbyterian Ch, Centre Co., PA, USA. He died on 23 November 1849 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA. He was buried after 23 November 1849 in Centre Hill Cem., Centre Co., PA, USA.

     DAVID LOVE (117155) emigrated to America with his sister and her husband. MR. THOMAS LOVE, Corsica, Pa. USA advised that Robert Love's wife was Jane and they had 3 children. Jane, John and David. He said Jane married Samuel Wilson and they emigrated to America between 1790 and 1798 with the 2 brothers.

  WILL of DAVID LOVE is held by Centre County Library, Bellfonte, PA, USA

  Will Book B Page 287.

     NANCY WAGGONER (119935) died before 1818.

     Children of DAVID¹⁰ LOVE (117155) and NANCY WAGGONER (119935) were as follows:

                            194. i.    JAMES¹¹ LOVE (119967).

             + 195.       ii.    JOHN LOVE (119937) was born on 21 December 1804 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA.

  He married MARY KERR (119938) , daughter of WILLIAM KERR (119939) and MARY JOHNSON (119940), in Sinking Creek Presbyterian Ch, Centre Co., PA, USA. He died on 26 April 1873 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA, at age 68. He was buried after 26 April 1873 in Centre Hill Cem., Centre Co., PA, USA.

             + 196.      iii.    MARY ANN LOVE (119944) was born in 1807 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA.

  She married ALEXANDER KERR (119945) , son of WILLIAM KERR (119939) and MARY JOHNSON (119940), on 18 November 1830 in Sinking Creek Presbyterian Ch, Centre Co., PA, USA. She died in 1873 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA.

  She was buried in 1873 in Centre Hill Cem., Centre Co., PA, USA.

             + 197.       iv.    WILLIAM WILSON LOVE (119947) was born on 12 April 1809 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA.

  He married AGNES D. (NANCY) WILLIAMS (119948).

  He married JANE WILSON (119962) , daughter of JOHN WILSON (119963) and MARY OWENS (119964), after 1849. He died on 1 August 1876 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA, at age 67. He was buried after 1 August 1876 in Centre Hill Cem., Centre Co., PA, USA.

                   198.         v.    SARAH LOVE (119965) was born before April 1814 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA.

  She was baptized in April 1814 in Sinking Creek Presbyterian Ch, Centre Co., PA, USA. She married UNKNOWN WILLIAM (119966).

     David Love's wife MARY VAN H ORNE (119968) was born circa 1785. She died on 12 January 1861 in Potter Twp., Center Co., PA, USA.

  She was buried after 12 January 1861 in Centre Hill Cem., Centre Co., PA, USA. There were no children of DAVID¹⁰ LOVE (117155) and MARY VAN H ORNE (119968) .

115. JOHN¹⁰ LOVE (117154) (ROBERT⁹, ANDREW⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born circa 1775 in Magheralough, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  He married MARY McCONNELL (119805) circa 1779. He died before 24 August 1850 in Clarion Twp., Clarion Co., PA, USA. He was buried after 24 August 1850 in New Rehobeth-Seceder Cem., Clarion Co., PA, USA.

     JOHN LOVE (117154) emigrated to America with his sister and her husband. MR. THOMAS LOVE, Corsica, Pa. USA advised that Robert Love's wife was Jane and they had 3 children. Jane, John and David. He said Jane married Samuel Wilson and they emigrated to America in 1791 wiith the 2 brothers.

    John Love was a weaver and settled first in Potter Township, Centre

County, PA. by 1794. In 1802 moved to Brush Run Settlement , Clarion Township, Clarion County PA.

      John and Mary lived on Old Farm, about 2 1/2 miles southeast of Clarion, on cutoff road between route 66 and county road 16110 to Strattonville.

     John Love's will is the earliest Love will in the Clarion County Oourthouse. He left $500 to son James and $50 to son John from the sale of 100 acres in Eldred Township.

     JOHN love's wife MARY McCONNELL (119805) was born circa 1776. She died before 24 August 1850. She was buried before 24 August 1850 in New Rehobeth-Seceder Cem., Clarion Co., PA, USA.

     Children of JOHN¹⁰ LOVE (117154) and MARY McCONNELL (119805) were as follows:

                   199.         i.    CYNTHIA¹¹ LOVE (119825).

                   200.        ii.    BEJAMIN LOVE (119811) married MARGARET A. READ (119812) , daughter of AMOS READ (119813).

  He died in 1878.

     MARGARET A. READ (119812) was born in 1798 in Penn's Valley, Centre County, PA, USA.

