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From: John Krall <>
Subject: Re: [PACE-L] Fw: Re: JOHN PACE (TORY) & 1780 BATTLE OF SHALLOWFORD, NC
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:13:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20020530.105108.-226389.2.bapace2@juno.com>
on 5/30/02 5:51 AM, Betty A. Pace at wrote:
> Maybe Ann Brownlee can find some record that establishes John Pace and
> sons Richmond and Thomas as involved in the Battle of Shallow Ford, Surry
> Co. NC. She has done much research on that battle.
>
> She is recommending the Moravian Diaries as a place to look for "gossip"
> about the Tory neighbors, possibly our John Pace. It can be acquired
> through inter-library loan.
>
> Betty Pace
I believe the Moravian Diaries Betty is referring to may be "Records of the
Moravians in North Carolina" edited by Adelaide L. Fries, Archivist of the
Moravian Church in America, Southern Province. This is a chronologically
arranged presentation of extracts from church and personal journals of
members of the group of co-religionists who trace their roots to Jan Hus, a
Protestant martyr who predated Martin Luther by nearly a century. They
called themselves the Bohemian Brethren, Unitas Fratrum and, around 1722 in
Germany, the Renewed Moravian Church. Members of this unique community
located in the area now known as Winston-Salem when they purchased a vast
tract of land they called Wachovia in 1853. From that date until 1766, when
Salem was founded, they were located in Bethania and Bethabara. From the
first they were a literate, record keeping group. The "Records" detail the
settlement along with interactions with the "English" as people not of the
group were often called. I own several volumes of the series but
unfortunately not those dealing with the time period of the Revolution. What
makes this such a valuable resource are the detailed indices which include
names and places as they occur in the old records. An example of the work
can be found at:
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Bookshelf/Moravian/extrac
ts.htm
The foreword that Miss Fries wrote in the first volume can be found at:
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Bookshelf/Moravian/friesp
ref.htm
At that same website I found an account of the battle published November 8,
1780, written at New Moravian Town, October 16, 1780 by Major General
Smallwood:
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Newspapers/subjects/Rev.h
tm
No mention of any names is made but the death of fifteen Tories is recalled.
John Krall
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