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Barbara Foster m. 1704 Gloucester Co. VA b. 1689 Gloucester Co. VA |
Richard b. 1714? Essex Co. VA |
Gabriel b. 1725 VA d. Jun 25, 1790 Wilkes Co. NC |
William b. 1728? Caroline Co. VA d. 1798 Amelia Co. VA |
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Essex County Virginia was established in 1692 from Rappahannock County
(see present day map
for location). |
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Caroline County Virginia was formed in 1728
(see present day map
for location). Culpeper County Virginia was formed in 1748
(see present day map
for location), and was bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west, and the
Rappahannock River forms one of its eastern boundaries. |
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Son William married Unity Chapman (1743- after 1773) and later a woman named Mary.
The will of his wife's father, Samuel Chapman, written Apr 23, 1773, contains the
following threatening clause: I give to my loving daughter, Unity Loving, a negro girl named Judo, and if her husband should by any means by any lewd way by gameing or any other way to satisfy any of his debts part with the said negro girl, Judo, she shall be immediately recovered by the heir at law of my own body. |
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In May 1777, the Virginia General Assembly created Powhatan County out of land
from the eastern portion of Cumberland County between the Appomattox and James Rivers
(see present day map
for location). |
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Wilkes County was formed in 1777 from Surry County.
Map of North Carolina Counties at beginning
of 1775, and Map in 1780. |
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In a Sep 28, 1779, a survey request indicated that son Gabriel was living on 240
acres in Wilkes Co. on the north side of the Yadkin River, adjoining land of John
Parkes. This land had been granted to Gabriel Loving "for the sum of Fifty Shillings
for every hundred acres" [Read, p. 260]. |
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On Aug 7, 1781, son Gabriel's son Gabriel married his cousin Rachel Loving, widow of
Daniel Sisk, 1754-1780, who was killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain in Oct 7, 1780.
Gabriel Jr. remarried in 1797/8 to Mary "Polly" Sumpter and had more children,
possibly a Mahala, born Jul 29, 1799, died in 1880?, married Arris Alexander. |
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The 1787 Wilkes County census lists a household headed by Gabrill Loving. Counted
are 3 white males either under 21 or over 60 (son Gabriel would be 61 or 62) and
7 white females, no blacks. |
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Sources: Brown, Richard Maxwell, The South Carolina Regulators, Cambridge, Mass., 1963. State Census of North Carolina 1784-1787, Wilkes County, Capt. Carrell's District, Jul 3, 1787, p. 178. Phifer, Edward Jr., BURKE: The History of a North Carolina County 1777-1926, Morganton, NC, 1977, Appendix D, pp. 400-401. Read, Carl & May, The Loving Family In America, 1705-1981, Harp & Thistle, Ltd., Warner Robbins GA, 1981, pp. 259-262. |
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