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Submitted by: FRANK BOULEY <fbouley@prodigy.net>
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Name: Henry Loveall
Sex: M
Birth: 1694 - , , England
Christening:
Death: 1778 - Piscataway, , New Jersey
Burial:
Cause of Death:
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Spouses and Children
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1. *Martha (
- )
Marriage: 1719 - Piscataway, Middlesex,
New Jersey
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Children:
1. Zebulon Loveall (1728 - 9 Jan 1786)
2. Ethan Loveall (
- )
3. Luther Loveall (
- )
4. Calvin Loveall (1734 -
)
5. Rebecca Loveall (1735 -
)
6. Solomon Loveall (1737 -
)
7. Susanna Loveall (1745 -
)
8. Mary Loveall (
- )
9. Ann Loveall (
- )
Notes
General:
An American Family
The History of the Loveall family in America.
By Micheal Sullivan
The founding of the Loveall family in the
United States has been traced
to Rev. Henry Loveall, who is also known as
Desolate Baker believed to
have been his real name. Henry Loveall was
born in Cambridge , England
around 1694. As a young man it is reported
that he was involved with a
woman from his church , it is not known if
he was the Pastor of the
church or not. After being accused of " an
enexcusable immorality" he
fled the city of Cambridge to avoid prosecution.
It is believed that
Henry Loveall emigrated to the American colony
of New York by changing
his name from Baker from signing himself up
as an indentured servant.
By 1725, at the age of 31 he was relocated
to the colony of Rhode Island
where it is said that he was Baptized. It
is at this time that the first
mention of his spouse is made, although when
they were married is not
known it is known that they already had two
sons. Henry and Martha Loveall
moved to New Jersey sometime before December
of 1731
because a son named Luther was born on December
24th of that year at
Piscataway N.J. On January 3 ,1732 Henry Loveall
was ordained as a
preacher but he was not listed as a pastor
of any church at the time. A
fourth son was born on September 26, 1734
in Piscataway, N.J. named
Calvin, this son may have died as a child
as no mention of him has been
found for him after this time. By 1742 Henrys
two oldest sons ,
Zebulon, and Ethan had moved to Maryland.
It is in this year that Henry
Loveall made his way into Baltimore County
, Maryland. In the area
known as Chestnut Ridge lived a land owner
name Henry Sater. Mr. Sater
who was known for his desire to have a Baptist
Church in the area, asked
Henry Loveall to preach for him and other
Baptist in the area . Mr. Sater
and Henry Loveall, were of a group known as
" General Baptist". At his
own expense Mr. Sater built a Meeting House
of red brick to be used as a
church . On November 17,1742 Mr Sater deeded
over the meeting house
amd one acre of land to the church. At the
time the church was caller
Saters church, however this church that was
begun in 1742 by fifty
Seven members is now known as Chestnut Ridge
Baptist Church and is
located in a suburb of Baltimore, MD. By an
act of the court on August 4
,1743 Henry Loveall was granted the right
to preach in Maryland.
Although there were others who had preached
for this congragation Rev.
Loveall can be said to be the first Pastor
of the church. In four years the
young congregation grew to one hundred and
eighty one members and had
spread to Virginia. Despite this growth the
church members would not
participate in the Lords Supper or Communion
as there seems to have been
an " unhappy situation " , this could have
been because of the practice of
the laying on of hands and foot washing that
was practiced
by the church . In 1743, Henry Loveall moved
to Opequan, Berkeley Co.,Va.
[ now W.Va.] to help start a church there
for some former members of
Saters church. When he went to Virginia some
said he took another mans
wife. This church soon developed some type
of trouble and they sought
help from the Philadelphia Association [ a
Baptist Organization ] .
Rev.Loveall was turned out of the church for"
misconduct and for a
licentious life style". By 1751 Henry Loveall
returned to Maryland and
Chestnut Ridge area. In his absence Mr. John
Davis had become the
resident pastor at Saters Church. There was
in all probability some
conflicts between the followers of the two
pastors. Henry Loveall
seems to have been controversial in his time
and was sometimes
accused of not living in a manner not in keeping
with the teachings of
the church. Henry Loveall was reported to
have been a man of talent and
an acceptable preacher.
Henry Loveall, is known to have had the following
children:
Zebulon born 1715-1725? Died before 28 Jan.1786
- his first wife was
Mary West, and had six children...second wife
was Margaret[-----] no
issue.
