The Proeger Family · Generation 9 — Earl's earliest known

Rachel Pace Martin

Probable mother of Rachel Martin Bush · Pace or Pierce

Rachel Pace Martin

Probable

Probable mother of Rachel Martin Bush · Pace or Pierce

Sources
5

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. A FamilySearch index of Virginia births and christenings has Rachel Martin, born 22 August 1768 and christened 15 October 1768 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace S857. A John Martin married Rachel Peace or Pace in the same parish on 3 January 1757, by an index of a printed register S858. The Pace family book also names her Rachel Pace and gives the same 22 August 1768 birth S749. What is weak: both records are indexes with no image read; the 1768 child is matched to our Rachel only by name, parish and date (her age of 93 in 1860 points to 1767); and the SAR supplemental and DAR no. 141325 call the mother Rachel Pierce S764S500. The christening leans to Pace, but it does not settle the name.

Evidence: A FamilySearch christening index names Rachel Martin (born 22 August 1768, St James Northam, Goochland) as the daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace; an index of a printed register has a John Martin marrying Rachel Peace or Pace there in 1757; the Pace family book agrees. Weak or missing: Both are indexes with no image; the 1768 child matches our Rachel only by name, parish and date; the SAR supplemental and DAR no. 141325 call the mother Rachel Pierce. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Death1750
The DAR entry prints “(1750–1821)” after Rachel Pierce's name, and it is not clear whose dates they are S500. The birth in Middlesex County and the death date that online trees give her are not in any record read

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Probable
Probable mother of Rachel Martin Bush; probable wife of Lieut. John Martin, married 3 January 1757 by the index S858

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Rachel Pace Martin · Sources

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Sources cited on this card

5 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S500DAR Lineage Book, p. 101, no. 141325: Mrs. Electra Helm Withers. Ancestry record 3600439. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Descent through Joyce Duncan Quisenberry (1828–1911), wife of Joseph H. Withers, from Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush; Francis Bush married second Rachel Martin (1767–1860), daughter of Lieut. John Martin and Rachel Pierce. It gives Jane Burris's birth as 1739, where the SAR application (S498) says 1759. Both are recorded.
  2. S749Noble Hamilton Pace, Pace: One of America's Earliest Emigrant Families, p. 36. Ancestry record 4402087619. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Probable Rachel, born 22 August 1768 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, died 1860, married Francis Bush on 27 February (year left blank) as his second wife; a daughter of John Martin and Rachel Pace. A compiled family book, not a record; it cites Rev. Douglas' Register of Goochland County. The index's “2017” marriage year is not on the page.
  3. S764U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications — national no. 27139, James Marvin Hinkle, supplemental application, 1915. Ancestry record 315493. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable A supplemental on the same national number as S498, approved 11 May 1915, carrying Hinkle's line one generation further: through Emily Alice Quisenberry, James Francis Quisenberry, Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy Bush, and Francis Bush and Rachel Martin (1767–1860), to her parents John Martin (1746–1830) and Rachel Pierce. John Martin, born in Virginia in 1746, a private in Capt. Samuel Hawes's company, 2nd Virginia Regiment, Continental Line, enlisted 16 September 1775 for three years, on the pay roll to August 1779, settled in Clark County, Kentucky, and was granted a pension in 1820. A compiled lineage claim, not a record; the service comes from War Department files. A Pace family book (S749) names Rachel's mother Rachel Pace; this application and DAR no. 141325 (S500) say Rachel Pierce. Both are kept.
  4. S857FamilySearch index, Virginia, Births and Christenings, 1584–1917 — Rachel Martin, 1768. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:VRRC-WSZ. Index only; no image read (checked 28 September 2026). Probable Rachel Martin, born 22 August 1768, christened 15 October 1768, St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia; parents John Martin and Rachel Pace. Independent of the SAR and DAR lineages, but an index with no image; it matches Rachel Martin Bush by name, parish and date only (the DAR gives 1767). A search for Rachel Bush, wife of Francis Bush, found nothing relevant.
  5. S858Virginia, Select Marriages (index) — John Martin and Rachel Peace or Pace, 3 January 1757. Indexed from a printed source, FHL 975.5 V2D. Index only; no image read (checked 28 September 2026). Probable John Martin married Rachel Peace (or Pace), 3 January 1757, St James Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia. An index of a printed register; the page itself has not been read.

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