Martha Ann Guthrie 1745PA – 1825PA and Thomas Love
of Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

MARTHA ANN GUTHRIE
Parents: John Guthrie 1708IRE – 1790PA and Ann Hill (or Emmons) 1715IRE – 1814PA
Birth: 6 Feb 1745
Birth Location: Chester County, Pennsylvania
Marriage: Thomas Love on 24 Feb 1768 at Faggs Manor Parish, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Love Children: John (1768), James (1770), Robert (1772), Ann (1774)
Death: 29 Dec 1825
Death Location: West Fallowfield, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial Location: Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cochranville, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

THOMAS LOVE
Parents: John Love 1713IRE – 1790PA and Alse (or Ann) MNU 17?? – 1790PA
Birth: 28 Jun 1739
Birth Location: Faggs Manor, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Occupation: Unknown
Military Service: Revolutionary War Patriot Soldier
Death: 20 Dec 1825
Death Location: West Fallowfield, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial Location: Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cochranville, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

NOTES:

Martha Ann Guthrie was the eldest daughter of John & Ann Guthrie. She was born on 6 Feb 1745 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. When she was 23 years old she married Thomas Love on 24 Feb 1768 at Faggs Manor Parish Church. They lived in West Fallowfield. The couple had 4 known children born between 1768 and 1774, a relatively small number for the times considering both lived to be at least 80. Martha died only 9 days after her husband Thomas in December 1825.

Thomas Love was a Rev. War Soldier being a Second Lieutenant on the staff of General Samuel Cochran of a Company of Foot in the Fourth Battalion out of Chester, PA.

Chester County Taxes – 1779: Thomas Love – 150 Acres, 3 Horses, 5 Cattle, 8 Sheep

“Like his father, Thomas Love was a man of earnest piety, a true Christian, a loyal supporter of the church. He was a ruling elder in the Fagg’s Manor Church for more than sixty years.” (LRG, p.558)

One family record notes that Martha was blind for twenty years prior to her death. “The old arm-chair in which she sat during these years of darkness, and the family Bible, are in the possession of the family. Thomas Love helped cut and haul the timber for the first church at or near Faggs Manor in Chester Co., and which he helped to build. (Morrison, p.404)

CHILDREN: 4

JOHN LOVE
1768PA – 1834TN

John Love was born on 6 December 1768 in West Fallowfield, Chester, Pennsylvania. He married Margaret Fleming (1772-1841), who was also born in Chester County, about 1790. Several of their children were born in PA. Sometime after 1800 they moved to Tennessee settling in McMinn County where the remainder of their family was born and raised. John wrote his will on 12 Aug 1834 naming his wife and children. (TN Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008, McMinn Wills Vol A – D, img-238 and 239 of 809). They are buried at Love Cemetery in McMinn County, TN.
CHILDREN:
1) Elizabeth Love 1792PA-1864TN m. James Seaton (farmer) +children
2) Sarah G Love 1794PA-1869MO m1.1824 Samuel McClure, m2.1826 Dr Joseph Baker +children
3) Martha Patsy Love 1797PA-1834TN m.1814TN Samuel Martin +children
4) Thomas Boston Love 1799PA-1873TN m1.1824 Susan Smith, m2.1863 Keturia Sophronia Chaney +children
5) Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Love 1803TN-1831TN m. William Walker +children
6) Louvinia R ‘Lovey’ Love 1806TN-1857TN m.1823 Francis William Reavley +children

Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No

JAMES LOVE
1770PA – 1854PA

Here’s another Guthrie-Love connection. James, a descendant of Martha Ann’s GFG2A-Branch G line, married Mary Guthrie, the daughter of Adam and Mercy (Irwin) Guthrie of GFG2A-Branch B.

James Love was born on 15 Jun 1770 in West Fallowfield, Chester, Pennsylvania. His marriage to Mary Guthrie occurred on 18 Oct 1791 when they were both 21. They remained living in West Fallowfield where they raised a large family. Mary died on 20 Sep 1849 and James a few years later on 20 Oct 1854. They are buried at Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Chochranville, Chester, PA. The Loves and Allied Families has a subsection in ‘American Guthrie and Allied Families, pp557-561.
CHILDREN:
1) Martha Love 1702PA-1879PA m.1819PA James Ross +children
2) Elizabeth Love 1794PA-1837 remained unmarried. No further details. 
3) Thomas Love (Rev.) 1796PA-1879DE m.1823 Sarah Latta +children
4) Sarah Ann Love 1798PA-1858NJ remained unmarried.
5) John Adam Love 1800PA-1883IL m.1835PA Anna Maria McClellan +children
6) James McClure Love 1804PA-1880IL m1 Elizabeth Thompson +children, m2. Martha McNair +children 
7) Robert Love 1807PA-1838NJ m.1832NJ Ann Thompson Fair +children
8) Hannah Love 1809PA-1894PA remained unmarried 
9) Mary Love 1811PA-1883PA remained unmarried
10) Rebecca Love 1814PA-1823PA died in childhood.

Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No

ROBERT LOVE
1772PA – 1774PA

Robert Love was born in West Fallowfield, Chester County, Pennsylvania on 17 Aug 1772 and died on 19 Sep 1774 when he was only 2 years of age.

Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants

ANN LOVE
1774PA – 1801PA

Ann Love was born on 21 Sep 1774 in West Fallowfield, Chester, Pennsylvania, and married Gabriel Morrison when she was 19. Their marriage took place on 26 Nov 1793. They had 4 children. Ann died at only 27 years of age on 13 Oct 1801 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. She is buried at Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Cochranville, Chester, PA. Gabriel was 56 at his death on 21 May 1830.
CHILDREN:
1) Thomas Love Morrison 1794PA-1826PA m. Mary Struble +children
2) Alexander Wilson Morrison 1796PA-1872PA m.1823 Margaret Connor +children
3) Prudence Morrison 1798PA-1800PA died at 2 years of age.
4) Julia Ann Morrison 1800PA-1867 m. James K Simpson. No children.

Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No

READING and RESOURCES

BOOK: Guthrie, Laurence R, ‘American Guthrie and allied families : lineal representations of the colonial Guthries of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North and South Carolina, some post-revolutionary emigrants and of some allied families.‘ Chambersburg, Pa.: Kerr Print. Co., 1933. Digital Repository: Ancestry.com [See Allied Families Book IV, The Loves, pp557-560]

BOOK: Morrison, Leonard Allison and Thomas, Frederick William Leopold, ‘The History of the Morison Or Morrison Family with Most of the “Traditions of the Morrisons” (clan MacGillemhuire), Hereditary Judges of Lewis, by Capt. F. W. L. Thomas, of Scotland, and a Record of the Descendants of the Hereditary Judges to 1880. A Complete History of the Morison Settlers of Londonderry, N.H., of 1719, and Their Descendants, with Genealogical Sketches. Also, of the Brentwood, Nottingham, and Sanbornton, N.H. Morisons, and Branches of the Morisons who Settled in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Nova Scotia, and Descendants of the Morisons of Preston Grange, Scotland, and Other Families‘ A. Williams & Company, 1880. Digital Repository: Google Books. [See p404-5 for notes on the Guthrie-Love family connections.]