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Descendants of Richard Pace I

Generation No. 8

17. BURWELL POPE⁸ PACE (JOHN⁷, GEORGE⁶, RICHARD⁵, GEORGE⁴, RICHARD³, GEORGE², RICHARD¹) was born 1758 in Edgecombe County, N.C., and died 1816 in Saluda, N.C.. He married LYDIA WOODRUFF 1779 in Surry County, N.C., daughter of MOSES WOODRUFF and PHEBE MARSH.

Notes for BURWELL POPE PACE:
Burwell Pope Pace, 21 years of age, John's second son, wrote a petition on June 28, 1781, as follows.
"To the Honorable, the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina:
The petition of Burwell Pace humbly showeth that your petitioner, from the commencement of the present war, has been uniformly a zealous espouse of the American cause, and has on all occasions been active in counteracting its enemies. But, unfortunately for your petitioner, his father and brother (from each of whom he might have inherited a considerable fortune, had their minds not been perverted by contrary principles) were both killed in the act of rebellion against this country, whereby their possessions became forfeited, and your petitioner prevented from inheriting that which he would otherwise been entitled to.
Your petitioner's father, previous to his death, entered a piece of land in one of the entry offices of this state in the name of his brother, Richmond Pace, which alone, your petitioner being much necessitated for the want of land, among other things, humbly entreats your honorable body would invest in his and his heirs, by an act thereof, as a reward and requital of that attachment and active fidelity which your petitioner has evinced by the most irrefragable proofs that he bears his country and to which the respectable subscribers hereof do bear most ample testimony.
Grant this most reasonable petition and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray, etc."

(Signed) "Burwell Pace"

Brigadier General Summer and Colonel Robertson were the "respectable subscribers" to this petition. In Court on June 28, 1781, "The petition referred to being read, was rejected".
Burwell married Lydia Woodruff and in 1784 applied for another grant of 150 acres across the Yadkin River in Yadkin County, NC. The following year, 1785, Burwell obtained two land grants in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Which lay on Two Mile Creek not far from "Woodruff Community" which later became the town of Woodruff. Woodruff was named for Lydia's family.
Burrell was active in Bethel Baptist Church, which is now Woodruff First Baptist Church. In 1804, he sold his property in Spartanburg County and moved to Rutherford County, NC., first living on White Oak Creek in what is now Polk County, NC.
Then, Burrell moved to the top of Blue Ridge, which is now Saluda, NC. The area of Saluda was first called Pace's Gap. He lived just across the railroad from Saluda on Mountain Page Church Road. It is believed that either Burrell Pope or father John, donated land for the Old Mountain Page Church and Cemetery.

More About BURWELL POPE PACE:
Burial: Old Mountain Page Cemetery in Saluda, N.C.

More About LYDIA WOODRUFF:
Burial: Old Mountain Page Cemetery, Saluda, N.C.

More About BURWELL PACE and LYDIA WOODRUFF:
Marriage: 1779, Surry County, N.C.

Children of BURWELL PACE and LYDIA WOODRUFF are:

JR., BURWELL POPE⁹ PACE, m. E. THORNTON, 1827.

More About BURWELL PACE and E. THORNTON:
Marriage: 1827

18.	ii.	CORNELIUS PACE.
	iii.	PHEBE PACE.
	iv.	RICHARD PACE, m. SUSAN JARVIS, 1823.

More About RICHARD PACE and SUSAN JARVIS:
Marriage: 1823

	v.	RICHMOND PACE.
19.	vi.	JONATHAN PACE, b. 1779, Surry Co., NC.; d. February 17, 1870.
20.	vii.	MOSES PACE, b. 1781, Edgecombe County, N.C.; d. 1868, Saluda, N.C..
21.	viii.	DANIEL PACE, b. October 06, 1791, Rutherford Co., NC.; d. May 31, 1871, Henderson Co., NC..

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