--- roy.w.johnson@att.net wrote: > > I don't know enough legalese to know whether there can be > a judgment against the estate of a living person, I assume that if the person was still living the order would be against them, not against their estate. However, I'm not an expert. Perhaps someone else can say for sure. Another possibility is that there might be an error in the date of the record which says that Col. Thomas Swann was granted an attachment agst the estate of Richard Pace in 1675. I have only seen a transcription. It is from Surry County Court Book 3 page 98, if anyone is able to check. > > My records say that Richard died before November 1777. I > do not have the source but have seen it. Is there any > chance he died earlier and it got dragged out in court so > that Mary did not get appointed dministration of the > estate for a couple of years? I have not examined the > records to know if there were records of Richard being > alive in 1675. A living Richard Pace does appear in records in both Surry County and Charles City Co. during 1677. So if Col. Thomas Swann was granted an attachment against the estate of a dead Richard Pace in Surrey Co. in 1675, and a live Richard Pace was serving on juries in Prince Charles Co. in 1677, then we seem to have two men of property named Richard Pace. But, as I say, there could be a mistake in the transcription. James __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com