From records in Brunswick County Virginia, we know that James Love Junior married Mary, the daughter of John and Patience Berry Ingram. John Ingram named daughter Mary in his1787 last will and testament. He bequeathed the majority of the estate to his wife Patience. In 1797, Patience Berry Ingram formally released her rights and deeded the estate to her children. She named daughter Mary “Love” in the transaction. In 1804, “James and Mary Love of Cabarrus County” sold Mary’s share of the estate. They sold her one-seventh share to Mary Ann Tucker and her husband Sterling Tucker. Mary Ann Tucker is the widow of Mary Ingram Love’s brother Thomas Ingram. This last transaction was recorded in both Cabarrus County NC and Brunswick County VA.
Knowing for sure that James Love’s wife is the daughter of Patience Berry Ingram, it would seem appropriate for them to honor her by naming a daughter Patience Love. And what a beautiful name it would be? Keeping in mind that James Love had later sons named Darling, Pleasant, and Hartwell Love, the name Patience Love is equally warm and endearing. But neither traditional history nor records of any kind positively support this thinking. And yet, looking closely at the records of Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties, I wonder if or why not the possibility has been raised before.The following are some records and thoughts in hopes that we are witnessing a part of the life record of Patience Love. If you have anything to add, please let me know.
In the Pleas and Quarter Session records for Cabarrus County, the following documentation appears in the minute book:
Patience just has to be the wife of the deceased Clavan Freeman. And James Love appears with Patience Freeman as Co-Administrator. Note that several of James Love’s daughters married sons of Joseph Howell. I believe above all, James Love would be the best choice to administer the estate of his daughter’s deceased husband. And two months later, the Inventory and Sale of the estate of Clavan Freeman was recorded on 18 July 1797. Thought the original loose estate record does not survive, James Love recorded the total raised in the sale asApril 1797
Ordered that letters of Administration issue on the estate of Clavan Freeman, dec’d to James Love and Patience Freeman, who came into court and took the oath. Joseph Howell and Alexander Forgueson, securityL400.
Dated 14 Apr 1800, Allen Freeman and wife of Cabarrus County sold one hundred acres (3-300, Cabarrus NC) to Elizabeth Freeman, Mary Freeman and Nancy Freeman, heirs of Clebern Freeman deceased. For one hundred pounds of money, “the said heir’s guardn & adm of Cleborn Freeman deceased” purchased the 100 acres of land situated on Muddy Creek and Rocky Rocky River. The deed further states the land is to be “divided equally between them to them their heirs forever.” The transaction was recorded Jul Session 1800 in Cabarus County. The record also appears in the court book. Gideon Freeman and Thomas Love witnessed the transaction. The son of James Love, Thomas Love is likely the brother of Patience Freeman. But just who is Allen Freeman?
On 16 April 1805, the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session minutes for Cabarrus County NC reads:
Clayton Freeman. Patience Taylor may sell a Negro of his.We know that Patience’s husband was named Claiborne Freeman. His name is spelled differently in nearly every record. But from this court record, it appears that his widow Patience had remarried prior to 1805. She married to a member of the Taylor family. Does anyone have a clue as to whom she may have married?
Dated 17 Oct 1808, the estate of claborn Freeman, dec’d aws settled by Jno. K. Carson and John B. Wallace. On 18 April 1810, the last related court record in Cabarrus County reads:
Clayborn Freeman, dec’d. Settlement by James Love, Adm. BalanceL348.5.0.
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