Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-30
GODFATHER OF YORK
Alexander Love Was Head OF First
Colony.
SETTLED ON FISHING CREEK In 1853


of the Guthriesvile and McCon-
neIlsvlIe Neighborhoods-
Historical Data as to York County.
BY Sam B. Latham.
Among the cmigrants who came
from Pennsylvania and settled in the
upper portion of South Carolina prior
to the Revolutionary war was an
Alexander Love, and family. These
emigrants generally came in colon
les and where they located was known
as such and such q settlement. Alex
ander Love and the parties who came
with him settled on Fishing Creek not
far from Yorkville, and south of
where the Marion and Kingyillc
branch of the Southern railway cross
es 1t. This was known as. the upper
Fishing Creek settlement, Craven
county, North Carolina. l would state
here by way of parenthesis, that the
separation of North Carolina and
South Carolina was officially ordered
in 1929, but it was not effected until
1882. The dividing line was run in
1875 and then very incorrectly, which
caused considerable trouble among
those living on the line. In 1853 the
king ordered a resurvey made Of the
dividing line and this resurvey gave
South Carolina q large tract of terri
tory which was called "The New Ac-
quisition," so this section was first
Craven county, North Carolina, af-
forwards Craven county, South Caro-
lima, then "The New Acquisition and
now York county, South Carolina.
Alexander Love married Margaret
Moore. The Loves and the Moores
were both of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
The Loves were Prcsbyterians in re-
ligious faith and worship, and the
Moores belonged to the sect known as
Friends, or as designated by others, as
Quakers. Alexander Love and Mar
garet Moore were married on the 9Th
of March 1743. The marriage caused
l.
ciety Of Friends, as the Quakcrs called
themselves, did not permit of any of
their members marrying out of their
creed and, as a consequence Margaret
was turned out of the society and for
ever disowned by them The society
also had one of her brothers up for
trial for conniving at the marriage and
suspended him for time from the
society. There was no objection by
the Moore family TO Alexander Love
marrying Margaret. 1t was altogether
a religious affair. After Loves mar
riage, he settled in York county, Penn
sylvania, and lived there for some
time. About 1863 he moved TO the
then Craven county, North Carolina,
now York county, South Carolina, and
soon became very prominent and in
fiuential citizen in his new home. He
was one of the fourteen members from
the New Acquisition, to the Provin-
Cial congress of South Carolina which
met in Charleston of that state on the
first day of November 1775. This po-
sition was rather forced upon him as
IT. would take him for sometime away
from his home and, at considerable cx-
pcnsc and inconvenience but he being
staunch Whig, was willing TO un-
dcrgo these Inconvenience that his
country might get from under the
British yoke.
When York district was laid off, he
being member of the legislature
succeeded in having it named York,
after his old home county in Pennsyl-
vania. He accumulated considerable
property, both in lands and personal
property as shown by his will which
is recorded in Craven county, n. &.
He took an active part in all religious
affairs and was a ruling elder. i'm
Bethesda Presbyterian church. of which
he had been a member since coming to
his new home. He reared q family of
eleven children, five sons and six
daughters. His eldest daughter. Ra-
chcl, married Francis Ross, who at
the outbreak of the revolutionary war
became an active partisan and con-
tinucd so until his death. He enlisted
and commanded battalion of cavalry
which served under Col. Hammond
On the morning of March 10Th. 1879
they attacked Il party of Tories and
Cherokee Indians, near Rocky Point
now in Aiken county, 5. c. Major
Ross was mortally wounded He died
on the S1st of March and was buried
with military honors April 1st. neal
where the present town of Hamburg
sc, is located.
Andrew, the second son of AlcXan-
der Love, was a very active Whig and
was among the first to take up arms
in the cause of his country. He wa.
! wounded at Kings Mountain and
rose to the rank of colonel. Like ali
the Scotch-Irsh, he was particularly
severe on those who remained loyal tc
the British crown and were termed
! by their ncighborS, Tories. His sis
ter, Sarah, married one of these loyal.
lists, and on one occasion he learned
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