MaryAnn, Willoughby had seven sons as far as I know. Three of his sons (Benagy, Nicholas, Harris) have descendants in our Pate DNA Project. Willoughby's other four sons were Currington, Lewis, Travis, and Willis. We would like to have descendants of these four in our Project. Since he is not a male Pate, Joe Scarborough is not a member of the Project, but he is also a descendant of Willoughby. Joe occasionally posts messages on this Listserve. He is a cousin of Harris Pate who produced the DVDs of the Pate Genealogical Convocation, which I wrote about yesterday. Dr. Jim Peacock is the foremost genealogist of Thoroughgood Pate and his descendants. Jim's lectures on this ancestor can be seen in the Convocation DVDs. Jim's seminal work was "Pate Pioneers of the Pee Dee River", published over ten years ago. He is currently preparing a new paper on Thoroughgood which will be an extensive revision of his earlier work. He has done considerable research over the last several years, so the result should add greatly to our knowledge of Thoroughgood and his descendants. I anticipate that this paper will be available by the end of this year or early next year. Jim has said this paper will be final and end his research on this ancestor. Fortunately, Joe Scarborough has followed in Jim's footsteps and will be a worthy successor to continue this work. A. J. Pate _________________________________________ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:35:28 -0500 From: MaryAnn Hormuth <[email protected]> [Excerpts] Benagy Pate is the second child of Willoughby Pate of the Thoroughgood Pate line. My brother, Andrew Pate, Jr., has participated in the Pate DNA study. So far, I have not seen any sign of other descendants in this line on the Pate List. MaryAnn Hormuth

A. J., The statement I made was not very well worded. I meant that I did not know of any other descendants of Benagy Pate who were subscribers to the Pate List - not Willoughby Pate. And I was wrong. Elsie Sikes, who will be leaving the list, is a Benagy Pate descendant through the son, William Nelson Pate (1843? - 1905), as I am. Benagy's other son. Harris Pate, did not marry nor have children as stated in an affidavit on file in the National Archives and signed by Benagy Pate (according to research by MaeAllen Form and reported in her manuscript). Harris died in a Virginia hospital during the Civil War. In the past year I have had e-mail exchanges with William (Bubba) Davis who is a descendant of William Nelson's younger sister, Sienna Pate. Bubba now lives in Tomball, Texas, close to the Pate-Sanders Cemetery where William Nelson Pate is buried. He took charge of the final placement of the Confederate marker for William Nelson Pate's grave. He should be a member of the Pate List. I do have a fairly early copy of Jim Peacock's work on the Pee Dee River Pates. The original serious researcher for the William Nelson Pate family introduced me to him several years ago. Joan Pate took the tidbits of family information that I received from my father and worked hard to find Elizabeth Parker and Ben Pate. Joan literally disappeared from all contact when she divorced her Pate husband. I'll step out of line and mention that I do wish all partcipants in the Pate List would be more professional and businesslike. MaryAnn Pate Hormuth > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:02:10 -0500 > Subject: [PATE] Willoughby Pate, etc. -- for MaryAnn Hormuth > > MaryAnn, > > Willoughby had seven sons as far as I know. Three of his sons (Benagy, Nicholas, Harris) have descendants in our Pate DNA Project. Willoughby's other four sons were Currington, Lewis, Travis, and Willis. We would like to have descendants of these four in our Project. > > Since he is not a male Pate, Joe Scarborough is not a member of the Project, but he is also a descendant of Willoughby. Joe occasionally posts messages on this Listserve. He is a cousin of Harris Pate who produced the DVDs of the Pate Genealogical Convocation, which I wrote about yesterday. > > Dr. Jim Peacock is the foremost genealogist of Thoroughgood Pate and his descendants. Jim's lectures on this ancestor can be seen in the Convocation DVDs. Jim's seminal work was "Pate Pioneers of the Pee Dee River", published over ten years ago. He is currently preparing a new paper on Thoroughgood which will be an extensive revision of his earlier work. He has done considerable research over the last several years, so the result should add greatly to our knowledge of Thoroughgood and his descendants. I anticipate that this paper will be available by the end of this year or early next year. Jim has said this paper will be final and end his research on this ancestor. Fortunately, Joe Scarborough has followed in Jim's footsteps and will be a worthy successor to continue this work. > > A. J. Pate > > _________________________________________ > > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:35:28 -0500 > From: MaryAnn Hormuth <[email protected]> > > [Excerpts] > Benagy Pate is the second child of Willoughby Pate of the Thoroughgood Pate line. My brother, Andrew Pate, Jr., has participated in the Pate DNA study. > So far, I have not seen any sign of other descendants in this line on the Pate List. > MaryAnn Hormuth > > ------------------------------- > 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