George Pace, Son of Richard Pace, Sr.
On February 28, 1659/60, Richard Pace, Sr., as a single man, sold 300 acres on Powell’s creek to Thomas Madder. On March 13, 1661/2, Richard sold land on Powell’s creek to Richard Taylor. This time, Richard was a married man as he received the consent of his wife, Mary Baker, on the deed of sale. Richard and Mary Pace’s first child was born between December of 1660 and September of 1661. They were married sometime between March 1, 1659/60, and December of 1660. About three years later, Richard was given 140 acres from Richard Baker on the west side of Baker’s plantation.
Mary Pace filed a petition to administer her husband’s estate in February of 1677/8. Her petition was granted by the Charles City County court on February 14th. On April 19, 1679, the court appointed Thomas Douglas and Captain Jordan to appraise Richard Pace, Sr.’s estate on behalf of “the orphan.” Richard was 39 years old at his death. He left eight children, George, Sarah, Richard, Thomas, James, John, Ann and Elizabeth who ranged in age from about 4 years old to 16 years old.
On September 22, 1682, George Peas (Pace), the son of Richard Pace, Sr., and Nicholas Whitmore, stepfather of George Pace, were granted 388 acres of land on the main swamp of the Blackwater River for paying the transportation of eight people into the colony. George would have been twenty-one years old and would have come of age to receive his inheritance. About four and a half years later, on April 20, 1687, George was granted 600 acres of land near the Blackwater River, bounded north on John Williams and south on Robert Lucy for paying the transportation of twelve people into the colony. About three and a half months later, on August 3, 1687, he conveyed the 600 acres to William Wilkins.
In 1683, Daniel Higdon and Roger Reese (4/16/1683 deed) and neighbor, John Williams (11/20/1683 deed), held land south of and adjacent to Richard Pace. This land was not the same land that Richard Baker had given Richard Pace, Sr., as is evident by the Charles City/Prince George County map.
In 1689, George Pace was appointed tobacco inspector for the warehouse at Maycox (Maycock’s). Sometime before 1696, Maycox (Maycock’s) was in the possession of Roger Drayton. Drayton sold it to John Hamlin in 1696 and Hamlin sold it to his brother-in-law, Thomas Ravenscroft, in 1723.
On October 3, 1692, William Wilkins petitioned the Westover parish court to permit him to erect a mill on his land beside a run in Charles City County. John and Sarah Wall owned land on the other side of the run and refused to let Wilkins have an acre. The court ordered Michael Rosser and George Pace to estimate the value of a one acre parcel.
By the time of the 1704 Prince George County Rent Roll, George Pace held 1,000 acres. He was 43 years old.
The records above referring to George Pace are the only records to surface regarding George. He was the first son of Richard Pace, Sr., to be granted land. George Peas (Pace) and Nicholas Whitmore were granted 388 acres in 1682 when George was twenty-one years old. George was the first son mentioned in the records to be employed. He was a tobacco inspector in 1689 for the warehouse at “Maycox.” George was the grandson of George Pace and Sarah Maycock who had owned “Maycox.” George’s father, Richard Pace, Sr., confirmed the sale of 800 or 900 acres of land on February 25, 1658/9, land sold to Thomas Drewes on October 12, 1650, by his father George Pace. The land was near Pierce’s Hundred and Flowerdew Hundred. In 1692, George and Michael Rosser were ordered by the county court to value an acre of land for William Wilkins. At the age of 43, George owned 1,000 acres.
Richard Pace, Nephew of Richard Pace, Jr.
The following deeds refer to land in the middle of the Charles City/Prince George County map. The placement of these tracts of land is an approximation at present.
On April 20, 1682, Major Francis Poythress was granted 750 acres in Charles City County, previously the land of Thomas Morgan, deceased, and found to escheat by a jury on August 3, 1681. This deed was the origin of the land identified in the 1715-1718 deeds regarding Major Poythress’ son, Francis. Francis' land was located adjacent to Richard Pace’s land that abutted Higdon & Reese’s and John Williams’ lands in 1683.
On July 12, 1715, Francis Poythress sold 100 acres to Peter Grammar on the Holly Bushes branch on the line of Richard Pace and Francis Poythress. On November 11, 1718, Francis Poythress sold Richard Pace 400 acres where Richard Pace lived and the plantation where Joseph Carter, Edward Crossland, Thomas Kirkland and Michael Rosser, Sr., lived. This land was bounded by Francis Poythress land according to several lines of marked trees lately made by Francis and Richard. On the same day, Francis Poythress sold Thomas Goodwin, of Surry County, 100 acres of land bounded by the lands of Peter Grammar and the lands lately purchased of Richard Pace by Francis Poythress. And, again on the same day, Richard Pace and Francis Poythress sold Thomas Goodwin 400 acres of land “at the Path on the Old Town, where it crosses the same, leading from Michael Rosser’s plantation to Edward Goodrich’s plantation, and running” ... westwardly as the path leads along Rosser’s cornfield fence to the upper end of the same and then west 19 degrees north along a line of marked trees ... in the head of a bottom and down that bottom by a line of marked trees to the run between Richard Pace’s plantation where he lived and the plantation where John Whitmore lately lived and down that run to the Path at the beginning. “...together with Two hundred acres of land at the head of the said Richard Paces dividend, beginning at his southern corner tree and running east fifty chains to a red oak, thence North one hundred and sixty chains to the line dividing this land from lands which did belong to Mr. Charles Anderson, deceased: thence West fifty chains, thence South one hundred and sixty chains to the beginning.”
