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From: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Subject: [PACE-L] PACES IN JOHNSTON CO, NC
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:01:48 +0000

I may have forwarded this to Pace-L before but it may help someone. I
believe this Thomas Pace (below, last in message) is the brother of my
STEPHEN PACE (b.1757Surry Co., NC)
Betty Pace - Norfolk, VA

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Subject: Re: [NCJOHNST-L] PACES IN JOHNSTON
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:11:03 EST
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In a message dated 2/24/99 10:58:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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Johnston County NC Deed Abstracts 1759 - 1865

Oct. 10, 1833 Josiah Gay of Johnston Co to John Pace of Johnston Co for
$35,
66 ac. SS Little Creek, being part of land Willis Gay Senr. dec. bought
of
Alvin L. Smith, adj. John Batten & Yelvington....
Wit: Jas. Batten, Matthew Battin. >>


Sorry for butting in but this land record caught my eye. Are these Pace's
related to this family?
(signed)

This is the family of Richard Pace, the man who saved James-town
in 1622 by
warning its inhabitants of the impending Indian massacre. His story is
told
in Chapter IV of "Colonial Surry", so it will not he necessary to repeat
it
here.
1. Richard Pace's plantation was called "Pace's Paines," which
he patented
in 1620. He died before Sept. 1, 1628, when his son George repatented
Pace's
Paines. (C. P. 10.) His widow, Isabella, married Captain William Perry.
An
account of Captain Perry has heretofore been given in Chapter VI. (do.)
2. George Pace, son of Richard, married Sarah Maycock, daughter of the
Reverend Samuel Maycock, member of the Council in the first Virginia
General
Assembly in 1619. He was killed in the Massacre of 1622, leaving his
young
daughter Sarah as his heiress. She was granted a patent for 200 acres in
Surry in 1626. (See Chapter IX, do.)
The Governor of Virginia, on May 20, 1617, had asked "orders for
Mr. Maycock,
a Cambridge scholar, on account of the lack of ministers."
Samuel Macocke was admitted sizar at Jesus May 28, 1611, son of
Roger husband
man, of Yelvetoft, Northants. School Shadwell, Leciester. Migrated to
Caius
May 15, 1612, matriculated 1612, scholar 1613-14, went to Virginia 1618,
added
to Council 1619, K. 1622 (A.C.)
Upon his arrival in Virginia Samuel Maycock was made a member of
the Council
by Sir George Yeardley and continued in office under Sir Francis Wyatt
until
he was killed. He also bore the title of ''Captain".
Among the killed at Captain Maycock's plantation of 200 acres
adjoining
Flowerdieu Hundred was Edward Lister, who came over in the "Mayflower" to
Plymouth, Mass. and was a signer of the "Compact."
There is a deed in the Charles City County records by which "Richard
Pace, son
and heire as the first issue of my mother, Mrs. Sarah Maycock, wife unto
my
aforesaid father, both deced", confirms a sale of 800 or 900 acres "lying
near
unto Pierce's Hundred als Flowerdieu Hundred" to Mr. Thomas Drew as per
bill
of his father October 12, 1650.
In addition to the grant of "Pace's Paines" received from his father in
1628,
George Pace patented 1700 acres August 1, 1650 in Charles City County,
"lying
on S. side of James River, commonly called 'Maycock's', beg. at mouth of
a
little swamp by the river where Pierce, his hundred, takes ending,
running w.
to a swamp which leads to Powell's Cr. and along the cr. to the river"
for the
transportation of 34 persons. (C. P. 199.) He also patented 507 acres
"on S.
side of James River and E. side of Powell's Cr. Dec. 6, 1652. " (C. P.
273.)
Thomas Drew, Gent., patented 490 acres in Charles City June 4, 1657, "on
N.
side of Flowerdieu hundred Cr., n. upon land purchased by Mr. Pace." (C.
P.
34?.)
George Pace probably died about 1657, for in 1659 Richard Pace "as son
and
heir of George Pace, decd." , sold land in Charles City. (P. G.) (0. B.
1655.)
In 1677 Richard Pace was paid 200 lbs. of tobacco for wolves' heads. He
died
in that year, for in 1677 Mary Pace was granted administration on the
estate
of Richard Pace. (0. B. 1677-79, pp. 249, 270.) On April 19, 1679,
Thomas
Douglas and Capt. Jordan were appointed to appraise the estate of Richard
Pace
on behalf of the orphan. (Do., p. 279.) It seems that Mary Pace married,
secondly, Nicholas Whitmore, and that her first husband, Richard Pace,
was
formerly the executor of Hugh Kirkland. This is shown in a Court order
entered at Westover August 3, 1692 as follows: "The matter of the account
between Thomas Kirkland v. Nicholas Whitmore and Mary, his wife, admix.
of
Richard Pace, one of the executors of Hugh Kirkland, is referred to Capt.
Taylor and Capt. Perry for audit." (Charles City Orders, 1687-1695, p.
409.)
(This book was recently returned from the North, where it was taken after
or
during the Civil War.)
4. George Pace, undoubtedly the orphan son of the above Richard Pace, was
holding 1000 acres in Prince George (cut off from Charles City) in 1704.
George married a daughter of Edward WOODLIEF, son of John Woodlief and
his
wife, a daughter of Colonel Robert WYNNE, speaker of the House of
Burgesses.
Edward Woodlief in his will probated in P. G. February 1719, mentions his
"daughter Pace."
The date of George Pace's death is not known, but he evidently had two
sons,
John and Richard, who moved to Bertie Precinct, N.C.
Children:
I. John, Sr. made his will in Bertie Precinct, N.C. March 25,
1726-27 and
same was probated August 1727. His children were: sons, John, William and
George; daus., Frances, Ann, Elizabeth Pace and Mary Elizabeth
Melton(husband
was Barnaby Melton and his brother Richard married a Ann Yelvington) .
(Grimes
abs.) His wife was not named.(also I have a will of a Samuel Gay witt. by
John
Melton)
A William Lowe who held 1584 acres in Prince
George in 1704 moved to N. C.;
where he made his will in Chowan (later Bertie Precinct and Northhampton
County) in 1720. He willed land in Prince George, Va. to his sons, John
and
William Lowe; mentions his son-in-law3 Robert Dixon, and also his
daughter,
"Elizabeth Pace". This "Elizabeth" may have been the wife of John Pace.