Ethan born 1715-1725? Died before 12 Jan.1795
he married Mary Alspaugh
- had seven Children.
Luther born 31 Dec.1731 Died before 10 Jan.1821.
he maied Mary Lane ?
and second Rebecca Arnold? Had a total of
seven children.
Calvin born 26 Sept.1734 no evidence he lived beyond infancy.
It is not known when Henry Loveall died - but
he was living in Chestnut
Ridge area in 1772. it is also not known for
sure if Martha was his
second or only wife.
Henrys age at death was 81 yrs.[est.] It is
thought that Rev. Henry
Loveall was buried sometime around 1774 in
a Cemetery near
Mexico,Carroll Co. Md.
SOME SOURCES:
Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware and
Georgia", pp 53-54
by Frederick Lewis Weis, Th. D. (1895-1966)
Published in 1978 by Genealogical Publishing
Co., Inc., Baltimore,
Maryland
Pages 53-54 lists the following
"HENRY LOVEALL, b. Cambridge, England, 1694
(his real
name was Desolate Baker), sett. Newport, R.I.,
1729-1730; Ord.
Piscataway, N. J., Chh. at Stilton, Raritan,
1730-1742; Chestnut
Ridge, Md., Sater's Chh., Falls Road, 1742-1772;
Opequon (Berkeley) W.
Va., Mill Creek Chh., 1746-1751; Gen. Bapt.;
living at Chestnut Ridge, Md.,
1772, ae: 78 yrs."
[2] "Directory of Ministers and the Maryland
Chuches They Served,
1643-1980", p33
by Edna Agatha Kanely.
Published in 1991 by Family Lines Publications,
Westminster, Maryland
Page 33 lists the following:
"Loveall, Henry (b 1694) (Bapt) Sater's, Chestnut
Ridge, Falls Rd.,
1742-72
(Ref: 307, 308, 880)"
Ref: 307: Weishampel, J.F., Jr.
"History of Baptist Churches in Maryland,
Baltimore"
1885, 220p, MHS, MSA
Ref: 308: Weis, Frederick Lewis
"Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware and
Georgia"
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978, 104p. EP,
MHS
Ref: 880: Edwards, Morgan
"Materials Toward a History of The Baptist"
Vol 2, pp 25-31, DAR
[3] "History of Baltimore City and County,
Maryland", p552
by J. Thomas Scharf, A.M.
Pubished in 1881 by Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Page 552 contains the following:
fully after the LORD . . . I Kings 11:6
by Steve Flinchu
This book is availabl e from: Bryan Station
Baptist Church
3175 Briar Hill Road
Lexington, KY 40516
Now, let us go back to Virginia, where a congregation
was organized on
Opeckon Creek in 1751. Volume II, pages 26
and 27, of Benedict's History
says: In the year 1743, a number of the members
of the General Baptist
church at ChesnutRidge, in Maryland, removed
to Virginia, and settledin this
place; the most noted of whom were Edward
Hays and Thomas Yates. Soon
after their removal, their minister, Henry
Loveall, followed them,
and baptized about fifteen persons, whom he
formed into a church on the
Arminian plan. Mr. Loveall, becoming licentious
in his life, was turned
out of the church [Life of Gano, pp.40 and
50], and returned to Maryland;
and the church was broken up, or rather transformed
into a church of
Particular Baptists, in 1751, by the advice
and assistance of Messrs.
James Miller, David Thomas, and John Gano,
who was, at that time, very
young. Mr. Miller had visited this church
in some of his former journies,
and had been instrumental of much good among
them; and when they, in
their troubles occasioned by Loveall's misconduct,
petitioned the
Philadelphia Association for some assistance,
he and Mr. Thomas were
appointed by the Association for the purpose.
Mr. Gano, though not
appointed, chose to accompany them. The account
of this transaction is
thus given by Mr. Gano: "We examined them,
and found that they were not
a regular church. We then examined those who
offered themselves for the
purpose, and those who gave us satisfaction,
we received, and
constituted a new church. Out of the whole
who offered themselves,
there were only three received. Some openly
declared, they knew they
could not give an account of experiencing
a work of grace, and therefore
need not offer. Others stood ready to offer,
if a church was formed. The
three beforementioned were constituted, and
six more were baptized and
joined with them.
Benedict, David. A General History of the Baptist
Denomination. 2 vols.
1813. CHRA, 1985.