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Subj: George Davis Pace Date: 98-02-18 11:23:53 EST From: 75701.605@compuserve.com(Mary McLenigan) To: royjNOSPAM@webster.edu (Remove the NOSPAM)

Dear Roy,

My father has sent me some papers that belonged to my great-aunt (VIRGINIA LEE COTTRELL) which proved helpful and thought you might find some interest in what little I have.

Here is a transcribed letter that was among her notes (I do not know who the author was.):

Our grandfather was GEORGE DAVIS PACE, the son of GEORGE SANDERS PACE, who was a captain in the war of 1812. His father was a man of some means but left his property under the old English law of primo-genture to his eldest son. This elder son offered to give his younger brother a horse and saddle his father had used but he declined to accept them, saying if his father had felt the estate should be conserved by remaining in the hands of one member of the family, he would abide by his desire. However, he was a man of strong character and business ability and accumulated enough during his lifetime to leave a home to each of his three children, while the elder brother who inherited the estate soon made way with it and died at our great-grand-father's home, a guest of his brother's bounty. Their sister also lived and died at the home of GEORGE SANDERS PACE. This GEORGE SANDERS PACE married a widow (born Wake) from Lancaster County, and built a home for her which is still standing- known as "Wake"- named after her family. It was here , I am told, that our grandfather Pace was born on November 27, 1811.

The family now living at "Wake" is named WAKE, but not descended from the same family, as they tell me. They also told me they formerly lived at the old Pace home in Pace's Neck and when they sold the place, the records "had to be searched back to colonial times" in order to get a clear title. I was also told at Wake that the tradition was that three brothers Pace came over among the the early settlers. Two remained in the new land and one started back to England, but was never heard from.

I believe these data may be confirmed at Saluda.

The Bible which was at our house was bought in 1837, although the records go back previous to that date and are as follows:

MARRIAGES

Married on the 13th day of December, 1832, by the Rev. George Northam,

GEORGE D. PACE to LOUISA HASSELTINE, daughter of ROBERT BARRICK and SARAH

C., his wife, both of Middlesex County

Married on the 20th day of December, 1834, by the Rev. George Northam,

GEORGE D. PACE to ELIZABETH LUCINDA, daughter of RICHARD HUTCHINGS and

MARY, his wife, of Lancaster County, Virginia

BIRTHS

GEORGE DAVIS PACE, the son of GEORGE S. and J. Carey, his wife, was born

Nov. 27. 1811.

ELIZABETH LUCINDA HUTCHINGS was born September 30, 1819

GEORGE RICHARD PACE-September 22, 1835

MARY LOUISA ELLIOTE PACE - April 5, 1838

MARIAH ELIZABETH PACE - May 21, 1840

JOHN ROBERT PACE - February 15,1843

THEODORE ALONZO PACE - September 28, 1844

IMOGENE WAKE PACE - August 8, 1848

MUSCOE RUSSELL PACE - February 29,1862

TIBERIUS COONS PACE - June 5, 1858

DEATHS

LOUISA H. PACE - November 17, 1833

LOUISA ELLIOTE PACE - June 14, 1939

JOHN ROBERT PACE - September 5, 1843

LOUISA W. PACE - September 4, 1843

IMOGENE WAKE PACE - September 17, 1853

ELIZABETH LUCINDA HUTCHINGS in 40th year - January 29,1859

GEORGE DAVIS PACE - October 3, 1865

TIBERIUS COONS PACE - January 14,1894

GEORGE RICHARD PACE - August 26, 1910

MARIAH ELIZABETH PACE Cottrell - 3/28/1918

MUSCOE RUSSELL PACE - May 22,1932

I should like to have the record of grandfather's third marriage, the births and the date of Granma Lou's death as well as Aunt Mamie's. which of course, I should have. I clipped it but it has gotten away from me.

Here ends the letter.

It is my belief that GEORGE DAVIS PACE's parents were WILLIAM PACE and CRISSY SANDERS m. October 29, 1773 and that WILLIAM PACE's father was a BENJAMIN PACE. (Middlesex marriage register) My question at this point is there anything more known about these particular WILLIAM and BENJAMIN PACES? I am assuming at this point that Benjamin is the grandson of John Pace of Middlesex.

If you post this and want to post my e-mail address as well, please use my home address which is 75701.605@compuserve.com, Thank-you. Regards, Mary

Mary McLenigan Building 6, Room 1A13, NICHD, NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892-2725

Tel (301) 496-6175 Fax (301) 594-1135 E-mail: mpw@Box-m.nih.gov

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