.) > > At any rate, disregarding the Richard Pace who appears > on Thomase Browne's list of tithables, there seem to > have been at least two planters named Richard Pace. > > There is the Surry County record of 7 September 1675, > in which Col. Thomas Swann is granted an attachment > against the estate of Richard Pace for 400 lbs of > tobacco. > > And there is the Charles City County record of 14 Feb > 1677/8, in which Mary Pace is granted administration > of the estate of her deceased husband. > > These two are not the same person. I don't know enough legalese to know whether there can be a judgment against the estate of a living person, but I do know that George Pace was a huge landowner on both sides of the river and his Surry property would most certainly have passed to his son Richard. 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. My gut feeling is that somehow they are the same given the land holdings in Surry that Richard almost certainly had. Roy Johnson > > James > > > --- roy.w.johnson@att.net wrote: > > > I've been doing some thinking and trying to apply > > some logic to the connection between Jamestown Paces > > and those of NC. > > > > Landowners in early Virginia usually left more > > abundant records tue to their land transactions and > > court appearances. It was the servant class that > > slipped in under the radar. So it seems to me the > > only landowning Paces--at least large > > landowners--were the Richard line, or at least we > > haven't found evidence of any others. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== PACE Mailing List ==== > Be sure to check the Pace Family Genealogy Forum at http://genforum.com/pace/ > and the Pace Network at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pace >