Miscellaneous Facts and Information about Thoroughgood Pate Posted 02 Sep 2014 by Carolyn Hodge

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Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1728-1802) - grandfather of Sally Pate - my ggggg-grandfatherMyrtle's Genealogy Page website describes the location and some other useful information about the Thoroughgood Pate property which later became site of the Pate Cemetery. From Laurinburg, Scotland County, drive west on Hwy #79 5.9 miles to Dunc Pate Rd. Turn left. Drive about 100 yards to the edge of a field. Look to your right about 50 yards and near the edge of the woods you will see a small brick fenced cemetery. This tract of land was granted by King George III to Samuel Snead [ancestor of Israel Snead who moved to Carroll County in the 1820's per author John Hutchinson] in 1767, conveyed by Snead to Rice Henderson in 1768. Henderson conveyed this land to Thoroughgood Pate I of English descent in 1769, and Pate to Thoroughgood Pate II in 1800.Thoroughgood Pate II died in 1836. Sons of Thoroughgood Pate II: James Hamilton Pate died in 1902 and George Thoroughgood Pate died in 1922.5The first tax list after Richmond County was established was in 1779. Thoroughgood Pate appears on the list with 700 acres.6Thoroughgood Pate's early years in Richmond County North Carolina coincided with the American Revolution. We know from various sources that Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1728-1802) was a Colonel in the North Carolina militia. We can assume that Thoroughgood Pate raised cattle on his property and provided beef to the army because Richmond County Court records recorded the following voucher in 1782. State of NC Richmond CountyThis is to certify that as commissioner for said county, I have purchased from Thoroughgood Pate six hundred weight of fresh beef at the prices ascertained by a resolve of Congress 25th of Feb. 1780 amounting in the whole to twenty-seven Spanish milled dollars. Given under my hand this 2nd day of Oct. 1782. Charles Medlock, Comm.7Mrs. Gibson's book also stated that "The court had appointed Charles Medlock, in 1780, to purchase provisions for the use of the army in the southern department." This information indicates that Thoroughgood Pate was supporting the cause of the colonists against the Tories.Another historical record indicates that Thoroughgood Pate may have been sympathetic to the cause of the Tories during the war. Could Thoroughgood have actually been playing to both sides in the conflict?In September, 1782, thirty-nine men stood trial for treason - presumably for their role as Tories during the Revolutionary War. Most took an oath of allegiance to the Continental Government, and were found not guilty in their jury trials.8 Among the thirty-nine was Thoroughgood Pate who was found not guilty after he took an oath of allegiance.Pate researcher Joyce Gibson provided the following information.The name Thoroughgood Pate was found in Virginia and Edenton, North Carolina, before 1750. A Thoroughgood Pate near Edenton had sons Thoroughgood, Charles, and William.9 Thoroughgood and Winifred, Charles and Sarah, William, and John Pate lived in Cumberland County between 1759 and 1767. Charles and Thoroughgood moved to Anson County. Thoroughgood Pate was the earliest known permanent settler on the Gibson side of Scotland. Rice and Rebecca Henderson, his contemporaries, lived in Scotland County, but emigrated. Pate and his wife, Winfred [Stewart], established a plantation near Joe's Creek around 1769. He was constable of his district in 1771.10According to this information Thoroughgood Pate was married to a lady named Winifred. Other sources indicate that Winifred Stewart was the wife of Thoroughgood Pate (1728-1802), son of Charles Pate (C. 1696). Thoroughgood's children were identified as : Thoroughgood Pate Charles Pate William Pate Thoroughgood Pate (1728-1802) was married to Winifred Stewart. Some sources show a second wife named Frances Bright. Other sources name Frances Bright as a second wife to his son Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1782). I have been unable to confirm the Frances Bright connection with certainty. Perhaps Frances Bright was a wife of Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1694) who was the brother of 6th grat grandfather Charles Pate. This needs more research. Their children were: Samuel Pate (c. 1765-1850 ; m. Martha Sweeney) Thoroughgood Pate, Colonel (c. 1782-1836; m. Mary Jane McCollman) Stephen Pate (b. 1760-70 ; d. 1839 ; m. Honor Sweeney) Sabra Pate (c. 1775-1846 ; m. George Wright) Willoughby Pate (??)The existence of a store called "Pate and Wright" was well-documented in Richmond County records. It