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From: Marian Dunlap <>
Subject: [PACE-L] ABSOLEM PACE
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 22:15:43 -0500
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Several years ago I had found the name Absolem Pace listed in Bruce
Howard's book "Pace The Roll of Honor Vol I". Since the name Absolem
has been carried down in the Stephen Pace line and there was only one
Absolem Pace listed in this book as serving in the War of 1812 I had
taken note of it. Bruce listed him as a private, Chatham County
Regiment, (Jone's) N.C. Militia. He also suggested if anyone was
interested in ordering further information they should try for Bounty
Land records rather than pension.
Apparently I did this, for I have found in an old Pace file the
information I received from the National Archives. Thought it might be
of interest to someone else. There is a copy of his honorable
discharge, as follows:
"TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Know Ye, that Absolem Pace, a private
of Captain R. A. Lartzinger's Company, 2, U. S. Corps of Artillery, who
was enlisted the eighteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and fourteen
to serve five years, is hereby Honorably Discharged from the Army of the
United States, having faithfully served out the full period of his
enlistment.
"Said Absolem Pace was born in the County of Johnson in the State of
North Carolina, is about twenty two years of age, five feet four inches
high, brown complexion, black eyes, black hair, and by occupation, when
enlisted a (blank).
"Given at Fort McHenry, this eighteenth day of June 1819"
Another page shows Warrant #21732, 160 acres, nature of claim Bounty
Land, and Single. There is no indication where this bounty land was
located, and whether he sold it or moved on it. There is very little
information on the Stephen Pace family in Chatham or Guilford County NC
after they apparently moved there from Johnston Co. Absolem Pace signed
the bond in the amount of $500 in the bastardy case naming his
half-brother Edmond Pace and Francis Smith in 1829 in Guilford Co NC. I
am not sure if anyone has found anything further on him. However, I
think the physical description is interesting. His birth date would
place him as a child of the marriage of Stephen Pace and Nancy Walker,
and he would have been about 16/17 at the time of his enlistment.
Marian

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