  She died in 1884 in Lawrence Twp., Clearfield Co., PA, USA.

                   201.       iii.    JOHN LOVE (119807).

                    + 202.  iv.    SAMUEL LOVE (119808) married UNKNOWN (--?--) (119809).

                   203.         v.    JAMES LOVE (119806) was born before 18 January 1802. He was baptized on 18 January 1802. He died after 1877.

                    + 204.  vi.    JESSE LOVE (119814) was born in 1811.

  He married ANNA WILSON (119815) , daughter of WILLIAM WILSON (119816) and MARY ANN GOHEEN (119817).

  He died in 1895. He was buried in 1895 in Clarion, Clarion Co., PA, USA.

                     + 205.vii.    WILLIAM LOVE (119826) was born in 1817.

  He married MARY WILSON (119827) , daughter of WILLIAM WILSON (119816) and MARY ANN GOHEEN (119817).

  He died on 3 September 1875. He was buried after 3 September 1875 in New Rehobeth-Seceder Cem., Clarion Co., PA, USA.

117. JAMES¹⁰ LOVE (122189) (JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JAMES⁷, ROBERT⁶ LUIFE, JAMES⁵, ROBERT⁴, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born before 16 May 1700 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland. He was baptized on 16 May 1700 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland. He married MARGARET GIFFEN (122196) on 1 March 1729 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

     Children of JAMES¹⁰ LOVE (122189) and MARGARET GIFFEN (122196) were as follows:

                   206.         i.    JAMES¹¹ LOVE (122197) was born before 21 October 1730 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

  He was baptized on 21 October 1730 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

                   207.        ii.    AGNAS LOVE (122198) was born before 13 May 1733 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

  She was baptized on 13 May 1733 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland. She died before 12 December 1736 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

                   208.       iii.    WILLIAM LOVE (122199) was born before 15 December 1734 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

  He was baptized on 15 December 1734 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

                   209.       iv.    AGNES LOVE (122200) was born before 12 December 1736 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

  She was baptized on 12 December 1736 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

                   210.         v.    JEAN LOVE (122201) was born before 11 March 1739 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

  She was baptized on 11 March 1739 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

                   211.       vi.    ANN LOVE (122202) was born before 13 December 1741 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

  She was baptized on 13 December 1741 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

                   212.      vii.    MARTHA LOVE (122203) was born before 21 July 1744 in Kintyre, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

  She was baptized on 21 July 1744 in Parish Church, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Scotland.

                    + 213.viii.    JANE LOVE (122204) was born circa 1754 in Kintyre, Argyllshire, Scotland. She married ALEXANDER LOVE (122205) , son of JOHN LOVE (122244).

124. SAMUEL¹⁰ LOVE (119443) (JAMES⁹, ROBERT⁸, JAMES⁷, ROBERT⁶ LUIFE, JAMES⁵, ROBERT⁴, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born on 18 May 1728 in Ayrshire, Scotland. He married ROSANNA (ROZANNA) GRAHAM (119453) in 1758 in Cecil County, MD, USA. He died on 23 April 1779 in Cecil County, MD, USA, at age 50.

     SAMUEL LOVE (119443) was the son of James Love (1694-1743) and Janet Cochrane (1695-1730) of Ayrshire, Scotland. Samuel was born in May 18, 1728 in Ayrshire, Scotland, and died on April 23, 1779, in Cecil Co., Maryland. Samuel emigrated to America in 1754 from Londonderry, Ulster, Northern Ireland, eventually settling in Cecil Co., Maryland. Samuel married Rosanna Graham in Cecil Co., Maryland, in the period 1754-1759. Samuel was a member of the Home Guard of Cecil County and a private in the 2nd Company of the Upper Battalion of Colonel Zadok Magruder, taking the Oath of Allegiance in 1778 in Cecil County before Justice James Maxwell. Samuel died during the American Revolutionary War period, but from unknown circumstances. It was common for émigrés of Scotch-Irish descent, coming from Ireland, to eventually move into Cecil County, Maryland, immediately west of Delaware County, New Castle. It is also possible that Samuel landed at either Philadelphia or Baltimore. It is not known what status Samuel Love had upon emigrating to America. It was common at the time to have arrived as an indentured servant, to serve out a period of labor in exchange for passage to America. It is likely that Samuel Love’s new family farmed, even if they had other occupations. It is probable that Samuel and his wife Rosanna were Presbyterians as was common for the Scotch-Irish, as was known for later members of the Love family who were pioneer settlers in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. However, the Samuel Love family of Cecil Co. was noted to have attended Newberry Quaker Meeting House, and members of the Joseph Reed and Thomas Grubb families of York and Lancaster counties attended religious services there, before organizing a Presbyterian Church in Lancaster Co, prior to their respective moves to Erie Co.

