Sorry for my "testing" email. I am away from home and using ATT Webmail over a wi-fi network that varies in strength. I have lost several replies to this message when my send timed out. > Who is this Thomas Pace and where in Virginia did he go? >> We may never find out. He is a servant. Class prejudice was such in early VA that the servant class was not considered important enough to keep careful records on. I am gussing that there could be births or deaths totally unrecorded and a person of the servant class could go through life with no record of fheir existence except the listing as property of a propertied person. It was that propertied person whose record was important. But it shows that there were more Paces in early Virginia than the philosophy of the early Pace Society was willing to admit. There were those in those days who were saying that all Paces in the US were descended from either Richard of Jamestown or John of Middlesex, and that John was probably descended from Richard. Probably these undocumented Paces are the ancestors of some of the non-matching Paces in the DNA samples. We may never be able to make a connection. I am preparing a list of these "miscellaneous Paces" to post on the Pace Network. That will give these records a permanent place on the Internet and perhaps someone will find a connection some day. Roy Johnson Roy Johnson -------------- Original message from "Joyce" <joy_harr@swbell.net>: -------------- > Who is this Thomas Pace and where in Virginia did he go? > > (from Peter Wilson Coldham's "Complete Book of Emigrants, Section II, Ch. > 51, 1656"): > > > > 7 November 1656. Thomas Pace of Bath, Som, gent, bound to John White, > > merchant, to serve 4 years (in Virginia). Walter Phillips of Bristol, > > cooper, bound to Elizabeth Royde of Virginia, widow, to serve 4 years > > in Virginia. (BRO) > > > > jhh notes: > > Som is the abbreviation for Somerset (England). > > BRO is the abbreviation for Bristol Record Office, Bristol, England. > > References are to manuscript volumes entitled 'Servants to Foreign > Plantations." & gt; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== 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 >