Paces in South Carolina
I am compiling and editing all Pace information I have collected over many years. Below is my file for Paces in South Carolina. I welcome any additions from other family historians.
PACES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
1759. Richard Pace enlisted in South Carolina under Col. John Chevelette for service in the Indian War.This was probably the son of Richard Pace of Johnston County, NC, who moved to the Edgefield area about 1756.
ABBEVILLECOUNTY.
Part of old Granville County on the western boundary of SC, Abbeville County was formed in 1785 and included parts of present day Anderson, Greenwood and McCormick.It lies north of Edgefield and borders the Savannah River. Abbeville is the county seat.
1810 Census.John Pace, head of household, 26-40 years old.He was a son of Silas and Mary Newsom Pace who had lived in Edgefield for some years.
April 24, 1811.Silas Pace, brother of John, had died by this date. His estate was inventoried. John Pace was Administrator. Probate records, Abbeville. Box 74, Pack 1819.Silas’s wife was Elizabeth Foreman.
March, 1832. Sarah Pace, widow of John Pace, settled his estate in Abbeville.As administrator, she posted $10,000 bond.Probate Records, Box 72, Pack 1768.
March 31, 1849. An Abstract of the administration of the estate of Silas H. Pace.Wills and Bonds, Box 120, Package 3541, by Pauline Young:Administered by Sarah Pace, Silas Pace and John Davis.Sarah Pace showeth that her son Silas H. Pace died 10 March 1849 without wife or children. Heirs included three sisters, a brother, and six children of Richard Pace, deceased, and one child of Lucinda Conner. Some heirs lived outside South Carolina, the minor heirs of Richard Pace: Sarah Jane Pace, John Pinckney Pace, John Thomas Pace and his wife Matilda.
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.
This county, not to be confused with Chester County, lay in old Craven County, an original county, between Lancaster (west) and Marlboro (east) and north of Darlington County and Kershaw County.Its northern boundary was North Carolina.It was founded in 1785. Chesterfield is the county seat.
One source says Frederick Pace immigrated to South Carolina from Wales in 1768 with his wife Elizabeth and six children: Frederick Pace, Jr., William, John, Dempsey, Dillie and Anna.
Dempsy Pace, Census of 1800.
Frederick Pace, Census of 1800.
John Pace, Census of 1800.
William Pace, Census of 1800.
John Pace and Dempsey Pace are listed in Clark County, Alabama, in a special U.S. Census in 1816.
John Pace had gone to Tennessee, then to Kentucky, and then to Clark County, Alabama, about 1809.
William Pace served in the Revolution and married Miss Drucilla Grissom (Grisham) from Georgia.
Dillie Pace married John Campbell, son of James Campbell of Bertie County, NC.There is little information on Frederick Pace, Jr. and his sister Anna Pace.
EDGEFIELD COUNTYSC
Edgefield lay in original Granville County on the western edge of SC. It became a county in 1785. Today it borders the Savannah River, Aiken, Saluda, Greenwood and McCormick counties. Edgefield is the county seat.
Richard Pace, born about 1700 in Surry County, Virginia, moved to NC and lived in Northampton County, north of the Roanoke River. His parents were Richard and Rebecca Pace.He disposed of land in 1744, possibly to move away.His grandson, the Rev. Barnabas Pace, said Richard settled in SC about 1756 and died before the War for Independence. His wife was Elizabeth Cain, daughter of William Cain who made his will in Bertie County in 1732, witnessed by Richard.Children of Richard and Elizabeth Pace; James, Silas, Charles, Dredsil, Noel, Thomas (who died single in Richmond County, Georgia), Drury, Barnabas and Richard Pace, a daughter who married Arthur Fort, a daughter who married C. Daniel, a daughter who married Mr. Cox, and a fourth daughter whose name and marriage are not of record.The Rev. Barnabas Pace, writing in the 1840’s, said Richard Pace “mustered all his sons and daughters and sons-in-law and daughters-in-law and moved out and settled within thirteen miles of Augusta, Georgia, in a northeast direction, for the whole country was a wilderness at that time which was 1758 or thereabouts, bringing with him some 400 head of cattle and every necessary thing to make a home. Here he lived a few years and the old Cherokee war breaking out in 1761 the family mostlymoved back to North Carolina in the same county Uncle Cox lived in. Here they lived two years, then moved back to the Savannah River 25 miles above Augusta, obtained land, cleared a farm, lived and died, him and Grandmother, just before the war. His remains lie within about 100 yards of the river.”