     The Scotch-Irish, generally Scots who had sojourned to northern Ireland for a few generations, or who were a mixture of Scotch and Irish, because of intermarriage, emigrated to America in waves, primarily beginning in 1699, because of that year's Act of English Parliament which which prohibited the exportation of wool from Ulster, and enforced payment of tithes to support the Anglican church, which was particularly repugnant to disciples of John Knox (the Presbyterians). The reasons for their emigration were therefore both economic and religious. The Scots had colonized in northern Ireland during the reign of James I, beginning about 1610, as pawns in the ill-advised "Ulster Experiment." Between 1728 and 1776 about 250,000 Scotch-Irish came to America, of whom not less than 85,000 settled in Pennsylvania. Immigration came in waves, the largest being in 1717-1718, 1727-1728, 1740-1741, and 1771-1775. The flood tide was in 1771-1773.

     SOURCE of INFORMATION

MR. BENJAMIN GOODEN, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

          Will of Samuel Love

In the Name of God Amen I Samuel Love of West Nottingham Hundred Cecil County in the State of Maryland being of sound Mind and Memory Think fit to dispose of such worldly goods & Estate as it hath I prayed God to help me with in the following manor

      -Imprimis I geave an bequeath unto Rosanna Love my beloved wife the one third part of all my Real and Personal Estate During her widowhood but if it shall to happen that my wife should again marry then I Order the third part of my Real Estate mentioned to my wife be return to my three Sons

       I geave and bequeath to my Daughter Jean the Sum of one hundred Pounds Common Money in one year after my Decease--

      I geave & bequeath to my Daughter Mary Borland Feathers for one Bed

      I geave and Bequeath to my Daughter Margaret the Sum of one hundred Pounds Common Money in two years after my Decease

     I geave and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth the Sum of one hundred Pounds Common Money in four years after my Decease

    I geave and bequeath to my Daughters Ann & Rosanna to each of them the Sum of one hundred Pounds Common Money a soon as they arrive at the Age of Seventeen years

   My will is that after my just debts and funeral charges are paid and the legacies above mentioned discharged the Residue & Remainder of all my Estate Real and Personal I geave and bequeath unto my three Sons Robert Samuel and James to be Equally divided Amongst them, Further my will is that my young Children should stay with their Mother and be Schooled clothed and maintained off my Plantation& Estate and as long as my children that are arrive to age choose to stay with their Mother and they can live Comfortably together they are to have their Maintenance of the Estate Holy being helpful to their mother in Rearing the young Children and if it thought Convenient they should be put out to traid then they shall be put to such triad as they and the Executioners shall choose and of any one or more of my Sons should die before they arrive at full age I order his or their part to be given to their surviving brother or brothers , and as my Children have further to been dutiful I Hope they will be obedient to their mother and hearken to her instructions

    And Lastly ordain and appoint my beloved wife Rosanna Love And my Trusted Friend Alexander Read Executioners of this my last will and Testament and I hereby utterly disallow Revoke and Disanull all former grants Legacies Wills and Testaments by one off any time before made Rectifying & Confirming this & no other to be my last Will and Testament Signed Sealed Published pronounced and declared to be such in the Presence of

Jas Maxwell April 21st 1779 Saml Love (seal)

John Welch

SamuelWilson

                    Cecil County Si June 14th 1779 Then came Rosanna Love and Alexander Read and made Oath on the Holy Evangels that the above Instrument of writing is the true and whole Will and Testament of Samuel Love late of said County that hath come to their hand and that they do not know of any other

                                                  Sworn before David Smith Reg.

                      Cecil County Si June 14th 1779 Personally came James Maxwell John Welch and Samuel Willson the Hence Subscribing Witnesses to this written Last Will and Testament of Samuel Love Late of said County Testified and made Oath Severally on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that they did See the Estate There in ordained Sign and seal this Will that they heard him publish Pronounce and Declare the Same to be his last Will and Testament: that at the time of his 10 Doing he was to the best of Their Apprehensions of sound and Disposing Mind Memory and understanding: And that they reflectively subscribe their Names of witness to This Will in the Presence and at the request of the Testator and in the Presence of each other:

                             Signed before David Smith Reg. -----------

July 16th, 1779

                                Recorded and examined

                                                           by David Smith Reg._

        SOURCE of INFORMATION

Mr. Stephan Love, Canton, Illinois, USA.

