Pace/Reavis migration
It is a matter of historical record that The Great Awakening converted many in Southern Virginia to the Baptist faith 1740-60. Many converts moved to North Carolina to practice their new faith. It is also a matter of historical record that after the battle of alamance 1770 there was an exodus of Baptists from the areas they first setted in North Carolina westward or southward.
James Reavis' family is an example of these migrations. James moved into what became Northampton Co, North Carolina abt 1745 from Henrico Co, Virginia. He moved his family to Surry Co. North Carolina 1770-72 and was affiliated by letter to the Dutchman's Creek Baptist Church. He and his wife were still there for the 1790 census. Shortly after his wife died James followed two of his sons, David and James, to Rutherford Co, North Carolina.
David Reavis' daughter Sarah born abt 1793 married Daniel Kimsey Pace in 1815. Daniel pace was the grandson of John Pace the Tory who lived in Surry Co, North Carolina. There is circumstacial evidence that John migrated from Virginia to the same "Baptist" settled area as James Reavis during the same time frame, and followed the same migratory patern to Surry Co. John's neighbors migrated to Surry Co. and puchased land in the same area as John the same year.
John the Tory's son Burrell migrated to South Carolina fron Surry Co in the 1790s, then back to North Carolina abt 1802. The migratory pattern of the Pace's and Reavis' is basically the same, adding to the evidence that John Pace of Edgecombe Co. is John the Tory.
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