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Dorcas Love (Bell)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Virginia, Colonial America
Death: 1774 (33-34)
Virginia, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of James Bell, Sr., of “South River” and Sarah Grace Bell
Wife of 1st Sgt. Samuel Love
Mother of Col Robert Love; James Love; ”General” Thomas W. Love and Dorcas "Polly" Dillard (Love)
Sister of Agnes Gamble; Sarah Bell; James Bell; William Bell, Sr.; Joseph Bell and 2 others

Find A Grave No.: 172612634
Managed by: Lisa Kay Oliver
Last Updated:

About Dorcas Love

Marriage 3 Jul 1759 Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia to Samuel Love

Origins

Page 29.--5th April, 1787. James Bell's will, Sr., of South River--To son, Joseph, home tract, 300 acres, bounded by James Long, Jno. Bell, also an adjoining tract called Trimble's survey; to daughter, Sarah Bell, to be paid by his sons, John and Joseph; to son, John; to daughter, Agness Gamble; son, James Bell; son, Wm. Bell; son, Thomas Bell; son, Samuel Bell, and grandson, Robert Love; to sons, John and Joseph, and daughter. Sarah. Executors, sons John, Thomas, Joseph Bell, Walter Davis. Teste: David and Samuel Long, Gabriel Alexander. Proved, October Court, 1792, by all witnesses. John Bell refuses to qualify or to join in the probate. Other executors qualify.


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Dorcas Love's Timeline

1740
1740
Virginia, Colonial America
1760
May 11, 1760
Augusta County, Virginia, United States
1762
March 10, 1762
Augusta County, Virginia, United States
1766
November 16, 1766
Augusta Co Va
1773
February 9, 1773
North Carolina, United States
1774
1774
Age 34
Virginia, Colonial America