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From: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Subject: [PACE-L] Fw:JOHN PACE (w/Sarah Burge)-TORY IN SURRY CO., NC
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:44:31 +0000


I had corresponded with Ann Brownlee (author of the web site on the
Battle of Shallow Ford, NC) about another matter (see subject below). I
mentioned that my John Pace (w/Sarah Burge) had died at the Battle of
Shallow Ford, we believe. See her response below. I will type up for
her the petition of BURWELL PACE to have John Pace's land restored (from
Bruce Howard's book), but it might be helpful if Jim or Jonathan Pace
(or another interested Pace) could scan the pages of Bruce Howard's
documentation on John's Revolutionary War activities and send them to Ann
Brownlee. She is the most likely party to be able to uncover evidence
that this line of Paces did lose several men as Tories in the American
Revolution in that part of NC. Notice that her group has on occasion
looked for graves.
Betty Pace
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From: Ann Brownlee <>
To: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:37:54 -0700
Subject: Re: TRADING FORD & SALISBURY


Betty A. Pace wrote:
>


> By the way, my John PACE is believed by the Pace researchers to have
died
> at the Battle of Shallow Ford in 1780 but we can't find proof.

Uh, oh! Does that mean he was a Tory? What fuels the belief? Where
was he from? What is known about him about that time? Sometimes I can
pick up on hints and clues that other people don't; I've been working on
it so long. That's really my consuming passion, if you can't tell. If
he was a Tory, they've been especially hard to find, and we'd really
like to. We've had archaeologists out there several times looking for
the grave(s), but so far haven't found it/them. I'd really like to get
some kind of a marker. If he was a Whig, that'd be new news; I thought
I had all the wounded and killed accounted for.

I'd love to hear more.

Ann
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