was co-owned by Thoroughgood's son and namesake, Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1782-1836) according to the record below. The son was apparently also a Colonel in the North Carolina Militia.Thoroughgood Pate, the son of Thoroughgood Pate who settled near Gibson in 1769, served in the House of Commons in 1809. He had a store called "Pate & Wright", and was a justice of the peace and a colonel in the county militia. Michael Dockery contested his election in the House of Commons, but his petition was rejected for lack of evidence.11Charles Pate (c. 1696- d. after 1769) - my gggggg-grandfatherCharles Pate (c. 1695 - d. after 1769) was the son of Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1635) and the father of Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1728). One Pate researcher gives this information about Charles Pate.In late 1717, Charles Pate, son of Thoroughgood, bought land on the Kesiah River (later called the Cashie) in what is now Bertie County. His brother William also is listed as owning land in the same area. In "Old Albemarle and Its Absentee Landlords," an entry lists Charles and William Pate among residents of an area west of the Chowan River between the "Cashey" River and Salmon Creek near what is now Windsor.On July 8, 1718, Charles sold some land on the same river. On July 15, 1718, he received 100 acres on Reedy Branch in a deal with Nathan and Mary Moore. On March 9, 1722, he sold 126 acres he listed as having included land that he inherited from his father, Thoroughgood.Some of Charles Pate's patent of land on Stoney Creek in 1740 was included in a transfer in the late 18thth century of land from James Pate to Daniel Pate. The cross index shows other transactions between James Pate and Charles Pate and between James Pate and James Pate Jr.12Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1635-1713) - my ggggggg-grandfather Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1635-1713, my 7th great grandfather) is our oldest known Pate ancestor. However, some researchers claim to have evidence that he was the son of Thomas Pate, the first of that family to immigrate to Virginia from England. I have pieced together an interesting story concerning this Thoroughgood Pate.Thoroughgood Pate was probably the first Pate to venture into North Carolina from Virginia. Another Rootweb posting provides this information.Thoroughgood Pate … lived in Northeastern North Carolina and died there in 1713. I know of only three sons of his based on my own records searches: Thoroughgood, Charles and William. [M]y researches have placed him in various parts of that state [Virginia] from at least 1658 … until almost the end of the 17th century. Thoroughgood Pate was in the Chowan Precinct at least as early as 1703. An entry in the North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Registry shows he sold land in the Green Hall area to Nicholas Blackmon. A record lists his wife's name as Mary. But in another record of the same year, Pate referred to "my now wife Sarah."Records of the area indicate the Thoroughgood Pate living there became a planter of some substance. He owned more than one tract of land. He married Sarah Chevin, sister of Nathaniel Chevin, a man who held official posts in the area and who was one of the original developers of the town of Edenton. Chevin, in fact, became guardian of William Pate after Thoroughgood's death, stating in a court record that his sister was unable to raise the minor child. And Chevin included his "cousin" William Pate in his 1719 will. Though she doesn't list the source of her information, Julia Clare Pate … puts William's age at 16 when his father died in 1713. Another account indicates William may have been born in 1698. His middle name may have been Thoroughgood too.Thoroughgood Pate Jr. was born in 1694, according to one listing. Apparently the eldest, he seems to have created less recorded activity in the Chowan area after his father's death. A June 26, 1792 will of Daniel Pate lists his wife, Mary, sons, Charles and Thomas, and daughter, Barcey.Genealogist Billie Evans of Garland, N.C., herself a descendant of Thoroughgood Pate, provides the following lineage extending from Thoroughgood Pate of Chowan Precinct to Lewis Pate of Wayne County: Charles, son of Thoroughgood, and Sarah had three children: Charles Pate, Baptist preacher born May 1, 1729 in Bertie County and died sometime after 1772, perhaps in South Carolina; Thoroughgood Pate and William Pate. The younger Charles married Sarah Henderson and they had these children: Shadrack, Sarah, Charles, Mary, Rebecca, Ann and Joel all of whom were born before 1772. Shadrack Pate was born in Wayne County before 1765. 13