Dredzel Pace, son of Richard and Elizabeth, was an Indian trader. His brother Silas was administrator of his estate.
Dec. 7, 1756. Edward Musgrove, Deputy Surveyor of S.C., surveyed 100 acres in Granville County for Richard Pace, Jr., and 200 acres for Richard Pace, Sr.. Richard Pace, Sr.’s land was vacant on all sides and Richard Pace, Jr.s’ was vacant on three sides, Stephen’s Creek was on one side and the “Path to Augusta” ran diagon-ally through it. (Colonial Plats, Vol. 6, p. 283, SC Archives). The State of Georgia surveyed a 22 acre island in the Savannah River, St. Paul’s Parish, August 12, 1759 (Plat Book C, p. 417, Georgia Archives) and on Dec. 7, 1762, granted it to Richard Pace (Grants, Book D, p. 241).
March 4, 1767. Council Chamber Minutes. “To Prolong Warrants”.Silas Pace, 100 acres on the Savannah River (Council Journal, Vol. 33, pp. 59-60, SC Archives). 100 acres was surveyed for Silas, March 26, 1767, in Granville County, SC, near Pace’s Island.Colonial Plats, Vol. 19, p.29.The land was vacant on all sides and a small branch ran through it to the river. The grant was issued Jan. 20, 1773, by the Rt. Honorable Lord Charles Granville Montague, Governor General and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of South Carolina (Royal Grants, Vol 28, p. 105. SC Archives).
Silas Pace received an English Crown grant of 100 acres in St. Paul’s Parish in Georgia, Jan. 1, 1774. Grant Book M, p. 718 and p. 500, Georgia Archives).
Barnabas Pace said his uncle Silas Pace was the second son and married Miss Mary Newsom.
When Silas Pace married is not known but on Dec. 13, 1770, Solomon Newsom, Sr., deeded slaves to his daughter Mary Pace.Misc. Bonds, Book Y-1, p. 219, Georgia Archives).Other records identify his wife as Mary and records in Wilkes County, Georgia, and Edgefield County, SC, indicate she was a Newsom.Silas was in Georgia in 1774 when he signed a paper circulated in his area regarding the troubles between the town of Boston and the British government. The signers objected to resolutions drawn up by 14 persons published as acts of the province of Georgia. They had no prior knowledge of them and disapproved of them “altogether”.The signers, 115 men, lived in Wrights-borough and places adjacent to it.Thomas Pace and Silas Pace signed.See Historical Collections of Georgia, by the Rev. George White, pp. 412-413.The Rev. Barnabas Pace wrote that Silas was a Tory but his name does not appear on the Georgia list of Toriesor of British citizens living in Georgia who went to Florida during the War.Barnabas was Silas’s nephew.See Wilkes County, Georgia.
Silas Pace died before 1790.Mrs. Maud Kelly, family researcher, stated Silas married a woman named Elizabeth. No proof of this is available and documents seems to confirm his wife was Mary. Mrs. said, too, that Silas bought land from his brother Noel Pace, and lived in Edgefield District in 1786.
1790 Census, Edgefield District.
Mary Pace, head of family. 1 m 16 years and older; 3 males under 16 years; 2 females, free white, including head of family.
The older male would be John Pace.The three younger males: William, Silas and David Pace.
Census of 1800. Mary Pace, head of family.2 m 16-26. 1 female 10-16. 1 female 45 and over.
The two males would be Silas and David.The young female would be Mary Ann Pace.
