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Love Speculation Manor

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years ago

Overview
Associated Free Persons
Associated Enslaved Persons
Research Leads and Plantation Records
Miscellaneous Information
References
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Overview

Location

Haywood Co., NC

Date Constructed/ Founded

ca. 1800

Associated Surnames

Love, Welch

Historical notes

Built and owned by Colonel Robert Love, founder of Waynesville, until his death in 1845, and then owned by descendents until burned a few months before the end of the Civil War.

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

Colonel Robert Love - owner
John B. Love - son of Col. Robert Love; inherited 200 acres of Love's Speculation (Cowan Tract)
Dorcas Love - daughter of Col. Robert Love

Associated Enslaved Persons

1843 Slaves of Col. Robert Love

From the Will of Robert Love, 13 May 1843, Haywood County. Contributed by Wanda Harrell

Andrew - man living on tract of land at Pigeon River at the mouth of Richland Creek
Vince Welch

to grandson James Henry, son of Dorcas Love

unnamed boy - lost sight in left eye

to John Patton

unnamed boy and girl - age 10-15

to daughters (married)

unnamed persons - as wedding gifts

Research Leads and Plantation Records

none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

none

References

Love's Speculation Manor originally submitted by Wanda Harrell. Thanks!
Will of Colonel Robert Love. 13 May 1843, recorded by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Haywood County on 5 October 1870