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Subject: Re: [PACE-L] John of Middlesex
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 20:33:10 EDT
Roy:
Ruth Keyes Clark, on the Pace Mail List, pointed out that there was a 1702
militia record for John Pace of Middlesex, "by custom those serving in the
militia were rarely over 45 so he was born 1657 or after." The land purchase
in 1693 implies a birth year of before 1672, probably at least a few years
before, as you pointed out. So this is consistent with John Pace of
Middlesex being the John Pace baptised in Hungar's Parish, Northampton Co, VA
in 1662, son of a John Pace and Mary. Northampton Co is on the island across
the Chesapeake Bay from Middlesex Co and, I believe, was a common debarkation
point for emigrants from England at that time.
Since the DNA test of Gordon Pace of Canada and that of the descendants of
John Pace of Middlesex are an exact match, and since Gordon descends from the
Paces of Shropshire England in the early 1600's, it may be that John Pace of
Middlesex's father was one of the John Paces in the parish records of
Shropshire in the early 1600's.
Gordon W. Pace
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