The Judge of Probate, Edgefield, recorded in Book A, p. 474 (1800) “A Statement of Negroes in possession of Mary Pace, made by A. Dozier, Esq., and requested to be recorded by John Newsom.”
Stephney, 25 years of age,$500
Battis, 23 years of age$450
Ditto Charles 21$500
Lucy 17$400
Chills 14$350
Edy14$300
Jacob 10$300
Joe8$250
Aggy 7$225
Total value: $3,275
This was certified Nov. 7, 1801, by Hugh Middleton, James Thomas and Joel Grezezil.
1801. Drury Pace, son of Richard and Elizabeth Pace, and brother of Silas, died in Edgefield County. He inherited Pace Island in the Savannah River from his father. He married Mary Bussy in 1768, whose parents were from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He served in the Revolution, though most of his neighbors and two o fhis brothers were Tories,according to his son Barnabas Pace,Barnabas wrote a family history in th e1840’s and described Drury’s personality, appearance and behavior. Drury was born in October, 1745, in North Carolina.He was a Mason and a Baptist.Children:Macajah Pace who died before 1790; Rebeccah Pace who died before 1790; William Pace; Drury Pace; Richard Pace (fourth son, born August 9, 1785;Barnabas Pace; Nancy Pace; Fanny Pace; Rhoda Pace; Mary Pace.The Rev. Barnabas Pace’s original account of the family was owned at one time by J. Haralson Pace of Avondale Estates,Georgia.
Drury left his land in Edgefield District, SC, to his sons Drury and William. His property in Lincoln County, Georgia, went to Richard.Land in Richmond County went to Barnabas.
Drury Pace, son of Drury and Mary Pace, was born in 1785. He was an ordained Baptist minister in 1822.He moved ot Putnam County, Georgia, and then to Calhoun County, Alabama. He died in Walker County, Texas, in 1858. Only one of his sons, Virgil Homer Pace, survived from his family.
Feb. 26, 1802.Mary Pace, widow of Silas Pace, dec’d, asked the court for letters of administration on the estate and effects of Silas Pace, deceased. Written on the outside of the Citation is: “March 14 this Citation was Read at Cuffetown Meeting house and the 20 and 21 it was Read in meeting at the Plum Branch Meeting House by Enoch Breazeale, March 21, 1802”. Record Book A, 1800, pp. 552-554.
The Warrant of Appointment was issued March 26, 1802, and Mary signed her bond for $1000 the same day. Signing with her as surety were John Tolbert and James Finley.Probate Box 44, Package 1821.
The inventory, dated 19 May 1802, was taken by William Hall, Richard Quarles and John Lyon.It listed:
1 Lot Pewter$5.00
1 old spinning wheel$ .50
1 Pott$2.00
Total: $7.50.
Mary appears to have moved to Georgia by 1803.See Columbia County, Georgia, formerly St. Paul’s Parish, and taken from Richmond in 1790.See Columbia County records.
Edgefield Marriage Records, by Carlee T. McClendon, for the late 1700’s to 1870 show no Paces but many Matthews.Edgefield was a part of Ninety Six District until 1785.
GREENVILLE COUNTYSC
Greenville County, just west of Spartanburg Couinty, was founded in 1786.A part of original Craven County, it lies in the upcountry and borders North Carolina. See Spartanburg County for Paces who lived in the two counties.
KERSHAW COUNTY.
Kershaw County was originally old Craven County, Camden District.Craven occupied about half of colonial South Carolina.Kershawwas founded in 1791.It lay south of Lancaster and Chesterfield, east of Fairfield, west of Darlington and north of Richland and Sumpter.
Camden is the county seat.
Nathaniel Pace was born in 1743 as determined by a record of is Revolutionary service, son of Thomas Pace and Amy Pace, thought to be a Boykin.Hemoved from Northampton County, NC, a few years after the death of his father, Thomas Pace, in 1764. Nathaniel was his executor.As a source document shows, he was sued in Bute County for debt due the estate and the plantation and grist mill there, left to his brother Richard, was sold at auction to settle the debt in 1767.
