David Love



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Lt Colonel David LOVE (1740-1798) NC Regt. b.Anson County, NC d. Greene County, GA Buried at Bethany Presbyterian Church Graveyard, near Union Point, GA DAR marker placed in 1939. Was a member of the Provential Congress, 1776; in 1777 State Senator and lieutenant colonel of North Carolina State Troops. (DAR) National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 57. p. 311. DAR ID Number: 56896,

United himself with the regiment of Colonel LYNCH, just organized, and which was ordered to join the North Carolina Line, they marched at once to join General GATES, then commanding in the South. Under the command of this unfortunate general he remained until after the battle of Camden. Sparks, William H., The Memories of Fifty Years, 1870, Philadelphia: Claxon, Remson, & Haffelfinger Macon, GA: J.W. Burke & Co. 1870


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