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From: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Subject: Re: [PACE-L] ABSOLEM PACE
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 08:57:19 +0000


I too found the physical description of Absolem Pace interesting and
wondered if this was typical of the John & Sarah Burge Pace line.

A researcher we contacted in Guilford Co., NC, found the following
reference to an ABSOLEM PACE:
Letters left in the Greensborough Post Office, 1829:
Absolem Pace, Prothonotor of Guilford County, (clerk of court)

Judging by the Bastardy Bond of Edmond Pace, with Absalom Pace as his
bondsman in Aug 1829, there had to be two Absalom Paces, perhaps this one
the father of ABSALOM PACE JR. (b. 1822 probably rather than in
1821--appre. bond said he was 19 as of Aug. 17, 1840 (appr. bond on Feb.
21, 1840), so he was actually 18 and l/2 on 2/21/1840). This confused me
until I took a closer look at it. He was not yet 19. My ABNER PACE was
born in 1821, age 16 at the time of the bond in Aug. 1837 (no month
given for birthday). They could have been brothers or cousins. My ABNER
PACE was the son of ALSEY PACE (b.1785, illeg. son of STEPHEN PACE +
Indian girl--Stephen was one of the sons of JOHN & SARAH BURGE PACE);
Abner's mother was the wife of Alsey Pace (Zilpha Hall, m. 1820 Johnston
Co., NC). Zilpha Hall Pace and children received financial help from
the Wardens of the Poor in Guilford Co. NC. Apparently Alsey Pace had
disappeared around 1835 or so. An Alsey Pace married a Cassandra Dean in
Johnston Co. NC in 1837, but I don't know for certain that this is the
same Alsey Pace (I think it is, however).

In the paragraph about the Greensborough Post Office, 1829 regarding
ABSALOM PACE. Does this mean he never picked up his mail in 1829,
implying he died or left "town" around then? ABSALOM PACE, PROTHONOTOR
OF GUILFORD COUNTY (clerk of court). I don't know how to read this.
What is Prothonotor? Is that Clerk of the Court?

However, the research associate at the High Point Public Library (Heather
Forbis Marks) told me that there was an ABSALOM PACE on the 1830
Guilford Census with several young children. By 1840 ABSALOM is gone.
ABSALOM JR just seems to disappear after his apprenticing in 1840 to
harness maker William Jean. Perhaps he finished his apprenticeship at
age 21 and moved on. (My Abner Pace was also apprenticed to Hiatt &
Jean saddlemakers in 1837 and finished his apprenticeship in 1843, at
which time he married Julia Anne Reid and moved to Rowan Co. NC).


Betty Pace


On Fri, 03 May 2002 22:15:43 -0500 Marian Dunlap <>
writes:
> 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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