On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, James Blair <[email protected]> wrote: > 7 November 1656: Thomas Pace of Bath, Somerset, gent., bound to John White, > merchant, to serve four years in VA. (from Peter Coldham, Complete book of > Immigrants, p331) > > The county into which Thomas Pace, gent. was brought is not specified. > > 28 Aug 1643, John White patented 1 acre in James City, west upon the church > yard, east upon the land appertaining to the state house". > > According to APVA (http://www.apva.org/finding/str3.html), this John White > was a merchant/politician, who built a house/warehouse on the site. This is > one of the structures whose remains have been discovered. > > Since APVA call him a merchant/politician, he was presumably the same > person as John White who served as Burgess for James City in 1641 (Boddie, > SVF, p.169). After his death his widow married William Corker; this is the > same William Corker who in 1660 received a headright certificate naming > Richard Pace, among others. William Corker, in turn, was named as headright > not once but twice by Nicholas Meriwether -- he who patented land jointly > with Philip Chesley, brother-in-law of Daniel Wild who got the land > escheated by Richard Pace (and other obviously) in York Co. > > If John White was the merchant who brought in Thomas Pace, gent., from > Bath, could that Thomas Pace, gent., have been related to the Richard Pace > who appears on the headright certificate issued to Wm Corker who married > John White's widow? Might the two Paces have come at the same time, perhaps > been related? Just wondering. > > Wm Corker had three daughters, two by his first wife and one with John > White's widow. Daughter Susanna married George Branch; daughter Lucy > married (2) Thomas Jordan, and had Mary Jordan who married Francis Sowerby. > Francis Sowerby appeared on Col. William Browne's tithable list in 1668, > 1669, and 1770. > > James > I refer you to Bruce Howards book Our Colonial Ancestors 1619-1799 page > 72-73. " Richard knew a man by the name of Frances Sowerby and his brother > Thomas." etc, etc. also Richard and Sowerby were taxed together. It also > refers that Richard Pace and wife Mary went to live on Sowerbys plantation. > It appears that there is a connection. Jack Pace/Williamsburg, Va. > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- JackPace,Williamsburg, Virginia