Thomas Pate md Sarah E Rutledge in Henry Co GA 21 Oct 1845 1850 Fayette Co GA Page 14, District 29, site 203/211 THOMAS PATE------46 W/M GA 1804 SARAH E PATE------24 W/F SC 1826 WILLIAM F PATE---16 W/M GA 1834 LOUISA A PATE-----13 W/F GA 1837 MADISON M PATE--11 W/M GA 1839 SUSAN C PATE----- 2 W/F GA 1848 THOMAS J PATE----3m W/M GA 1850 Sarah E Pate is obviously a 2nd wife and was not the mother of William F Pate, Louisa A Pate and Madison M Pate 1850 Fayette Co GA Slave Schedule P 479 THOMAS PATE Dist 29 - 1 B/F AGE 65 P 479 Wm, LOUISA, & M PATE Dist 29 - 1 Mu/M AGE 28 [William F Pate, Louisa Pate and Madison M Pate] Thomas Pate b GA 1804 apparently died after 1854 and prior to 1860 census. His widow, Susan E Rutledge, was enumerated in Walton Co GA 1860 Walton Co GA Page 1051/162, Tanners Store, site 1018/1018 S E Pate---------36 W/F SC 1824 Pauper Susan Pate-----12 W/F GA 1848 Thomas Pate- 10 W/M GA 1850 Mary Pate------ 5 W/F GA 1855 Sarah E Rutledge Pate was enumerated in 1870 Gwinnett Co GA Page 152, Auburn, site 561/551 Sarah E Pate----45 W/F GA 1825 Susan C Pate----21 W/F GA 1849 Thomas J Pate--20 W/M GA 1850 Mary A Pate------17 W/F GA 1853 Some questions about this family. Was Thomas Pate a brother of John Pate who md Amarinda Camp Aaron Pate who md Kiezah Camp Elizabeth Pate who md William Shaw Rebecca Pate who md Jennings Hulsey Nancy Pate who md Charles Husley Who did Thomas Pate first marry? How did his older children, William F, Louisa A and Madison M Pate come to own a slave? Did they inherit the slave? If so, from whom? Do the following four deed transaction bear on these questions? Henry Co (et al GA deeds) (1825?) - Henry Co GA, Deed Bk C/D, p 519. Henry Co, William PATE SR, sold to Charles HULSIE for the sum of $300, 202 1/2 acres, Dist 6, Lot #20. Wit; William HARDIN Clerk; and John M FORBES. Recorded 22 Nov 1825. (No sale date.) 21 Jan 1826 - Butts Co GA, Deed Bk A, p 170. Henry Co GA, 21 Jan 1826, btween Chas HULSEY and James CLAYTON for $350, one half of land in 8th Dist of Henry Co, now Butts Co, part of Lot #221 containing 101 1/4 acres bounded by Masons. Wit; James FLETCHER, William PATE, James KIMBROUGH, JP. Signed: James HULSEY. [This deed was taken from GA Genealogical Magazine, #36, p 157, Spring 1970.] 20 Nov 1844 - Henry Co GA, Deed Bk K, p 380. State of Alabama, Cherokee Co. 20 Nov 1844. Charles HULSEY and his wife Nancy HULSEY relinquished to Nidom B [Needham Bart] HULSEY, for the sum of $1000, all their rights and interest in the Estate of William PATE, late of Henry Co GA as heirs to real and personal property thereunder. Wit: Edward HUGHES, John HUGHES JP, William HUGHES. Recorded 2 Dec 1844, John GODWIN, Clk. 11 Jan 1848 - Henry Co GA, Deed Bk L, p 506. Henry Co. 11 Jan 1848. We, the lawful legatees of the Estate of William PATE, deceased, sell unto David DAILY for the sum of $150, land lying in Lot #45, Dist 6. /s/ John PATE, Aaron PATE, Loret PATE, Charles HALSEY, William SHAW, William PATE, A G HULSEY, William M HULSEY, Elizabeth HAMBRICK, E J HULSEY, H COE, J A BARR, John SWANN, and Thomas PATE. Wit: Samuel COPELAND, William RUTLEDGE, G W ROWAN, John JOHNSON. Recorded 29 May 1849. C M SPEER, Clk