Transcribed by Norman Love March 27th 2009.

     ROSANNA (ROZANNA) GRAHAM (119453) was born in 1738 in Cecil Co., Maryland, and died on February 10, 1814, in Cecil Co., Maryland. Rosanna’s parents, siblings, and immigration history are not known. She bore nine children in the years 1759-1777, six daughters and three sons Jane Jean (1759); Mary (1761); Margaret (1763); Elizabeth (1765); Robert (1767); Ann (1770); Rosanna (1772); Samuel (1774); James (1777). Rosanna became a widow at about 41 years of age, when her youngest child was under 2 years of age.

     SOURCE of INFORMATION

MR. BENJAMIN GOODEN, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

         Will of Rosanna Graham Love

In the name of God Amen,, I Rosanna Love of Cecil County in the State of Maryland being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding,, considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being anxious to settle my Worldly affairs and be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence,, do therefore make and publish this my Last will and Testament in manner and form following,, That is to say---------

             First and principally I commit my Love into the hand of almighty God,, and my body to the earth to be decently buried by my Executor and after my debts if any I justly owed are paid I devise and bequeath as follows-----

            I give and devise unto John Love my grandson and the son of my son Samuel Love the plantation or Tract of Land where on I now live with its appurtenances being part of the tract of land called Lovely Lott and Long Reach to him the said John Love whenever he may arrive to the age of Twenty One years----

--in fee simple—and I will and direct that the Land and premises aforesaid shall be taken possession of by his Father Samuel Love immediately after my decease and by him used free of rent or other charges until the said John shall arrive at the age a foresaid..

         I give and bequeath to my daughter Rosanna Love my Case of Drawers and I also give and bequeath to my two daughters viz: Ann Love and Rosannah Love my two Cows together with my bed and bedding and wearing apparel to be equally divided between them by my Executor herein after Named.

        And Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my Son Samuel Love to be Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament Ratifying and conforming this and none others to be my Last Will and Testament.

      In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal this fourth day of November in the Year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. her

Signed Sealed published and declared Rosanna x Love (seal)

By Rosanna Love the aforementioned mark

Testator. As and for her last Will and

Testament in the presence of us who

   At her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.

D. Cummings. Leonard Krouse Robert Love.

Cecil County JP. April 5th, 1816. Then came Samuel Love and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the aforgoing Instrument of writing is the true and whole Last Will and Testament of Rosanna Love late of Cecil County deceased,, that hath come to his hands or possession and that he doth not know of any other,, and that due publication hath been made of this Will and that he doth not know of any objections to the probate thereof being taken

                           TEst. Henry D Miller Reqr.

Cecil County JP. April 5th, 1816 Then Came David Cummings, Leonard Hrouse and Robert Love the three Subscribing Witnesses to the afore going Last Will and Testament of Rosanna Love Late of said County deceased and severally made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that they did see the testatrise there in named sign and Seal this Will that they heard her publish pronounce and declare the Same to be her last Will and Testament, That at the time of her so doing She was to the best of their apprehensions of a Sound and disposing mind memory and understanding,, and that they respectively Subscribed their names as witnesses to this Will in the presence and at the Request of the said Testatrise,, and in the presence of each other.

                              JEst. Henry D Miller Regr.

Recorded April 5th, 1816 and Examined

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

Mr. Stephan Love, Canton, Illinois, USA

Transcribed by Norman Love and Ben Gooden April 2nd, 2009.

     Children of SAMUEL¹⁰ LOVE (119443) and ROSANNA (ROZANNA) GRAHAM (119453) all born in Cecil County, MD, USA, were as follows:

             + 214.         i.    JANE (JEAN)¹¹ LOVE (119454) was born in 1759. She married GEORGE KIDD (120265) , son of ANDREW KIDD (121767) and MARTHA TAYLOR (121768), circa 1777 in Maryland State, USA. She married JOHN STEWART (120268) on 3 March 1807. She died on 31 July 1825. She was buried after 31 July 1825.

             + 215.       ii.    MARY LOVE (119455) was born in 1761. She married JOHN BURLIN (BURLAND) (BORLAND) (120269).

  She died after 23 April 1779.

             + 216.      iii.    MARGARET LOVE (119456) was born in 1763. She married HUGH McCAY (McCOY) (120272) , son of JOHN McCAY (120321) and FRANCES GRAHAM (120322). She died between 17 April 1798 and 1810.