He moved to Craven County, S.C., in 1768.
He married Mildred Boykin in 1772, according to the family Bible, probably in Camden District, SC, then Craven County, now Kershaw County.She was probably a daughter of William and Elizabeth Boykin of that county. William had died by 1760 when Samuel Williams, who had married Anne Boykin, sister of William and Celia Boykin, left his entire estate to “Elizabeth Boykin and her children: Samuel, Burwell, Francis, Mildred, John and William, children of William Boykin, deceased”.
Nathaniel Pace acquired 850 acres in Craven County in four land transactions from Feb. 10, 1768, to August 30, 1771. This land was later in Claremont County, nowCamden County, near the Boykins. Mildred Boykin’s brothers fought in the Revolutionas did Nathaniel.Francis Boykin wasa major in the Mounted Regulars and married Catherine Whitaker. Samuel Boykin was captain of a company of Catawba Indians.William Boykin wasa private.Francis and William Boykinobtained land in Washington County, Georgia, as “Refugees who had served in militia companies outside the State of Georgia”.A DAR record, not completely accurate, states Nathaniel Pace was born July 16, 1743 and died Oct. 1, 1798, came to Washington County, Georgia, with his wife Amelia (Mildred) Boykin, sister of Major Francis Boykin, Revolutionary soldier of South Carolina. Daugher Frances married Richard Whittaker, son of Hudson Whittaker, Revolutionary soldier.
“Historic Camden”, by J. Kirkland, p. 346, states Amelia Boykin, only daughter of William Boykin (his wife was a Bryant) married Thomas Pace, who moved to Georgia with Francis Boykin in 1800. She died in 1835 at an advanced age.
Obviously, this Amelia Boykin would not have married both Nathaniel Pace and Thomas Pace.Major Thomas Pace did live in Washington County about this time and had a young son who died there who could have been of this marriage.Was this Thomas Pacea son of Richard Pace, (son of Thomas and Rebecca and uncle of Nathaniel Pace)?This Richard Pace moved to South Carolina and settled near Augusta about 1759.
Nathaniel Pace is listed in the 1790 Census of Claremont County, no longer a county.
Other Pace relatives moved to this area of SC. William Moore, a first cousin, son of Nathaniel’s aunt Tabitha Pace Moore, gave up some land toIsham Bradford, another cousin who was son of Rebecca Pace Bradford, Tabitha’s sister, and lived in Claremont County (old Camden District), later Sumter County.Isham Bradford, March 1, 1791, gave 225 acres on Swift Creek in Claremont, later Sumter County, to Thomas and Nathaniel Pace, Jr., obviously sons of Nathaniel Pace. In the same year in Kershaw County,SC, John Moore, another son of Tabitha Pace Moore, died. He left cattle and household goods in his will to his cousin Thomas Pace “in love and affection for him”.
The Tax List of Washington County, Georgia, for 1825, shows Nathaniel Pace was owner of 385 acres and 9 slaves.Samuel Pace owned 270 acres and 5 slaves.
The Family Bible of Nathaniel and Mildred Pace lists these children:
1. Rebecca Pace, born in 1773.
2. Thomas Pace, born in 1776.
3. Tabitha Pace, born in 1777.
4. Nathaniel Pace, Jr., born in 1779.
5. John Pace, born in 1781.
6. Elizabeth Pace, born in 1785.
7. Frances Pace, born in 1786 (who married Richard Whittaker in 1804).
8. William Pace, born in 1788.
9. Sarah Pace, born in 1790.
10.Samuel Pace, born in 1793, who married Nancy Hardin in 1817.
11.Bryant Pace, born in 1795, who married RebeccaIrwin in 1816.
10. Harriet Pace, born in 1797, who married John McArthur.
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, SC
Formed in 1785 and bordering on North Carolina, Greenville County (west), Cherokee County and Union County (east) and Laurens (south). Spartanburg is the county seat.