On December 8, 1719, Sarah Pace, the wife of Richard Pace, relinquished her dower in the land sold to Thomas Goodwyn. Sarah Woodlief was the great granddaughter of Captain John Woodlief, an Ancient Planter, who was granted 530 acres on the James River in 1620. Her grandfather was John Woodlief, Jr., the father of John, Edward and George Woodlief.
On February 9, 1721, Margaret Goodrich, the widow of Edward Goodrich, and daughter of Joshua Wynne, sold 100 acres, as per her husband’s wishes in his last will and testament, to Abraham Odium. The land was described as “bounded Westerly on the old Town Run, Northerly on the Lands of Phillip Jane and Easterly on the Lands of Edward Hill deceased. and Southerly on the main woods and the Lands of Richard Pace...” The “tract and parcel of Land was formerly purchased of and conveyed by John Jane to Thomas Anderson ... and by the said Anderson in his Last Will and Testament given and devised to Mary his relict during her natural life, and thereafter to come and descend to his eldest son James Anderson and his heirs forever as by the said Will ... and by Cornelius Cargill and Mary his wife the aforesaid relict of the said Thomas Anderson, and also by the said James Anderson sold and conveyed to the aforesaid Edward Goodrich, as by Deeds for the same acknowledged and recorded in the records of the said County Court of Prince George the Fourth Day of January 1720 given to and vested in the aforesaid Margaret his Executrix to be sold for payment of his debts as by the said Will...”
The above records refer to business transactions, a “joint land and farming venture” between Francis Poythress, the son of Major Francis Poythress, and Richard Pace, the nephew of Richard Pace, Jr., and grandson of Richard Pace, Sr. Richard’s wife, Sarah Pace, was the daughter of Edward Woodlief. Sarah’s husband, Richard Pace, was a landowner and as such was empaneled on a jury at Merchant’s Hope court in March of 1717.
Richard Pace’s and Sarah Woodlief’s known children were: Richard, Francis and John Pace.
Richard Pace, Jr., and James Pace, Sons of Richard Pace, Sr.
The first record located for Richard Pace, Jr., was November 15, 1695, wherein he received a bounty of 200 pounds of tobacco for killing a wolf in Charles City County. He was approximately 32 years old at the time. There are many other records for Richard, both in Virginia and North Carolina.
Richard Pace, Sr.’s children were: George, Sarah, Richard, Thomas, James, John, Ann and Elizabeth Pace.
In October of 1712, James Pace was listed among others that the estate of Colonel John Hardyman, a wealthy planter and tobacco factor, owed money. This was the first record located for James Pace. He was approximately 46 years old.
On November 7, 1715, William Epes and Sarah, his wife, sold to James Pace 100 acres, the moiety of a tract of land formerly belonging to Caesar Walpool (Walpole) and by his will given to his son and daughter Richard and Sarah Walpool (Walpole) to be equally divided, containing 201 acres by which devise it became vested in William and Sarah Epes. James Pace’s property was bounded by Richard Walpool (Walpole), Richard Bird, Dodd’s, Arthur Biggins, Edward Goodrich and John Hardyman. James lived within a short distance of his mother and the old homestead. On August 13, 1717, Arthur Biggins sold Thomas Weiks 50 acres of land next to James Pace, Richard Byrd and John Hatch.
The only other record for James Pace was in St. Andrews Parish, Brunswick County, and was for the period from October 6, 1732, until October 11, 1735. The vestry book for St. Andrews Parish recorded that James Pace was a sexton for the parish and was paid in pounds of tobacco. James Pace was approximately 69 years old in 1735.
James Pace’s known children appear to have been: George, James and Solomon Pace.
Who Was the father of Richard Pace, the Husband of Sarah Woodlief?
Richard Pace was born about 1690. He was an adult by 1711. By 1717, he had appeared as a jurist in the Merchant’s Hope court. In November of 1718, Richard was 28 years old when he was involved in the business ventures with Francis Poythress.
In June of 1718, Richard’s grandmother, Mary Pace, relinquished her right to administer the estate of her husband, Nicholas Whitmore. Richard Whitmore was granted administration in her stead. When Richard Pace, Sr., died, Mary Pace had administered his estate. By 1718, it was probable that Mary was unable to take the measures required for administration and had excused herself. She was approximately 78 years old at the time. No other record has been located for her after this entry.
The land mentioned in some of the November, 1718, deeds appear to be lands of Richard Pace, Sr., that were located adjacent to Major Francis Poythress’ 750 acres of land. Richard Pace’s land was mentioned in the 1683 deeds of Higdon & Reese and John Williams. George Pace, as the eldest son, would have inherited the land of his father, less the dower land provided for his mother. George appears to have died by 1710 and his heir would have been his son Richard. This would be the reason why grandson, Richard Pace, would have been involved in his grandfather’s land.
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