5.II. Richard
Richard Pace, whose daughter Tabitha married Richard Moore's
son, John,
evidently moved to nearby Surry County and held land near the Moore
family.
This is shown by a grant of 1200 acres to one Thomas Avent March 1729,
given
by the Va. Council. (V. M. 34, p. 203.) This grant was in Surry County,
"beginning at Richard Moore's line to Stewart's line and over Otterdam
Swamp
to include all land between John Davis and Richard Pace.'
John Barlow, who lived on Otterdam Swamp in Surry, died in 1728. He gave
his
son, William, a plantation "extending down the branch to Richard Pace's
corner." The men named to divide his land among his three sons were
"Richard
Pace, Richard Moore and Thos. Avent." These three men also witnessed the
will.
(Bk. 7, p. 864.)
Previous to his removal to Surry, Richard Pace patented 285 acres in
Prince
George, July 12, 1718. This land afterwards fell in Brunswick County and
was
situated in the Parish of Lawne's Creek, Brunswick, on the north side of
Three
Creeks. This land was conveyed by him to John Bradford "beginning on said
creek side from a corner of Capt. John Sadler's, then by Sadler's line to
George Hambleton's. " Three Creeks arose in Brunswick about seven miles
west
of the Greensville Brunswick county line. The remaining distance to its
mouth
on the Nottaway River is in Greensville. (Duke-Symmes Hist., p. 71.)
Richard Pace removed to Bertie Precinct (later Northampton County), N.
C.,
where he made his will March 12, 1736; same probated 1738. (Grimes'
Abstracts.) He names sons, William, Thomas and Richard Pace; daus. , Ann
Stewart, Amy Green, Frances Green, Tabitha Moore, Mary Johnson, Sarah
House,
and Rebecca Bradford who was the wife of John Bradford of Brunswick.
(Impression of a lion rampant on seal.)
Thomas Pace, son of the above Richard, made his will in
Northampton July 4,
1764; probated February 1765. He gave wife Amy use of manor plantation
"where
I now live during her widowhood if she should marry again I give her
plantation on Stone Hill; daughter Cecilia, 50 and negro girl; daughter
Frances two negroes; son THOMAS plantation where I now live; son
NATHANIEL
PACE old plantation where I formerly lived and 13 negroes. Son NATHANIEL,
exr.
Friend Blake Bates, Overseer." (Bk. A, Part I, p. 125.
In 1792 in Kershaw County, S.C., JOHN MOORE, probably son of John and
Tabitha
(Pace) Moore "In consideration for the love and affection for his
'Cousin'
THOMAS PACE," deeded him cattle and household goods. This may have been
Thomas
Pace (Jr.) mentioned above. (D. B. 1792, See Index.)
WILLIAM MOORE, son of John and Tabitha (Pace) Moore, in his will in S.C.,
dated 1780, gave land to ISHAM BRADFORD, son of MARY BRADFORD. (See Moore
and
Bradford.)
ISHAM BRADFORD of Claremont Co., S. C. on March 1, 1791 deeded THOMAS
PACE and
NATHANIEL PACE, Jr., of the county and state aforesaid, 225 acres in
aforesaid
county on Swift Creek, and 175 acres on the road from Charleston to
Camden,
granted Thomas Stater (?), August 27, 1751. (Deed recorded in Lancaster.)
(Lancaster Bk. B, 80-81.)
Nathaniel Pace was head of a family in Camden District, Claremont
County (now
Sumter) in 1790.



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