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