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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series.
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S T A T E O F T E N N E S S E E
To all who shall see theses presents-Greeting:
KNOW YE, That we do Commission Thomas D. Love, Esquires, of the County
SEAL of Carter, Justices, of the Peace, in and for said County,
of the and do authorize and empower them, and each of them,
State of to execute and fulfill the duties of a Justice of the Peace,
TENNESSEE in and for said County, agreeably to the Constitution and
Laws of this State; during good behavior; with all the
powers, privileges and emoluments thereto appertaining.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed at Murfreesborough, this 23rd, day of Augt. 1822.
By the Governor,
David Graham WM. Carroll,
Secretary of State.
Note: Justice of the Peace, in those days, was a very high Office, and the very best men in the country held it. The Office sought the man, instead of the man seeking the Office. The people wanted an honest, upright man to sit in Judgment over their affairs, and it was to such men that all Offices went. Thomas D. Love was at the time of holding this Office, a lawyer, and was a very prominent man, being the adviser and counselor of the people, who always went to him with their troubles. He exerted his influence always, in keeping down litigation, and in making peaceful adjustment of the differences that arose among the inhabitants. Today the condition is different. Lawyers and Offices, generally, try to stir up litigation, and endeavor to array neighbor against neighbor, and bring about family disintegration if possible, anything for retainers and fees seem to be the maxim.
What a deplorable state of affairs! It would cause our ancestors to blush with shame, and bless their God that they lived in those good old days when men loved their fellow men, and loved their country; all of which, a few paltry dollars could not disturb-F.D. Love.
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The Genealogy of the Alexander family, into which Robert Love,
commonly known as "Carter Bob"(my Father-F.D. Love) married, having married
Sarah Matilda Alexander, May 25th, 1848,
Alexanders
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John Alexander, was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, where he married Rachel Davidson (a first cousin of General William Davidson, who in the War of the Revolution was killed at Cowan's Ford of the Catawba River in resisting the passage of Cornwallis), daughter of John Davidson. John Alexander removed from Rowan County to Lincoln County, North Carolina; thence to Buncombe County, (the Burke County)
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