Jenny (Dillard) Love (abt. 1775 - aft. 1844)

Born about Mar 1775 in Province of North Carolina [uncertain]

Died after 1844 after about age 68 in North Carolina, United States [uncertain]

Biography

Jenny (Dillard) Love is a part of US Black heritage.

Jenny was born enslaved about 1775. Her last names are a combination of her two owners of record: Josiah Dillard who sold her and her two children, Rose and David, to Thomas Love in 1797.

Deed of Sale

See: Slave Deeds in Buncombe County, NC, Property Records from 1776 to 1865

A bill of sale^[1] from Josiah Dillard to Thomas Love Esqr. for three negroes was proved in open Court by William Brittain one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded at length, a follows.

Know all men by these presents that I Josiah Dillard of the State of North Carolina and County of Wake, have Bargained sold and delivered and by these presents do bargain sell and deliver unto Thomas Love Esqr of the County of Buncombe and State aforesaid a certain negro woman with two children the wench of the age of twenty three years next march named Jenny, the Oldest Child a girl of the age of six years named Rose, the youngest Child a boy of the Eighteen months old named David, which negroes I do bargain, sell and deliver unto the said Thomas Love, for the sum of four hundred and twenty five dollars & a half to me in hand paid by the said Love the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge Which property I do hereby warrant and defend from all manner of persons whosoever, and that they are now sound and healthy.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of November 1797

Josiah Dillard (Seal)

Teste

Wallace Alexander

William Brittain

Thomas Love's Will

There is a slave named Jinny recorded as one of his slaves in his will, gifted at an earlier date to his daughter Martha Prater. Her children, David and Rose, are not listed. Thomas's will was signed on 9 May 1844.^[2]

Slave Owners

1. Josiah Dillard (bef.1797-abt.1823)
2. Thomas Love (1766-1844)

Sources

1. ↑ Buncombe County Government, Register of Deeds, Slave Records website accessed 05-14-2022 Link to Index Page
2. ↑ Probate: "Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008"
   Carroll County, Tennessee Chancery Court Case Files, 1826-1900 ; Indexes 1826-1900; Author: Tennessee Chancery Court (Carroll County); Probate Place: Carroll, Tennessee
   Ancestry Sharing LinkAncestry Record 9176 #2579393 (accessed 28 December 2021)
   Thomas Love probate on 9 May 1844.