             + 217.       iv.    ELIZABETH LOVE (119457) was born in 1765. She married ALEXANDER NESBIT (NESBITT) (120276) , son of JOSEPH NESBITT (120338) and MARGARET (--?--) (120339), on 5 February 1787 in Cecil County, MD, USA. She died after 23 April 1779.

             + 218.        v.    ROBERT LOVE (119458) was born in 1767. He married ANN McCAY (120285) , daughter of JOHN McCAY (120321) and FRANCES GRAHAM (120322). He married REBECCA McCREARY (121691) , daughter of JOSEPH McCREARY (121308) and AGNES ANN GRUBB (121309). He died after 4 November 1811.

                   219.        vi.    ANN LOVE (119459) was born in 1770. She died after 10 February 1814.

                   220.      vii.    ROSANNA LOVE (119460) was born in 1772. She died after 10 February 1814.

                       + 221.viii. SAMUEL LOVE (119461) was born on 6 August 1774. He married CATHARINE McCAY (McCOY) (120287) , daughter of JOHN McCAY (120321) and FRANCES GRAHAM (120322), on 6 February 1800 in Cecil County, MD, USA. He died on 30 December 1832 at age 58. He was buried after 30 December 1832.

             + 222.       ix.    JAMES LOVE (119462) was born on 11 October 1777. He married RACHEL (RACHAEL) HENDERSON (119463) on 5 September 1797 in Cecil County, MD, USA. He died on 18 November 1842 at age 65.

125. ROBERT¹⁰ LOVE (119449) (JAMES⁹, ROBERT⁸, JAMES⁷, ROBERT⁶ LUIFE, JAMES⁵, ROBERT⁴, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born on 14 March 1735 in Threipwood, Beith Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland. He married JEAN CONNELL (120210) , daughter of JOHN CONNELL (120218) and MARGARET TOD (120219). He married JANET COCHRANE (120220) circa 1760 in Scotland. He died on 14 March 1813 in Scotland at age 78.

     JEAN CONNELL (120210) was born circa 1745 in Scotland. She died circa 1815 in Scotland.

     Children of ROBERT¹⁰ LOVE (119449) and JEAN CONNELL (120210) were as follows:

                   223.         i.    MARGARET¹¹ LOVE (120211) was born on 7 April 1773 in Scotland. She married WILLIAM BRODIE (120224). She died circa 1840 in Scotland.

     WILLIAM BRODIE (120224) was born circa 1770 in Lochwinnioch Parish, Carse, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

                   224.        ii.    ROBERT LOVE (120212) was born on 5 March 1777 in Beith Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland. He died on 12 October 1796 in Scotland at age 19. He died on 12 October 1796 in Scotland at age 19.

                    + 225. iii.    JOHN LOVE (120213) was born on 31 January 1781 in Beith Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland. He married JANE (JEAN) FULTON (120225) on 15 December 1810 in Lochwinnoch Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He died on 6 September 1859 in Beith Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland, at age 78.

     JANET COCHRANE (120220) was born circa 1735 in Scotland.

     Children of ROBERT¹⁰ LOVE (119449) and JANET COCHRANE (120220) both born in Scotland were as follows:

                   226.         i.    JEAN¹¹ LOVE (120221) was born circa 1735. She married ROBERT SMITH (120223).

     ROBERT SMITH (120223) was born in 1760. He died in 1830.

                   227.        ii.    JAMES LOVE (120222) was born on 20 October 1764.

128. JAMES¹⁰ LOVE (119452) (JAMES⁹, ROBERT⁸, JAMES⁷, ROBERT⁶ LUIFE, JAMES⁵, ROBERT⁴, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born on 12 December 1743 in Threipwood, Beith Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland. He married MARGARET STEVENSON (120214) on 30 December 1775 in Dunlop Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland. He died circa 1810 in Scotland.

     MARGARET STEVENSON (120214) was born circa 1750 in Dunlop Parish, Fithpart, Ayrshire, Scotland. She died circa 1820 in Scotland.

     Children of JAMES¹⁰ LOVE (119452) and MARGARET STEVENSON (120214) were:

             + 228.         i.    JEAN¹¹ LOVE (120215) was born on 28 March 1780 in Beith Parish, Langpark, Ayrshire, Scotland. She married ROBERT LOVE (120216) , son of JAMES LOVE (121449) and JANET FLEMING (121450), on 14 February 1799 in Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.

  She died in 1853 in Scotland.

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