Another Rootweb posting supports some of the earlier information. This information came from Preston Newman, who wrote an unpublished paper in 1994 on the Descendants of Levi Pate: Thouroughood Pate I, the earliest known progenitor of this Pate family in America, is found in early Colonial records to have lived in 1703 in the Chowan Precinct (formed in 1670, later to become a County), which Precinct was at that time a part of old Albermarle County, of the then North Carolina Colony, Chowan Precinct/County is on the north side of Albemarle Sound, and in 1703 extended northward to the Virginia Colony boundry. By 1722, much of these Chowan/Albemarle land areas became a part of Bertie County NC. The city of Edenton was then and is now the seat of government for Chowan County. Early Colonial records of North Carolina reveal that Thoroughgood Pate was granted land by patent from the British Crown in Chowan Precinct in 1704. He had sold land in Chown Precinct in 1703, on which Deed records his wife's name is given as Sarah, with no maiden name known. From Chowan Court records of January 1714, it is revealed that Thoroughood Pate is deceased, that his widow Sarah was "incapable" of educating their apparent minor child William Pate, and William was committed by the Court to be left in the care of his godfather and uncle, Nathaniel Chevin, Esquire, who was apparently an attorney or a justice of the Court, since his name occurs on many Chowan Deed and Court records of that era as a witness to these records, implying a frequent court presence. It is possible Nathaniel Chevin was the brother of Sarah Pate, but this has not been proven. From the available Chowan Court records, it is believed Thoroughood Pate was born circa 1660-1670. It is not known if he immigrated to American or wheter he was a second generation American, nor is it known who his parents were. These records reveal that he died circa 1713.Deed Bk W #1, Chowan Co, NC #91, pg.47: THOROGOOD PATE (residence notgiven) with the consent of SARAH my now wife to Nicholas Blackman(residence not given) 25 Aug 1703 or a valuable considerations acres (notgiven) all my labour in Green Hall by the neach neck, joining WillieSaddler and the swamp all houses, fences, etc. peanall Sum of 20 lbsSterling Wit: James Kirkham, Elener Kirkham Reg. Jan 1703/414Here is another Rootweb posting about Thoroughgood Pate.Thoroughgood Pate was confined to the jail in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1657 for debt. This is coincidentally the year Sir Richard Pate died in Gloucester County.The York County Wills, Deeds and orders, Book III, page 22, abstracted by Lindsay O. Duvall, gives the estate of Giles Mode, made by William Barber, George Wale and Thomas Ballard … to which Thoroughgood's descendants were related by marriage, 1 February 1657, ordered by the January court. This inventory showed that Thoroughgood Pate had two money debts to the Giles Mode estate.On page 47of the same record there are two entries: "An attachment is granted the estate of Thoroughgood Pate to Thomas Ballard for security of 361 lbs of tob." This record also showed that Thoroughgood's problem was probably precipitated by a Doctor Haddon, who married the widow of Mr. Mode, thus acquiring Mode's estate, to include receivable assets.The next record of Thoroughgood is in Vol. II of Charles City County Court Records, 1658-1661, page 141, abstracted by Beverly Fleet; "Mr. Thomas Ligon sued by Howell Pryse at last court for the escape of one Thurgood Pate, a prisoner in his custody, for 695 lb of tobo., of which he paid 345 lb., requests remission of balance of 350 lb. This is refused and he is ordered to pay by 10th Nov. next."15Note that both "tob" and "tobo" were abbreviations for tobacco.The information below is from a Genforum posting. It seems to support the debt problem of Thoroughgood Pate.It is an old saying among Patetown Pates that "A Pate never let a young'un ruin him." When Thoroughgood Pate was a young man he got into debt to a widow woman in Norfolk, Virginia. When the widow remarried, the new husband of the woman sued Thoroughgood for the amount owed her. Thoroughgood could not pay, and was jailed for debt, and disowned by Thomas Pate, his father, who had not approved of Thorogood's dalliance with the woman.Thomas is a name not given to Patetown Pates. Thomas Pate was a shipbuilding seafaring military man who had the ferry concession at Yorktown, Virginia, at the turn of the 18th century. The Pates were God-fearing people, and when Thorogood escaped from jail he was on his own, and went to Peyton (Patetown) kin in the Siouan Indian controlled Rappahannock Valley, on the western frontier of Virginia. There he became involved with the border-patrolling tax-collecting Chevin family.The Patetown Pates migrated from the Rappahannock Valley to the Stoney Creek area of New Kent County, Virginia. From there Thorogood migrated to the Bertie area of North Carolina, because of his connection to the politically strong Chevin family there. The land in Bertie was "thin" and "worn out" by the Coree Indians, who had farmed it intensively for years. The civilized Tuscarora Indians, who had come to North Carolina from Pennsylvania to break the power of the Corees in the Carolinas coveted the Bertie land, however, because it was near the seat of English colonial power at Edenton.To make a long story short, when the Tuscarora War [1714] was over, and Thorogood was dead, Charles and James Pate, sons of Thorogood, arranged a land swap with the Tuscaroras in the present Wayne County area. That was how Torhunta (Tuscorora administrative center for ten formerly Siouan Coree towns) came into the hands of the Patetown Pates, on Stoney Creek (which never had a stone in it). Isham Pate, son of James Pate, began his military career as a naval midshipman, in the Pate (Pett) family naval tradition. He ended his military career as his grandfather Thorogood had done, as a major (in the North Carolina militia)--as did Thomas Pate, the Yorktown ferryman.

