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A Resource for Chickasaw Native American History and Genealogy

This information was contributed to me by Hazel Love Stephens, Brandon, MS asper Marie Garland's Chickasaw Loves and Allied Families - Addendum

William Love (a.k.a. "English Bill")
Died circa early 1780's

William Love's brothers were Alexander of York County, SC and James "The Weaver", on the Broad River in Chester County, SC. I do not know which county William resided in.

William had a son, James who married a Sadler. William's daughter also married a William Sadler. Wm's son James and his bro-in-law, William Sadler, pillaged and burned the home of Capt. Hughes. In retaliation, Capt. Hughes and Capt. Reed went after them and James Love was shot [killed] by Capt. Reed as he was crossing the Broad River. Then William, "English Bill" and his son-in-law, William Sadler killed Capt. Reed.

William Love and William Sadler hid at the home of a man named Stallings where they died at the hands of persons unknown by me. [see added information below]

War separates families and the Loves of the American Revolution War era were certainly no exception. William served as a Justice of the Peace, perhaps he was not originally a Tory but got drawn into the conflict somehow because of other family members, or quite possibly was mistakenly accused of being a Tory. After William Love was killed, another son, Thomas Love said that he took off through a briarpatch and made his lifesaving escape.


Information regarding the death of William Love
Added 7/26/2002

COMMANDERS AT KINGS MOUNTAIN by J.D. Bailey on page 191 -
"Captain John Mattocks" He was another South Fork boy who was killed when the enemy made their bayonet charge down the hill, first firing off their guns. The only account we have of previous services rendered by Mattocks is that of Major Thomas Young, when he helped revenge the death of a young CAPT. REID, who was treacherously murdered by two Tories - LOVE and SADDLER. Says Young:
'We started , rode all night, halted in the day, kept watch in the woods, but slept not; the next night we arrived at OLD LOVE'S. The house was attacked, and the door broken down by a powerful man by the name of Maddox, who was afterwards killed at Kings Mountain. In staving open the door, he floored OLD LOVE and knocked out his teeth.' (Young spells the name Maddox instead of Mattocks but is the same person.) 'Captain Mattocks had a brother, Charles, who participated in the battle with him and interceded for a Tory brother named Edward (Ned)who was severely wounded. The family moved to GA after the war.'

Sketches of Western NC by Cyrus L. Hunter:
Mattocks family was 3 brothers John, Charles, Edward (Ned) and two sisters, Sallie and Barbara. They all moved to GA after the war. They were from the South Fork of the Catawba near Armstrong's Ford now known as Alison's Old Place. Major Chronicle, Capt. Mattocks, William Rabb and John Boyd were all from the same neighborhood and they are in a common grave at Kings Mountain and named on the monument erected in 1815.

Also see "MEMOIR OF MAJOR THOMAS YOUNG (1764-1848)" at: http://sc_tories.tripod.com/thomas_young.htm
which includes another account of "Tory" Capt. Love.

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