1760.
John Pace is listed in the Bristol Parish Vestry Book. Virginia, in 1760under “Sundry Insolvents” as owing the parish 4 pounds, 8 shillings.The entry is marked “Removed to Brunswick”.
This same year, John and Richard Pace sold 16 acres in Martins Brandon Parish to William Goodwynne.
In 1759, Richard Pace of Martins Brandon Parish, Virginia, bought 150 acres for 35 pounds from Thomas Drake, Edgecombe County, NC, on Fishing Creek, not far from the plantation of Thomas and Cebelle Pace.
John Pace and Ann Russell were married in 1759 in Brunswick County, Virginia.She was a daughter of John Russell.When the Paces moved to Greenville County, SC, is not certain.John Pacedied in Greenville County, SC, in 1823.See Compilation of Bruce A. Howard, Mobile, Alabama, in Pace Society Bulletin, No. 57, Sept. 1981.John’s second wife was Obedience Chastain.
John’s children:
1. Isaac Pace who married Mary and moved to Georgia in 1798. He died in Gwinnett County, Georgia, in 1828. Mary died in Alabama after 1850. Their children: John who married Nancy; Martha A. Pace who married John Osborn; a daughter who married James Anderson; another daughter; another son; Elizabeth who married Sherwood Stroud; another daughter; Isaac Pace, Jr., who married Parthinia Layton; Richard Pace who married Mary Ray; William Pace.
2. Richard Russell Pace who married Elizabeth Lucas. They moved to Warren County, Kentucky, in 1800 where she died in 1818. He married again and moved to Callaway County. He died in Livingston County, Kentucky, in 1828?The children lived in Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri: Lemuel L. Pace who married Susanna; John Lucas Pace who married Harriet Byrd and then Rebecca Hamby; a son; Mary Ann Pace who married John Craddock; Richard Russell Pace, Jr., who married Elizabeth Proctor and then Mary N. Proctor;William Pace who married ____Tubbs; Twitty R. Pace who married Mary Dark and then Judith Fox; Elizabeth Pace who married James Jordan; Susannah Pace who married Gideon Tucker; George W.L. Pace who married Emily Nichols.
3. Stephen Pace who marriedJaneWood in Spartanburg County, SC. He died in Greenville County in 1809. She then married Joab Bruton and died in Georgia in 1878 or 1879. Most of their children moved to Georgia: William W. Pace who married Harriet; Ann R. Pace who married Benjamin Lynch; Madian Pace who married Seth P. Poole; John Pace;Frances Pace who married Claybourn P. Poole; James Lemuel Pace who married Lanett.
4. John Pace, Jr.,He moved to Warren County, Kentucky where he married Zeporah Kirby in 1799. He moved back to Spartanburg County, SC, in 1800, returned to Warren County, Ky,, and in 1817 moved to Alabama where he died in Blount County about 1830.His wife died in Spartanburg County, SC. Most of his children went to Texas and Arkansas: Elizabeth who married Sherrod Roland; Martha W. Pace who married Christopher Roland, then Ebenezer Ingram, then Joel Arrington; Anna Pace who married Wilson Foreman; David Kirby Pace who married Bethany Petty; Agnes Pace who married Hiram Wright; Amelia Pace who married Enoch Alldredge; Jesse K.H. Pace who married Elizabeth Petty; Zephorah Alabama Pace who married William Ridge.
5. Jeremiah R. Pace who married Keziah Brittain. Moved to Buncombe County, NC, and lived in Macon and Haywood Counties before settling in Dade County, Georgia, where both died. Their children lived in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas: Delilah Pace who married William Ingram; Stephen L. Pace; Minerva who married John P. Davidson; Comfort Ann Pace who married William McCurdy; Martha Pace who married Moses Sterrett; Elizabeth Pace who married Larkin Hendrix; Nancy R. Pace; Keziah Evaline Pace who married Gideon Blackburn; Benjamin Francis Pace who married Amanda C. Meaders; Harriet Catherine Pace who married Wm. D. Morrison; Jeremiah G. Pace who married Gardenhire.
