Patience listed in the will of Thomas Howell (1794) appears to be surnamed PACE. My reading of the copy I have, which several of us have looked at and decided it is probably PACE. It has been indexed as Pair. Someone needs to figure out about how old Thomas Howell was when he died in 1794. My take on the whole thing is that Patience probably was a younger 2nd wife of George Pace. They had a son William and George protected his welfare by putting that 60 pounds at interest for him in his will, he already having a grown son. George went on to live several years more after the will, so he was not on his death bed at the time he made the will. William Pace who I take to be the son of Patience witnessed a Howell deed in 1793 or 1794 in Halifax County NC. Without looking it up, it was about the same time Patience and son William sold their land. It is about the only time I think I have William son of Patience and George doing something to get his name in a record. William and wife Sisley are over in Franklin County since 1775 Shirley Pace Graham. In a message dated 2/5/2009 3:58:23 P.M. Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Thanks for mentioning the Lane connection. It is interesting, but something does seem to be wrong. So often the same given names recur in different branches of the same family -- it may be something like that. Or my brain going, which is also a possibility. But also, at least one online abstract of Thomas Howell's will calls her "Patience Pearce", not "Patience Pace". (http://www.jhowell.com/tng/showsource.php?sourceID=S1378&tree=1). Then further down on the same page she comes out as "Patience Fair". It must either be hard to read in the original, or the various transcribers were having a bad day. I will leave her as Patience ___________. James --- On Thu, 2/5/09, James Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > From: James Pace <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PACE] NC, George Pace, wife Patience > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 12:34 PM > I have been looking into to Howell family research on the > web. The line back from Thomas Howell is rather interesting, > there being a connection to the Lanes, who in turn drop back > down their line to some Paces. However, according to these > sources, the Matthew Howell in Thomas's will would have > to be a contemporary of William Pace. His sister would have > been of the same generation, and therefore, could not have > been William's mother. This, of course, is not primary > information. > James R. Pace > > --- On Tue, 5/5/09, Ricky Pace <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: Ricky Pace <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PACE] NC, George Pace, wife Patience > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 10:16 AM > > You probably have already seen this. > > This info came from Gordon W. Pace: > "Patience Pace is named as a daughter of Thomas Howell > in his will dated > 2/10/1794. Also, the will of George Pace of Halifax Co > names sons John and > William and it is witnessed by Matthew Howell on 1/7/1773, > brother of > Patience Howell above. > This is the primary evidence for Patience Howell as the > wife of George Pace > of Halifax Co, NC." > > Patience is listed in the Tax Records: Patiance Pace 1786 > Halifax Co Distict > #2 > > Ricky > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Blair" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:41 PM > Subject: [PACE] NC, George Pace, wife Patience > > > > Can anyone tell me, has Patience's maiden name > been proved? I have > read > > that it was Howell but is there proof? > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the > body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://ad.doubleclick. net/clk;211531132;33070124;e)