Mary (Bussey) Pace (abt. 1745 - 1806)

Born about 1745 in Maryland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Drury Pace — married 1768 in Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina

Descendants

Died 1806 at about age 61 in Richmond County, Georgia, USA

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Biography

We do not have a record of Mary's birth. According to Sons of the American Revolution applications, Mary was born in 1745 at South Carolina (note, these were not necessarily approved applications).^[1] Some online databases report that she was born at Edgefield, South Carolina, apparently without evidence. This is unlikely as, according to Bonnie Chandler, Mary's family removed to South Carolina from the eastern shore of Maryland.^[2] In about 1765, Charles Bussey and family settled on the Savannah River, eight miles north of Augusta, "on the Carolina side."^[3]

Family

We do not have a record of the marriage, but it seems that Mary and Drury Pace were married about 1768 or 1770 at either North or South South Carolina.^[4][5][2]

Children of Drury and Mary:^[3]

1. Micajah/Micahah Pace d age 17
2. Nancy Pace; mar Obiah Morgan
3. William Pace; mar 1) Lucretia Robinson Gardiner, 2) Agatha Parker
4. Rebecca Pace d young
5. Rhoda Pace; mar 1) Enoch Morgan, 2) Wilma Price
6. Fanny Pace d July 18, 1811; mar George Getzen
7. Drury Pace d 1817; mar Phereby Jones
8. Mary Pace; mar John Darlin
9. Frances Pace
10. Richard Pace, Rev. d Nov 28, 1858; mar Anne Bussey
11. Barnabas Pace; mar Patsy Harris

Death and Legacy

According to Sons of the American Revolution applications and online data bases, Mary died c. 1806 at 1806 Richmond County, Georgia.^[1] In Drury's will dated January 16, 1801 and recorded May 4, 1801, he left his property to his sons, but Mary was to have lifetime use of all the Georgia lands.^[6][7] Those land were sold in 1811, possibly after Mary's death.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} [ Ancestry Record sarmemberapps #863628 U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.] Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA, 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Chandler, Bonnie Haynes, "Richard Pace" (Pages 5-6) 1999, transcribed in 2005 by James Clinton Howell, accessed April 17, 2015
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Pace, Noble Hamilton, Pace: One of America's Earliest Emigrant Families. (Pages 46-7) Columbus, MS: 1962, HathiTrust accessed April 17, 2015
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Gibbons, Elayne Pair, "Drury PACE Rev.,capt." Pair Family, July 21, 2010, accessed April 17, 2015
5. ↑ Hunting For Bears, comp., [ Ancestry Record scmarriages_ga #217012 South Carolina Marriages, 1641-1965.] Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data - South Carolina marriage information from original records in microfilm, microfiche ...
6. ↑ "Descendants of Richard Pace Gentleman" Citing "History of the Pace Family," compiled by Freda Reid Turner, Pace Society of America, Page 117, accessed April 17, 2015
7. ↑ Vol. of Wills 1798-1840, Richmond Co., Ga., p 8.

See also:

• Georgia Daughters of the American Revolution Chapters, Historical Collections Vol. II, p 50, for an abstract of Drury's will

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Elayne Pair Gibbons for your research and for generously sharing in on RootsWeb.
• Thank you to Bonnie Haynes Chandler for your extensive research and for writing it all down for us, and to your grandson, James Clinton Howell, who transcribed it for the internet.