6. Martha Pace who married BenjaminLangford.They lived for years in Jackson County, Alabama, and moved to Pope County, Arkansas, in 1828. Ben left a will in 1844 in Pope County. Their children lived in Arkansas and Texas: Prudence Langford who married John H. Price; Sinai Langford who married Thos. J. Gardner; Eveline Langford who married Robert S. Bewley; Benjamin Langford, Jr.; Anna Langford who married John H. Ridge; Milton H. Langford who married Mary Ann Banta and then Martha A. Crier; John P. Langford who married Elizabeth McCain and then Ann E. Waller; Robert Berry Langford who married Caroline Langford.
7. Twitty Pace who married Susannah Duncan. They lived several years in Warren County, Kentucky, and migrated then to Morgan County, Alabama. In the late 1820’s, they migrated to Pope County, Arkansas, and then to Fannin County, Texas where he died in 1849. Their children lived in Arkansas and Texas: Alfred Elkins Pace who married Eliz. S. Hardaway; Urias D. Pace who married Jane Rogers; Narcissus Pace who married John G. Jouett; John Sexton Pace who married Rachel Fitzgerald; Artimesia Pace; Emeline Pace who married Leonard Wallace and then Overton Alston; Albert Gallatin Pace who married Mary L. Hardaway; Erveline Pace who married Simeon D. Nunelle; Joseph E. Pace who married Eliz. Wethersbee; Twitty Pace, Jr.; Ashley L. Pace who married Louisianna Gilbert ant then Araminta Davis.
8. Francis Pace who married Mary Lynch. They were the last of the children to leave Greenville County, SC. They moved to Johnson County, Arkansas, and settled near Twitty Pace and his family. Francis Pace died in 1838 in this county. Children: Wilmer Pace (not certain); William B. Pace who married Elizabeth A.; Elizabeth Elena Pace who married Thos. J. Gardner; John M. Pace who married Elizabeth Evans; daughter; Milliner E.Pace who married Mary L. and then E.J. Pridgeon; Benjamin Lynch Pace who married Mary then Lucy Murray and then Sarah Nunn; Mary Ann Pace who married Aronton Reed.
9. Elizabeth Pace who married John W. Cothran. Child of the second marriage to Obedience Chastain. She died about 1832 in NC or Tennessee, with 6 children. The family moved to Cherokee County, Alabama. Job, John W.A., and Willie J. might have been her children.
Burrell Pace, Census of 1800.
John Pace, Census of 1800.
John Pace, Census of 1800.
Stephen Pace, Census of 1800.
SUMTER COUNTY.
In original Craven County, Sumter was called Claremont until founded in 1798.The county seat is Sumter. It is bounded (north) by Kershaw and Lee, east by Florence, south by Clarendon and west by Richlands, home of the state capital, Columbia.
Nathaniel Pace is listed in the 1790 Census of Claremont County, no longer a county.
Other Pace relatives moved to this area of SC. William Moore, a first cousin, son of Nathaniel’s aunt Tabitha Pace Moore, gave up some land toIsham Bradford, another cousin who was son of Rebecca Pace Bradford, Tabitha’s sister, and lived in Claremont County (old Camden District), later Sumter County.Isham Bradford, March 1, 1791, gave 225 acres on Swift Creek in Claremont, later Sumter County, to Thomas and Nathaniel Pace, Jr., obviously sons of Nathaniel Pace. In the same year in Kershaw County, SC, John Moore, another son of Tabitha Pace Moore, died. He left cattle and household goods in his will to his cousin Thomas Pace “in love and affection for him”.
YORK COUNTYSC.
York County was founded in 1785.It borders North Carolina (north), Cherokee (west), Lancaster (east) and Chester (south).York is the county seat.
William Pace, Census of 1800.
Marriage Notices in the South Carolina Gazette, abstracted by Salley:No Paces.
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