…A Rootsweb posting suggests some unverifiable connections to previous generations of Virginia Pates, and even suggests an alternate spelling.

The direct lineage of the Pate/Pait family of Bladen County NC can be traced only back to Thoroughgood Pate (about 1635 ) It is my belief that he is somehow related to the Pate's of the Jamestowne settlement of VA., and Thomas Pate of Yorktowne, VA. Thoroughgood Pate and wife Sarah Chevin were once residents of Surry County, Virginia, and that Thoroughgood left that area with his brother for North Carolina. His departure may have been an excape [sic] from prosecution or debtor's prison, if this record refers to the same Thoroughgood Pate; "Mr. Thomas Ligon sued by Howell Pryse at last court, for the escape of one Thurgood Pate, a prisoner in his custody. "(Charles City County Court Orders, Vol II, 1658-1661, p. 141, abstracted by Beverly Fleet…17One Pate researcher named Al Pate has posted this information on Genealogy.comThoroughgood …. escaped from debtor's prison in Norfolk, Virginia, and made his way to the Roanoke Valley when he was a young man. In the Roanoke Valley he was in association with Skipwith cousins, and others, like Robert Beverly and John Pate, who cohabited with the Siouan Tutelo, Saponi and Acconeechee Indians who were natives there. These Indians controlled the trade in the area at the time, as Beverly indicates in his HISTORY.It is my opinion that young Thoroughgood had sons by Indian morganatic wives, as did most of the Welshmen in the area back then. Colonial records indicate Thoroughgood was in association with Thomas Chevin in the Roanoke Valley. Thomas Chevin was an English tax collector. He was doubtless related to Nathaniel Chevin, Deputy Lord Proprietor of North Carolina, since Thoroughgood married Sarah, sister of Nathaniel. It is my opinion that William, son of Thoroughgood, was Sarah's only son.In her will Sarah indicated she did not want William raised by his older brothers. In what was thought to be a kindness, records of the early Pates were systematically destroyed. William thrived and prospered under the fosterage and tutelage of Nathaniel Chevin. It was only through the auspices of baby (half-?) brother William that Charles, James and John were able to get a square mile tract in what later became Patetown in the now Wayne County, North Carolina….

Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1782-1836) - not a direct ancestor Thoroughgood Pate (1782-1836) was not a direct ancestor of ours. He did not migrate to Tennessee, but stayed behind in Richmond County, North Carolina (present-day Scotland County) and is buried in the Pate Cemetery near Gibson, NC. I include this information about him here because his named turned up in my research. I believe that he was the brother of Stephen Pate (c. 1770-1839, father of Sally Pate, my ggg-grandmother).We can learn more about this Thoroughgood Pate and his wife Mary Jane McCollman from Richmond County Estate Records:1836 October Term. To the Worshipful Court of Richmond. The Petition of Jane Pate, widow of Thoroughgood Pate late of said County deceased, respectfully sheweth, that her husband died seized and possessed of several tracts of land in said County amounting to in All about one thousand acres to all of which lands and tenements and your petitioner has a right to her Dower. Your petitioner therefore prays that your Worshipful Court may assign her rightful Dower in said lands and issue the necessary Writs and Orders to that effect accordingly and that your petitioner shall ever pray. [signed] Jane Pate. Entered by L. A. Drake.22Notes for Mary Jane McCollman:On an 22 October 1845 list of the parents and their children in Richmond County Rockdale School District, Jane Pate (widow) is shown as the mother of James, George & Mary Pate.1853 October Term of Richmond County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. To the Worshipful the Justices of Richmond County Court, now sitting. The Petition of James Pate and George Pate who petition by their regular guardian, Malcom McColeman, humbly sheweth unto your Worships that Throughgood Pate, late of Richmond County, departed this life intestate in the Month of ---1836 leaving your petitioners his only heirs at law and that your petitioner James has arrived at the law-ful age and now entitled to received his full share of his father's estate. Your petitioner further sheweth unto your Worships that their father, Thoroughgood Pate, died seized and possessed of the following lands or parcels of land situate lying and being in the County of Richmond on the Joe's Creek and its waters viz. One tract containing about 485 acres adjoining Nathaniel Gibson, John C. Graham and others, one tract containing about 100 acres adjoining Arch McNeill, 1/4 Malloy and others, one of two acres adjoining Peter Hannah, John P. Knight and others. Also another tract contain-ing by supposition about five hundred and eighty acres more or less, adjoining Jane Pate, Nelson Gibson and others, also another tract containing about fifty acres ad-joining Jane Pate, John P. Knight and others which descended to your petitioners as tenants in common. That a partition of said several tracts of land in severalty remains yet to be had. Your petitioners pray your Worships to appoint five freeholders un-connected with your petitioners either by consequenity or affinity who together with the surveyor to be appointed by this Court shall run the premises and partition the said lands among your petitioners according to law and for further relief and as in duty bound they will every pray. [signed] A. Little for Petitioners. Thomas Gibson, Surveyor. Freeholders appointed were Nelson Gibson, Daniel McGregor, Charles Malloy, Malcom McNeill and Archibald McNeill. Estate Recs. 1772-1933 CR 082.508.5123 The Pate Family Lineage Based on this information, I can build this partial Pate family tree.

1 - Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1635 - 1713)+ Mary ??

2 - Thoroughgood Pate (c. 1694- ?) 2 - John Pate (c. 1695) 2 - Charles Pate (c. 1696 - d. after 1769) + Sarah Howell

3 - Charles Pate, Reverend (1729 - 1772) + Sarah Henderson

4 - Shadrack Pate (1765-1837) + Dicy Peacock 4 - Sarah Pate 4 - Charles Pate 4 - Mary Pate 4 - Rebecca Pate 4 - Ann Pate 4 - Joel Pate 3 - William Pate 3 - Thoroughgood Pate, Colonel (1728 - 1802) + Winifred Stewart 4 - Samuel Pate (c. 1765-1850) + Martha Sweeney 4 - Thoroughgood Pate, Colonel (c. 1782-1836) + Frances Bright (c. 1790) + Mary Jane McCollman 4 - Stephen Pate (b. 1760-70 -d. 1839) + Honor Sweeney 4 - Sabra Pate (c. 1775-1846) + George Wright (c. 1770-1836) 4 - Willoughby Pate (??)+ Sarah Chevin 2 - William Pate

Thorogood Pate